IXION Ending(s) - Do not read if you do not want spoilers

[ManagerTricky]

Hi,

Been playing this game and loving it!

When it comes to Chapter 5 are there only two endings? Romulus or Remus? Currently have 6 hidden achievements to get and wondering if there is another ending at all. As I have saved at the beginning of Chapter 5 and just re-loaded and completed both sides. I see there is a hidden achievement called "Beyond Time & Space" - Anyone know what this is? Seems like another ending to me.

Many thanks,
DefiledRust

[Kimara23]

I have four hidden achievements left, but I am not sure which two I unlocked. I have completed both the Romulus and Remus endings. I also completed the one ending before and after the mutants were wiped out (the ending didn't change).

[sresk]

how do you get the romulus ending? I just completed the remus ending and am a little dissatisfied I want the spoilers please :)

[Natjur]

The right answers when doing the spheres side quests gives the Beyond Time and Space achievement

[SoulShock]

Romulus and Remus are currently the only 2 game ending options.

As previously mentioned, the 'Beyond Time and Space' achievement is a side quest, not an ending. It starts in Chapter 2 and ends in Chapter 5 and requires a variety of correct decisions to be made in succession.

To obtain the Romulus ending, ignore the Ashtangites and Remus. Find the planet Romulus with a scouting probe and continue on.

To be honest, both endings were (visually speaking) quite unsatisfying... especially when compared to the opening scenes of the game. It feels as though they had no more budget left and slapped together a Flash Player collage of concept drawings.

[Radam]

The whole concept of the story is kinda bonkers.

Like, intentionally testing interstellar drive near populated world.

And not having any guns to destroy the slowboat. Or invade the blue alien world like in Avatar 😅

[Batailleuse]

Originally posted by SoulShock:

Romulus and Remus are currently the only 2 game ending options.

As previously mentioned, the 'Beyond Time and Space' achievement is a side quest, not an ending. It starts in Chapter 2 and ends in Chapter 5 and requires a variety of correct decisions to be made in succession.

To obtain the Romulus ending, ignore the Ashtangites and Remus. Find the planet Romulus with a scouting probe and continue on.

To be honest, both endings were (visually speaking) quite unsatisfying... especially when compared to the opening scenes of the game. It feels as though they had no more budget left and slapped together a Flash Player collage of concept drawings.

I'm kinda hard stuck, on this. i have romulus. but when i send a ship it says "there is no planet here"

at some point the scientist said i have a new tech ... but i dont have anything to research.

so ...feels like i'm stuck, only can do the Remus ending.

[VANGUARD]

At some point you should've gotten a message from your science team that you need to cut off the ship's P.A. to investigate Romulus.
You do that by switching to the ship's outside view and select the new thing to build that appeared in the tab for quest related stuff.

[FernandoMalk]

Originally posted by Batailleuse:

Originally posted by SoulShock:

I'm kinda hard stuck, on this. i have romulus. but when i send a ship it says "there is no planet here"

at some point the scientist said i have a new tech ... but i dont have anything to research.

so ...feels like i'm stuck, only can do the Remus ending.

I also almost missed it, because I was waiting for an in-station event, or a new tech to be researched.

Like previously poster said, it is a new External Upgrade available to your ship. Build it and Romulus becomes explorable.

[FernandoMalk]

(ENDGAME SPOILERS AHEAD)

Let me start by saying I loved IXION, I've been playing it nonstop since purchasing it.

It got sooo many things right, and with a few tweaks and a few DLCs it can (and will) be even greater.

However, I do feel like story-wise, and specially with the final chapter, the game fell short on being legendary like the first Homeworld game.

There's just too many loose ends and badly elaborated stuff left. I don't think its fixable. Some of my thoughts:

- Final planets names were a bad artistic choice. It took me some time to figure out it was unrelated to Star Trek, especially with that "there's no Romulus" mirage. Yes, I get the names are from mithology, but it felt amateurish IMO.

- The Piranesi fight was greatly implemented, but for the final chapter I can approach it like an asteroid? No missiles, no pursuit? At first it seemed the Piranesi was stationary, and then I realised it was weirdly going towards Remus, and there's nothing I could do at that pace to stop or divert them. No mention the loss of another human species at that ending thou, so who cares? (sarcasm)

- All those stories about people having different memories, remembering different stuff, it felt it was going somewhere at the final chapter, like maybe that's a different Piranesi from another timeline? Maybe Remus peolpe knew about those? But it went nowhere. Only at the final credit from the DOLOS creator there's a mentioning about him knowing the future, but we're left with just that. It should have been better written as part of the final chapter's discoveries.

- It was only at the final chapter it dawned on me that the game mechanic was supposed to be training all non-workers to colonists this entire time, instead of rushing at the end. Why the hell would we abandon ALL THE WORKERS to die? There could be a final mechanic to try to convert almost everyone to colonists while keeping the ship afloat.

- If the game tried so heavily to glimpse that there were alternate versions of people and its ships, with that "sindicate" working behind the scenes with future information, why not follow that thread at the final chapter? Have people from another timeline interact with mind-blowing information, or even show a similar Tiqqun ship from a previous attempt at saving humanity. I'm not trying to say to the devs and writers how to tell their stories but I'm far from the first to say it's underwhelming.

Anyway, loved the journey up to that final chapter, which to me felt it should have been rewrote with more compelling science discoveries and a more thrilling game mechanic just like the previous chapter.

[Kalemenos]

Originally posted by sresk:

how do you get the romulus ending? I just completed the remus ending and am a little dissatisfied I want the spoilers please :)

If you just go to Romulus, the science ship will say, "Hey, it's not here." It's hidden, so one has to reveal it. Once it is revealed, one can colonize it.

How do you get the signal blocker, to see Romulus? A bit unclear. At one point the female voice, "Adminstrator..." gets you to open a window, explaining that an "Edden" blocker can be built on the outside of the Tiqqun. I don't understand whether that is timed or whether I did something to make her speak.

Then you go to the exterior view, like when you want to build solar panels. Under the "Engines and External Systems tab," there is the Edden blocker. Click it and it builds. I think on one run through, I paused it... and when I returned, it wasn't there, so I could never find Romulus.

Try colonizing Romulus and destroying the Piranesi before it demolishes Remus... lots of fun.

[huangism]

The decision is made when you either accept the offer from the Ashtangites or if you build the Edden deactivation thing from external view. One will disable the other