(Spoilers) What the possible True Ending Requirements were prior to 1.09.

[Alycorisc]

If anyone is interested. Give this a read.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlicizationLycoris/comments/j8qmad/these_may_have_been_the_requirements_for_true/

[KUMAN]

woah interesting theory. i have to admit that i dislike medina at that time and pick choices that siding with alice

[Alycorisc]

Originally posted by KUMAN:

woah interesting theory. i have to admit that i dislike medina at that time and pick choices that siding with alice

Another theory i forgot to add is that there is 20 gemstones on the main visualizer's platform. same amount of numbers of people you have to bring in.

[KUMAN]

Originally posted by AlexC1994:

Another theory i forgot to add is that there is 20 gemstones on the main visualizer's platform. same amount of numbers of people you have to bring in.

woah, this is definitely very interesting and mind blowing theory, assume that it is true. defeating the administrator is very challenging at that time and i always thought that the main visualizer was a lazy design so i dont bother looking around.

looking forward to learn more about this interesting true ending.

[DEAD S.n.A.k.e.]

I have only two things to add/ask.
1. If you have a lot of free time (I don't mean it in a bad way) and willing to do all of this, why haven't you just reverted back to previous versions of the game (officially or even not officially) and just haven''t confirmed/refuted your theory? You don't need to complete through all the versions, just for example 1.00/1.01 and 1.05 - and also you can probably find saves with the completed game for this versions on the Internet as well, so all of that can be confirmed/refuted relatively fast (of course if the only thing that affects appearing of true ending is your statement that you need to battle the Administrator with all members of the band)? Yes, there will be bugs, but I, for example, didn't have critical bugs that stopped me from completing the game. I was even thinking about doing this myself, but, well, I am too lazy and I still not ready mentally to replay AL's story. Though, if you will be interested in this, I can fastly replay one of the versions to help you.
2. That's a question - I've never saw anything about it in your post on Reddit or in the other people's comments, but in the first two chapters during VN cutscenes with choices (at least in early versions, like 1.00-1.04 I think) sometimes there were special effects (blue squares appeared for a second in both lower right and left corners of the screen) when you choose one variant or another or read through all variants and not just skip two of them by choosing the lowest one. When I got that a couple of times I was thinking "That's defenitely means something!", but now I am totally not sure what was it and why was it implemented in the first place. So, that's of course just my speculation, but maybe true ending in the first versions of the game was also affected by those two recap chapters and without getting all "flags" by choosing the right variants/reading through all the dialogues you couldn't get it later even if you fulfilled all other conditions?

[Alycorisc]

Originally posted by DEAD S.n.A.k.e.:

I have only two things to add/ask.
1. If you have a lot of free time (I don't mean it in a bad way) and willing to do all of this, why haven't you just reverted back to previous versions of the game (officially or even not officially) and just haven''t confirmed/refuted your theory? You don't need to complete through all the versions, just for example 1.00/1.01 and 1.05 - and also you can probably find saves with the completed game for this versions on the Internet as well, so all of that can be confirmed/refuted relatively fast (of course if the only thing that affects appearing of true ending is your statement that you need to battle the Administrator with all members of the band)? Yes, there will be bugs, but I, for example, didn't have critical bugs that stopped me from completing the game. I was even thinking about doing this myself, but, well, I am too lazy and I still not ready mentally to replay AL's story. Though, if you will be interested in this, I can fastly replay one of the versions to help you.
2. That's a question - I've never saw anything about it in your post on Reddit or in the other people's comments, but in the first two chapters during VN cutscenes with choices (at least in early versions, like 1.00-1.04 I think) sometimes there were special effects (blue squares appeared for a second in both lower right and left corners of the screen) when you choose one variant or another or read through all variants and not just skip two of them by choosing the lowest one. When I got that a couple of times I was thinking "That's defenitely means something!", but now I am totally not sure what was it and why was it implemented in the first place. So, that's of course just my speculation, but maybe true ending in the first versions of the game was also affected by those two recap chapters and without getting all "flags" by choosing the right variants/reading through all the dialogues you couldn't get it later even if you fulfilled all other conditions?

I was going to roll back to an older version, but i had trouble getting the old versions. So i just went ahead and tried triggering the semi-true ending before clearing the game. If you have no problem doing it. go at it.

I thought the same about the teal effects with medina and eugeo, but i started to doubt it as much as the pro-medina choices after discovering new hints involving gemstones. Didn't bother with adding it.

[ForThatB]

It is an interesting theory about the true ending requirements for gems on the ground and all characters having a part. I doubt anyone want replay the ending because it was crashing a lot before 1.09. I think there white infinite loading screen problems as well after the Quinella fight.

[Lyncher]

There is still a good chance that it was just made up though, (Aquria have lied about plenty of stuff all ready like monthly raids and all cosmetics being available in the cube) so it gives a reason to keep Medina in for the future dlc. That highfive/fistbump scene with Eugeo and Kirito could of just been cut from the game for whatever reason and repurposed later which could explain why it was in the trailer for the game prior to release.

I also think if someone found it where they had to replay the final boss fight with all different AI characters they would of bragged about it somewhere after going through all that and it would of turned up on some forums or youtube rather than it coming directly from Aquria.

After Aquria's track record its just very suspicious is all but I can accept being wrong if you find actual proof so GL finding the true ending prior to 1.09.