Wyatt vs. Ferguson, who did you choose?

[12d3]

I felt like the whole option of choice made little to almost no difference to anything with the acception of the lockpick/hotwire and armor/health upgrades. It almost seems like more of a physiological test than anything else. I choose Ferguson in my first playthough on the assumption that his hardened battle savy style would come in handy, only to find out it only got me chastised and berated. So I ask who did you choose and what signifiance did it have, if any?

[100% lob juice]

I saved Fergus on my first full playthrough, but I'm playing a Wyatt route now on I am Death Incarnate difficulty and there doesn't seem to be much of a difference so far. I've just finished the first London Nautica level and even the dialogue is exactly the same as Fergus'.

[Cryptic]

Messaggio originale di ☣ 12d3 ☣:

I felt like the whole option of choice made little to almost no difference to anything with the acception of the lockpick/hotwire and armor/health upgrades. It almost seems like more of a physiological test than anything else. I choose Ferguson in my first playthough on the assumption that his hardened battle savy style would come in handy, only to find out it only got me chastised and berated. So I ask who did you choose and what signifiance did it have, if any?

think you meant psychological

[Hasmith]

I chose to save Wyatt because he's young and innocent. Fergus had already lived a full life, and I feel like anyone in real life would make the same decision.

[Bones]

Picked Fergus the first time since I thought he seemed more useful. I liked the Wyatt path more though because J is a cool character. Jimi Hendrix is cool in any universe really.

Messaggio originale di Bloody Baron:

Fergus is way better, Especially on harder difficulties. Playing the game on uber is much harder with Wyatt, mainly because the armor upgrades are pretty much useless.

I lost all of my data and restarted on Uber choosing Wyatt. I thought this was going to be the case but the abundance of armor is actually really nice for keeping your hp above regeneration thresholds.

[100% lob juice]

Messaggio originale di lob lob:

I saved Fergus on my first full playthrough, but I'm playing a Wyatt route now on I am Death Incarnate difficulty and there doesn't seem to be much of a difference so far. I've just finished the first London Nautica level and even the dialogue is exactly the same as Fergus'.

Ok I finished the Wyatt run, and I'm a bit disappointed about the lack of differences between the two timelines. I was expecting there to be different levels and maybe even a different ending, but I guess that was a bit much to expect.

The only differences worthy of note for me were the hotwiring being replaced with lockpicking, the forgettable woman was replaced with Jimi Hendrix (probably my favourite change between the two timelines) and health upgrades were replaced with armour upgrades, which probably weren't as good as health upgrades. I still died fewer times overall though, although that was probably just because I was more used to the game.

This aspect of the game feels like a lot of missed potential to me, there are a couple of short parts which took a different path because you could lockpick doors, but that's not anything near what they could have done.

[marckb]

The armour perk of the Wyatt line makes no sense whatsoever. I got sick of finding armours that exceeded my limit. There is no point in having any one piece of armour that is twice your limit.

Thing is there is usually an excessive amount of armour lying around even playing the Fergus timeline. This became really apparent on the bridge chapter, so I started counting the extra armour on the next level. On the moon I left behind : 1 - 100 ; 15 - 50's ; 16 - 25's, and a couple of 5's.

P.S. I wish I could tell both Fergus and Wyatt to go ♥♥♥♥ themselves when they start whining about being chosen to live.

[Jac]

I chose Fergus to begin with, it seemed like he had more of a friendship with your character. Plus he's older and a badass. Though I got past the train mission and decided to restart the game on Uber difficulty and figured I'd choose the other guy to get the achievement.