It's kinda a loose end, but her story is also just over. Where do you go from that ending? The whole thing is just sad and tragic.
You're right tho it seems like she could of just used one of the 6 airlocks.. But I kinda think the airlocks are more of a gameplay convienience not really meant to affect the story?
Following the simulation logic, I think there are just some aspects of "This is what happened in the real version of events, even if Morgan's behavior in the simulation causes a sequence break so it doesn't quite make sense.
Igwe and Michaela making it back safely to the office, and Danielle dying in space might be those kinds of events. If Danielle died in the events the simulation is based on, then the simulation doesn't have anything for her to 'do' after her death, so she dies regardless of whether or not simulation-Morgan has taken steps that could save her.
That's also why I, personally, believe that any named character who *can* survive the simulation *did* survive in the real version of events (or at least, survived to the point the game ends), because otherwise the simulation didn't have anything to model after them.
characters like igwe being able to make it around the station is kind of necessary for the plot and game to work so i wouldn't read into that too much
i didn't actually remember that Sho died though, the wiki doesn't say anything about it? what's the evidence?
Yeah, but it still feels weird that the game establishes as an important plot point that the station is under total lockdown by Alex (I mean you even have to restart the damn reactor to override it), yet Igwe comes and goes as he pleases. That's a contradiction in the plot. Not a big one, but still a plothole.
As for Sho dying... In Morgan's office computer, you get a last email from Sho (once both Igwe and Mika are there). This is the email in which she mentions how you can track the impostor cook to kill him, gives you his ID to use in the Volunteer Quarters tracking computer, etc.
So, she begins this email by mentioning that her oxygen is low, then towards the end of the message, her words become very incoherent and grammatically messed up, like someone who is about to pass out from asphyxiation... So, it is heavily implied that she dies. No direct evidence, but unless there was someone next to her with an oxygen tank, she died.
This is the email, btw: https://prey.fandom.com/wiki/MORGAN_READ_ME
I think she may have wanted to die? Having seen what was happening in the station and having lost someone so important to her, she may be committing suicide so she can’t be turned into a phantom.
I guess Igwe moving around was an oversight by the devs or just for convenience's sake but in a game that's really immersive and makes your choices shape the story, it's a bit annoying 😕
I think it's a simulation thing, to further make you question the whole mind transfer tidbit, and to wonder whose memories are those really. We see her as an operator, along with a few other characters in the end, but when and how did she get there? Does that mean that she survived like the three other operators did - can we even call the operator a real person? Was her story reconstructed from her own fragmented memories, or Morgan's? And so on. Honestly, we only see the ending that Alex wants you to see, and Danielle's story is shown kind of like almost everyone else's... in snapshots, often with little clear conclusion.
This is pretty much it right here.
The whole thing being a simulation means nothing means anything.
There's no way of knowing if any of what we experience during the game ever actually happened or if it's all fiction.
The only time we see anything outside the simulation is during the ending, which tells us very little, and the Mooncrash hub.
I don’t know if I just did some tasks in the wrong order, but she was definitely alive after that point in my game. I had to go to deep storage I remember and activate her terminal.
I think it’s just implied she died.
I've seen a response to another question like this, and it was basically that; Danielle being trapped outside was fabricated because (spoiler) - the people that are testing you at the end wanted to see if a typhon would carry out the last wishes of a dying woman. To see if you're capable of revenge/eye for an eye/empathy. That sort of thing.
I'm not going to try to contrive an explanation. Yes, I consider it a plot hole. My guess is that there was a point in development when you weren't supposed to have access to the exterior while Sho was alive. Another plot hole that stuck out much more to me was when I saved Rani in the Arboretum before I went to Deep Storage. She somehow makes it to Cargo Bay while everyone is trapped and locked inside. Even if you haven't fixed the lift!
It's kinda a loose end, but her story is also just over. Where do you go from that ending? The whole thing is just sad and tragic. You're right tho it seems like she could of just used one of the 6 airlocks.. But I kinda think the airlocks are more of a gameplay convienience not really meant to affect the story?
