Thread:Sugarhoney/@comment-30128802-20170616204553/@comment-30128802-20170618070429

I've been assessing how many edits would be necessary for changing how birthdates are presented, given that certain birthdates are actually documented independent or can be definitively derived.

On this matter, the most interesting case I've found is that of David Sarif. He is listed as age 57 in his official bio for DXHR but only age 58 in his official bio for DXMD. We know that DXMD takes place in late October or in November (since the Human Restoration Act is set to vote in November 2029, and DXMD takes place a little over a week prior to that). Given that Sarif has only had 1 birthday between DXHR and DXMD, we can conclude that he was born between October 1990 and December 1990. So 1990 is confirmed.

The fact that Sarif is listed as having aged only 1 whole year between DXHR and DXMD, whereas Pritchard is listed as having aged 2 whole years, makes me wonder if the devs already have a databank of all the birthdates thought out already.

I've also noticed that the Sarif datafile lists the birthdates of many characters, including Darrow, Pritchard, and Megan. However, the listed birthdate of Malik (2002) is erroneous. Among other characters, the birthdates of Marchenko and Federova are confirmed by other sources.

Interestingly, of all the characters with birthdates verifiable by other sources (that I've found so far), only Sarif's birthdate would have been incorrectly computed from age (and only if we use his DXMD age). Part of the reason why age-derived birthdates seem to hold up could be that both DXMD and DXHR take place late in the year. DXHR takes place later in the year 2027 than DXMD is in the year 2029.

If the bithdates displays are revised, it would also be necessary to adjust the timeline as well. So the edit would be more cumbersome than I had thought...