Talk:The Lost Archive

Strong "S"

Did everyone else have noticed that when Clay says "I must find an answer. I must get out". His "s" is sound weird (if you understanded what I asked) -- Ilan (Talk to me • Edits • Home ) 20:26, February 24, 2012 (UTC)

Binary Code

Anyone notice the binary code on a wall near the ceiling in one of the early levels? I wrote it down:

01000011 0110110001100001 0111100100100000 01100011

01110010 0110010101100001 0111010001100101 01100100

00100000 0100000101100100 0110000101101101 00101100

00100000 0100000101100100 0110000101101101 00100000

01100011 0111001001100101 0110000101110100 01100101

01100100 0010000001000011 0110110001100001 01111001

and it translates to "Clay created Adam, Adam created Clay". Don't know where to put this, but wanted to share it.

Here's a link to a youtube video someone posted of it (I'm also the one who answered in the comments what it says) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2Gn7YGrBU.

Amperjess 20:22, April 3, 2012 (UTC)

Glitches my game

I'm playing ACR over again, before I didn't have the DLC, and now every time I try to play Desmond memories, my game freezes. Does any one else have this problem?(Ultraman468)

• Walk* through the memory gate things without holding run/fast walk buttons. Seems to be a glitch. Crashes for me every time unless I just tilt the joystick and walk in slowly, nothing else. -66.235.50.159 20:25, January 28, 2013 (UTC)

Quote

When one launches the DLC, the following comment appears on the screen:"Abstergo has experimented through their Animus program on 17 known test subjects. This is the story of Subject 16." Wouldn't that be a better quote for the DLC than a line from the trailer that's never used in said content? Sadelyrate (talk) 16:56, April 7, 2013 (UTC)

Protagonist?

Currently, the article claims that it's Desmond who wanders through abstractions of Clay's memories in the Lost Archive. However, no source for this claim is given. Might I get one? Sadelyrate (siniath) 11:03, November 6, 2014 (UTC)

Audio logs in AC4 say Clay parted his memories to Desmond, hence the glowing arm at the end of Revelations. It's said that he saw what Clay saw, which would include his time at Abstergo. The fact it looks Black Room-batshit abstract might be attributed to Clay's mind falling to pieces. --Kainzorus Prime ⚜ ^{Walkie-talkie} 13:45, November 6, 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Kain. However, I can't agree that the audio logs of AC4 are enough to validate the claim that the protagonist of The Lost Archive is Desmond.

Why? Because TLA gateway is located on an island similar to but unlike the island of the Black Room Desmond witnesses in Revelations. The Black Room Island gets destroyed, remarkably so, before the end of Revelations... but it's also reconstructed after the end of it, to be exactly the same as before the deletion. That island houses the gateway to the storyline as well as Desmond's journey-chapters... whereas TLA island houses only the single gateway.

In addition to that, there's also what Clay says during Revelations:

• "Playing. Learning. Waiting. A lot of waiting. I keep the Animus distracted as best I can. For you, so you can explore. Otherwise it might hunt you down like a little virus and, ah...delete you."
• "I just... I don’t want to be here anymore."
• "Here it comes... - This is the end, Desmond. Scheduled for deletion."
• "What is a man but a sum of his memories? We are the stories we live! The tales we tell ourselves!"

Imo, TLA doesn't happen -after- Revelations; it happens at the same time. It's how Clay keeps "Animus distracted"; TLA doesn't happen just once or twice, but it's repeated time and time again. Finding all the decipher fragments enables Clay to ultimately break the Loop, thus triggering the deletion; imo, Clay's words suggest that he tries to find a way to save both Desmond and himself ("What if I went with you?"), but he ultimately realizes that the best he can hope for is an approximation of death for himself, and likelihood of saving Desmond.

As for the audio logs in AC4... Desmond may have had the memories, but that would suggest we should've gotten just a video; merely possessing memories would be akin to watching a film, with minimal (if any) interaction. Given that, Desmond isn't an active participant, but the person experiencing TLA is, interacting with the abstractions of locations and events. Sadelyrate (siniath) 21:59, November 6, 2014 (UTC)