Period: 29.79 days

	Submissions	Comments
Total	1000	9169
Rate (per day)	33.57	303.99
Unique Redditors	129	654
Combined Score	74430	49663

Top Submitters' Top Submissions

1. 12847 points, 241 submissions: Stand-on-Toilet
   
   1. Seika (@CRANE1192) (245 points, 13 comments)
   2. Nijicat Doing Lucky Cat Pose (@wata9mm_no) (203 points, 9 comments)
   3. Angry Nijika: A Towel Only (@spell_PhD) (200 points, 25 comments)
   4. Cheerleader Seika (@ThundraDrawings) (131 points, 28 comments)
   5. Nijika: Just Like Older Sis (@suta0822) (131 points, 9 comments)
   6. Pink Blob: Waffled (@nitarinDX) (129 points, 8 comments)
   7. Date with Kita (@KIUCHI_ILLUST) (122 points, 9 comments)
   8. RyoNiji: Hair Around Neck (@Kuronichi285) (122 points, 4 comments)
   9. Ryo Under Nijika (努力画画的狸花 on pixiv) (120 points, 7 comments)
   10. Nijika: A Mother Too Early... (@ree_kkr) (119 points, 6 comments)
2. 8005 points, 50 submissions: mysteryface1723
   
   1. Have you found your Nijika? (377 points, 27 comments)
   2. Kessoku Band members meet their followers (340 points, 25 comments)
   3. WARNING: Do not take Nijika's dorito (338 points, 33 comments)
   4. How to meet your Nijika (Yamada Method) (330 points, 31 comments)
   5. Drummers Appreciation Post (324 points, 22 comments)
   6. KessokuBand user ❤ (318 points, 24 comments)
   7. Fandom Bocchi part 3 (286 points, 12 comments)
   8. BTR fans every livestream (261 points, 23 comments)
   9. Kessoku Band Artists' Curse (256 points, 32 comments)
   10. Fandom Kita (246 points, 12 comments)
3. 6483 points, 128 submissions: Pundarikaksh
   
   1. A rainbow that will meet after 8 years by Rotto 🥲 (163 points, 11 comments)
   2. Adult Kessoku band by NeonFloyd (139 points, 17 comments)
   3. Kessoku band cheer squad by E20 (135 points, 15 comments)
   4. Secret story by Kurou (112 points, 20 comments)
   5. Little Dino Bocchi and Michiyo by Yusaku (111 points, 6 comments)
   6. BoRyo by Iyokan (105 points, 7 comments)
   7. GuitarHero by Nooka (98 points, 5 comments)
   8. Loneliness of each by U soul (93 points, 12 comments)
   9. Hitori on new year's by Akira (92 points, 5 comments)
   10. PA-san and BoRyo by Armpit slack (89 points, 7 comments)
4. 5096 points, 57 submissions: Idz4gqbi
   
   1. If Kessoku Band Does Not Exist... (308 points, 25 comments)
   2. Do You Trust Volcanovolk? (258 points, 50 comments)
   3. Slandering the Four Churches of Kessoku Band (243 points, 42 comments)
   4. There are only Two Types of People (242 points, 39 comments)
   5. "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of Nijika." (222 points, 8 comments)
   6. Blast from the Past — When Doritos Memes were at its Peak (218 points, 26 comments)
   7. Volcanovolk Conspiracy Theory (209 points, 52 comments)
   8. Everything began with the Nijika Folder... (165 points, 18 comments)
   9. Nijika Fan Starter Pack and Advanced Pack (165 points, 36 comments)
   10. Canon & Fandom Nijika — The Definitive Scale (154 points, 27 comments)
5. 4056 points, 22 submissions: yetanother234
   
   1. She's just like me (394 points, 31 comments)
   2. Choose (346 points, 44 comments)
   3. Aki is a cutie (283 points, 15 comments)
   4. Kessoku Band members described in one word (271 points, 28 comments)
   5. Shoutout to the one person who is just like Kita frfr (259 points, 16 comments)
   6. Bocchi the Rock final episode leaked (250 points, 17 comments)
   7. Both are valid reasons for liking Nijika (249 points, 22 comments)
   8. Bocchi's 3 forms (233 points, 9 comments)
   9. Nijika is real and lives inside you (208 points, 15 comments)
   10. Bocchi the Rock spinoff ideas (192 points, 33 comments)
6. 3187 points, 22 submissions: YUZUtry
   
   1. The concentration of Nijika on this sub Today (351 points, 29 comments)
   2. Nijika 「saw」 her fans (278 points, 42 comments)
   3. Bocchi otter found her new nest！ (233 points, 16 comments)
   4. Is this just a coincidence ? (191 points, 34 comments)
   5. guys...Pluto is actually Bocchi！ (187 points, 30 comments)
   6. Bocchi under friendly fire (179 points, 24 comments)
   7. You guys scared my friend IRL... (177 points, 33 comments)
   8. Nijika the ninja—Ninjika ! (167 points, 36 comments)
   9. I trust our sub to see through this... right? (163 points, 28 comments)
   10. Ni...Nijika... (148 points, 21 comments)
7. 1932 points, 12 submissions: whatdoilemonade
   
   1. Seika's Wacky Shenanigans [pixiv@豚猫ブスタ] (302 points, 24 comments)
   2. POV: Nijika greets you at home [pixiv@球体X] (232 points, 19 comments)
   3. Morning in the Ijichi household [pixiv@なまず] (231 points, 20 comments)
   4. Just a dream [pixiv@さくらてるる] (230 points, 26 comments)
   5. Runaway Guitar [pixiv@ぎんぎつね+] (196 points, 19 comments)
   6. The sister's present [pixiv@じんやま] (155 points, 19 comments)
   7. Kessoku ASMR [pixiv@豚猫ブスタ] (113 points, 19 comments)
   8. Bocchi The Smell [pixiv@広肉ル] (112 points, 13 comments)
   9. ShibaYami back hug [pixiv@ホシナ] (104 points, 38 comments)
   10. Bocchi's school uniform [pixiv@豚猫ブスタ] (101 points, 5 comments)
8. 1529 points, 13 submissions: ThugBaby05GT
   
   1. She always there in the right time (261 points, 14 comments)
   2. But I see her... (197 points, 18 comments)
   3. Word can not describe how Happy I am with Nijika (166 points, 9 comments)
   4. Their lies won't stop me (135 points, 11 comments)
   5. She my Queen (115 points, 11 comments)
   6. Nijika will Save her (109 points, 5 comments)
   7. I'm glad she here with me (107 points, 6 comments)
   8. I feel happy going outside with Nijika (93 points, 6 comments)
   9. Life is pain without her (81 points, 15 comments)
   10. Why does Nijika disappear... (80 points, 13 comments)
9. 1322 points, 18 submissions: Solar1011
   
   1. Placeholder. (221 points, 17 comments)
   2. Ryo has no reason to be looking at Nijika like that. (@ree_kkr) (168 points, 12 comments)
   3. Just the two of us. (121 points, 11 comments)
   4. What’s in the box? (105 points, 12 comments)
   5. Nijika Ijichi (@log_008) (99 points, 6 comments)
   6. Nervous Bocchi (@oekakiism) (83 points, 5 comments)
   7. Ryo’s way of making money. (@Meyshi29) (77 points, 8 comments)
   8. Pouty Nijika (@kkggbpn4g27) (62 points, 6 comments)
   9. Even More Maid Bocchi (@PepUnti) (60 points, 5 comments)
   10. Nijika Ijichi (@bo_illustration) (56 points, 5 comments)
10. 1237 points, 14 submissions: Mukaido
    
    1. JLT4n's completed animation. (178 points, 8 comments)
    2. Nijika interacts with her fans. (169 points, 24 comments)
    3. Hi! Welcome to Jollibee! Kita kita c: (154 points, 21 comments)
    4. Kessoku Band at Zepp Haneda Tokyo (146 points, 8 comments)
    5. Kessoku Band (144 points, 9 comments)
    6. Leaked STARRY HR document. (89 points, 11 comments)
    7. Five more minutes Mom. (69 points, 14 comments)
    8. "Yuzu, I trust you." (68 points, 6 comments)
    9. The Angel of Shimokitazawa Spoils Me Rotten (56 points, 17 comments)
    10. New Nijika Blush dropped (38 points, 3 comments)
11. 1174 points, 13 submissions: Gotoh_Naoki
    
    1. I hate myself for this (168 points, 17 comments)
    2. "Look, a cute cat!" (159 points, 7 comments)
    3. Rural Style Bocchi (141 points, 8 comments)
    4. Kessoku Band in different poses (125 points, 3 comments)
    5. This is why I have eyes. (104 points, 22 comments)
    6. Seika doesn't like selfies, or does she? (78 points, 8 comments)
    7. Futari the Rock! (71 points, 11 comments)
    8. [OC] Never Forget (Italian Cover) (71 points, 37 comments)
    9. kessokuband concert photos i stole from the official twitter (61 points, 2 comments)
    10. Seika but I'm unoriginal with titles (54 points, 3 comments)
12. 1155 points, 22 submissions: MrBig6lesw0rth
    
    1. Too cute, might melt a few hearts... (109 points, 6 comments)
    2. Sometimes you help yourself by helping others (96 points, 3 comments)
    3. Ryo but cute (83 points, 10 comments)
    4. A little bit of BoKita never hurt anyone (68 points, 2 comments)
    5. Kita-chan can be quite Radiant (64 points, 15 comments)
    6. "I know you can do it, Kita-san!" (62 points, 10 comments)
    7. That smile melts my heart (62 points, 5 comments)
    8. Eating the Boccher?! Is that even legal? (61 points, 7 comments)
    9. Kita Kita (55 points, 4 comments)
    10. The paragon of virtue and her hero (50 points, 4 comments)
13. 1149 points, 12 submissions: crazycorgiperson
    
    1. How to protect your Bocchi (171 points, 32 comments)
    2. The Kessokucord Experience: Opening #starry (164 points, 20 comments)
    3. KessokuBand has reached 2,000 members! (134 points, 31 comments)
    4. Different Hairstyles of Bocchi (123 points, 32 comments)
    5. Preserving History: The Bad Ending (106 points, 30 comments)
    6. Rainbocchix Siege (106 points, 10 comments)
    7. Fiction has to be original and creative, reality does not (94 points, 11 comments)
    8. kita spin (90 points, 14 comments)
    9. Top commenters of the main sub, March vs. April (51 points, 59 comments)
    10. Happy Nijika (45 points, 5 comments)
14. 974 points, 20 submissions: caloyagin
    
    1. my beloved (117 points, 12 comments)
    2. really cool (108 points, 17 comments)
    3. GOTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (90 points, 8 comments)
    4. Recreating the Nijika ribbons (80 points, 14 comments)
    5. The full members have been posted before, but not the individuals of sideros (I think yoyo was posted) (59 points, 3 comments)
    6. DRUMS (53 points, 4 comments)
    7. SHIBA (51 points, 7 comments)
    8. Recreating The Nijika Ribbons Pangalawa (45 points, 26 comments)
    9. the dead iceberg (think of the explanations yourself) (44 points, 46 comments)
    10. Recreating The Nijika Ribbons four (42 points, 21 comments)
15. 907 points, 10 submissions: Oteycri000
    
    1. It's 1984 again (224 points, 38 comments)
    2. Caged Bochher (132 points, 19 comments)
    3. Yandere PA -San (114 points, 23 comments)
    4. I'm watching you (108 points, 4 comments)
    5. You're just like me fr. (95 points, 23 comments)
    6. G-E-X (72 points, 13 comments)
    7. Thanks to someone I'll mention in comments I made 4 memes they gifted me templates (48 points, 12 comments)
    8. Too much Nichija (41 points, 3 comments)
    9. This is the finale season post I'll see make. (38 points, 3 comments)
    10. Jealous Yan Kita (35 points, 6 comments)
16. 906 points, 21 submissions: unremarkable_123
    
    1. Pills are a goverment ploy to get you to pay taxes (106 points, 14 comments)
    2. The REAL kita flag (86 points, 18 comments)
    3. The List (75 points, 75 comments)
    4. is it edible? (71 points, 16 comments)
    5. Kessokucord tierlist (66 points, 54 comments)
    6. BUT HEY ITS JUST A THEORY A BOCCHI THE ROCK THEORY (49 points, 12 comments)
    7. Boccher Unification of Middle East (44 points, 12 comments)
    8. more BTR characters as nations (43 points, 14 comments)
    9. Dorito. (37 points, 11 comments)
    10. Shiba themed milk (37 points, 13 comments)
17. 875 points, 11 submissions: Tezlaivj
    
    1. Bocchi & Nijika by asado0000 (155 points, 12 comments)
    2. BoNiji Sleepover by aayh (113 points, 10 comments)
    3. Professor Gotou's research result by maki_photograph (108 points, 10 comments)
    4. Bocchi's first time by satsuki_meito (75 points, 7 comments)
    5. Cinema by rafkan_tail (75 points, 7 comments)
    6. Unexpected counterattack by meendaco (67 points, 8 comments)
    7. Dear my hero by orbea_aqua_2012 (66 points, 5 comments)
    8. Asking for a date by Sondeneva (58 points, 14 comments)
    9. Neko Jealousy by maki_photograph (57 points, 7 comments)
    10. Some doses of BoNiji by hngkdaisy (56 points, 3 comments)
18. 840 points, 6 submissions: RecommendationFancy5
    
    1. Ryo got hungry (341 points, 18 comments)
    2. Bocchi Digivolution Line (If Bocchi was a Digimon) (176 points, 5 comments)
    3. I will not take my pills! THEY'RE REAL! NIJIKA REAL! (114 points, 11 comments)
    4. Schrödinger's Kita (97 points, 8 comments)
    5. Learning Relationships with KessokuBand! (77 points, 41 comments)
    6. I made some stupid Bocchi Youtube thumbnails (35 points, 11 comments)
19. 758 points, 7 submissions: Radiant-Lotus
    
    1. How’re ya feeling peeps? (320 points, 59 comments)
    2. :NijikaGlare: (95 points, 8 comments)
    3. Her gentle smile ❤ (93 points, 12 comments)
    4. CONSTELLATION COME BACK PLEASEEEEE 😭 (78 points, 33 comments)
    5. Everyday is a fever dream (°ー°〃) (70 points, 18 comments)
    6. Someone asked, so I delivered (cheers, Yami fans 🥂) (52 points, 15 comments)
    7. Slandering KessokuBand Mods (50 points, 41 comments)
20. 749 points, 15 submissions: Ale_med_al
    
    1. Bocchi and you might not be so different, Chavito (114 points, 11 comments)
    2. The what subreddit? (85 points, 25 comments)
    3. What would a sovereign Kessoku Band nation be like? (Meta) (68 points, 22 comments)
    4. You expected... (65 points, 13 comments)
    5. Bunnijika and Botter (by @SGYmyhumo; TL by @Slowrider88) (59 points, 6 comments)
    6. Sick Ryou (art by @yubune42do) (51 points, 6 comments)
    7. 絵が無いと言ったけどうおおとなったので描いた (@Kerorira1) (51 points, 2 comments)
    8. Niji-physics (45 points, 7 comments)
    9. Kita, Ikuyo! (41 points, 1 comment)
    10. One of the Bocchi references from Daidus’ latest video (37 points, 2 comments)
21. 638 points, 8 submissions: mendezmen
    
    1. The Ijichi Sisters Switch Bodies! (by Kumichou) [Part 2 of 2] (193 points, 15 comments)
    2. The Ijichi Sisters Switch Bodies! (by Kumichou) [Part 1 of 2] (104 points, 4 comments)
    3. Love ・ Ho ・ Tel! (by @lanlanlap) (84 points, 9 comments)
    4. Yoyoko Ohtsuki Can't Smile (by @rebanirax01) (73 points, 5 comments)
    5. Bocchi the Rock: Love is War (62 points, 7 comments)
    6. There must be a melody only you can sing (by: @mmiyakoo) [Part 2 of 2] (51 points, 5 comments)
    7. There must be a melody only you can sing (by: @mmiyakoo) [Part 1 of 2] (36 points, 1 comment)
    8. Bocchi's Ideal Girl (35 points, 11 comments)
22. 623 points, 15 submissions: MementoMori228
    
    1. Daily Yoyoposting till I keel over (Day 15) (77 points, 7 comments)
    2. Daily Yoyoposting till I keel over (Day 16) (58 points, 9 comments)
    3. Daily Yoyoposting till I keel over (Day 20) (53 points, 4 comments)
    4. Daily Yoyoposting till I keel over (Day 19) (48 points, 8 comments)
    5. Daily Yoyoposting till I keel over (Day 23) (48 points, 2 comments)
    6. Daily Yoyoposting till I keel over (Day 14) (47 points, 4 comments)
    7. Daily Yoyoposting till I keel over (Day 21) (40 points, 7 comments)
    8. Daily Yoyoposting till I keel over (Day 22) (39 points, 2 comments)
    9. Daily Yoyoposting till I keel over (Day 12) (35 points, 4 comments)
    10. Daily Yoyoposting till I keel over (Day 11) (34 points, 2 comments)
23. 604 points, 4 submissions: DestructionCatalyst
    
    1. Really like them fr (216 points, 14 comments)
    2. Typical Boyoko interaction (182 points, 6 comments)
    3. In episode 11 there are blue and yellow decorations on the wall. This is a reference to the anime "Bocchi the Rock!", where the protagonist, Hitori "Bocchi" Gotou wears a hair accessory of the same colors (180 points, 9 comments)
    4. Patchi the rock ! [Touhou Project] (26 points, 2 comments)
24. 604 points, 3 submissions: zebrano08
    
    1. POV: You are Bocchi fr fr updated (252 points, 13 comments)
    2. Reminder to do it for her, no matter what (247 points, 20 comments)
    3. Kessokucord lore in my head (I don’t use discord) (105 points, 22 comments)
25. 600 points, 20 submissions: boche_123
    
    1. Cube. (57 points, 11 comments)
    2. SIDEROS (colored by me) (55 points, 6 comments)
    3. Yoyo standing up (37 points, 7 comments)
    4. KITAURA-爆破 (36 points, 1 comment)
    5. Kemonoria Tea Band. Article written by PoisonYami (CSM redraw) (34 points, 6 comments)
    6. Yo (32 points, 5 comments)
    7. MEN KISSING!!!!!! :KitaLetsGoooo: (31 points, 5 comments)
    8. That one definetly not Yoyo girl (29 points, 2 comments)
    9. That one definetly not important in the future girl from the opening and ep10 sitting with stone statues (29 points, 4 comments)
    10. Yoyoko👍 (27 points, 6 comments)
26. 579 points, 12 submissions: BenjaXotz
    
    1. How could I forget about this hood classic (NO VHS EFFECT YOOO) (106 points, 14 comments)
    2. hood classic (80 points, 9 comments)
    3. The end (69 points, 23 comments)
    4. I think I have a problem guys (53 points, 9 comments)
    5. hi (45 points, 1 comment)
    6. I'LL START POSTING MH SCHIZO STUFF HERE CUZ I CAN'T IN ANY OTHER PLACE (44 points, 11 comments)
    7. fuck (not canon) (39 points, 4 comments)
    8. This one is not canon is just me being delusional (35 points, 5 comments)
    9. I posted the wrong one and now I'm completely ashamed (31 points, 11 comments)
    10. To the dude trying to find the lore: I'll be not posting this in order, so try hard llolololoolol (29 points, 5 comments)
27. 559 points, 8 submissions: XxMinecraftBoss69xX
    
    1. kita is in my room this is so cool (123 points, 10 comments)
    2. BOCCHI BLAST me (79 points, 19 comments)
    3. bow cheese????? (75 points, 7 comments)
    4. Fumocchi by me (72 points, 7 comments)
    5. “noooo kita leave some for the rest of us” by me (62 points, 0 comments)
    6. NIJIKA NUKE me (56 points, 9 comments)
    7. 🍌Banana Nijika 🍌 (53 points, 10 comments)
    8. Go Into the Light me (39 points, 4 comments)
28. 557 points, 7 submissions: Artster900
    
    1. my messy brainrot [oc] (125 points, 7 comments)
    2. I don't even know why. (124 points, 18 comments)
    3. Ryo but Saku [oc] (111 points, 21 comments)
    4. kita kita but hasegawa ikumi [oc] (57 points, 8 comments)
    5. kita has a gun [oc] (49 points, 6 comments)
    6. bokita brainrot, i need help [oc] (48 points, 8 comments)
    7. dorito [oc] (43 points, 2 comments)
29. 536 points, 7 submissions: Hamazi__
    
    1. Society (100 points, 4 comments)
    2. Bocchi The driver (97 points, 8 comments)
    3. Nijika tube (81 points, 8 comments)
    4. Another day in kessokucord (70 points, 11 comments)
    5. Happy out of touch Thursday!! (66 points, 2 comments)
    6. Wrong bocchi (63 points, 1 comment)
    7. End of watch (59 points, 7 comments)
30. 512 points, 5 submissions: Chilio95
    
    1. It's Week 6 of Out of Touch Thursday! (270 points, 10 comments)
    2. POV: You came in last in sales the previous quarter and now upper management wants to chat with you real quick. (84 points, 28 comments)
    3. Otter Bocchi spending quality time with her little otter sister! (66 points, 9 comments)
    4. BTR Keyboard and desk mat from Kapco (58 points, 10 comments)
    5. My Bocchi The Rock! Onkyo wireless earphones finally arrived today!! (34 points, 53 comments)

Top Commenters

1. Idz4gqbi (3958 points, 461 comments)
2. YUZUtry (3011 points, 552 comments)
3. Pundarikaksh (2896 points, 723 comments)
4. caloyagin (2732 points, 453 comments)
5. Mukaido (2438 points, 340 comments)
6. Pete-zaTime (2010 points, 267 comments)
7. mysteryface1723 (1696 points, 141 comments)
8. lostWayZERO (1376 points, 176 comments)
9. crazycorgiperson (1214 points, 137 comments)
10. boche_123 (1106 points, 182 comments)
11. Stand-on-Toilet (1091 points, 304 comments)
12. Ikuyo_Kita (940 points, 76 comments)
13. Chilio95 (849 points, 187 comments)
14. Ale_med_al (671 points, 175 comments)
15. whatdoilemonade (641 points, 84 comments)
16. Distinct-Ad3397 (634 points, 76 comments)
17. DomoandFinch (576 points, 86 comments)
18. SezyFazes (550 points, 98 comments)
19. ThomYorkeOfficiaI (522 points, 94 comments)
20. unremarkable_123 (485 points, 129 comments)
21. MrBig6lesw0rth (438 points, 106 comments)
22. zebrano08 (431 points, 38 comments)
23. Ijichi_Seika (428 points, 65 comments)
24. Kana-Arima (403 points, 51 comments)
25. ztarfroot (401 points, 120 comments)
26. Radiant-Lotus (386 points, 78 comments)
27. F_Foundation (380 points, 85 comments)
28. Gotoh-Michiyo (356 points, 102 comments)
29. Gotoh_Naoki (342 points, 97 comments)
30. Herrscher_of_Yatta (328 points, 57 comments)
31. kirkisgrizz (313 points, 83 comments)
32. matto334 (313 points, 51 comments)
33. NeighborhoodToad (304 points, 48 comments)
34. Oteycri000 (283 points, 75 comments)
35. Akane_Kurokawa (280 points, 30 comments)
36. RecommendationFancy5 (268 points, 54 comments)
37. LoveMoon-II (244 points, 55 comments)
38. A_Weakling (238 points, 24 comments)
39. Amazin_Acc (236 points, 50 comments)
40. 1ts_ya_boii (229 points, 25 comments)
41. Eliza_Shimizu (227 points, 47 comments)
42. Solar1011 (210 points, 49 comments)
43. Hamazi__ (203 points, 36 comments)
44. DestructionCatalyst (195 points, 37 comments)
45. ssj_sjnk (194 points, 38 comments)
46. ScummyBocchi (194 points, 23 comments)
47. DestinyDrop (179 points, 34 comments)
48. ScummyBandman_Bocchi (170 points, 44 comments)
49. Fandomer_ (170 points, 31 comments)
50. Arlend44 (164 points, 37 comments)

Top Submissions

1. She's just like me by yetanother234 (394 points, 31 comments)
2. Have you found your Nijika? by mysteryface1723 (377 points, 27 comments)
3. Bocchi the Rock by l1qmaballs (352 points, 28 comments)
4. The concentration of Nijika on this sub Today by YUZUtry (351 points, 29 comments)
5. Choose by yetanother234 (346 points, 44 comments)
6. Ryo got hungry by RecommendationFancy5 (341 points, 18 comments)
7. Kessoku Band members meet their followers by mysteryface1723 (340 points, 25 comments)
8. WARNING: Do not take Nijika's dorito by mysteryface1723 (338 points, 33 comments)
9. How to meet your Nijika (Yamada Method) by mysteryface1723 (330 points, 31 comments)
10. Drummers Appreciation Post by mysteryface1723 (324 points, 22 comments)

Top Comments

1. 83 points: Idz4gqbi's comment in Kessoku Band Artists' Curse
2. 78 points: YUZUtry's comment in Kessoku Band members meet their followers
3. 74 points: Asbjorn26's comment in What is the most important lesson Bocchi the Rock taught you?
4. 72 points: Mukaido's comment in Slandering the Four Churches of Kessoku Band
5. 69 points: mysteryface1723's comment in She's just like me
6. 55 points: Unlucky_Wall711's comment in Damn Bocchi's got cake
7. 55 points: Yozora4's comment in What is the most important lesson Bocchi the Rock taught you?
8. 54 points: Ikuyo_Kita's comment in Choose
9. 54 points: Mukaido's comment in If Kessoku Band Does Not Exist...
10. 54 points: Spell_PhD's comment in KessokuBand Interviews Spell (Volcanovolk): A Nijika Birthday Celebration Special

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1. Please introduce yourself. Who are you? What do you do? How long have you been into photography?

