According to this weeks Episode, the plague happened in the Bay Area months ago.

[Christm77]

So what happened to them running along side each other?

Someone has really screwed up the continuity. If the plague happened in the Bay Area months ago, how did Nolan steal from Varus and Rynn end up in San Francisco ingame before the plague yet switch to Defiance and the story there says it happened months go?

Sort it out please Trion.

[Omnifarious Xji]

Wooow, that's pretty bad if they did that...

[Soren]

This is just a guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if the time between episodes can sometimes be more than just a week's length (or in some cases maybe less than a week's length).

It would be really helpful if they had an official timeline somewhere (that would get regularly updated between episodes) on their site or whatnot that would place the game events within the timeline of the show, especially if the show does indeed move at a variable rate rather than each episode being week-to-week.

[Christm77]

Wooow, that's pretty bad if they did that...

I'm watching it now as it airs in the UK. The doctor in the show came in with a radio message from San Francisco which was from Eren, it said the outbreak had happened months ago in the Bay Area but she'd develpoed a cure.

[Choppanob]

So what happened to them running along side each other?

Someone has really screwed up the continuity. If the plague happened in the Bay Area months ago, how did Nolan steal from Varus and Rynn end up in San Francisco ingame before the plague yet switch to Defiance and the story there says it happened months go?

Sort it out please Trion.

Have you seen the day and night cycle in game... it isnt 24 hours but allot faster.
So in one day of play time... several days pass Really, so 2 weeks is more like several months in the TV show.

About Nolan and stealing...that happend really before the TV show even started (the first episode missions)
And same really for Rynn...it whas a bit fast when she came into the game after the episode (mostly because trion ...and i dont know why they release the contend before the episode airs) but the ingame day and night cycle is faster then the tv show.

I think thats the only reason why it seems so out of line with the show realy....just take it with a grain (or bottle) of salt, and just try to enjoy it

[Myll_Erik]

The timelines don't match up so that a week is always a week. For example, the plague first started in-game 3 weeks ago.

[Alexri]

Yeah the timeline isn't 1:1 with our world. Just look at the e-rep hopping back and forth between different places

[Schmiznurf]

One week for us could be a month in the series, it all depend on how they do it.

[novat0]

I'm less concerned with the timeline and more concerned with the unimpressive crossovers. I bought the game based on the premise that the worlds were combined and in-game actions impacted the show and visa-versa, but it has been made pretty clear in livestreams and game content alike that the worlds exist almost completely independent of one another. I understand the whole "the badlands is dangerous and not everyone can cross" premise for the extreme separation, but isn't my in-game character an arkhunter? Like, a person that goes out to seek danger and puts their life on the line would not, in my opinion, qualify as a part of the masses that would not be able to make a badlands journey. Rynn made it, right? And then I had to help her in an episode mission.

[Powdered ToastMan]

i dont know about that. personally i couldn't make heads or tails of that message...what i do know, it's not the first time the plague has happened. first episode of series explained this. and i do know, that it would not take months for the missile we all launched to reach st louis from san fran is maybe a two hour flight....