!SPOILERS! The ending

[Yonaga]

So I beat the game today and I am a little bit disappointed, because of the lack of explanation. I know that playing games like RUINER for the story seems to be BS, but giving me 6 sentences in the end plus a HUGE cliffhanger makes me wanna cry.

So what I found out while looking trough the internet was that you are actually a clone used by your (genetical) brother to hunt down the foes that tried to use you to "KILL BOSS" and damage HEAVEN. What I didn´t understand is the part where the villain says that you are actually a clone. Maybe it is the fact that the english translation (from germany here) was a bit ♥♥♥♥ed up. The only thing that I understood was that you are his spare parts depot and you are also share the same genetical aspects. In the end I thought that you are maybe a third child used to be the spare parts depot for your brother and "SHE" is maybe your sister hiding behind that Avatar which is breaking apart.

So does the game explain in any way what happend in the end? Or is there any DLC coming soon that adds more story?

Just to add: I love this game gameplay and atmospheric wise. This shouldn´t have been a rant or something like that. I am just curious.

[Kain]

Man, I hate cliffhanger endings, they are so lazy. And I think you are alright to complain about the story, they felt the need to add narrative, so it should be serviceable. To this day and age I wonder how is it possible people ignore how important a proper ending is, it's the climax.

[Yonaga]

Originally posted by Kain:

Man, I hate cliffhanger endings, they are so lazy. And I think you are alright to complain about the story, they felt the need to add narrative, so it should be serviceable. To this day and age I wonder how is it possible people ignore how important a proper ending is, it's the climax.

I also like to have a proper story in a game - and more important: A good explained ending. What I now read is that there will be free DLCs coming up for this game. For a game like RUINER, the setting, the world and the characters are well made. So my hope is that they focus on the story a bit more with the upcoming DLCs.

[Ruiner_Dispatcher]

Hi guys,

After we deal with some technical issues, we will start working on the DLC. It should explain a lot of things.

Take care,
RUINERS

[Kain]

Originally posted by Ruiner_Dispatcher:

Hi guys,

After we deal with some technical issues, we will start working on the DLC. It should explain a lot of things.

Take care,
RUINERS

That my friend, is great news indeed.

[Yonaga]

Originally posted by Ruiner_Dispatcher:

Hi guys,

After we deal with some technical issues, we will start working on the DLC. It should explain a lot of things.

Take care,
RUINERS

I can't wait for it. Awesome!

[Nargan]

Originally posted by Ruiner_Dispatcher:

Hi guys,

After we deal with some technical issues, we will start working on the DLC. It should explain a lot of things.

Take care,
RUINERS

Very much looking forward toward the DLC now!

[Mister]

Originally posted by Ruiner_Dispatcher:

Hi guys,

After we deal with some technical issues, we will start working on the DLC. It should explain a lot of things.

Take care,
RUINERS

You guys are great!

[Quitch]

This seems like a good topic to take over for a couple of questions I had.

1. At the end you emerge from a pod, and I think your clothes have changed. Is it supposed to be implying that you were in the virtual world and actually fought free of it?

2. Why does HER stop you from killing BOSS at the beginning if the plan is to kill BOSS? I'm assuming this ties into the pod thing, but she never really delivers a line to make sense of this for me.

I was a little disappointed in the end. This isn't really my genre, but the amazing presentation and having some story tie it together made me push through. While I don't mind a story that promises more, I wish it had a more complete feeling at the end, though to be fair I suspect budget limitations play a big role in this.

[Kain]

1 - I think you get captured in the end, but HER releases you again to kill.
2 - She wants you free. If you went to kill the BOSS at the beginning you could be killed, so she frees you and makes you stronger.

[January]

Originally posted by Quitch:

1. At the end you emerge from a pod, and I think your clothes have changed. Is it supposed to be implying that you were in the virtual world and actually fought free of it?