My Name is Hari K Patibanda. I am a technology professional in love with nature. I was interested in photography for the past twenty+ years, and occasionally dabbled in landscape and macro photography. But I found my calling in nature and bird photography during Covid Lockdowns and since then have spent a considerable time in this area, growing my hobby as well as travelling across the country to see new bird species and habitats.

1. In one sentence, please describe what you captured in this shot.

This shot is of a male Himalayan Monal – a member of the Pheasant family – while it was roosting on a tree and getting ready for the day.

1. Why did you select this photo to share?

Photographs of birds like this Monal – unusually colourful and vivid, attract viewers making them curious about nature and the wildlife around them – something I like to achieve with my photography. This is the type of photography I am into.

1. What style of photography would you describe this as and do you typically take photographs in this style?

This is a typical bird / wildlife photograph highlighting the subject in its natural environment. And yes, most of my bird photography shots are like this.

1. When and where was this photo taken?

The photograph was taken near the small Village of Chopta, in the Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary in the state of Uttarakhand, North India. This is part of a vast Himalayan Forest range – an important biological reserve that hosts around 800 species of birds and 240 species of mammals, 10,000 species of plants and a lot more. Many of these bird species migrate 1000+ of kms in winters and reach the southern part of country where I live – so it was an exciting experience for me to see the home range of birds that I photographed several times – the habitats are quite different. I went there on a 7-day birding trip during the 2 nd week of Dec 2021.

1. Was anyone with you when you took this photo?

There were around 4 of us – all part of the 7-day birding trip across the forests of that state along with a bird guide and driver.

1. What equipment (hardware and software) did you use?

I used my trusty Canon EOS R5 and an EF 500 mm F4 IS II Lens for my bird photography. For software I primarily use Lightroom, Photoshop and Topaz DeNoise.

1. What drew you to take this photo?

Even before the start of the trip, this bird was in my target list of must-see birds – there are few birds that are this colourful, metallic and in purple colour. So, when we sighted these birds in the forest slopes on the hilly roadside roosting in a tree about 35-40 m away, I was delighted and waited for the birds to get a bit comfortable before taking this shot. There were about 5 birds together, 4 of them behind some leaves, while this male – a watcher probably – was sitting on an open branch. He slowly walked towards the trunk giving a brief clean view before he got down from the tree and disappeared.

1. How many attempts did it take to get this shot? How long did it take you to get one that you were satisfied with?

It took me several shot and tries to get this right. I must have taken around 50 – 60 shots maybe. The temperature was very cold at around minus 4.0 deg C / 25 deg F that day – the coldest day for me till date – I had trouble handholding the camera steady. The light was also quite low in the canopy where the bird was roosting. And the bird started slowing moving, so I had to wait for the right moment hoping it would pause briefly. So, I did re-adjust and experiment with settings several times to get a good sharp shot.

1. Did you edit (or do any post-processing/production on) this photo?

I processed the picture in Lightroom, denoised it in Topaz Denoise, cropped, tweaked colours, exposure and curves.

1. What encouraged you to share this photo online and with others?

Flickr and other online websites help me in building networks where others can see my work and I can draw inspiration from other’s work. In find that they are particularly good for connecting with people with similar interests.
I also joined my city’s bird watchers / photographer’s forum online and the help of that network made a significant difference to me in building my birding and photography skills!

1. Did you learn anything in the process of taking, editing, or sharing this photo?

Yes. Seeing these Monals in snow, in the forests or on trees, interacting with each other, roosting, pecking the ground for insects – that was a memorable experience and learning. I learnt a lot about the bird’s behaviours, habitat, its social nature and diet as well.
Also, shooting in low light and in such freezing conditions was new to me. And this was my first visit to that region, and we were on day 2 of the trip. This shot helped me prepare for the rest of the trip. (The previous day, we were mostly trekking up a snowy hill, so the challenges were different!). I needed to figure out camera settings – slow shutter speeds and medium ISO’s. Also, I carried a monopod for the rest of the trip wherever possible since the light was quite low. Lastly, I learnt about managing my breathing in the cold to get a steady shot with the heavy gear where monopod couldn’t be used. This was quite different to shooting in nice sunny weather in light clothing back home.
Editing the picture was not a challenge once I got the shot right, I just followed my standard workflow process.

1. Do you remember what you had for breakfast (or lunch or dinner) the day you took this photo?

I do. In that area, we had the same food for the first couple of days all the time – there was no choice. On this day, I don’t remember having a breakfast at this point. We stopped a while later for
breakfast at a place where we got the Eurasian Wren with a spectacular backdrop – that was also a memorable experience.

1. What would you like people to take away from this photo?

Appreciate the nature and be aware of the co-habitants of this planet – make it a better place. Our nature and planet are amazing and there is so much to learn, enjoy and explore. 15. Is there any feedback that you’d like to get on this shot?
I appreciate any kind of constructive criticism I can get on my pictures. Be it composition, sharpness, exposure, noise, colours or anything else.
In the past, there were several times when Flickr viewers had shared some critical feedback on my pictures that helped me to improve my photography. A viewer who went through several of pictures remarked on the close crops that I do of my pictures, so I did make those improvements. Others feedback on the noise levels in my pictures, I also learnt from that and improved my shooting and processing techniques.

1. How can anyone reading this support your work?

People can follow my photography and browse through my work at Flickr and share feedback. Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/krishnacolo Instagram: @hari_patibanda
All my pictures are also licensed under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution and hence are available free of use for any educational, NGO, non-profit users and organizations. It is said “a picture is worth 1000 words”. I believe that a good picture can make a significant positive impact on the viewers and can help in piquing their curiosity towards nature.
About Hari Patibanda Hari Patibanda is a technology professional and lives in the South Indian city of Hyderabad with his wife and two boys. During the weekends and holidays, he loves exploring the countryside and the forests around the region photographing birds in their natural habitats.
Read more at https://blog.flickr.net/en/2023/05/23/16-questions-about-one-photo-with-hari-k-patibanda/.

2.25.1.115 -> 2.26.0.19 Part 5

• New Helicopter Paratrooper for ejection seat : Su-K-36
• Removed sensor : Exoskeleton radar
• New sensors :
  • New radars :
    • AI Mk. 24 Foxhunter Stage 2G (copy-paste AI Mk. 24 Foxhunter Type W)
      • (Tornado ADV)
    • AI Mk. 24 Foxhunter Type Z (copy-paste AI Mk. 24 Foxhunter Type W)
      • (Tornado F. Mk. 3)
    • AN/AWG-9 (TISEO) (copy-paste AN/AWG-9, but it can move the camera)
      • (F-14B)
    • Kopyo-25
      • (Su-39)
    • PS-371/A (copy-paste PS-37/A)
      • (unused, but it's for the AJS 37)
    • Type 1473
      • (J8F)
    • Thales RDY (copy-paste Thomson-CSF RDI)
      • (Mirage 2000-5F)
  • New RWR :
    • AN/ALR-68(V) (copy-paste AN/ALR-67, SPO-150, etc.)
      • (F-4F (late))
  • New target tracker :
    • Mercury
      • (Su-25T and Su-39)
• Sensor changes :
  • IR and TV trackers of targeting pods : Track : RCS : 1 -> 3000
  • Air radars :
    • AN/APG-78 :
      • Added wide search MTI, medium search MTI, narrow search MTI and zoom search MTI modes
      • (AH-64D (all), Apache A.H. Mk. 1, Saraph)
    • AN/AWG-9 :
      • Narrow search : Period : 0.25 -> 0.5
      • Medium search : Period : 1 -> 4
      • Wide search : Period : 1.6 -> 6.5
      • Narrow TWS, medium TWS : Period : 0.5 -> 2
      • (F-14A)
    • RN01 Arbalet-52 :
      • Added wide search MTI and narrow search MTI modes
      • (Ka-52)
  • Ground radars :
    • 1RL144, Crotale, PGZ09, Roland : IRST track : RCS : 1 -> 8000
      • (M975 ADMS, FlaRakPz 1, FlaRakRad 1 A2, 2S6M1, PGZ09, ItO 90M (all))
    • 1RS2 : IRST track : RCS : 2 -> 8000
      • (Pantsir-S1)
    • 9K330 :
      • Track : RCS : 5 -> 3
      • IRST track : RCS : 1 -> 28000
      • (Tor-M1)
    • ADAD : Search and track : RCS : 1 -> 8000
      • (Ozelot, Stormer (HVM))
    • LAV-AD, Machbet : Track : RCS : 1 -> 3000
      • (LAV-AD, Type 93, Lvrbv 701, Machbet)
    • UTAAS : Track : RCS : 1 -> 8000
      • (Lvkv 9040C)
  • Target trackers :
    • Auto tracker :
      • Track :
        • RCS : 1 -> 3000
        • Range : 8 -> 10 km
      • (M3A3 CFV, Puma, 2S38, BMD-4, BMP-2M, QN506)
  • Naval optical sight : Track : RCS : 1 -> 3000
    • (Asheville (PGM-84), Douglas (PGM-100), Órla (P 41), Peacock (P 239), Akebono (DE-201), Ayanami (DD-103), Ikazuchi (DE-202), Isuzu (DE-211), PG No. 2 (PG-822), Folaga (FO))
• "Playable" hangar technician :
  • Added new parameters :
    • Move type : human
    • Max speed : 10 km/h
    • Max reverse speed : 5 km/h
    • Max angular speed : 30 km/h
    • Max acceleration : 4 m/s²
    • Max deceleration : 8 m/s²
    • Max angular acceleration : 40 m/s²
    • Max angular acceleration0 : 20 m/s²
    • Max angular accelerationV : 0 m/s²
    • Normal ground smooth viscosity : 0.1
    • Minimum distance between : 10 m
  • Moved Camera
• New bunkers for the new naval mechanic

Naval changes :

• New ship files :
  • Z 46 (GER)
  • Bravy (USSR)
  • Daring (D 05) (UK)
  • Bourrasque (FR)
  • Chacal (FR)
  • Colbert (FR)
  • Jeanne d’Arc (FR)
  • Le Malin (FR)
  • Leopard (FR)
  • Milan (FR)
  • Panthere (FR)
  • Paris (FR)
  • Primaguet (FR)
  • Vautour (FR)
• All ships except small coastals : Now rearm multiple shells at a time
• All ships except most coastals : Module HPs and crew reorganized
• Added new skins to most coastals
• Battleships, battlecruisers : Added shafts to the DM
• Alaska (CB-1), Scharnhorst, Duilio :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • AA turrets : Overpressure damage multiplier : 2 -> 6
• Arizona (BB-39) :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Added 16x 281 mm belt armors
  • Anti-torpedo bulge :
    • Explosion thickness multiplier : 11.5 -> 8.53
    • Explosion damage multiplier : 1.3 -> 1
    • Now it can be overpressured
    • Overpressure damage multiplier : 1 -> 150
• Enterprise (CV-6) :
  • Empty mass : 25000 -> 28000 t
  • Moment of inertia increased
• Nevada (BB-36), Parizhskaya Kommuna, Fusō, Haruna, Kongō :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • AA turrets : Overpressure damage multiplier : 2 -> 6
  • Anti-torpedo bulge :
    • Explosion thickness multiplier : 11.5 -> 8.96
    • Explosion damage multiplier : 1.3 -> 1
    • Now it can be overpressured
    • Overpressure damage multiplier : 1 -> 150
• Wyoming (BB-32) :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Removed a compartment
  • Anti-torpedo bulge :
    • Explosion thickness multiplier : 11.5 -> 8.53
    • Explosion damage multiplier : 1.3 -> 1
    • Now it can be overpressured
    • Overpressure damage multiplier : 1 -> 150
• Admiral Graf Spee, Admiral Hipper, Prinz Eugen, Hawkins (D 86), Kent (54), Aoba, Furutaka, Mikuma, Mogami, Myōkō, Suzuya, Tone :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Anti-torpedo bulge :
    • Explosion thickness multiplier : 11.5 -> 8.53
    • Explosion damage multiplier : 1.3 -> 1
    • Now it can be overpressured
    • Overpressure damage multiplier : 1 -> 150
• Bayern :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Removed 4x engine rooms
  • Main turret elevator lower armors : 115 -> 80 mm
  • Breaches :
    • Additional water death threshold : 30000 -> 33000 t
    • Max center of mass side offset : 16 -> 10 %
• Leipzig, Nürnberg, Belfast (C 35) :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Anti-torpedo bulge :
    • Explosion thickness multiplier : 10.5 -> 8.15
    • Explosion damage multiplier : 1.2 -> 1
    • Now it can be overpressured
    • Overpressure damage multiplier : 1 -> 150
• Pfeil (P 6193) :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Max speed : 92.48 -> 91.8 km/h
• Kronshtadt, Hood (51) :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Removed a compartment
  • AA turrets : Overpressure damage multiplier : 2 -> 6
  • Anti-torpedo bulge :
    • Explosion thickness multiplier : 11.5 -> 8.96
    • Explosion damage multiplier : 1.3 -> 1
    • Now it can be overpressured
    • Overpressure damage multiplier : 1 -> 150
• Pr. 183 :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Added the exhaust cover to the DM as 4 mm structural steel armor
• Pr. 183 (BM-21) :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Added the exhaust cover to the DM as 4 mm structural steel armor
  • The BM-21 launcher now faces forward by default
• Pr. 204 :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Added the exhaust covers to the DM as 15 mm structural steel armor
• Pr. 12412P :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Added Strela-3 IR SAM as secondary
  • 30 mm/54 GSh-6-30K (AK-630 mount) : secondary -> AA
• Ryany :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Fourth 130 mm turret :
    • Horizontal limits : -153° / 153° -> -150° / 150°
    • Elevation when aiming diagonally backwards : -5° / 45° -> 0° / 10-20°
• Shcherbakov :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Second 152 mm turret :
    • Horizontal limits : -150° / 150° -> -148° / 148°
    • Maximum elevation when aiming diagonally backwards : 45° -> 7°
• Diana (D 126) :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Added Type 960 search radar
  • Added MR-105 track radar
• Dido (37) :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Breaches :
    • Max heeling angle : 37° -> 34°
    • Max center of mass side offset : 20 -> 15 %
• Southampton (83) :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Added a 38.1 mm horizontal armor above the transmission
• No. 10 (T-51a), No. 11 (T-51b) :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Compartments : 4 mm structural steel -> 40 mm wood
• Shokaku : Center of gravity changed
• Andrea Doria :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Removed or merged 2x 90 mm, 4x 120 mm and 2x 130 mm belt armors
  • Torpedoes :
    • No longer available stock
    • Max delta angle : 60° -> 180°
    • Reload time : 10 -> 20 sec
• Dante Alighieri :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Removed 5x engine rooms
• Freccia (P 493) :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • "New" loadout : 2x 40 mm Breda-Bofors 40/70 (DARDO Tipo 107) + 2x S.I. 270 L
• Zara :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • First 203 mm turret : Minimum elevation when aiming diagonally backwards : -5° -> 0°
• Aigle :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Removed the 3 free spawns
  • Sailor models : UK -> French
• Duguay-Trouin :
  • (in addition to the general changes)
  • Removed the 3 free spawns
  • Sailor models : UK -> French
  • Added 1 auxiliary ammo storage of 270 shells
  • Hull plates :
    • Removed or merged 1 plate
    • Max explosion damage they can take : 60k -> 30k
  • Last AA turret can no longer be overpressured
  • 155 mm/50 Mle. 1920 turrets : Salvo Random K : 0.015 -> 0.07
  • Main ammo count : 95 -> 220 per storage
  • Auxiliary ammo storage 1 : Ammo count : 15070 -> 270
  • Auxiliary ammo storage 2 : Ammo count : 33470 -> 48000
  • Added 75 mm HE-TF OEA Mle. 1925 as Tier 1 modification

Ground changes :

