MysteryMachineX

I think you are sorta right. I don't know why you chose that specific brand of radio. The radio in the game is branded as ANDO, which is a fictional radio company. Yet the design of the radio is what we need to consider. It's been a long time since I've looked at this, so I don't remember of any sources to bring to you. But the sleek, colored design of handheld radios I found to first be in use in the '90's, although they didn't become that popular until the 2000's. So, we play in the map sometime in or after the 1990's. When we got back in time, that statement remains true. It is just in-between 1990 and whatever the first time was. Your statements on specific dates I don't agree with, because I don't see how you can pick a specific radio brand. So, I've stuck with these generalized decades.

Well, anyone who thinks they are undoubtedly 100% correct and impossible to be wrong is obviously in the wrong. But that being said, I think of the story as being open-ended to interpretation. But at the end of the day, character A went from point 1 to point 2 to meet character B from time alpha to time beta. How that happened is up to our interpretation. But somewhere out there is a definitive answer of what happened. It's like science. Our job is to determine the truth. Theories emerge. Some are supported. Some discarded. New ones take the place of old ones sometimes. Some, like e=mc^2, stick around. The whole goal is to understand the Zombies universe, and that can't be done unless we understand that SOMETHING happened.

Man, Bin, you are so clever! I use that camping strategy behind Double-Tap all the time. And until now, I believed it to be the best. But every strategy has its flaws. I hope to not go against you because you're cream me! Good job at finding an interesting counter to this strategy.

Thanks Electric. Developers are people too. They're human. They're not perfect, not all-seeing, not omniscient. I dislike how people treat them as God. Just a related example: Shigeru Miyamoto claimed in an interview about the Mario games that the Koopalings were not Bowser's children. Despite the fact that the games LITERALLY SAY THE KOOPALINGS ARE BOWSER'S CHILDREN, everyone is now saying that they are not. Cool, he made one of the best games ever. He was also wrong.

Sorry, I did not mean to be mean. But I really simply do NOT care for what a developer says about the game. There's references and allusions throughout zombies, but there is usually a deeper meaning behind. Oh, cool, some weird TV show. Awesome. Whatever. But here is a meaning for why it appears in Verruckt. So I'm sticking with that. I think especially because most of Nacht's and Verruckt's story was made in post.

I'm pretty sure they don't affect it. I can't say for certain. But I'm pretty sure.

To be honest, unless they do have another Zombies game (which I don't know why they wouldn't), I won't be getting any of the systems.

To get shotguns, you must satisfy a complicated formula that is not completely understood. The formula relies primarily on a kill/death ratio. Thus, players who want to get to higher ranks must be picky about who the play with so they don't have to go after them much and risk dying. They end up backing out of games to avoid going down. They don't take risks and choose to save themselves and let the rest of the team die. (This usually backfires.) No proof? If I had a video recorder playing on random for 24 hours, that'd be my proof. Until that day, which will be never because I won't waste my own time, you're going to have to believe me and others who have seen this time and time again. Or you can be stubborn. Either way. Also, keep in mind that this is a general statement. There are exceptions for everything, including this.

No, that is not it. It has nothing to do with glitches. The ranking system encourage bad sportsmanship. So bad sports are typically at the highest rank.

Same thing really. I believe in-game evidence over what a developer says. Always. Or should we call Albert Arthur again? In the end PINNAZ, this is not my storyline thread. This thread is not for debate. It's a notification, not a discussion. Perhaps I should've just ignored your invitation.

We all know that that lots of them are really nice people. It only takes one disrespectful player to go on a rant though. It shouldn't be that way though. 1 good crossbone player doesn't make the whole crossbone rank good. But the earlier statement that 90% are bad is true. You. Are in the minority.

To be honest, I really don't care. DG-3 JZ is a reference to Jimmy Zielinski, but it doesn't mean he made the Wunderwaffe. Verruckt is home to many instances of meteor data. That code is longitude and latitude. Now when you plug the numbers in, does it lead you to abandoned island? No. It leads you to Central Africa. Quite frankly I made this connection many, many years ago. You have to use a little bit of creativity rather than just throwing something away because you think you know what it is. Twitter is not a primary source of information, and I will never accept it as one.