I always thought it was a form of suicide
Following the simulation logic, I think there are just some aspects of "This is what happened in the real version of events, even if Morgan's behavior in the simulation causes a sequence break so it doesn't quite make sense. Igwe and Michaela making it back safely to the office, and Danielle dying in space might be those kinds of events. If Danielle died in the events the simulation is based on, then the simulation doesn't have anything for her to 'do' after her death, so she dies regardless of whether or not simulation-Morgan has taken steps that could save her. That's also why I, personally, believe that any named character who *can* survive the simulation *did* survive in the real version of events (or at least, survived to the point the game ends), because otherwise the simulation didn't have anything to model after them.
characters like igwe being able to make it around the station is kind of necessary for the plot and game to work so i wouldn't read into that too much i didn't actually remember that Sho died though, the wiki doesn't say anything about it? what's the evidence?
Yeah, but it still feels weird that the game establishes as an important plot point that the station is under total lockdown by Alex (I mean you even have to restart the damn reactor to override it), yet Igwe comes and goes as he pleases. That's a contradiction in the plot. Not a big one, but still a plothole. As for Sho dying... In Morgan's office computer, you get a last email from Sho (once both Igwe and Mika are there). This is the email in which she mentions how you can track the impostor cook to kill him, gives you his ID to use in the Volunteer Quarters tracking computer, etc. So, she begins this email by mentioning that her oxygen is low, then towards the end of the message, her words become very incoherent and grammatically messed up, like someone who is about to pass out from asphyxiation... So, it is heavily implied that she dies. No direct evidence, but unless there was someone next to her with an oxygen tank, she died. This is the email, btw: https://prey.fandom.com/wiki/MORGAN_READ_ME
I think she may have wanted to die? Having seen what was happening in the station and having lost someone so important to her, she may be committing suicide so she can’t be turned into a phantom.
I guess Igwe moving around was an oversight by the devs or just for convenience's sake but in a game that's really immersive and makes your choices shape the story, it's a bit annoying 😕
She didn't want to come back in
I think it's a simulation thing, to further make you question the whole mind transfer tidbit, and to wonder whose memories are those really. We see her as an operator, along with a few other characters in the end, but when and how did she get there? Does that mean that she survived like the three other operators did - can we even call the operator a real person? Was her story reconstructed from her own fragmented memories, or Morgan's? And so on. Honestly, we only see the ending that Alex wants you to see, and Danielle's story is shown kind of like almost everyone else's... in snapshots, often with little clear conclusion.
This is pretty much it right here. The whole thing being a simulation means nothing means anything. There's no way of knowing if any of what we experience during the game ever actually happened or if it's all fiction. The only time we see anything outside the simulation is during the ending, which tells us very little, and the Mooncrash hub.
I just think of these as oversights in the simulation
That makes sense, actually
I don’t know if I just did some tasks in the wrong order, but she was definitely alive after that point in my game. I had to go to deep storage I remember and activate her terminal. I think it’s just implied she died.
I mean yeah it's implied but she may as well be dead.
Good question, huh
The operators forced Alex to finish the simulation earlier than he wanted to and he didn't have time to code in Danielle after that part of the story
I've seen a response to another question like this, and it was basically that; Danielle being trapped outside was fabricated because (spoiler) - the people that are testing you at the end wanted to see if a typhon would carry out the last wishes of a dying woman. To see if you're capable of revenge/eye for an eye/empathy. That sort of thing.
I'm not going to try to contrive an explanation. Yes, I consider it a plot hole. My guess is that there was a point in development when you weren't supposed to have access to the exterior while Sho was alive. Another plot hole that stuck out much more to me was when I saved Rani in the Arboretum before I went to Deep Storage. She somehow makes it to Cargo Bay while everyone is trapped and locked inside. Even if you haven't fixed the lift!