• Removed tank files : Exoskeletons
• New tank files :
  • M1 KVT (US)
  • M4 (T26) (US)
  • Pz.Kpfw. 38 (t) n.A. (GER)
  • Spz 12-3 (3Z 8DLA) "Raketenautomat" (GER)
  • BTR-80A (USSR)
  • Object 435 (USSR)
  • SARC Mk. IVa (UK)
  • T-90S Bhishma (UK)
  • Type 87 RCV (P) (JP)
  • 211 (CN)
  • VT4 (CN)
  • ZTZ88B (CN)
  • Freccia (IT)
  • AMX 30 AuF1 (FR)
  • Sherman Mk. III/IV (SWE)
  • Magach 6 (Hydra 70) (ISR)
• Applies to all tanks with tracks : Suspension :
  • Limit Min : [-1000, 0, 0] -> [-1, -1, 0]
  • Limit Max : [1000, 0, 0] -> [1, 1, 0]
• LAV-AD : Added shell ejection animation
• M1 (all), M60A1 (RISE/P), M60A3 (TTS) (all), M728 CEV, Ram Mk. II, T-72M1 (all), 2S38, 9A35M2, 9P149M, 9P157-2, BMP-2M, BTR-ZD, Object 279, Object 685, Object 906, PT-76 (all), T-10 (all), T-55 (all), T-62 (all), T-64 (all), T-72 (all), T-80B, T-80U (all), T-90A, Challenger 1 Mk. 3 (all), Challenger 2 (Black Night), Challenger 2 (TES), Challenger 2E, Olifant Mk. 2, Rooikat (all), TTD, ZA 35, T-69 II G, ZBD86, ZTZ96 (all), ZTZ99 (all), AMX 30 DCA, AMX 32 (all), AMX 40, M113A2 (ASRAD-R), Magach 6 Bet Gal Batash : ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• M2 (ADATS), M113A3 (ADATS) : The launcher is now always pointing 1.1° above the aiming circle (when within the horizontal and vertical limits)
• M5A1 (all) : Added Rear Exhaust to DM as 5 mm Structural Steel
• M19A1 GMC (all) :
  • Empty Mass : 17300 -> 18470 kg
  • Full Mass : 17500 -> 18670 kg
• M47 (US, JP), M47E2 :
  • Separated Ammunitions into separated shells
  • First-stage : 11 -> 10 ammo
• M901, Begleitpanzer 57, Wiesel 1 A2 TOW, CM25, M113A1 (TOW) (all), VCC-80 Dardo, VCC-80 (HITFIST 30), Pvrbv 551 (all) :
  • Maximum number of simultaneously guided missiles is now limited to 1
  • The launcher is now always pointing 1.725° above the aiming circle (when within the horizontal and vertical limits)
• M3 CFV (all) :
  • Maximum number of simultaneously guided missiles is now limited to 1
  • The launcher is now always pointing 1.725° above the aiming circle (when within the horizontal and vertical limits)
  • Fighting compartment is now considered closed when it comes to sounds
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• M22 : 7.62 mm M1919A4 : Ammo Count : 3000 -> 2500
• M50 : Gearbox changed : Max RB Speed : [-7.9, 48.2] -> [-16.2, 48.2] km/h
• XM803 :
  • 152 mm XM150E5 :
    • Horizontal Speed : 36 -> 42 °/s
    • Vertical Speed : 20 -> 42 °/s
  • 12.7 mm M85 :
    • Vertical limits : [-9, 65] -> [-15, 60]°
    • Added Limit Table between -135° and -10° : Vertical limits [-10, 60]°
• Flak.Pz. 341 : Breaches separated
• FlaRakRad 1 A2 : The transmission can no longer be overpressured
• Inf.Pz.Kpfw. 750 (e), 3-inch Gun Carrier, Churchill Mk. III :
  • Side Exhaust Grilles : 4 mm structural steel -> 12.7 mm RHA
  • Added Side Exhaust as 25 mm RHA
• Leopard 1 A5, Leopard C2 (MEXAS) : Added Gunner's optic cover to the DM as 20 mm modern CHA
• Leopard 2 A4, Leopard 2 A4 (PzBtl 123), Leopard 2 A4 (AMAP), Leopard 2 K, Strv 121 : Added Commander's optic cover to the DM as 20 mm modern RHA
• M 47 G :
  • Separated Ammunitions into separated shells
  • First-stage : 11 -> 10 ammo
  • Suspension :
    • Added Max Displacement Offset = [0, 0.05]
    • Default Gear Radius : 0.34 -> 0.32
    • Front Back Gear Radius : 0.23 -> 0.34
    • Top Gear Radius : 0.13 -> 0.18
• Tiger I (early) (all) : Added Turret Ring to the DM as 85 mm RHA
• TAM : Added Commander's optic cover to the DM as 11 mm modern RHA
• VT 1-2 : Added Commander Sight
• 2S25 :
  • Carousel : 4 -> 6 mm
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• 2S25M :
  • Added Carousel to DM as 6 mm Structural Steel
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• BM-13N : The ammo can now be damaged
• BMD-4, BMP-3 :
  • Added overheat reload time = 15 s
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• BMP-1P (all) :
  • Maximum number of simultaneously guided missiles is now limited to 1
  • The launcher is now always pointing 2.35° above the aiming circle (when within the horizontal and vertical limits)
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• BMP-2D :
  • Decoration can now be placed on first plate of side skirts, last plate of right skirt, spotlight
  • Maximum number of simultaneously guided missiles is now limited to 1
  • The launcher is now always pointing 2.5° above the aiming circle (when within the horizontal and vertical limits)
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• IS-2 (1944) (USSR, CN), IS-2 (1944) (48-j Ot.Gv.T.T.P.) "Revenge" :
  • UFP and LFP merged, RHA -> CHA, now volumetric
  • Floor : 20 -> 30 mm, now volumetric
  • Driver's viewport : RHA -> CHA, now volumetric
  • Turret armor is now volumetric
  • Inner turret armor to the sides of the breech : RHA -> CHA
  • Camera moved
  • 12.7 mm DShK :
    • Added Shell Ejection Animation
    • Now faces forward by default
• IS-2 (1944) (№321) :
  • Empty mass : 45610 -> 45760 kg
  • Full mass : 46000 -> 46150 kg
  • UFP and LFP merged, RHA -> CHA, now volumetric
  • Floor : 20 -> 30 mm, now volumetric
  • Driver's viewport : RHA -> CHA, now volumetric
  • Turret armor is now volumetric
  • Inner turret armor to the sides of the breech : RHA -> CHA
  • Camera moved
  • 12.7 mm DShK :
    • Added Shell Ejection Animation
    • Now faces forward by default
• IT-1 :
  • Maximum number of simultaneously guided missiles is now limited to 1
  • The launcher is now always pointing 2.35° above the aiming circle (when within the horizontal and vertical limits)
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• Object 268 :
  • First-stage : 17 -> 24
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• Pantsir-S1 :
  • Hull : 5 -> 3 mm
  • Cabin : 6.6 mm RHAHH -> 3 mm Structural Steel
• SU-85M : Front Hatch : Effective Thickness no longer limited to 130 mm
• SU-100 (USSR, CN) :
  • Engine Grilles : 5 mm Structural Steel -> 10 mm RHA
  • Front Hatch : Effective Thickness no longer limited to 120 mm
• SU-122-54 : Decoration can now be placed on left track cover
• SU-122P : Engine Grilles : Engine Grilles : 5 mm Structural Steel -> 10 mm RHA
• T-34-85 (1943) :
  • Turret :
    • RHA -> CHA
    • Now is of variable thickness
  • MG Port, Gun Mask : Now is of variable thickness
• T-34-100 : Hull Top : 20 -> 15 mm
• T-54 (all), ZTZ59A, ZTZ59D1: Engine Grilles : 5 -> 10 mm
• ZSU-23-4 (all) :
  • Added Turret Bulges to the DM as 4 mm Structural Steel
  • Added boxes and other miscellaneous things to the DM as 4 mm Structural Steel
• Bosvark, ZSD63 (PG87) : Fighting compartment is now considered open when it comes to sounds
• Centurion Mk. I : Gearbox changed : Max RB speed : [-12.1, 37.1] -> [-12.1, 38.2] km/h
• Challenger 2 (Dorchester 2E) :
  • Added support of LFP to DM as 30 mm Structural Steel
  • Removed rubber cylinder at the base of the cannon from DM
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• Challenger 2 (Dorchester 2F) :
  • First plate of left track mudguard is no longer hidden
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• Charioteer Mk. 7f (all) : Added the little box under the turret rear to the DM as 4 mm Structural Steel
• Chieftain Mk. 3 :
  • Gun mask : 4 -> 30 mm
  • Decoration can now be placed on the large "ring" that goes around the turret
• Churchill Mk. VII (all) : Added the box on the side to the DM as 63.5 mm RHA
• Churchill N.A.75 : Added the box on the side to the DM as 4 mm Structural Steel
• Falcon : Decoration can now be placed on the tracks covers
• Independent : Track Animation Multiplier : 0.48 -> 0.38
• Matilda (Hedgehog) : Decoration can now be placed on Rockets Rack, Cupola's Ring, And the little boxes on the turret roof
• SARC Mk. VI (2-pdr) :
  • Inside armor : 10 -> 16 mm
  • Hull top : 8 -> 10 mm
  • Hull side : 8 -> 16 mm
  • Side front hatch : 8 -> 16 mm
  • Hull rear : 5 -> 14 mm
• SARC Mk. VI (6-pdr) :
  • Inside armor : 8 -> 16 mm
  • Hull top : 5 -> 10 mm
  • Hull side : 8 -> 16 mm
  • Hull rear : 10 -> 14 mm
  • Gun mark : 30 -> 20 mm
  • Vertical plate under the canisters : 15 -> 100
  • Turret ring : 4 mm Structural Steel -> 10 mm RHA
  • Side front hatch : 10 -> 16 mm
• Skink :
  • 20 mm Polsten : Vertical Limits : [-4.5, 77] -> [-5, 80]°
  • Empty Mass : 28000 -> 27000 kg
  • Fuel Mass : 600 -> 660 kg
  • Full Mass : 28600 -> 27660 kg
• Vickers Battle Tank Mk. 3 : Crew, turret drives, cannon breech, radio station, ammo can now be overpressured
• Ho-Ri (all) : Engine Grilles : 4 mm Structural Steel -> 10 mm RHA
• Ho-Ro : Doors of the big box on the hull : 5 mm Structural Steel -> 14.2 mm RHA
• Type 60 SP (C) : Driver Cover : 25.4 mm RHA -> 20 mm CHA
• Type 74 TK (G) :
  • Right Tracks Mudguards : 40 mm CHA -> 4 mm Rubber-fabric screens
  • Left Tracks Mudguards : 38 mm CHA -> 4 mm Rubber-fabric screens
  • Added little canister on the rear of hull and crate on right side of turret to the DM as 5 mm Structural Steel
• Type 87 RCV : Fighting compartment is now considered open when it comes to sounds
• 1221, ZTZ88A :
  • 12.7 mm DShK -> 12.7 mm QJC54
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• AFT09 : Spall shields :
  • RHA -> modern RHA
  • Now visible in X-Ray
• PGZ04A :
  • Engine Grilles :
    • 8.9 mm RHA -> 4 mm Structural Steel
    • Cannot be hidden in X-Ray View
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• PGZ09 :
  • Track Segment Length : 15 -> 18 cm
  • Number of Track Segments : 90 -> 73
  • Track Start Offset : 0.08 -> -0.01
• Phòng không T-34 :
  • Added Engine Grilles to DM as 4 mm Structural Steel
  • Commander no longer control the gun
• PTZ89 : Spare Tracks at the rear : 20 -> 15 mm
• QN506 :
  • Missile covers hidden
  • QN201 :
    • The launcher is now always pointing 2.75° above the aiming circle (when within the horizontal and vertical limits)
    • Vertical Limits : [-5, 52] -> [-5, 30]°
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• Type 64 :
  • Empty Mass : 23700 -> 21700 kg
  • Full Mass : 24000 -> 22000 kg
• WZ1001(E) LCT :
  • Added Ammo Carousel to DM as 6 mm Structural Steel
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• ZTQ62 (all) : Added Engine Grilles to DM as 5 mm Structural Steel
• ZTS63 (1963) :
  • Added Engine Grilles to DM as 4 mm Structural Steel
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• ZTZ69-2A : Armor plate between Engine and Crew : 135 mm CHA -> 4 mm Structural Steel
• ZTZ99A :
  • Added Ammo Carousel to DM as 6 mm Structural Steel
  • 125 mm ZPT98A : Vertical Speed : 7 -> 15 °/s
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• 90/50 M36B1 : Added MG Port to the DM as 34 mm RHA
• Ariete (all) : Side Skirts : 20 -> 30 mm
• Celere Sahariano : Added a little horizontal plate just under the gun to the DM as 15 mm RHA
• Fiat 6616 (90/38) : 90 mm Cockerill 90/38 Mk. 3 : Ammo Count : 32 -> 28
• Otomatic : Engine Horsepower : 830 -> 1100
• Sherman Mk. I (Hybrid), Sherman Mk. Ic : Added MG Port to the DM as 25.4 mm CHA
• VRCC Centauro :
  • Removed the two cylinders in the left turret basket from DM
  • Lot of things around the turret can now be hidden in X-Ray
  • Part of right side exhaust : RHAHH -> RHA
  • The first "Perpendicular" spaced armor plate on each side can now be hidden in X-Ray
• 2C :
  • Floor : 15 -> 10 mm
  • Can now place decorations on the front and rear armor, under each turrets
  • Added Ammo Storage "Logic", ammo will now disappear as they are consumed
• 2C bis : Floor : 15 -> 10 mm
• AMD 35 :
  • Spall shields can now be hidden in X-Ray
  • The ammo can now be damaged
  • The Commander is no longer a substitute for the Loader
  • The Commander is now also a driver
• AMX 50 (TOA 100) :
  • Wheels Support : 5 mm RHA -> 20 mm Structural steel of chassis
  • Rear Exhausts : 30 mm RHA -> 20 mm CHA
  • Wheels HP : 300 -> 250
• AMX 50 (TO 90/930) : Rear Exhausts : 30 mm RHA -> 20 mm CHA
• AMX 50 Surbaissé : Wheels : 15 -> 20 mm
• AMX 50 Surblindé :
  • Rear Exhausts : 15 -> 20 mm
  • Wheels : 15 -> 20 mm
• AMX M 4 :
  • Wheels Support : 5 mm RHA -> 20 mm Structural steel of chassis
  • Wheels HP : 300 -> 250
• VDAA SANTAL : The launcher is now always pointing 8° above the aiming circle (when within the horizontal and vertical limits)
• Leopard 1 A5 NO : Added a delay of 0.5 s between two smoke grenade salvo
• Leopard 2 A4 (SWE) : Decoration can now be placed on the left of the gun
• Machbet : Added Gun Support to the DM as 6.35 mm Aluminium alloy 5083
• Magach 6 : Tracks Mudguards : Structural Steel -> Rubber-fabric screens
• Magach 6 Gimel :
  • Added Toolbox on the roof to the DM as 4 mm Structural Steel
  • Added 2 spare tracks on the rear left above the track to the DM as 20 mm Traсks
  • 66 mm smoke grenade launcher : Grenade per salvo count halved, number of salvos doubled
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• Magach 7 Gimel :
  • Armor at the edge of the UFP and LFP : 165 -> 130 mm
  • Added Smoke Grenade Launchers to the DM as 6 mm Structural Steel
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• Merkava Mk. 1 (all), Merkava Mk. 2 (all), Merkava Mk. 3 (all), Merkava Mk. 4 Bet, Merkava Mk. 4 LIC :
  • Smoke Screen Offset : [-3, 0, 2] -> [-1, 0, -4]
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• Merkava Mk. 4 Meil Ruach :
  • Smoke Screen Offset : [-3, 0, 2] -> [-1, 0, -4]
  • Decoration can be placed on the Tracks Mudguards
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• Sho't Kal Dalet (all) :
  • Sniper view :
    • Zoom : [4.92, 6] -> [7.22, 8.01]°
    • Fov : 7.5 -> 5°
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well
• Sho't Kal Gimel :
  • Sniper view :
    • Zoom : [4.92, 6] -> [5.55, 6]°
    • Fov : 7.5 -> 6.1°
  • ESS now appears from other exhausts as well

Current Dev version : 2.26.0.20
Current Dev-Stable version : 2.25.1.115
Current Live version : 2.25.1.115

Disclaimer: This is all for fun, I am not a writer; Naughty Dog will come up with something better than I can. I love Part I and II equally, if Part III does indeed get made it will surely be awesome too. Hope you enjoy my speculation, if you disagree with any of my thoughts or interpretations, that’s okay. Feel free to generate your own discussion in the comments. I wrote this for myself so I could stop thinking about this series. Fair warning there are spoilers ahead for Part I, II and the show. Also this is about 7250 words and is approx. a 55 minute read.
Tldr; Game theme will be about love, game will be structured like a prestige TV show, Ellie will be the main character among many playable ones and will conclude her story, she won’t die and there won’t be a cure, Ellie will find meaning in protecting and living for the people she loves, a bit like Joel. Abby and Lev get a small part and maybe a spin off game in the future if there's fan demand. Skip down to the outline if you want a less exhaustive read.
First Things First/Getting Some General Thoughts Out of the Way
What could the rumored third installment of The Last of Us have in store for players? Where are our characters in their development/arc so far? Will this be the conclusion to Ellie’s story? What common theories are likely? We’ll have to get started with some assumptions and interpretations of the series and characters before tackling an outline. First one being, the game canon will take some inspiration from the show, given they share a creator.
A Game Series Finale and a TV Series Finale in One
Starting with the big ideas first, how will the story be structured? Given Druckmann’s history with advocating for it to be adapted as a TV show during the film pitch days, directing/writing/producing on the eventual TV show, and now is rumored to be treating Part III like a TV show (even rumored to be hiring a writer’s room and asking cinematographers to come work for him), it’s no stretch to assume Part III will possibly have a more television like structure. Not to mention this would make the eventual HBO adaptation easier to accomplish. This structure would be in contrast to Druckmann’s previous stated approach on Part II, in which he wanted that game to feel like a dense novel.
This third game could feature chapters more deliberately paced liked episodes than Part I or II, full of miniature arcs and a wide cast of playable characters all converging to a satisfying finale, much like a prestige TV show. The pacing could be tightly controlled with clearer, more digestible chunks. I’d like to see the majority of the episodes focused on the series main character Ellie, with her as the main playable character, but also think it would be interesting if we had several other playable characters, in order to flesh out the world and story. Multiple playable characters have become a series staple at this point, and I would love to see that idea expanded upon.
Love as the Series Theme
Before the release of Part II, Druckmann repeatedly said Part II would be about hate, and that Part I was about love. But after release, he said this was part of the marketing meant to misdirect the player. In a stream with Greg Miller, Druckmann states: “When we first started talking about this game, I said, you know, the first game’s about love, this game’s about hate. That’s not true. Both games are about love.” “Both games explore the most wonderful things love can provide…And the worst things that love can drive you to…” So, love, and all of its beauty and consequences, will likely be the central theme and catalyst for Part III as well.
How Many Years Will Have Passed?
This is a common topic of debate, how much time will have taken place before Part III? I’ve seen theories of a few days, a few years, and even as much as 20 years to parallel Joel’s time skip from Part I. Personally, I don’t think a sequel will pick up exactly where we left off, but neither will there be a big jump in time. I think most likely we’ll see Ellie living on the edge of Jackson, around two years after the final scene of Ellie walking from the farmhouse. I think this gives enough time for a new plot to develop but is not so far removed that all our characters have moved on completely from the questions of Part II’s ending.
“So, what happens with the cure and saving humanity and all that?”
Part III’s biggest question for some is what will happen with the cure and Ellie’s immunity. Was it ever possible? Will Ellie sacrifice herself for a chance at another Firefly cure that will now have much more dubious odds? My interpretation is that the cure would definitely have worked had the Fireflies done the surgery at the end of Part I, but in the story we have the cure is never and was never going to happen, regardless if it was viable or not.
As far as the games and show state, at the end of Part I the Fireflies were confident they could produce a cure from Ellie’s cordyceps infused brain, only they would have to remove her brain and kill her to do it. It’s slightly ambiguous if it were possible and it doesn’t make real-world scientific sense, but the story isn’t about science or even the cure really, it’s about the characters we’ve grown to love and the choices they have to make. One being, would you give up your child for a chance to secure humanity’s future, to save the world? Joel wouldn’t, so he saves his world, Ellie.
All the extra details and interpretations of the Fireflies motives and capabilities are valid but ultimately don’t really matter. Joel and the Fireflies believe they could create the cure but they would have to kill Ellie, so Joel stops them. He can’t live without Ellie and all he is thinking about is taking her back to Jackson for his second chance at life. I don’t think Part III will undo the consequences of Part I’s ending, it would make Joel's choice too inconsequential in my eye.
I think the cure can’t happen not only for that reason, but because the infection in TLOU thematically represents some of the worst parts of humanity. The violence, the reckless hate and tribalism; these are all things that throughout history humanity has had to constantly work to fight against and try to evolve past to create civilized societies. There is no cure for these parts of humanity, just like there won’t be a cure for the narrative equivalent, the infection.
Saving humanity will happen on a more character level, like Joel bonding with and saving Ellie eventually restores his humanity, Abby saving Yara and Lev restores hers, and Ellie letting Abby live after nearly drowning her restores Ellie’s, or at least starts her journey to do so. Humanity also will be restored in the world with loving communities like Jackson. Ellie’s immunity will still come into the story of course, but most likely as a plot device/MacGuffin again.
Humanity will have to live with the infection, which has become part of the new world. The old world that the cure would’ve attempted to restore is gone, humanity must reckon with the fact the world has changed, cordyceps is a part of the natural environment and they must adapt. And many communities do adapt, with different philosophies and to vastly varying degrees of success, and in some places like Jackson they create a beautiful example of human life, arguably better than how much of the world lives today.
Now let’s look into our returning characters to establish where they are in the story before we tackle the outline.
Returning Characters
Ellie
Part II built to Ellie learning to accept that she is worthy of the life and love that Joel gave her and to finally have gotten past (or at least started to get past) the grief of Joel’s murder and their estrangement, as well as her Survivor’s Guilt surrounding her immunity and lost loved ones. She is able to forgive Joel and ultimately herself and is now free to choose her own destiny. I think Ellie’s future beyond the end of Part II is a search for that destiny, likely in living for, helping and protecting the people she loves, like her guardian, mentor, and father figure Joel.
My theory is Ellie’s main arc in the final chapter of her story will be her transformation into a leader for a better tomorrow in the new world, using her strength, resolve and eventual widespread knowledge of her immunity to become a hopeful and inspiring leader in ‘New Jackson’ at the end of Part III. I‘ll go over some examples here for evidence of my idea, there are some small things that add up in my opinion.
A minuscule but revealing moment of Ellie’s character I like in Part II is just after the opening scene. Joel is awkwardly trying to make small talk with Ellie when he says “Folks are…you know, talking about how impressed they are with you and how well you’re helping out.” Ellie doesn’t react much to this, she’s closed off with Joel at this point in the scene, her arms are folded and she’s looking to the floor, but when she reacts, she only says, “That’s good.” I think to Ellie, helping is natural to her. She doesn’t think much of it, but i think her desire to be a cure/world savior plays into this motivation to be helpful. She loves super heroes for a reason too.
Another moment not in the games, but in the show, appears in episode 7 and was written by Neil Druckmann. I think it’s pretty likely Neil has had discussions of Part III with Craig Mazin, as well as having Part III in mind when he wrote episode 7 for the HBO show. Knowing the endgame for their main character definitely would help make telling their story easier. Again, I am assuming the game and show canon will not be identical but will take heavy inspiration from each other.
The revealing scene is when Ellie is getting reprimanded by a FEDRA school officer, and he says that he sees leadership potential in Ellie. She shrugs this off as any teenager would, but I feel it is a little bit of evidence pointing towards this conclusion for her character. To build on this, in Episode 8, David the cannibal preacher tells Ellie he sees that she is a natural leader too (This may have just been his grooming attempts, but I think there is a bit more there). This idea of leadership popped up a few times, even Maria tells Ellie she would be a heck of a lawyer, one of the more common professions of political leaders in modern society.
As I’m sure plenty noticed, in Part II during the flashback where Abby meets Owen at the aquarium to reveal she found Tommy, we see the children’s mural uncovered. It shows a fully painted giraffe and zebra, and then an unfinished lion. It’s not a leap to guess that these parts of the mural each represent The Last of Us as a series, but I also think the choice of animal is a clue to the type of story we have for Ellie in Part III. A simple story structure like The Lion King to conclude Ellie’s arc and the main story of The Last of Us is a logical idea I think.
One of my favorite of Ellie’s journal entries, that I feel informs a bit of her potential mindset for Part III, is recorded after she encounters The Rattlers. She laments the existence of yet another group of radicals who name themselves. “Fuck all these groups”, she writes. None of the factions Ellie encounters have had the same level of love and humanity as the people in Jackson. I can’t see Ellie’s endgame as willingly going back to the Fireflies after all she has experienced. I think she will want a beautiful and human life like she experienced in Jackson, and would be able and willing to lead people to such a future.
Joel
For some, The Last of Us isn’t The Last of Us without the first game’s co-lead, Joel. An instantly iconic, lovable but violent and complicated father figure, Joel resonated with a lot of players, and rightfully so. He is a great subversion of the standard video game action hero, finishing the game not with a triumphant victory, but with a devastatingly consequential choice and a lie. He is one of the series most influential characters, and I think Part III would be lesser if there are no flashbacks with Joel at all, but he isn’t crucial at this point beyond a function as a storytelling device for our remaining characters.
His story is finished in my mind; he achieved redemption despite his dark past and actions at the Firefly hospital. He gained the respect, love and adoration of the community of Jackson and he had Ellie’s forgiveness the night before he died, so to me, he died fulfilling his purpose and with peace, despite being violently taken away from Ellie and the player too soon. Even if his arc is done, his presence is felt throughout the story and ripples through the other characters. Joel had a lot of influence on Ellie and Tommy, in many beautiful and positive ways, but also leaving behind his violence and emotional walls.
I think it would be a nice touch to have Joel show up for a scene or two to show his connection to our main characters and how his influence has had a great effect on them. How this will play out probably won’t be how we expect, and it’s entirely plausible and likely we don’t see Joel at all, but I hope for enjoyment’s sake we get a small glimpse of some of his best and worst parts again to tie Joel’s influence into the story and bring it full circle.
Tommy
Now one of the most tragic characters in the series, Tommy faced a lot of consequences for his actions in Part II, yet didn’t receive the same emotional catharsis as Ellie did in the end. A missing eye, a crippled leg, and a destroyed psyche are all that’s left for Tommy. He’s separated from Maria, and shown himself to be a violent, unstable man to his community.
Chances are Tommy is going to be a bit of an outsider among the people of Jackson, mostly left alone to dwell on his pain, given how violent, disabled men are typically treated in society. He is having a sort of reverse arc, where he is introduced in the story as a noble character but eventually loses his way.
Consumed by his grief, he seems hungry for vengeance against Abby, who in Tommy’s mind took his able body, his marriage and his brother from him. One of the big remaining questions for Part III is how Ellie and Tommy’s relationship will move forward; will Ellie tell Tommy the truth of what happened in Santa Barbara? Will she recognize the consequences of Joel’s lie at the end of Part I and heed the lesson, or will she make the same mistake and lie to Tommy about letting Abby live? I think Ellie will tell Tommy the truth, but it will have the unfortunate effect of sending Tommy just that much more over the edge into the darkness. His resentment towards Abby will turn to Ellie after this, and their relationship will be fractured in the beginning of Part III.
As a “joiner” as he is described in the HBO series, Tommy tries to follow what he believes to be right, but is often misguided. I think this drive of Tommy’s combined with his trauma will lead him to join forces with a group of antagonists within the story, a familiar group that will promise him purpose.
Tommy I believe will also be a good candidate for a playable character in an episode focused on him. We could show Tommy joining the Fireflies prior to the events of the first game, and inter cut that with some present day events to create some parallels in Tommy’s experience, but also show how he’s changed.
Maria
A so far sparsely used character, Maria has some untapped potential in the third installment. We only see her for a few key scenes in Part II, but our last scene with Tommy reveals a bit of her character and unresolved plotlines for Part III. Tommy tells Ellie and Dina that he and Maria are “taking some time apart”, which in my eye means Maria most likely broke up with him and Tommy is downplaying it. I would imagine Tommy leaving for Seattle led to Maria feeling similarly to Dina when Ellie left the farm for Santa Barbara. Maria would be justifiably upset that Tommy left behind her back to go on a murder spree across the country. I imagine in the show when the two of them have a child this decision could be even heavier. Maria wouldn’t take it lightly for certain.
So Maria is likely a single woman again, potentially now with a child to look after if they decide to give Tommy and Maria a baby in Part III as well(although personally the timeline feels a bit off for some late 40s folks to be having a baby but hey stranger things I guess). To start Part III I’d like to see Maria as a role model to Ellie, showing her what it takes to be an effective leader of a community, taking her under her wing and educating her. Helping Ellie reintegrate into society and helping her regain her humanity.
Maria is fleshed out with a few more key details in the HBO show, one most notably being that prior to the outbreak she had a position as an assistant district attorney (her age is a bit off but again this is just a nitpick, not important). I would like for her leadership role in Jackson to play a slightly larger role in the story and help to influence Ellie to her final goal and purpose.
Abby and Lev
As Part II’s reflection of Joel and Ellie, Abby and Lev go through a similar harrowing journey to develop a found family and a sense of love and belonging with a fellow survivor. Abby completes her arc of redemption in saving Lev and fulfilling the older sibling role for him, after completing her quest for revenge leaves her at her lowest instead of bringing her salvation. Her guilt and grief surrounding her dead father isn’t alleviated until she puts aside her hate and saves an enemy that saved her, like when her enemy Joel saved her before she took revenge.
Through the events of Part II Lev is able to maintain his sense of morality and self-actualize despite hate from his community and the death of his family. He helps Abby reach her redemption as Abby helps Lev to gain his freedom to live as his true self and experience the potential beauty of the world.
Abby and Lev finish Part II reaching their haven of the Avalon building on Catalina Island and rejoining the Fireflies. Given that both of these characters completed full arcs through the events of Part II, I think tying them into the main plot only as minor players is appropriate. Though Abby has a key plot role to play given that she is one of the few people who is aware of Ellie’s immunity and where she is.
Dina and JJ
Dina was a great addition in Part II, but I imagine she will have a smaller role in Part III. The last we see of her in Part II is her telling Ellie that if Ellie leaves, “she won’t do this again”. Dina is a character of strong conviction, I imagine she will stick to her boundary and have a somewhat distant but amicable friendship with Ellie, though it will be permanently damaged by the events of Part II. Ellie will act as a bit of an aunt type figure to JJ, stopping by to visit or help whenever Dina allows it.
My idea takes place almost two years after the events of Part II, so JJ will still only be three years old or so. Definitely not old enough to go on a cross country murder spree with Auntie Ellie! A theory I’ve seen floated by others that I think holds a lot of weight is that Dina will have moved on to another relationship, someone she perceives to be stable, loyal and predictable. Dina will have found a loving person she can build a family with, but in staying true to the painful nature of The Last of Us, this will be difficult for our protagonist.
Beyond being someone Ellie is motivated to be good for, whom she still loves and cares for, I don’t see Dina having a large role in the plot of Part III. She’ll have a role more similar in size to Maria from Part II I imagine, a few key scenes to help set the stage for our main character.
Factions
Throughout the first two games Ellie has wrestled with people trying to decide her life purpose for her, and I think the central antagonist(s) for Part III will be trying to do just that again. Before we get into the outline let’s brainstorm where our current factions are at and where they might go.
Fireflies
The Fireflies play a key role in the world of The Last of Us as the main opposition to FEDRA across the US, as well as the main group trying to “restore society”. They were once a seemingly large group with many cells across different Quarantine Zones, but at the end of Part I they disbanded to different areas with different motivations, scattered and leaderless.
As with the Seraphites, removing the key figurehead and leader from a group can have lasting changes on their morale and philosophy. As Lev says, the Seraphites didn’t start hanging people until their leader, The Prophet, was killed by the WLF leader, Isaac.
I think the Fireflies could potentially be very different from how they functioned under the tutelage of Marlene, possibly more violent, militant or desperate, and this could be a point of contention for its members at the start of Part III. They could be similarly fractured into a few different directions which could help set off the key events for the story. Like in the past, some could want to go after the immune girl, while others could aspire to something else, or be taken in by other groups elsewhere. I think we’ll see a new antagonist leading the portion of the Fireflies that will be unwavering from their original vision for the future. The others could stay in Catalina and try to make a peaceful society.
WLF and the Seraphites
There’s no canon confirmation either way, but from my interpretation, the WLF and the Seraphites are all but destroyed after their final battle at Scar Island. Each group would have gone from a few thousand people to probably hundreds each at most. I would also imagine most of the people left were those incapable of or less inclined to fighting. There is probably a very small amount of people left at the WLF Stadium and Scar Island. I think they will do their best to maintain them as secure communities rather than perpetuate war much further. Maybe they fight until total annihilation, but I don’t think they will have much influence on the main Ellie story going forward.
What I definitely do doubt is that anyone from the Seattle factions will be coming back to take revenge on Ellie or Abby. Part II already went there, I’m doubtful Naughty Dog would try to replicate it given their desire to not retread the old ground of Part I when making Part II. These groups could function to spread Ellie’s notoriety nationwide, but how much information that gets out about her during Part II is uncertain and minimal, so it is possible these factions will just stay in the past.
Rattlers
The Rattlers are largely fodder and plot drivers so Ellie and Abby can meet in specific circumstances at the end of Part II. I don’t think they’ll have a huge bearing on the overarching plot, and they could easily never show up again, but I think bringing them back as an enemy to encounter would be reasonable.
My idea is we’ll get to kill these slavers again in Part III’s Abby and Lev episode, what better way to reintroduce the players to Abby than to let them use her physical prowess to remorselessly murder some of the worst of what humanity has to offer. Sounds like a fun encounter to kick off Abby’s minor part in the story.
Maybe she will feel differently about killing them after her quest for revenge with Joel didn’t lead to the catharsis she hoped for? Maybe she’ll want to spare people, and this could be a mechanic added as an option, or maybe Abby is still ruthless and we get to see her pile drive some slavers spines through their mouths; that would be fun too.
FEDRA and the Atlanta QZ
First mentioned in the HBO show by the FEDRA soldier Joel sells drugs to (and later beats to death); the Atlanta QZ is said to have a big factory of bullets and pills. In either show or game canon, this is the first we have heard of the settlement, it could possibly be the biggest in the USA, or what remains of it that is, given that FEDRA is seemingly disconnected, fighting countless civil wars across the continental US. I would be really interested in seeing Ellie have a portion of the game occur in this possible Atlanta QZ. Within a giant city they could introduce a lot of interesting new characters and plot lines. This could also provide some interesting parallels between Ellie and Joel as well from his time in Boston QZ at the start of Part I.
I think FEDRA will have a larger story presence than in Part II, but they will still be the crumbling fascist remains of the old world clinging to their iron rule as best as they can. Maybe we will get to meet some of the remaining FEDRA leadership running things in Atlanta and dive a bit deeper into the behind the scenes of how society is run in a FEDRA controlled QZ. I think ultimately for FEDRA we’ll see a house of cards barely holding together before the fall in Part III.
New Florida Faction (NFF)
In Part III we will surely see some new factions to add to the ever expanding lore of the universe, I’d really love to see a group there that worships the cordyceps in the as of yet unexplored in universe location of Florida. We hear some admiration towards the infection from David in Episode 8 of the HBO adaptation; I think I’d like to see this idea expanded to a whole group, they could be enamoured with the idea of the cordyceps “oneness”. Maybe this group will hear of an immune girl and be driven to find her and bring her to their massive place of worship.
I think Florida would be a good candidate for this faction of cordyceps worshippers because Florida itself is a unique environment and biome we haven’t seen so far. The hot and humid climate could make for some interesting infected evolutions; maybe the infected will have connected itself over an entire swamp to create a unique horde? Not to mention Florida's crazy weather and wildlife. Maybe Part III will be inspired by MGS and we'll see some alligators to battle. I would love to see a windy hurricane using PS5 tech.
Story Outline/Overview
So now that we’ve established some core ideas, let’s see if we can make a quick and simple outline. Something to be mindful of is the plot and story must incite and be congruent with some exciting combat focused gameplay that the series has grown to excel at. Also I’ve largely been inspired by other people’s speculation (like TLOUStrategist for example) and I will also be reusing ND’s unused ideas; again, I’m not a writer.
Log line:
As word of an immune girl spreads across the US, two factions descend on Jackson, and among the chaos Ellie is kidnapped. She must journey across the US to escape her captors to return to the people she loves in Jackson. We’ll see Ellie wrestle with various groups trying to decide her destiny in a multi perspective story about living for the people you love, and the lengths people go to do so.
Playable characters, Ellie, Maria, Abby and/or Lev, Tommy and some other new antagonists who are Anti-Joel figures in the story, characters trying to decide Ellie’s destiny for her. I think it would be fun to play a small section as each antagonist to help set the themes and tone.
The first thing the player sees is the start screen, and it has an important role in setting the tone for the player. Part II executed this really well. Something along the lines of Ellie alone, bleeding, back facing the player, at a campfire that has gone out makes sense to me for the story as I have interpreted it.
How this will be broken down episode by episode I’m not yet sure, but these are the main beats I’ve got for now, I’ll be using the template from Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat to map out the outline.
Opening Image

