I saw "backtracking" as a good thing.
These people are completely brainwashed.
Are there still people who doubt my theory about the german government operation?
It's probably the colonial trauma speaking in you. Whites in North America do not have a sense of place. Their psyche tells them to stay mobile and flee when things get sour. "Philly fell to blacks, why defend it, just move to Chicago. Chicago fell to blacks, why defend it, just move to LA. LA fell to mestizos, why defend it, just flee to Texas. Texas fell to mestizos, why defend it, just flee to Oregon." And so on. Meanwhile, whites in Europe stand their ground till the bitter end and would not even surrender locations when they were stolen decades ago by a fairly similar people, as in Kosovo or Constantinople.
To the whites in Europe, locations have a sacred meaning, including nature. The history of a place is their history as a people - in fact, even more ancient and primordial. This is the forest where Arminius led the pre-Germans to fight Caesar. These are the mountains where Thor fought the giants or where Dacians made blood sacrifice. When our ancestors spoke of dryads or rusalkas, these are the rivers and groves where they lived. These dense woods and swamps saved us from the Mongols. This can get very particular down to the specific cellar.
But to whites in America, not even cities matter. Location to them is generic, defined not by its cultural meaning, but by its abstract physical traits, like for a tourist in Africa. Look at this very huge red canyon! Wow, what a large gorgeous waterfall! That's a really old unique big tree! It has an appeal to an "outdoorsy" person or some kind of a global hippie tree hugger, but it is largely bereft of its völkish meaning. The forest in America is more of a reverse of it, since it is Indian and it is the abode of alien spirits, culturally speaking. At most, it has a connection with southern identity, the Civil War, and the Puritans, but it does not stretch out far into the truly mythological or even medieval. The US white cannot say earnestly, my biological ancestors lived in this location 2000 years ago, and you will never take this land away from me, alien POC filth. When a white from America feels a connection with the land, it is often in Europe. He goes to Scotland and he understands it, for example, in a typical Lovecraft fashion. But in America, locations are basically generic and when they are not, they are long since discarded and not liked (like NYC).
This lack of appreciation for temporal depth in a location makes US whites less capable of appreciating Gothic, and makes them partial to big empty open world games where location has no real meaning.
(Or it could be something about piracy and consoles, idk)
). I'm not disagreeing, I generally try to optimize things and get upset if they don't click smoothly, I have that bit of 'tism in me 
