Talk:Soldier G65434-2/@comment-26501128-20180719203625/@comment-28542427-20190902015442

Great comparisons there, Philantr0py, especially the first one rings a bell, and good : ) That could work under almost any circumstances, so in that regard yes, it could be true and I agree with you.. could even create a different game ending (and penultimate's level ending and whole last level) altogether that way : )

However, NOTHING in the original comment points to that kind of non-standard thinking. In real game categories, let's be honest, Soldier simply jumps into the damn hole and the pod is stuck way past his reach, simple as that.

Taking this apart.. it's almost never possible to backtrack, until the player spent his CMs on Psi Teleport and deliberately left a teleport marker above the "big pool"... (again to mention of it). And NO, the Pod is STILL STUCK in beginning if you do backtrack. I'm also not entirely sure if it's possible to get back up there without the Teleport (no mention of it in the comment, strange ; ). There are those condensed "water/air" (?) streams that flow from the bottom to the top of the pool, but their insane speed is more than enough to kill the Soldier (IIRC, I could never get up there, because I was simply being smashed onto the ceiling and killed). Thinking aloud right now.. given some new-found knowledge about the game engine, in right circumstances (with specific CM investment, using the right equipment and combined Psi Powers) PERHAPS it would be possible to survive that crazy upwards stream and reach the upper entry (IF it's not far enough from the stream, and that may very well be!) - will check that later just to be sure...

All in all tho, it's FAR from a standard gameplay and normally the player would be stuck in the very last part of BotM, unable to backtrack to the beginning, forced to go down the hole created after Brain of the Many's explosion and swim in the "river" right after that. Also... looking analytically... the pod became stuck in BotM's flesh, was partially destroyed and couldn't move (at least at the very start of the level).

And here I'll cut my answer, because it would be a VERY venomous comment after that, and I don't want that. Probably the original comment should be simply deleted because of the "value" it holds... NONE. For more of his antics, look at the A. Bananas page. I'm fed up with those kind of edits, really...