• Ellie alone, bloodied, captured in a dirty cell carriage being pulled by animals along a mountain road towards a storm away from the sun setting on Jackson, where smoke, fire and gunshots can be seen/heard in the backdrop. Camera pans slowly over to show us the battle in Jackson
  
• Quick scene where the player runs around as Maria trying to help citizens of Jackson during the chaos, eventually run into an antagonist who says someone told him Maria was in charge, Maria confirms her identity, as she does the man shoots and kills her. Get the tension up right away so the following scenes are nerve wracking.
  

Set Up/Theme Stated

• Dina’s new bf is moving in, Ellie doesn’t have many new relationships, just helps out Dina and JJ whenever they let her
  
• Ellie has moved into a new place near the wall in Jackson so she can sneak out whenever she wants (show off new rope mechanics right away) and get peace and quiet, or kill something, she’s working on her trauma still
  
• 2 years post Part II, Jackson is bustling and getting full, nearest QZ collapsed, lots of new migrant families
  
• a new family has moved into Joel’s old house, Ellie has converted the farmhouse she had with Dina into a little shrine, or maybe has a small shrine in her new place, dedicated to Joel and all her other loved ones.
  
• Ellie spends most of her time going around Jackson being helpful, constantly picking up shifts to do difficult work, helping less capable members of the community. She knows how to do everything around town and is well respected but she is still traumatized and complicated, mostly keeping to herself during quiet hours.
  
• Dina says to Ellie she needs to move on to be able to love herself and love other people in the future. Ellie laughs her off, says some Joel line like “I’ll take what I can get” in regards to the love she gets from Dina and JJ, something like that to display her current state is lacking and where she needs to grow towards. Also a conversation with Maria early on to help set up Ellie’s journey to regain her humanity and claim her destiny as she chooses it. Maria says she should choose for herself but she would make a great leader for the community, and to consider it.
  
• Tommy is bitter and lonely and has a contentious relationship with Ellie, mostly is on the outs with everyone in town. His injuries and actions have taken their toll. We'll have a scene or two here setting up their fractured relationship.
  
• Some simple gameplay segments as Ellie during this part, stuff around town, a patrol etc. Very much like Part II’s beginning but with some new characters, a Maria and Ellie patrol mission sounds fitting.
  

More Set Up

• Directly after the events of Part II and about 2 years before the events of Part III, the Fireflies kick off the events of this part of the story
  
• A scene in the Catalina casino ballroom with the council members of the fireflies deciding on their future. One leader has the original vision for fireflies but distorted to fit his world view, some want to stay isolated on Catalina, and others want to venture out to help save people and bring them back to Catalina (Abby and Lev camp).
  
• Abby is asked about the immune girl. A new antagonist wants to try and create the cure to remake society, militantly follows original firefly vision, Abby reluctantly lets them know Ellie is alive and where she is, but that she wants nothing to do with it and they are stupid for trying. New leader shows off an old student of Jerry’s who thinks with the old research in the Salt Lake hospital and Ellie’s brain they could make the cure. This causes a rift in the fireflies and they break off to follow their own goals.
  
• Gameplay as Abby or Lev during this part, before the fireflies break off the firefly groups kill the Rattlers together
  
• One sect of fireflies led by Antagonist journey to Utah and Jackson to finish what Marlene started, some stay in Catalina, some depart with Abby and Lev
  
• Scene in the New Florida Faction where one Firefly has defected to let this other group know an immune girl is alive who can help them accomplish their goals for creating their own version of society that is in symbiosis with the infected. They start their journey to Jackson to capture Ellie.
  
• Also some gameplay as the antagonists during this section to introduce them to the players and show how love drives them in negative ways
  

Catalyst

• The infected worshippers (NFF) journey to Jackson to capture the immune girl and treat her as a messiah to merge infected and humans forever, the Fireflies journey to Jackson to kill Ellie for the cure
  
• Maybe The Fireflies infiltrated Jackson like the early draft of Part II and use a Trojan Horse maneuver?
  
• Big battle in Jackson as both factions arrive, Tommy defects to Fireflies, Maria is killed, Fireflies occupy Jackson to find Ellie,and reveal her immunity to the captured citizens
  
• In the fight, a young Jackson girl that matches Ellie’s description is captured by members of the NFF
  
• They question her about a brown haired immune girl with a tattoo on her arm, and the girl decides to pretend she is Ellie.
  
• The NFF capture her and start to flee
  
• Actual Ellie sees this confrontation and follows after the captors far out of Jackson
  
• Ellie almost escapes with the girl before they are caught
  
• Perceived leader of group kills the girl in front of Ellie after seeing her scar and they journey back to their home base in Florida
  
• Camera shot to match opening scene of Ellie being taken away
  

Debate/Break into Two

• Ellie won’t give in to her captors, but is exhausted and atrophied after the month long trip to her new location in the swamps of Florida. She is strung up to be crucified. The crazed leader of the NFF brings an infected over to bite Ellie so they can confirm her immunity. She is left up for 24 hours before being declared a messiah of sorts. Does Ellie give in and accept her role as a figurehead for this infected loving cult, or will she escape to choose her own destiny? Obviously she doesn’t stay, but she believes Jackson might be destroyed and feels lost.
  
• In this section Ellie learns more about living in harmony with the infected, just not to the extreme the NFF take it. She learns techniques about how to guide and attract hordes among other things. Eventually she is able to flee and kill some of these crazies in cover of a massive hurricane. Big Set Piece.
  

B Story

• Ellie journeys through the swamps of Florida, following a compass north, barely surviving, and only knowing she wants to get back to Jackson and Dina, if they're even alive.
  
• She encounters a group of young survivors who take her in and help her recover. Ellie reveals she is unsure if her home is still standing. They reveal they have a plan to break into the Atlanta QZ and Ellie joins in.
  
• We get a section of the story exploring the massive Atlanta QZ, Ellie meets several new characters there, love interest, friends, FEDRA leader, Rebels/Fireflies etc.
  
• As despair sets in, Ellie succumbs to her fate of staying in the oppressive life of the QZ. It is a sort of comfort for her as she spent the first 14 years of her life growing up in a FEDRA controlled QZ. She falls back into old habits and routines, doing what she can to scrape by before eventually getting sucked into another rebel conflict.
  

Fun and Games

• Ellie’s new friends introduce her to the Atlanta Fireflies (or some equivalent group I’m not sure if it matters), she reluctantly joins in as the conflict escalates. This section would mostly be focused on Ellie meeting someone she can love, learning that FEDRA and the Fireflies live the wrong way, and that Ellie wants to get back to Jackson and live a loving life there. Some fun chases and set pieces of violence throughout this section, some battles among factions in the city limits.

Midpoint

• Eventually during the main conflict of this arc, a massive infected horde attack and boss infected bigger than rat king descend on Atlanta, let loose or attracted by the FEDRA/Rebel conflict. Fun set pieces of infected taking over Atlanta as Ellie and some of her new friends and other rebels escape.

Bad Guys Close In

• Now Ellie has been forced out of her temporary comfort in the Atlanta QZ. Her new group has some internal dissent following the disaster and split up. With nowhere else to go, Ellie regains her drive to return to Jackson. Maybe someone from Jackson followed Ellie's trail and is killed just as they reunite.

All is Lost/Dark Night of the Soul

• Ellie is all alone, wracked by the high of seeing a familiar face followed by the harrowing low of their death. She is unsure if Jackson still exists, and abandoned by her new crew. She must dig down and find her inner resolve to give everything she has for the people she loves and somehow make it to Jackson on a sliver of hope it still stands.
  
• This is also where we could put the Tommy episode, setting up more info about him and the Fireflies, giving us a Joel flashback where living for your loved ones is emphasized.*
  

Break Into Three

• Ellie had one good connection with one of the crew members, a potential love interest, so Ellie decides to not give up and use conversations the characters had relating to the central themes to convince that one crew member to come with her to Jackson.

Finale

• Using everything Ellie has learned over the course of the story, she returns to Jackson. Ellie will defeat Tommy in a tragic battle and lay him to rest. She’ll then help free the people of Jackson and retake the rest of the town before killing the fanatic Firefly leader and ending their pursuit of the cure. Ellie has learned her life is worth living and she is capable of leading others towards a good life.

Final Image

• Ellie surrounded by loved ones, accepted in spite of everyone knowing her immunity in New Jackson, and revered for her strength and resolve. Ready to live for and protect the life and people she loves, including herself, playing guitar around the fire to mirror the games starting screen, showing she has opened her heart to her purpose and the people she loves. She is able to live out her days in peace, leading the people of New Jackson. The cure is living well and living with love. The End.

So that’s it, throw in lots of infected and human encounters and you’ve got a game!
Outline TLDR
2 years after Part II Ellie still loves Dina, Maria thinks she should lead, Ellie is struggling with trauma still
Abby tells Fireflies where Ellie is, new leader still wants to make cure
Abby and Lev leave to save people and bring them to Catalina, exit story
Infected Worshipping faction find where Ellie is, everyone descends on Jackson simultaneously in a big battle
Ellie is captured and brought to Florida, Fireflies occupy Jackson and kill Maria, Tommy defects to Fireflies
Ellie fights and escapes infected worshippers, learns to live in harmony with infected
Meets new crew then sneaks into the Atlanta QZ
Meets a lover, Atlanta is destroyed by infected/rebel conflict
Ellie returns to and liberates Jackson from the Fireflies, tragically kills Tommy
Becomes a leader of New Jackson, accepted despite her immunity, gets to live out her days in peace, the cure is living well and with love, the end.
Well this hit the maximum post length pretty easily, I could fit a lot more in here, but a limit is good. Hope you enjoyed my thoughts, these ideas will only get better with your discussion, so feel free to comment as you please. It feels good to finally put my thoughts on this game into words; I love this universe a lot and just wanted to write the game I would like to play. Now just to wait for the inevitable better game Naughty Dog makes.
Cheers!

