BioShock Infinite is a strategy game set in 1912, where players assume the role of a former scout. Players can change vigors by right-clicking on them and using their mouse wheel to switch them. To switch between vigors, hold down Q and tap Q to get the menu. There are eight possible vigor combinations in BioShock: Infinite, and using them can lead to various benefits.
The tips section of the BioShock Infinite guide provides information about character progression, skills, and equipment. Players can learn about vigors and their potential benefits. Before starting the campaign, players should familiarize themselves with the game’s mechanics and strategies.
BioShock Infinite is available on various platforms, including PC, Linux, Macintosh, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The game is set in 1912, and players assume the role of a former scout. To swap plasmids, players must interact with the Gene-Bank, select the desired plasmid, and choose a button on either Jack’s or Jack’s side.
To open the vigor menu, players can use the left trigger or hold down the button to leave a trap behind for enemies to walk into. The game also offers a variety of vigor combinations, such as the “top” vigor and the “bottom” vigor.
In summary, BioShock Infinite offers a unique strategy game experience for players, with vigors playing a crucial role in character progression and equipment selection.
📹 BioShock Infinite – Starter Guide
IGN details the basic info that you need to know going into BioShock Infinite. From basic survival tips to optimal gear loadouts, …
How do I change my essential spells?
The text delineates the utilization of particular buttons to establish a repository of four spells, which can be modified by depressing the right trigger.
What is the golden rule in BioShock Infinite?
The Golden Rule is a high-end jewelry store situated in the virtual world of Rapture, located on High Street. The establishment offers a comprehensive assortment of rings and necklaces, in addition to cleaning and appraisal services. The store’s back room equipment indicates that fakes are separated from the genuine articles, a feature that is observed by Booker DeWitt and Elizabeth in the BioShock Infinite downloadable content, Burial at Sea – Episode 1.
How to change tonics in BioShock?
You can only equip a set number of Plasmids and Tonics at a time. Using a Gene Bank allows you to customize your current set and swap out Plasmids and Tonics. All collected Plasmids and Tonics will always be available at the Gene Bank. To review your collection, select the set you’re interested in, select the Plasmid or Tonic you want to swap out, and review your list of collected Plasmids or Tonics for that track. You can also reinstall the removed one if you still prefer it.
How do you change spells in BioShock?
To modify the plasmid configuration in BioShock, one must visit a Gene Bank, which are tall wall-mounted machines with a man flexing his arms. It should be noted, however, that the option to change equipped plasmids is not available at any other point. To alternate between plasmids, press the Shift key and select a new option from the menu, or utilize the F1, F2, and F3 keys to toggle between slots.
What does 1999 mode do in BioShock Infinite?
1999 Mode in the game was initially designed to emulate the feel of older shooter games, with players choosing a “class” for Booker, such as Heavy or Long-Ranged, each with its strengths and weaknesses. However, the Gear limit was reduced to four and they became randomized on each playthrough. The finalized version of the game is an extra-hard mode with no drastic changes to the core gameplay.
The effects of 1999 Mode include reduced respawn points, ammunition, greater damage from enemies, more accurate enemies, and faster-depleting health. Respawn costs increase to $100, and players are sent back to the main menu if they don’t have enough money. The Navigation Arrow is removed, difficulty cannot be changed during gameplay, and shields take longer to recharge. Beating the game on this difficulty earns the Achievement/Trophy “Auld Lang Syne”. Silver Eagles are more scarce and found in smaller quantities.
How do you change powers in BioShock Infinite?
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How do you change vigors in BioShock Infinite?
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How do I change my gear in BioShock Infinite?
Gear in the game consists of four types: head, torso, leg, and feet. Players can change their gear at any point by selecting the GEAR option from their menu. Special editions of the game, such as pre-orders or collector’s editions, offer up to 10 additional gear elements, which can be found on tables in the Blue Ribbon Restaurant at the beginning of chapter 4. All available gear elements are detailed on the List of gear elements page.
Can you switch vigors in BioShock Infinite?
The Bioshock Infinite game permits players to alter their equipped vigors at their discretion by depressing the LB (or L2) button. This feature was not available in Bioshock 1 and 2, and it is uncertain whether it will be available in later versions.
How do you view equipped tonics in BioShock?
In order to view and equip tonics and plasmids, it is necessary to use a Gene Bank machine, which will become available later in the game. It is therefore advisable to remain alert to its appearance, as it is not readily apparent.
Where do you change abilities in BioShock?
Rapture features several Gene-Banks scattered throughout the game, which players can use to switch Plasmids. To do this, players interact with the Gene-Bank, select the Plasmid they want to equip, and choose a button on either Jack’s hand to assign it. Players can only equip two Plasmids at a time, so it’s recommended to switch them for different encounters. As the game progresses, players can upgrade Plasmids and equip more than two at a time, costing ADAM, a currency earned by harvesting or saving Little Sisters in BioShock. These Plasmids can be used in older BioShock games, as a new game is not expected. BioShock is available for PC, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PS3.
📹 Bioshock Infinite ENDING EXPLAINED! (Complete Analysis)
Hey guys, here’s my complete explanation and interpretation of the ending to one of the greatest games of our generation.
You forgot THE most important thing to understanding the ending: The post-credit cutscene. The one where Booker wakes up in his office, to find that Anna is in her crib in the other room. You had everything else right about the story, but this one is the missing piece. This means that after Booker is drowned in the universe where he would have accepted the baptism, all the multiverses where Comstock exists is ereased (The variable is removed). HOWEVER, since comstock is now removed from the equation, Anna is never sold to Luttece/Comstock, because Comstock doesent exist anymore to “claim” her. This means that Elizabeth will never exist because comstock was never there to bring her to Columbia. Anna however, does exist and will continue to do so since there is now noone to bring her to Columbia. The post-credit scene is what wraps up the story. The scene takes places in another main multiverse before the actual events of the game (where comstock now wont ever exist because booker let himself be drowned in “our” multiverse) and where, because of that, Anna is now present along with booker and no Comstock/columbia/anything to disturb this excact universe because its now gone. “Our Booker” broke the circle where he ALWAYS either chooses the Baptism or walks away, by choosing to die instead. He (and Elizabeth) gave their lives to rid all the other multiverses of Comstock. And that my friends, was Bioshock Infinite.
23:30 What?! Then that means every time you died without Elizabeth reviving you, that Booker actually dies. When you wake up in his office and open the door back to the game, Booker relives the whole adventure in a new universe up until the point where the previous Booker dies. That is probably why Booker has landed heads that many times. My brain is dead.
