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@AllenGies, will the “thing you care about most” from chapter one be included in the Epilogue?

Just finished playing through, I loved the game. But one thing about the Obsidian Axe was that I thought it was too overpowered. I killed Hungry snake with one strike, Reginold in 2, and scared away the lions easily. In my previous playthroughs without the Axe, it was significantly tougher.

Also, I think it would be great if the epilogue mentioned any special weapons that the player possessed, E.g The Obsidian Axe, and the special weapons that the Blacksmith can make for you.

I didn’t read through the thread, so I don’t know if my suggestions have come up before.

@RoseQueenKamijo - Yiska should be offering the MC a send off, assuming he is still alive, etc. I always considered that he couldn’t accompany the MC to New York though, too far from his people and job etc.

@kitty -I think that joining the Hartigan gang would take place beyond the scope of the epilogue. After all, the perilous times of Lander Country are over, but other stories continues.

@Bloodwyche - Excellent. I’ve fixed those mistakes. It is amazing how they keep creeping in there.

@P_Tigras -Ah, that is a good point. The genderless variables of Doctor and Marshal aren’t really genderless per se. I’ve added something in the marriage section to account for that and give the player a choice of gender definition above career when the time comes.

@FortunesFaded -Yep. I reference that a couple of times. :slight_smile:

@Xt1000305 - Interesting. Is is just not dramatic enough with the obsidian ax? I mean, it is a difficult weapon to get (Excepting in one secret way), but does having it just sap the fun out of certain sections?

As promised, the Epilogue. I know it will need work, endings always do, so please dig in. Particularly; if you have been overlooked in the credits, send me an e-mail. If you feel your entry is off in some way, also send me an e-mail.

Almost done…

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89217689/web/mygame/index.html

@AllenGies
I had a weird bug happen. I played to the end of chapter nine then played a bit where I interrogated Regina. I had to exit out of the game for a bit and when I tried to start playing again it restarts from the beginning and I had two different games at different points in the story. It starts over right after the hangman pulls the lever.

@Allengies is it possible to marry miss Caraway? Amazing work, fantastic story.

@AllenGies,
Not sure if it’s a bug or not, but even though I killed Baldwin, there’s no mention of it in my Legend Score, and it still talks about “The Copper Siren”.

Just finished a playthrough.
Loved everything.
Especially my brief mention in the Credits, it left me touched.

@Scrivener -Okay, are you saying that your saved games reverted to chapter one? It is possible that my revisions have somehow triggered this. It is also possible that you managed to start a new game while I was updating the mygame.js file on drop

@Peeehh - Marry her? That would be an epic tale unto itself. You’d have to get her father’s permission and maybe sail to Ireland to get her grandmother’s agreement. Also, there would be sword play and dueling, but I imagine she would be right there by your side through thick and thin.

But more seriously, do you feel there needs to be a ‘convince her to marry you’ option?

@AngelOfTheBroken -I’m glad you consider the epilogue to be comprehensive. I certain tried to make it so. You also enjoyed the song? Did it come out alright? I had a devil of a time trying to space it out properly what with all the variations that could be had.

@djma46 -That’s a strange bug. All that is there after the indicated sentences is a *page_break which shouldn’t be any sort of obstacle. Could you play it again and see if the trouble persists?

Moreover, has anyone else encounter trouble in that particular part of the Epilogue?

@Zed -The obsidian ax can be gotten from the Six Horns Lodges in chapter six if certain criteria is met. It is actually rather exacting criteria in fact; no upgrade to your personal weapon was made at the blacksmith, you take gifts to the Indians and parley with them favorably. The Obsidian ax will appear as a choice for a return-gift.

With Baldwin… oops. He certainly can’t write the Copper Siren if he’s dead. I mean, this isn’t that kind of story. Good catch.

@FortunesFaded - It sounds as though you liked it. :slight_smile: Thank you. Now then, were there any parts that you think can be fixed up or sanded down? Every little bit helps.

the same text comes out twice when it comes to steel first in long paragraph wiht other then just these two. then you cant click next to conntinue.

@AllenGies , truth be told I didn’t see a single thing I disliked there. Probably not the most helpful of things to say, but I really do like it the way it is. And thank you, both for the awesome game and the inclusion in the Credits list :slight_smile:

@AllenGies the problem fixed itself. I waited a while after that bug I mentioned happened to me and I tried to play my main MC game again and it worked this time. It was prolly the revisions you were talking about glitching my play through. Btw I looooooved the epilogue and everything. It pulled together nicely and mentioned my many achievements perfectly.

I think I teared up a little at the end there. Well done, sir, well done.

Thanks for the mention in the credits, and loved the song by the by, I had to recite it out loud when I saw it.

I noticed something though, I got a bit about Maria marrying a second time for love, and then in the epilogue it mentions she stays with the Marshall, since we were together, so I presume that either that first part was meant for a maria the marshall didn’t romance, or does the marshall finally pop the question to Maria after the mexican revolution where marrying a Celestial is less of an issue for her family?

@AllenGies I agree that the Obsidian Axe was hard to get (Only once in my many playthroughs), so maybe that justifies it’s over powerness. I can’t remember exactly what the text says when I kill them with the Obsidian war Axe, but I thought the battles were over too fast. It doesn’t exactly sap away the fun.

Also, I liked that old Characters reappeared again (Defending the railway and talking to the guy who you thought was trying to steal your horse earlier in the game).

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I don’t know if it’s too late to add it, it probably is, but I have a suggestion. What about giving legend points for unlocking the scene (chapter eight, if I’m not mistaken) that occurs if the Marshal romances all the possible characters and has to choose one of them. Instead of the failed romances part of the legend score, it could be a merit like “you were known as the biggest heartbreaker”. Another suggestion would be giving legend points when you capture one of the Upton siblings, I think it’s quite an impressive feat. And being a female Marshal also, especially a Chinese female Marshal should give legend points.

