@Awk20000 This is no news to anyone... Everyone knows that they say worse shit behind the cameras for obvious reasons 😂 😂 like this shit doesn't tell us anything new that he hasn't told in stream already.
The Curse of Rover's Möbius Loop
Aight since people in the replies have been discussing this and it's caught my attention even more, I want to share something interesting with you guys.
So here's the thing, throughout WuWa's story, the Möbius loops we've seen are mostly localized loops that trap other people. However, the only Möbius loop we've actually witnessed trapping Rover himself (a side effect of Plan 3) was the one shown in the game's intro.
Basically, a Möbius loop is an endless cycle where the past, present, and future continuously fold back into one another. Unlike a normal time loop, the pattern of events in a Möbius loop makes the character believe they're moving forward into the future, when in reality they're unknowingly experiencing déjà vu and returning to the very beginning of their own past.
In every previous cycle, whenever Rover failed at a critical turning point, everything ended in a hard reset, sending him back to the opening cutscene with his memories completely wiped.
In short, if Rover fails here in 3.3 when fighting Aleph-1, he'll simply loop back to the beginning of the game again.
The difference this time is that Rover actually succeeded. His success fundamentally changed the nature of the Möbius loop. Instead of endlessly repeating the same cycle, it finally became a form of progression, allowing Rover to move one step further than any of his previous selves.
However, this success hasn't broken the curse of the Möbius loop itself. Rover has merely delayed or extended the duration of the cycle. Since the loop still exists and a completely new reality has yet to be established, the possibility of a total reset back to the beginning of the game remains if Rover fails again in the future.
That being said, every time fate or a cycle is altered, there's always a butterfly effect, a significant consequence that follows. Whenever Rover makes a different choice and escapes the path the cycle normally takes, either the world around him or Rover himself must inevitably pay the price. The consequences can vary, future threats may become far more aggressive, or the people around Rover may end up becoming the ones who suffer.
There's also something funny about the gate scene. So in order to open it, Exostrider must first ascend into a Sentinel and resonate with Rover, who exists as a higher entity. By resonating with Rover, an Instance of the Highest Level access (classified by the Tethys System), the Exostrider gains the ability to open a wormhole gate powerful enough to exile Aleph-1 all the way to the edge of the universe.
The funny thing is that, from Aleph-1's perspective, it's basically like saying "I'm supposed to be the black hole that bends spacetime and pulls everything in... so why am I the one getting bent and sucked into a Gate that suddenly opened behind me?"
That alone shows just how absurdly advanced the technology of Rover's homeland truly is.
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Perplexing winds carried whispers of trepidation, while the future lay unmeasured within a winding labyrinth.
The journey's destined end was Xuanfang, Rover.
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As people have noted, the TL'ed lines from this trailer read:
ANOMALY INTENSIFYING. DISMANTLING AND DISPOSAL.
REQUESTING REMODELING AND REBOOT BY THE SKYWORKS
KERNEL ANOMALY PERMISSION TO HALT THE OPERATION
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Most likely, there is some threat to Xuanfang's machinery which keeps the city afloat. The visuals seem to also suggest that the 'Skyworks' are not there just for show- perhaps the ground level of Xuanfang and maybe Mengzhou are battlefields/filled with TDs or some kind of plague.
You see a lot of automata mechanics which may also be inspired by CSC technology, considering that Mengzhou has CSC ruins- maybe even the threat is coming from these ruins. Hsin, being the director of these automata stuff, is also a Sentinel which have a closer connection to the CSC and Rover's Homeland Civ.
In addition, you can read through Hsin's line in her reveal, "Clear moonlight drapes over the lonely keep.".
Everytime in CN poetry 孤城 is mentioned, it's always connotating a city or fortress that is desperately defending or under siege from something (for example, Wang Zhihuan's 'Liangzhou Song'). It may be that the automatas are essential to keep the city running and defending it, and they're getting hacked or corrupted based on the TL'ed lines in this trailer.
Also, the "clear moonlight" may just symbolise Hsin's oversight over this territory, since by the logic of the 28 mansions, Hsin MUST be a Moon Fox of the Heart within the Qianloong's 7 mansions (https://t.co/cGHn7kmhbR)
@Wuthering_Waves I wonder, how does she change from aero to havoc. Was it a fractsidus experiment? How did she do it? Was it known that you were able to change your resonance like that?
Just some extra analysis from stuff some people commented on my YouTube analysis:
1) In Chinese culture the wind is the divine traveller/courier of messages
2) Yangyang being from a musical family makes sense- in one of her character stories, it's actually mentioned that Chixia was surprised that she's an incredible singer
3) In line with the azure longfeather (xuanling), the bird that Yangyang represents is most likely not the blue/yellow crane but the azure-winged magpie, which is the messenger bird of the Queen Mother of the West, like how Odin's messengers Huginn and Muninn are ravens.
This is way more obvious now in the pic below :)
4) ^ this actually may link to why in YYXL's gameplay, she seems to call something down from the heavens- she is a sort of envoy of the wind/gods, since the 'Western Mother' is basically the queen goddess in some Chinese religions
5) YYXL can apparently neutralize Fortes and their effects, which may tie into the more primordial qualities of wind in Chinese mythology as a kind of 'breath of the universe' that travels through the spiritual and mortal world. So it can not only carry messages, but also a kind of cosmic energy, which in Wuwer terms may be resonance energy
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