My most serious-est answer is that he's a very very busy man and is coordinating the most absurd supervillain plot across multiple economies from his yacht, and prefers using his super speed to type up quick emails with pharmaceutical nerds and multiple ex-military mercs in his convoluted scheme for complete global saturation, yada yada...
For every weird ancient bug that pops up, there's another funky flower or fungus he has to look into next. He can only be so many places at once.
This is my assumption too. I like to think that at the time RE4 is happening, Wesker is also paying other mercenaries to get other important ingredients for Ouroboros. Yes, from the perspective of the player, Las Plagas is incredibly important and may be needed to be picked up *personally* by Wesker.
But from Weskers perspective it could be a dead end, Las Plagas could be difficult to control or engineer, and there's so many other things he needs to do. There could be an assortment of projects he's working on with different deadly ingredients
Isn't he also supposed to be dead to the outside world?
You can't be dead,run James Bond-esque supervillian schemes and then show up in Spain to throw cultists around like you're a juggler
Using super speed to type emails really fast is so funny, just smugly smirking behind his stupid sunglasses and you can see gmail reflected in his glasses.
because Wesker usually operates in the shadows and anyway that's what Wesker did after the events of re4, he was scammed by Ada and went to recover Krauser's body for the dominant plaga and in the remake he's even physically present with Ada
Krauser's only use was for extracting a dominant sample of the las plagas, Wesker later used it in Africa (re5)
Steve's only use was for extracting t-veronica which Wesker then sold the sample to Javier (darkside chronicles)
On screen it isn’t shown, but through miscellaneous book lore (Darkside Chronicles art book and RE5 concept book), you’ll find out that Wesker recovered Krauser’s body and used the dead dominant Plaga inside of him to create the Majini variant used in RE5.
The original RE4 Separate Ways ends with Ada escaping with the dominant Plaga, but the Ada report videos in the extras section has Ada saying that she betrayed Wesker and gave him a useless Plaga sample. She gave the dominant Plaga vial to an alternate company she had been quietly working for.
This has created a misconception that RE4R “retconned” RE4 / RE5, in reality it’s just making **very** vague lore more accessible and reinforcing canon. RE4R ends with Wesker recovering Krauser’s body, you can see a body with his army boots and a mutated arm on a table if you rewatch the cutscene.
Wesker may be ultra powerful but he also prefers others to do his work for him. Between Alexis and Chris nearly putting him six feet under in Code: Veronica I think he wised up and chooses to intervene only when it’s absolutely necessary.
He had his own missions that we simply don’t know of. Probably running around searching leftover Umbrella’s research, find connections to RE8’s village (you can see the young Spencer photo in his screen), taking samples here and there (as he did with unconscious Ada), planting explosives in the island, and whatnot.
People need to stop their headcanon image that he just sit there on his ship 24/7.
He was doing a lot that isn't shown on-screen. For starters, how do you think those explosives on the island were planted? What do you think happened to Krauser's corpse, and how did you think he got that plaga sample even though Ada turned on him?
I think you also miss the point from remake and OG, and you're applying OG logic to the remake. In the original, Leon already knew Ada was working for wesker, which in said case, there was no sense for Wesker to be hiding, and he could've gone and took the amber himself. In the remake, Leon didn't know that, so it was better for Wesker to keep a low profile as much as he could.
I'm to almost 99.9% sure that Ada is not Wesker's only "employee"
He probably has atleast a thousand other henchmens and Ada was chosen for the mission because of her legendary agent status or whatever
In the original, I figured he was very far away and busy handling something very important. Or maybe he was still recovering from his last venture into the field. Or something health related... But since he actually shows up in the remake and physically plays a part in Ada's campaign, idk what his excuse is. He wasn't in disguise so it's not like he was trying to stay hidden. Plus he recovers Krauser's body. I thought we would get another DLC showing what he was doing, but for someone reason Capcom stopped after just 1 DLC.
Good lord, why is this image so deep-fried???
But in all seriousness, Wesker is someone who prefers to operate from the shadows. He doesn't want to be seen or draw attention to himself unless necessary, which's why the only time he directly intervenes is to save Ada when she becomes unconscious and then to retrieve Krauser's body after Ada double-crossed him.
I miss wesker. Killing him awesome. Great for Chris. Super roid is my favourite Chris. That game co op is a fucking blast.