Thanks guys. PINNAZ, the 115 in Japan was in a raw, natural state. It was in a rock. If you synthesized an element, you wouldn't stuff it into a rock and lay it out in the decomposing swamp. As for the Central African meteor, it is given to us in Verruckt. Verruckt gave us the information for three meteors: Chicora, Tunguska, and African. In the power room, you can hear coordinates. Most people think it is some Lost reference, but the numbers are actually longitude and latitude for Central Africa. So, with all the other meteor references around the map, this is surely one of them.

Considering the fact that the average word has four letters, I don't think it is anything too meaningful. I mean, I could say TENT for Tank, Edward, Nikolai, Takeo. Or BAMS for Billy, Al, Michael, and Sal.

No problem. On this one, I'm not really sure. It reads well enough.

Actually, Tac, wouldn't it be 9:35? Not 9:30. "9:30 Lights out". "9:35 Weasel begins a song and dance routine."

Thanks Death. But stop mocking me, the problem with that is that it pigeon-holes everyone into a specific "category".

Thanks guys. Well, Element 115 doesn't exist in real life. : P But in-game, the dogs were just a freak accident. Thus far only primates have gotten "infected". EDIT: Btw, ihurt, if you're confused about the Focusing Stone, Dr. Kaku sums it up nicely in this video at 30:39 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz_uNjvTzvY

Thanks Electric. That's an interesting theory, especially because there are actually two "other" meteors (which I didn't specify, sorry). There's on in Die Rise as well. So that could very well be. We just don't know for sure. : /

I know you probably don't agree with me, so I really appreciate that. @EvilHERNeos: Lol. I always thought the idea of a Zombies novel was intriguing.

Thanks Infest. I appreciate it. When trying to think of it, when it comes to the Focusing Stone, I literally could not think of any possible alternative. As for the virus bit, the only alternative is that each zombie is a nuclear power plant capable of creating more 115, (which I do think is ridiculous). So I'm pretty happy with the results. :D

You're welcome. I appreciate it. Yes, quite. I hope it's explained and not just left a mystery.

Lol! Thank you. Sorry, perhaps I should've made that more clear. I wish it was real. (Wait, zombies? Never mind.)

The reason people don't like them is because rank =/= skill. The ranking system encourages bad team-playing, so, statistically, bad team-players get the shotgun rank. This is amplified by the fact that they often talk down to anyone who is not a shotgun rank. And this is amplified further by all the people who are want-to-be shotgun fans who annoy the crap out of them so much that they judge all non-shotgun people the same. In the end, the ranking system is flawed. Personally, I love to play Grief against shotgun ranked people so I can show that their precious shotgun rank will do nothing to prevent me wiping the floor with them.

