Now that the developer playthrough of mental Act 1 is finished, I felt motivated to try and make a definite timeline for the missions in Act 1 based solely on the pre and post mission briefings available before and after each mission, respectively. While I feel fairly confident in the ordering of the early and late game missions, I had a hard time getting a definite timeline for the mid-game missions. Any help in figuring out the ordering for those would greatly be appreciated! I remeber seeing another timeline chart linked somewhere before but I can't find it anymore
Some things I should mention about the chart I made. Missions that span more than one "box" worth of space imply that the mission could start and end at any point in the space reserved by the number of boxes. As an example, Epsilon 4 could start at the same time as Soviet 3 and end after one, two, or threes boxes worth of time. Or it could start at the same time as Soviet 4 and end after one or two time boxes. I used this notation for missions that I couldn't get a definite reference frame for when a mission begins and ends.
The orange boxes on the right define dependencies that must occur for the briefings to be accurate. For example, the beginning briefing for Soviet 3 explicitly mentions the Allies retaking the Florida military base that you take in Allied 4. Thus, Allied 4 must have finished before Soviet 3 began.
The most notable missions that I'd love help figuring out are as follow:
- Does Epsilon 2 (Accelerant) happen at the same time as Allied 1 and Soviet 1 or after? Allied 2 must happen after Epsilon 2 so the timing would help resolve a few unknowns.
- Is there a specific time when the Golden gate bridge attack happens? Allied 4 mentions the western Allied fleet being decimated which hints that Soviet 2 finishes before Allied 4 but it's unknown when exactly Soviet 2 happens.
- I'm not sure when Epsilon 3 & 4 happen specifically since they're hardly mentioned in the Soviet and Allied briefings. The only mention of Epsilon 3 is in the first Allied coop mission which suggests Epsilon 3 happens around the same time as Soviet 3.
- There's no indication of when the first few missions for all sides occur after the North American Theater dies down. They could happen simultaneously or could occur at different times. This is the segment that I'm most curious about.
In addition, I haven't personally played the coop missions yet so I don't know what those missions tell you about the timeline. As those get uploaded, I'll try to refine the timeline as best as possible.