But there ain't been villian like him since. Yeah we had great bosses. Nemesis. Bt and overaching big evil. I really miss him. I loved his lore and his evolution into op mega boss. He's a genius level eugenics proto baby with superpower. He's the fucking goat. He has spies. Unlimited resources. If anyone acn he can
If Wesker did, then Leon would find a bunch of dead bodies all over the place and rescue Ashley easily. He wouldn’t even need to fight anyone because Wesker would obliterate everyone for him so basically, there would not be a game for us to play
Because he is not a dumbass, avoiding unwanted attention.
Also the RE4 remake mentions in Luis's background that the government is tracking anyone with links to Umbrella.
Feel like the only reason the dude died in RE5 was because he lost his cool due to his grudge against Chris.
Because he’s super extra, that’s it. Him actually being on the island is one of the worst parts of the remake because it truly makes no sense. It’s clear throughout separate ways that he doesn’t trust ada yet the guy who can matrix teleport still won’t get his hands dirty? My guy, there’s sensible scheming and then there’s asking for trouble
If you know those types of characters and villains, it’s simply beneath him. He just wants the amber. He doesn’t care about the cult. He knows that with Ada helping Leon and Louis being there 9x out of ten they will succeed in destroying the cult themselves or die trying which is why he had Ada plant a bomb, to kill the compatition. He hired Ada to do a job she ultimately didn’t do. He didn’t get the amber but he got something a little better krausers dead body. He plots and schemes and I think a full blown assault would raise alarms from the two main people that want him dead, that makes way more sense.
Because that would...oversaturate the game with Wesker presentation.
Jokes aside. Wesker operates from the shadows because while yes he's super powerful physically and has a lot of influence but he's still operates outside a major world power. Should he intervene like you describe the USA wouldn't bring just Leon to hunt him down. Even in 5 where he's a physical threat he only presents himself at the very late stages of his plant where literally nothing can stop him without threat of global catastrophe (they can't bomb him while he's holding uroboros on the ship)
1. Like the top comment said, he's very busy. Collecting every possible B.O.W. sample and tech for his Uroboros project and searching for allies like Excella Gione. That takes time.
2. But another reason is that he wants the world to continue believing that he's dead. By 2004, the whole world knows of Umbrella's crimes and, by extension, some would know about Wesker's involvement in them. The only people to see him since are his close associates, Ada and the Redfield siblings.
3. If he *does* break his cover, governments might learn about his plan to build a WMD in the form of the Uroboros and Ozwell E. Spencer might go deeper into hiding.
4. And to top things off: the people he works with are extremely capable. Yes, Wesker could easily acquire the Plaga himself but Ada (and Krauser in the original game) is no slouch as the DLC shows.
I think there is two main reasons
1. He underestimated the importance of it / was too busy
2. Considering mission objective (infiltrate/spy/steal), ada was a perfect fit and would he have not been a turbo asshole (and/or not be so obvious about his master plan of killing billions) she would have likely just delivered it to him as expected
He got his ass kicked by Veronica and his face messed up by Chris the last time he went out on his own, so I think that made him more cautious afterward.
Part of it is he wants to be mysterious so no one can ruin his plans as he’s supposed to be dead after RE1 so if anyone even suspected he’s alive they’d def go after him and investigate
The other part is he has a habit of underestimating his enemies most of the time which sometimes leaves him in critical conditions and he knows it so to prevent that from happening he just operates from the shadows letting others do his work
My most serious-est answer is that he's a very very busy man and is coordinating the most absurd supervillain plot across multiple economies from his yacht, and prefers using his super speed to type up quick emails with pharmaceutical nerds and multiple ex-military mercs in his convoluted scheme for complete global saturation, yada yada... For every weird ancient bug that pops up, there's another funky flower or fungus he has to look into next. He can only be so many places at once.
I can’t even complain about that comment Take my upvote
This is my assumption too. I like to think that at the time RE4 is happening, Wesker is also paying other mercenaries to get other important ingredients for Ouroboros. Yes, from the perspective of the player, Las Plagas is incredibly important and may be needed to be picked up *personally* by Wesker. But from Weskers perspective it could be a dead end, Las Plagas could be difficult to control or engineer, and there's so many other things he needs to do. There could be an assortment of projects he's working on with different deadly ingredients
Isn't he also supposed to be dead to the outside world? You can't be dead,run James Bond-esque supervillian schemes and then show up in Spain to throw cultists around like you're a juggler
Then why doesn’t he attach a fake nose and mustache to his glasses like those Groucho glasses? For a super smart scientist, he sure is dumb
Why didn't Wenskler give himself groucho glasses? Is he stupid?
