Lore Question

(Muddy Muddy Mud Nade) #1

According to the “Open For Business” (and probably multiple other sources I’m too lazy to look up) the game takes place in 2020. However, since 2020 is only 2 years away and the game is hopefully going to last for longer than 2 years from now, the question is “When Does Dirty Bomb Take Place Now?” Since the trailer came out in 2015, would that mean that the game always takes place 5 years from present day? Or does the game take place in 2020 and only 2020? Or is there a new hard date, like 2027 or something?

(TheManBehindTheMask) #2

I would say 5 years from present day always.

(Press E) #3

A game doesn’t have to take place in the same timeline as ours though. I mean, take the Fallout series for example. Their timeline only majorly diverged from ours in the 1960s, and by the 2000s, the world was already extremely different.
Wolfenstein is the same, although I haven’t played it enough to give any details.

So DB could easily still take place in 2020 as long as it wanted to get more serious about its lore and clearly establish itself as its own universe (otherwise it’s pretty much up in the air as it is now). All the maps seem to take place within a fairly close time to each other, as evident by the fact that nothing about London really changes in any of the maps, so I really don’t see why the game wouldn’t stay in 2020

(Ptiloui) #4

In our year 2016, we had the Aimee’s event which took place in 2020. If you want to follow the same timeline, we could assume that now the game takes place in 2022 :smiley:

(Muddy Muddy Mud Nade) #5

@STARRYSOCK said:
A game doesn’t have to take place in the same timeline as ours though. I mean, take the Fallout series for example. Their timeline only majorly diverged from ours in the 1960s, and by the 2000s, the world was already extremely different.
Wolfenstein is the same, although I haven’t played it enough to give any details.

So DB could easily still take place in 2020 as long as it wanted to get more serious about its lore and clearly establish itself as its own universe (otherwise it’s pretty much up in the air as it is now). All the maps seem to take place within a fairly close time to each other, as evident by the fact that nothing about London really changes in any of the maps, so I really don’t see why the game wouldn’t stay in 2020

I get what you’re saying, but Dirty Bomb is always supposed to be this near-futuristic shooter. Not Overwatch level of future, but not TF2 level of past with futuristic elements. So I figured the date would just keep moving forward so it can keep the near-future element, especially because SD doesn’t want to be at some kind of promo event 2 or 3 years down the line and say that “Dirty Bomb is a near-futuristic shooter that takes place 1 year ago,” or something. It’s not like they have to go to Terminator or X-Men levels of retconning and paradox fixing, they just simply have to move up dates in which the game takes place, and the birth years of the mercs. Hell, they might not even change anything canonically, and just say the game takes place 5 years in the future in real time, so the characters get progressively older.

(Press E) #6

@MuddyGrenade said:

@STARRYSOCK said:
A game doesn’t have to take place in the same timeline as ours though. I mean, take the Fallout series for example. Their timeline only majorly diverged from ours in the 1960s, and by the 2000s, the world was already extremely different.
Wolfenstein is the same, although I haven’t played it enough to give any details.

So DB could easily still take place in 2020 as long as it wanted to get more serious about its lore and clearly establish itself as its own universe (otherwise it’s pretty much up in the air as it is now). All the maps seem to take place within a fairly close time to each other, as evident by the fact that nothing about London really changes in any of the maps, so I really don’t see why the game wouldn’t stay in 2020

I get what you’re saying, but Dirty Bomb is always supposed to be this near-futuristic shooter. Not Overwatch level of future, but not TF2 level of past with futuristic elements. So I figured the date would just keep moving forward so it can keep the near-future element, especially because SD doesn’t want to be at some kind of promo event 2 or 3 years down the line and say that “Dirty Bomb is a near-futuristic shooter that takes place 1 year ago,” or something. It’s not like they have to go to Terminator or X-Men levels of retconning and paradox fixing, they just simply have to move up dates in which the game takes place, and the birth years of the mercs. Hell, they might not even change anything canonically, and just say the game takes place 5 years in the future in real time, so the characters get progressively older.

