Didn’t want to spam the people in another post but I’m hella curious if I’m wrong now. For context, https://www.reddit.com/r/lifeisstrange/s/PP8qMuqc6Z.
Was there something I missed where it was established that the Alive has the opposite LiS1 ending? For example I went with the Bay ending since it’s what I chose in LiS1. Going from the prologue into the alive timeline I didn’t see anything that said Chloe was alive. I don’t personally remember there being any sign, but it’s been a year since I played.
No. And I'm confident we'd have noticed, because many of us wanted that to be the case. Even before DE released it was heavily discussed.
I've always believed Chloe would come back to life in the next game, but DE's ending didn't confirm or even imply that this had already happened. It simply showed a proof-of-concept about Max merging timelines to bring someone else back.
That’s what I was thinking, something like that woulda been discovered already. They were talking like it’s a sure thing, so I wasn’t sure if I forgot something or just missed something that was found out later lol
Yeah, if it had been their plan to merge Bae and Bay Max would've received the text from Chloe in a Bay playthrough but she didn't.
There is no merging because in Bay there is only the original timeline. In Bae, the storm is literally the merge. So after LiS1, regardless of ending, it is one timeline.
There is no original timeline. Max creates a new timeline in Bay and continues to live in the existing timeline in Bae.
No she doesn't, Bay is the original timeline. Bae is the result of the orignal being rewritten.
Bay isn't the original timeline. The original timeline is Chloe gets shot, Max raises her hand and shouts "no" before disappearing back in time to Jefferson's classroom. In Bay, Chloe gets shot and Max sinks to the floor and cries. It's a new timeline created through time travel. Restoring the original timeline is impossible once it has been changed
Bay is Chloe gets shot. It is the same timeline. Her powers activate when she says, "No," not before. Her sinking to the floor and crying does not activate her powers. As long as the power is not activated, anything from that point on IS the original timeline. LiS does not use multiple timeline theory, it uses single timeline theory, the same one The Butterfly Effect movie uses (from which LiS is based) and what the actual butterfly effect theory uses.
I didn't say crying activates her powers, it makes it a different timeline. You can't undo time travel with more time travel.
Her powers never activate. Therefore, it is not a new timeline. Like I said, both LiS and the actual real life butterfly effect theory operate off single timeline theory, not multiple. Yes, you can undo time travel with time travel. Not only that, but the lack of storm in Bay proves it is the timeline that is meant to happen. You can't have another or the storm happens.
both timelines only affect safi, if you sacrificed chloe, she will be dead in both dead & alive timelines.
the most plausible route would be to treat bay/bae as timelines and to have them merge at the same time as the dead/alive ones. but we'll see.
No, there is zero indication before or after the timelines merged
no. iirc, there was a lot of thorough detail-examining and discussion when the game came out, and the conclusion to this was no
also a reminder. during Chapter 1, the player makes two choices that represent their LiS1 playthrough. Safi asks Max who Chloe was to her, she can reply "highschool sweetheart" or best friend. then, Safi asks what happened to their relationship, Max can reply either "she died" (Bay) or "we broke up" (slap in the face to Bae)
that second choice determines whether Chloe is alive or not in your DE playthrough. nothing else.
The ending choice is the same, the differences are that you get a text from Chloe if she is alive and earlier in the game you can see posts/messages/pics from either her or joyce.
Sorry I meant that the theory that they’re saying is supported by evidence in the game is that the Alive timeline has the opposite LiS1 ending, and the merging of the timeline at the end of DE means the LiS1 endings got merged. So if you went with the sacrificed Chloe/Bay ending in the turtle, when you get to the Alive timeline Chloe should be alive.
Right now, all there is to go on is the pegi thing that says chloe will be in the game. We've no idea what the actual plan is or any information about it beyond that.
I think we're just going to have to 'wait and see' what the plan is.
Yeah probably, I’m just super confused if I am misremembering a huge part of DE lol according to this merged timeline theory that may or may not be true obviously. But they’re all pretty confident there’s evidence in the game to support their claim.
She merged the two safi time lines, but as far I'm aware there is no evidence that they were related to the 'Bay vs Chloe' timelines.
That’s what I thought but I guess I’ll keep my eyes open if something new pops up, but yeah as you mention in your first comment I remember there was two separate versions of the ending based on Bay/Bae
I do not believe it matters since tbe original creators of life is strange said no endings are Canonical depending on what they do with the game if Chloe is alive then im assuming Bae ending they have finally hammered down as Canonical due to the issues they had with DE
Yeah it’s more I’m trying to figure out if I missed something pretty big in DE lol. Tbf I guess we’ll need to wait for trailers if it’s a real release, maybe it’ll give us more clues
Not really, when it came out, it was never intended to have a sequel. Then decknine proceeded to make one anyway while disrespecting the two choices.