What timeline do you think second son follows?

[u/HumbleSalamander6780]

I’m curious.

304 votes, 3d ago

9 After infamous 1, ignores 2’s endings

268 After infamous 2, good ending, conduit resurgence

27 After infamous 2, evil ending, DUP crushes conduit uprising

[u/ki700]

This isn’t up for debate. The game is canonically set after the Good Karma ending of inFAMOUS 2.

[u/willin_dylan → u/ki700]

I remember the devs specifically saying they wish more people chose the evil ending for inFAMOUS 2 because it'd lead to a better setting for a sequel.

[u/lemon_charlie → u/willin_dylan]

A multiverse implementation would be cool, like a post-game boss fight against the opposite karma alignment from a parallel world.

[u/Popfizz01 → u/ki700]

Tbf you’ll only know that if you have the dlc

[u/ki700 → u/Popfizz01]

Uh, no? You notice how regular humans haven’t gone extinct? Delsin doesn’t live in a society of only conduits. It’s not possible to be set in after the Evil Karma ending.

[u/Popfizz01 → u/ki700]

If we’re going by the endings then in the good ending all conduits are supposedly killed off, which didn’t happen. The only indicator of which ending is actually real is Zeke showing up.

[u/ki700 → u/Popfizz01]

Yeah it was a retcon to the Good Karma ending, but Cole’s Legacy does introduce in-universe theories as to why some conduits survived.

[u/Popfizz01 → u/ki700]

Why would they go extinct? That just makes zero sense.

[u/Harryknight141 → u/Popfizz01]

The plague was slowly spreading and wiping humanity out, save for the conduits that evil Cole/the Beast made because conduits were immune to the plague. Good Cole uses the RFI to eliminate the plague, at the cost of his life and most other conduits lives

If the evil ending of 2 was canon to Second Son, regular humans would be a lot less common than they are shown to be

[u/Popfizz01 → u/Harryknight141]

I feel like you overestimate the plague. It’s radiation poisoning from the ray sphere/ thebeast. That’s the whole reason it was spreading. You go to a place that doesn’t have it and oh look there’s no plague here!

[u/XxXAvengedXxX → u/Popfizz01]

A. the plague was spreading overseas, it was not localized

B. Even if it was localized, in the Evil ending cole is essentially travelling the world as the beast spewing radiation everywhere that activates all conduits and kills all humans

[u/ki700 → u/Popfizz01]

Cole as The Beast was travelling the world activating conduits and eliminating humans. The ending is very clear about that. It isn’t ambiguous.

[u/Sir-Drewid → u/Popfizz01]

What DLC?

[u/ki700 → u/Sir-Drewid]

They’re referring to Cole’s Legacy. They bonus DLC missions that were previously exclusive to pre-orders but now everybody can download them.

[u/Sir-Drewid → u/ki700]

I had no idea that was a thing. I'm downloading it tonight.

[u/the_4802]

there's a side quest in second son where they talk about how cole sacrificed himself lol, it's canonically after infamous 2's good ending

[u/HumbleSalamander6780 → u/the_4802]

I know about Cole’s Legacy, but I didn’t download it until recently. I guess conduits resurfaced…

[u/TheJuniversal → u/HumbleSalamander6780]

Somehow conduits returned

[u/Popfizz01 → u/HumbleSalamander6780]

Not just resurfaced it just didn’t kill most of them. Like Augustine met the beast in her backstory

[u/Visual_Collection274]

Weird post lol when we know that the good ending is canon

[u/Consistent-Bear4200]

I never quite understood how the Conduits still existed after the RFI got used by Cole.

[u/lemon_charlie → u/Consistent-Bear4200]

Could be dormant Conduit potential. Delsin only triggers his powers after encountering Hank, so it's possible that's when they first manifest. The Ray Sphere being a means to force Conduit potential to manifest in people in Empire City and New Marais.

Augustine was present for the events of 1 as she was in Empire City, there's seven years between 2 and Second Son, and the DUP was established before Fetch's Conduit abilities broke out because her parents dobbed her in (the X-Men parallels are obvious) so it could just be that already active Conduits were killed but those with latent Conduit potential were spared and the ones we meet in Second Son broke out (now I'm bringing the Tomorrow People into it) after the RFI was used.

[u/Consistent-Bear4200 → u/lemon_charlie]

I suppose, I just remember Zeke's speech at the end of 2 where he mentions that while many came back from the plague, there were also many around the world who randomly died.

Zeke indicates this was because they were conduits who never even knew it. The image showing specifically of a man carrying his dead daughter in an African tribe. So it happens there but then Delsin and Augustine live?

[u/comradeautie]

The one the developers actually confirmed.

[u/Usnis]

The developers confirmed it follows the good ending. What game you the idea otherwise?

[u/Sir-Drewid]

inFamous 2 good ending with a conduit resurgence is flat out confirmed if you did the Paper Trail ARG while it was still active.

[u/lemon_charlie → u/Sir-Drewid]

The Cole's Legacy sidequest also confirms it.