so i am doing another play through because there is no way the ending sucked so bad(it really does) and what Dutch gets you from the river bank and ties you up, hit me like a tone of bricks
Dutch:
"you know what that **** means? It means roads have all been closed.
means the phone lines cut. It means no signals getting IN OR OUT of this valley."
so that means the news cast about nukes dropping and Guard being deployed on the coast was being broad caste into the Region it's self and the Cult have control of the air wave.
then thinking back on it. the nuke went off behind the ridge line of the mountain(first on we saw, but i know more went off 2 more explosions in fact). that is a straight beeline to john's bunker.(even though i don't know how they got the nuke.)
but maybe it wasn't a nuke at all. what if it was just alot of home made TNT. or explosives how to you make home made explosives? manure.what did they pack alot of manure with in John's Region. bliss.
Bliss is a Drug that makes you see things. what if it's a Drug that also makes you See the first thing that comes to mind.
when your out in the world it's all nice a sunny and your hit with bliss it's all fantasy and fairy tale like. i remember when i was in a cave that was all dark, i sow some creepy shadowy figure running around(faith's region).
then there was Jacob's time trails where he mind conditions you with music along with bliss. he knows your a county deputy. and officers of the law are also trained in room clearing and those are what the trails are. he's using what he and you are trained for as a catalyst for the bliss. they train you so you get muscle memory so when something happens your body goes into auto pilot.
now let's go back to the "Nuke" whats the first thing you see and think of when you see an explosion like that go off. mushroom cloud but also Fire.
now when i was playing in my old game i thought it was a bug, but some times Joseph's Region would say i didn't kill him when i hovered over it again it goes back to saying i beat him, what if it wasn't a bug at all.
well that's my thought.
Well, in that case, Dutch didn't drag you out or save you in any way....you were either found by the Cult or drowned in the river. IF the Cult found you, then this was all a Bliss dream as you drooled out your life harvesting Bliss for them......or you were dead and this was your mind's last gasp to make you feel better about dying....
Or the endings were "real" and either way, they still stink...
Well, If you are wanting to pull stories and change what the game says or means, then I was just giving you alternate stories to work with.
The blast was about 5 miles away, or 8 kilometers....8000m which is past the length of the game board from the island where you were....mark the time from flash, to shockwave hitting you and multiply that by 1000, which is the approximate speed(feet per second) one of those shockwaves travels....25 seconds was what I got, or 25000 feet away or about 5 miles thus about 8 kilometers. Doubt you can see many normal explosions 8 miles away, and I doubt many would appear like that with the glow enough to partially blind you without being a nuke..
So if it makes you think the nuke war was a bliss dream, then I prefer to think the entire game was a bliss dream and thus that excused the endings because the writers were all drugged out on bliss when they wrote it....or maybe oregano...
And there are people who love the ending that doesn't even make sense because the flow of information can not enter the valley. Therefore, any mention of WW3 is not creditable.
Dutch:
"you know what that **** means? It means roads have all been closed.
means the phone lines cut. It means no signals getting IN OR OUT of this valley."
In the opening cutscene says cult own radio station, cops, everything.