How did Tseng survive the Temple of the Ancients?

[cloud21zidane16]

That isn't quite right. The party finds Tseng at the entrance, then later on they are shown a vision of what happened to Tseng. It's a flashback to when he received the injury.

What? So the scene where he gets sliced happened before Cloud's team found him outside?

I've been playing this game for ages and I never realized!

Yeah he said to Elena they should go to dinner once the missions over then she left. He got sliced and probably fought for his life to get back outside, then Cloud shows up, i just presumed that Elena or someone from Shinra found him.

Besides its still possible to do the Wutai sidequest after this and dosent Reno get a call from Tseng when your rescuing Yuffie and Elena? i may be wrong.
But im sure somewhere after this he is mentioned once, i think Elena is saying you hurt Tseng to Cloud but he replys "no that was Sephiroth"

[MJN SEIFER]

Yeah he said to Elena they should go to dinner once the missions over then she left. He got sliced and probably fought for his life to get back outside, then Cloud shows up, i just presumed that Elena or someone from Shinra found him.

Right, now I finally understand what was wrong with him when he was found. Stupidly I thought he'd gone back in for some reason.

Besides its still possible to do the Wutai sidequest after this and dosent Reno get a call from Tseng when your rescuing Yuffie and Elena? i may be wrong.

It is never said who is calling Reno, it could be Tseng, but it could easilly have been someone else like Rufus, (or maybe Heidegger, since he has some comand over the Turks, doesn't he).

But im sure somewhere after this he is mentioned once, i think Elena is saying you hurt Tseng to Cloud but he replys "no that was Sephiroth"

Elena want's to know who "did Tseng in" which is a term for murdering, there is always a possiblity the translaters didn't realize that though.

[Ari]

Am I wrong? Ive played this game for years, and the way I always put things together, from whatever investigating i could do, was that Tseng was cait sith, and that he was controlling it from wherever. At one point, when cait sith betrays them or whatever, it shows a scene, where Tseng is saying "sorry cloud.." to himself from within Shinra headquarters. Where you also find cait siths ultimate weapon later on.

I honestly havent played the game in years. But that is always how I understood it... Even after the temple of the ancients, where he sacrifices himself (just a robot though). you continue to have tseng in your party (cait sith).

I could be wrong. That is how I interpreted it always. Dunno.

[Big D]

It was Reeve, not Tseng, who was controlling Cait Sith. This is firmly established during the Sister Ray scene, after Diamond Weapon's attack on Midgar. Reeve gets caught out when he's trying to hold down a conversation with Scarlet and Heidegger, at the same time as he's using Cait Sith to talk to the Avalanche crowd.

[Ari]

It was Reeve, not Tseng, who was controlling Cait Sith. This is firmly established during the Sister Ray scene, after Diamond Weapon's attack on Midgar. Reeve gets caught out when he's trying to hold down a conversation with Scarlet and Heidegger, at the same time as he's using Cait Sith to talk to the Avalanche crowd.

Ah, crap. Wrong guy haha. yeah, thats right. Thanks. I gotta play this game again.

[Big D]

Those Shinra guys all look the same, so it'd be an easy oversight to make