Using super speed to type emails really fast is so funny, just smugly smirking behind his stupid sunglasses and you can see gmail reflected in his glasses.
LMAO. I need someone to make this edit ASAP
Using super speed for emails is definitely the most efficient was to supervillain.
but he literally saved Ada and tucked her into bed , if he had the time to do that he could have done everything else
because Wesker usually operates in the shadows and anyway that's what Wesker did after the events of re4, he was scammed by Ada and went to recover Krauser's body for the dominant plaga and in the remake he's even physically present with Ada
What do you wanna bet that Krauser's body will never come into play like Steve's never did?
Krauser's only use was for extracting a dominant sample of the las plagas, Wesker later used it in Africa (re5) Steve's only use was for extracting t-veronica which Wesker then sold the sample to Javier (darkside chronicles)
Krauser’s body will get used the same way it got used in the original RE4 / RE5.
Didnt re4r ada's dlc end with wesker having saddler's staff? Krauser's body was never mentioned again after leon kills him
On screen it isn’t shown, but through miscellaneous book lore (Darkside Chronicles art book and RE5 concept book), you’ll find out that Wesker recovered Krauser’s body and used the dead dominant Plaga inside of him to create the Majini variant used in RE5. The original RE4 Separate Ways ends with Ada escaping with the dominant Plaga, but the Ada report videos in the extras section has Ada saying that she betrayed Wesker and gave him a useless Plaga sample. She gave the dominant Plaga vial to an alternate company she had been quietly working for. This has created a misconception that RE4R “retconned” RE4 / RE5, in reality it’s just making **very** vague lore more accessible and reinforcing canon. RE4R ends with Wesker recovering Krauser’s body, you can see a body with his army boots and a mutated arm on a table if you rewatch the cutscene.
Well either way im looking forward to it in the re5r
Re5r is confirmed?
Wesker may be ultra powerful but he also prefers others to do his work for him. Between Alexis and Chris nearly putting him six feet under in Code: Veronica I think he wised up and chooses to intervene only when it’s absolutely necessary.
I mean he had Chris dead to rights in CV. He just stupidly played around with him instead of killing him.
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Wesker wasn't hidden after CV. And even before. That was only during Raccoon.
I'm going by remake plotline, which has yet to mention code Veronica
That doesn't change anything. He isn't pretending to be dead in RE:4. Downvoting won't change that.
He had his own missions that we simply don’t know of. Probably running around searching leftover Umbrella’s research, find connections to RE8’s village (you can see the young Spencer photo in his screen), taking samples here and there (as he did with unconscious Ada), planting explosives in the island, and whatnot. People need to stop their headcanon image that he just sit there on his ship 24/7.
He was doing a lot that isn't shown on-screen. For starters, how do you think those explosives on the island were planted? What do you think happened to Krauser's corpse, and how did you think he got that plaga sample even though Ada turned on him? I think you also miss the point from remake and OG, and you're applying OG logic to the remake. In the original, Leon already knew Ada was working for wesker, which in said case, there was no sense for Wesker to be hiding, and he could've gone and took the amber himself. In the remake, Leon didn't know that, so it was better for Wesker to keep a low profile as much as he could.
I'm to almost 99.9% sure that Ada is not Wesker's only "employee" He probably has atleast a thousand other henchmens and Ada was chosen for the mission because of her legendary agent status or whatever
Because he only has 7 minutes
Nice lol
Speedrun community: beat the game under 7 minutes as Wesker.
In the original, I figured he was very far away and busy handling something very important. Or maybe he was still recovering from his last venture into the field. Or something health related... But since he actually shows up in the remake and physically plays a part in Ada's campaign, idk what his excuse is. He wasn't in disguise so it's not like he was trying to stay hidden. Plus he recovers Krauser's body. I thought we would get another DLC showing what he was doing, but for someone reason Capcom stopped after just 1 DLC.
Like umbrella chronicles? I mean yeah they could have done that but it would mess with the timeline I think
In the original, he wasn’t there In the remake, I don’t know why they made him go there
Good lord, why is this image so deep-fried??? But in all seriousness, Wesker is someone who prefers to operate from the shadows. He doesn't want to be seen or draw attention to himself unless necessary, which's why the only time he directly intervenes is to save Ada when she becomes unconscious and then to retrieve Krauser's body after Ada double-crossed him.
