A New Beginning Hints

My two cents about this game...

• 1 of 4: Do not read further unless you already finished the game. Extreme Spoiler Alert!!!
• 2 of 4: I think it's a good idea to bring such a serious matter like the climatic change to the mind of people by making it the topic of a computer game. It needs a lot of courage and a good script to entertain people with this matter without lecturing with a wagging finger. My congratulations to Daedalic for succeeding in this tightrope walk.
  
  And I hope I can disagree with Salvador. Mankind does NOT need a catastrophe before changing. On the other hand, even Germany, being on the forefront of renewable energy, did ban nuclear power only after the Fukushima disaster.
• 3 of 4: Anyway like in many computer games there are some inconsistencies in the story. Here is a small list what caught my eye (Most of them come from the need to place solvable puzzles, so don't take this list too serious):
  
  In the prologue Bent breaks a screwdriver when dismounting a bicycle tube from the rim. Usually you damage the tube in such attempts, not the tool. And if the tool was broken before, but why should have Bent kept this so long in his office?
  
  When rescuing Delvin and Salvador, Fay starts a car that runs on the first try. The motor is not rusted, it still has fuel and not even the battery is dead (that is needed to power the starting motor) although the car was lying next to a river of acidic rain for many decades (or centuries as we learn in the last chapter).
  
  The reader terminals in the library have power although neither having been under maintenance service nor having been used for years, but to power the terminal on the first floor, you have to start the generators. And if you have to start the generators, where does the power for the terminal to start the generators come from? The building must be self-sufficient, as the last man working in a power plant died years ago.
  
  There's one man surviving the apocalypse, and he can survive on canned food. Where did he get it, if he did not even notice why everything is broken? Did he ask Quickie to check the archive for food?
  
  If Fay really destroyed the Svensson in her time capsule, where did they get power for the second time jump? I doubt they would have been able to remove the Svensson from the second time capsule, if it was so difficult to save the two guys.
  
  After Fay crashed the car, where did the technician go? He is neither found in the garage weeping at his car, nor in his cabin hanging from his waistbelt, nor did he assault Fay for revenge. (He should have seen that is was Fay who destroyed his car, at least one of three monitors was only used to observe his car!)
  
  You can't use a metallic railing as replacement for a signal cable! First reason is, it's usually varnished to stand the salt water and the low voltage of a signal cable is not able to overcome this barrier once, not to speak on two ends; second, when transporting a signal, other than just transporting power, the form of the conductor is important, and branching the conductor at the railing poles would damage the signal that much, that this cannot help to get a signal from the antenna to the time transmitter.
  
  If Duve really used Bent's lab coat for cleaning, why didn't he remove the algae from the pocket? If used regularly, was the coat never washed in that years since Bent left the team?
  
  Why did Kellerman want to destroy a handkerchief? Why did he not simply throw it into an ashtray on the platform?
  
  I think many workers are dreaming of such a generous foreman that accepts a welder listening to blues when he is getting paid to work in that time.
  
  When chasing the bomber at end of Atlas, Part 1, did you notice that the only door leads to an electric panel? How did Bent and Fay get on this walkway, there was not even a bridge leading away from it.
  
  When escaping from the lab in Atlas, Part 2, the whole lab tube is made of steel, but only the railing is dangerous because it's electrified?
  
  If in chapter 8 the upper bulkhead is opened and you fill all the water to the specific tube, the central tube is also filled fully, but when you remove the water, the water in the central tube vanishes also. If it couldn't enter the tube on level 1 and 2, how can it leave the tube?
  
  If I was Miss Buendia and the air condition was sucking leaves I would have turned off the air condition in my bureau or at least closed the vents. There would have been no second chance to distract the secretary with the same trick over and over again.
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