WTF is this Story????

[Daytona]

Is it just me, or does the game feels super chaotic? I have absolutely no idea what is happening and what is going on and I do not like this :D
Was enjoying myself, but there is a line between laziness and world building/tempo. of the main story.
Is it just me? Really?

[Privateer]

Yes, its just you

[Daytona]

Ok hold on a moment, you finish what I imagine is prologue and then you go to the first settlement and talking to that old guy realize it's been 2 years??? And the main character just takes it just like that?

[Dregur]

The journal also states you were in stasis if you missed the implication that time has passed.

There are also a ton of clues that time has passed during the "big bang" event. I was confused when I got out of the cave, but I think that was fully intentional. However, I definitely knew time had passed.

[Artean]

Chaos is good. Embrace it.

[Privateer]

Even in-game year changed in saves after Nashville

[Toxic * scott pilgrim]

maybe start reading?)

[Rothgar]

No, it's not just you. In fairness, they're trying to explain away the separation between the EA content and the v1.0 content with a stasis period of two years - which is clever, I have to hand it to them - but it makes practically everything you've done and learned before that period largely useless.
The story is disjointed and I'm struggling to actually give a toss about it, really, because once the story at the beginning is done with, it turns into a bog-standard STALKER omage done in the Fallout style. Clearly, it's what they were going for (I mean, Roadside Picnic and all lmao) but I found the "Corporate entity trying to jive between the Dome and real-life even while they're literally stranded down there," bit far, far more interesting. Post apocalypse is cool and all, but other people have done it before, and much, much better.
Got a feeling I'm going to putter around and try to find the out of the way locations before giving up the ghost, but the main story is, frankly, pretty uninteresting. Oohooo, stuff beyond mortal comprehension. Ooh, c-consciousness reacting to human interaction, oh no! Ooooh, artifacts!

[PhamTrinli]

You definitely have to dig to understand the story in any logical way

I haven't made it that far into the main story yet but from what I gather,


There was a time jump of several years after the incident in the cave with the relic. You temporarily existed outside of time for that period and were protected from the destructive effects of the apparent resulting energetic event which destroyed the facility and killed almost everyone in it and nearby.

After that the world inside the dome turned into kind of a fallout-like wasteland with the old organizations descending into chaos or splitting up and new factions forming and things becoming generally a lot more hostile and lawless.

Some factions are trying to solve the mystery of the maelstrom and some are simply trying to profiteer off the situation and others are just trying to survive.

Then there's the emulator project. Haven't completely worked out what that is all about yet.

[ScythianUA]

look it is a simple story: at 1974 you got in that dome from top of it by elivator (why from top? play blue and white lines for specific sciencific answers) at that point that facility was running like a "mine" for artifact...order was handled by trading artifacts for anything from outworld...but after big bang event elevator collapsed and storm staying at center of dome protecting "entrance"...so order collapsed fast...so without "trade with outworld" everyone mind their own buisness while white geeks tryhard to understand and control forces they do not understand, engies just fixing anything they can to survive, grey are "blamegoats" and try to maintain any sort of order that left, blacks are ducks in bushes, oranges are on the "hunt showdown"...so...do what ever you want...there is no way to escape dome...and doom...you just came back from 2 years vanishing in that storm...and no one care couse people see ♥♥♥♥ every now and then...and there is no much diffirence if you are a saviour or doombringer...people just live by inertia...