Lifepods

[Koopa]

So when the aurora crashed, all the lifepods were released at the same time, if Every single lifepod was crashed and abandoned before the player could find them, how long was the player unconcious?

[DeadlyDialga]

Originally posted by Master Necromancer:

So when the aurora crashed, all the lifepods were released at the same time, if Every single lifepod was crashed and abandoned before the player could find them, how long was the player unconcious?

According to the game, the player was unconcious for 3 hours. Upon waking everyone else was dead.

[[MF] Huis Moles]

well there was a fire in the pod so if is even was 1,000 years unconciouns he wode of died

[Owlcyon]

You awake t+3 hours after planetfall, or at least, that's when you are conscious enough to realize the pod is on fire.

I don't think the fire was burning the entire 3 hours. It's probably more like he was in and out of consciousness until the fire broke out and kicked his adrenaline into gear.

[Ozelot]

No matter what, it does seem a little strange that all of the rest of the crew bit the dust in three hours

[Shufflecat]

Maybe they didn't. They could have died at any point in the hours/days before you were able to physically investigate their beacon.

[Recursion]

Originally posted by FeaR The Awesome Ocelot:

No matter what, it does seem a little strange that all of the rest of the crew bit the dust in three hours

The warpers killed them, as suggested in a comm message

[Koopa]

Originally posted by Bluelizard9:

Originally posted by FeaR The Awesome Ocelot:

No matter what, it does seem a little strange that all of the rest of the crew bit the dust in three hours

The warpers killed them, as suggested in a comm message

What about Lifepod 3A? woulden't warpers be in the safe shallows?

[redeyedraven]

Originally posted by Master Necromancer:

Originally posted by Bluelizard9:

The warpers killed them, as suggested in a comm message

What about Lifepod 3A? woulden't warpers be in the safe shallows?

My guess is that Warpers are not in the safe shallows for game-mechanic-reasons rather than lore-reasons.

For new players that still struggle to get to know the game and fabricate their very basic equipment it would be simply unfair to have Warpers roam in the first areas players can visit.
If the game would start out throwing almost everything at players it would have nothing left to discover as well.

Besides, only few lifepods are not completely destroyed. Much of the crew was probably dead after the QEP hit the Aurora, before the pods were even launched.

[Syndicake ☠]

At least one other person had to have made it. Since a number of people made it to the pods, some made it to the surface. Just because the lifepods are dead, doesn't mean the habitants were killed also. You notice there are no bodies?

maybe they were rescued by warpers before they could be infected, and the player is the unlucky one who was unconscious so couldn't be detected and saved before he was infected. Some sort of automated system has to be managing the quarantine and research.

[123]

I'm looking at Officer Keen. Judging by the PDA recorded message, I tend to think he was alive at the time of the quantum detonation of the Aurora.

[redeyedraven]

Originally posted by Esther the Mama Tannah:

I'm looking at Officer Keen. Judging by the PDA recorded message, I tend to think he was alive at the time of the quantum detonation of the Aurora.

But his lifepod was not too far away from the radiation-area either. Also, his pod ended up in an area full of dangerous creatures.

[123]

Originally posted by redeyedraven:

Originally posted by Esther the Mama Tannah:

I'm looking at Officer Keen. Judging by the PDA recorded message, I tend to think he was alive at the time of the quantum detonation of the Aurora.

But his lifepod was not too far away from the radiation-area either. Also, his pod ended up in an area full of dangerous creatures.

True but the way the PDA recording reads he was talking with the captain still on the bridge of the Aurora when the Aurora blew. It just means that at some point lore-wise the first officer was alive while the player was scavenging for materials.

[redeyedraven]

Originally posted by Esther the Mama Tannah:

It just means that at some point lore-wise the first officer was alive while the player was scavenging for materials.

So was the captain between crash and detonation.

But what significance does it have?

The game pretty much confirms you are the only survivor when the Sunbeam arrives.

[Lauleyhn]

You might have been probed aswell during your knockout. Who knows.