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You need to give in to his blackmail.

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Can somebody tell me what i need to do to defeat the surgeons on the ending?

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Nemesis, If hired, will be of help here. That’s how I got the achievement. Fantastic game by the way.

Still playing this game & loving it

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Sorry to check in on this so late… We had some issues with the Unstoppable achievement (either pre-release or post-release, I forget). I did some editing to resolve that. Possibly I didn’t resolve it as well as I’d hoped, possibly you’re playing an older version of the game, that doesn’t have the edits.

Glad you’re still enjoying the game, @The_Division. That’s a pretty kickass screenshot, right there.

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I think I found an error (maybe?) in MetaHuman Inc. Right at the beginning, in the first paragraph Winston is described as having been blind from birth, but when your character asks about the enhancements restoring his vision, he implies (or at least outright says, I can’t quite remember) that he was not born blind, but rather, something caused him to lose his sight.

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Ah, my bad, I read it wrong - please ignore that. My apologies ;u;

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Question: is Aaron Salt the only romance option who doesn’t leave you if you side with the Surgeons? I’ve been experimenting with the other two, but it gets a little tedious running through the entire game multiple times just to see the different responses to a single dialogue choice near the end.

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Another great game with just about the right balance between gameplay, freedom of choice and general story. Very pleasant reading and time well-spent, all in all.
And a good run, too! Where were a couple of minor hiccups that the shareholders wanted me to explain (like (H)armless - seriously? I wanted an achievement, come on!) in the end, but all in all, my perfomance was judged as exemplary, everyone loved me (and media loved the company), and all ended well.

Wait, Aaron is a LI? That slippery bastard of a snake??? :angry: I kind of suspected the journalist was one, since she was being so nice to me at the event… Brett was an obvious one, too. But Aaron gave no indication that he might be one. At all.

By the way, is there more than one magical being (near the beginning) you can employ?
Is Nemesis going to be a big pain in the rear end if I employ him, or just a little one?
Also, what is this about time travel?

No, wait, don’t answer the last one, I’d prefer to find it out myself)))

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Aaron and the reporter are both love interests. And actually none of the love interests give any outward indications that they’re romantically available. You have to pursue them by choosing to spend time with them whenever the option is presented. (This is somewhat complicated by the presence of a red herring: at the fancy party where you meet Aaron, there’s an option to talk with Erica alongside the love interests…but it doesn’t lead anywhere because she’s married.)

As to your three questions:

  • No, there’s just the one magical being.
  • Nemesis kills someone and goes on the lam partway through the game if you hire him. How big a problem this becomes depends on how you respond to it. That said, hiring Nemesis is an important part of the strategy for being able to research all possible Enhancements before the end of the game.
  • I know you said not to answer, but I will anyway and just blur it out: The time travel achievement is received by screwing up the climactic battle so badly that you end up stranded on the Surgeons’ homeworld. Eventually you stumble upon an alien time machine that sends you back to the beginning of the game. This nets you the achievement and starts the game over again with some new dialogue options to reflect that your character has experienced it all before.

One more tip that I figured out on my sixth or seventh go around: external investments are like the wheel games at a casino. They’re sucker bets. Even if they pay out (and they often don’t), you only receive a small profit that takes months to add up to something significant. If you save that money and put it into researching Enhancements, the payoff is both larger and more immediate. And having more Enhancements on the market boosts your share price; successful investments do not.

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@Craverguy said it better than I could, but one small addition. When you are hiring your new head of research:

[spoiler]Jon-Tarr has had experience with both magic and technology. From the text in Chapter One: ‘“His name is Jon-Tarr, and by all accounts he’s quite versatile. He’s worked in a variety of companies and organizations as something of a journeyman, in both scientific and magical areas. We don’t have a great deal of information about his earlier background, though. We can’t even say for sure what nationality he is, or if he’s…well, human.”’

