Outer Wilds Alpha vs Now(Story wise)

hello everyone i am the lore explorer and this is outer wilds in today's loop we are going to look at a few of the differences between the full version of outer wilds and the alpha version of the game that was released in 2015 but i'm not going to look at it in the conventional wow look at how much it's changed and improved instead we will look specifically at the story details that have either been changed or cut entirely and as always this video will contain spoilers for outer wilds while playing through the alpha of outer wilds i noticed it tried to answer some of the smaller questions the player may have about the game yet at the same time it still lacked the cohesive structure connecting everything and there was a lot of stuff that you just couldn't interact with and large parts of the final game were just completely missing but there was still a lot of interesting information to find in the alpha like the pyramid i showed before that was actually no my text the harthians used to translate their language and the dang thing was a know my recipe for cactus stew i mean it's not story changing but it does show us the developers thought of things like how the nomi sustained themselves while they were trapped on these planets personally i wish they left it in the full game not only because i'm obviously interested in the noma's way of life but because not adding it to the main game excludes it from the label of actual lore the developers removed it from the game so it can no longer be considered relevant to the actual main game but that doesn't make it any less interesting in my opinion not only is some of it just not added some of the changes to the main game actually directly contradict the alpha the perfect example of this is the alpha's equivalent of horn fells they tell us they've been getting strange reports from all over the solar system all of the explorers have radioed in to report that their planets are acting strangely a call from the hourglass twins reports abnormal seismic activity under the surface on giant's deep storms have been brewing and things are becoming a bit more active there the explorer on brittle hollow is saying the volcanic moon devil's lantern has went from dormant to extremely active it's begun bombarding the planet below with giant rocks made of lava that's where the difference lays if we head to the know my escape pod on the alpha's version of brutal hollow it mentions that devil's lantern isn't erupting and doesn't serve as an issue for the nominee in fact the alpha nominee never had to contend with the bombardment from their moon now on the contrary in the full release of the game as soon as the nominee touched down on brittle hollow they are contending with hollow's lantern this actually plays a big role in the no my story hollow's lantern and the lava it shoots down at the planet presented a big enough danger to the nomi that they had to avoid it and it forced them underground to found a city under the protection of the crust now the solar system becoming super active last minute is actually really interesting and sort of makes sense at first glance it would have explained how brittle hollow stayed whole for 280 000 years yet starts to break up as soon as we get there but as it is now the full game just doesn't offer an explanation for that and we are led to believe that our solar system has always been as insane as it is now next up we are going to talk about a few of the smaller changes in the alpha the no mite died off over 1.5 million years ago but in the full release it was just over 280 000 years this serves to lessen the distance from us and the nominee making them feel more relatable another tiny tidbit from the alpha is a harthians without a doubt evolved in a pond within this crater even now when they travel through space it's still their favorite place in the universe in the full release of the game we can find know my logs in the giant geyser at timbers hearth they claim that this is where the gnomia originated from at least our tadpole ancestors anyway since all the underwater pathways are connected they could have made their leap to land anywhere but my guess is that this piece of information is still true in the full release too one pretty cool thing about the alpha is the computer comes with some knowledge about the celestial bodies we've been to normally we have to land on them first but it has info on the sun right off the bat it tells us our sun is unstable and the accelerated nuclear fusion has already begun in its core we don't really know what's happening in the state of our sun at the beginning of the game until it kind of goes kaboom so it seems like the nominee alpha had a bit of foreknowledge that things were going pretty bad already another cool tidbit the alpha computer tells us is about the hourglass twins it tells us the sand exchange here happens between the two planets every 100 years due to unknown geological processes aside from the know my being dead for 1.8 million years or something i actually think all of these would be a pretty good addition to the full game but as it sits now none of that is lore and we have no idea how often the sand exchange occurs on hourglass twins the last few are actually pretty big changes to start we are going to visit the vastly different dark bramble from the alpha when we get there we find some strange feature growing off of bramble's vines and it's glowing red it turns out when the nomad came to our solar system they crash deep within dark bramble the escape pods computer tells us that after eons passed it detected that dark bramble has been corrupted by the vessel this corruption has spread pretty far inside bramble and if enough time passes it seems like dirk bramble would probably succumb to the corruption and die now i know everyone loved to see a dying dark bramble but sadly they just didn't add the corruption to the main game like i said though it's not like leaving that in would have changed the story drastically but it sure would have been helpful to know that dark bramble would perish regardless of whether or not the sun blows up the last thing we were going to look at seemed pretty strange to me at first in the alpha the nominee statue in the observatory is quantum only parts of it show up when we look at it and we can never see it all at once now why does that matter well that leads me to believe it had something to do with their third eye i'd bet when the nomide actually looked at this statue they'd see the whole thing but only in alpha nomine i mean who in the heck would make a stature where you can only see a mouth or a couple of ears when you look at it that makes little sense and would be super weird the whole point of a statue is to represent somebody but it would make total sense if the alphas know my third eye could actually see the entire statue at once all the quantum possibilities now we know that isn't true in the full game they're surprised when they first observed quantum behavior so it's impossible that they were able to see it all or they wouldn't have been able to notice it in the first place it would have just been normal but we do kind of know that the nominee's third eye is a little special in the full game anomaly on the sun station said when we fired the sun station the sun barely responded even to our third eye this does suggest that no my's third eye is unique in some way that maybe it can see things their normal eyes can't but at least in the full game it doesn't make sense for that specialness to be quantum well that's about all the interesting story detail differences i could find in the alpha versus the full game though i may have missed some these are the ones that really stuck out to me it's sort of sad but i do know why the developers decided not to add this stuff to the final version of the game aside from just changing the story up the developers only wanted to add information to the game that's super important to the know my story or directly helps you solve a puzzle that way people don't get frustrated after they explore for 22 minutes only to find out that dark bramble may die of corruption long after it will be killed by the sun in like 30 seconds i can see why that would make people mad and i understand why the developers would want to avoid that but obviously i really enjoy this kind of stuff and wish they left it in and kind of wish they added more trivial information i'd bet they have a ton of it written out they just didn't add it to the final release and i hope we get to see it someday in a book or a sequel or something like that i think that'd be awesome and super interesting and i think a bunch of fans would probably enjoy it too but that's about all i have for this video if you enjoyed the video be sure to like comment and subscribe to the channel here if you want to go above and beyond you can sign up to be a member here on the channel we are one 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Channel: The Lore Explorer

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Keywords: Outer Wilds, lore, video games, the lore explorer

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Length: 9min 30sec (570 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 08 2020