Disclaimer: This is all for fun, I am not a writer; Naughty Dog will come up with something better than I can. I love Part I and II equally, if Part III does indeed get made it will surely be awesome too. Hope you enjoy my speculation, if you disagree with any of my thoughts or interpretations, that’s okay. Feel free to generate your own discussion in the comments. I wrote this for myself so I could stop thinking about this series. Fair warning there are spoilers ahead for Part I, II and the show. Also this is about 7250 words and is approx. a 55 minute read.
Tldr; Game theme will be about love, game will be structured like a prestige TV show, Ellie will be the main character among many playable ones and will conclude her story, she won’t die and there won’t be a cure, Ellie will find meaning in protecting and living for the people she loves, a bit like Joel. Abby and Lev get a small part and maybe a spin off game in the future if there's fan demand. Skip down to the outline if you want a less exhaustive read.
First Things First/Getting Some General Thoughts Out of the Way
What could the rumored third installment of The Last of Us have in store for players? Where are our characters in their development/arc so far? Will this be the conclusion to Ellie’s story? What common theories are likely? We’ll have to get started with some assumptions and interpretations of the series and characters before tackling an outline. First one being, the game canon will take some inspiration from the show, given they share a creator.
A Game Series Finale and a TV Series Finale in One
Starting with the big ideas first, how will the story be structured? Given Druckmann’s history with advocating for it to be adapted as a TV show during the film pitch days, directing/writing/producing on the eventual TV show, and now is rumored to be treating Part III like a TV show (even rumored to be hiring a writer’s room and asking cinematographers to come work for him), it’s no stretch to assume Part III will possibly have a more television like structure. Not to mention this would make the eventual HBO adaptation easier to accomplish. This structure would be in contrast to Druckmann’s previous stated approach on Part II, in which he wanted that game to feel like a dense novel.
This third game could feature chapters more deliberately paced liked episodes than Part I or II, full of miniature arcs and a wide cast of playable characters all converging to a satisfying finale, much like a prestige TV show. The pacing could be tightly controlled with clearer, more digestible chunks. I’d like to see the majority of the episodes focused on the series main character Ellie, with her as the main playable character, but also think it would be interesting if we had several other playable characters, in order to flesh out the world and story. Multiple playable characters have become a series staple at this point, and I would love to see that idea expanded upon.
Love as the Series Theme
Before the release of Part II, Druckmann repeatedly said Part II would be about hate, and that Part I was about love. But after release, he said this was part of the marketing meant to misdirect the player. In a stream with Greg Miller, Druckmann states: “When we first started talking about this game, I said, you know, the first game’s about love, this game’s about hate. That’s not true. Both games are about love.” “Both games explore the most wonderful things love can provide…And the worst things that love can drive you to…” So, love, and all of its beauty and consequences, will likely be the central theme and catalyst for Part III as well.
How Many Years Will Have Passed?
This is a common topic of debate, how much time will have taken place before Part III? I’ve seen theories of a few days, a few years, and even as much as 20 years to parallel Joel’s time skip from Part I. Personally, I don’t think a sequel will pick up exactly where we left off, but neither will there be a big jump in time. I think most likely we’ll see Ellie living on the edge of Jackson, around two years after the final scene of Ellie walking from the farmhouse. I think this gives enough time for a new plot to develop but is not so far removed that all our characters have moved on completely from the questions of Part II’s ending.
“So, what happens with the cure and saving humanity and all that?”
Part III’s biggest question for some is what will happen with the cure and Ellie’s immunity. Was it ever possible? Will Ellie sacrifice herself for a chance at another Firefly cure that will now have much more dubious odds? My interpretation is that the cure would definitely have worked had the Fireflies done the surgery at the end of Part I, but in the story we have the cure is never and was never going to happen, regardless if it was viable or not.
As far as the games and show state, at the end of Part I the Fireflies were confident they could produce a cure from Ellie’s cordyceps infused brain, only they would have to remove her brain and kill her to do it. It’s slightly ambiguous if it were possible and it doesn’t make real-world scientific sense, but the story isn’t about science or even the cure really, it’s about the characters we’ve grown to love and the choices they have to make. One being, would you give up your child for a chance to secure humanity’s future, to save the world? Joel wouldn’t, so he saves his world, Ellie.
All the extra details and interpretations of the Fireflies motives and capabilities are valid but ultimately don’t really matter. Joel and the Fireflies believe they could create the cure but they would have to kill Ellie, so Joel stops them. He can’t live without Ellie and all he is thinking about is taking her back to Jackson for his second chance at life. I don’t think Part III will undo the consequences of Part I’s ending.
I think the cure can’t happen not only for that reason, but because the infection in TLOU thematically represents some of the worst parts of humanity. The violence, the reckless hate and tribalism; these are all things that throughout history humanity has had to constantly work to fight against and try to evolve past to create civilised societies. There is no cure for these parts of humanity, just like there won’t be a cure for the narrative equivalent, the infection.
Saving humanity will happen on a more character level, like Joel bonding with and saving Ellie eventually restores his humanity, Abby saving Yara and Lev restores hers, and Ellie letting Abby live after nearly drowning her restores Ellie’s (or at least starts her journey to do so). Humanity also will be restored in the world with loving communities like Jackson. Ellie’s immunity will still come into the story of course, but most likely as a plot device/MacGuffin again.
Humanity will have to live with the infection, which has become part of the new world. The old world that the cure would’ve attempted to restore is gone, humanity must reckon with the fact the world has changed, cordyceps is a part of the natural environment and they must adapt. And many communities do adapt, with different philosophies and to vastly varying degrees of success, and in some places like Jackson they create a beautiful example of human life, arguably better than how much of the world lives today.
Now let’s look into our returning characters to establish where they are in the story before we tackle the outline.
Returning Characters
Ellie
Part II built to Ellie learning to accept that she is worthy of the life and love that Joel gave her and to finally have gotten past (or at least started to get past) the grief of Joel’s murder and their estrangement, as well as her Survivor’s Guilt surrounding her immunity and lost loved ones. She is able to forgive Joel and ultimately herself and is now free to choose her own destiny. I think Ellie’s future beyond the end of Part II is a search for that destiny, likely in living for, helping and protecting the people she loves, like her guardian, mentor, and father figure Joel.
My theory is Ellie’s main arc in the final chapter of her story will be her transformation into a leader for a better tomorrow in the new world, a hopeful and inspiring leader in ‘New Jackson’ at the end of Part III. I‘ll go over some examples here for evidence of my idea, there are some small things that add up in my opinion.
A minuscule but revealing moment of Ellie’s character I like in Part II is just after the opening scene. Joel is awkwardly trying to make small talk with Ellie when he says “Folks are…you know, talking about how impressed they are with you and how well you’re helping out.” Ellie doesn’t react much to this, she’s closed off with Joel at this point in the scene, her arms are folded and she’s looking to the floor, but when she reacts, she only says, “That’s good.” I think to Ellie, helping is natural to her. She doesn’t think much of it, but i think her desire to be a cure/world savior plays into this motivation to be helpful. She loves super heroes for a reason too.
Another moment not in the games, but in the show, appears in episode 7 and was written by Neil Druckmann. I think it’s pretty likely Neil has had discussions of Part III with Craig Mazin, as well as having Part III in mind when he wrote episode 7 for the HBO show. Knowing the endgame for their main character definitely would help make telling their story easier. Again, I am assuming the game and show canon will not be identical but will take heavy inspiration from each other.
The revealing scene is when Ellie is getting reprimanded by a FEDRA school officer, and he says that he sees leadership potential in Ellie. She shrugs this off as any teenager would, but I feel it is a little bit of evidence pointing towards this conclusion for her character. To build on this, in Episode 8, David the cannibal preacher tells Ellie he sees that she is a natural leader too (This may have just been his grooming attempts, but I think there is a bit more there). This idea of leadership popped up a few times, even Maria tells Ellie she would be a heck of a lawyer, one of the more common professions of political leaders in modern society.
As I’m sure plenty noticed, in Part II during the flashback where Abby meets Owen at the aquarium to reveal she found Tommy, we see the children’s mural uncovered. It shows a fully painted giraffe and zebra, and then an unfinished lion. It’s not a leap to guess that these parts of the mural each represent The Last of Us as a series, but I also think the choice of animal is a clue to the type of story we have for Ellie in Part III. A simple story structure like The Lion King to conclude Ellie’s arc and the main story of The Last of Us is a logical idea I think.
One of my favorite of Ellie’s journal entries, that I feel informs a bit of her potential mindset for Part III, is recorded after she encounters The Rattlers. She laments the existence of yet another group of radicals who name themselves. “Fuck all these groups”, she writes. None of the factions Ellie encounters have had the same level of love and humanity as the people in Jackson. I can’t see Ellie’s endgame as willingly going back to the Fireflies after all she has experienced. I think she will want a beautiful and human life like she experienced in Jackson, and would be able and willing to lead people to such a future.
Joel
For some, The Last of Us isn’t The Last of Us without the first game’s co-lead, Joel. An instantly iconic, lovable but violent and complicated father figure, Joel resonated with a lot of players, and rightfully so. He is a great subversion of the standard video game action hero, finishing the game not with a triumphant victory, but with a devastatingly consequential choice and a lie. He is one of the series most influential characters, and I think Part III would be lesser if there are no flashbacks with Joel at all, but he isn’t crucial at this point beyond a function as a storytelling device for our remaining characters.
His story is finished in my mind; he achieved redemption despite his dark past and actions at the Firefly hospital. He gained the respect, love and adoration of the community of Jackson and he had Ellie’s forgiveness the night before he died, so to me, he died fulfilling his purpose and with peace, despite being violently taken away from Ellie and the player too soon. Even if his arc is done, his presence is felt throughout the story and ripples through the other characters. Joel had a lot of influence on Ellie and Tommy, in many beautiful and positive ways, but also leaving behind his violence and emotional walls.
I think it would be a nice touch to have Joel show up for a scene or two to show his connection to our main characters and how his influence has had a great effect on them. How this will play out probably won’t be how we expect, and it’s entirely plausible and likely we don’t see Joel at all, but I hope for enjoyment’s sake we get a small glimpse of some of his best and worst parts again to tie Joel’s influence into the story and bring it full circle.
Tommy
Now one of the most tragic characters in the series, Tommy faced a lot of consequences for his actions in Part II, yet didn’t receive the same emotional catharsis as Ellie did in the end. A missing eye, a crippled leg, and a destroyed psyche are all that’s left for Tommy. He’s separated from Maria, and shown himself to be a violent, unstable man to his community.
Chances are Tommy is going to be a bit of an outsider among the people of Jackson, mostly left alone to dwell on his pain, given how violent, disabled men are typically treated in society. He is having a sort of reverse arc, where he is introduced in the story as a noble character but eventually loses his way.
Consumed by his grief, he seems hungry for vengeance against Abby, who in Tommy’s mind took his able body, his marriage and his brother from him. One of the big remaining questions for Part III is how Ellie and Tommy’s relationship will move forward; will Ellie tell Tommy the truth of what happened in Santa Barbara? Will she recognize the consequences of Joel’s lie at the end of Part I and heed the lesson, or will she make the same mistake and lie to Tommy about letting Abby live? I think Ellie will tell Tommy the truth, but it will have the unfortunate effect of sending Tommy just that much more over the edge into the darkness. His resentment towards Abby will turn to Ellie after this, and their relationship will be fractured in the beginning of Part III.
As a “joiner” as he is described in the HBO series, Tommy tries to follow what he believes to be right, but is often misguided. I think this drive of Tommy’s combined with his trauma will lead him to join forces with a group of antagonists within the story, a familiar group that will promise him purpose.
Tommy I believe will also be a good candidate for a playable character in an episode focused on him. We could show Tommy joining the Fireflies prior to the events of the first game, and inter cut that with some present day events to create some parallels in Tommy’s experience, but also show how he’s changed.
Maria
A so far sparsely used character, Maria has some untapped potential in the third installment. We only see her for a few key scenes in Part II, but our last scene with Tommy reveals a bit of her character and unresolved plotlines for Part III. Tommy tells Ellie and Dina that he and Maria are “taking some time apart”, which in my eye means Maria most likely broke up with him and Tommy is downplaying it. I would imagine Tommy leaving for Seattle led to Maria feeling similarly to Dina when Ellie left the farm for Santa Barbara. Maria would be justifiably upset that Tommy left behind her back to go on a murder spree across the country. I imagine in the show when the two of them have a child this decision could be even heavier. Maria wouldn’t take it lightly for certain.
So Maria is likely a single woman again, potentially now with a child to look after if they decide to give Tommy and Maria a baby in Part III as well(although personally the timeline feels a bit off for some late 40s folks to be having a baby but hey stranger things I guess). To start Part III I’d like to see Maria as a role model to Ellie, showing her what it takes to be an effective leader of a community, taking her under her wing and educating her. Helping Ellie reintegrate into society and helping her regain her humanity.
Maria is fleshed out with a few more key details in the HBO show, one most notably being that prior to the outbreak she had a position as an assistant district attorney (her age is a bit off but again this is just a nitpick, not important). I would like for her leadership role in Jackson to play a slightly larger role in the story and help to influence Ellie to her final goal and purpose.
Abby and Lev
As Part II’s reflection of Joel and Ellie, Abby and Lev go through a similar harrowing journey to develop a found family and a sense of love and belonging with a fellow survivor. Abby completes her arc of redemption in saving Lev and fulfilling the older sibling role for him, after completing her quest for revenge leaves her at her lowest instead of bringing her salvation. Her guilt and grief surrounding her dead father isn’t alleviated until she puts aside her hate and saves an enemy that saved her, like when her enemy Joel saved her before she took revenge.
Through the events of Part II Lev is able to maintain his sense of morality and self-actualize despite hate from his community and the death of his family. He helps Abby reach her redemption as Abby helps Lev to gain his freedom to live as his true self and experience the potential beauty of the world.
Abby and Lev finish Part II reaching their haven of the Avalon building on Catalina Island and rejoining the Fireflies. Given that both of these characters completed full arcs through the events of Part II, I think tying them into the main plot only as minor players is appropriate. Though Abby has a key plot role to play given that she is one of the few people who is aware of Ellie’s immunity and where she is.
Dina and JJ
Dina was a great addition in Part II, but I imagine she will have a smaller role in Part III. The last we see of her in Part II is her telling Ellie that if Ellie leaves, “she won’t do this again”. Dina is a character of strong conviction, I imagine she will stick to her boundary and have a somewhat distant but amicable friendship with Ellie, though it will be permanently damaged by the events of Part II. Ellie will act as a bit of an aunt type figure to JJ, stopping by to visit or help whenever Dina allows it.
My idea takes place almost two years after the events of Part II, so JJ will still only be three years old or so. Definitely not old enough to go on a cross country murder spree with Auntie Ellie! A theory I’ve seen floated by others that I think holds a lot of weight is that Dina will have moved on to another relationship, someone she perceives to be stable, loyal and predictable. Dina will have found a loving person she can build a family with, but in staying true to the painful nature of The Last of Us, this will be difficult for our protagonist.
Beyond being someone Ellie is motivated to be good for, whom she still loves and cares for, I don’t see Dina having a large role in the plot of Part III. She’ll have a role more similar in size to Maria from Part II I imagine, a few key scenes to help set the stage for our main character.
Factions
Throughout the first two games Ellie has wrestled with people trying to decide her life purpose for her, and I think the central antagonist(s) for Part III will be trying to do just that again. Before we get into the outline let’s brainstorm where our current factions are at and where they might go.
Fireflies
The Fireflies play a key role in the world of The Last of Us as the main opposition to FEDRA across the US, as well as the main group trying to “restore society”. They were once a seemingly large group with many cells across different Quarantine Zones, but at the end of Part I they disbanded to different areas with different motivations, scattered and leaderless.
As with the Seraphites, removing the key figurehead and leader from a group can have lasting changes on their morale and philosophy. As Lev says, the Seraphites didn’t start hanging people until their leader, The Prophet, was killed by the WLF leader, Isaac.
I think the Fireflies could potentially be very different from how they functioned under the tutelage of Marlene, possibly more violent, militant or desperate, and this could be a point of contention for its members at the start of Part III. They could be similarly fractured into a few different directions which could help set off the key events for the story. Like in the past, some could want to go after the immune girl, while others could aspire to something else, or be taken in by other groups elsewhere. I think we’ll see a new antagonist leading the portion of the Fireflies that will be unwavering from their original vision for the future. The others could stay in Catalina and try to make a peaceful society.
WLF and the Seraphites
There’s no canon confirmation either way, but from my interpretation, the WLF and the Seraphites are all but destroyed after their final battle at Scar Island. Each group would have gone from a few thousand people to probably hundreds each at most. I would also imagine most of the people left were those incapable of or less inclined to fighting. There is probably a very small amount of people left at the WLF Stadium and Scar Island. I think they will do their best to maintain them as secure communities rather than perpetuate war much further. Maybe they fight until total annihilation, but I don’t think they will have much influence on the main Ellie story going forward.
What I definitely do doubt is that anyone from the Seattle factions will be coming back to take revenge on Ellie or Abby. Part II already went there, I’m doubtful Naughty Dog would try to replicate it given their desire to not retread the old ground of Part I when making Part II. These groups could function to spread Ellie’s notoriety nationwide, but how much information that gets out about her during Part II is uncertain and minimal, so it is possible these factions will just stay in the past.
Rattlers
The Rattlers are largely fodder and plot drivers so Ellie and Abby can meet in specific circumstances at the end of Part II. I don’t think they’ll have a huge bearing on the overarching plot, and they could easily never show up again, but I think bringing them back as an enemy to encounter would be reasonable.
My idea is we’ll get to kill these slavers again in Part III’s Abby and Lev episode, what better way to reintroduce the players to Abby than to let them use her physical prowess to remorselessly murder some of the worst of what humanity has to offer. Sounds like a fun encounter to kick off Abby’s minor part in the story.
Maybe she will feel differently about killing them after her quest for revenge with Joel didn’t lead to the catharsis she hoped for? Maybe she’ll want to spare people, and this could be a mechanic added as an option, or maybe Abby is still ruthless and we get to see her pile drive some slavers spines through their mouths; that would be fun too.
FEDRA and the Atlanta QZ
First mentioned in the HBO show by the FEDRA soldier Joel sells drugs to (and later beats to death); the Atlanta QZ is said to have a big factory of bullets and pills. In either show or game canon, this is the first we have heard of the settlement, it could possibly be the biggest in the USA, or what remains of it that is, given that FEDRA is seemingly disconnected, fighting countless civil wars across the continental US. I would be really interested in seeing Ellie have a portion of the game occur in this possible Atlanta QZ. Within a giant city they could introduce a lot of interesting new characters and plot lines. This could also provide some interesting parallels between Ellie and Joel as well from his time in Boston QZ at the start of Part I.
I think FEDRA will have a larger story presence than in Part II, but they will still be the crumbling fascist remains of the old world clinging to their iron rule as best as they can. Maybe we will get to meet some of the remaining FEDRA leadership running things in Atlanta and dive a bit deeper into the behind the scenes of how society is run in a FEDRA controlled QZ. I think ultimately for FEDRA we’ll see a house of cards barely holding together before the fall in Part III.
New Florida Faction (NFF)
In Part III we will surely see some new factions to add to the ever expanding lore of the universe, I’d really love to see a group there that worships the cordyceps in the as of yet unexplored in universe location of Florida. We hear some admiration towards the infection from David in Episode 8 of the HBO adaptation; I think I’d like to see this idea expanded to a whole group, they could be enamoured with the idea of the cordyceps “oneness”. Maybe this group will hear of an immune girl and be driven to find her and bring her to their massive place of worship.
I think Florida would be a good candidate for this faction of cordyceps worshippers because Florida itself is a unique environment and biome we haven’t seen so far. The hot and humid climate could make for some interesting infected evolutions; maybe the infected will have connected itself over an entire swamp to create a unique horde? Not to mention Florida's crazy weather and wildlife. Maybe Part III will be inspired by MGS and we'll see some alligators to battle. I would love to see a windy hurricane using PS5 tech.
Story Outline/Overview
So now that we’ve established some core ideas, let’s see if we can make a quick and simple outline. Something to be mindful of is the plot and story must incite and be congruent with some exciting combat focused gameplay that the series has grown to excel at. Also I’ve largely been inspired by other people’s speculation (like TLOUStrategist for example) and I will also be reusing ND’s unused ideas; again, I’m not a writer.
Log line:
As word of an immune girl spreads across the US, two factions descend on Jackson, and among the chaos Ellie is kidnapped. She must journey across the US to escape her captors to return to the people she loves in Jackson. We’ll see Ellie wrestle with various groups trying to decide her destiny in a multi perspective story about living for the people you love, and the lengths people go to do so.
Playable characters, Ellie, Maria, Abby and/or Lev, Tommy and some other new antagonists who are Anti-Joel figures in the story, characters trying to decide Ellie’s destiny for her. I think it would be fun to play a small section as each antagonist to help set the themes and tone.
The first thing the player sees is the start screen, and it has an important role in setting the tone for the player. Part II executed this really well. Something along the lines of Ellie alone, bleeding, back facing the player, at a campfire that has gone out makes sense to me for the story as I have interpreted it.
How this will be broken down episode by episode I’m not yet sure, but these are the main beats I’ve got for now, I’ll be using the template from Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat to map out the outline.
Opening Image
*Ellie alone, bloodied, captured in a dirty cell carriage being pulled by animals along a mountain road towards a storm away from the sun setting on Jackson, where smoke, fire and gunshots can be seen/heard in the backdrop. Camera pans slowly over to show us the battle in Jackson
*Quick scene where the player runs around as Maria trying to help citizens of Jackson during the chaos, eventually run into an antagonist who says someone told him Maria was in charge, Maria confirms her identity, as she does the man shoots and kills her. Get the tension up right away so the following scenes are nerve wracking.
Set Up/Theme Stated
*Dina’s new bf is moving in, Ellie doesn’t have many new relationships, just helps out Dina and JJ whenever they let her
*Ellie has moved into a new place near the wall in Jackson so she can sneak out whenever she wants (show off new rope mechanics right away) and get peace and quiet, or kill something, she’s working on her trauma still
*2 years post Part II, Jackson is bustling and getting full, nearest QZ collapsed, lots of new migrant families
*a new family has moved into Joel’s old house, Ellie has converted the farmhouse she had with Dina into a little shrine, or maybe has a small shrine in her new place, dedicated to Joel and all her other loved ones.
*Ellie spends most of her time going around Jackson being helpful, constantly picking up shifts to do difficult work, helping less capable members of the community. She knows how to do everything around town and is well respected but she is still traumatized and complicated, mostly keeping to herself during quiet hours.
*Dina says to Ellie she needs to move on to be able to love herself and love other people in the future. Ellie laughs her off, says some Joel line like “I’ll take what I can get” in regards to the love she gets from Dina and JJ, something like that to display her current state is lacking and where she needs to grow towards. Also a conversation with Maria early on to help set up Ellie’s journey to regain her humanity and claim her destiny as she chooses it. Maria says she should choose for herself but she would make a great leader for the community, and to consider it.
*Tommy is bitter and lonely and has a contentious relationship with Ellie, mostly is on the outs with everyone in town. His injuries and actions have taken their toll. We'll have a scene or two here setting up their fractured relationship.
*Some simple gameplay segments as Ellie during this part, stuff around town, a patrol etc. Very much like Part II’s beginning but with some new characters, a Maria and Ellie patrol mission sounds fitting.
More Set Up
*Directly after the events of Part II and about 2 years before the events of Part III, the Fireflies kick off the events of this part of the story
*A scene in the Catalina casino ballroom with the council members of the fireflies deciding on their future. One leader has the original vision for fireflies but distorted to fit his world view, some want to stay isolated on Catalina, and others want to venture out to help save people and bring them back to Catalina (Abby and Lev camp).
*Abby is asked about the immune girl. A new antagonist wants to try and create the cure to remake society, militantly follows original firefly vision, Abby reluctantly lets them know Ellie is alive and where she is, but that she wants nothing to do with it and they are stupid for trying. New leader shows off an old student of Jerry’s who thinks with the old research in the Salt Lake hospital and Ellie’s brain they could make the cure. This causes a rift in the fireflies and they break off to follow their own goals.
*Gameplay as Abby or Lev during this part, before the fireflies break off the firefly groups kill the Rattlers together
*One sect of fireflies led by Antagonist journey to Utah and Jackson to finish what Marlene started, some stay in Catalina, some depart with Abby and Lev
*Scene in the New Florida Faction where one Firefly has defected to let this other group know an immune girl is alive who can help them accomplish their goals for creating their own version of society that is in symbiosis with the infected. They start their journey to Jackson to capture Ellie.
*Also some gameplay as the antagonists during this section to introduce them to the players and show how love drives them in negative ways
Catalyst
*The infected worshippers (NFF) journey to Jackson to capture the immune girl and treat her as a messiah to merge infected and humans forever, the Fireflies journey to Jackson to kill Ellie for the cure
*Maybe The Fireflies infiltrated Jackson like the early draft of Part II and use a Trojan Horse maneuver?
*Big battle in Jackson as both factions arrive, Tommy defects to Fireflies, Maria is killed, Fireflies occupy Jackson to find Ellie,and reveal her immunity to the captured citizens
*In the fight, a young Jackson girl that matches Ellie’s description is captured by members of the NFF
*They question her about a brown haired immune girl with a tattoo on her arm, and the girl decides to pretend she is Ellie.
*The NFF capture her and start to flee
*Actual Ellie sees this confrontation and follows after the captors far out of Jackson
*Ellie almost escapes with the girl before they are caught
*Perceived leader of group kills the girl in front of Ellie after seeing her scar and they journey back to their home base in Florida
*Camera shot to match opening scene of Ellie being taken away
Debate/Break into Two
*Ellie won’t give in to her captors, but is exhausted and atrophied after the month long trip to her new location in the swamps of Florida. She is strung up to be crucified. The crazed leader of the NFF brings an infected over to bite Ellie so they can confirm her immunity. She is left up for 24 hours before being declared a messiah of sorts. Does Ellie give in and accept her role as a figurehead for this infected loving cult, or will she escape to choose her own destiny? Obviously she doesn’t stay, but she believes Jackson might be destroyed and feels lost.
*In this section Ellie learns more about living in harmony with the infected, just not to the extreme the NFF take it. She learns techniques about how to guide and attract hordes among other things. Eventually she is able to flee and kill some of these crazies in cover of a massive hurricane. Big Set Piece.
B Story
*Ellie journeys through the swamps of Florida, following a compass north, barely surviving, and only knowing she wants to get back to Jackson and Dina, if they're even alive.
*She encounters a group of young survivors who take her in and help her recover. Ellie reveals she is unsure if her home is still standing. They reveal they have a plan to break into the Atlanta QZ and Ellie joins in.
*We get a section of the story exploring the massive Atlanta QZ, Ellie meets several new characters there, love interest, friends, FEDRA leader, Rebels/Fireflies etc.
*As despair sets in, Ellie succumbs to her fate of staying in the oppressive life of the QZ. It is a sort of comfort for her as she spent the first 14 years of her life growing up in a FEDRA controlled QZ. She falls back into old habits and routines, doing what she can to scrape by before eventually getting sucked into another rebel conflict.
Fun and Games
*Ellie’s new friends introduce her to the Atlanta Fireflies (or some equivalent group I’m not sure if it matters), she reluctantly joins in as the conflict escalates. This section would mostly be focused on Ellie meeting someone she can love, learning that FEDRA and the Fireflies live the wrong way, and that Ellie wants to get back to Jackson and live a loving life there. Some fun chases and set pieces of violence throughout this section, some battles among factions in the city limits.
Midpoint
*Eventually during the main conflict of this arc, a massive infected horde attack and boss infected bigger than rat king descend on Atlanta, let loose or attracted by the FEDRA/Rebel conflict. Fun set pieces of infected taking over Atlanta as Ellie and some of her new friends and other rebels escape.
Bad Guys Close In
*Now Ellie has been forced out of her temporary comfort in the Atlanta QZ. Her new group has some internal dissent following the disaster and split up. With nowhere else to go, Ellie regains her drive to return to Jackson. Maybe someone from Jackson followed Ellie's trail and is killed just as they reunite.
All is Lost/Dark Night of the Soul
*Ellie is all alone, wracked by the high of seeing a familiar face followed by the harrowing low of their death. She is unsure if Jackson still exists, and abandoned by her new crew. She must dig down and find her inner resolve to give everything she has for the people she loves and somehow make it to Jackson on a sliver of hope it still stands.
This is also where we could put the Tommy episode, setting up more info about him and the Fireflies, giving us a Joel flashback where living for your loved ones is emphasized.
Break Into Three
*Ellie had one good connection with one of the crew members, a potential love interest, so Ellie decides to not give up and use conversations the characters had relating to the central themes to convince that one crew member to come with her to Jackson.
Finale
*Using everything Ellie has learned over the course of the story, she returns to Jackson. Ellie will defeat Tommy in a tragic battle and lay him to rest. She’ll then help free the people of Jackson and retake the rest of the town before killing the fanatic Firefly leader and ending their pursuit of the cure. Ellie has learned her life is worth living and she is capable of leading others towards a good life.
Final Image
*Ellie surrounded by loved ones, accepted in spite of everyone knowing her immunity in New Jackson, and revered for her strength and resolve. Ready to live for and protect the life and people she loves, including herself, playing guitar around the fire to mirror the games starting screen, showing she has opened her heart to her purpose and the people she loves. She is able to live out her days in peace, leading the people of New Jackson. The cure is living well and living with love.
So that’s it, throw in lots of infected and human encounters and you’ve got a game!
Outline TLDR

• 2 years after Part II Ellie still loves Dina, Maria thinks she should lead, Ellie is struggling with trauma still
  
• Abby tells Fireflies where Ellie is, new leader still wants to make cure
  
• Abby and Lev leave to save people and bring them to Catalina, exit story
  
• Infected Worshipping faction find where Ellie is, everyone descends on Jackson simultaneously in a big battle
  
• Ellie is captured and brought to Florida, Fireflies occupy Jackson and kill Maria, Tommy defects to Fireflies
  
• Ellie fights and escapes infected worshippers, learns to live in harmony with infected
  
• Meets new crew then sneaks into the Atlanta QZ
  
• Meets a lover, Atlanta is destroyed by infected/rebel conflict
  
• Ellie returns to and liberates Jackson from the Fireflies, tragically kills Tommy
  
• Becomes a leader of New Jackson, accepted despite her immunity, lives a life of love
  

Well this hit the maximum post length pretty easily, I could fit a lot more in here, but a limit is good. Hope you enjoyed my thoughts, these ideas will only get better with your discussion, so feel free to comment as you please. It feels good to finally put my thoughts on this game into words; I love this universe a lot and just wanted to write the game I would like to play. Now just to wait for the inevitable better game Naughty Dog makes.
Cheers!

