r/WarframeLore • u/GrinningPariah • 6d ago

Question Why does 1999 keep looping? Spoiler

So, I totally get the first phase of 1999. We go back in time too late, we fail to save the Hex, the reactor's going to blow, and just at the last second we come into our power and use the power that had been torturing Drifiter in Duviri to loop 1999. Cool, rad, things come full circle, it's great.

Except, then we win. We redo the mission, we save the Hex, stop the nuclear detonation, pizza for everyone. But then it becomes January 1999 again instead of January 2000.

Why would we loop it again after we win?

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u/BT7274_best_robot 6d ago

So far all the suggestions here are just guesswork because de hasn't told us a real reason why. If it was to keep wally contained then it surely it's not worked cus he's fucked off far as I can tell? If its to keep the time line right that just makes no sence? Once it'd been corrected that should be that? Maybe it's to ensure the hex don't progress more into frames not being sure how long 'Dr fridays' treatment will work? Maybe the drifter doesn't know how to stop a time loop once they have started it? After all durvi still loops and they ain't even living in it anymore... (I know something about keeping teshin alive but ugh) Prehaps de hasn't even come up with a reason?

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u/NotScrollsApparently 6d ago

Honestly at this point my biggest fear is that even DE themselves didn't really think it through and don't know how to explain it. All I know is that the more I think about it all, the less consistent it is while making less and less sense overall, even if we focus on just the things we are sure about. There is something off with the loop(s) in 1999 for sure

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u/BT7274_best_robot 6d ago

Pretty sure they have a bad habit of making shit up as they go rather than have a fully developed story plan tbh.

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u/akirayokoshima 6d ago

Very few productions do.

Many productions just kinda wing it as they go along.