Guild Wars 2

So I been doing the Thaumanova fractal a lot today and I can’t help but notice that it looks nothing like the one at the Asura starting area. What gives?

It is the same reactor. The fractal despicts the reactor before it blows:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Thaumanova_Reactor
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Thaumanova_Reactor_Fractal

I feel so newb for asking this:
Do any of my Lore Gurus know where I can find a cinamatic for this? Like what we have for Scarlet and the Breachmaker demise? I would happily click on that Proiry scholar for the juicy details!- Thank you in advance

I understand one is supposed to be before the explotion. What I was referring to is that they don’t match. The Fractal one seems to have all this rooms and it’s way bigger than the one in Metrica.

@Arkengel Supposedly, what blew was an Inquest lab under the ruins we see in Metrica. I think that lab is what the Fractal is supposed to be- it’s open at the top, but that might be explained away as one of the errors in the copying.

@trub No cinematic to be had, except for the one that ends the fractal, which is just the screen shaking wildly followed by a flash of white light.

Arkengel RaF.9672:

I understand one is supposed to be before the explotion. What I was referring to is that they don’t match. The Fractal one seems to have all this rooms and it’s way bigger than the one in Metrica.

First, keep in mind that Thaumanova is a city, not just a reactor.

Secondly, the fractal is the underground reactor – you can see a (shattered) ceiling floating above in some portions (it even gets highlighted as you kill the anomaly while it floats away and breaks apart) and everything. You know where you jump down in order to get teleported high up onto the Champion Steam Ogre’s platform? Down there is the reactor room, best I can tell, and the center of the fractal in fact.

Open world = the surface of the city (streets and whatnot); fractal = underground lab of the reactor

Oh ok that makes alot more sense. I just couldn’t find the familiar rooms like the fire elemental one.