How in the world does DeWitt get on Columbia anyway?
Out of everything in the game, that's something I want to find out upon release.
What does he do? Stand on the tallest hill and wait every blue moon for a rope leading from the clouds? I'm just so curious.
Columbia is suppose to be this drifting city in the sky.
Surley his entry there may be mysterious from the get-go.
/shrugs shoulders
Well he's not there by accident by any means. He's there on a mission to get Elizabeth back on land in order to pay off a debt and/or get paid for his efforts. How he finds his way on to the city, my guess is as good as yours but i'm looking foward to seeing how the game starts and maybe we are seeing Booker in his hometown leading up to getting the job and eventually arriving in Columbia.
From what I understood, Booker is approached by a mysterious man who tasks him with bringing Elizabeth back from Columbia to New York. Who this man is isn't confirmed, (people have said he claims to be Elizabeth's father, don't think it's proven) but he provides Booker with Columbia's location.
As to the actual specifics to how he accomplishes this, I don't think we'll know until we're playing the game itself.
Could Booker start up a plane and fly there? Or is Columbia's altitude, too high for a small crop plane to reach?
I would really for them to give some reference to the Teleportation plasmid in Bioshock 2. I know Bioshock Infinite, takes place years before Bioshock 1 and 2, but wouldn't it be cool to find out that the teleportation plasmid, has been around for a long time?
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martian1127 said:Could Booker start up a plane and fly there? Or is Columbia's altitude, too high for a small crop plane to reach?
I would really for them to give some reference to the Teleportation plasmid in Bioshock 2. I know Bioshock Infinite, takes place years before Bioshock 1 and 2, but wouldn't it be cool to find out that the teleportation plasmid, has been around for a long time?
Planes were more primitive than you think (no 'crop' planes yet) and those early planes also had altitude limitations, though Columbia may not need to be that far off the ground (maybe only 5000 feet depending on where it is). Yahoo image search "airplane history 1912" to see what they were like).
Of course to get supplies they had to either come down to the ground (or a section of Columbia did ) or they had to have planes/zepplins go play delivery truck (and the planes could barely carry much more than the pilot those days -- compared to the TONS of supplies Columbia would need.). Booker could hop a ride /climb aboard in those situations (the main problem might be catching up to it if it kept moving)
That's not how Ken described it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqW4jm5S-nk&hd=1
1019ice said:From what I understood, Booker is approached by a mysterious man who tasks him with bringing Elizabeth back from Columbia to New York. Who this man is isn't confirmed, (people have said he claims to be Elizabeth's father, don't think it's proven) but he provides Booker with Columbia's location.
As to the actual specifics to how he accomplishes this, I don't think we'll know until we're playing the game itself.
I would like it to REMAIN A MYSTERY EVEN FROM THE BEGINING OF THE GAME. It would be a lot more interesting since the game deals with altered dimensions and time. Maybe booker gets their through a tear that isnt opened by Elizibeth but its not clear to Booker what a tear is, and then he is sent to columbia, at least the alternate reality that it now exists in.
lakaiskateguy said:
1019ice said:From what I understood, Booker is approached by a mysterious man who tasks him with bringing Elizabeth back from Columbia to New York. Who this man is isn't confirmed, (people have said he claims to be Elizabeth's father, don't think it's proven) but he provides Booker with Columbia's location.
As to the actual specifics to how he accomplishes this, I don't think we'll know until we're playing the game itself.
That's not how Ken described it here <a>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqW4jm5S-nk&hd=1
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1019ice is referencing this article
What Ken says in that interview still leaves room for this to be true. If Booker was in debt to the man it would give him reason to undertake finding his supposed daughter apart from simple payment. Levine also says "bring her back to New York" around 1:30 so, to me, both are still plausible together.
v3nd3tta said:I would like it to REMAIN A MYSTERY EVEN FROM THE BEGINING OF THE GAME. It would be a lot more interesting since the game deals with altered dimensions and time. Maybe booker gets their through a tear that isnt opened by Elizibeth but its not clear to Booker what a tear is, and then he is sent to columbia, at least the alternate reality that it now exists in.
As Ricky used to say "you have some splaining to do"
My vote is that he arrives on a zeppelin sent by Comstock to scoop him up, After all Comstock did hire him to do the job, right?
joemommak1200 said:My vote is that he arrives on a zeppelin sent by Comstock to scoop him up, After all Comstock did hire him to do the job, right?
