Fires of Raven is the correct ending

[burn1none]

After doing all 3 I still gotta back my boy Walter. I don’t think humanity is ready for Coral and the other two endings made me think calamity is on the way anyways. What are y’all’s thoughts?

[twiggy]

genocide is correct? especially when you have to keep constantly doing it every few years because the coral just eventually comes back over and over?

[Molatov]

you are correct. Fires is the only 'good' ending imo. The PCA & Corps are leaving Rubicon and the RLF can rebuild in time. No one will mess with coral again (for a while at least). didn't have to stab anyone in the back. easily best ending.

[thorin.hannahs]

You must have missed the 30 page topic on the forum about this. After getting all the endings I changed my AC's name to Coral's Bane. Let the last cinders burn.

[burn1none]

Originally posted by twiggy:

genocide is correct? especially when you have to keep constantly doing it every few years because the coral just eventually comes back over and over?

Arguably saving the Coral for the corporations (good ending?) just means the tragedy will continue possibly even carrying over to more planets and Coral Release (true ending) seems to have created a new race of Rubiconians who can manipulate all the humans armored cores and computers probably leading to some kind of new nightmare. Yeah genocide seems like the safest option here. Also just out of principle Walter never lied to us or betrayed us, he was always upfront about what him and his group had to do. Ayre tries to kill you with the satellite in the opening and obviously **** ALLMIND and Iguazu. Yeah all things considered I think Fires of Raven is the best ending

[REBirthTheEdge]

Basically, it's the "safe" ending because no one knows what the heck will happen when Coral mass-infect humanity.

For this, I'm just gonna wait for the expansion or sequel.

[k-ricks]

yeah even Leader of RLF cult regret for listened to coral voice

[Leon]

ALLMIND does not approve of your actions

[Zogtar]

Looks like you found a friend. *lowers gun*

[A Suspicious Crayon]

Originally posted by Molatov:

you are correct. Fires is the only 'good' ending imo. The PCA & Corps are leaving Rubicon and the RLF can rebuild in time. No one will mess with coral again (for a while at least). didn't have to stab anyone in the back. easily best ending.

there is nothing left to rebuild? Everything and everyone got wiped out.

[Codester]

My only regret was having to kill Rusty to achieve this good ending.

Coral and humanity...co-existing?
Absolutely not.
LET.
THE.
CORAL.
BURN.

[Molatov]

Originally posted by A Suspicious Crayon:

Originally posted by Molatov:

you are correct. Fires is the only 'good' ending imo. The PCA & Corps are leaving Rubicon and the RLF can rebuild in time. No one will mess with coral again (for a while at least). didn't have to stab anyone in the back. easily best ending.

there is nothing left to rebuild? Everything and everyone got wiped out.

Well the Fire itself is a disaster but mostly in space and the inhabitants of Rubicon won't have access to Coral as a source of energy/profit any more, but the planet itself is still there, arguably in better condition than if you crash land the Xylem in to it. At the worst, the fight for coral is over and the survivors can begin to move offworld. This was at least my impression from the cutscenes presented.

[Michami]

All the endings are intentionally ambiguous, there is no 'good' ending no matter how many essays people seem to want to write about it.

[(Edgy) Asriel Dreemurr]

It’s basically the rekindle the first flame ending. It solves the immediate issue, but the cycle will repeat in time effectively changing nothing. Not to mention you nearly omnicide an entire planet out of a fear of an unknown outcome.

In 50 years Raven will have to come back, taking Walter’s role.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by (Edgy) Asriel Dreemurr:

It’s basically the rekindle the first flame ending. It solves the immediate issue, but the cycle will repeat in time effectively changing nothing. Not to mention you nearly omnicide an entire planet out of a fear of an unknown outcome.

In 50 years Raven will have to come back, taking Walter’s role.

Yeah, that's still the canon ending for DaS1 so....
From is gonna either play it safe, or make it so you are gonna fight against Coral in the expansion/sequel.

[burn1none]

A more interesting question may be which ending From Software picks as canon. Personally I believe the 3rd ending will be canon, I think From went out of their way to show you that no matter what you choose there will be disaster. I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels Fires is the right choice. Yeah the cycle continues but it seems to me the other two endings make a brand new nightmare cycle where the Coral either exponentially grows out of control like Walter said or there’s sentient Coral throughout the galaxy similar to Ayre who would presumably try to congregate again like Coral is repeatedly shown to do.