Got a question for y'all

So, after playing the game for a while, I started to think.

When looting an Apex Laboratory, am I killing the unfriendly, or being evil on them?
And then I decided to see if you people are doing the evil, or simply killing unfriendly guys.

#inb4disagreement

 

I like scientists. Sometimes I even pass over the lab (like, really over it - building a ladder to leave them alive and run above) when I feel some pacifism running in my veins.

 

Wheres the neutral answer? It's just monkeys doing their science.

 

If they attack me, I have to defend myself... otherwise, I don't kill neutral NPCs. (Hylotl here).

 

I am more inclined to say I am retaliating the attacks. Something like that. After all it is usually them to attack me first, and not the other way around. I don't usually kill something unless it attacks me first... But accidents do happen, even if rarely.

Figure the general rule, guideline, is only react according to the others actions.

 

If NPC's are hostile then I kill them all, steal everything that isn't nailed down and burn everything that is. Now I just need a spaceship that looks like a sci-fi longboat and I'd be set.

If they're friendly then I go in for a few pints and spend the night passed out on the tavern floor. Don't worry, the barkeep gets a hundred pixels for the extra mess

 

Given the nature of experiments conducted in those labs I don't feel any guilt for killing everyone and wrecking the place. I despise everything associated with Minikong, Big Ape and torturing test subjects.
From the stuff I get at those labs I build mostly hospitals and medical-oriented labs at my villages. Turning bad into good feels really satisfying.

 

Ah...Apex Laboratory I just Climb over lab with Grappling Hook and Glide away with parasol I'm not afraid getting hit becouse those guards cant aim at all
I'm Hylotl my self as well most hostile NPC Die from wild life or Planets hazards such as lava and in Dungeon temple Hostile NPC mostly fall to there doom
they mostly fail there jumps and fall in pit of lava or buzzsaws,

 

I mean I do have a large amount of bloodlust but these guys are maniacs so it's justified... Maybe.

 

Potential loot, they*re as good as dead.

 

In a game like this, you should be able to ask the guard at the entrance of any hostile dungeon for a safe escort to the other side since walking around it isn't an option.

From a lore perspective, I'd say killing the Apex scientists is still an act of evil because they're probably forced to do sinister experiments by the Miniknog. I can't imagine very many of them would want to do those sorts of things, given they had a choice in the first place. Killing unwanted trespassers is just a part of their assigned job. If they let innocent bystanders witness their experiments, the Miniknog will probably come for them and their families! I view them as being good people in a very crappy position.

From a gameplay perspective, I couldn't care less about killing them because they're just pixels on my screen and I want their loot.

 

well.. the guards do try to warn you to stop your approach, in that regard... going inside and killing them would make you inherently evil, as you out of free will decide to keep going, forcing them to DEFEND themselves from you, whatever they do inside is their business... which you are now putting at risk

 

No, that's in villages and stuff. The laboratories will attack you on sight, even if you don't have a weapon drawn.

 

I kill every npc i see. No exceptions. Except for outpost npcs, cuz i cant

 

weird, avian temples attack me on sight, but not the labs, they warn me thoroughly as I approach

 

The Apex labs do warn you off attacking them, but it kinda loops into a darned if you do, darned if you don't type of thing since the game exists on a 2-D plane and there's no way to get around it unless you tunnel under it. The roofs have exposed parts where the fully hostile guards hang out and they will shoot you on sight if they catch sight of you, turning it into one extended case of self-defense since under most circumstances fighting the people trying to kill you will alert the other people inside the labs who would be more than happy to kill you. For SCIENCE!

Not to mention that more than a few of those scientists seem to actually love their jobs too.

So I generally take the pragmatic approach and just wipe them out just so I don't have to worry about trigger-happy Miniknog wanting to turn me into swiss cheese and harvest my brain. (Plus I'm probably on Big Ape's hit list anyway. I have more than a few Apex in my base who've escaped his rule, and I'm basically in the process of utterly dismantling one of the notably empty test courses and looting everything useful out of it.)

 

Sneak tech rules the world by the way. (Mod)

 

They don't bother me, I don't bother them. Simple as that.