Easy explanation to the ending because some of the comments made it a bit more complicated: Comstock is Dewitt. Dewitt becomes Comstock when he accepts the baptism. Columbia only exists because of Comstock. Anna is Elizabeth. Anna only becomes Elizabeth when Comstock takes her from Dewitt. Dewitt comes up with a solution to stop the cycle of Dewitt & Anna -> Comstock & Elizabeth -> Dewitt & Anna.. etc. He says they should “smother Comstock in his crib” Of course, Comstock is Dewitt, but only after he is baptized. So (the) Elizabeth(s) literally kills Dewitt before he has the chance to become Comstock. Therefore Comstock does not exist, therefore Anna can not become Elizabeth. And such, the cycle is broken. In the post-credits scene, Dewitt wakes up with Anna in the other room. Lettece doesn’t come for the debt, because Comstock doesn’t exist to hire him. And thus, Dewitt can now live a happy and normal life with Anna. Columbia is destroyed. The cycle is destroyed. Comstock is gone. Lettece is forgotten. The world is normal.
Actually, there IS an explanation as to why Elizabeth have all this powers: Her finger. As a baby, we know that the portal closed when she was half-way through it, and her finger was cut in half. One part of her body was left behind, in another universe, and they are connected (read about the quantum entanglement theory to understand why), and by being connected through differente worlds, she could open gaps between them, and know everything about every one of them, technically, she was omniscient, but, when she was a child, the siphon was created, and her powers were heavily restricted, so she could barely open a few tears, and she wasn’t omniscient anymore (but since she was only a child, she couldn’t remember that), and when Songbird destroyes the siphon, all of her powers come back, and she becomes omniscient again. That’s why she says that there’s always a man, there’s always a lighthouse, and there’s always a city. 😀
Anyone else feel deeply sad when Songbird dies? Ive finished it twice now and both times Im just very sad. Its just a bot but he conveys so much feeling and emotion with his movements and in his eyes and sound. Even the way he turns his head when he sees Elizabeth. His death just saddens me. Can feel the fright and confusion. The animators did a marvelous job with him. Sigh.
You missed one important part. The Luteces’ motivations were much less, or the very least not just, about revenge against Comstock for killing them. If you listen to their Voxophones, it’s expressed Robert felt bad for what he did. Rosalind didn’t see much of a point in dwelling on it… “What’s done is done. Whats done… will be done.” But Robert wanted to make things right. So, he told Rosalind, either she helps him or he will part from her forever. Never wanting to be away from him again, she agreed to help. (Voxophone: An Ultimatum) “My brother has presented me with an ultimatum: if we do not send the girl back from where we brought her, he and I must part. Where he sees an empty page, I see King Lear. But he is my brother, so I shall play my part, knowing is shall all end in tears.” (Voxophone: what’s done is done) “Our contraption shows us the girl is the flame that shall ignite the world. My brother says we must undo what we have done. But time is more an ocean than a river. Why try to bring in a tide that will only again go out?”
Having a constant in the story is absolutely genius. The screenplay writers knew that without a constant, the multiverse theory would spiral out of control. Relying on an unfinished scientific/philosophical theory as a driving point for the story is pretty risky and could end up ruining the immersion defeating the purpose of the story. By forming the multiverse theory from the baptism makes the entire thing so much easier to understand. It’s simply a beautiful story about a father who’s willing to do anything to get his daughter back 🙂
I found an explanation for Elizabeth’s powers: On Monument Island you find a Voxophone recorded by Rosalind Lutece titled ‘The source of her power’. “What makes the girl different?” she muses. “I suspect is has less to do with what she is, and rather more what she is not. A small part of her remains from where she came. It would seem the universe does not like its peas mixed with its porridge.” This ‘small part’ is Anna DeWitt’s pinky finger, which is severed when she’s pulled through the collapsing tear from Booker’s reality to Comstock’s. By being physically present in two places at once, Elizabeth is able to travel between, and open doors to, other universes. At first the full extent of her powers are stifled by the Siphon (more on that later), but when it’s destroyed at the end of the game she finds herself able to open infinite doors to infinite universes.
Finally decided to beat this on 1999 mode in the Bioshock Collection. Years later & I still fucking love this game. As much as I would like so much to have another Bioshock game, If 2k decides to continue the series, i do not think it’s physically possible to top this one. However, the BEST part of this game’s ending is in the credits, when it’s revealed that possibly, in a single reality. there is a Booker who didn’t trade Anna, & thus raised her as his own. I don’t usually get attached to characters, but man, this gets me every time…
Notice that it’s not the same Elizabeth who’s drowning you in the end, as the one you played with throughout the game. Look closely at 13:32 and you will see that she doesn’t have the bird necklace which our Elizabeth got from the Lutece’s at battleship bay. Booker even says “wait. You’re not… you’re not… who are you?”. The question to be drawn is where did Elizabeth go, did she stay at the light house among the sea of doors? Did she find a way to exist outside the space-time contiuum like the Lutece’s? Originally I thought that when you killed of the version of booker that came to be Comstock, it would erase all existing universes with Elizabeth too, which is why all those alternative versions of Elizbeth disappear in the end when they kill off Comstock. But the Elizabeth we played with wasn’t there.
It’s confirmed on the Bioshock: Infinite wiki that Elizabeth has the ability to create tears because she lived in two different universes when her pinky was severed. The baby in one universe, and the finger in another. Because she was in two universes at the same time, this allowed her to travel between them, and create tears with other universes.
