Questions about Artificer post-game (SPOILERS)

[Honkiewithaboomstick]

Hey all, I completed the Artificer campaign.
Kerblasted my way through metropolis and the Scav Checkpoints, murdered like 50 on the way
blew up the scav king and skewered him 15 times. 11/10 game experience I must say.
Metropolis is probably the best area Ive ever played in Rain world and probably any 2d game, and that's comparing them to the modded regions as well.

I'm even more thrilled to find out that after loading the postgame save I am now the new scav queen ( I guess to ensure that no more slugpups die at the checkpoints )

Now that I have the scav king mask and am effectively king, I noticed scavs are no longer hostile to me and in fact they seem to respect/ fear me. My question is about this mechanic in general.
Are they only non-hostile with mask? Can I now use this mask and give them pearls to get the chieftain passage and make peace; essentially curing my name or did skewering the king already kind of do that? Im going to go wander the lands as scav queen now to collect lore pearls but I was wondering how this works(I turned off karma gates for her after beating her since there's no way to get out of metropolis without murking my subjects now, I just headcannon the passport lets me through the doors now )

Also what was the other ending? The Echo in the tallest tower said some lame Last of Us II tier "revenge bad" nonsense so I assume killing the king is the bad ending and you're supposed to be trapped in metropolis forever.

[RCMidas]

As long as you wear the mask, they'll flee. Take it off, they'll try to kill you. Hostility otherwise remains effectively hardcoded to Absolute Murder-Death-Kill.

The other option is to visit each Echo without hunting down your prey. All seven Echoes. Try to ascend. You'll still need to be a bit creative, but the Void Sea does hold something special for the Artificer.

[Gammaboy45]

Originally posted by RCMidas:

As long as you wear the mask, they'll flee. Take it off, they'll try to kill you. Hostility otherwise remains effectively hardcoded to Absolute Murder-Death-Kill.

The other option is to visit each Echo without hunting down your prey. All seven Echoes. Try to ascend. You'll still need to be a bit creative, but the Void Sea does hold something special for the Artificer.

really upsetting that the others are pretty empty in terms of their "ascension" endings, but... I'm very glad they actually did something with Artificer, given the difficulty of getting her up to that point.

[edemime]

Originally posted by RCMidas:

As long as you wear the mask, they'll flee. Take it off, they'll try to kill you. Hostility otherwise remains effectively hardcoded to Absolute Murder-Death-Kill.

The other option is to visit each Echo without hunting down your prey. All seven Echoes. Try to ascend. You'll still need to be a bit creative, but the Void Sea does hold something special for the Artificer.

After ending I collected all the pearls without the mask. Even though I'm not wearing it they all flee from me most of the time. Also when I came the tolls they evacuated the toll immediately. I don't think it's a bug because I play like 3-4 hours like that.

They rarely tried to attack me like 2 or 3 times in all playthrough even elites.

Also takin echos after ending won't increase your max karma.