Disclaimer: This is all for fun, I am not a writer; Naughty Dog will come up with something better than I can. I love Part I and II equally, if Part III does indeed get made it will surely be awesome too. Hope you enjoy my speculation, if you disagree with any of my thoughts or interpretations, that’s okay .Feel free to generate your own discussion in the comments. I wrote this for myself so I could stop thinking about this series. Fair warning there are spoilers ahead for Part I, II and the show. Also this is about 7250 words and is approx. a 55 minute read.
Tldr; Game theme will be about love, game will be structured like a prestige TV show, Ellie will be the main character among many playable ones and will conclude her story, she won’t die and there won’t be a cure, Ellie will find meaning in protecting and living for the people she loves, a bit like Joel. Abby and Lev get a small part and then maybe their own spin off game in the future if there is fan demand. Skip down to the outline if you want a less exhaustive read.
First Things First/Getting Some General Thoughts Out of the Way
What could the rumoured third installment of The Last of Us have in store for players? Where are our characters in their development/arc so far? Will this be the conclusion to Ellie’s story? What common theories are likely? We’ll have to get started with some assumptions and interpretations of the series and characters before tackling an outline. First one being, the game canon will take some inspiration from the show, given they share a creator.
A Game Series Finale and a TV Series Finale in One
Starting with the big ideas first, how will the story be structured? Given Druckmann’s history with advocating for TLOU to be adapted as a TV show during the film pitch days, directing/writing/producing on the eventual TV show, and now is rumoured to be treating Part III like a TV show (even rumored to be hiring a writer’s room and asking cinematographers to come work for him), it’s no stretch to assume Part III will possibly have a more television like structure. Not to mention this would make the eventual HBO adaptation easier to accomplish. This structure would be in contrast to Druckmann’s previous stated approach on Part II, in which he wanted that game to feel like a dense novel.
This third game could feature longer, disconnected chapters more deliberately paced liked episodes than Part I or II, full of miniature arcs and a wide cast of playable characters all converging to a satisfying finale, much like a prestige TV show. The pacing could be tightly controlled with clearer, more digestible chunks. I’d like to see the majority of the episodes focused on the series main character Ellie, with her as the main playable character, but also think it would be interesting if we had several other playable characters, in order to flesh out the world and story. Multiple playable characters have become a series staple at this point, and I would love to see that idea expanded upon.
Love as the Series Theme
Before the release of Part II, Druckmann repeatedly said Part II would be about hate, and that Part I was about love. But after release, he said this was part of the marketing meant to misdirect the player. In a stream with Greg Miller, Druckmann states: “When we first started talking about this game, I said, you know, the first game’s about love, this game’s about hate. That’s not true. Both games are about love.” “Both games explore the most wonderful things love can provide…And the worst things that love can drive you to…” So, love, and all of its beauty and consequences, will likely be the central theme and catalyst for Part III as well.
How Many Years Will Have Passed?
This is a common topic of debate, how much time will have taken place before Part III? I’ve seen theories of a few days, a few years, and even as much as 20 years to parallel Joel’s time skip from Part I. Personally, I don’t think a sequel will pick up exactly where we left off, but neither will there be a big jump in time. I think most likely we’ll see Ellie living on the edge of Jackson, around two years after the final scene of Ellie walking from the farmhouse. I think this gives enough time for a new plot to develop but is not so far removed that all our characters have moved on completely from the questions of Part II’s ending.
“So, what happens with the cure and saving humanity and all that?”
Part III’s biggest question for some is what will happen with the cure and Ellie’s immunity. Was it ever possible? Will Ellie sacrifice herself for a chance at another Firefly cure that will now have much more dubious odds? My interpretation is that the cure would definitely have worked had the Fireflies done the surgery at the end of Part I, but in the story we have the cure is never and was never going to happen, regardless if it was viable or not.
As far as the games and show state, at the end of Part I the Fireflies were confident they could produce a cure from Ellie’s cordyceps infused brain, only they would have to remove her brain and kill her to do it. It’s slightly ambiguous if it were possible and it doesn’t make real-world scientific sense, but the story isn’t about science or even the cure really, it’s about the characters we’ve grown to love and the choices they have to make. One being, would you give up your child for a chance to secure humanity’s future, to save the world? Joel wouldn’t, so he saves his world, Ellie.
All the extra details and interpretations of the Fireflies motives and capabilities are valid but ultimately don’t really matter. Joel and the Fireflies believe they could create the cure but they would have to kill Ellie, so Joel stops them. He can’t live without Ellie and all he is thinking about is taking her back to Jackson for his second chance at life. I don’t think Part III will undo the consequences of Part I’s ending.
I think the cure can’t happen not only for that reason, but because the infection in TLOU thematically represents some of the worst parts of humanity. The violence, the reckless hate and tribalism; these are all things that throughout history humanity has had to constantly work to fight against and try to evolve past to create civilised societies. There is no cure for these parts of humanity, just like there won’t be a cure for the narrative equivalent, the infection.
Saving humanity will happen on a more character level, like Joel bonding with and saving Ellie eventually restores his humanity, Abby saving Yara and Lev restores hers, and Ellie letting Abby live after nearly drowning her restores Ellie’s (or at least starts her journey to do so). Humanity also will be restored in the world with loving communities like Jackson. Ellie’s immunity will still come into the story of course, but most likely as a plot device/MacGuffin again.
Humanity will have to live with the infection, which has become part of the new world. The old world that the cure would’ve attempted to restore is gone, humanity must reckon with the fact the world has changed, cordyceps is a part of the natural environment and they must adapt. And many communities do adapt, with different philosophies and to vastly varying degrees of success, and in some places like Jackson they create a beautiful example of human life, arguably better than how much of the world lives today.
Now let’s look into our returning characters to establish where they are in the story before we tackle the outline.
Returning Characters
Ellie
Part II built to Ellie learning to accept that she is worthy of the life and love that Joel gave her and to finally have gotten past (or at least started to get past) the grief of Joel’s murder and their estrangement, as well as her Survivor’s Guilt surrounding her immunity and lost loved ones. She is able to forgive Joel and ultimately herself and is now free to choose her own destiny. I think Ellie’s future beyond the end of Part II is a search for that destiny, likely in living for, helping and protecting the people she loves, like her guardian, mentor, and father figure Joel.
My theory is Ellie’s main arc in the final chapter of her story will be her transformation into a leader for a better tomorrow in the new world. She will use her various skills, personality, and an eventual widespread knowledge of her immunity to make herself a hopeful and inspiring leader in ‘New Jackson’ at the end of Part III. I‘ll go over some examples here for evidence of my idea, there are some small things that add up in my opinion.
A minuscule but revealing moment of Ellie’s character I like in Part II is just after the opening scene. Joel is awkwardly trying to make small talk with Ellie when he says “Folks are…you know, talking about how impressed they are with you and how well you’re helping out.” Ellie doesn’t react much to this, she’s closed off with Joel at this point in the scene, her arms are folded and she’s looking to the floor, but when she reacts, she only says, “That’s good.” I think to Ellie, helping is natural to her. She doesn’t think much of it, but her desire to be a cure/world saviour probably plays into this motivation to be helpful. She loves super heroes for a reason too.
Another moment not in the games, but in the show, appears in episode 7 and was written by Neil Druckmann. I think it’s pretty likely Neil has had discussions of Part III with Craig Mazin, as well as having Part III in mind when he wrote episode 7 for the HBO show. Knowing the endgame for their main character definitely would help make telling their story easier. Again, I am assuming the game and show canon will not be identical but will take heavy inspiration from each other.
The revealing scene is when Ellie is getting reprimanded by a FEDRA school officer, and he says that he sees leadership potential in Ellie. She shrugs this off as any teenager would, but I feel it is a little bit of evidence pointing towards this conclusion for her character. To build on this, in Episode 8, David the cannibal preacher tells Ellie he sees that she is a natural leader too(This may have just been his grooming attempts, but I think there is a bit more there). This idea of leadership popped up a few times, even Maria tells Ellie she would be a heck of a lawyer, one of the more common professions of political leaders in modern society.
As I’m sure plenty noticed, in Part II during the flashback where Abby meets Owen at the aquarium to reveal she found Tommy, we see the children’s mural uncovered. It shows a fully painted giraffe and zebra, and then an unfinished lion. It’s not a leap to guess that these parts of the mural each represent The Last of Us as a series, but I also think the choice of animal is a clue to the type of story we have for Ellie in Part III. A simple story structure like The Lion King to conclude Ellie’s arc and the main story of The Last of Us is a logical idea I think.
One of my favourite of Ellie’s journal entries, that I feel informs a bit of her potential mindset for Part III, is recorded after she encounters The Rattlers. She laments the existence of yet another group of radicals who name themselves. “Fuck all these groups”, she writes. None of the factions Ellie encounters have had the same level of love and humanity as the people in Jackson. I can’t see Ellie’s endgame as willingly going back to the Fireflies after all she has experienced. I think she will want a beautiful and human life like she experienced in Jackson, and would be able and willing to lead people to such a future.
Joel
For some, The Last of Us isn’t The Last of Us without the first game’s co-lead, Joel. An instantly iconic, lovable but violent and complicated father figure, Joel resonated with a lot of players, and rightfully so. He is a great subversion of the standard video game action hero, finishing the game not with a triumphant victory, but with a devastatingly consequential choice and a lie. He is one of the series most influential characters, and I think Part III would be lesser if there are no flashbacks with Joel at all, but he isn’t crucial at this point beyond a function as a storytelling device for our remaining characters.
His story is finished in my mind; he achieved redemption despite his dark past and actions at the Firefly hospital. He gained the respect, love and adoration of the community of Jackson and he had Ellie’s forgiveness the night before he died, so to me, he died fulfilling his purpose and with peace, despite being violently taken away from Ellie and the player too soon. Even if his arc is done, his presence is felt throughout the story and ripples through the other characters. Joel had a lot of influence on Ellie and Tommy, in many beautiful and positive ways, but also leaving behind his violence and emotional walls.
I think it would be a nice touch to have Joel show up for a scene or two to show his connection to our main characters and how his influence has had a great effect on them. How this will play out probably won’t be how we expect, and it’s entirely plausible and likely we don’t see Joel at all, but I hope for enjoyment’s sake we get a small glimpse of some of his best and worst parts again to tie Joel’s influence into the story and bring it full circle.
Tommy
Now one of the most tragic characters in the series, Tommy faced a lot of consequences for his actions in Part II, yet didn’t receive the same emotional catharsis as Ellie did in the end. A missing eye, a crippled leg, and a destroyed psyche are all that’s left for Tommy. He’s separated from Maria, and shown himself to be a violent, unstable man to his community.
Chances are Tommy is going to be a bit of an outsider among the people of Jackson, mostly left alone to dwell on his pain, given how violent, disabled men are typically treated in society. He is having a sort of reverse arc, where he is introduced in the story as a noble character but eventually loses his way.
Consumed by his grief, he seems hungry for vengeance against Abby, who in Tommy’s mind took his able body, his marriage and his brother from him. One of the big remaining questions for Part III is how Ellie and Tommy’s relationship will move forward; will Ellie tell Tommy the truth of what happened in Santa Barbara? Will she recognize the consequences of Joel’s lie at the end of Part I and heed the lesson, or will she make the same mistake and lie to Tommy about letting Abby live? I think Ellie will tell Tommy the truth, but it will have the unfortunate effect of sending Tommy just that much more over the edge into the darkness. His resentment towards Abby will turn to Ellie after this, and their relationship will be fractured in the beginning of Part III.
As a “joiner” as he is described in the HBO series, Tommy tries to follow what he believes to be right, but is often misguided. I think this drive of Tommy’s combined with his trauma will lead him to join forces with a group of antagonists within the story, a familiar group that will promise him purpose.
Tommy I believe will also be a good candidate for a playable character in an episode focused on him. We could show Tommy joining the Fireflies prior to the events of the first game, and inter cut that with some present day events to create some parallels in Tommy’s experience, but also show how he’s changed.
Maria
A so far sparsely used character, Maria has some untapped potential in the third installment. We only see her for a few key scenes in Part II, but our last scene with Tommy reveals a bit of her character and unresolved plotlines for Part III. Tommy tells Ellie and Dina that he and Maria are “taking some time apart”, which in my eye means Maria most likely broke up with him and Tommy is downplaying it. I would imagine Tommy leaving for Seattle led to Maria feeling similarly to Dina when Ellie left the farm for Santa Barbara. Maria would be justifiably upset that Tommy left behind her back to go on a murder spree across the country. I imagine in the show when the two of them have a child this decision could be even heavier. Maria wouldn’t take it lightly for certain.
So Maria is likely a single woman again, potentially now with a child to look after if they decide to give Tommy and Maria a baby in Part III as well(although personally the timeline feels a bit off for some late 40s folks to be having a baby but hey stranger things I guess). To start Part III I’d like to see Maria as a role model to Ellie, showing her what it takes to be an effective leader of a community, taking her under her wing and educating her. Helping Ellie reintegrate into society and helping her regain her personhood, agency and humanity.
Maria is fleshed out with a few more key details in the HBO show, one most notably being that prior to the outbreak she had a position as an assistant district attorney (her age is a bit off but again this is just a nitpick, not important). I would like for her leadership role in Jackson to play a slightly larger role in the story and help to influence Ellie to her final goal and purpose.
Abby and Lev
As Part II’s reflection of Joel and Ellie, Abby and Lev go through a similar harrowing journey to develop a found family and a sense of love and belonging with a fellow survivor. Abby completes her arc of redemption in saving Lev and fulfilling the older sibling role for him, after completing her quest for revenge leaves her at her lowest instead of bringing her salvation. Her guilt and grief surrounding her dead father isn’t alleviated until she puts aside her hate and saves an enemy that saved her, like when her enemy Joel saved her before she took revenge.
Through the events of Part II Lev is able to maintain his sense of morality and self-actualize despite hate from his community and the death of his family. He helps Abby reach her redemption as Abby helps Lev to gain his freedom to live as his true self and experience the potential beauty of the world.
Abby and Lev finish Part II reaching their haven of the Avalon building on Catalina Island and rejoining the Fireflies. Given that both of these characters completed full arcs through the events of Part II, I think tying them into the main plot only as minor players is appropriate. Though Abby has a key plot role to play given that she is one of the few people who is aware of Ellie’s immunity and where she is.
Dina and JJ
Dina was a great addition in Part II, but I imagine she will have a smaller role in Part III. The last we see of her in Part II is her telling Ellie that if Ellie leaves, “she won’t do this again”. Dina is a character of strong conviction, I imagine she will stick to her boundary and have a somewhat distant but amicable friendship with Ellie, though it will be permanently damaged by the events of Part II. Ellie will act as a bit of an aunt type figure to JJ, stopping by to visit or help whenever Dina allows it.
My idea takes place almost two years after the events of Part II, so JJ will still only be three years old or so. Definitely not old enough to go on a cross country murder spree with Auntie Ellie! A theory I’ve seen floated by others that I think holds a lot of weight is that Dina will have moved on to another relationship, someone she perceives to be stable, loyal and predictable. Dina will have found a loving person she can build a family with, but in staying true to the painful nature of The Last of Us, this will be difficult for our protagonist.
Beyond being someone Ellie is motivated to be good for, whom she still loves and cares for, I don’t see Dina having a large role in the plot of Part III. She’ll have a role more similar in size to Maria from Part II I imagine, a few key scenes to help set the stage for our main character.
Factions
Throughout the first two games Ellie has wrestled with people trying to decide her life purpose for her, and I think the central antagonist(s) for Part III will be trying to do just that again. Before we get into the outline let’s brainstorm where our current factions are at and where they might go.
Fireflies
The Fireflies play a key role in the world of The Last of Us as the main opposition to FEDRA across the US, as well as the main group trying to “restore society”. They were once a seemingly large group with many cells across different Quarantine Zones, but at the end of Part I they disbanded to different areas with different motivations, scattered and leaderless.
As with the Seraphites, removing the key figurehead and leader from a group can have lasting changes on their morale and philosophy. The Seraphites apparently didn’t start hanging people until their leader, The Prophet, was killed by the WLF leader, Isaac.
I think the Fireflies could potentially be very different from how they functioned under the tutelage of Marlene, possibly more violent, militant or desperate, and this could be a point of contention for its members at the start of Part III. They could be similarly fractured into a few different directions which could help set off the key events for the story. Like in the past, some could want to go after the immune girl, while others could aspire to something else, or be taken in by other groups elsewhere. I think we’ll see a new antagonist leading the portion of the Fireflies that will be unwavering from their original vision for the future. The others could stay in Catalina and try to make a peaceful society.
WLF and the Seraphites
There’s no canon confirmation either way, but from my interpretation, the WLF and the Seraphites are all but destroyed after their final battle at Scar Island. Each group would have gone from a few thousand people to probably hundreds each at most. I would also imagine most of the people left were those incapable of or less inclined to fighting. There is probably a very small amount of people left at the WLF Stadium and Scar Island. I think they will do their best to maintain them as secure communities rather than perpetuate war much further. Maybe they fight until total annihilation, but I don’t think they will have much influence on the main Ellie story going forward.
What I definitely do doubt is that anyone from the Seattle factions will be coming back to take revenge on Ellie or Abby. Part II already went there, I’m doubtful Naughty Dog would try to replicate it given their desire to not retread the old ground of Part I when making Part II. These groups could function to spread Ellie’s notoriety nationwide, but how much information that gets out about her during Part II is uncertain and minimal, so it is possible these factions will just stay in the past.
Rattlers
The Rattlers are largely fodder and plot drivers so Ellie and Abby can meet in specific circumstances at the end of Part II. I don’t think they’ll have a huge bearing on the overarching plot, and they could easily never show up again, but I think bringing them back as an enemy for Abby to encounter would be reasonable.
My idea is we’ll get to kill these slavers again in Part III’s Abby and Lev episode, what better way to reintroduce the players to Abby than to let them use her physical prowess to remorselessly murder some of the worst of what humanity has to offer. Sounds like a fun encounter to kick off Abby’s minor part in the story.
Maybe she will feel differently about killing them after her quest for revenge with Joel didn’t lead to the catharsis she hoped for? Maybe she’ll want to spare people, and this could be a mechanic added as an option, or maybe Abby is still ruthless and we get to see her pile drive some slavers spines through their mouths; that would be fun too.
FEDRA and the Atlanta QZ
First mentioned in the HBO show by the FEDRA soldier Joel sells drugs to (and later beats to death); the Atlanta QZ is said to have a big factory of bullets and pills. In either show or game canon, this is the first we have heard of the settlement, it could possibly be the biggest in the USA, or what remains of it that is, given that FEDRA is seemingly disconnected, fighting countless civil wars across the continental US. I would be really interested in seeing Ellie have a portion of the game occur in this possible Atlanta QZ. Within a giant city they could introduce a lot of interesting new characters and plot lines. This could also provide some interesting parallels between Ellie and Joel as well from his time in Boston QZ at the start of Part I.
I think FEDRA will have a larger story presence than in Part II, but they will still be the crumbling fascist remains of the old world clinging to their iron rule as best as they can. Maybe we will get to meet some of the remaining FEDRA leadership running things in Atlanta and dive a bit deeper into the behind the scenes of how society is run in a FEDRA controlled QZ. I think ultimately for FEDRA we’ll see a house of cards barely holding together before the fall in Part III.
New Florida Faction (NFF)
In Part III we will surely see some new factions to add to the ever expanding lore of the universe, I’d really love to see a group there that worships the cordyceps in the as of yet unexplored in universe location of Florida. We hear some admiration towards the infection from David in Episode 8 of the HBO adaptation; I think I’d like to see this idea expanded to a whole group, they could be enamoured with the idea of the cordyceps “oneness”. Maybe this group will hear of an immune girl and be driven to find her and bring her to their massive place of worship.
I think Florida would be a good candidate for this faction of cordyceps worshippers because Florida itself is a unique environment and biome we haven’t seen so far. The hot and humid climate could make for some interesting infected evolutions; maybe the infected will have connected itself over an entire swamp to create a unique horde? What kind of shambler or bloater type evolutions would appear? So far they have avoided aquatic/swimming infected variants, so I’m not sure if they would go that route, but there is a lot of potential there. They could also introduce more animal enemy variants, taking inspiration from MGS again, adding some swamp alligator enemies would be fun. Not to mention the plentiful other potentially dangerous animals in Florida like bears or panthers.
Story Outline/Overview
So now that we’ve established some core ideas, let’s see if we can make a quick and simple outline. Something to be mindful of is the plot and story must incite and be congruent with some exciting combat focused gameplay that the series has grown to excel at. Also I’ve largely been inspired by other people’s speculation (like TLOUStrategist for example) and I will also be reusing ND’s unused ideas; again, I’m not a writer.
Log line:
As word of an immune girl spreads across the US, two factions descend on Jackson, and amongst the chaos Ellie is kidnapped. She must journey across the US to escape her captors to return to the people she loves in Jackson. We’ll see Ellie wrestle with various groups trying to decide her destiny in a multi perspective story about living for the people you love, and the lengths people go to do so.
Playable characters, Ellie, Maria, Abby and/or Lev, Tommy and some other new antagonists who are Anti-Joel figures in the story, characters trying to decide Ellie’s destiny for her. I think it would be fun to play a small section as each antagonist to help set the themes and tone.
The first thing the player sees is the start screen, and it has an important role in setting the tone for the player. Part II executed this really well. Something along the lines of Ellie alone, bleeding, back facing the player, at a campfire that has gone out makes sense to me for the story as I have interpreted it.
How this will be broken down episode by episode I’m not yet sure, but these are the main beats I’ve got for now, I’ll be using the template from Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat to map out the outline.
Opening Image
Ellie alone, bloodied, captured in a dirty cell carriage being pulled by animals along a mountain road towards a storm away from the sun setting on Jackson, where smoke, fire and gunshots can be seen/heard in the backdrop. Camera pans slowly over to show us the battle in Jackson
Quick scene where the player runs around as Maria trying to help citizens of Jackson during the chaos, eventually run into an antagonist who says someone told him Maria was in charge, Maria confirms her identity, as she does the man shoots and kills her. Get the tension up right away so the following scenes are nerve wracking.
Set Up/Theme Stated
Dina’s new bf is moving in, Ellie doesn’t have many new relationships, just helps out Dina and JJ whenever they let her
Ellie has moved into a new place near the wall in Jackson so she can sneak out whenever she wants (show off new rope mechanics right away) and get peace and quiet, or kill something, she’s working on her trauma still
2 years post Part II, Jackson is bustling and getting full, nearest QZ collapsed, lots of new migrant families
a new family has moved into Joel’s old house, Ellie has converted the farmhouse she had with Dina into a little shrine, or maybe has a small shrine in her new place, dedicated to Joel and all her other loved ones.
Ellie spends most of her time going around Jackson being helpful, constantly picking up shifts to do difficult work, helping less capable members of the community. She knows how to do everything around town and is well respected but she is still traumatized and complicated, mostly keeping to herself during quiet hours.
Dina says to Ellie she needs to move on to be able to love herself and love other people in the future. Ellie laughs her off, says some Joel line like “I’ll take what I can get” in regards to the love she gets from Dina and JJ, something like that to display her current state is lacking and where she needs to grow towards. Also a conversation with Maria early on to help set up Ellie’s journey to regain her humanity and claim her destiny as she chooses it. Maria says she should choose for herself but she would make a great leader for the community, and to consider it.
Tommy is bitter and lonely and has a contentious relationship with Ellie, mostly is on the outs with everyone in town. His injuries and actions have taken their toll. Tommy will be a bit of a Darth Vader figure in my story.
Some simple gameplay segments as Ellie during this part, stuff around town, a patrol etc. Very much like Part II’s beginning but with some new characters, a Maria and Ellie patrol mission sounds fitting.
More Set Up
Directly after the events of Part II and about 2 years before the events of Part III, the Fireflies kick off the events of this part of the story
scene in the Catalina casino ballroom with the councilmembers of the fireflies deciding on their future. One leader has the original vision for fireflies but distorted to fit his world view, some want to stay isolated on Catalina, and others want to venture out to help save people and bring them back to Catalina (Abby and Lev camp).
Abby is asked about the immune girl, new antagonist wants to try and create the cure to remake society, militantly follows original firefly vision, Abby reluctantly lets them know Ellie is alive and where she is, but that she wants nothing to do with it and they are stupid for trying. New leader shows off an old student of Jerry’s who thinks with the old research in the Salt Lake hospital and Ellie’s brain they could make the cure. This causes a rift in the fireflies and they break off to follow their own goals.
Gameplay as Abby or Lev during this part, before the fireflies break off the firefly groups kill the Rattlers together
part of fireflies led by Antagonist journey to Utah and Jackson to finish what Marlene started, some stay in Catalina, some depart with Abby and lev
Short scene in the New Florida Faction where one Firefly has defected to let this other group know an immune girl is alive who can help them accomplish their vague and threatening goals for creating their own version of society that is in symbiosis with the infected. They start their journey to Jackson to capture Ellie.
Also could have some gameplay as the antagonists during this section to introduce them to the players and show how love drives them in negative ways
Catalyst
infected worshippers (NFF) journey to Jackson to capture immune girl and treat her as a messiah to merge infected and humans forever, Fireflies journey to Jackson to kill Ellie for the cure
maybe one of the groups has infiltrated Jackson like the early draft of Part II and uses a Trojan Horse maneuver
big scuffle/battle in Jackson, Tommy defects to fireflies, Maria is killed, fireflies occupy Jackson to find Ellie,
in the fight, a young Jackson girl that matches Ellie’s description is captured by members of the NFF
They question her about a brown haired immune girl with a tattoo on her arm, and the girl decides to pretend she is Ellie.
The NFF guys capture her and start to flee
Actual Ellie sees the finale of this confrontation and follows after the captors far out of Jackson
Ellie almost escapes with the girl before they are caught
Perceived leader of group kills the girl in front of Ellie and they journey back to their home base in Florida
shot to match opening scene of Ellie being taken away
Debate/Break into Two
Ellie won’t give in to her captors, but is exhausted and atrophied after the month long trip to her new location in the swamps of Florida. She is strung up to be crucified. The crazed leader of the NFF brings an infected over to bite Ellie so they can confirm her immunity. She is left up for 24 hours before being declared a messiah of sorts. Does Ellie give in and accept her role as a weird leader for this infected loving cult, or will she escape to choose her own destiny? Obviously she doesn’t stay, but she believes Jackson might be destroyed and feels lost.
In this section Ellie learns more about living in harmony with the infected, just not to the extreme the NFF take it. She learns techniques about how to guide and attract hordes amongst other things. Eventually she is able to flee and kill some of these crazies after some big infected disaster ends up destroying their community. Big Set Piece.
B Story
Ellie journeys through the swamps of Florida, following a compass north, barely surviving, and only knowing she wants to get back to Jackson and Dina.
She encounters a group of young survivors who take her in and help her recover. Ellie reveals she is unsure if her home is even still standing. They reveal they have a plan to break into the Atlanta QZ and Ellie joins in.
We get a section of the story exploring the massive Atlanta QZ, Ellie meets several new characters there, love interest, friends, FEDRA leader, Rebels/Fireflies etc.
As despair sets in, Ellie succumbs to her fate of staying in the oppressive life of the QZ. It is a sort of comfort for her as she spent the first 14 years of her life growing up in a FEDRA controlled QZ. She falls back into old habits and routines, doing what she can to scrape by before eventually getting sucked into another rebel conflict.
Fun and Games
Ellie’s new friends introduce her to the Atlanta Fireflies (or some equivalent group I’m not sure if it matters), she joins in as the conflict escalates. This section would mostly be focused on Ellie learning that FEDRA and the fireflies live the wrong way, and that Ellie wants to get back to Jackson and live a loving life there. Some fun chases and set pieces of violence throughout this section, some battles among factions in the city limits.
Midpoint
Eventually during the main conflict of this arc, a massive infected horde attack + boss type bigger than rat king descend on Atlanta, possibly let loose by Ellie’s actions during the New Florida Faction arc, or the FEDRA/Rebel conflict. Fun set pieces of infected taking over Atlanta as Ellie and some of her new friends and other rebels escape.
Bad Guys Close In
Now Ellie has been forced out of her temporary “comfort” in the Atlanta QZ and with nowhere else to go, she regains her drive to return to Jackson. Or maybe someone from Jackson followed her trail and finds her? Either way, her new group has some internal dissent following the disaster and they don’t go with Ellie to Jackson.
All is Lost/Dark Night of the Soul
Ellie is all alone, unsure if Jackson still exists, and abandoned by her new crew. She must dig down and find her inner resolve to give everything she has for the people she loves and somehow make it to Jackson on a sliver of hope it still stands.
This is also where we could put the Tommy episode/backstory with Joel, setting up more info about him and the Fireflies, giving us a Joel flashback where living for your loved ones is emphasized.
Break Into Three
She had one good connection with one of the crew members, a character who becomes her Tess, so Ellie decides to not give up and use conversations the characters had relating to the central themes to convince that one crew member to come with her to Jackson.
Finale
Using everything Ellie has learned over the course of the story, she returns to Jackson to face Tommy and the Fireflies. Ellie will defeat Tommy in a tragic battle, ideally with him seeing the error of his ways and being taken in to be redeemed. She’ll then help free the people of Jackson and retake the rest of the town before killing the fanatic Firefly leader and ending their pursuit of the cure. Ellie has learned her life is worth living and she is capable of leading others towards a good life.
Final Image
Ellie surrounded by loved ones in New Jackson, ready to live for and protect the life and people she loves (including herself) playing guitar around the fire to mirror the games starting screen, showing she has opened her heart to her purpose and the people she loves. She is able to live out her days in peace, leading the people of New Jackson. The cure is living well and living with love.
So that’s it, throw in lots of infected and human encounters and you’ve got a game!
Outline TLDR
2 years after Part II Ellie still loves Dina, Maria thinks she should lead, Ellie is struggling to build new relationships
Abby tells Fireflies where Ellie is, new leader still wants to make cure
Abby and Lev leave to save people and bring them to Catalina, exit story
Infected Worshipping faction find where Ellie is, everyone descends on Jackson simultaneously in a big battle
Ellie is captured and brought to Florida, Fireflies occupy Jackson and kill Maria
Ellie fights and escapes infected worshippers, learns to live in harmony with infected
Meets new crew then sneaks into the Atlanta QZ
Meets a lover, Atlanta is destroyed by infected/rebel conflict
Ellie returns to and liberates Jackson from the Fireflies
Becomes a leader of New Jackson
Lives happily ever after with loved ones new and old
Well this hit the maximum post length pretty easily, I could fit a lot more in here, but a limit is good. Hope you enjoyed my thoughts, these ideas will only get better with your discussion, so feel free to comment as you please. It feels good to finally put my thoughts on this game into words; I love this universe a lot and just wanted to write the game I would like to play. Now just to wait for the inevitable better game Naughty Dog makes. Cheers!

