So... who survived? (spoilers)

[kek]

So, say, I chose to sacrifice Arcadia Bay and leave Chloe alive.

Sure, some people will die, but... I mean, we know for a fact that at least two teenage girls of average intelligence were smart enough to just get out of the way when they saw a tornado coming. So, you would actually expect that most people would hide in a bunker somewhere or leave the city or something. They had plenty of time to do so as well.

The question is - who of our friends did we have to sacrifice? Who did we have to lose? Who was stupid enough to keep running around in panic waiting to be killed while the tornado was approaching. Say, is Warren alive? I kinda expect that he should be (after all, I would've chosen him over Chloe). But the game never tells you! I wanna know, dammit!

[Malkav0]

Here I can give you a plausible answer ^^ It bugged me to the point I wanted to tackle the issue.
I kinda took (much) time to write a proper/alternate way to present the endings here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/319630/discussions/0/490123938427543245/
If you want to take a look and give me your opinions (it's quite long, sorry, I explained how/why I weighted things for variations)

You can also find it here:
http://forums.eu.square-enix.com/showthread.php?t=182373

Now you can help to achieve the "notice me DONTNOD-senpai" feat of strength

Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/lifeisstrange/comments/3pwt0z/ep5_spoilers_all_your_actions_will_have/

[Annie]

Well when we try get to the dinner with Max in the timeline with the tornado we see like almost everyone in the city. Why did none of these people realize that the lighthouse will be a save place? Why did noone leave the city to go somewhere else? I'd say lazy writing but I've already been really harsh on the devs the last few days so I'll just assume the tornado formed so quick that noone had the chance to get away perhaps. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ timepower science. Anythings possible I guess.

[Doesnotcompute83]

Warren might be alive as he might have not went to the diner and drove off instead. In the cliff reality, he didn't call Max as he knew she wasn't missing. Rather, Max tried to call Warren to get the ppl out of the city, but her phone didn't work because a cellphone tower was possibly knocked down. In the evacuation reality, Warren contacted Max nonstop

[Lehkeri]

Short answer? We don't know.

Long answer? We don't know because we're not told.

[Bern]

David may be alive, since he's probably in the Dark Room with he and his cop friends after Max and Chloe told him about it. Although he may not be, we don't know when he raided it so who knows.

[Edu, o Cortes]

David must be alive, because the Dark Room is a underground bunker, which is the most safe location to be in a tornado. I don't think that there is anyone else that was in Arcadia be alive, because that tornado is the strongest in the tornado scale, maybe the people who you saved in the last episode might ran away, who knows. Ah, and the homeless woman, if you warned her about it

[Bern]

Originally posted by Didu:

David must be alive, because the Dark Room is a underground bunker, which is the most safe location to be in a tornado. I don't think that there is anyone else that was in Arcadia be alive, because that tornado is the strongest in the tornado scale, maybe the people who you saved in the last episode might ran away, who knows. Ah, and the homeless woman, if you warned her about it

He may not be though, he may've already left the Dark Room when the tornado hits.

[tojan]

Frankly, there are plenty of silly holes in the plot.

So Max finds out there's a really dangerous storm on the way.
What would any rational human being do?
- If there's way to stop the storm from happening (using those newly-found powers), it's definitely worth trying to do that.
- But MOST IMPORTANTLY, let's try to warn everybody and do whatever it takes to save as many people as possible.

But first, let's look for some bottles to shoot! And play splish-splash in the pool! Yayy!! There's no hurry to warn people, is there?

[Palatine Katinka]

The only confirmed deaths are 'man under blanket' and 'man with beard 4'. The status of anybody else is not shown in that ending. Now, apparently the kiss wasn't shown in that ending because anyone who chose it should have enough of an understanding of the characters to not need to be shown. By that logic I have enough understanding of the other characters to know their status too without being shown because I'm awesome. Everyone survives except 'man under blanket', 'man with beard 4' and Evan because he's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ muppet. No one should be stopping to take photos in that tornado unless the can rewind time.

Originally posted by tojan:

play splish-splash in the pool!

I'd sacrifice a town for the chance to splish-splash with Chloe every time.

[Valdyr]

Originally posted by Annie:

Why did none of these people realize that the lighthouse will be a save place?

For that matter, who at DONTNOD had the idea that the safe place to be during an "EF6 tornado" was outside...on high ground... standing near a tall, thin structure?

[Palatine Katinka]

Originally posted by Valdyr:

Originally posted by Annie:

Why did none of these people realize that the lighthouse will be a save place?

For that matter, who at DONTNOD had the idea that the safe place to be during an "EF6 tornado" was outside...on high ground... standing near a tall, thin structure?

Why did Max think it was a safe place for her and Chloe to go to when in her vision of the storm she almost died there and had to rewind?

[Valdyr]

Originally posted by Palatine Katinka:

Originally posted by Valdyr:

For that matter, who at DONTNOD had the idea that the safe place to be during an "EF6 tornado" was outside...on high ground... standing near a tall, thin structure?

Why did Max think it was a safe place for her and Chloe to go to when in her vision of the storm she almost died there and had to rewind?

She says several times throughout the game that she feels like the lighthouse is "calling" to her, but we never get any elaboration on what this does/could mean. Unless a lighthouse also counts as somebody's spirit animal?

[Malkav0]

It's the fisherman's spirit animal :D

[tojan]

Originally posted by Palatine Katinka:

Originally posted by tojan:

play splish-splash in the pool!

I'd sacrifice a town for the chance to splish-splash with Chloe every time.

Dammit! You're absolutely right.
OK, we do the splish-splash. But let's shoot bottles maybe after we deal with the storm. Or, prererably, never.

[Malkav0]

The moment they say splish-splash in episode 3 is the most adorable reply I've ever heard from Max. It was so damn cute, with holding Chloe's arm. That's the moment in my game, and with the choices my Max made, I realized "she is so much more than a friend" ^^