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maladroit
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ok? I guess I'm having a hard time believing that in 626 pages of discussion over 7 years nobody asked or answered this question, but since I couldn't find it in search and you don't know, maybe not.
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It's now probably too late to help you, but it may help other people. ISTR the game warns you that you are about to make a choice which will lock you into one ending or the other. It's a good idea to save at that point, so you can go back to that save later and get the other ending.
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Would it lose the achievement that way if I load the save to go back to the different ending?
maladroit
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I have a save around that point, sure. I'm pretty religious about saving, I have saves at basically every decision point. The thing that I'd prefer not to have to do is, roll all the way back to that save and spend hours grinding forward from it again just to see one or two slightly different CGs in the alternate ending.
Honestly it seems crazy to me that there's apparently no way, having finished the game once, to get to the other ending besides playing through half the game again. It seems crazy as a design decision to begin with, and then it seems even crazier that no one has addressed it in mods or workarounds.
Achievements seem to be kept in persistent storage (the 'persistent' file in your Ren'Py save folder), so rolling back to an old save shouldn't affect them. Just verified this in my game, loaded a save hours before the ending and I still have the ending achievement. There's a setting under Preferences > Accessibility where you can wipe persistent data if you ever do want to clear achievements and start fresh, but otherwise short of deleting the file itself you should be fine.Would it lose the achievement that way if I load the save to go back to the different ending?
I haven't played the game for a while, so my memory may be at fault, but as I recall it the decision point isn't that far from the end, so it would be more like playing 5-10% of the game again rather than half of it.
maladroit
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I have 18 pages of saves for this game. (I save more than most, because I like to go back and try different things a lot.)
The point at which Hermione would have crossed this threshold is on page 5 of my saves.
This will obviously vary with the way people play and the order in which they tackle things, but the idea that most people are hitting this point within 5-10% of the end of the game is just... wildly inaccurate. If you're doing stuff with all the girls and exploring all of your options, trying to keep things pretty balanced, you're probably going to have to roll back at least halfway through the game to get back to that point.
edit: honestly it seems clear that what's really needed is for someone to just figure out exactly what switches are being tracked on the back end and either document it in one of these threads or make a mod to manage it. I'm a little rusty but I'll look at it this weekend.
maladroit
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Wow, folks in this thread are just *really* insistent that replaying hours of a game you just finished to see a slightly different CG ending is a totally reasonable and expected thing to do and that any suggestion to the contrary is way out of line.
Fine then, when I figure out how to just modify the save to easily get to both endings, I'll keep it to myself, nobody else would ever want or need such a thing I guess.
Fine then, when I figure out how to just modify the save to easily get to both endings, I'll keep it to myself, nobody else would ever want or need such a thing I guess.
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It takes all of ten minutes, at most, to go from starting a brand new save to beginning the Autumn Ball, when you use the in built cheats.
You should make this mod lol, since there seems to be no workaround.
I recall there being a cheat to just unlock the two endings, but I'm going all the way back to 1.36.2 and still can't find it.
Depending where you started pimping out Hermione in your saves, it might be quicker to just cheat her to max whoring and mega slytherin points to avoid having to do all the private favour stuff, and do nothing but the necesary plot stuff to get to the autumn ball (Tutoring, some card battles and quiditch with Cho is all you need I think) and since you already did ending 2, that saves having to do all the public favour stuff as well. It'd be annoying, but doable in like ten minutes, and then it permanently unlocks both endings in all your saves going forward.
To be fair though, why isn't there just a "unlock the two endings" cheat? Yes I can spam CTRL for ten minutes, but it's not fun lol
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I can't speak for the others on the team, but honestly? This is the first time I've seen it brought up as being an issue, so there's been nothing to prompt the creation of such a cheat. Given that there's no gallery, the 'Hey, if you continue you won't be able to do public favours' warning is usually enough.
7 months and counting for new update. This is the unfortunate state of many good games on this site.
Tbh, many games here appear to be developed without an actual "end-goal" in sight.
They instead devolve into endless projects, endless money-makers (for those that are profitable like WT:S)
Life goes on, and for some a lifetime passes
Tbh, many games here appear to be developed without an actual "end-goal" in sight.
They instead devolve into endless projects, endless money-makers (for those that are profitable like WT:S)
Life goes on, and for some a lifetime passes
Without sites like patreon we wouldn't be getting so many porn games in the first place. You have to take the good with the bad.7 months and counting for new update. This is the unfortunate state of many good games on this site.
Tbh, many games here appear to be developed without an actual "end-goal" in sight.
They instead devolve into endless projects, endless money-makers (for those that are profitable like WT:S)
Life goes on, and for some a lifetime passes