LIFE may take place in the real world, but the player character still believes in his hallucination/dying dream as he has become crazy from the experiences he/she 'experienced'. Hendricks and the others are likely not there at all, but rather this is the Player's interpretation of what is happening.

All of it is not what actually happened in the reality of Black Ops 3, but rather the Player's insane interpretation of what is going on. That's why Taylor has to go through with the whole 'Frozen Forest' thing - he understands that the Player is insane and cannot be dealt with by normal means. He convinces the Player to commit suicide so that he can take back control of his own body. That last view when the Player says 'Taylor'? That's the dying Player, slowly fading away from reality.

At least, this was my interpretation.

hmmm.... ok. I kind of like that explanation. It fits at least. So you're saying the entirety of LIFE was hallucinations from the player while Taylor fought to take his body back?

And also, according to your interpretation, we still don't truly know what occurred during LIFE then. In the real world at least. Did Hendricks die? Did Rachael Kane die? Kreuger? Were any of them even there to begin with? Or what about the CORVUS entity? Was there really a DNI virus or just something the dying player created in their head to make sense out of everything?

To my understanding, at the end of the mission when you walk out the building through the front doors and the soldier asks for your name, that WAS the real world. The player in reality did go to Zurich and did enter the Coalescence Building but what else actually DID happen, I have no idea.

Hendricks' robot attack? That wasn't actually Hendricks' fault - that was a CDP terror attack in retaliation for the events of the mission 'Black Ops'. It played perfectly into the mind of the Player, whose hallucinations made it seem like the attack was orchestrated by Hendricks. The same goes for all your 'allies' in that mission up to the DNI purge attempt. Kane? Not there - you shot every robot. You were the one killing people and firing it all because you believe that this Kane is with you and going to kill a rogue Hendricks.

In reality, you're helping the ZSF stop a terror attack out of insanity.

You're fighting through the entire mission on the ZSF's side but when you get into Coalescence, Taylor seizes his chance. What little control he has left he uses to influence you to not commit suicide. That sequence in the Frozen Forest is where he walks you through the process of 'defeating Corvus' - who *isn't real* - so that you will manually initiate a DNI purge to eliminate Corvus, ostensibly the virus in the system, when in reality you are the virus.

TL;DR: You, the player, are slowly taking over Taylor's body. So to prevent that from happening, he utilises your hallucinations of a completely fake dream to initiate a DNI purge, eliminating you - and allowing him to take back control over his being.

Like I said, my interpretation.

hmm... well until treyarch gives an official black ops timeline that explains everything that has occurred in their 100+ years of fictional history, I'm going to go with your intetpretation.

Also somewhat related, but what are your thoughts on the Signapore disaster from Bo3? the explosion that made the quarantine zone. Ever since Bo4 came out, A LOT of info that we thought we knew in Bo3 just doesn't make sense anymore. According to Bo3, the Coalescence/Nova 6 explosion occurred in 2060 but Bo4 supposedly has Seraph in the 54i in 2045. Seraphs bio (both in bo3 AND bo4) says that moved into the quarantine zone at the age of 14. She is 18 in bo4. This means that according to bo4, the Signapore disaster had to of occurred in 2041. But both games show contradictory evidence. Do you think this is just slip-up in treyarchs part? Or is their some type of hidden story that we still don't know?

From what I can tell, the 54i set up shop in, but did not originate from, Singapore. Rather, abandoned refugees joined the 54i in droves when they moved in. The 54i don't make much sense anyways; and neither does the entire Coalescence disaster. The settings of BO3 and BO4 are a total clusterfuck.

YEEEES you can say that again. Idk if you ever read them but when bo4 came out, they released these comics for each specialist in the game. That has so much contradictory stuff that I almost don't even want to refer to it as canon. They don't put any actual dates in them (maybe on purpose, who knows) they mention prophet getting DNI (which wasn't invented until 2058) and have reaper in one them (who wasn't made until the 2060's) and other things that just don't make sense.

This is what happened

1st mission of the game -Black Ops is actually the last one.

This is why.

You the player gets wounded in the 1st mission and goes under surgery in Zurich. While you are being operated by the doctors you get into a simulation New World. You actually die in this mission - you can see this when you encaunter the robots you see doctors keeping away Taylor from you which means you are dead.

To keep you alive (at least your brain thats still working) Taylor gives you his memories to make your life longer. You do the missions and when you get to the finall mission you finish Teylors story thats the end to the story.

Life is bassicly your brain out of memories so your brain stops- you die.

You burn your hurt, brain and other vital organs and in the end die.

I hope i explaned well enough!

(Sorry for any spelling mistakes)

This is the video I got the info from

: youtu.be/0hCIULujOzI