How do choices work in this game?

[The A.W.G.]

Without spoiling too much if possible, how do choices work in this game?
I mean, once a first playthrough is completed and I start the game again will I be forced to make different choices in order to "unlock" new content (map parts, quests, etc)? Is this how it works?

[LunarGatta]

They don't, you don't really have a choice that affects anything until the very end of the game. And even that one is minimal.

[The A.W.G.]

Originally posted by TheCampingOwl:

They don't, you don't really have a choice that affects anything until the very end of the game. And even that one is minimal.

Thank you, I am personally happy with this since I hate being forced to make different choices just for the sake of it. Didn't they use to market the game in the way I described it tho? I seem to remember them saying something about entire blocks of the city beng unreacheable according to the choices you made. Maybe I remember wrong.

[brimstone]

Originally posted by TheCampingOwl:

They don't, you don't really have a choice that affects anything until the very end of the game. And even that one is minimal.

uh, i wouldn't call locking a whole zone if you make the "wrong" decision as "minimal."

[LunarGatta]

Originally posted by cbd:

Originally posted by TheCampingOwl:

They don't, you don't really have a choice that affects anything until the very end of the game. And even that one is minimal.

uh, i wouldn't call locking a whole zone if you make the "wrong" decision as "minimal."

It's not "locked", there's precisely NOTHING that gets locked if you choose to do that, you don't lose anything.

The opposite is true actually, if you KEEP it the way it is, you have a much easier time accessing the things there. If you choose the opposite, you just made it harder for yourself.

It really is minimal.

[LunarGatta]

Originally posted by AWGone:

I seem to remember them saying something about entire blocks of the city beng unreacheable according to the choices you made. Maybe I remember wrong.

It's false.

That may be what they intended, but it's really not the end result. You can access that area at any stage in the game. The only difference is that it's either harder or easier. And ironically keeping the area as-is, does in fact, make it easier.

[brimstone]

exploring it underwater isn't the same as exploring it on land

that is not minimal

[LunarGatta]

Originally posted by cbd:

exploring it underwater isn't the same as exploring it on land

that is not minimal

Ah yes, the choices of....

>make the entire area impossible to explore because drowners are everywhere even rooftops and you can't stay still for more than 0.3 seconds without an army of them blowing you up

vs

>keep the area sunken so you can safely collect the drops and get max level gear

SUCH A HARD CHOICE.

[BEEP!]

There a lot of choices that are illusion of choice but do a good job at making you think they matter but there are a good few that really change what happens in game

[brimstone]

Originally posted by TheCampingOwl:

SUCH A HARD CHOICE.

has nothing to do with whether it's hard or not, i said it's not "minimal"

[FlashXAron ☕ (Alex)]

Not 100% true, there are 3 choices in the whple game, which matter
but yes, you will always have them , doesn't matter what you have done and how you behave, any side quest and how you treat people doesn't matter also

1. kill Hakon or let him live, he is a cheater, killed that officer at the beginning, organiced the riots ...

2. to whom you give the VCN/broadcast towers, if you give it to an alcoholic and save Lawan, she will be your Gf , also WTF

3. save Lawan or not, if Hakon survive , he will save the other person, but Mia will not live long --- the stupid thing here is Hakon is able to save Lawan AND remote detonate the charges , what is bs ... ah forgot, if you save Lawan, most of the city will be destroyed

ooh the longer I think about choices, the more it remembers me about Mass Effect, where they told you that ALL matters from all 3 games and in reality EVERYONE who was able to play till the end , could decide between 3 colored buttons .. doesn't matter if all your mates from the 3 games survived or you killed everyone in the game ...
here it feels near the same , only that it was only 100h and ME over 500h and 10 real years :-)

[FlashXAron ☕ (Alex)]

Originally posted by TheCampingOwl:

Originally posted by cbd:

exploring it underwater isn't the same as exploring it on land

that is not minimal

Ah yes, the choices of....

>make the entire area impossible to explore because drowners are everywhere even rooftops and you can't stay still for more than 0.3 seconds without an army of them blowing you up

vs

>keep the area sunken so you can safely collect the drops and get max level gear

SUCH A HARD CHOICE.

Ohhh I missed that choice, what was the reason for that ?
But don't worry at the end, the game will be set to the best outcome possible ...

[Craiberk]

Originally posted by FlashXAron ☕ (Alex):

3. save Lawan or not, if Hakon survive , he will save the other person, but Mia will not live long --- the stupid thing here is Hakon is able to save Lawan AND remote detonate the charges , what is bs ... ah forgot, if you save Lawan, most of the city will be destroyed

So what you're saying is that a gods damned side character can do better than Aiden, the main character?
I didn't know it was possible to hate this game more than I did before I read this.....

[FlashXAron ☕ (Alex)]

Originally posted by Craiberk:

Originally posted by FlashXAron ☕ (Alex):

3. save Lawan or not, if Hakon survive , he will save the other person, but Mia will not live long --- the stupid thing here is Hakon is able to save Lawan AND remote detonate the charges , what is bs ... ah forgot, if you save Lawan, most of the city will be destroyed

So what you're saying is that a gods damned side character can do better than Aiden, the main character?
I didn't know it was possible to hate this game more than I did before I read this.....

Same here, I killed that ah , he is one of that backless people , we meet all over in our real life and yes he is suddenly the hero ...
anyway , as I also didn't gave the Broadcasttower to that drunk, who failed at the first try and rejected to help me, but gave it to that peacekeepers, who fought their way with me up the tower and all died in that task AND BECAUSE of that , Lawan, which I saved instead of some now unknown Mia and an arrogant science guy, know what. Lawan ditched me because of that decision ...
seems some of that devs have themselves such characteristics, as they prefer such behavior ! So I had the ending, where I walked alone away, behind me the destroyed city BUT it felt good, because in that city 99% of the people have been morons

Well done Techland, you are close to that worst ending of all time.

[Zalgrodhal]

The sunken city is a missed opportunity anyway. Just a block of a map with some crates and what supposed to be "another selling point of the game" enemy for you, is just a a better looking viral boomer. What a shame.

As someone said, the choices in this game matters only when it is your first playthrough, because you dont know the rest, but when you do the second play, you realize, the choices have truly a minimal impact.

[Craiberk]

Originally posted by FlashXAron ☕ (Alex):

anyway , as I also didn't gave the Broadcasttower to that drunk, who failed at the first try and rejected to help me, but gave it to that peacekeepers, who fought their way with me up the tower and all died in that task AND BECAUSE of that , Lawan, which I saved instead of some now unknown Mia and an arrogant science guy, know what. Lawan ditched me because of that decision ...

Oh. Yea. Broadcasting Tower. The one where an entire squad of PK was slaughtered and the protagonist had "barely survived" scaling... The very same tower that was effortlessly climbed within damn minutes by the f-ing Lawan Sue. Without even breaking any sweat, no doubt. Or needing the grappling hook, most likely. Only ripping her shoes. Burned soles from the friction from how fast she was running, no doubt.
That tower. Yea, I remember.