the coin thing is easily explained: every single time the lutece have tried to bring Booker to Columbia to finish with Comstock, he goes in there and throws the coin. And it’s always heads: that’s a constant. That explains also that every time you die, you actually die and the Lutece brings one Booker from another universe
So that means Universe 1: Commstock Universe 2: Booker So Booker got to the babtism after wounded knee were both universes getting created, universe 1 were he accepted the babtism and universe 2 were he declined it. Both universes were playing at the same time. But one day Commstock from universe 1 got to universe 2 because of the women version of letuce and stole Bookers child and got back to universe 2 with Anna (Elizabeth). One day the Letuce twins opened a tear from universe 2 to universe 1 to give Booker the chance that he can get his “grown up” daughter Anna (Elizabeth) back to his universe 2. After Booker killed Commstock on his airship he got a nosebleed because he killed himself (the Commstock version of him) like he got a nosebleed were he was the dead hero of the Vox. After all of this Booker had the plan to kill Commstock before he was allive, not knowing he was Commstock so Elizabeth showed him that he has to kill himself to make everything normal again. And because he killed himself by getting drowned the whole future changed so the Elizabeth’s that were “born” after the babtism disapeared. I hope i this is right, if not then please correct me 🙂
There’s a couple things you weren’t quite right on. The Lutece’s didn’t wipe Brookers mind, or do anything to make him think there was a debt. Bookers mind did that it’s self. It was creating memories and a backstory itself in order to cope with changing universes. There was no debt past the one 20 years ago, but his mind used those memories to create these new ones. Also, he wasn’t blackmailed or otherwise tricked into selling Anna, although he tried to take it back after the fact, he agreed to it willingly in exchange for Comstock to pay off all his debts. The Lutece’s aren’t using machines to do what they do, at least not anymore. They were murdered while using the machine, which caused them to not die, but also theyre not really alive, like Lady Comstock. Now they’re sort of like ghosts that can drift through Universes. As for Anna’s powers, the reasoning isn’t super well explained but, she can control tears because she exists within multiple universes at one time (Since her finger is in one, while she’s in another). Existing in multiple universes means shes linked to multiple universes, and she uses that link to pull and push things through the veil. But I mean.. Its just a game, and it just doesn’t make that much sense.
Elizabeth has her powers because due to her pinky getting severed going through the portal with Comstock, she violates a fundamental property of the universe, you can’t be in two places at once. The lady Lutesse even leaves a voxophone note about it, “Apparently the universe doesn’t like having peas in its porridge”. As for the ending, it’s not really an infinite loop, if you sit through the credits, you are rewarded with a scene where Booker is back in his office back before he ever decided to sell Anna/Elizabeth, all the gambling stubs being conspicuously absent, having apparently woken up from a bad dream, and you navigate him over to Anna’s crib, where the game cuts to black as he peers inside. This is reference to the Schroedinger’s cat thought experiment that ties into parallel universe/multiverse theory, and leaves the ultimate fate of the baby and Booker up to the viewer. Likewise, the grown Elizabeth’s fate is also left up to the viewer, as she didn’t go to the final baptism/drowning with Booker (although wearing the same dress, the one that does is missing the little pendant on the choker of the dress with either the cage or the bird, something that doesn’t escape Booker’s notice, as he is audibly puzzled. It’s possible she either vanished or is still wandering the multiverse. The Lutesses are likewise entangled with the fabric of the multiverse like Elizabeth is, that’s how they keep appearing and disappearing, they’re like Time Lords and TARDISes all rolled into one from their exposure to the tears, they can go to any universe, any place, any time, that they want.
Seems like after the choice to be Comstock or Booker was made, comstock went on to find the Luteces, Booker went on to have a baby, and after Comstock wanted a baby of his own, he traveled to Booker’s universe to buy his baby. After that, Booker had to deal with his regret for 20 years while Comstock lived on to raise Elizabeth. After Comstock betrays the Luteces, they give Booker a chance to get Anna back, as a way to get back at Comstock.
she got her powers from having her finger cut off. Because it was cut off from a tear she exits in two universes simultaneously thereby giving her her powers. The Luteces got their abilities from having their machine sabotaged by Fink who was paid by Comstock to kill the Luteces and make it seem an accident. Their machine gave them their abilities. I love this game and I have a tough time deciding which Bioshock is the better
Okay i’m going to write my understanding of the article and the ending of the game on the whole below. I’m not attempting to replace the article i just need to write it down so i understand it myself. Put it in my own words you know? Anyway here we go. Imagine one universe. Booker DeWitt exists as a soldier and fights against the boxer revolution in the battle of wounded knee. Directly after the battle he comes to the baptism area (where Elizabeth/Anna kills you in the end) and chooses between being baptised or not baptised. At this point the universe splits into two main sub-universes: One where booker refuses to be baptised and stays as Booker DeWitt and one where he accepts the baptism and becomes Zachary Comstock. I’ll go over each timeline and how they tie together. Comstock As Zachary Comstock you go and build Columbia with the help of the Lutece twins (the people who give you random choices throughout the game and row you to the lighthouse). Being very adept and well versed in the ideas of quantum mechanics the twins can do two things. First they make columbia a flying city instead of a non-flying city. This is said at some point in the story. Secondly they design a machine that opens tears. After a time Comstock begins to want a daughter and requests the Lutece twins’ help. They open a tear into Booker DeWitt’s world (the one where he refused the baptism) and take his daughter Anna. They steal her through a tear that is shown near the end of the game and Anna’s finger is chopped in half as Comstock takes her through the closing tear.
Comstock is not older than Booker. They are the same age… hence the baptism for both happened at the same time for the same person. If you listened to the voxophones, Rosalind Lutece says that the cancer in Comstock (which is killing him and also rendered him sterile) is somehow advancing his aging process. This is why Slate recognizes Booker, but not Comstock… Slate comments on how Booker was at Wounded Knee, and not Comstock, when in reality it was the other way around. Slate just doesn’t recognize Comstock with his advanced aging and new name. Comstock was the “hero” of Wounded Knee he claimed to be, but nobody believed/recognized him with his new name and appearance. Also, Booker’s journey isn’t about paying off his “debts.” The game opens up with a quote from Robert Lutece’s “book” about how the mind will create memories when confused. When Elizabeth is explaining Booker’s past, and how he turns into Comstock, you see Robert open a tear to bring Booker into Comstock’s universe. When Booker enters this tear he collapses and there’s some quick banter between the Lutece “siblings” which ends with Rosalind commenting on how it’s amazing that Booker is still alive, although confused, and Robert stating that it was expected because he did it. Essentially, when Robert crossed into Comstock’s universe to be with Rosalind, he went crazy too (much like the characters/soldiers that died in the game and “transferred” universes). Having two conscious minds in one body is confusing and disorientating, causing inconsistencies in memory.
The story and most of the plots are easy to understand, all you have to remember is: 1. Throw logic out the window. 2. Time AND space are a factor in the story. 3. Booker is both the protagonist and the antagonist. 4. Elizabeth is Booker’s biological daughter but in a way also Comstock’s. 5. Everything works out in the end due to changing 1 crucial event in Booker’s timeline (which cause a paradox forcing all universes to be altered). 6. Elizabeth can do what she does because she’s the impossible girl (Dr Who reference), she exists in 2 dimensions AT THE SAME TIME. 7. Booker gave up Anna/Elizabeth because he thought it would be better for her (ask yourself why does a parent give up they’re own child for adoption?) and he would be forgiven of all his sins. Obviously he regretted it moments later after the deed and chased Latece and Comstock to that tear where Anna was taken away.
