(Spoilers) Ending conditions: decisions, destiny, skills...etc.

[zaki11]

I Have played this game through two times (in diferent styles) but i am still confused about a lot of things.
In some cases you can change your destiny. I read and heard a lot of theories about how you can influence the game ending but can not find a proper guide so i am here.
Here is what i know but i would like to ask the community about their findings or theories:
The ending depends on:
- senity (how to avoid to became at least psyhotic at the end? is it possible?)
- occultism (how can you reach 100%, my best was 50% for the second walkthrough, and i did my best)
- decisions (drinking is not clear for me, and the others outcome still requires some explanation, pls help!)
- other skills (i dont think so)

Anything else?

More quastions:
There are several occasions when your dialog anwser is written in secret letters. Can you change those to became readable? How?
Skill test are making any difference? Because i did not experience any impact rather then an other line in a conversation but the same is happening?
Can someone sum up briefly the most interesting options that you can choose from?
(e.g: you can enter the warehouse in two different way at the begining)
Thank you!

[Super]

You can change your destiny... although changing your destiny is not really "changing" your destiny because of reasons I don't want to spoil. Although you can beat the game without going insane.

I think you have to beat the game with a low Occultism level to get the "good" ending. Basically try your hardest to never learn about the cult, or believe in it. Don't read anything about it, do not talk about it.

You see something wierd? Blame it on your constant drinking. Don't believe, don't see it, don't say it.

[Davine]

I played it twice too and unlocked all four endings, the stats you have determine what options you have in the final choice. I got three on my first try (top investigator, invisible, occultism), two on my second (top strenght but not much else and I avoided every occult item I could and drank every time I had the chance), but apart from that and a few dialogue options I still have to find other major changes in the game.

[zaki11]

I found out how to get 100% occultism: at the begining you can spend skill points on that. I missed that because at first i tryed to balance my CPs and the second playthrough i forgot that you have an optoin to spend CPs on occult and medicine. Ruined my experience because i wanted to find out new ways of the story but i find only a few elements.
I am also very sceptic about the in game choices influence especially when you can only chose from lines written in secret letters (how fair choice is that?).

[JocularJosh]

So I am missing one ending, the sacrifice one for the "nameless cults" achievment.
I have no idea how to get it and there aren't really any good guides out there.
Apparently nobody knows exactly what triggers which ending.
Great.

[Useless]

Originally posted by JocularJosh:

So I am missing one ending, the sacrifice one for the "nameless cults" achievment.
I have no idea how to get it and there aren't really any good guides out there.
Apparently nobody knows exactly what triggers which ending.
Great.

no one knows.

I got sarah suicide by doing, no drinking, rejecting leviathan, rejecting every decision, and using dialog choices that support sanity with Dr. colden in ch 14 and with sarah in ch 14

[Useless]

itd be nice if someone could find out what triggers are by looking at the save file in the user folder on c drive

[LeKevoid]

I've tried during the game, to :
- Learn as much as I could about the mythos ;
- Follow every path that would lead me to the "truth", i.e., constantly risk my sanity ;
- Yet refuse any path that demanded I reject humanity or follow Leviathan just because of reasons or because "it's inevitable" and stuff ;
- Drink every time possible.

I thought that in the end game, my occult knowledge would give me the weapons to fight the threat. I was kinda right, but I didn't the the "good" ending. For that you really have to remain untainted and innocent.

I'll say that the endings make a lot of sense.

[jackman071]

Did anyone tried to finish the game without assigning any points to his skills? Played on default skill points? Is it possible?

[Joker_mmm]

To get Sarah suicide ending I am supposed to never speak R'lyehian, but in chapter 11 all the possible answers to Leviathan are in R'lyehian, so I don´t know what to do