Extra-galactic invaders have besieged a world that the Galactic Republic deemed too important to lose. The GAR has sent the327th Star Corps to stop Hive Fleet Kraken from consuming the world. This is one of the many battles taking place on the surface.

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Kraken will deploy with: 1 Tyranid Warrior, 10 Hormaguants, & 1 Carnifex

1xTyranid Warrior	1xDevourer2xScything Talons
10xHormagaunts	2xScything Talons

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1xCarnifex	1xVenom Cannon2xScything Talons

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The 327th will deploy with: 1 Clone Commander, 1 Anti-Armor Clone, 7 Clones, & 1 AT-TE

Clone Marshal Commander Bly	Phase II Armor	1xDC-15A Blaster Rifle	1xThermal Detonator
Clone Trooper	Phase II Armor	1xMissile Launcher	1xDC-15A Blaster Carbine
7xClone Troopers	Phase II Armor	1xDC-15A Blaster Rifle	1xThermal Detonator

1xAT-TE	1xMass Driver Cannon	6xBall Turret Heavy Laser Cannons

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Map: the battle will be taking place on Halo's Blood Gulch. Estimated 500mx200m sized map with either team spawning on opposite ends of the map.
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1. No use of the maps teleporters
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3. Powered blades will be able to parry each other. Non-powered weaponry in susceptible to being destroyed.
4. Tyranid Warriors are the only Synapse creatures on the field. Consequences of their death is up to you to calculate.
5. We will be using Disney Canon for Star Wars, if your knowledge of it is lacking you are free to use Legends. Swapped it to legends As I thought it was unfair with Disney Canon^{my bad yall}

_____________________________________________________________________Rounds:

R1: It is a clear day with perfect visibility. Both sides must destroy each other or force a rout. Both sides are aware of each other's presence.
R2: It is a overcast night with limited visibility. Both sides must destroy each other or force a rout. Neither side are aware of each other's presence. Jedi General Aayla Secura has come to assist the Clones.
R3: It is a clear day with perfect visibility. Both sides must destroy each other or force a rout. Both sides are aware of each other's presence. Extra Tyranid warriors have been deployed to assist the Hive Mind's troops against the Jedi and her troopers here:

2xTyranid Warriors	2xBoneswords	2xRending Claws

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There were also two people who didn’t tie their ropes properly, I remember, on Denali. They were European, but I don’t remember from where. I just remember that they were roped up to each other, but not to the mountain, and one fell and took the other down with him. Luckily, one of the guys straddled a rock that stopped them from plummeting to their death, and John Race helped them get back up to the ridge.
There was another guy who followed a Chinese woman up Ama Dablam. He had been staying the course, and acclimating at camp 2. But she wanted to summit faster, and he had developed feelings for her, so he followed her and they both got pulmonary edema and had to get airlifted off the mountain.
There was another one that Sam saw, on his descent of the Grand Teton, where a guy had a water knot tied in his rope that he never redid, because it was a really secure knot. But bit by bit, it came loose and it came all the way out when he was with Sam, and the guy fell to his death.
It goes on and on. You make a little mistake, and you die. But there’s usually a lot of mistakes leading up to it.
But at any rate, you can’t just use as many safety precautions as possible and hope for the best. Time is also a factor, and so something that makes you marginally safer but slows you down enough that you’ll be at a place where rockfall is happening for a long time isn’t worth it.
The other thing about climbing risk is that it has a lot to do with frequency. So, if you do it once in a while, you don’t need to be so cautious. But if you do it all the time, your risk is a lot higher, just by probability. And so, many guides have a lot of dead friends, and a lot of guides die.
Hearing about it reminds you of that scene in ‘The Incredibles’ where Edna explains to Mr. Incredible why he can’t have a cape by telling him about all the super heroes who died because of their cape. I remember that Talley really loved that line: “no capes!”
Anyways, Seraphim and I parted ways after the mountaineering discussion, and decided that one day, maybe we would go on a hike together.
That day I also bought the book ‘Combatting Cult Mind Control’ on Amazon for $20.32.
That day, I also took three screenshots of prayer books, on Google shopping and on Amazon, which were mostly in Russian, and most of which which had the three-bar-cross on the front. One was a children’s prayer book published by the All Saints of Russia Orthodox Church, in a bright red color with gold on the cover. I looked at it for quite some time after finding it, and then finally ordered it some time later. Another was a gray ‘Book of Commemoration for the Living and the Dead,’ by Holy Trinity Monastery.
I also took a screenshot of the OrthoWiki page on the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, and then three photographs of St. Alexandra Feodorovna, the last Empress of Russia and the mother of the five famous Romanov children, who was executed with her children by the f*cking Bolsheviks.
The first is in black-and-white and she’s in white with a hat like a cake, and a scarf that’s like it’s got feathers, and wears pearl earrings. The next is colored in, and she’s wearing maroon with black at the neck, a diamond necklace, earrings, and a small five-point crown. The last is black-and-white, and she wears a white dress with bows, a pearl necklace with two layers, a headband, and a star on her head.
I don’t remember what I did the rest of that day.
But anyways, I had work the next day, until 6:00, and then went to Sts. Peter and Paul afterwards for the Great Compline with the Canon of St. Andrew, recited at the beginning of Lent in many traditions.
I think this was the day I was supposed to go to the ‘creating your legacy’ Rosh Chodesh group for women, but didn’t go.
At work, I saved a painting of the marriage of Tsar Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra. It’s an Orthodox ceremony, and they both hold candles in front of a Gospel Book. She has got a gold cape with ermine trim on it, a silver dress, and a small silver crown with purple and a veil that goes behind, and he wears a red coat with gold stuff on it, and black pants.
The Priests and Bishops all wear gold, the women behind all wear white with red ribbons on them, the men black suits with the same ribbons, and the room is white with gold ornament, red curtains, and a maroon-and-pink striped carpet.
I also saved two pictures of “Jesus,” by a Mormon artist named Liz Lemon Swindle, one in which he’s rubbing his hands together and looks like a hippie scheming to take people’s money. He’s got a brown robe with some kind of a beige vest over it. In the other, he sitting and talking a small girl wearing a white dress and grabbing her toes, and he looks like a creep. He’s wearing a white robe with something blue over it, and sandals, and he’s sitting next to her on a stone bench and leaning in to talk to her. There a little red flower in the lower left corner.
In both he’s got long, brown, really straight hair; like he flattened it with an iron.
During the day, I bought two rolls of bread to sustain myself.
And just before I left work, I grabbed a bottle of juice to bring to Jonah. He often was drinking mango juice from this brand called ‘Naked.’ I didn’t see that at Harmons, but instead got one called ‘Bolthouse,’ for $5.27.
I’d arranged with Sarah for an Uber at 5:14 or 5:15, and she agreed to call him around 6:00.
She texted me at 6:05 that the driver, Jesus, would be there in 9 minutes, in a silver Toyota Corolla, and then again at 6:07 that he’d be there in 6, at the Holladay library, because that’s where Talley and Sarah send Ubers, because they don’t know my address.
I remember wanting to be sure I didn’t miss it, but also wanting to get in touch with the guy across the way, Isaac, to retrieve the Orthodox Bulgarian wallet that I’d been told had arrived. He didn’t answer, and I never got the wallet. I also wanted to see if he had a silver blessed cross that I’d ordered from Russia, to his address by accident, but it never arrived.
Anyways, before I left, I gathered the presents for Jonah in a translucent white bag, which was what the whale came from at Amy, and my Jordanville prayer book, which I always took with me, and my toothbrush and toothpaste, and my light blue nightgown, into my ‘Ghostbuster’ backpack.
I don’t remember exactly, but I think I wore my black Harmons pants, not having time to change, and the red coat from Seraphim.
I don’t remember much about the Compline that night. But I do remember seeing Kimberly and “Davis,” who I do not like right now, as well as Joseph and Rebecca. Molly was there too, I think, wearing a striped skirt she wears a lot and handling a child so that everyone could see, and admire her “motherly affection.”
Seraphim had invited me, but couldn’t pick me up since he was picking up a vacuum, and I arrived late.
Jesus arrived at the Holladay library at 6:16, and pulled out onto Murray-Holladay at 6:17.
The Canon went from 6:00-7:30, and so I missed the beginning.

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• Mikrotik hAP ax² Wireless Router
  
• Seagate IronWolf 10TB HDD (2x available)
  
• Seagate IronWolf 10TB HDD (3x available)
  

TX

• HP Enterprise ProLiant DL360 G10 - 8 Bay 2.5" SFF 1U Servers
  
• Xeon E5-2696 v4 SR2J0 2.2GHz 22 Cores 44T 150W LGA2011-3 CPU Processor
  
• For Sale: Khadas VIM4 Single Board Computer with RTC, Expansion Board, NVME SSD, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth Antennas
  
• 42U Server Cabinet with Fans
  
• Mini PCs, USG-3P, Dell Laptop
  
• Assorted network and IOT smart home gear
  
• [DFW] Raspberry Pi POE Rackmount Cluster
  
• Yet another homelab clearout post, mostly Unifi & Dell
  
• [DFW] MikroTik Hardware
  
• Dell OptiPlex's - 5080 SFF, 7070 micro, 7050 micro (local sale southwest Houston)
  
• Ubiquiti Unifi UCK-G2-Plus
  
• Ubiquiti Unifi USG
  
• Ubiquiti Unifi USG-Pro-4
  
• Supermicro Servers + 24u server rack
  

TX-HOUSTON

• Unifi USG, U6-LR, UAP-AC-lite, UC-CK

WI

• 14tb Hard Drives, OWC Enclosure, 10gb Switch, Routers, Modem, PIKVM
  
• HP T730 Thin client
  

​

US-E 

-ANY-

• 4x Dell R630s with identical specs
  
• M720q 8600t + Intel i340
  
• US-MI Dual 2690 v3 w/ 128GB ECC ram + 2x DS4246 disk shelf + drives
  
• 12 sticks of PC3 memory
  
• HP Z8 G4 Workstation with HP Z23n G2 MonitoStand
  
• X10SSL bundle, Quadro P620, PM983, 12mm Fittings
  
• 6 x Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC Lite Wireless Access Point (used)
  
• iPhone 8 256GB Unlocked (2) Mac Minis w/ 1TB SSD 16GB RAM (1 i7, 1 i5) (2) Raspberry Pi 4 4GB (2) Original Raspberry Pi ODROID XU4 8-core WANDBOARD i.mx6 QUAD-Core ARM Board
  
• mITX mobo combo with i7-9700 and 16GB RAM, 4TB and 8TB HDDs, Vertical GPU mount, 550w PSU, PCIe to 4xSATA, 2 low capacity SSDs, Cooler Master HAF EVO case
  
• X10SSL-F w/ e3-1241 V3 and 32GB DDR3-1600 ECC UDIMM
  

AL

• Lots of Cisco Equipment

CT

• Ubiquiti ERLite-3, PC3L-12800R RAM, SAS2008i, LSI9211, other
  
• Lenovo X1 Carbon 10Gen - i7 - 16GB - 256GB - OLED
  

DC-MD-VA

• Mac Mini i5, Time Capsule, Ubiquiti Amplifi Mesh setup, SAS and SATA drives. (local pickup only please, 20854 or 22102 areas)

E, VA, NOVA

• SAS HBA with Cables

FL

• Some network switches, Cisco Router, Cisco C170 appliance
  
• RTX 3060 ti FTW3, NanoPi R4S 4gb w/cas, LSI HBA 12G SATA/SAS SAS9340-8i
  

GA

• Dell PowerEdge R730 / R730XD Overstock - $355+ shipped in the US
  
• SK Hynix 64GB DDR4 LRDIMM RAM
  

IN

• Level1Techs DisplayPort 1.4 KVM (single monitor, dual computer)
  
• CalDigit TS3+
  
• Dell Precision 7550 I7, T2000, 32gb ram
  
• Dell Precision 7550 I7, T2000, 32gb ram
  

MA

• The Quiet Beast - 20 cores, 40 threads, 256GB DDR3, Built in dual port 10Gig, etc

MD

• Synology 1221+ + Synology Sliding Rail Kit + Synology 4GB DDR4 SO-DIMM ECC Memory Module
  
• Dell R720 / R730XD / Extras - Homelab Turnover
  
• Ubiquiti Amplifi Alien Wifi 6 Router
  
• HP DL380 G8, 20 cores, 128gb RAM
  

MD-BALTIMORE

• Intel 2U 112 Thread 2x Xeon Platinum -- R2208WFTZS Wolf Pass Servers

MI

• Dell PERC H330 Mini Mono Raid/HBA Controller

NC

• Dell Optiplex Micro 3000 (12500T) & 3080 (10100T) EVGA RTX 3070 Samsung Evo 860 4TB SATA SSD
  
• Supermicro CSE-847 36-bay chassis, SAS3 backplanes with 4x rear NVME U.2 ports + pcie cards + cables for NVME, 1k28w SQ PSU, X10DRH-CT dual cpu mb, 2x E5-2640V4 CPUs (20/40 cores total), 256gb ECC DDR4 2133mhz RDIMMs, 36 caddies/screws, quiet fans, LSI SAS3 HBA, and more!
  
