Choosing bank or Allison

[dicksun512]

I was bothered with having to choose one.
After a few trials, I found out that you can actually get the unique weapon and a bunch of loot (except for the cure) from the vaults from the garage (gonna need remote hack to stop the spinning fan), then choose to go do Allison's quest. There is only a very small portion of the bank you'd miss (I cleared out the bank long before the main mission). I think this is the best route from to get access to most of the map (into the church) and get the loot you want.

[kai]

Didn't happened. :( Fortunately I had a save right before Janus conversation, so I replay this episode and then Alex contacted me to rob the bank.

[paulkneipp]

Played both, FMO. Now I'm looking at two save files trying to decide which one to load and play on with. Playing both didn't make the choice any easier.

[[FOX]Schnurx]

I can't choose the Allison mission. I have the dialog with whatshername and get the option to decide which path to take, left allision, right bank but regardless what I choose, the result is always "The heist".

[chimera201]

Publicado originalmente por FOXSchnurx:

I can't choose the Allison mission. I have the dialog with whatshername and get the option to decide which path to take, left allision, right bank but regardless what I choose, the result is always "The heist".

The menu choice doesn't affect anything i think. When you continue on a path the other path fails.

[chimera201]

Publicado originalmente por paulkneipp:

Played both, FMO. Now I'm looking at two save files trying to decide which one to load and play on with. Playing both didn't make the choice any easier.

Well if you do the bank you can save Miller.

[cyberwiz97]

Publicado originalmente por chimera201:

The menu choice doesn't affect anything i think. When you continue on a path the other path fails.

That's correct. No matter which menu choice you pick, you still have time to make the choice. If you pursue the Bank heist, when you get to the third floor office with the Versalife Card validator, the Allison mission will fail. If you go for the Church of the Machine God mission, Alex will call you and the Bank job will fail.

[82Angelfan]

This was a little frustrating. I saved the girl, but I feel that the devs forced a stupid decision on the player that was un-necessary. The origional idea of the game is to investigate the bobming, plus the character is a police oficer and is most likely sworn to protect life over all else. On a more personal note, I feel like I paid for a mission that I don't get to play. It's not like we missed out on some dialog, or we missed a gun or upgrade. We missed out on a whole mission of game play. Stupid.

[Big Boom Boom]

Publicado originalmente por 82Angelfan:

This was a little frustrating. I saved the girl, but I feel that the devs forced a stupid decision on the player that was un-necessary. The origional idea of the game is to investigate the bobming, plus the character is a police oficer and is most likely sworn to protect life over all else. On a more personal note, I feel like I paid for a mission that I don't get to play. It's not like we missed out on some dialog, or we missed a gun or upgrade. We missed out on a whole mission of game play. Stupid.

You can just reload or start a new game+

If you save the bomber, you can save both the UN delegates and stop the bombing at the end. If you chose the bank, you can save Miller's life. IMO the canon is saving the bomber. Also you CAN persuade the bomber for an achievement and the device to save both the UN delegates and stop the bombing.

[Vassago Rain]

Publicado originalmente por 82Angelfan:

This was a little frustrating. I saved the girl, but I feel that the devs forced a stupid decision on the player that was un-necessary. The origional idea of the game is to investigate the bobming, plus the character is a police oficer and is most likely sworn to protect life over all else. On a more personal note, I feel like I paid for a mission that I don't get to play. It's not like we missed out on some dialog, or we missed a gun or upgrade. We missed out on a whole mission of game play. Stupid.

Choice and consequence. People have been whining that they want it for years, and now it's in a game, they all complain.

[TazmanianD]

Just a note on the other three corporate vaults: all of them are accessible before you even get the mission for Allison vs. Versalife so you can loot them without making any decision. In fact two of them are accessible on the previous visit to Prague when it's still daytime.

[Misterdarko1987]

I picked the bank mission purely because of the cost/benefit ratio. Raiding a Versa Life vault and getting valuable intel, as opposed to saving some stupid $kank who got herself in trouble by being stupid... not a hard decision.

[Zekiran]

Since you can find another kill switch if you look for it in GARM that aspect isn't really as tough as all that, but I still have varied between doing either way because sometimes I want to save Miller because I like him a lot. Can't do that without the bank.

[cyberwiz97]

If you do the Bombmaker mission and sweet-talk Allison, she might give you the bomb diffuser switch which can come in handy, in the end. Although, I don't think that's worth the trade-off.

[TazmanianD]

Another element that basically makes the decision for me is that the Versalife path has a *lot* more experience points. I tried both paths and the Versalife path gave me around 8000 more XP! And I tried to carefully avoid counting any unnecessary XPs. There's a bunch of XPs you can get from either the church or the bank that are available either before or after the choice and regardless of which choice you make. I'm *not* counting those.

[Royard]

and you could find some CRAZY thing in versalife vault with your eye implant. its so important to the plot and theories about Adam itself.