@beachthunder said:
Are you sure the twins were real twins. I was under the impression that they were the exact same person but just over different dimensions and the female one brought the male one into her reality?
It's "twins" for simplicity sake. They are indeed the same person from two separate realities (Rosalind is from the Comtsock one, Robert is from Booker's), separated by a single chromosome.
@poperamone said:
at what point does Booker cross over into the Comstock timeline?
Theoretically, the beginning of the game - however, it's the umpteenth time the opening happens in-story.
@mikkaq said:
I still never got the dimension hopping that happens in the middle of the game. Do they ever go back to the dimension they start the game in? Cause they go to one dimension to find Chen Lin alive, then go into another one where he was dead. I didn't really get the point to that one since you warped into a dimension where it doesn't matter that you got them the weapons or not cause you were already this big martyr.
1. They don't. Once they hop into a different reality, they stay in that reality. Elizabeth outright says that she has no idea how to bring them back. "Old" Elizabeth kicks Booker back to the one where he still has a chance of saving "his" Elizabeth.
2. The point is that they don't know what to do with the different realities. Elizabeth is initially convinced that the tear-opening is a form of wish fullfilment - and she's right, but not in the way she thinks. They jump to a different reality because the initial one stacks itself against their current goal, which is "get the airship and GTFO". Booker and Elizabeth believe that if they open a tear near his dead body or the missing tools, they'll just modify the current reality into one where the status and JUST the status of Chen Lin and the tools changes. They simply don't understand the rules and they think that they're changing a single variable on the spot, not really dropping into a completely different world.
The middle part of the game very much establishes the rules of the multiverse. Especially when they jump into the martyr!Booker one - this particular bit is crucial to understanding what happens in the ending, since a) it establishes that the realities don't determine each other, which is why Booker doesn't immediately die if he finds himself in a world where he's already dead, which also means that there are no "reality loops" (which would work like a stable time loop); instead, the universe simply adjusts itself accordingly and b) player!Booker starts remembering what martyr!Booker did after he arrives, which explains the post-credits scene.
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