What was happening at the part...? (spoilers)

[TreasureCat]

For real, ending spoilers!

So, John's mom is the one who killed everyone rather than Bishop, who the game sets up for you to suspect until the end.

But what's up with the flashback where a (injured?) man is running through some kind of blast door and Bishop shoots him? Watching Bishop shoot a guy in the back was a pretty big part of the table-setting for him being a murderous character. What's happening in this scene?

[musehead]

He was a rebel, i suppose. He could have done something dangerous or menacious with his behavior. Not very developed point, anyway.

[100% Wolf Urine]

I gather it was supposed to be someone who figured the bunker was a deathtrap so he made a break to get out the exit (it seemed like the same corridor that lead to the level 5 escape shaft). At that point in time, the radiation levels outside were guaranteed fatal so someone getting out might flood the bunker with radiation. Or at least give everyone else the idea to run outside.

Bishop shot him to prevent both. He then orders the door sealed so no one else would try to get out.

My question is what was the chemical Margaret used to kill everyone? Something you could throw together in an infirmary that would be that crazy fast acting fatal for that entire complex when heated to evaporate and inhaled? The Lindane poisoning made sense when injected, but it's not fatal when evaporated.

The final thing is the ending. It's supposed to be ambiguous if the surface is livable since it cuts out when John takes his first breath outside. Buuuuuuut....wasn't it shown that the outside air was absolutely poisonous since the bunker was flooded with radiation the instant the filtration system failed?

[Petrichor]

FABIO původně napsal:

I gather it was supposed to be someone who figured the bunker was a deathtrap so he made a break to get out the exit (it seemed like the same corridor that lead to the level 5 escape shaft). At that point in time, the radiation levels outside were guaranteed fatal so someone getting out might flood the bunker with radiation. Or at least give everyone else the idea to run outside.

Bishop shot him to prevent both. He then orders the door sealed so no one else would try to get out.

My question is what was the chemical Margaret used to kill everyone? Something you could throw together in an infirmary that would be that crazy fast acting fatal for that entire complex when heated to evaporate and inhaled? The Lindane poisoning made sense when injected, but it's not fatal when evaporated.

The final thing is the ending. It's supposed to be ambiguous if the surface is livable since it cuts out when John takes his first breath outside. Buuuuuuut....wasn't it shown that the outside air was absolutely poisonous since the bunker was flooded with radiation the instant the filtration system failed?

The surface radiation levels have lowered to acceptable levels for human habitation, Bishop says it in a scene (20-30 years).

The filtration system was fine but when John decided to throw himself off a ladder and ♥♥♥♥ himself up he wandered off without turning it back on. As a result, the backup filtration system was automatically activated. This system was already non functioning, before 30 years of inactivity allowed radioactive dust to collect inside it. When it came online it blew all of that debris through non functioning filters and rendered the bunker uninhabitable within minutes.

My question is why did he come upstairs after changing the filters wearing a suit heavily contaminated with radioactive dust? Even if the filtration system had been turned on before he left every area he entered in that suit would've been uninhabitable for prolonged periods anyway.

[100% Wolf Urine]

Oh, I missed that it was supposed to be the backup system screwing over everything.

I could give the plot a pass for not thinking quite clearly when your broken arm bone is sticking out of your skin.

I think the scene said, "At least 20-30 years." It was....20-25 years later that the game takes place? I think it was meant to keep the ambiguity tense as only the minimum amount of time had passed for a best case scenario.

Although geez, his mom tells him to NEVER leave the bunker?

[Daveportivo]

John is a little boy when the man is shot and the 25-30 year time window is announced, suggesting it may be safe to exit the Bunker now, but not when the man was trying to escape in the past.

The stupidest moment for me is when John is trying to access the hatch and he pushes the panel out of the way with HIS BROKEN ARM leaning his full body weight against that arm and causing it greater injury. Look I'm very right handed, but if I had a broken arm, I'm pretty bloody sure I'd push with my left shoulder.

Oh to the person above, they heavily foreshadow the poisoning ending, if you read the effects on the back of the bottle of medicine that mysteriously went missing, it somewhat gives the game away (if not 100% to who did it, at least to how everyone is getting sick without any evidence of radiation).

[100% Wolf Urine]

Lindane is nowhere near that toxic. It can kill you if ingested or injected, but it's not nerve gas.

[umblikal]

Um, for me, the char was ultra stupid and deserved death the moment he broke his arm. :)

[nachums]

But is he meant to be the only person in the world, since the other bunkers all haven't been heard of