Hmm, I don't think so. I think Comstock is simply their means at the time of the gameplay demo to leave Columbia.
maybe he gets shot up via clown cannon.
follow the money... i bet that big city needs supplies every now and then
a savvy pinkerton should know how to shipments to location that do no make sense
for instance, a huge order is shipped to the middle of a desert with nobody for miles... a perfect place for Columbia to pick up supplies and remain undetected... sneak into the shipments and wait to be taken aboard... bust up a warehouse employee, take the uniform, and walk out into the Columbia chaos
right?
blahz7 said:follow the money... i bet that big city needs supplies every now and then
a savvy pinkerton should know how to shipments to location that do no make sense
for instance, a huge order is shipped to the middle of a desert with nobody for miles... a perfect place for Columbia to pick up supplies and remain undetected... sneak into the shipments and wait to be taken aboard... bust up a warehouse employee, take the uniform, and walk out into the Columbia chaos
right?
Middle of the desert next to the railroad? Not exactly secret. Wagoned out into middle of desert from railroad - that gets rumors flying and people bound to show up to see whats up.
Who pays for those supplies? I suppose some of the 'Founders' are rich and have outside connections. But even rich men's bank accounts run low when they have to buy supplies (and pay the shipping to wherever) for an entire city .... for years.
The 'tear' to the Purple Unicorn Continuum would work just as well.
tracepaper said:maybe he gets shot up via clown cannon.
Indian Rope Trick (just a REAL long rope for this time)
Well, me and my friend were actually just talking about this, and I don't think that right now there really is a correct answer (since no one knows). I'm pretty sure Comstock has something important to do with the game, but I'm not sure if he is who hired booker. Do I think it's Elizabeth's father who hired booker? Eh... I don't know, maybe. Booker just doesn't really look like the kind of guy I would trust with my daughter...
Anyway, how he got up there is still a mystery. He could have been taken by a zeppelin, by a plane, anything really. I don't think we will know until the game is released. I could be wrong though.
one of the coolest ideas about this, is what I read months ago on these boards where some guy had written this amazing intro to the game. Does anyone have a link to that? I actually felt like the guy's description was something to really have to top for the actual game intro.
varekaiguy said:one of the coolest ideas about this, is what I read months ago on these boards where some guy had written this amazing intro to the game. Does anyone have a link to that? I actually felt like the guy's description was something to really have to top for the actual game intro.
Are you talking about choo's post here?
<a>http://irrationalgames.com/community/forums/bioshock-infinite-general-discussion/how-do-think-booker-finds-columbia/page/3
Or this? </a>http://irrationalgames.com/community...rt#post-170311
Its "than" not "then".
Booker shows up in one of his 'clever disguises' and knocks on door - "Candy-Gram for Comstock !"
banky00 said:Its "than" not "then".
I was waiting for that from someone lol
I am so stoked to see how this game turns out!!
Guess you have to find out by playing the game. But my guess is that he got a hot air balloon or a hydrogen gas zepellin after he found the general location of the city. It's like with rapture, most people would have been curious as to how someone can get to an underwater city. And bam, bathyspheres. Maybe there's like a pick up building that flys lower than other floating buildings. Though this would be weird cos they are trying to stay hidden. Maybe there's a certain point where the city lands at to get supplies, kind of like the lighthouse.
strawhatmoose said:Guess you have to find out by playing the game. But my guess is that he got a hot air balloon or a hydrogen gas zepellin after he found the general location of the city. It's like with rapture, most people would have been curious as to how someone can get to an underwater city. And bam, bathyspheres. Maybe there's like a pick up building that flys lower than other floating buildings. Though this would be weird cos they are trying to stay hidden. Maybe there's a certain point where the city lands at to get supplies, kind of like the lighthouse.
You lower a (big) basket on a cable for pickups (something they have to do constantly to bring in supplies even if the population is only in the hundreds.) At least the city can move, so when its discovered it can head away into the clouds and disappear again.
Doing so at various (and differing) prearranged points (possibly in the night) could be done. That awould also mean that Columbia had more than a few agents 'on the ground' or some larger organization assisting them (including with alot of money -- that you tend to run out of after 10 years supplying a place that really doesnt produce anything to subsist on.
Stealing that much would have every government hunting them and bounty hunters chasing after "the floating pirate city"....
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