Ok. Just finished the game, I will not give away any plot spoilers; but have a specific question.

What are the negative side-effects to wearing a Nanosuit? Prophet describes the wearers as "Dead Men Walking", what did he mean by that? Hargreave (creator of nanosuit technology) mentioned something about a symbiotic relationship, and Dr. Gould pondered once if the suit was "Alive". What exactly happens to the suit and host when they are joined?

Thanks,

Discipulus

This will be hard to do without spoilers.

Think of it this way. The suit's function is to keep the user alive. If the suit integrates with the user's bodily functions, it can interact with the user better/faster to administer whatever is necessary to keep the user alive.
Ooh here's an anology I just came up with.

Think of a brick wall. If you remove a brick from it, and replace the brick with...gum, let's say, the wall will still stand (more or less). If you keep doing this, more bricks will be replaced. What do you think would happen if you removed all the gum all at once?

The Nanosuit grows into the person wearing it more and more over time. Eventually the person becomes dependant on the suit to stay alive to the point where removing it kills the operator.

Very interesting. Thanks for the anology! At the very end, when the main character finally speaks, I realized there HAS to be a Crysis 3. And I am looking forward to it!

yeah what shadow said basically the user turns into the nanosuit and the wearer dies of lets say an overdose? called symbiosis?

It also gives a tangible reason why alcatraz doesn't speak, the guy was essentially a corpse and the nanosuit was 'repairing' him over time. He probably didn't have a working voice box

Right on actually. when you finally get to where Ghould wanted you to go, and they do the scan, they remark at all the injuries you have...one of which is ruptured lungs.

He most assuredly didn't. Listen to the medical report the tech gives at the deep scan lab gives. Alcatraz is for lack of a better way of saying it, really f'ed up. Broken ribs, crushed lungs, it sounds like between the Ceph gunship and nearly drowning he wasn't in very good shape. I'll just say the sequences involving electricity and heart restarting aren't because he's in the best shape. ;d

What I want to know, is what that weird wetsuit thing is that Prophet was wearing under his nanosuit.

Just an excuse to not plaster his junk all over your screen, probably.

What I want to know, is what that weird wetsuit thing is that Prophet was wearing under his nanosuit.
That's probably a buffer suit of some kind that you are supposed to wear "officially"; Prophet and his team probably all had one in Crysis 1. Alcatraz doesn't for obvious reasons.

In Warhead it's stated that the suit is in direct contact with the skin. Which can also be seen in the Crysis intro, when the suit releases nanobots for speed mode.

Maybe Prophet wore it because he was infected?
Also, dont forget that its a different model of Suit. It doesnt have a speed mode, so why would it need contact?

And, perhaps Crytek just saw the coming storm if gamers saw Prophet's man-bits, and decided that it just wasnt worth it. *shrug*

Nanosuit is gonna be the schizophrenic hero over the character wearing it himself. Me hopes split personalities overtime makes the suit use a dead person once he's literally assimilated... Guhhaha :3

Maybe Prophet wore it because he was infected?
Also, dont forget that its a different model of Suit. It doesnt have a speed mode, so why would it need contact?
It doesn't have a speed mode per se, but it has 'Power Mode' which is speed and strength mode combined; so yes, it would need contact.

"Just an excuse to not plaster his junk all over your screen, probably."

Lol, probably right. I thought they'd be naked under the suit. In the first game they had calibration tools that would adjust how close the suit was to the skin. I assumed that meant no underwear...

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Alcatraz is already dead, that's why it grew into him, he is "alive" thanks to the suit
negative effect comes when you wear it too long like Prophet, who wore it for years, N1 that is.
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the idea is simple. the Nanosuit patches you up. it keeps the wearer alive. the wearers of the Nanosuit should've been dead, but the Suit keeps them alive. that's why they're dead men walking

the nanosuit is only growing into alcatraz because he is already "dead", if you listen to the man in the tech lab during the deep scan, he says that its "growing into the wounds" not "growing into the entire body"

the reason Prophet had to get rid of it was because the Ceph got inside him.. the ceph got into the suit, infecting it, and then when the suit sent nanobots into prophet during "speed" or "strength" mode.. the ceph got into him that way.

besides.. if the suit is growing into the body, how can you remove? kinda impossible to do so if it is inside the operator.. and prophet had no trouble getting out of hit and putting alcatraz in it.. thing is just that Alcatraz CANNOT get out of the suit.. he will die long before its removed.. couse his wounds will never heal since the suit is growing into them.

The biggest downside is that you can't have six with any women.

if you read the book then you know Alcatraz is DEAD, not "dead", DEAD. Nanosuit doesn't fix him, he uses his nervous system, its the only thing that nanosuit needs. the man inside can be dead but that doesn't stop the nanosuit

oh and the suit is CEPH technology, thats why there are some similarities and stuff they mentioned in the game
Hardgreave has studied their technology for years

The Nanosuit grows into the person wearing it more and more over time. Eventually the person becomes dependant on the suit to stay alive to the point where removing it kills the operator.

yeah he's right. The people in the suit become more and more dependent against the nanosuit so when they actually take the suit off they will presumably become weak or illed. Also, people in the suit are more likely to encounter intense combat situation and more likely to get lethal or life threatening damages. But then the suit somehow fixes it. As an incident in the campaign, Alcatraz was already so **** up, punctured heart, lungs, cranium damage, but the suit kept him alive.
As if you noticed it in the campaign, ALcatraz actually dies 2 times in the game, however though, he gets revived by the suit defibrilator.

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In the book it is stated that Alcatraz is completely dead, his heart had stopped and the nanosuit was feeding oxygen directly into his brain and repairing his nervous system. It said that the suit was breaking down his organs that he didn't anymore and metabolizing them to help repair his spine and central nervous system. His brain is still alive and he is able to control his muscles but any other organs that a human being might have had been broken down and he was completely dependent on the suit.

It does explain that the men in crysis one were dead men walking because the nano suit one did not have the deep layer function that protected alcatraz from the virus in the nanosuit 2, so when hargreave redesigned the nanosuit it was primarily to implant this hidden function to stop the virus if it attempted to infect the user. But as prophet had already been infected before he got the nanosuit 2 it was not of much use to him, hence the death.

And the simply reason for alcatraz being a dead man walking is that without the suits life support he would die in minutes from his injuries.

The suit can heal the user, but by healing the user of the suit it has to replace the broken parts of the human body.

If we say that a guy with a nanosuit broke his hand then the suit will start to try and replace the broken bone so the hand can be used again.

But as the user takes more and more damnage on his human parts the nanosuit have to replace more and more, and in a matter of time there might just be nothing else left but the suit