Jon-Tarr also happens to be my favourite character in MetaHuman Inc.; he’s so interesting![/spoiler]

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There is a funny thing regarding Aaron. I’ve tried starting the romance on my second playthrough with a semi-sucess: one night after the charity event, one night in May… and that was it. For whatever reason, no more opportunities ever turned up, and there were no options to invite anyone at all for the vacation in August. Just a wall of text of me deciding to go alone. Not quite sure what happened there…
Is there a secret stat check or something else that could be responsible? Because there were no ways to trigger a breakup during the 1st two encounters.

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You might have said something that soured him on you. I’ve never done that with Aaron, but it’s easy to do with Robyn.

Or it could be a bug.

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Eh, you have to be okay with him treating the relationship like a fling in the beginning, otherwise he loses interest.

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Well. Our last meeting looked something like this:
Him (at the end of a text wall): “…I guess I’m about to find out, aren’t I?”
Me: “Sure, let’s meet up. Where and when?”
Him: “I know a great place,” he says. “Do you have a pen handy?”
And that’s it. After that night (where he watches you sleep), nothing.
Well, except for the plot-related call about that flask. There were no specific dialogue options there, too.
Hm. I’m beginning to think it must be a bug after all.

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Nah, I had playthroughs where the relationship didn’t go further than that too, it depends how aggressively you pursue him in the beginning I think, let no doubt about MCs interest in him should help to get the relationship high enough, but it’s difficult, I did need a few tries until it worked. (However I also was that desperate that I thought it was a bug after a few tries ^^")

I have a suspicion that how interested he gets in the beginning depends on your stats, too.
In both playthroughs I had high compassion and candor, and in a 1st one I chose to stay and talk to him before the event started, and got a comment about how he seemed to have passed some king of judgement on me. I could still can approach him on my 2nd and go to his place after giving the check (and choosing 1st friendly approach, then flirty), but it was entirely my initiative.
Robyn, on the other hand (during the 2nd run with the same stats), seemed interested from the very start, even suggested that we should talk. At a guess, a character with different personality would have received a different treatment. She also showed interest later on, in the same playthrough where I slept with Aaron twice)))
Brett is probably the most straightforward one, so long as you show interest at key points and don’t screw things up deliberately.
So, comparing Aaron with these 2, I conclude that this guy is more trouble than he is worth :unamused:

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There is a small bonus you can get based on stats in the beginning, but I think it’s specifically for having a high Candor (or compassion?), in that case he reacts a little bit regretful before letting you run into that trap. But it only gives you plus 5 to his relationship or so.

Edit: I made a mistake. You are right, he does initiat the flirting with the MC if their candor and Compassion are <=42, but as I normally don’t get that scene I can guarantee you that it’s not needed to start his romance.

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So, I played again through it and just put the answers for every interacrion I had with Aaron to get his path here:

I continue my conversation with Aaron Salt.

“You aren’t quite the shark I’d expected, Aaron.”

I’d like to see Aaron. Despite his dirty trick, he seems like an interesting guy to know.

“Fine? That’s all? I was hoping we might get to know each other even better than that.”

“Yes, I love a good pretext. Why not?”

Take the oppertunity to call Aaron (x2)

When he tells you about the other person he is meeting be cool with it (Either: “Sure, let’s meet up. Where and when?” Or “Yeah, let’s meet up. Are you sure you can’t convince Candy to join us?”)

It may be an advantage to develop the Earrh Unearthing to get this option:
“Set up a meeting with Aaron Salt. Maybe we can combine our efforts with Psion in some sort of joint venture.”

Then you should get the option to invite him to the vacation.

May try it out, it would be interesting to see if it really depends on stats too or if it’s a path avaliable with every stat.

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Odd, I never found it difficult to romance him. @Sammysam’s post above is the path I took.

I dumped him anyway toward the end. I liked the business rivals angle, so I’d have been ok with him snatching the djinn bottle and ransoming it back to me. But the fact that one of his suggestions was to sexually humiliate the MC in the national media really soured me on him. I imagine she hangs up on him in anger and then raids his company for secrets while he’s in the hospital.

Brett’s romance is by far the best, even if it feels weird to me to play as a guy. I liked Robyn but she dumped me when I wouldn’t let the guy who worked for the surgeons go free.

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