J'étais un exocoloniste adolescent – Boucliers et fins (Spoilers)

Pre-Requisites

Vous pourriez’ve seen some references to the above in the discussions here – il’s something that Sol can learn how to do in their prologue (c'est à dire. création de personnage), which alters several things about the playthrough where you do it. je’m still working on how, mais je’m pretty sure one of the things it does is helps out the food supply (or at least reduces the severity of the crisis).

In order to get to it, cependant, Sol need to fulfil three major pre-requisites:

1. They must have Congruence’s master access codes.
2. They must understand how the Stratos works.
3. They must understand how the wormhole works.If Sol’il manque n'importe lequel of these three, ils ont gagné’t be able to recalibrate the shields – either they won’t be able to get access to Congruence to do it at all, ou ils ont gagné’t know how to explain what they need to happen.

Plus, once Sol can do this, you can get two of the trickier endings.

Getting Congruence’s master access code

Oui, this sucks, but you have to let him die in the second Glow attack. If this is your first playthrough, tu as gagné’t have the option of saving him – it just happens.

« Mais où’c'est ça? » Je t'entends pleurer. Low stress – Sol can’t go there at first. Ici’s how it gets unlocked:

1. Obtenir Reasoning up to 5. Comment?
   • Take the Absorbent Brain Perk during the prologue
   • Befriend Tang during the prologue
   • Take the Learning Tablet as Sol’s favourite birthday gift during the prologue (not available the first time)
2. The option to Register for Engineering Classes will turn up as either a random event when Sol spend a month to study, ou ça’ll be available immediately. De toute façon, the option stays available until Sol takes it.
3. Obtenir Engineering up to 50. Comment?
   • Study Engineering
   • Work in Construction (only if you have it unlocked by talking to Rex later in the game)
   • Some events when Sol’s Exploring the Ridge will boost Engineering.
4. When Sol goes in to study something, they can get a random event that involves an out-of-control robot. If Sol’s got enough 50 Ingénierie, they can shut the robot down safely, opening up the lab. Enfiler’t worry if they don’t – the event can happen any time, mais ça’ll still be there to choose once Sol’s got their Engineering up.

If Sol keeps working in the Robotics Lab, one of the events that can trigger involves random things malfunctioning in the colony, which ends up with Sol having to dig into Congruence’s programming. One of the options that’ll come up is something along the lines of « Get to the real cause of the problem. » (I think this also has an Empathy 31 requirement too – enfiler’t remember right now).

Once Sol does that, they find out that things are malfunctioning because Congruence is grieving Hal’la mort. This makes Sol realise that Congruence is a person, unlocking the ability to have her as a friend during the prologue – you should see one of the purple information bars below the dialogue box telling you.

Next time you start a game, one of the childhood friend options that should come up for Sol during the prologue is Congruence. If you choose Congruence, she gives Sol her master access code.

Understanding how the Stratos works

Try to get Biology and Engineering up to 100 – que’s where I had Sol’s when they got to the next part.

This is an event that turns up around 17 ou 18, where Governor Lum announces that he’s taking new people into different positions. When the options come up, Sol should nominate themselves for Second Engineer.

Note that this means that

Sol can’t work with Marz to depose himbecause then the opportunity doesn’t come up. Aussi, Sol will be vying for the nomination against Tangent, so make sure their mental attributes are maxed out.

Should Sol be successful, you get the Second Engineer card and Sol gains access to all of the Stratospheric’s technical schematics.

Si tu’j'ai fait tout ça, then the next time you start a game, Sol should get the option to have their dad read the engineering manuals to them as a bedtime story. S'ils ne le font pas’t read the manuals, then they won’t know how to reprogram the shields at all, even with the master access codes.

Understanding how the wormhole works

The good news about this step? You only need to get an ending.

Mauvaise nouvelle? Il’s the Transcendence ending. Which is a little involved.

Mais si tu ne le fais pas’je ne comprends pas, Sol never has the understanding of how the wormhole works – et, more specifically, how the wormhole affects the shields.

je’d keep going but it’s 9.30pm right now and it’s been a long day, donc je’ll come back and do this bit properly tomorrow.

Maintenant que tu’ve got all the pieces, ici’c'est comme ça que tu fais

1. Get Sol’s dad to read the engineering manuals to them.
2. Make Congruence Sol’s childhood friend.
3. When the ship reaches the wormhole, toi’ll have an option to go calibrate the shields.
4. Prends-le, then Sol can ask Congruence to fix the shields using her master access code.

À ce point, Sol can make three choices – full shields, half shields, and no shields.

The game proceeds as normal.

The Stratos touches down unharmed, with a lot more of its cargo and geoponics equipment (and dirt) intact. je’m not sure how else this alters the gameplay – je’ll do my best to keep track of it as I play.

If Sol turns the shields off, then you get the

Stratos Destroyedfin. Not only does everyone die in the explosion, but the wormhole is destroyed. Évidemment, you get a game over.

If you start a new game, toi’re treated to a short story sequence about Sol’s life on Earth before the cult compound is overrun, which gets you the Life On Earth fin.

If you start a new game after that, you get the same sequence, mais là’s an option to complain about having to go through it again – at which point Old Sol turns up, has a brief chat with everyone, and repairs the timeline.

If you start a new game after que , toi’re returned to the regularly scheduled programming.

Aussi, you know how all of Sol’s friends gradually turn up on the start screen as you get them at 100% friendship? This sequence of events is how you get Sol there too.