Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-68.113.64.194-20131116021341/@comment-1672596-20131120130051

Bluerock wrote:

Weedle McHairybug wrote: You mean Communist soldiers. Soviet soldiers would imply they were Russian, when they were certanly Cuban (Even regarding Black Land, the fact that Communsit soldiers are working alongside American soldiers, openly I might add, is not a good thing to think about).

If XOF are a mercenary organization, they may have hired local contractors, as I'd be surprised that Cuban government soldiers would ever willingly work with a U.S. backed group (also, minor nitpick, the Soviet Union comprised multiple states, not just Russia). As an unofficial group, XOF may therefore not be issued with standard U.S. weaponry. I know USMC soldiers were stationed at the base, but I'm not sure if the soldiers guarding the area Chico was at were themselves Marines. We'll see upon release whether they're Cuban or Marine. We'll also see if they change the names of the weapons to actually match reality.

I find it a bit hard to believe that KP's actually going the Resident Evil route and making fictitious firearms wholesale. At least with Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, the fictitious armory can be justified by it taking place well into the future. This and TPP take place between 1975 and 1984, respectively, and considering that in terms of chronology, the prior and later games in the timeline used real-life weaponry while these two may use completely fictitious weaponry is jarring, to say the very least.