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Life is Strange (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)/Early Locations

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This is a sub-page of Life is Strange (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux).

Early Location List

The release version of Episode 1 has the entire location list of all future episodes, along with early and scrapped locations.

Episode 3ː Chaos Theory

Early: Final: Notes:
Episode3Sub2="Campus Dormitories" Episode3Sub2="Dormitories" All instances of "Campus Dormitories" have been changed to "Dormitories".
Episode3Sub7="E3_4A Nightmare" Episode3Sub7="Nightmare" While the location has a name, it never appears in the final, it was placed between the "Parking Lot" and "Chloe's Room".
Episode3Sub10="Chloe's Truck" Episode3Sub11="Chloe's Truck" Appears before the Diner, but happens after it in the final.

Episode 4ː Dark Room

Early: Final: Notes:
Episode4Sub1="Alternative Beach" Episode4Sub1="Alternative Beach"
Episode4Sub2="Alternative Chloe's Room\n"
Episode4Sub2="Alternative Chloe's House - Downstairs" Episode4Sub3="Alternative Chloe's House -\n Downstairs" Chloe's room might have been part of the Downstairs map.
Episode4Sub3="Alternative Chloe's House - Upstairs" Episode4Sub4="Alternative Chloe's House -\n Upstairs\n"
Episode4Sub5="Alternative Chloe's House -\nDownstairs with the morphine" Max might have focused back before Chloe asked her to end her life.
Episode4Sub4="Chloe's House - Focus" Episode4Sub6="Chloe's House - Focus\n"
Episode4Sub5="Chloe's House - Upstairs" Episode4Sub7="Chloe's House - Upstairs\n"
Episode4Sub6="Chloe's House - Downstairs" Episode4Sub8="Chloe's House - Downstairs\n"
Episode4Sub9="Hospital" This scene was added in shortly before release, reusing assets from the scrapped Hospital ending.
Episode4Sub10="Dormitories\n"
Episode4Sub8="Boys Dormitories" Episode4Sub11="Boys' Dormitories"
Episode4Sub12="Main Campus "
Episode4Sub7="Beach - Frank's Showdown" Episode4Sub13="Beach \n"
Episode4Sub14="Chloe's House - Investigation"
Episode4Sub9="Old Farm" Episode4Sub15="Old Barn\n" Instead of just the Barn, it seems that the whole Farm was supposed to be playable.
Episode4Sub10="Junkyard" Episode4Sub16="Junkyard"
Episode4Sub11="Main Campus - Before The Party" Episode4Sub17="Parking Lot" The location was moved to the Parking Lot for some reason.
Episode4Sub12="Swimming Pool - Party" Episode4Sub18="Swimming Pool - Party"
Episode4Sub13="Jefferson's Car" A scene removed from the final, placeholder text and lipsynch files exist for it, though.
Episode4Sub19="Junkyard - Evening" Episode4Sub19="Junkyard - Evening"

Episode 5ː Polarized

Early: Final: Notes:
Episode5Sub1="Dark Room" Episode5Sub01="Dark Room"
Episode5Sub2="Dark Room - Focus" Episode5Sub02="Dark Room – 1st Focus" Only one focus seemed to have been planned at first.
Episode5Sub03="Dark Room – After The Focus"
Episode5Sub04="Dark Room – 2nd Focus"
Episode5Sub3="Art Class - Focus" Episode5Sub05="Art Class - Focus"
Episode5Sub4="Plane To San Francisco" Episode5Sub06="Plane –\nBetween Realities" Unlike the final, The location seemed to be happening in the present time. The \n starts a new line.
Episode5Sub5="San Francisco's Art Gallery" Episode5Sub07="Art Gallery"
Episode5Sub6="Max's Room - Focus" Episode5Sub08="Max’s Room - Focus"
Episode5Sub09="Dark Room - Confrontation"
Episode5Sub10="Old Barn"
Episode5Sub7="Chloe's Truck - In The Storm" Part of "Episode5Sub11="Jefferson’s Car" Max might have originally ended up with Chloe after the last Focus, hence why she is in her truck.
Episode5Sub8="E5_5B MainStreet" Part of "Episode5Sub11="Jefferson’s Car" The "Main Street" is the prerendered cutscene location.
Episode5Sub9="Diner - In The Storm" Episode5Sub12="Diner"
Episode5Sub10="Swimming Pool - Focus" Episode5Sub13="Parking Lot - Focus" The picture with Warren, if it even was planned at that point, seemed to have been directly at the party.

