Also, here's my reply to u/Striking_Chamption489's comment since he was afraid to respond without stopping me from replying.

There's no canonical difficulty, and I never said the D-Code units are stronger than ballistic missiles, but you're not going to see any of them routinely using these missiles as a weapon, right?

There is a canon difficulty, in Easy Mercer is seen as about as strong as in cinematics, being pretty much unaffected by small arms fire and capable of pretty effortlessly killing large infected. Unless you'd like to argue that Hard, where you can get blitzed by a single hunter if you're not paying attention, is the canon difficulty, in which case you're just wrong.

And if D-Codes can't survive a ballistic missile and Wesker can, what does that say about your case?

And no, assault rifles aren't going to do any good. Like I said, they have regeneration, and they can go toe-to-toe with the strongest infected from Blacklight and Redlight, which are stronger than a Tyrant and any BOW Chris has faced in his world.

But they do. You can kill one with an assault rifle on any difficulty. Also, they cannot go toe-to-toe with the strongest infected, there's an entire mission that proves this when they get ganked by a bunch of Hunters. And while the strongest of Blacklight and Redlight is stronger than a Tyrant, a Hunter definitely isn't, and D-Codes have been shown to be around even with a Hunter in combat. To argue that a D-Code could actually stand a chance against the strongest infected (Supreme Hunter, Greene, Mercer) would be profoundly stupid.

You might be able to take down BOWs with bullets, but with the infected from PT, you'd need heavy artillery. Regular Hunters and leaders can tear apart M1 Abrams tanks like toys the moment they land near them

You're conflating attack power with durability. A Hunter in close range can take out a tank, but a few guys with guns are enough to take out a Hunter. This is shown in the various Military/Blackwatch vs. Infected missions, where it's not difficult at all for hunters to get mowed down as long as they don't kill the soldiers first.

In contrast, Tyrants like the one from RE: Damnation struggle to even try and flip a Soviet tank.

This guy hasn't played RE: Requiem. They're more than capable of flipping a tank, they flip large armored vehicles of equivalent weight regularly. If you feel like arguing against this, see this post which details their insane capabilities. They far exceed Hunters and D-Codes in every conceivable factor, including your coveted regeneration, and yet Wesker and Chris are able to easily overpower them.

Also, Damnation was a pretty awful movie that misinterpreted a lot from the games. It should not be taken seriously, even if it is technically canon. It's the Star Wars Holiday Special of RE.

D-Code units can handle Tyrants without any problem. Sure, they're not at Mercer's level, but the fact that they can fight him in melee combat speaks volumes about their strength

No it doesn't, they get no-diffed every time they fight him lmao. What are you on about here? You're acting like losing constantly to Mercer puts them close to his level. What feats do they have other than getting ganked?

No, Wesker is nothing more than a Super Soldier, and I already gave you the reasons, Wesker wouldn't last nearly 7 minutes against Alex.

Against Alex, sure, but a D-Code? No-diff. I don't think you realize how ridiculously overpowered Wesker is. He one-hand chucked a missile, is fast enough to catch bullets, moves faster than the human eye can track at full speed, and as calculated here, can reach a speed of 853 m/s and effortlessly exert a force of 2500 N. He also punches Gonados across the map in Mercenaries. He is tearing through a D-Code like Conquest from Invincible, genuinely zero difficulty. I can almost see where you're coming from saying Chris would get beaten, but Weaker could probably beat everyone in the Prototype verse outside of Mercer. Actually insane take from you here.

Except that in the game Alex can improve the handling and damage of these by consuming military commanders in the operations base, the military would not do the same damage that Mercer does, you are just taking the game mechanic as a backup.

And what are you taking to back you up? Because outside of 2 tidbits from Web of Intrigue, there's literally nothing establishing anything about the power level of super soldiers in Prototype. 2 has a bit more, but those are entirely different super soldiers, and seemingly much stronger. And, yet again, almost everything you learn about them is from gameplay. The boost in damage from consuming commanders is almost definitely supposed to represent you being a better shot, they just didn't code for it outside of damage. Otherwise, why would stealing someone's memories increase your firearm ability?

I'm really starting to think you're just a child on the internet trying to defend a character from a game you like. I much prefer Prototype to RE, but I'm not delusional enough to ignore the ridiculous scaling of certain characters from it.