2. Why does HER stop you from killing BOSS at the beginning if the plan is to kill BOSS? I'm assuming this ties into the pod thing, but she never really delivers a line to make sense of this for me.

1. I think that after you deal with the sisters and open the pod HER takes direct control and puts you in it, then you get transported to your brother. He used his helmet to directly watch you killing everyone who conspired against him.

2. It's unclear, she said she wanted to get him, but couldn't crack his security. Maybe she felt that trafficking and sisters needed to be put down aswell

[Mister]

Originally posted by Quitch:

This seems like a good topic to take over for a couple of questions I had.

1. At the end you emerge from a pod, and I think your clothes have changed. Is it supposed to be implying that you were in the virtual world and actually fought free of it?

2. Why does HER stop you from killing BOSS at the beginning if the plan is to kill BOSS? I'm assuming this ties into the pod thing, but she never really delivers a line to make sense of this for me.

I was a little disappointed in the end. This isn't really my genre, but the amazing presentation and having some story tie it together made me push through. While I don't mind a story that promises more, I wish it had a more complete feeling at the end, though to be fair I suspect budget limitations play a big role in this.

Somwhere arround here developers said that all things that are unclear will be lit up a bit in upcoming DLC content. Although people arround here have some good interpretations of events that took place in the game.

[Kain]

They also said one of the devs talked too much. So we are not sure if it will be story DLC anymore.

[Mister]

Originally posted by Kain:

They also said one of the devs talked too much. So we are not sure if it will be story DLC anymore.

Oh, okay. LOL You said it like they straight up had to put him down or smth.

[Kain]

LOL.

Still, that was what was said.

Originally posted by Ruiner_Dispatcher:

Hi @everyone,

It seems like one of our team members gone a bit too far with the statement above. At the moment our main task is to fight with all technical issues of the current version. After that, we already have plans for the first DLC, and we promised to make another 2. Unfortunately, it's too early to say how those 2 DLC's will look like, as we haven't even got the chance to sit down with our team and discuss all the options.

To be more precise, everything is possible at the moment, but we are far from being sure, that there will be some addition to the story. There are many ideas within our members, but we need to decide together how future DLC's will look like.

We made this final statement to clear the confusion which might come from reading different answers in different topics. Hope that you won't get too disappointed about it. We promise from our side that we will let you know about our final decision as soon as it is made.

Best wishes,
RUINERS

[Quitch]

Originally posted by January8:

Originally posted by Quitch:

1. At the end you emerge from a pod, and I think your clothes have changed. Is it supposed to be implying that you were in the virtual world and actually fought free of it?

2. Why does HER stop you from killing BOSS at the beginning if the plan is to kill BOSS? I'm assuming this ties into the pod thing, but she never really delivers a line to make sense of this for me.

1. I think that after you deal with the sisters and open the pod HER takes direct control and puts you in it, then you get transported to your brother. He used his helmet to directly watch you killing everyone who conspired against him.

2. It's unclear, she said she wanted to get him, but couldn't crack his security. Maybe she felt that trafficking and sisters needed to be put down aswell

OK, I was wondering if I missed something obvious. The final cutscene also showed the limitations of the presentation as it was unclear when HER started talking over BOSS because at that point they didn't use the camera to indicate speaker. Should probably have projected her onto the helmet and used that as the talking shot.

I thought about her wanting to kill the conspirators too, but why not do that after killing BOSS given you're already there? And while Trafficking is with you she's actively indifferent to whether he lives or dies which would seem to contradict a desire to have him killed. In fact, the entire reason you have to kill all these people to get to BOSS is because she stopped you from continuing your mission to kill BOSS. If her plan is to kill him she seems to have done nothing but make the task exponentially harder.

It really just needed a line about you being too weak to succeed back then, which would also tie nicely into the levelling system. I took the final fight as a way to demonstrate how much stronger you'd become, since it was basically the first boss, but now you had all your powers and I breezed through it (where as the first boss kicked my ass)