They don’t really have to state a date or anything though. And nothing would really change if they didn’t, lol

Its just one of those details that doesn’t really matter that much. All they have to say is "DB is a sci-fi FPS game. Lore isn’t a big focus of DB, so there’s no reason to add “that takes place in 2020”

(Muddy Muddy Mud Nade) #7

@STARRYSOCK said:

@MuddyGrenade said:

@STARRYSOCK said:
A game doesn’t have to take place in the same timeline as ours though. I mean, take the Fallout series for example. Their timeline only majorly diverged from ours in the 1960s, and by the 2000s, the world was already extremely different.
Wolfenstein is the same, although I haven’t played it enough to give any details.

So DB could easily still take place in 2020 as long as it wanted to get more serious about its lore and clearly establish itself as its own universe (otherwise it’s pretty much up in the air as it is now). All the maps seem to take place within a fairly close time to each other, as evident by the fact that nothing about London really changes in any of the maps, so I really don’t see why the game wouldn’t stay in 2020

I get what you’re saying, but Dirty Bomb is always supposed to be this near-futuristic shooter. Not Overwatch level of future, but not TF2 level of past with futuristic elements. So I figured the date would just keep moving forward so it can keep the near-future element, especially because SD doesn’t want to be at some kind of promo event 2 or 3 years down the line and say that “Dirty Bomb is a near-futuristic shooter that takes place 1 year ago,” or something. It’s not like they have to go to Terminator or X-Men levels of retconning and paradox fixing, they just simply have to move up dates in which the game takes place, and the birth years of the mercs. Hell, they might not even change anything canonically, and just say the game takes place 5 years in the future in real time, so the characters get progressively older.

They don’t really have to state a date or anything though. And nothing would really change if they didn’t, lol

Its just one of those details that doesn’t really matter that much. All they have to say is "DB is a sci-fi FPS game. Lore isn’t a big focus of DB, so there’s no reason to add “that takes place in 2020”

Well, better to have an answer than an excuse.

(Xenithos) #8

@MuddyGrenade said:

@STARRYSOCK said:

@MuddyGrenade said:

@STARRYSOCK said:
A game doesn’t have to take place in the same timeline as ours though. I mean, take the Fallout series for example. Their timeline only majorly diverged from ours in the 1960s, and by the 2000s, the world was already extremely different.
Wolfenstein is the same, although I haven’t played it enough to give any details.

So DB could easily still take place in 2020 as long as it wanted to get more serious about its lore and clearly establish itself as its own universe (otherwise it’s pretty much up in the air as it is now). All the maps seem to take place within a fairly close time to each other, as evident by the fact that nothing about London really changes in any of the maps, so I really don’t see why the game wouldn’t stay in 2020

I get what you’re saying, but Dirty Bomb is always supposed to be this near-futuristic shooter. Not Overwatch level of future, but not TF2 level of past with futuristic elements. So I figured the date would just keep moving forward so it can keep the near-future element, especially because SD doesn’t want to be at some kind of promo event 2 or 3 years down the line and say that “Dirty Bomb is a near-futuristic shooter that takes place 1 year ago,” or something. It’s not like they have to go to Terminator or X-Men levels of retconning and paradox fixing, they just simply have to move up dates in which the game takes place, and the birth years of the mercs. Hell, they might not even change anything canonically, and just say the game takes place 5 years in the future in real time, so the characters get progressively older.

They don’t really have to state a date or anything though. And nothing would really change if they didn’t, lol

Its just one of those details that doesn’t really matter that much. All they have to say is "DB is a sci-fi FPS game. Lore isn’t a big focus of DB, so there’s no reason to add “that takes place in 2020”

Well, better to have an answer than an excuse.

I like this thread. I sincerely hope it’s an always 5 years in the future thing, but I wouldn’t be able to say or know that info at this time.

(Da_Mummy) #9

How about just leaving it with 20XX that always works. But even if they left it at 2020, movies about the 2012 doomsday still haven’t lost their charm and let’s be realistic it’s probably going to take them 2 more years to finally get that stortwrighter out his corner office to do something.