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Had a few more thoughts as I reread my message...A second, third... yeah... I generally plan on six full plays for a game of this scale. It was even more complicated for Deliverance, which I also enjoyed. I found all but two scenes on my own in Deliverance and only needed help to find one "?" scene in City of Broken Dreamers. But, it takes multiple plays to unlock all the options in this type of game because there are multiple endings. Any time you see multiple endings in the description of a game you will need more than one play. A game with two possible endings requires at least two plays. CoBD has quite a few possible endings and a lot of choices that have effect on the flow of the story. Play again, make different choices, shampoo, rinse, repeat. If that is not for you then you'll need a cheat mod. The multi mod for CoBD is linked in the OP, here...
https://f95zone.to/threads/city-of-...hrough-cheat-mod-v1-11-0-ch-11-scrappy.30754/
You'll find a fan made cheat mod aka multi mod for most of these multiple ending games. I ran out of patience with Deliverance and installed the cheat mod to unlock the last two endings there. Also, as I said, I needed an assist for one "?" scene here in CoBD, details of that are on p732 of this thread. But, I always attempt to unlock all of the options on my own first, then get help for trouble spots if needed. I usually wait for my third play to break out a walk through. It's all part of playing these multi-end VN games.
It's all based on your choices, e.g., In the club, first scene with choices, you can go with Chandra, have sex in the alley and still go home with Ellen. However, it will affect your score with Ellen. Doesn't matter all that much at the time but too many choices like that and Ellen options close up later on. If you don't go to the alley with Chandra there are a couple of options in her later scenes that close. Those are just your first few choices in game.
What I recommend is...
...to always take all the Katie points offered. She doesn't get jealous of the other girls and has some wonderful scenes. In every play I end up with score and lust both at six or seven with Katie.... Ellen, Gloria, Sonja, Abby, Sasha, Venus, even Chandra (except in Ellen's play) also fall into that same category as Katie. Take all the points you can get with them every play. Take all the scenes/points/options available.
...to play the party scene at Gloria's dad's and Shanlon's place with each of the girls, Katie, Ellen and Victoria. Also, play all three options through the Pit, Plan A with Sonja, Plan B with Ellen and Plan C with Abby. Make sure to continue on afterwards because it's not just the options at the party that change with the choice of girl, what happens afterward changes as well.
...to make sure you are trying all of the options. That goes for scenes as well as the choices in game. Some of the scenes need to be played multiple times to unlock all of the possibilities. Those are the scenes that have two or more check marks under them. If there is a greyed out check mark below a scene in the gallery, there is another option for that scene. Certain options require certain scores. Things like having anal sex requires a certain score for most of the girls. There are other variables as well. There's more on that in the WT.
...to give Ellen her own play. What that means is you must avoid sex with Victoria at all cost. You can even disable the bug in this play, I leave it enabled otherwise to keep Victoria in play. There are bonus points with Ellen in later scenes if you do not have sex with Victoria. In that play, take Ellen to the Pit which is Plan B, a friendly face. Make a hard save before accepting the scene with the dancer at the Pit, cute little prom queen in pink. Once you unlock her scene you can reload your hard save and resume Ellen's path without loosing any points. You can still have relations with all the other girls except Victoria in that play. It's a good time to unlock scenes with Gloria, Sonja, Chandra, Abby, Venus... basically anyone but Victoria. You'll unlock a lot of options with many of the girls in this play.
...to give Victoria her own play. In fact, you may need two Victoria saves. The one where you become spellbound, enacting Victoria's plan (cutting your Gloria score in half) and another where you break the spell and still collect all the possible points and scenes with Victoria you can, say yes to all her scene options and take her to the party at Gloria's dad and Shanlon's place. These two plays should unlock all Victoria scenes. I have the feeling there will be two Victoria endings, the spellbound option and the Victoria joins the MC's side option. I just don't know if Victoria will end up betraying the MC or not. Still three or four chapters to go...
...to try different options like saying no to some of the girls here and there. You may get an option for a scene with someone else. If you are not sure then make a save before you choose. Personally, I have well over sixty pages of save for this game thus far. I should probably keep a notebook of which saves have what attributes but I end up just replaying and hitting ctrl aka control key bottom left of my kb to skip all the scenes I have seen. With default settings you will automatically stop at the choices. If you are following the WT then it will remind you what choices to make. I just tend to remember after multiple plays or back up a few frames using the page up key.
Anyway... that is about all I can think up right now. I hope it helps.
Live long and prosper, Vin
In your Ellen centered play take her to the party as well as the Pit and pass on Chandra when she approaches you in the club. That is the only time you should pass on Chandra at the club. In fact, that is the only time you should ever pass on Chandra. Haha
Chandra is funI neglected to mention high depravity vs low depravity plays. The WT shows you which responses increase MC's depravity level. High depravity opens up the options with Shanlon and Teri as well as the more kinky options with Victoria and Venus, maybe some others too. Both of your Victoria plays should be high depravity, +3 or more, maybe +5 or 6 on the high side. The game keeps track but never displays that info. The WT tells what choices increase depravity. It's up to you to keep track. Hell, just cuss out Meridith a few times and you're good most plays. haha
There are some other options too. I think it also may have an affect on anal options with some of the girls, not 100% sure on that though. Depravity does affect the BDSM aspects, they all have a minimum depravity requirement to unlock, like with Shanlon, Teri, Venus and Victoria... possibly Gloria as well. All of the hardcore scenes have depravity requirements. You want two or three points in depravity for your Ellen save but not too high. There may be a few options that require a lower depravity but I stopped doing no depravity plays. In general, the more hardcore the option, the more depravity you need. I did some no depravity plays through chapter 7, end of book one but have had a minimum of two depravity in all the other chapters. In Philly's previous game, Depraved Awakening, depravity was more of a factor and had more low/no depravity requirements. But, let it get too high in either game and it's one of the bad endings. There are evil endings in Philly games. There are happy endings as well, with some being happier than others. Damn... this is some really good sh*t! Legal here... Anyway... that's about all I got for advice today. Hope you find some gold nuggets in there.
Live long and prosper, Vin