DeWitt is baptised – Turns into Comstock – Builds Columbia (Floating city) – Needs an heir to hes throne from hes own blood – Cannot have a child – Goes into a dimension where Comstock was never created, he wasn’t baptised, so he did have a child (Anna) – Comstock somehow made DeWitt go into debt and the debt can be paid off with he’s child – Now Comstock has an heir and DeWitt is left full of regret as Comstock is back into hes own dimension, where he was baptised and built Columbia. After 20 years, the Leuteces feel they did wrong, and they go BACK to the dimension where Comstock was never born and stole Booker’s child, teleport Booker into the dimension of which he actually was baptised to get Anna (Which is all grown up and now is called Elizabeth) back to him. The Booker DeWitt world is quite simple, he was never baptised after Wounded Knee, he never built Columbia, never became a prohphet, lives on to have a child and quite a straight forward life. – but the problem is that he will ALWAYS meet Comstock because that universe of Booker deciding to be baptised always exists, which leaves us with the constant of Comstock making Booker have a debt because he needs a child heir of hes own blood but cannot have a child – steals hes “own” child just from Booker’s universe where he was never baptised, so the same constant storyline has to exist. Booker will always have debt, Comstock will always need a child, so inevitably Booker will always find himself after 20 years alone meeting the Leuteces with the chance to go to Columbia to redeem himself and get Anna back, and Comstock will always have to face Booker in he’s journy.
what about the part after the black screen where we hear the mobile spinning and we see Booker going into the room and saying “Anna?..” and then it cuts. Does this mean that the loop is undone, he doesnt have to give her up and now he can raise her as his own and have a proper life with his daughter? or is he going to turn around with Mr Lutece standing behind him?
Damn this game was 5 years ago, and i somehow ended perusal this again XD, but i do miss the days when games had a real story, and i do believe in a paralel universe where ken levine and hideo kojima works on a game together with the graphics of ea but the mentality of 2k games…. The perfect game…
I think I remember, near the start, Elizabeth saying she gained her tare powers through reading books (because she had so much free time). By this you can assume these books were given to her by the Luteces (due to them being the only two who know how to do it). So I guess you could say it is most likely that the Luteces “trained” her, as you said.
In the game Roslind says “A small part of her remains from where she came. It would seem the universe does not like its peas mixed with its porridge” from a voxaphone, which indicates that the pinky being in one universe and her being in another caused her to gain the powers. Basically, she is co-existing in two universes.
Great explanation. But what about the scene after the credits? I sort of think it meant there’s a universe were Booker never had to choose between taking the baptism or not. Like, maybe he was never at Wooded Knee. So maybe he got to spend his life Anna, and that’s why one Elizabeth remained after all the rest disappeared at the end. But idk
Feel like Booker’s nose bleeds are a big deal in explaining how he can die and wake up to raise Anna in a multiverse void of Comstock. I also have hope that the twins knew that the version of booker we played was the one to raise Anna. It was a truly heartwarming story that blew my mind. I’m a little late to the party 😂
Elizabeth’s powers are easily explained. If you’ve ever read a folk tale where someone goes to the spirit world and can’t return because they’ve eaten the food or taken something from that world… Elizabeth’s powers are the inverse of this. She exists in two worlds because her pinky is in one and she is in the other.
I think the infinite loop is that every time he succeeds he gets killed by Elizabeth, meaning Elizabeth wouldn’t have existed (she was born after the cleanse) meaning that booker couldn’t be drowned and would have chosen the choice meaning Elizabeth would have existed, meaning he would have been drowned etc. its one of those paradox things where if that happens, then this cant happen, and if this cant happen then that happens
I’m not going to correct much because the game was really open ended and I’m still really confused about it, but one thing I’m pretty sure you missed was that the Luteces haven’t actually mastered the interdenominational travel. In a voxophone near the end of the game, Rosalind Lutece says that when Comstock broke their machinary, he thought that he killed them, but he actually just scrambled them. There is also another voxophone from another guy that says he talked to the Luteces 7 years after they “died”, and his wife thinks he’s crazy because of it. So basically, the Luteces can’t exist in a steady timeline anymore, so they just show up when and where they can. I think that they are getting Booker to stop Comstock because he’s the one who can undo everything that Comstock has done and bring them back to a steady plane of existance.
Great explanation! Can you please explain to me who the girl is in the middle of the game who mistakes Elizabeth for Anna? I think it was right after the beach part where the woman says “hello Anna” but Elizabeth corrects her and tells her her name is actually Elizabeth … … Who was that? Please somone help me out
You know how you see those comments on music articles about people arguing about how shit the song is, and the people getting mad at the people saying how shit the song is, and then the comments saying “SHUT THE FUCK UP AND ENJOY THE MUSIC”? … SHUT THE FUCK UP AND ENJOY THE GAME. Jesus. I know we’re entitled to our own opinion but can we just enjoy the fucking thing?
the main theory about why Elizabeth has the powers is that when her finger was cut off, she existed in two universes at the same time. Since then she was capable of opening them but the thing that caused her to do so the first time was the fact that desperately wanted to escape her tower. She has a picture of Paris, and openes a tear to that place.
The comments here are depressing. As a physics & art student, I thoroughly enjoyed this game. They integrated so many physics concepts through visual and audio prompts. Such as instantaneous space-time distortion that distorts light and sound coherently, such as that seen in the logo at the start of the article. The game also depicts many epistemological scenarios and hypothetical instances that are mathematically possible, whereby happenings and close shaves (as like in any other game) almost seems so ‘improbable’, that it almost causes one to question the validity of booker’s human perception. This eventually transitions smoothly to integrate psychology into characterisation. Flavour texts “The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist…”, explore the the possibilities of instantaneous probability. What can happen, what could have happened. In the end, after we’ve played the game, it sits dormant as disk space in our personal computers. It’s as though nothing had happened, really.. yet, through our memories and our ability to perceive time and space, everything.. no.. infinity happened.
At the end of the game’s credits.. Booker opens the door, and a baby is there.. Is it possible that that means the whole thing started from the top? Like, the infinite loop thing..? The heads and tails thing.. It could possibly mean that it is always the same.. It always is and always has been, and it’ll never change.. Shit, the game is deep..
Finished the game a day ago and it still hits hard. Even in 2021 the game looks wonderful, the soundtrack, everything about it. What a wonderful experience. When I saw the baby’s eyes and the colour of her hair I instantly knew its Eli. I sat in the room with the baby in my hands for about 5 minutes just diving into myself and thinking about everything. When I fought for the baby and the portal cut off her finger I was 100% sure. The ending was really emotional for me and I still feel somewhat empty now that it’s been a day.