Or, Max was supposed to take a picture with Chloe in Episode 3 and use it as the focus point.

Episode5Sub14="Beach" Prerendered cutscene.
Episode5Sub16="Nightmare" Episode5Sub15="Nightmare" The nightmare is listed after the endings while in the final it is listed before the endings.

If this was intentional or an afterthought is unknown.

Episode5Sub11="Cliff - In The Storm" Episode5Sub16="Cliff"
Episode5Sub12="On The Road - Ending" Episode5Sub17="On The Road – Ending"
Episode5Sub13="High School Toilets - Focus" Part of "Episode5Sub18="Cemetery – Ending" The scene plays out in a prerendered cutscene up to the point where Chloe gets shot by Nathan.

An unfinished map file exists in which the scene would had played out ingame and David would burst in and mourn his daughter.

Episode5Sub14="Cliff" Part of "Episode5Sub18="Cemetery – Ending"
Episode5Sub15="Hospital - Ending" Part of "Episode5Sub18="Cemetery – Ending" Chloe was originally supposed to end up in a coma after getting shot.

The location was repurposed for Kate's hospital room, along with the decorations, as proven by concept art.

Early Location Order

Episode 4 originally had a different flow of events.


Early Order: Final Order: Notes:
Episode4Sub1="Alternative Beach" Episode4Sub1="Alternative Beach"
Episode4Sub2="Alternative Chloe's House - Downstairs" Episode4Sub2="Alternative Chloe's Room\n"
Episode4Sub3="Alternative Chloe's House - Upstairs" Episode4Sub3="Alternative Chloe's House -\n Downstairs"
Episode4Sub4="Chloe's House - Focus" Episode4Sub4="Alternative Chloe's House -\n Upstairs\n"
Episode4Sub5="Chloe's House - Upstairs" Episode4Sub5="Alternative Chloe's House -\nDownstairs with the morphine"
Episode4Sub6="Chloe's House - Downstairs" Episode4Sub6="Chloe's House - Focus\n"
Episode4Sub7="Beach - Frank's Showdown" Episode4Sub7="Chloe's House - Upstairs\n" Instead of searching Nathan's room, Chloe and Max head to Frank first.
Episode4Sub8="Boys Dormitories" Episode4Sub8="Chloe's House - Downstairs\n" In an unused line from Max, she wonders how Nathan got Rachel's bracelet from Frank. This was most likely for when Frank dies in the prior scene and got scrapped when the scenes got rearranged.
Episode4Sub9="Old Farm" Episode4Sub9="Hospital" They then directly head to the Prescott farm without having to connect the dots at Chloe's house, leaving the assumption that Nathan had left a big clue in his room.
Episode4Sub10="Junkyard" Episode4Sub10="Dormitories\n"
Episode4Sub11="Main Campus - Before The Party" Episode4Sub11="Boys' Dormitories"
Episode4Sub12="Swimming Pool - Party" Episode4Sub12="Main Campus "
Episode4Sub13="Jefferson's Car" Episode4Sub13="Beach \n"
Episode4Sub14="Junkyard - Evening" Episode4Sub14="Chloe's House - Investigation"
Episode4Sub15="Old Barn\n"
Episode4Sub16="Junkyard"
Episode4Sub17="Parking Lot"
Episode4Sub18="Swimming Pool - Party"
Episode4Sub19="Junkyard - Evening"