High-grade crafting materials can now be broken down into lower grades at a 1:2 payout, making it much easier to bring new gear up to scratch and avoiding the first game's issue with having to hunt down rare, weak enemies in the late game.

They've already massacred most of the VBS Krakow's civilian population by the time you get there. Is a Crapshoot: The main enemies of The Kraken DLC are robots that went rogue after being hit with the same surge from the CREO facility. Later on in the game, it is implied that you were killed in the plane crash at the start, and that the person you are now was rebuilt by Athena and the Rogue Process nanotech to serve as her 'warrior' to protect her.

Though, depending on what background you chose at character creation, your character could very well have seen their own quite fair share of action, but having arrived in JC with no exo-rig, even that wasn't preparation enough. Action Survivor: Everyone in Jericho City not associated with the A.I.D.

The game's story is enforced by a combination of this and Beef Gate. Ability Required to Proceed: Jericho City is theoretically one big open space.

The surge 2 has it cracked