The constant was the at the baptism. The vaiariable was whether or not DeWitt choose to go through with the baptism. By having DeWitt drown at the baptism, it removed the timeliness where Comstock and Columbia existed – leaving one timeline, the one where DeWitt never went through the baptism and lives with his daughter, Anna.
The problem with this is that the Multiverse theory doesn’t admit constants – everything has to be a variable (a constant would be a limitation to the infinite number of possibilities of things happening in the universe). So even if they smothered Comstock before he was born there are still an infinite number of universes where he is not smothered and everything still happens more or less like it did originally.
The reason why Anna was able to have these powers thru tears was assumed by the fact that she existed in 2 worlds. Part of her as her pinky in Booker’s world, and the rest of her as a whole in Combstock’s world. As for the Lutece’s it was because When Combstock tried to kill them, in their lab, he actually just shredded their existences in the “mult-verse possibility” while they were working on it. A hint of this is when you enter the Lutece residence and find a few recordings with Rosalind Lutece talking about it. Looking closely at the explanation of why the Lutece have this power explains Anna’s power as well. Truthfully, about the Combstock and Booker thing. I thought that Comstock existed because of the fact that Booker existed. In another way of saying it, Comstock and booker were two versions of the same person. When you got to the part where Booker dies and will be reborn as Comstock, I was lost. My understanding of it all when the Elizabth’s and or Anna’s drowning and killing Booker at the time was a way of saying “The only way to kill Combstock is to kill Booker, because if Booker doesn’t exist, neither will Comstock.” Although, I was confused with that logic too. Because, if that was the case, I thought it would have been more logical if the Booker at the time of when he was supposed to make that choice even made that choice before Anna was born. Augh. I’ll end it here. Hopefully no one was confused while reading this.
And here I thought I had realized everything, I kinda missed the gambling debt doubling as guilt and the infinite cycle. One other plot point you did miss, though though it’s definitely not in the ending: Soon after you get Elizabeth out of the tower, one of the citizens of columbia says hi to Elizabeth calling her “Annabelle”, which at the time seems like an odd mistake, and Elizabeth is a bit weirded out by it. Then we realize at the end Anna and Elizabeth are the same person, though how did this woman know her by Anna if Anna was stolen and renamed before she grows up is the question.
I love the Elizabeth’s that help drown Booker. The one of the right calls him Comstock(because that’s who she knew him as), the one on the left calls him DeWitt(also because she knew him as that), and the one in the middle knew him as both. They also where different clothes to symbolize what their future would be with him, depending on which Elizabeth.
wait, if Booker had his child taken in his universe, how did he get the offer that ended up in him meeting her in another universe? Wouldn’t she not exist in his universe anymore? I mean, how would Booker and Comstock be in the same place if one hadn’t come into the others universe. Yet Booker comes to Comstocks, but the offer was made in his own universe.
I still don’t get it….. Why did the Elizabeth’s have to kill “this booker”. I get that they had to drown all the Booker’s that were about to take the baptism so they couldn’t become Comstock. But this certain Booker, whom has already lived through the events of the game was never going to take the baptism and become Comstock, so what was the logic in killing him?
I Don’t understand the term “alternate universe” So in one of these alternate universes, when Booker enters a lighthouse to go to Columbia to save his daughter, does it happen at the same time in the other universes? Does all universes play out at the same time? If so, how can the Luteces be at a place and ask Booker to flip the coin “heads or tails” and then write on the board 122 times? It doesn’t make sense Because it should only be heads for one universe each…
Wikipedia says that her powers come from the fact that parts of her body exist in two separate universes, which is potentially referenced in game, when it’s said that an object split between different realities wants to come back together. Or something along those lines. I don’t remember the exact quote.
I have just completed this game for the first time seven years after it was released and wow, what an amazing story. I think that Elizabeth/Anna is able to open tears between Universes because she exists in two separate Universes that are on different continuity branches. The fact that she lost her finger in one Universe and lived her life in a different one transformed her into a physical bridge between Universes. I think a clue could even be found in the way that she open reality tears, she spreads her hands with her fingers outspread.
I just finished the main game and frankly I didn’t understand the whole story. Unlike the Walking Dead and Skyrim which has straight and impressive storylines, Bioshock Infinite was the first game I ever played and finished it without completely understanding the story. What was the AD mean and who put it? And what was the debt that he always mumbles about? And specially, what on earth happened on the last part with the multiple Elizabeths on the river? o.O the game was perfect.. Why they couldn’t just make Elizabeth died on the final battle on that giant ship and then Booker found out about the lighthouse thingy and then went back to time and saved Elizabeth and then together went back again to kill that old guy (forgot his name) who trapped her on that tower? Why they just couldn’t make it a time-traveling game which they have to undo their dark pasts or something? Why go to Colombia? and what on earth really happened there? Was it destroyed ? or rebuild? or,,,o.O cmon
It’s a paradox booker dies which means comstock was never born which would make booker not have to die and if he didn’t die then comstock didn’t either but if comstock didnt die then booker would’ve gone through everything and been killed at the end and if booker was killed comstock was never born and it just keeps going around infinitely
So first of all: This is NOT the Ending of Bioshock Infinite, so this cannot be a “complete analysis”. The game has 2 VERY IMPORTANT DLC´s called “Burial at Sea”, which explains the connection between all the Bioshock Parts and tell the Story of Elisabeth and Booker after the original Infinite Game. Those DLC´s were kind of short, but without them the story is incomplete. I would suggest that u play them and make an analysis of that too! So the DLC “Burial at Sea Episode 2” is the actual ENDING you´re looking for. Brilliant Quantum Theory Story!
This game was such a gem. I remember perusal my fav youtuber as a kid play it a bit, i only got to see a few clips and for some reason never played it or even looked up more clips/info. Thus, years years later when i am all grown up i decided to buy it and play it. Such a beautifully crafted game, it has been a long time since i played such a masterpiece. The amount of effort gone into it is superb.
About the doubt of Elizabeth skill of opening tears, there is an audio log from Rosalind that we find early on in the game, when we are looking her at the statue on Monument Island I believe, that says that because of her lost finger, she coexists on more than one universe and her power was the universe trying to rebalance this “error”.
