Terminator: Resistance [Annihilation Line]

Annihilation Line

Terminator: Resistance Annihilation Line is a DLC for Terminator: Resistance that is exclusive on the PC, PS5, and Steam versions. It was released on December 10th, 2021

Synopsis[]

In 2012, a young Jacob Rivers is scavenging at the ruins of his father's high school. While rummaging through an old time-capsule, Jacob and his father are discovered by Terminators and are chased through the ruins before getting trapped in the sewers nearby.

Waking back to the present, following the destruction of the first T-850 infiltrator, Jacob meets with Jessica Baron and Kyle Reese. On John Connor's orders, a team composed of Reese, Jacob, Ferro and Evans are sent to scout out the Northridge Resistance outpost which has fallen silent. Arriving at the location they find the outpost overrun by Skynet forces, though with no sign of the previous inhabitants who had seemingly evacuated.

Following a radio transmission, the group head to Bakersfield despite it being just on the edge of the Annihilation Line's present position. Jacob finds an old man, Anselmo, trapped in a nearby graveyard. After escaping Anselmo confirms that infiltrators had kidnapped the population of the outpost, putting them to work at a nearby production facility. While resting, a Skynet force invades the team's safehouse, with a new HK-Centurion walker unit crushing Anselmo as he wakes. After escaping the ambush, Reese reveals the real reason behind their mission: that Jacob's father was among the group of civilians captured from Northridge and that Skynet dedicated significant resources into recapturing them. Agreeing to mount a rescue, the team splits up and individually move into the Annihilation Line with the aim of creating a large diversion to enable an assault on the factory and the work camp the captives are being held in.

After causing enough mayhem to distract Skynet's security forces, the team assaults the factory itself. Fighting deep into the bowels of the facility the team finds signs that the captive prisoners have been slaughtered after finishing work on the new Cyberdyne 102 model of infiltrator, which has been based on Evans' likeness, before destroying the facility. After advancing to the work camp the team assist an in-progress mass break-out by those held there, with Ferro being killed while destroying a HK-Tank while Evans is killed when the car he and Reese are in takes fire from a HK-Aerial. After regrouping, Jacob and Reese enter the stadium where the remaining prisoners are being held, destroying a HK-Centurion in the process with aid from prisoners they free.

In the aftermath, Jacob and Reese search through the cells to find Jacob's father, discovering him on the verge of death. Recognizing the name Kyle Reese, Jacob's father hands Reese a letter addressed to him from the school time-capsule before passing away. As the pair return to base Reese reveals the contents of the letter, an old photo of Sarah Connor taken at a Mexican gas station.

Continuity notes[]

This DLC takes place halfway through the campaign of Terminator: Resistance, right after Jacob Rivers takes down an Infiltrator.

Notes[]

This is the first source to identify that Corporal Ferro has a first name, which is Charlotte.^[1]

Terminator references[]

The whole campaign references Kyle Reese's dream sequence from The Terminator. During the trailer, the same music heard during Kyle's dream is played
Ferro is the soldier vaporized by a HK-Tank as seen in the first film.
The grenade launcher seen in game is the same kind wielded by the T-800 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day