Decker mandatory ?

[Merlyn]

Hello,

I have nearly finished the game with a decker on easy mode and plan to make another run on Normal Mode with another character which will not be a decker

Without spoiling other readers, my game experience showed mea decker was pretty important to this game so the game however is doable without one ?

[Lord Of Dorkness]

Think you need one in both Returns & Dragonfall, yeah. There's at least one mandatory decking bits I can think off in both games.

Think you can skip decking in Hong Kong, actually... though it does result in you getting locked out of the best endings since... well, deciding to be computer illiterate AND bench your cyber-security in a cyberpunk setting has consequences, to put it as spoiler free as possible.

You CAN however get yourself a companion decker in all three games, so your PC isn't forced to become one. You still control them during the decking portions, though.

[Merlyn]

There are several endings in Honk Kong ? (I have already finished it with also a decker)

[Lord Of Dorkness]

Originally posted by Merlyn:

There are several endings in Honk Kong ? (I have already finished it with also a decker)

Yup.

Quite a few even. Think it's... 3 in the main game, and 2-3 more in the free expansion.

Same thing in Dragonfall with... 3-4 endings something. Returns has a more linear story, though, and only one ending, at least to my recollaction.

[Merlyn]

Thanks for the info :)

I have not done a search on the different endings not to spoil me for a futur rerun of the game but it seems, based on the achievement I have, that my HK ending was Making Amends. Is this the better one ?

[Lord Of Dorkness]

That's fair.

Not to spoil anything, but there's one bleaker (but interesting) ending then Making Amends, one better that's bitter sweet, and one golden ending that takes a lot of work over the entire game.

The expansion endings depend a bit on which you got in the main game, so their a fair bit more complicated to describe without spoiling.

*Edit: And you're welcome!

[v0]

i played many things in dfall but never decker and it was fun... so ymmv. blitz isnt great but totally manageable.

[Merlyn]

What I don't like in Blitz his its personality ^^

[Zadok]

Originally posted by Merlyn:

What I don't like in Blitz his its personality ^^

He has Cram though... Isn't that stuff supposed to kind of replace "personality"? He could probably slot a better one, true enough. Anyway: He does the trick!

HK needs a decker on a main quest mission after the open market runs, namely the tower. You can't dodge that. Careful: There's been a bug report that seemed to suggest a need for a HEAD datajack to fulfill the requirement (I did not test that though).
DF actually doesn't require a decker, because the Aztec run can be skipped (...which loses you a lot of money, giving you a true "Hong Kong style economy" in Dragonfall).

[v0]

having decker's generally good. question's whether player needs to be said decker ;)