Why are they called "Tubes"?

[SouthpawHare]

I've seen a lot of people referring to the various training stations in base builds as "tubes". i.e. put the soldiers into tubes to train. Why is this? I always assumed that they were just regular classroom areas in regular rooms - you can see a little instruction school area in the GTS. I'm not super sure where people go in the AWC, since it looks full up with nothing but medical beds; maybe there's more depth to the Avenger on the other side of the background wall?

In any event, I don't call any sort of lore that the soldiers are learning their skills from being in some sort of pods or containers. Am I missing something? Or is this an elaborate joke or meme of some sort?

[nightwyrm]

I assume it's a holdover from EW where you make genemod soldiers from putting them in a vat (tube) of orange goo.

[SouthpawHare]

I assume it's a holdover from EW where you make genemod soldiers from putting them in a vat (tube) of orange goo.

I see. That makes sense.

I never actually ended up doing much with MELD, since my only experience with the EW expansion content was through Long War 1, and it took fifty billion pounds of the stuff, give or take, to do much with it. I recall putting people in that vat a few times, though.

[SouthpawHare]

As a side-note, does anyone actually know where the soldiers learning in the AWC do supposedly go? It visually looks like purely a MedBay, and I assume they don't just sit in the biggest, fanciest bed and download their new skill...

[Jacke]

As a side-note, does anyone actually know where the soldiers learning in the AWC do supposedly go? It visually looks like purely a MedBay, and I assume they don't just sit in the biggest, fanciest bed and download their new skill...

Tygan says it's classified. Anyone who's been through AWC training can't remember, but afterwards they feel...oddly sore. Perhaps best they don't know.

[Devon_v]

As a side-note, does anyone actually know where the soldiers learning in the AWC do supposedly go? It visually looks like purely a MedBay, and I assume they don't just sit in the biggest, fanciest bed and download their new skill...

It's a VR system. If you click to upgrade the AWC to get the second station it mentions this.

[Thrair]

As a side-note, does anyone actually know where the soldiers learning in the AWC do supposedly go? It visually looks like purely a MedBay, and I assume they don't just sit in the biggest, fanciest bed and download their new skill...

It's a VR system. If you click to upgrade the AWC to get the second station it mentions this.

Yeah. They enter a sim with Tygan, and he asks if they think that's air they're breathing.

[Raven496]

As a side-note, does anyone actually know where the soldiers learning in the AWC do supposedly go? It visually looks like purely a MedBay, and I assume they don't just sit in the biggest, fanciest bed and download their new skill...

It's a VR system. If you click to upgrade the AWC to get the second station it mentions this.

Yeah. They enter a sim with Tygan, and he asks if they think that's air they're breathing.

roflmao...

[Steve-O]

As a side-note, does anyone actually know where the soldiers learning in the AWC do supposedly go? It visually looks like purely a MedBay, and I assume they don't just sit in the biggest, fanciest bed and download their new skill...

There are a number of regular beds around the chamber, and then one "bed" with some sort of enclosed cover in the middle. Based on the VR reference (discussed above) and the general fan use of the term "tubes" and "pods," I had always assumed that middle bed was a VR training pod (sort of like a tanning bed, but useful.)

[marceror]

As a side-note, does anyone actually know where the soldiers learning in the AWC do supposedly go? It visually looks like purely a MedBay, and I assume they don't just sit in the biggest, fanciest bed and download their new skill...

There are a number of regular beds around the chamber, and then one "bed" with some sort of enclosed cover in the middle. Based on the VR reference (discussed above) and the general fan use of the term "tubes" and "pods," I had always assumed that middle bed was a VR training pod (sort of like a tanning bed, but useful.)

That middle bed is where a soldier goes when they are being retrained. Maybe something similar for AWC would make sense storywise.