Nicholas Cavallaro said:
ONE MORE THING THE GAME HAST TO END IN A SAD WAY I'M SICK OF HAPPY ENDINGS THEY RUIN GAMES AND LOOK AT THE COGS SITUATION THERE'S NO WINNING.
It depends on how you define "winning". If you mean that they annihilate the enemy and purge the locust from the world then you are generally correct as such a thing could only be accomplished by a deus ex machina of unimaginable scope. The previous two games ended with the successful delivery of just such a device (the lightmass bomb, the flooding of the tunnel systems) and yet they keep on coming.
But, if you look beyond that, I suspect that winning will not be determined by "killing everyone on the other side" but rather by a peace settlement of some variety. You just have to consider what the costs would be for peace.
You have to at least consider why such a war is fought. It isn't being fought over resources: the locust already control the one notable resource mentioned in the game (immulsion). It is a war of genocide with each side seeking to exterminate the other. Humanity, ostensibly, does so because they are similarly threatened. But this leads to a few key plot details that have, as yet, been unresolved.
In the at least millenia of human occupation of Sera, full of exploration of all types (including significant drilling operations) never once were the locust discovered. The locust themselves are incredibly similar to humanity in terms of proportions, movement and the rest of that nonsense. They leverage technology that is, for all intents and purposes, identical to that in use by humanity. It was only at the end of the Pendulum wars that they revealed themselves and the war began.
How did the locust manage to remain undetected for more than a thousand years? Why did they stay silent when their lairs were drilled and tapped time and time again for oil and immulsion? Why did they remain silent when nuclear fire rained from the skies? Why did they do nothing when a decades long war cost untold billions of human lives? And, why are they so very identical to humanity? The most reasonable answer is that they were not found before hand because they were not present. The timing of their revelation and the rest all indicate that they were themselves destined to be a weapon in the pendulum wars.
We have already seen that humanity was once working on a similar project to create unleaded fleshy nightmare fuel. In the 79 years of brutal war where no side could gain an advantage, creating a super soldier is hardly an unthinkable scenario. At some point, the reasonable conclusion is that this experiment was destined to be terminated. The subjects, not really wanting to be dead, presumably fled to the underground where their numbers could grow. When the wars ended, this group would almost certainly know that eventually they would be discovered. The most reasonable assumption was that, given that the current world government rose to power through armed conflict, that they would be the next enemy of the state. So, they struck first when their enemy was at their weakest. It was that opening strike that lead to such a protracted war as the fiction of the universe indicates much of the world was destroyed in the opening days of the war. Ever since, they locust have kept the pressure on the remaining pockets of humanity.
In the war that followed, billions of people and at at least as many locust perished. Surely at this point, even if the locust have an advantage, it would be slim. It is entirely possible that the war is being carried on simply because both sides think that quitting isn't an option. That doesn't mean that it isn't of course, or that any peace that may come would be permanent. But a peaceful solution is certainly possible.