Hello people. So, I was trying to explain the Focusing Stone when I came upon some interesting observations. So I figured I'd make a thread on it. So here it is: Element 115 What is it? Element 115, at its marginal unit, is an atom. Having 115 protons, 115(-ish) neutrons, and 115 electrons, it is a very large element. It, like uranium, is also surprisingly stable, having a half-life of an incredible length of time that it is not known. In 2004, an isotope of the Element, 115-174, was artificially created in a lab, but that variant decayed immediately. Where is it from? Element 115 is an extraterrestrial element. No, not a biological alien. Just not found on Earth. Element 115 is present within some meteors, originating from either the Asteroid Belt, the Kuiper Belt, or extrasolar dust. There have only been a total of 12 meteors that contained 115 to land on the Earth binary system, that is, the Earth and Moon. What are its properties? Element 115 is a heavy metal, and it is unique in that it has inherent electrical properties. The 115 within the meteors is very, very dense. It takes a lot of 115 to power technological devices that were developed to run off of it. The Wunderwaffe DG-2 is a notable example that uses massively dense 115 as a power source. 115 in small quantities can, however, affect biological organisms. 115, despite being primarily found in a solid state, can turn gaseous when exposed to extreme amounts of heat, but then it stays in that form. Using its inherent electrical properties, 115 goes through a process of electromagnetic levitation. That is how 115 is able to turn gaseous despite its large atomic size. Being an atom though, it can easily enter the bloodstream of a living person and make its way to the brain. The effects it causes on the affected person is psychosis, short-term memory loss, and paranoia. Dr. Maxis was the first person to experience this. However, when 115 comes into contact with a dead organism, its electrical properties reanimate the dead cells in the body, creating a zombie. However, the effect only works on primates, although it can artificially be made to affect dogs. This formulation is why a zombie can still run at you with its head blown off: the zombie's cells are reanimated, not just the brain. This process only works once. Once the undead cells return to death, even 115 cannot reanimate them again. Also, some scientists artificially transformed some 115 they had into a new state of matter, colloquially called Sliquifier gunk, previously existing only in theory. The Focusing Stone The Focusing Stone is perhaps the most interesting case of 115. 115 meteors are quite dense, much denser than the 115 in a Wunderwaffe, much less a zombie. The meteor that hit Shangri-La was no exception. When Richtofen shot it with the 31-79 JGb215, powered by 115 ironically, he shrank the meteor down to the size of a fist, compressing the molecules together like pushing atoms together, even adding more 115 from the shot. This made the Shangri-La meteor the most dense case of 115 ever. It's known quite well that the closer you travel to the speed of light the more your perspective of time changes. That remains true for mass and density. Since the Focusing Stone has an incredibly density, it follows the bending of time. Also, due to the electromagnetic levitation of its huge number of 115 atoms, it hovers perfectly in the air. The more massive an object is, alternatively the more dense an object is, the slower time will pass relative to the participant compared to the observer. This means from the point-of-view of a black hole, time doesn't move at all. However, the extreme density that the Focusing Stone was in, in addition to the electrical properties inherent within its quadrillions, quintillions, sextillions, etc., of 115 atoms, it was able to actually REVERSE the flow of time, but only in quick bursts of radiation, radiation as in energy from atoms. Thus, if you touched the Focusing Stone, you would then become a participant rather an observer. In Einstein's theory of relativity, you suddenly switch positions. Time then reverses for you. If time reversed for you, and you then made the same decision to touch the Focusing Stone, you would be in an endless time-loop, just like what happened with Brock and Gary. Richtofen was able to evade this by using the Vril Generator, an ancient device that generates vril, a mysterious energy that was able to seemingly counteract the time flux of the Focusing Stone. Element 115's Role as a Virus Element 115 is not a living organism nor a pseudo-living organism such as a virus, yet it behaves like one. The key difference is that there is a finite amount of Element 115 on the Earth. This is again where density takes hold. The 115 used in meteors and in Wonder Weapons was incredibly dense. The 115 needed to make a zombie is incredibly small in comparison. When the world was blown up by nukes, which likely contained 115, the world as we knew it ended. In addition the ice sheets melted, and water all over the place evaporated. The sudden increase in heat released the 115 in the exploded chunks and guts of the Tunguska meteor that had laid dormant in the frozen tundra. 115 became so rampant on the Earth in its gaseous form until it spread across the entire planet. Eventually, every living organism had some form of 115 in its system. Everyone would experience zombification upon death, where the 115 they inhaled, the 115 residing within them, would take effect upon increasing number of dead cells. If you wanted to power one of the technologies designed to run off of 115, you'd have to kill a bunch of zombies to release the 115 residing within them, because the machines require a lot more 115 than a zombie does. The "Other" Meteors Purple Meteors So, we know what 115 is. And that is awesome. We really don't know what vril is. But we're kinda okay with that. But WHAT is this thing? It's not 115. 115 in its natural, solid state glows reddish-orange with white-blue electrical effects. This thing is purple. We do not know what this meteor is made of. Whatever it is, though, it isn't 115, or at least, it isn't the 115 we know. A different isotope, perhaps? A different element altogether? Whatever it is, Element 115 is not alone. Two of these meteors are known: one appeared in TranZit, the other in Die Rise. They are both instrumental to the NavCard Reader. Focusing Crystals The Focusing Crystals in Shangri-La look like they were refined, however, we see one fall to the Earth. Where did it come from? How is a meteor made of crystal? What type of crystal is it? None of these things are known. All that is known is that they amplify the shrinking properties of the 31-79 JGb215. That's all I have. Thank you for your time. Sources: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questi ... ths-center http://www.webelements.com/ununpentium/ http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0 ... eor-anyway http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.c ... story.html http://www.rrsg.ee.uct.ac.za/theses/ug_ ... thesis.pdf http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/HEP/QuarkNet/time.html