An Early Look Into Abiotic Factor's Temporal Loops

[@proto.myriad]

You guys might have to rewatch this one a couple times

[@Master_of_Nobody]

Not really for me, theoretical physics explains this in one of the branches of wormhole theory.

[@literatemax]

It alternates between 3 days and 4 days per reset. To me this means that that is something that GATE has direct control over. Shortcuts opened by the player in Flat Hill, The Night Realm, and Voussoir remain open, but shortcuts in other realms such as Rise, The Train, and Canaan re-lock themselves with every reset. To me, this indicates that not all perforations are created equal. After completing Flat Hill, Marion is gone and Symphonists may spawn. After completing The Night Realm, the shade of "Dr. Cahn" is no longer present. After completing Voussoir, the yeti is no longer confined to its cave. These fixed points that the portal realms snap back to (depending on the portal) are not as concrete as they seem at first...

[@proto.myriad]

@@literatemax Yeah, there is some kind of unknown property to alot of the perforations, especially the earth ones. But in the case of flathill, marion either followed us through the perforation to cascade or the anteverse 1 perforations that opened after we removed all 3 cells. The removal of the 3 cells is what allowed symphonist to spawn, I think. Why we see them when we open flathills perforation and presumably start the loop for the first time .. no idea.

[@Master_of_Nobody]

Ah, you've noticed the independent variables too.

[@phoenixrose1995]

that, or could just be a bug

[@VincentViktorV]

The portal resets are holy because its on Wednesdays and Sundays. I actually will elaborate on my own time.

[@proto.myriad]

[@jellynjams]

This editing is great! It’s actually criminal that your channel isn’t bigger

[@proto.myriad]

@@jellynjams Thank you!!

[@alexstrauts403]

Im so glad I found your videos. I cant believe this channel isnt bigger.

[@proto.myriad]

I appreciate that!

[@fallatiuso]

I think the big misunderstanding is that the anteverses themselves reset. They don't actually, the perforation _destination_ resets. In short, from my understanding, perforations create a passage to a point in both time and space, and after 72 hours the perforation _itself_ is what resets, its destination returning to its original time-space "location" at the start of the "loop". But the _anteverse itself_ never reset, you just never traveled through and looted it this time. How this accounts for persisting changes made and such i've no idea, but manse did say the perforation-tech violated several scientific principles. So maybe that's part of it. Earth perforations are indeed a mystery though. Especially as day-night cycles seems to be absent (at least for now). Hopefully we'll get some answers down the line though. Perhaps from an outside perspective after the 72 hour period elapsed the perforation would just appear to spontaneously close? We can't know, the only way we can get there is through the perforations after all. So we have no alternate way to be present at the other side when the perforations reset.

[@proto.myriad]

@@fallatiuso The earth portals are an especially huge headache to try to explain, maybe they collectively exist in an alternate dimension who knows. Further explanation on these would be great

[@fallatiuso]

@@proto.myriad Very much so, especially because they raise the question "how does time even work?"

[@frost8418]

Thank you mr protogen know i can understand the lore behind the game, i can't wait for the next year's update

[@alexandreutiyama547]

A little late to the party, but it could be something related to quantum physics and superpositioning. Particles can be at two instances at the same time until an outside observer collapses the superposition and the particle assumes one instance. For example, when the perforation at Voussoir was made, our Earth assumes two supepositions one where things went on as normal and another where the portal is opened, and the two positions run in parallel, the perforation portal being the outside observer that can collapse the superposition, and what is abnormal for GATE is the fact that when portals stay opened for too long time tethering occurs naturally as a sort of failsafe to keep the universe's superpositioning from collapsing via temporal loop.

[@Stonehawk]

The perforations are what we would call wormholes. But as Carl Sagan said, they do not necessarily JUST have to connect to somewhere else in space; they CAN also go to someWHEN else in TIME. It is not actually the *world* that is being reset... But the wormhole ("perforation") itself.

[@theghostmannofbritain8482]

our current understanding of topics like space time is based upon postulates, information that is assumed to be true, so it could be the case that our current understanding of space time stuff is wrong and how AF represents perforation travel is a universal mechanic that applies to any form of "portals". Another point of note is that perforation tech is essentially a form of FTL travel, with all the time implications that come with it, and that the "resets" is a mechanism time travel implications that come with FTL. any way you look at it its a smart mechanic to allow for the long term collection of resources and still have sacristy in the main facility. excellent vid btw

[@proto.myriad]

@@theghostmannofbritain8482 Thank you! And yeah, basically everything is an assumption (both irl and in game) but.. very well made assumptions. Hopefully the devs drop some good insight on how they work for good later on

[@qvcybe]

also as for the ones that lead to earth it could be a alternate pocket made when the portal was opened (like it made a snap shot of that area and pushed and copied in to a pocket dimension sense we really don't understand it fully till more info comes out) also that could explain how it works for portals linking to the same worlds

[@proto.myriad]

@@qvcybe This is def a possible explanation

[@qvcybe]

@@proto.myriad yeah its what i think could be happening as its doesn't really break what we know just adds on to it also another idea is sense the zombie place could be a alternate timeline it could be that the other places are also alternate timelines that much more closely followed are timeline

[@pinuppanda6372]

It could just also be another anteverse with the same locations as our earth

[@sirzn]

MISTAKES: -Quiet Manse (does this count as a mistake? YES) -Yeah but like why can I remove the things I built if they're part of the save state? -There are no Anteverses we know of with a GATE Charging Station in them -Ah you're evolving, I see (you cannot hide your mistakes forever, I WILL find them) Conclusion: 0/10, literally unwatchable, lost 15IQ, forgot English Kidding, good video. I was actually on time (ish) with this one! This is definitely not nitpicking, I would never

[@proto.myriad]

@@sirzn 1. STOP HE SOUNDED FINE ON MY END 😡 2. Saying theyre part of the 'save state' is figurative they don't literally become part of history untill the perforation closes. 3. Almost every anteverse we visit has one (its the white box with an outlet in them) 4. I am always evolving im a computer furball Non-nitpicks nitpicked, nitpickseption.

[@literatemax]

​@@proto.myriad charging stations are for flashlights and weapons

[@proto.myriad]

@@literatemax Yeah I just call those boxes charge stations

[@sirzn]

​@@proto.myriadWell you should've called them portable power stations or something so I wouldn't add that to The List

[@balancedbeast7952]

You say the cascade facility doesn't run on the time loop, but what if it does? Take the gravity cube for example, I have picked mine up and made the trinket, but the cube is still there. What if it's not the portal worlds resetting but an effected area of the perforation.