Guide on getting the good ending

[Ludicrous Ham]

1. Don't call in the lander early, choose to explore the alliance camp first
2. Subdue Rohytra with a syringe you find in the Condor infirmary
3. call in the lander and you wont be affected by the bomb Rohytra would've sent if he was still concious

[dfox19]

Escrito originalmente por ZSU Dave247:

Escrito originalmente por Simplex:

What did you do to fail to convince Rohytra and to lose the lander?

Losing the lander is choosing to go to the landing site when it's mentioned over going straight to the Alliance base as others have mentioned. Not being able to convince him peacefully I don't know, I could have sworn I said all the right things, only for him to turn around and still want to nuke it anyway which made no sense after all the conversation that played out.

This was exactly my experience and after playing out the last bit of the game several times with no change in outcome, I have grown rather bored. So much waiting for dialogue to play out! I would rather go to youtube for the rest. I feel unsatisfied.

[Looks like Duke]

Escrito originalmente por LtKillPuppy:

Escrito originalmente por MyMumIsAstronaut:

Tbh I was even expecting it to be a bit more mysterious. Like some kind of AI, discovering some actual alien ruins and finding out more about these aliens...

If you read Lem's works (The Invincible and others), you will find he has a very common theme in most of his works: The Universe is unknowable, unkind to humankind, and ultimately a silent enigma that will never be conquered.

So I'm kinda torn on the good ending. It implies Yasna eventually made some impression upon the flies, and there might be the hope of future contact. But assuming the book is the continuation of the story, it's not how it pans out. So I guess in the end it's all the same?

I do not know. I do not remember Lem being so depressing. And I have read tons of him, although it was long time ago.

[SunBeam]

Escrito originalmente por ddrulez:

Yeah cant get the syringe now. There is only one save game.
Ending was pretty disapointing...

You have multiple saves, but 4 slots. The saves are in %USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/TheInvincible/Saved/SaveGames. BACKUPS. Rename the latest to 'SaveSlot_0.sav' or 'SaveSlot_1.sav' etc. and you can go back in time to that progression.

[evildrganymede]

Honestly I thought the ending I got was perfect. (maybe it was the good one?)

I got to Kondor, tried but failed to talk Rohytra out of nuking the flies so I sedated him to "neutralise him", then left on the Lander which landed on the pad at the top of the ship. And I threw away the container with the flies.

In the biolab on the Kondor there is an eyechart that says "Not Everything Everywhere Is For Us". I think this is actually a quote from Lem, but it's a similar theme in all his books (certainly Solaris). Basically, we like to think we're the centre of the universe and that we can deal with everything it can throw at us but that's enormously arrogant and most likely simply isn't true - the universe doesn't care about humanity or how it wants to understand or conquer everything, it's just there doing its own thing - vast, unknowable, and often incomprehensible.

I think the situation here was just another example of that. We stumbled blindly onto a planet, woke up something alien to us and found it impossible to deal with - we can't defeat it, we can't rationalise with it, we can't come to any arrangement with it, all we can do is get away from it and leave it to its own devices.

So I think the ending I got fit pretty well with that. Maybe if I had complete freedom of choice to do other things (not offered in the game) there may have been better way but I think the options I took were the most "Lem-like".

[Simplex]

I think the more perfect ending is not having to sedate rohytra :)

[Friedhelm]

I went along with Rohytra and nuked those basterds but it kind of backfired so i scooted out, leaving him behind as it was his idea to try the nukes in the first place so #notmyproblem, reading this thread i guess it wasn't the worst ending.