/r/UnrealSeries Subreddit — Unreal Return to Na Pali – Was someone on the UMS Bodega Bay helping Prisoner 849? Or was there a second unknown mission going on? – From /r/UnrealSeries
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I posted this 5 years in the UT subreddit, but just remembered it today and wanted to share here. Here is the post as it was:
In Return to Na Pali, after navigating through Velora Temple, Prisoner 849 returns to Nagomi Passage, which was first visited right before the Velora Temple level. However, there is a difference this time: On top of new enemies, this time around there are UMS supply crates that apparently fell while P849 was busy in the temple.
But by that point in the story, the UMS and the marines had already turned on P849 after getting what they wanted, attacking him/her on the wreck of the Prometheus. P849 was marked for death after uploading the data to the Bodega Bay.
The sequence of levels goes something like this: UMS Prometheus wreckage (Betrayal) —> Spire Valley —> Nagomi Passage (No crates) —> Velora Temple —> Nagomi Passage (Crates)
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Analysis
So why the supply crates? (Besides being cool to see the same level with several differences) I can think of a few options:
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The crates had already been programmed to be dropped off on Na Pali, as the UMS Bodega Bay wanted to be sure that P849 would succeed (only to put them down later). But why the delay? There are assumedly several in-game hours, maybe days, since the moment P849 is betrayed and the crates on Nagomi passage.