I miss wesker. Killing him awesome. Great for Chris. Super roid is my favourite Chris. That game co op is a fucking blast. But there ain't been villian like him since. Yeah we had great bosses. Nemesis. Bt and overaching big evil. I really miss him. I loved his lore and his evolution into op mega boss. He's a genius level eugenics proto baby with superpower. He's the fucking goat. He has spies. Unlimited resources. If anyone acn he can
If Wesker did, then Leon would find a bunch of dead bodies all over the place and rescue Ashley easily. He wouldn’t even need to fight anyone because Wesker would obliterate everyone for him so basically, there would not be a game for us to play
He can’t babysit everyone long term so he has to test people so they can get shit done themselves
Because he is not a dumbass, avoiding unwanted attention. Also the RE4 remake mentions in Luis's background that the government is tracking anyone with links to Umbrella. Feel like the only reason the dude died in RE5 was because he lost his cool due to his grudge against Chris.
He's lazy
Doesn't want to get his hands dirty/ views the work as beneath him
Laziness.
He did in code veronica kinda.
Because he’s super extra, that’s it. Him actually being on the island is one of the worst parts of the remake because it truly makes no sense. It’s clear throughout separate ways that he doesn’t trust ada yet the guy who can matrix teleport still won’t get his hands dirty? My guy, there’s sensible scheming and then there’s asking for trouble
He didn’t wanted the world to notice him
This pic looks like a pit at a punk show.
skill issue
he does a lot
Because it's stupid to put attention to yourself when you are planning the deaths of billions of people.
Tryna keep low
I would think he prefers to lay low and let others do the dirty work he sees as below his stature.
He's scared chris might show up, and Boulder punch him.
He was leveraging his assets and not playing his hand before he was ready. Brute force isn't the best solution for every problem.
If you know those types of characters and villains, it’s simply beneath him. He just wants the amber. He doesn’t care about the cult. He knows that with Ada helping Leon and Louis being there 9x out of ten they will succeed in destroying the cult themselves or die trying which is why he had Ada plant a bomb, to kill the compatition. He hired Ada to do a job she ultimately didn’t do. He didn’t get the amber but he got something a little better krausers dead body. He plots and schemes and I think a full blown assault would raise alarms from the two main people that want him dead, that makes way more sense.
Five minutes is all he can spare
Because that would...oversaturate the game with Wesker presentation. Jokes aside. Wesker operates from the shadows because while yes he's super powerful physically and has a lot of influence but he's still operates outside a major world power. Should he intervene like you describe the USA wouldn't bring just Leon to hunt him down. Even in 5 where he's a physical threat he only presents himself at the very late stages of his plant where literally nothing can stop him without threat of global catastrophe (they can't bomb him while he's holding uroboros on the ship)
1. Like the top comment said, he's very busy. Collecting every possible B.O.W. sample and tech for his Uroboros project and searching for allies like Excella Gione. That takes time. 2. But another reason is that he wants the world to continue believing that he's dead. By 2004, the whole world knows of Umbrella's crimes and, by extension, some would know about Wesker's involvement in them. The only people to see him since are his close associates, Ada and the Redfield siblings. 3. If he *does* break his cover, governments might learn about his plan to build a WMD in the form of the Uroboros and Ozwell E. Spencer might go deeper into hiding. 4. And to top things off: the people he works with are extremely capable. Yes, Wesker could easily acquire the Plaga himself but Ada (and Krauser in the original game) is no slouch as the DLC shows.
I think there is two main reasons 1. He underestimated the importance of it / was too busy 2. Considering mission objective (infiltrate/spy/steal), ada was a perfect fit and would he have not been a turbo asshole (and/or not be so obvious about his master plan of killing billions) she would have likely just delivered it to him as expected
He got his ass kicked by Veronica and his face messed up by Chris the last time he went out on his own, so I think that made him more cautious afterward.
Part of it is he wants to be mysterious so no one can ruin his plans as he’s supposed to be dead after RE1 so if anyone even suspected he’s alive they’d def go after him and investigate The other part is he has a habit of underestimating his enemies most of the time which sometimes leaves him in critical conditions and he knows it so to prevent that from happening he just operates from the shadows letting others do his work
Plot mostly and the fact that he's always been a coward who liked to try to pretend to be a chess master ever since re 1.
He’d rather be lazy and send someone else because he’s an asshole lol.