SPOILER Olin

[Cyrus]

Curious, So did you guys kill Olin?

I mean, I sure did. I know his actions were forced but it's too simple to say he "didn't have a choice". He very much did. He could have chosen to fight the cult regardless and save hundreds of lives. Instead he chose to sacrifice the world for his family. That's just plain selfish and evil.

So I chose to rid the world of a weak personality for the greater good.

What did you choose regarding Olin?

[dsal]

I'd like to think Aloy would empathise with Olin - at least enough to spare his life. I don't find it hard to believe that she would choose Rost over the world if placed in the same situation as Olin was (forced to aid the Eclipse).
Of course, she wouldn't do it easily, and she wouldn't completely resign to it (would be determined to find a workaround), but she'd initially submit if it meant keeping Rost alive.
So yeah, no, I didn't kill Olin. My Aloy is empathetic.

[GV_416ᅚ]

I didn't killed Olin and later there is a quest to rescue his family with him I don't know what happens if you kill him but I'll replay and discover on UH.

He was in a complicated position, a man can do everything for his family even bad things. So I gave him a last chance for redemption. He could fight but maybe he was not so confident to fight alone against the cults and put on risk his family.

[Bloodchief]

Originally posted by CoffeeNoSugar:

So I chose to rid the world of a weak personality for the greater good.

Yikes you sounded like a villian yourself haha.

Anyways I let him live cause I though that would continue as a sidequest and I was right (though the sidequest was kinda boring).

[pcfixer40]

As Rost said: 'The strength to stand alone, is the strength to make a stand.' and as you should have noticed by the time you reached that point, not all where as capable of doing that the same as Aloy could. So I made my choice and took my stand, sparing and liberating him from the control of the Eclipse.

And I also want to point something out if you've not noticed it yourself. Olin, Did try to warn you that things were about to go down, but he knew he was under constant surveillance and couldn't be direct about it, otherwise his own family would have paid for it. Pay attention to what he says and the manner he does so after the malfunction, and you'll catch it.

Is he innocent of guilt? No, but is he as guilty as the ones behind him, ordering and pulling the strings? Again in my option, no. He himself freely acknowledged the blood upon his hand, so much so that didn't he even not want to touch his own son with those hands? To men of such constitution, the weight of the condemnation of the whole world, wouldn't be able to match that which they hold against themselves within their own hearts.

To make a stand requires strength, and gaining such strength may put you in a place where few others are capable of reaching. But when it is all done, your stand made and the battle behind you, would it have been worth it if your still alone? Not alone in the sense of other being able to match you, but alone because there was none willing to stand there beside you in the end? If in your quest to take your stand, you trample beneath you all whom aren't like you, are you standing for something that is truly meaningful?

[River Victor]

I spare him. Seriously, he's just an average man. Tons of people playing games like to think themselves heroes, given that they always play the hero, but the thing is, how many are willing to do it for real when their lives or their families' lives are in danger. Not many. Not everyone's a genius, a bliionaire, a champion, or resistance secret leader. He's just an average man. He also tried to warn you, but his focus, which he was forced to wear at all times, meant he couldn't openly do it. He warned you and was subtle about it.

[fmkiddo]

I spared Olin. On my second playthrough,still spared him again.
Just it feel not right,to kill a man that was forced to do bad things because of his family was taken hostage.