(Spoiler) Why Did I Get "Path of Glory" Instead of "New Dawn Fades" After the Secret Ending?

[Sir Loin]

I recently completed the secret ending ("Don't Fear the Reaper"). At the end of the cyberspace scene, I chose to enter the well, meaning I decided to return to V's body. Johnny even said, "Goodbye, V. Don't stop fightin'," which confirmed my choice.

However, after this, I got the "Path of Glory" epilogue, where V wakes up in a mansion, from what I’ve read (including the wiki), choosing the well should lead to "New Dawn Fades", where V struggles with the deteriorating condition of their body.

I’m wondering if I missed something or if this outcome is tied to my choices earlier in the game. For context:

I had high Johnny affinity (85%).
I didn’t notice anything unusual in the lead-up to the cyberspace decision.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is it due to a patch or a specific trigger I might have missed?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

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Originally posted by Sir Loin:

I recently completed the secret ending ("Don't Fear the Reaper"). At the end of the cyberspace scene, I chose to enter the well, meaning I decided to return to V's body. Johnny even said, "Goodbye, V. Don't stop fightin'," which confirmed my choice.

However, after this, I got the "Path of Glory" epilogue, where V wakes up in a mansion, from what I’ve read (including the wiki), choosing the well should lead to "New Dawn Fades", where V struggles with the deteriorating condition of their body.

I've read so much about different endings in the past days that I'm getting a little blurry, but I believe New Dawn Fades is where Johnny keeps the body.

I did Knockin' on Heaven's Door a few days ago and let V take the body (Johnny is in control after Knockin') and that lead to Path of Glory.
It was kind of confusing because V gets angry at Johnny and tries to stop him while he's walking to give her back the body, so I started wondering if I was actually picking the option to keep the body, but I wasn't.
Not sure how that plays out after Don't Fear the Reaper.

[EricHVela]

Any time Johnny keeps the body is New Dawn Fades. Nothing else matters.

Either way to storm Arasaka tower without Aldecaldos' and keeping the body ends with very slight variations of Path of Glory/Sun ending.

It's not affinity as "Johnny likes V" so much as "V is becoming like Johnny". That number has nothing to do with the "secret ending" and, as far as people can tell, has no effect on anything. It's just for player feedback on their choices regarding how Johnny would've done things.

(It would've been interesting if keeping that number low would've allowed Alt to safely reinsert V back into the body since V was not becoming Johnny, adding a second ending to Sun and Star endings, but that's not what happens. At a certain point, that number will jump when Johnny has some fun controlling V's body and there's no chance of bringing it down.)