Story Question: how many YEARS have elapsed since the "incident"?

[Dale]

l'm approaching 90 hours into the game & still can't find a clue....either in the game or on the web.

According to the lengths of the stalactites and stalagmites in the rooms – then literally THOUSANDS of years have elapsed.

Any answers? Thoughts?

If so where?

Thx

[Seamus]

Roughly 1000 years.

The apocalypse was somewhere around 2060 if memory serves. Putting the current year somewhere around 3060-ish.

[2⊛2]

In 1 scene Aloy said, the apocalypse was 350,000 years ago. In other 1,000 years.
But 350,000 is more believable because the modern building were destroyed too much for 1,000. Take a look to The Collusseum in Rome or temples in Greece. These buildings looking good enough for 3,000 years aged.

[Seamus]

Not sure where you're getting this 350000 years crap.

Aloy was born April 4th, 3021.

[Seamus]

Also means I was off slightly on the current year. It'd be around 3040-3041.

[Eye of Newt]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von 2o2:

In 1 scene Aloy said, the apocalypse was 350,000 years ago. In other 1,000 years.
But 350,000 is more believable because the modern building were destroyed too much for 1,000. Take a look to The Collusseum in Rome or temples in Greece. These buildings looking good enough for 3,000 years aged.

It was 350,000 days.

[Jaded]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Eye of Newt:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von 2o2:

In 1 scene Aloy said, the apocalypse was 350,000 years ago. In other 1,000 years.
But 350,000 is more believable because the modern building were destroyed too much for 1,000. Take a look to The Collusseum in Rome or temples in Greece. These buildings looking good enough for 3,000 years aged.

It was 350,000 days.

The greeter who tells Aloy "she" is late for a meeting with Ted Faro said she was 355,510 days late, and things happened pretty fast back then, so that had to be pretty close to the extinction date.
I think some of the accelerated decay in infrastructure may have been due to the machines

[Jaded]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von 2o2:

In 1 scene Aloy said, the apocalypse was 350,000 years ago. In other 1,000 years.
But 350,000 is more believable because the modern building were destroyed too much for 1,000. Take a look to The Collusseum in Rome or temples in Greece. These buildings looking good enough for 3,000 years aged.

Yes but look how those buildings were built, versus the way we build in modern times. They were not awarding contracts to the lowest bidder in Roman times.

[CursedPanther]

Many often underestimate how fast nature can reclaim the Earth once 99% of the world's population is vanquished. The 'event' isn't some meteor hitting the planet that takes millions of years to fully recover.

A thousand years later is the correct setting.

[inlimuniter]

Pripyat would be an IRL example, that quickly comes to my mind, of nature reclaiming a city after humans have left.

Can't remember the precise timeframe, but it wasn't long at all until nature came back. Playing HZD I was reminded of it a lot actually, and I'm convinced the developers must have used it as inspiration at least to a certain degree.

[countgrey]

I typed this out in another thread:

The E-9 cradle released people 260 years after the planet was wiped due to food shortages, but a full 35 years before the planet was restored enough to support minimal life: this is why the creation myths of the Banuk talk about how much suffering their ancestors went through. Between the Faro plague and Aloy's birth was roughly 955 years, which means that for 695 years the various tribes have been developing outside of the cradles.

So yeah, almost 1,000 years.

[RageOfPerun]

The jungle completely swallowed huge Meso-American cities such that you cant even tell they where there, and they where abandoned only around 1000 years ago

[Seamus]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von RageOfPerun:

The jungle completely swallowed huge Meso-American cities such that you cant even tell they where there, and they where abandoned only around 1000 years ago

There... uh. There isn't any jungle in Colorado, Utah, Arizona or Montana, my dude.

[Porpoise]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Seamus:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von RageOfPerun:

The jungle completely swallowed huge Meso-American cities such that you cant even tell they where there, and they where abandoned only around 1000 years ago

There... uh. There isn't any jungle in Colorado, Utah, Arizona or Montana, my dude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerica

[Seamus]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von MasticatingMarsupial:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Seamus:

There... uh. There isn't any jungle in Colorado, Utah, Arizona or Montana, my dude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerica

That's not where the game takes place.

Meanwhile, the states I listed are indeed where it takes place.

[Eye of Newt]

There are jungle biomes in southern Carja and have been for centuries in the game.