The one theory that I read was that, she got her power from having her finger chopped off by the closing tea,r because some of her matter is stuck in another universe/time line, this falls on the theory of quantum entanglement and gives her the ability to open tears between universes, there could have been other intervention as wel, but why give her the power to simply drain her of it later, seems strange. The reason why I would Imagen comstock wanted bookers daughter is because he couldnt have children and he needed a child to continue in the family business. blah blah blah. The one thing that does not hold water, is the fact that it is believed that everything starts with that baptism, that will mean that comstock has to be bookers age, because they are two branches of equal time and of the same person, simply different choices, if he is older, it will mean that, like you said, comstocks time line had to be before the booker you play withs time line, which kinda seems strange, why not just go into you parallel branch, if all the bookers are the same then why go to the past branch?, just seems strange, I’m guessing they might have done that for mere plot convenience or comstock planned it that way so that it’s harder to notice that they are the same person, because if they were the same age, they should sound the same as well as look the same, and Elizabeth will recognize you as her father and throw away the whole plot, shit, just answered my own question there 😛
I think that she got her powders because she didn’t choose any path, she had no choice and once she become Elizabeth and loses her pinky, she is now physically in 2 alternate. It may be just a finger, but it’s still apart of her physical self. The twins use technology to get from world to world. But they aren’t ever physically in 2 places at one time. By existing in 2 worlds you become free to open any tear to anywhere.
You left out something, JV. When you are trying to catch up with Slate, trying to get Shock Jockey, Comstock keeps spouting things about how he was there at Wounded Knee and such, and Slate calls this bullshit, and us, the player, believe so. But, since Wounded Knee happened before the Baptism, obviously, Comstock still remembers it, just not as himself. As Booker Dewitt. So Slate calls bullshit on Comstocks statement, innocently, but Slate is wrong. Comstock was there. He just wasn’t Comstock.
I just finished this game for the second time after 7 years in an attempt to forget as much as I could to replay it again someday. If you just finished the game for the first time, or finished again after some time, or hell even if you play it every now and then, tell me when you finished it and how was it?! Let me see how many people still get delighted with it!
It all depends on the timeline of the baptism. Two thisngs I assumed 1 the baptism was a suicide pact. 2 brooker’s past he wanted to forget was selling his daughter. And when she was recaptured and converted,tortured, brooker was her hope, the anomaly that held her from being comstocks successor. Thus i conclude after being let down she prevented her self from ever having hope. The anomaly(s) brookers who didn’t go through the suicide baptism and were sent to save her now all are led to the baptism. Completing the cycle, leaving all the elizabeths to comstock.
Alright, I’m only at 18:30 right now but I have to chime in. It doesn’t seem that you fully understand the story.. I’ll start with the obvious. The Lutece twins. They aren’t twins really. They are the same exact person. One comes from a universe where she was born a woman, while the other was born a man. One or BOTH of them died in an experiment gone wrong and in a way became omnipresent. At the beginning on the game you see Mr. Lutece with a chalkboard on his shoulders. He had marked EVERY SINGLE TIME Booker had gone passed him. Once for each dimension though we don’t know if it was just limited to that small a number. They were conducting their own observational experiment throughout the entire game. Second, The only person who died from drowning was the booker who chose to become comstock. The booker that walked away STILL LIVES. They simply went to the universe where he says YES to the baptism and kills him before he does it. Elizabeth wasn’t born yet. I forgot the exact detail for booker’s version, but his wife did die during childbirth. This is why it is just him and his daughter. Comstock on the other hand was doing this dimension hop through tears so much that it rapidly aged him and destroyed his ability to reproduce. He saw booker because of the work the Lutece twins did with tears and offered to pay off his gambling debts in exchange for his daughter THAT HE COULD HAVE NEVER HAD HIMSELF. Comstocks wife was bookers wife too, except because she never got pregnant, she never died during childbirth.
One theory that I read, perfectly explains Elizabeths powers. When Booker gave her away, and her pinky was cut off through the tear, she technically existed in multiple universes. That being said, it’s akin to the whole “dead in one universe, alive in the other.” It said that this paradox with her pinky allowed her to travel between tears, since she was technically “in between” them in the first place. It also said that the Lutece’s were actually one person; Robert Lutece. I don’t remember the specifics, but again, it delves back in the dead in one, alive in the other idea: before Robert was killed, he someone formed/found a female twin, and the paradox allowed them to jump where ever they pleased. Maybe this will help, but it’s a wonderul, eloquent, well thought article. And I say Kudos to you for wrapping your brain around this mind boggling story!
maybe the reason Elizabeth has the power to open tears is because she is the only person that exists in two universes, her pinky is a part of her that exists in one universe with Dewitt, while the rest of her body exists in another universe with Comstock. Since she exists in both universes she can travel between them.
It is explained why Elizabeth has tear powers in the voxophone on Monument Island. Rosalind says: “What makes the girl different? I suspect it has less to do with what she is, and rather more with what she is not. A small part of her remains from where she came. It would seem the universe does not like its peas mixed with its porridge.” The reason for her tear powers is that her pinkie was left bhind in Booker’s world while the rest of her body travelled to Comstock’s world.
A lot of details are explained in the IGN guide. Anna’s powers most likely came from her losing the pinky finger. And Cumstock isn’t older than Booker, he just aged faster due to cancer he got from the machines. The Lutece gained their power not because they were smart but when their machines were sabotaged somehow gained their powers and now exist and can jump to between parallel universes. The coin flip is another way for Lutece to predict what will happen next.
I believe that Elizabeth technically exists in two universes due to the Lueteces opening portals. From some way of her, the same person physically existing in two universes, that gives her the power to transverse the universes. She can break the barrier because her body is in one universe, but her pinky exists in another.
Just finished Bioshock: Infinite on the Nintendo Switch…… Wow what a game, what an experience and story. I loved every minute of it, when I’ve let it sink in I’ll be playing through again!! Coincidentally I’m perusal a sci-fi show on Netflix at the moment called ‘Dark’ and both Infinite and Dark are quite relatable in their mechanics, multiverses, quantum entanglement and bootstrap theories. Mind bending and brilliant!!
Just finished the game, and honestly it all started rather innocent, simple plot about a man going to save a girl to pay his debt for whatever reason, so you just keep on going and going along with the game and at the moment the syringe is broken, the ending starts And that, is where shit goes kaboom. I was incredibly confused with all the multiverses, tears, doors, baptism, Anna and whatnot. I do get a few bits of the story like the moment when Anna lost her finger, but in the end the only thing I understand is that booker and comstock are the same person, Anna is Elizabeth, etc etc. But still, I don’t have that much brain power to comprehend this ending in one sitting, and after perusal this article, I’m still incredibly confused, and I might take a breather. Amazing game tho, amazing soundtrack, cool characters, truly stands out from all the other Bioshock entries.
