Are there any "good" endings?

[timjake78]

I've been through this twice, both resulted in ugly endings. 1) Kathryn gets hit on the head and they make her "Jody" and 2) Kathryn is seriously injured falling down the steps

[13Seven]

yes there is multiple good and bad endings depends on your playtrough

[timjake78]

Ok, thank you. I'll keep trying.

My third time through ended with one of the two I've already found, even though I thought I changed answers to various questions.

[BinarySplit]

There's 8 endings, but some of them share video segments. You can watch them directly from the game's data files if you don't want to have to replay the game.

If you r-click the game in Steam, click Properties, go to the Local Files tab and click Browse Local Files, you'll see a "resVid" directory that contains the video files. You can open the .webm files in VLC Media Player, or by dragging the files into an open Firefox or Chrome window.

All endings start with the VTS_16_1_V01_C01.webm "long drive" clip, then they branch:

Ending 1:
VTS_16_1_V02_C01.webm
VTS_16_1_V04_C01.webm

Ending 2:
VTS_16_1_V02_C01.webm
VTS_16_1_V04_C01.webm
VTS_16_1_V05_C01.webm

Ending 3:
VTS_16_1_V02_C01.webm
VTS_16_1_V09_C01.webm


Ending 4:
VTS_16_1_V03_C01.webm
VTS_16_1_V10_C01.webm


Ending 5:
VTS_16_1_V06_C01.webm


Ending 6:
VTS_16_1_V07_C01.webm
VTS_16_1_V08_C01.webm
VTS_16_1_V09_C01.webm


Ending 7:
VTS_16_1_V07_C01.webm
VTS_16_1_V08_C01.webm
VTS_16_1_V04_C01.webm


Ending 8:
VTS_16_1_V07_C01.webm
VTS_16_1_V10_C01.webm

The video files throughout the game are described in the resData/sceneData.txt file. The filenames follow the pattern: VTS_(chapter number + 1)_1_V(video number)_C01.webm, e.g chapter 1 video 48 (creepy window moment) is in the file VTS_2_1_V48_C01.webm.

[BinarySplit]

I did some digging through the source code to find out how the story paths & endings are determined (Thank you Trilobyte & Nightdive for shipping with open source code! It made my experience so much better)

Most chapters have some shared parts and then split into one of 3 paths: Mike, Kathryn or Tie. There are also PG and Adult versions of some scenes. Some chapters have no paths, and the ending is the only chapter to have 8 paths. For each chapter there's a chance that a completely random path will be chosen. It starts off at 15% random and increases to 45% by the ending. If it's not completely random, then it's still *somewhat* random, but the pre-ending paths are based on your answers to the Survey answers (which come before each house exploration sequence), and the ending path is based on your TAT answers (which come after each house exploration sequence).

It's pretty startling how much content there is in this game. There are 672 Survey & TAT questions and 3 hours 20 mins of video, but in one playthrough you'll only get 218 total questions and probably only 2 hours of video. That's about 170 more questions than any of the psychiatric tests I've done, so wow.

[timjake78]

Thank you! That's a lot to look at. I had four of the endings before I gave up on it. I'll go into the files and watch these to see what I missed. Again, thank you.

[Futaleufu]

I got Ending 2, which also seems to be the best possible ending.




"So... who killed the dog?"


"I didn't killed the dog! You did! YOU DID!"

[Digris]

Of the two endings I got. One was her getting hit on the head and being taken away by the ambulance - pretty sure she's alive in that one because they strapped her in and didn't cover her head for that one.

The second one was where Michael hit her with the sledgehammer and then buried her in the backyard. Definitely dead in that one. Pretty sure he killed the dog too and tried to blame it on the nurse because he couldn't deal with the guilt of his killing his own child.

[Eviction Notice]

I got ending 6 and was creeped out when they both heard Jody cry "Daddy" ... who the heck was that?

[Syrill]

@BinarySplit: Thank you very much for your research. Interesting to see how it could have ended.

Originally posted by Eviction Notice:

I got ending 6 and was creeped out when they both heard Jody cry "Daddy" ... who the heck was that?

My guess is that with this ending they both share the illusion of her daughter.

[Merlin_M]

Originally posted by Shardelyss:

Of the two endings I got. One was her getting hit on the head and being taken away by the ambulance - pretty sure she's alive in that one because they strapped her in and didn't cover her head for that one.

The second one was where Michael hit her with the sledgehammer and then buried her in the backyard. Definitely dead in that one. Pretty sure he killed the dog too and tried to blame it on the nurse because he couldn't deal with the guilt of his killing his own child.

When I explored around the house after the dog dies there was a partially burnt page from Allison's diary to be found in the master bedroom by the fireplace that actually implicates Allison as having poisoned the dog. It made me wonder just how cognizant Allison is of her surroundings yet still disconnected from reality if she wanted to repeat a tragedy that occurred when Jody was alive down to the exact details (since the original dog died from eating poison too). I don't know if this is a constant in all playthroughs but it made me wonder if Allison was just going to snap suddenly if she did end up facing the reality of what happened.

[Thomas Baxter]

All the endings were bad from what I saw. I assume the canon ending tho is the one when u trust John Hurt and he ends up coming to help u go to the police. It just felt tlike the real one, maybe not.