What's Going on With Chapter 3 [Spoilers]

[Vivi]

Spoilers for Chapter 3

Saving Aarno is bugged, or the requirements for setting it up are actually insane.

I always picked the nicest options when speaking with Ciaran, and accepted being friends with him.

I offered him the Kebab after remembering Omar's name

I offered him the Cupcake from Chapter 2, and didn't scold him about the food or the boots

I played his game twice and put the sheep on the shelf before going into the forest

I placed the flower on the Casket

I called Sheila by name, spoke about her father, and mentioned that I placed the flower, and I tried both times saying I'm sorry, and using the cat power to tell her to stand down. In both instances she killed Aarno.

What are the actual requirements to meet the threshold for saving him, because in my eyes this is about every opportunity I could take to get it to happen and I still failed the hidden 'check' for it. This has to be wrong, right? Why would it be so rigid? The only thing I can think about is when the pipe almost fell on him I gave a neutral response.

[Gusyaka]

Same. I even paused because I want to get past this moment that I've been gathering and doing everything for before, it seems to me.

Kebab, cupcake, sheep from shooting game. Flowers on the grave. It's really sad if it's all because of a couple of wrong phrases in the dialogue with him, because all the "preparation" for this moment in that case went to waste because of one extra phrase.

In the dialogue with Sheila I have the feeling that I choose everything correctly, get to the moment with the cat abilyty check and she lets Aarno go, but then it's all for nothing.

[Vivi]

For anyone who wants to know, putting the sheep toy on the shelf is not the correct option. You have to keep the toy in your pocket when confronting Sheila while selecting the correct options.

[tavan]

I'm stuck here too. And I didn't find an ashtray, so after each fail I have to replay the annoying cat plattforming.

[Aya_VNV]

It all worked fine for me. I placed the sheep on the shelf too, and I did scold Ciaran for putting his boots up on the couch. The dialog options with Sheila I chose were calling her by name, telling her about her father, about black magic, and about the flower, then cat-powered her to stand down.

[Vivi]

Originally posted by Aya_VNV:

It all worked fine for me. I placed the sheep on the shelf too, and I did scold Ciaran for putting his boots up on the couch. The dialog options with Sheila I chose were calling her by name, telling her about her father, about black magic, and about the flower, then cat-powered her to stand down.

I've been pulling files and creating saves in a separate folder. On my current file I scolded him but did all the rest. Aarno dies if I put the sheep on the shelf, but he doesn't die if I don't.

If your file is him being saved with the sheep on the shelf then I don't even know anymore. The 'behind the scenes' algorithm that checks for it is absolutely nuts.

[Aya_VNV]

Ok, wait, I could be mistaken. I may have things mixed up.
When do you get the sheep? Is it the prize for shooting 3 or 4 bottles? If so, then I went straight into the woods after playing, so I had it with me after all.

[Vivi]

Originally posted by Aya_VNV:

Ok, wait, I could be mistaken. I may have things mixed up.
When do you get the sheep? Is it the prize for shooting 3 or 4 bottles? If so, then I went straight into the woods after playing, so I had it with me after all.

Yeah the Sheep is the prize you get after shooting 3-4 bottles or winning with 5 twice. It's a little keychain.

[FilthySouls]

ok, it sucks that the cat power is the key to f*cking this up. I picked the flower & did all the right dialouge options on my first try, but then this option decides a major story part and we're supposed to smell at what point in a chapter you need this ability c'mon now

[We're the Demins]

I did not have cat power at this point of the story too (poor Aarno), but it is OK with me - this game calls for multiple playthroughs. Yes, It is impossible to predict whether it is better to use cat power now and get to know characters better or save it for later, so you might end chapter without using cat power at all and missing some story details or spending cat power before a moment when it will be truly needed. The same like when you first time play some shooter and you can save bullets for future hard encounters which may come and you will be rewarded by not spending much ammo or which will not come and you will be saving ammo for nothing :-)

[Gusyaka]

Originally posted by FilthySouls:

ok, it sucks that the cat power is the key to f*cking this up. I picked the flower & did all the right dialouge options on my first try, but then this option decides a major story part and we're supposed to smell at what point in a chapter you need this ability c'mon now :meadowlynx:

It doesn't seem to help either, as we found out. What trigger prevents Ciaran from going through is still a mystery. And it still looks like a bug to me.

[Aya_VNV]

Originally posted by Vivi:

Yeah the Sheep is the prize you get after shooting 3-4 bottles or winning with 5 twice. It's a little keychain.

Right, so I was wrong. I wouldn't have gone all the way back to put it on the shelf first, so I had it on me.