My favorite storyline in a article game ever. Has anyone ever noticed this storyline draws many parallels with the movie Shutter Island? In both instances the true past of our protagonists is obscured. Both protagonists had prior service in the military, with indication they were ashamed and horrified with the events that took place as soldiers (hence the obscure background info). Both protagonists are sent on a mission that makes little sense, even to themselves and yet they relentlessly pursue their task. There is a scene in shutter island where Leo’s character takes refuge in a tomb only to be cornered by the warden and his men, similar to when DeWitt and Elizabeth go into lady Comstocks tomb, only to be trapped and caught by Comstock. Both characters have trigger points that initiate painful flashbacks. Both endings reveal to us who the character actually is, but leave his fate entirely up to the viewer.
Towards the end you were talking a out how no one knows how Elizabeth got her powers. Early on in the game before you meet Elizabeth you can find one of Rosalinds audio recordings where she is talking about exactly that….. “What makes the girl different? I suspect it has less to do with what she is, and rather more with what she is not. A small part of her remains from where she came. It would seem the universe does not like its peas mixed with its porridge.” As you know Elizabeth left a pinky behind in her original universe when she was taken by Comstock. In other words she has existed in multiple universes since she was a baby, so she can pass through these doorways at will. Most peoples minds struggle to comprehend what happened to them when passing through a tear (the nosebleeds booker gets throughout the game), but Elizabeth has existed that way since she was a baby so she can pass through seamlessly and even control it.
I’ve seen a article or two before, clearing some of the question marks using the recordings and some additional theories sometimes, like for instance, some the “prophecies” of Comstock were obtained using the tears that Lutece helped open (many including false shepard later). He used the tears so much he aged quickly and also lost his fertility, a big issue since one of the prophecies was that he will have a child, that’s where Lutece came into place, they explained that in another universe there’s another him but with a child (anna). After they brought up anna, his wife rejected her and thought she was a bastard child, she threatened to tell everyone on a certain date so he killed her, and he tried to kill (or ordered Fink if I recall, to kill) the brothers, by shutting down the device, this failed, because as they were still inside or traversing so instead of killing them he gave them the ability to go any where (when?). And in the same way, Elisabeth, being a part of two universes, she obtained her abilities, someone explained that this has to do with the universe tending to correct itself but I don’t know if that’s he reason according to the authors Also, my jaw literally dropped when I saw rapture, and I thought I was the only one, it’s everyone’s reaction apparently
Just someone explain this to me please: when Booker is drowned before accepting/rejecting the baptism this means all Comstocks are not even born? Then how come there’s one in Burial at the Sea 1? Also, I’m assuming Anna was born after Booker rejects the baptism. Is this why all the Elizabeths start disappearing? Because when Booker drowns no Annas would be born? And then how come there’s one Elizabeth that survives? Is she the same Elizabeth in Burial at the Sea?
Only game series i have ever been genuingly interested in. I have came up with a bunch of theories myself and they all are pretty much what you have said in this explenation. My friend said he was so confused about the ending, i don’t feel confused, not a 100% sure but at least 95%. Such great games, glad i finally brought myself round to play infinite. Now i know De-witt is comstock, are these versions also alternate to Jack from bioshock 1 as he is the constant along with rapture light house just another version of the story.
Well the luteces atoms were scattered across the multiverse when fink was ordered to sabotage their tear machine hence why they’re omniscient and can appear and disappear stuff like that. The reason Elizabeth has these abilities is because she is technically existing across two universes, her pinky and herself. Finally, to some this up comstock appears older because of the significant increase of the aging process through observing and interacting with these tears for an unhealthy amount of time for an average human. (not Elizabeth)
This game would of worked much better if there were only interactions between 2 alternate timelines. Multiple universes causes too many problems. Then ending for example, you are drowned, but only you, one version of Booker, who is not even the one who turned into Comstock. Makes no sense. Did the little army of Anna’s go around to millions of universes and drown all Bookers/Comstocks? Why would the universes all be so similar? They would not. Also who cares about the other universes, its not possible to be a “steward of right and wrong for all universes”. If anything is impossible, that’s impossible. The problem is the authors force a single timeline in the end to make an ending that works. mixing multiple timelines with single timeline theory is a no no.
And actually if you think about it, killing Booker was completely unnecessary. They could’ve just went back to before he went to fight at Wounded Knee and either injured him by shooting him in the foot or something or some other way to postpone him from fighting. But that wouldn’t be good for the plot I assume.
When I played the game I understood it a private investigator with a troubled past sent to find a girl to clear his debt that had extraordinary abilities and then they took the plot put it in a blinder then stitched it back together with lessons of quantum physics in the dialogue he is the protagonist and antagonist
I just finished the game tonight, went in completely blind not knowing anything about Bioshock or the pervious games. I was so confused by the ending, like tying a piece of string to thumb tacks kind of level of contemplation. It’s been years since all this was discussed but hey I’ll throw in my thoughts about the ending for the archive. The explanation is well put. However I feel the game was trying to tell us something more with the story as well. The big shocker, one of two, is that Booker and Comstock are two sides of the same coin or man I should say. Both live with regretful actions, actions they can’t undue. The Comstock version of Booker is haunted by his actions during the Battle of Wounded Knee. War is hell, that saying Booker in the campaign tries to steer away from any further discussion about the topic. His choice for baptism is because of his prior service. He goes on to “find God” in a radicalized fashion. While our Booker at the start of the game has his own weight of regret to carry. From his time as a Pinkerton to his choice of selling of his only daughter. The job of wiping the debt is his sole chance at redemption. This whole story is about redemption, the lengths in which a man will go in order make up for what he has done! The multiverse structure of the campaign in the meat and potato’s of the plot but there is a message to be sifted out of all this. That message is the road always splits in two ways, which path you take is YOUR choice and one must be ready to travel down that path.
Alright, to answer some things here: Elizabeth/Anna: The girl, having her finger severed, managed to exist in two different universes at the same time. This is the source of her powers (as explained in a voxophone of Rosalind Lutece). This not only gives her the ability to transcend from universe to universe, but to also know, every moment of every reality (almost like a God). She was unable to have such an extension to her powers because of the siphon, which drained and limited her powers, as was explained in the article. This is also VERY important because, it doesn’t only make her able to know and transcend all universes, but it makes her a “quantum superposition”. This means that she is a CONSTANT, as used in the article as definition. This is why she didn’t disappear when Booker got drowned, while all the other Annas/Elizabeths did. If you play “Burial at Sea” you will better understand this as (SPOILER ALLERT, SKIP TO NEXT PARAGRAPH IF YOU WANT TO PLAY IT FIRST) she chose to give up her advantage of being a superposition, by going into a universe where she was already dead. This not only took away her being a quantum superposition, but it also rendered her, in every way, just a normal girl. “The seed of the prophet shall sit the throne and drown in flame the mountains of men”. This is because, in this reality, after Elizabeth willingly returns to the siphon and is tortured and brainwashed, she becomes Zachary’s successor and like we can see, she is seen as the new leader, bringing the war to New York and probably extending it even further.