• Kingston - KTL-TN429E/32G DDR4 ECC SODIMM
  

NC/SC

• Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 16 150W Poe w/ SFP Port. EdgeMAX Rack Mount Hardware. Ubiquiti AC AP Pro

NH

• Branded Dell Poweredge R730- Forescout - . Dual Xeon, DDR4 ECC Reg, Idrac Ent, ---ONLY $200!!!---
  
• FAST DDR4 ECC Registered Ram-- 3200Mhz and 2666Mhz 32GB modules- 3200AA 2666V-
  
• Zotac ZBOX-EN51050 x2 i5 Kaby Lake w/16GB Crucial 2400mhz & Samsung 960 Evo 250GB
  
• HDDs
  
• Dell 0FM487 - 4 port Broadcom 1Gb NIC for R620/30/40, R720/30/40, XD, R820/40, R920/930/940,940XA
  
• Lenovo 2U Servers X3650 M5 DDR4 Dual 2683 V4 CPUs - 32 Core 64 Threads-
  
• Hynix 64GB DDR4 ECC Registered 2400MHZ PC4-2400T LRDIMM modules RAM
  

NJ

• Intel NUC 9 - NUC9i9QNX
  
• DELL PERC H740P
  
• Dell X550-T2 Intel X550 10GbE Dual-Port Converged NIC
  
• HP A10-9600P laptop, Dell E7240, HP Probook 640 G1 Motherboard
  
• SAS-9217-4i4e IT mode
  
• Supermicro 1U case with PSU and fan and rail
  
• HP Probook Laptop 445 G9 Ryzen 5625U 16GB 1TB NVMe
  
• Supermicro X11SSH w. IPMI / E3-1220v5 / 8GB ECC RAM / 250GB EVO SSD
  

NY

• Used Unifi hardware, some PDUs
  
• Dell PowerEdge R740 8X SFF 2U Server - US Shipping
  
• 3x Ruckus R550 w/ Unleashed Firmware
  

OH

• 2x USG Pro 4 with Noctua fans
  
• Eaton UPS Bundles
  

PA

• Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro w/ UI Care
  
• thinkpad T61, thinkpad sata caddies
  
• pixel 6, routers, nic, modem, thinkpad caddies etc
  
• APC Smart-UPS 1000VA Rackmount Backup battery
  
• Homelab Clean Out (Dell XPS 13, EdgeRouter, A320, R9 390, SAS card...)
  
• Qotom G555S6 router
  

TN

• Quiet Low Power Sever Board Kit (Supermicro X11SCL-IF, Celeron 4900T, 32GB ECC DDR4, Optane M10 16GB, Noctua NH-L9i)
  
• Knoxville Area - Let's Deal To Move Everything
  
• 3 UniFi US-48-500W Switches
  

VA

• Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN
  
• MagStor LTO8 Thunderbolt 3 Tape Drive w/ 16TB HDD
  
• Pair of Intel Xeon L5640 2.26GHz SLBV8 12MB LGA1366 Six Core CPU Processors
  
• DDR3 10600R and 14900R ECC rams
  
• R730 Dual Xeon E5-2660
  
• MagStor LTO8 Thunderbolt 3 Tape Drive w/ 16TB HDD
  

WV

• NEW WD Red Plus 12tb - WD120EFBX - quantity 2

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US-W 

-ANY-

• Moving Sale! USFF ready to go and RAM galore!
  
• (used) Elo 2494L 23.8" Open Frame Touchscreen
  
• (used) MadeWell SE-1500-48 Power Supply AC/DC Converter
  
• (used) AllMotion EZHR23ENHC Stepper Motor Control+Driver
  
• NVIDIA 3090 FE + Corsair XG7 Waterblock
  
• Apple Mac Mini Late 2018
  
• (used) various din rail power supplies!
  
• (used) raspberry pi 3s
  
• [WA-SEA] RJ-45 10Gbase-T SFP+ transceivers (Aquantia, Dell, and Wiitek)
  
• TEXAS Custom Dell Precision 5570 Touchscreen i9 64gb 1tb ssd
  
• (4x) Mac Mini 2018 i5
  

AZ

• Managed Cisco Network Switches used
  
• Eaton, Vertiv, and Tripp Lite Power distribution units, Paypal.
  

CA

• Supermicro X10sri-f + 8x16GB (128GB) + Noctua 4u cooler
  
• Unifi U6 Enterprise
  
• AsRock Rack X399D8A-2T ATX Server Motherboard AMD TR4 4094P AMD X399 Dual 10GbE
  
• APC Smart-UPS X 3kVA w/ Network Card
  
• StarTech.com 19" 18U Server Rack Cabinet -- RK1833BKM
  
• Supermicro X10srl-f + 32GB + Noctua Cooler, HBA/Raid Adaptec ASR-71605 sff8643, 16GB DDR4 ECC
  
• Supermicro X10SDV-6C+-TLN4F Xeon D mITX motherboard w/ 128GB DDR4 ECC RAM & I/O shield
  
• Samsung PM1633 3.84TB 2.5" 12GB/s SSD
  

ID

• Raspberry Pis and WD Gold 10TB

NV

• HP Prodesk 600 G5 Mini

OR

• Unifi Mini Rack and SmartPower PDU Pro
  
• Lenovo M920Q
  

US

• 3x Nvidia Quadro P2200 GPU

US - AZ

• Cisco Network Switches

UT

• Prusa MK3S+ 3d printer

WA

• Dell R7425xd 64 Core w/Rails and CMA [TRADE] Dell T640 SFF w/ Midplane fan Gantry [LOCAL ONLY]
  
• Spring Cleanout! Ubiquiti, Lenovo Laptops, Macs, networking misc items
  
• Lots of 16GB PC4-2400T, 25gb NICs, 40gb switch & NICs
  
• Rosewill 2u Rackmount Chassis, iStarUSA Hot Swap Cages
  
• Downsizing Sale, DDR3/DDR4 Ram, CPU's and
  

Company Name	Title	City
Central Oregon Radiology Assoc., P.C.	Mammography Technologist	Bend
Target	Store Detective	Albany
Aerotek	Oven Tender	Canby
Oregon State University	Stock Analyst	Corvallis
Target	Store Detective	Eugene
Aerotek	MIG Welder	Eugene
Starbucks	Keyholder	Eugene
KEITH Mfg. Co.	Part Assembler	Madras
Providence Service	LTAC RN	Medford
Starbucks	Coffee Host	Salem
°Nomad Health	L&D RN	The Dalles
°Nomad Health	Travel RN	The Dalles
°Nomad Health	ICU RN	The Dalles
City of Florence	Planner II (Associate) or Planner III (Senior Planner)	Florence
C & R Management Group LLC	Supervising Community Manager ($32-$35)	Pendleton
Divine Right Transportation	Health Support Driver	Dallas
Kelly Services	Packaging Operator	Springfield
Canon Solutions America, Inc.	Field Service Tech- III	Troutdale
Taos Ski Valley, Inc.	All Cook Positions - Summer	Portland
Taos Ski Valley, Inc.	Bartender - Rhoda's Restaurant - Summer	Portland
Taos Ski Valley, Inc.	Assistant General Manager - Bavarian	Portland
City of Florence	Immediate Openings Planner II Associate Or Planner III Senior Planner Florence	Florence
Klamath Tribal Health & Family S	Senior Accountant	Klamath Falls
Klamath Tribal Health & Family S	Immediate Openings Senior AccountantManager Klamath Falls	Klamath Falls
Klamath Tribal Health & Family S	Sr Accountant	Klamath Falls

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Hi everyone,
Just wondering what programmes and settings to use to get the best quality photos printed using a Pixma G640 printer. Does the programme even matter at the end of the day since the settings are at a driver level? I used the "Easy PhotoPrint Editor" app from Canon but it wouldn't let me set the quality to fine even though I had the Paper Plus Glossy II photo paper selected (which seems like is the only paper that can let you choose "fine". I also tried printing directly from the native "photos" app in windows.
I don't have Photoshop (it's expensive) but I do have Paint Shop Pro.
Kinda new to this. Hoping to get photos as one would get from a photo printing shop (or as near as possible).

I'm having a little bit of trouble wrapping my head around bit depth.
I'm shopping around/exploring my options for a new camera. My current daily driver is a good ole Canon 5D Mark II. I shoot mostly black & white video, but I'm running into a lot of problems with sky and gradient banding, and artifacts when I play with the contrast basically at all (I have a tiny bit of wiggle room, but not much). If my primary video interest is black & white video, do I need to be concerned with bit depth and colorspace as I look at cameras? Or should my only concern be resolution?
For instance, should I still spring for a camera that has 10/12bit 4:2:2 or should I focus more on investing those same dollars into a camera that might be standard 8bit 4:2:0 but can shoot in 6k or something?
bonus question for those with experience: should I bother with a monochrome camera?

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• Indirect FPD
• Direct FPD

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• Medical
• Dental
• Industrial
• Others

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I. Executive Summary
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• Key findings
• Market size and forecast
• Competitive landscape
• Trends and insights

II. Introduction
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• Research methodology
• Market definition and segmentation
• Assumptions and limitations

III. DR Flat Panel Detector Market Overview
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• Market size and forecast
• Market segmentation by type of delivery, end-user, and region
• Market dynamics
  • Drivers
  • Restraints
  • Opportunities
  • Challenges

IV. Competitive Landscape
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• Market share analysis
• Key players and their strategies
• Recent developments

V. Global DR Flat Panel Detector Market Analysis, by Type
VI. Global DR Flat Panel Detector Market Analysis, by Application
VII. Global DR Flat Panel Detector Market Analysis, by Region
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• North America
• Europe
• Asia-Pacific
• Middle East & Africa
• South America

VIII. Company Profiles
IX. Conclusion and Future Outlook
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• Key takeaways
• Future outlook
• Recommendations

X. Appendix
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• List of abbreviations
• Sources
• Research methodology

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I'm trying to set up my Canon LBP6230dw printer on NixOS, and I'm having some trouble. First I'd like to mention that I have gotten it working on Linux before, on Pop!_OS, using Canon's driver download.
I've gone through the instructions on the Printing section on the NixOS wiki, but my printer model isn't coming up. I've tried the cnijfilter2 for support for more Canon models, but still nothing. The closest model that comes up in the OpenPrinting CUPS UI at http://localhost:631/ is "Canon LBP622C/623C UFR II," and when I tried setting it up with that model name, it just shows an error 'Processing - "Unable to locate printer "Canon0e5e2e.local"."' What should I do? Should I try to packaging Canon's driver download...? Or am I just out of luck here? Thanks in advance.

Printer: Canon ir adv c3525i - no print server - connected over the network, wired
I have a user that submitted a ticket for not being able to print. I removed the printer and reinstalled the drivers and when I log in with my account (domain admin), I can print just fine. As soon as we switch user accounts, that user will print and an error occurs while the document is in the print queue. Doesn't matter the document or the application the user prints from. So I clear the queue switch back to my account and try to print, but the same problem occurs. But only after the other user has tried to print. I reinstall the printer and I can print just fine. The other user logs in receives the error and gets stuck in the queue, and I log back in and get the same result. This was done on a Dell Lat 5420 with Windows 11. I reset the computer and reinstalled the OS. Same results. Next, I had the user try to print from a different computer (Dell Lat 7200 2 in 1, Win 10) and the exact same results occur.
Some interesting notes from the user:

• After a while of waiting and the print jobs sitting in the queue in an error state, they will eventually print.
• The user says that when they unplug from their docking station (Dell Thunderbolt 4 Dock, WD22TB4), the documents print. I don't know how that is related or makes a difference.

My best guess to the problem is a corrupted file in the user profile. I don't know where to look exactly, or maybe the problem is caused by something else.
Thank you for any help or leads to solving this. Please ask me any questions if there is something I am missing.

Company Name	Title	City
Agemark	Universal Caregiver Full-Time Evenings	Omaha
Legacy Creators Group	Entry-Level Marketing Representative	Omaha
Agemark	Med Aide Full-Time Evenings	Omaha
Deloitte	Finance Transformation Strategic Change Manager	Omaha
Physicians Mutual	Part-Time Customer Care Teleservices Representative	Omaha
Dunkin’ Berliner Group	Dunkin' Overnight BakeFroster	Omaha
First Citizens Bank	Bank Sales Support Specialist II (Commercial Lending Assistant)	Omaha
Mangelsen's	Office ManageBookkeeper	Omaha
Snap! Mobile, Inc.	Senior Product Manager, Snap! Apps	Omaha
PayPal	MTS 2, Technical Account Manager	Omaha
Saic	Data Scientist	Omaha
Rusty Taco Omaha	Cashier	Omaha
Bank of America	Relationship Banker - West Dodge Road Financial Center - Omaha Market - Omaha, NE	Omaha
International Paper - Omaha Box	Production Worker - $19.40 - $23.66 per hour	Omaha
ACI Worldwide, Inc.	Sr Principal Technical Consultant	Omaha
GeneDx, Inc	Business Development - Biopharma Partnerships	Omaha
The Wired Company	HR Regional Partner	Omaha
Kpmg	Director, Digital Management - SAP Basis Leader	Omaha
Roadmaster Drivers School	Director of Information and Cyber Security	Omaha
Canonical Group Ltd	Chief Information Security Officer	Omaha

Hey guys, here are some recent job openings in omaha. Feel free to comment here or send me a private message if you have any questions, I'm at the community's disposal! If you encounter any problems with any of these job openings please let me know that I will modify the table accordingly. Thanks!

Company Name	Title	City
Boardwalk Pipelines, LP	ENGINEER, RELIABILITY - 974	Owensboro
Merx Global	Owner Driver	Lexington
Spartan Warehouse and Distribution Company Incorpo	CDL Driver	Bowling Green
International Imaging Materials, Inc	Shipper Picker Processor	Hebron
Canon Solutions America, Inc.	Copier Fleet Coordinator - Client Service Rep II	Louisville
Linde	Class A CDL Team Tanker Truck Drivers - Sign-on Bonus!	Ashland
Linde	CDL A Driver	Ashland
Linde	Class A Driver	Ashland
Preply	Online English Teacher (100% Remote)	Dolan
The Home Depot	Stock Associate	Florence
The Home Depot	Cashier	Florence
The Home Depot	Overnight Receiving Associate	Florence
Findtutors	Spanish Tutor in Frankfort	Frankfort
Lazer Logistics	Class A CDL Driver	Franklin
Preply	Online English Teacher (100% Remote)	Georgetown
ABM Janitorial Services	Cleaner	Ghent
ABM Janitorial Services	Cleaners	Ghent
ABM Janitorial Services	Leaf Raker	Ghent
Preply	Online English Teacher (100% Remote)	Henderson
Lazer Logistics	Class A CDL DRIVER	Henderson
The Home Depot	Cashier	Louisville
Teleperformance USA	HR Business Partner (Onsite: Louisville, KY)	Louisville
Findtutors	Italian Tutor in Mannington	Mannington
Professional Case Management	Registered Nurse - RN - Home Health	Marion
Lazer Logistics	Class A CDL Driver	Owensboro

Hey guys, here are some recent job openings in ky. Feel free to comment here or send me a private message if you have any questions, I'm at the community's disposal! If you encounter any problems with any of these job openings please let me know that I will modify the table accordingly. Thanks!

Company Name	Title	City
Boardwalk Pipelines, LP	ENGINEER, RELIABILITY - 974	Owensboro
Heartland Imaging	MRI Technologist II- Outpatient- PRN	Elizabethtown
Canon Solutions America, Inc.	Copier Fleet Coordinator - Client Service Rep II	Louisville
Linde	Class A Driver	Ashland
Linde	Class A CDL Team Tanker Truck Drivers - Sign-on Bonus!	Ashland
Linde	CDL A Driver	Ashland
Lazer Logistics	Class A CDL Driver	Franklin
ABM Janitorial Services	Cleaners	Ghent
Lazer Logistics	Class A CDL DRIVER	Henderson
Community Action Council	Senior Accountant	Lexington
Teleperformance USA	HR Business Partner (Onsite: Louisville, KY)	Louisville
Lazer Logistics	Class A CDL Driver	Owensboro
JBS Carriers	CDL A Truck Drivers - $250 per Load and $2,500 Bonus!	Russellville
JUDDMONTE	BDC Assistant	Lexington
JUDDMONTE	Immediate Openings Accounting Assistant Lexington	Lexington
JUDDMONTE	Immediate Openings Accounting Assistant Lexington	Richmond
Comfort Suites, Bowling Green	Laundry Attendant - Part Time	Bowling Green
Wendy's	Restaurant Manager (W)	Cave City
Kroger	Overnight Stocker	Cold Spring
Fls Connect Llc	Remote Sales Representative	Edgewood
Disabled American Veterans	Assistant to the National Voluntary Services Director	Erlanger
U.S. Army Forces Command	Occupational Therapy Assistant (Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant)	Fort Campbell
William H Hunter Recruiting	Assistant Quality Manager	Georgetown
T-Mobile	Mobile Expert/Sales Associate	Georgetown
Encompass Design Develop and Construct	Construction Manager	La Grange

Hey guys, here are some recent job openings in ky. Feel free to comment here or send me a private message if you have any questions, I'm at the community's disposal! If you encounter any problems with any of these job openings please let me know that I will modify the table accordingly. Thanks!

Company Name	Title	City
Boardwalk Pipelines, LP	ENGINEER, RELIABILITY - 974	Owensboro
Heartland Imaging	MRI Technologist II- Outpatient- PRN	Elizabethtown
Canon Solutions America, Inc.	Copier Fleet Coordinator - Client Service Rep II	Louisville
Linde	Class A Driver	Ashland
Linde	Class A CDL Team Tanker Truck Drivers - Sign-on Bonus!	Ashland
Linde	CDL A Driver	Ashland
Lazer Logistics	Class A CDL Driver	Franklin
ABM Janitorial Services	Cleaners	Ghent
Lazer Logistics	Class A CDL DRIVER	Henderson
Community Action Council	Senior Accountant	Lexington
Teleperformance USA	HR Business Partner (Onsite: Louisville, KY)	Louisville
Lazer Logistics	Class A CDL Driver	Owensboro
JBS Carriers	CDL A Truck Drivers - $250 per Load and $2,500 Bonus!	Russellville
JUDDMONTE	BDC Assistant	Lexington
JUDDMONTE	Immediate Openings Accounting Assistant Lexington	Lexington
JUDDMONTE	Immediate Openings Accounting Assistant Lexington	Richmond
Comfort Suites, Bowling Green	Laundry Attendant - Part Time	Bowling Green
Wendy's	Restaurant Manager (W)	Cave City
Kroger	Overnight Stocker	Cold Spring
Fls Connect Llc	Remote Sales Representative	Edgewood
Disabled American Veterans	Assistant to the National Voluntary Services Director	Erlanger
U.S. Army Forces Command	Occupational Therapy Assistant (Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant)	Fort Campbell
William H Hunter Recruiting	Assistant Quality Manager	Georgetown
T-Mobile	Mobile Expert/Sales Associate	Georgetown
Encompass Design Develop and Construct	Construction Manager	La Grange

Hey guys, here are some recent job openings in ky. Feel free to comment here or send me a private message if you have any questions, I'm at the community's disposal! If you encounter any problems with any of these job openings please let me know that I will modify the table accordingly. Thanks!

Company Name	Title	City
Boardwalk Pipelines, LP	ENGINEER, RELIABILITY - 974	Owensboro
Heartland Imaging	MRI Technologist II- Outpatient- PRN	Elizabethtown
Canon Solutions America, Inc.	Copier Fleet Coordinator - Client Service Rep II	Louisville
Linde	Class A Driver	Ashland
Linde	Class A CDL Team Tanker Truck Drivers - Sign-on Bonus!	Ashland
Linde	CDL A Driver	Ashland
Lazer Logistics	Class A CDL Driver	Franklin
ABM Janitorial Services	Cleaners	Ghent
Lazer Logistics	Class A CDL DRIVER	Henderson
Community Action Council	Senior Accountant	Lexington
Teleperformance USA	HR Business Partner (Onsite: Louisville, KY)	Louisville
Lazer Logistics	Class A CDL Driver	Owensboro
JBS Carriers	CDL A Truck Drivers - $250 per Load and $2,500 Bonus!	Russellville
JUDDMONTE	BDC Assistant	Lexington
JUDDMONTE	Immediate Openings Accounting Assistant Lexington	Lexington
JUDDMONTE	Immediate Openings Accounting Assistant Lexington	Richmond
Comfort Suites, Bowling Green	Laundry Attendant - Part Time	Bowling Green
Wendy's	Restaurant Manager (W)	Cave City
Kroger	Overnight Stocker	Cold Spring
Fls Connect Llc	Remote Sales Representative	Edgewood
Disabled American Veterans	Assistant to the National Voluntary Services Director	Erlanger
U.S. Army Forces Command	Occupational Therapy Assistant (Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant)	Fort Campbell
William H Hunter Recruiting	Assistant Quality Manager	Georgetown
T-Mobile	Mobile Expert/Sales Associate	Georgetown
Encompass Design Develop and Construct	Construction Manager	La Grange

Hey guys, here are some recent job openings in ky. Feel free to comment here or send me a private message if you have any questions, I'm at the community's disposal! If you encounter any problems with any of these job openings please let me know that I will modify the table accordingly. Thanks!

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All prices USD, shipped prices. PayPal Goods and Services for shipped pieces. Cash possibly in local purchases, but for those items less than $150.

Item Name	Price	Notes
EVGA RTX 2070 SUPER 8GB GDDR6	$240 shipped	Used. Was my daily driver until buying a 3080ti from here.
XFX RX 560 4GB GDDR5	$60 shipped	Used in a media server.
2x4GB DDR3 Kingston HyperX Fury	$20 shipped	Used in a media server.
Razor Ripsaw HD	$45 shipped	Used for streaming Switch games. Includes USB-A to C cable. Sold to Hehachi
Steam Link	$20 shipped	Used 5 times in total. Original box and plugs included.
Leap Motion	$80 shipped	Used. Model: LM-010, Original box and cables included.
ChromeCast 1080p (2nd Generation)	$20 shipped	Used. Cables in timestamp picture are included.
Canon T3i w/ extras	$170 shipped	Used. Base works. Includes: battery to usb converter, battery + charger, extra camera lens (50mm f/1.8 II) (zoom works). Stock lens included does NOT auto zoom (an experienced lens fixer could probably repair it).
iTach Wifi WF2FIR	$60 shipped	Used with Homeseer. Includes all accessories.
Yamaha MG06 Mixer	$120 shipped	Used for streaming / WFH before upgrading.
Launchkey Mini	$50 shipped	Used once. Original box included.
75’ Sony X85J Android(Google) TV	$1000 obo. (Local pickup only).	Local pickup only, Original box, original feet stands and free glass VESA stand included.

Shipping in USA only.
Local pickup: 11223 and near lower Brooklyn area.
Thank you!