Her behavior towards the mc starts to change at the charity gala and is very different at the home dinner where they talk a lot about their past and memorys.
Another thing which i didnt saw mentioned so far:
They were obviously childhood sweethearts who married early and he was probably the only love of her life. The MC didnt only cheated on Allison. He disgraced her.
It wasnt just a hookup with a random girl while being drunk or something like that. Both the MC and Allision were supposedly a power couple at their company and higly renowned.
And he cheated on her with a cooworker who spilled the affair to whole office and used the affair to climb the corporate ladder. Everyone at their company knew about the MC's cheating on her afterwards. At this level its not only having sex with somebody else, this is a way deeper betrayal of trust.
Ya I totally understand - I actually took her (Allison) to the gala, I just basically drew the line after that, and since I like Kris a lot, too, that probably nudged me since you run into Kris there as well.
Ultimately I feel like Allison's just gotta stop with the vitriol. I totally get that the MC betrayed her and was a total insensitive ass for cheating and the damage that was left in the wake of their relationship for Allison both personally and professionally, but because of the crisis they are going through with Lily, she just needs to put her adult pants on and sideline that bs for a bit while they deal with the crisis - no more digs at him while they are working on this thing for Lily. It would be one thing if he was being irresponsible and not focusing on things with Lily, but at least in my playthrough I make Allison + appointments for Lily and earning $ the primary objective and the two girls I'm now interested in romantically (Kris & Maggie) secondary objectives - picking Allison up for appointments with Lily is #1 as-is any potential for earning money on the project or with racing (I even declined the tea invitation with the doctor so I could take Allison home even though I had no interest in her romantically at the time, just because it's what I would have done in the situation IRL), so my outlook on the situation is...my MC is doing more than Allison is for Lily, so give it a rest for a bit, Allie, we're on the same team in this, don't keep hacking at the hull of your own ship or we'll both sink. I'll end my rant now.
I really want this all weirdness from Natalya that seems so shady and industrial-espionage-y to be a complete red herring and she really is just a smart, sexy, foreign sapiosexual. It would be hilarious, but she'll probably try to steal the battery tech at some point and we have to either outsmart her or convert her to goodness and truth and the American way with our dick.
Hah I'm with ya - Natalya has red flags all over the damn place. I've basically put her in a box and stayed away from her. Very attractive & sexy. Very nice, seemingly. But she has Russian spy / Corpo spy written all over her. It'd be cool if it turned out to be a red herring as you said.
Defenestrator.for.traitor had a good post (
https://f95zone.to/threads/race-of-life-ep-2-extra-underground-studio.130096/post-11704058) about this that the spy might actually be Alexa and Natalya's stuff could just be front and center to be the shiny thing on-screen to distract the player.
