Choosing Isaac or Vic

[Nevermore]

Careful, spoilers for the Heartland DLC incoming.

Let me start with WTF?!
I wanted to recruit Isaac because of his pathology skills, but apparently the choice for Isaac or Vic was not: "Hey, which one do you wanna recruit?" but "Do you wanna tell Vic the truth or lie to his face?"

Thanks, for being honest I now have to deal with Vic, who is useless since injuries heal over time anyway with the upgraded first aid tent.

Is there some other way to craft the plague items? Otherwise I am gonna quit that freakin' DLC.

[X]

I go for both.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StateofDecay2/comments/jw172r/getting_isaac_and_vic/
The 2nd main mission must be up to get this done.

[Nevermore]

It's nice that this is possible. But it's too late for me. I already told Vic the truth.

I think it's bad design to hide the decision which one you want to recruit, in the question whether you want to tell the truth or not. I don't care about either one and least about their dead daugther. It's just about which skill I want in my base.

[Nevermore]

So, for anyone coming upon this thread, the wiki may say to recruit Isaac or Vic you have to chose one of them over the other one.

But what that means in game is that Vic sends out a radio call that he is missing his lover and hopes he is okay. That's Isaac. If you get to Vic he asks you to find Isaac and talk to him. Isaac doesn't wanna come back and tells you to lie to Vic and say that he is dead.

If you lie to Vic, you get to recruit Isaac.
If you tell the truth to Vic, you get to recruit Vic.
You can choose to recruit neither in the end.
Or do the trick X posted and get both.

Just know that the choice you have to make is about honesty only on the surface.
Mechanically it is about which one of the two you want to recruit.

[Mooman]

Heartland is all about repeatability. Play out your choice then start again.

There are 4 main player combinations, which starting crew and which between Issac and Vic. Each have different skills and interactions that can alter how you play it through.

[Nevermore]

I like Quincy and Helena, but I haven't played the two women before.
And maybe they don't talk so much about Lily Ritter and the Network. I haven't played SoD 1, so most of the time I have no clue who they are talking about.

[Ronae2987]

Update 37: It's still working to recruit both Vic and Isaac. Unfortunately this doesn't trigger the recruit Issac achievement on Steam.

[italopreto]

Upgrade 38. They remove The glitch. We need choose one of them to our base. I recommend Isaac, for sure. Traums can be healed on The base normally with nursery room lvl 2.

[Pumathang]

This does still work, but the exact methodology differs slightly from the older posts. All the older explanations tell you to reload after starting Logan's mission (when Vic/Isaac get sent back to your base) but for me it was the opposite--I had to keep the same game loaded and play through all at once. If you reload after accepting Logan's mission, Vic's quest won't pop the radio trigger (at least it never did for me, having him at my base).

I tried several times, starting over from the beginning, and the only time it worked was when I DIDN'T RELOAD. When I accepted Logan's quest, Vic's quest was abandoned and immediately triggered his radio call again (even as he was standing there in the house with us). Despite abandoning the quest, Vic was already part of my community at that point (when viewing the menu screen). Physically, he was back in the original location to start his quest, so I just headed right back over there and did the quest again, making the opposite choices so I could recruit Isaac. Recruiting Isaac did not remove Vic from my existing community, and when I finally brought Isaac back to my base (finishing the Vic questline) I had both of them in my community.

I didn't try it recruiting Isaac first, but I can confirm it worked for me with recruiting Vic first, the only difference being that I did not reload at any point.