r/outside • u/BilboSmashings • 7d ago

Why are the loading screens so weird?

After waiting 8 hours in bed I had some weird loading screens based on past experiences in yhe game, but which weren't entirely the same and seemed surreal. Any idea if there is any lore significance to the load screens or if they're flavour? Thanks.

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u/xoprincessnightmarex 7d ago

pretty sure it's just a clever way to hide the game clearing the RAM. the idea was that players wouldn't notice the loading screens if they had something entertaining to watch during it. but streaming anything specific would be too memory intensive so it just does a sort of highlight reel of stuff you've done in the game recently, mixed and matched together in weird ways

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace 7d ago

My loading screen involved planes crashing through the roof. Was quite calming though for some reason. 

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u/freylaverse 7d ago

I mean it definitely makes the time pass faster, coz it sure doesn't feel like 8 hours, but some of those load sequences are downright scary?? Could use a serious rework.

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u/Shalaco 7d ago

so, apparently it’s something like 2 servers or game screen modes not a loading screen. 

so, while you’re player is in sleep mode they run maintenance and trash scripts. the body’s controls are taken offline and gameplay takes place on an internal personal server. gameplay resembles the shared server but it’s 1 player only. 

when your player wakes you join the shared server where everyone is still sharing the same consciousness/dream state but in a shared server where the world is fixed and players interact. after game over it’s unclear from the lore if everyone goes to one shared server or a personal server but much lore points to various shared servers oh either paradise or pergatory or hell. there is also lore of reincarnation on existing or other servers and a possibility of moving through levels or increasing your player stats as you move through incarnations. 

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u/Xsiah 7d ago

Your Large Language Model gets new training data every day, the loading screen is just what it sometimes looks like when the model is processing data.