How important are the choices at the beginning of the game?

[Mech_Donald]

Hey there,

i have a gamebreaking bug. I can play the entire day one. But at the start of day 2 i can't answer to the "wake up" call from Delilah. I don't get the radio answer choice dialog. When i zoom in, the game stays zoomed in. When i try to load a game, the game remains stuck in the black loading screen.
I tried everything out: new installation, administrator, move to another partition, repair, reload the save multiple times from the main menu, replay the first day with other choices - no luck. Day 2 is not playable.

So i found a save game starting from day 2. This save works and i can finally answer to Delilah. So my question is: How important are my dialog choices at the very beginning of the game? For instance what dog i choose or whether i send Julia to the nursing home or not.

If these choices aren't that important, i can go on with the downloaded save. So thank you for your reply!

[muckymucks]

Not very important. They're really only used to fill out Henry's back story. Delilah does ask you about your past and you can either tell her about Julia if you want or not. That's really it. Nothing about the dogs or the attack comes into play. You should continue with the game save you found. It's a touching game.

[Mech_Donald]

Originally posted by muckymucks:

Not very important. They're really only used to fill out Henry's back story. Delilah does ask you about your past and you can either tell her about Julia if you want or not. That's really it. Nothing about the dogs or the attack comes into play. You should continue with the game save you found. It's a touching game.

Thank you very much for your reply! :)

I found out, that the save game doesn't help that much, because the issue starts with every new day. So i can't use the radio when the game ends a day and starts a new day. That's very frustrating. Thanks anyway! Very appreciated!

[Mavrah]

'Choices' only affect the next few lines of dialogue and some artwork at the end of the game. They don't actually matter.

[Mech_Donald]

Originally posted by Mavrah:

'Choices' only affect the next few lines of dialogue and some artwork at the end of the game. They don't actually matter.

I gave up on this game, because of the bug. I don't want to constantly import saves from other users for every single ingame-day with different photos, answers, decisions, etc.

But thank you for your reply!

[averillrichard]

Hi, I don't know if anyone ever figured this out but I am experiencing the exact same game breaking bug as the original poster on this thread, i. e. Cannot respond after picking up the radio at start of Day 2 (no response options appear after pressing shift). I've tried multiple playthroughs from the start of the game, fiddling with various settings, saving & reloading at various times, but it always breaks the same way at start of Day 2. Playing on Windows 10. Any help appreciated.

[Mech_Donald]

Originally posted by averillrichard:

Hi, I don't know if anyone ever figured this out but I am experiencing the exact same game breaking bug as the original poster on this thread, i. e. Cannot respond after picking up the radio at start of Day 2 (no response options appear after pressing shift). I've tried multiple playthroughs from the start of the game, fiddling with various settings, saving & reloading at various times, but it always breaks the same way at start of Day 2. Playing on Windows 10. Any help appreciated.

Hi, i have good news for you. I figured out how to solve this issue. On my system i have the firewall on whitelist-mode. So i have to give programs manually access to the internet if needed. When i did so with this game, it has solved the issue completely. So this game needs an internet connection, wich is not stated by the devs or in the game.

I hope this helps!

[averillrichard]

The fix with the firewall whitelist worked perfectly, thank you so much for your help!