March 13, 2013 by

My favorite plasmids were always the ones that dealt with Mind Control or influencing the behavior of your enemies. Given the setting of Infinite is a bit less advanced than the previous titles, it would stand to reason that some things haven't been fully mastered yet, such as the aforementioned mind control.


Thus, my idea is an early precursor to such abilities: The Deja Vu Vigor. Not quite as powerful as later mind altering tonics and elixirs, Deja Vu is none the less extremely effective on the battlefield. By creating a sort of loop in their memory, the Vigor causes the victim to randomly do things twice over for the duration of the effect, without them realizing anything's wrong.


This sounds like a novelty power, or something that's amusing but of little use, but consider all the things that could be repeated: An enemy dives out of the way of a grenade blast to avoid a violent and explosiony death, but upon repeating this dive out of the way, jumps off of Colombia and to a new death, albeit less explosiony. A Motorized Patriot sweeps a Pepper-Mill in an attempt to fill a fleeing Booker full of lead, then does this sweep once more, in exactly the same way, only this time wasting ammo and cutting down any foes that may have been chasing our intrepid hero. And those are just a couple of the more dramatic examples, far more common would be things such as enemies jumping for Skyrails that aren't there, reloading weapons that have just been reloaded, or running after nothing.


But the thing that I believe sets this Vigor above others is the simple fact that it could be done. A.I. can be manipulated to do anything we want nowadays, and telling it to simply do the same thing twice shouldn't be that complex.

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