Error: The spring of eighteen sixty_seven (epilogue)
Error: Regina appears alive in the interrogation scene, when she’s supposed to be dead. I killed her at the Painted Caves.
Error: “I am always eager to play, though some games are more satisfying than others.” Carlos notes with a grin. “But if the senoritas wish to play together, then play on.” It should be señoritas.

“I have six bullets, three for each of you”
“Hey, is that your brother over there, or is that barbecue?”

Both cracked me up.

Question: Why’s the Upton’s butler so loyal? SPOILER I mean, really, killing himself if the Upton patriarch dies? SPOILER

It says something about a game when you don’t mind playing it all over again to beta it. I’ve played this game more times than fingers on my hands and feet, and I’m still not bored by it. Every single time I find something new that makes me laugh or makes me go “Ha! So that’s why!”. It’s a great game.

About the credit on the epilogue, aw, you didn’t need to! I wouldn’t be the proud Latino I am if I hadn’t made myself useful with my Spanish. I can’t believe you still remember the debate we had about the Slap Slap Kiss dynamic between the Marshal and Preston, ha, brilliant!

My eyes got a little wet when I read the epilogue, I won’t lie. This truly feels like the end of a journey. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Bonus points: I loved that Andy became a doctor in one of the possible epilogues. I also love that not everyone got married and had a babies ever after. Nice touch.

After Chapter 9 there is still the “Sadly there is no Chapter 10 yet” break.

And at the risk of sounding annoying: That part where Marshall James mentions the Lions still seems quite random. It pops up out of nowhere and if you ask for clarification it just seems even more random. Even knowing what that passage is for I still had a “So there are Lions somewhere down west? And you tell me that because…?”. It doesn’t really connect that this refers to the Uptons. If you deliberately put it that way to not be too obvious, I’d suggest throwing that tip somewhere in the first talk in Chapter one with the Marshall, maybe only when you choose the full run-down on the situation (“The Uptons having two pet Lions at their disposal also helped to “convince” certain individuals”)

Interrogating Steele:
“You aren’t gloating enough.” He notes, "you want something.
There’s an " missing.

“New York city? Hell Gate? Its thin, but you’ll know more when you get there. Take your horse and a rope.”
Missing apostrophe.

The interrogation itself seems a bit short. Only two pages and it seems like I can’t go wrong, regardless of what options I pick. The interrogation with Regina was better in that way, both regarding length and the possibility of failing to extract the information.

Talking to Carrie afterwards, there’s a spacing error:
With that she gives you a little squeeze and moves in for a brief and pointed kiss.

Schmidt stares off at the horizon as stars begin to come out for the night. “I wonder how much New York has grown since last I saw her?”

It feels like there’s a word missing in between the marked ones:
“There’s better ways.” Schmidt begins to reply, thinks better of it. “But yeah, that’ll do.”

I’m assuming the one talking is Schmidt, but that isn’t clear in this instance since he didn’t say something before that:
“Several years of grown in places.” He notes, “though someone tried to trim some of it back recently.”

I don’t even know what that sentence is supposed to say :smiley:
The Marshal’s encounter with a local gunslinger called Tumbleweed Jack and that proved to most that justice had returned.
It’s in the epilogue and right before it is a spacing issue.

The Marshal would soon ride out to visit the Red Ribbon mining company, but nothing could stop the destruction of a makeshift dam that the prospectors had assembled. This sabotage would later be attributed to a roving band of Shoshone Indians.
I didn’t check it, but this seems to conflict with the description in the Legend-Page. If I remember correctly the Legend-text says something about me aiding in the bloodless resolution of the conflict and in this text it seems like I rode out in order to stop the Indians.

The spring of eighteen sixty_seven opened with word of an impending attack on the Central Pacific railroad and Marshal Marlow was quick to ride out to the endangered rail-head.

Spacing issue:
The two stirred up plenty of gossip from envious cowboys and prospectors, but few dared to come out and say so much as a word.

Miss Caraway gradually became accustomed to wearing the deputy’s tin-star and with it her bad habits, such as they were on the frontier, retreated.

After Chapter 10 I got the Legend review, then comes the Epilogue and after that I have the option to view the Legend score again. Not sure if this is intentional.

The Central Pacific railroad fought off an attack in the summer of eighteen sixty-seven when a determined regiment of bandits, in possession of a number of outdated but still serviceable artillery pieces. Scarcely a man was killed thanks to a stalwart defense and work resumed quickly thereafter.
The first sentence just ends unfinished.

Miss MacMurphy kept tending to the Grand Haven Hotel for JT. Preston
I don’t think there should be a dot after “JT”

Sam Pitcavages epilogue:
Eventualy he would return to California, scrape up enough money to buy a farm and find joy in harvesting the bounty he brought forth.

LINK:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89217689/web/mygame/index.html

@AllenGies Wow. But I am not worthy. So, since you’re done what’s your next work? You’ve done different eras and settings; future in space, WWII in the Pacific, and the American Frontier. What’s next? Russia during, before, after, and around the Bolshevik Revolution?

Correct me if I’m wromg but I don’t think there was an epilouge for Hartigan.

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And lastly, I find the epilouge where Upton invested into Preston Springs the most satisfying. To know that the city that you’ve grown to love and seen it live goes on to outshine even Las Vegas is heartwarming.

The game was amazing i just finished its the most detailled epiloge i never seen i was out off spoilers so i found all story once i love it and with desires of continue replaying it. the preston start romanceship its priceless so congratulations you are a pro !

my chapter ten save turned into a save right before chapter three