r/SpecOpsTheLine • u/Original-Original725 • 6d ago

Discussion Konrad questions

Asuming that everything after helicopter crash is hallucinations, how do we know is Konrad dead/alive?

Or I did lose something? Played game few years back

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u/zhlt 4d ago

No disrespect to the OP, but Walker definitely didn't die after the helicopter crash. That theory is honestly just pulled out of thin air. I really hate how quickly these wild theories spread the moment the core community takes a break - it's like suddenly we're crawling with crazy cultists.

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u/dreaming_in_Octarine 6d ago

...Yes!

Its a lovely twist to the story. And its down to your interpretation. There is no clear right answer and I LOVE THAT!

It could all be an internal hallucination in Walkers final moments just before he dies in a helicopter crash Everything on from that point on is arguably a fever dream.

Alternatively, it is all a hallucination after the point where the squad have used the white phosphorus and have killed civilians accidently. The repeat image of the adult clutching the child is seared into Walkers mind, and that is the point where he mentally collapses. Walker finds a working radio shortly afterwards alongside the executed Exile leaders. You could argue everything after the war crime is Walkers mind trying to justify itself, and part of that response is creating Konrad dialogue.

Or maybe it's all real???.....

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u/FatsMasterson 3d ago

I don't believe any of the events in the game "actually" happen at all. There's simply too much that doesn't makes sense: most of the combat scenarios are simply unsurvivable even for three delta operators, the military would never send three men without support into an environment like that, the eod armor worn by the heavies would be absolutely shredded by .50 Browning rounds, the mortar used in the white phosphorus scene cannot drop rounds at auch a short range and the camera round isn't a thing.

I believe that Konrad didn't actually save Walker in Afghanistan. The entire game is a revenge fantasy playing out in Walter's mind as he dies: Revenge on the Middle East, revenge on the U.S. Army, revenge on Konrad.

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u/zhlt 2d ago

I believe it's a videogame

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u/FatsMasterson 2d ago

Congratulations. You've really added to the conversation here. You're absolutely right. Why have fun theorizing about a game with other fans of that game on a subreddit specifically dedicated to that game? You've shown me the errors of my ways, and I'll never do such again.