Not really . At it ' s very core this is about cheating . If cheating is cool and FDev don ' t give a shit the game is doomed . If you don ' t want to lose your ship you might as well run shield hacks and be done with it . It ' s cheating no matter how you slice it . <| sep |> Absolutely not . Degeneration has a few mentions of Raccoon City being bombed , but in general , it doesn ' t add much other than Claire became an activist and a twist ending where Tricell gets the GVirus . Other than that , it ' s a story of a random guy who tried to get revenge for losing his family on Raccoon City and his dumb sister who became another love interest for Leon . Damnation should go without saying , it ' s completely irrelevant to this franchise . It ' s a story about a corrupt President using Las Plagas with Leon having to fight monsters for no real reason , that ' s it . There ' s no clear conclusion as to what happened afterwards , other than Ada acquired . something . and sold it to an unknown character . The same twist ending of Degeneration , only it makes even less sense .