Only problem with the ending is this: If you go with the multiverse theory and the implications of choice, probability, and so on to its fullest extent, the ending would change nothing. None of Elizabeth’s actions, or Booker’s, or anyone else’s would ultimately make a difference. The problem is, with the multiverse theory, each possible outcome to every interaction at each moment in time would exist equally, and the ‘reality’ we end up is nothing more than our selection, by our choices, which branch we follow. We even see this in the game where in some branches characters are alive, in others they’re dead. They continue to exist, in theory, regardless of what becomes our “reality”. In essence, then, all that Elizabeth and Booker accomplish by going back to the ‘source’ is not an erasure of everything that comes afterwards. It’s simply choosing another alternate outcome. The original choices still exist as they always did. Just like there are alternate branches where Booker never was at the baptism to begin with because of choice or circumstance. Booker never fought at Wounded Knee. Booker never joined the Army and had an alternate life. Literally an infinite number of possible realities exist. You can argue “Constants and variables”, but the constants would only apply insofar as a particular branch of probabilistic outcomes wherein those constants existed, since again, only one particular outcome had booker at the baptism to begin with (You could argue inevitable outcomes that lead back to the same particular event, but that would be highly improbable given what we can observe and demonstrate experimentally through quantum physics).
So, I watched the ending a few times, and this is what I came up with I’m going to post it before perusal your article, see what I got. So, when the Elizabeths and Annas drown Booker in the river, that was the one timeline where he would have become Comstock So since he drowned, he wouldn’t become Comstock, which means that there’s no one to steal Baby Anna which means that Baby Anna is safe with Booker. I think that makes sense. Still think it’s a leap to say that being a born-again Christian made Booker a racist, but it’s probably not the biggest leap ever.
Just going to leave this comment here: I hope some players of Bioshock Infinite also watched DARK and noticed the similarities. IMO, Infinite did it first, while DARK is also good. DARK watchers should play Bioshock Infinite to appreciate that another form of media has also done it with the same overwhelming as well as sublime methods. Stay safe.
I’d say Elizebeth/Ann was born after the babtism in the scenario where Booker refuses since if she was born before then whatever choice made still means that Booker and Comstick would have a daughter and a conflict would never arise but clearly this is not the case which means that in the scenario that Booker refuses he marries or whatever and has a daughter, while in the other universe when he accepts he goes on to build the new faith and so he doesn’t have a daughter named Elizebeth/Ann and he’s sterilized thus why he kidnaps Booker’s
i feel like the timeline is more like this: -Booker gives Anna DeWitt to Lutece twins. -Comstock pulls Elisabeth through the Gate. as the gate closes, Anna’s finger is stuck between two side of the gate, giving Elisabeth the power of Breaching. -Booker becomes drunk. -Baptism Ritual. Booker DeWitt Becomes Zachary Comstock. -Due to either baptizm ritual, or something happened between it and kidnapping, Zach loses his balls. -Zach Comstock meets Lutece. Lutece helps him to kidnap Anna DeWitt. -Booker Gives Anna Dewitt to Lutece’s again. Comstock scene happens again. -Baptism Ritual. Booker Rejects the ritual. -Burns initials of Anna’s name on his hand: AD -Forget last 10 year or so with alchaolizm. -Meanwhile, Lutece’s got betrayed. -Angry Lutece’s puts Booker in debt, again. -Lutece’s bring Booker to The Lighthouse Rocket. -Booker is shot to Flying City of Colombia. -Entire Bioshock Infinite story -Booker Realises that he is Zachary Comstock at the final chapter. -Booker realises what is needed to be done. -He let himself be drowned, making Comstock never exist. Luteces laughes their asses because they broke from the chain of constant and variables as Booker becomes their vengence.
How did “our Bookers” death by drowning stop Comstock being created in every other universe/dimension? Shouldn’t it only stop Comstock being created in the universe where Booker got drowned? And for every Comstock to not be made, all the individual Bookers would have to drown in their respective universe?
I know I’m 7 years late but I just finished it during quarantine and came here straight. It surely was a ride but there’s a question running in my head since I saw the trailer. “Burden not Columbia with your chaff!” what does this mean?? Who’s the chaff?? Elizabeth?? It was written on a banner. You can see it in the trailer.
Rosalind Lutece posits in the game that Elizabeth’s ability to open tears comes due to her losing her pinky through a tear; she herself existed now in Comstock’s world, but part of her (her pinky) remained in her original world, thus she “existed in two realities at once.” As a result, she was able to access other realities. And although Burial at Sea Episode 2 hadn’t come out yet when you posted this article, that DLC chapter confirms this.
Two things I still don’t get: 1. How does killing the Booker that does NOT become Comstock actually get rid of Comstock? Shouldn’t the Booker that accepts the Baptism (and thus becoming Comstock) be killed instead? I mean the one that doesn’t take the baptism also never becomes Comstock which pretty much is what they are aiming for. 2. Still don’t really see the infinite loop anywhere. For it to be a loop it has to be the same Booker DeWitt going through the events again and again. But from what we can see he goes to Colombia to rescue Elizabeth one time. That it happens countless times in countless other Universes doesn’t count as loop because that is all the one time experience of each individual universes Booker. Or to put it simply, the Booker the player is controlling seems to go to Columbia only once. I fail to see where the loop is.
It’s official. This game is a physicist’s and philosopher’s wet dream. A universe with variables and constants no different than an arithmetic equation. Although, wouldn’t that make the two episode DLC an alternative multiverse? In addition, a song from the Vietnam War can be heard which may be a reference to our own universe since the events of this universe seem to hinder the possibility of that war transpiring. Or it is a hint that this multiverse will be destroyed allowing for our own universe to transpire. Unless that war is a constant.
there is a mistake made Elizabeth did not lose her powers because she is the last Elizabeth! lettuce twins said her powers come as a result of the universe trying to return Elizabeth back to her own dimension! the universe does not like its peas mixed with it porridge! when elizabeth died she was reborn as a normal woman suited for the dimension she is in!