[SPOILERS] What is the "bad ending"?

[Fantoche]

I am a bit of an ADD so I finished the game with all souls... and I had a pretty sweet ending, so did anyone finish the game and got the "bad" one? If so, what is it?

[Askatrus]

I don´t think that the bad ending is triggered when you don´t get all souls. I think the souls are more like a bonus. Personally I can´t get two hidden souls because their trigger is nonexistent in the easy difficulty and I got what I would call a good ending. I think the bad ending is triggered when you die there for real, I mean when your "time" runs out when you know what I mean.

Don´t forget: Fran asked us to NOT spoiler the end

[Fantoche]

Originally posted by Askatrus:

I don´t think that the bad ending is triggered when you don´t get all souls. I think the souls are more like a bonus. Personally I can´t get two hidden souls because their trigger is nonexistent in the easy difficulty and I got what I would call a good ending. I think the bad ending is triggered when you die there for real, I mean when your "time" runs out when you know what I mean.

Don´t forget: Fran asked us to NOT spoiler the end

Shut up, I can read and did not spoil anything, I just wanted to know what the bad ending was exactly.

[Askatrus]

I try to trigger it and give you an answer

[Fantoche]

Originally posted by Askatrus:

I try to trigger it and give you an answer

Thank you. The last battle was pretty easy with cloaking level 4..

[Fantoche]

Originally posted by Cure Lovely:

You trigger it if you let Coder win the "tug of war" healthbar fight at the end of the game. Basically, there's just a short cutscene where Coder says "You were good Jacker, but I was better" and then reporting to Viktor. Viktor congratulats him and tells the general "now destroy that damn brain". You see the brain get destroyed by lasers and then Ghost dying. It then says "connection lost" like a traditional death, but kicks you back to the title screen. You can retry as many times as you like. In my opinion, it counts as an alternate game over rather than an ending.

Oh, thanks a lot. Definately prefer my ending... poor girl

[Askatrus]

What Cure Lovely said.
I don´t know if the "good" bar depletes faster on higher difficulty but it was almost impossible to loose on easy. It took really long.
But you should trigger the bad ending yourself when you are an achievement hunter. It is its own achievement.

I don´t like that ending.

[Fantoche]

Originally posted by Askatrus:

What Cure Lovely said.
I don´t know if the "good" bar depletes faster on higher difficulty but it was almost impossible to loose on easy. It took really long.
But you should trigger the bad ending yourself when you are an achievement hunter. It is its own achievement.

I don´t like that ending.

Yeah I'll do it when I'll continue playing, a lot of the achievements are mutually exclusive so it'll require several playthroughts.. at least the souls are all found.

A new game+ mode would be sweet

[Fantoche]

Also, remember that the timer does NOT stop if you die, so an unprepared robot could die several times from the enemy reinforcements.