Whiskey-Four Release Thread [November 7th, 2024]

You do get epilogues with the other RO’s romanced or not.

There are 4 epilogues with Ulysses
2 for Driver (Romanced* and not)
2 for Castle (Romanced* or not)
And 7 by yourself.

*P.S. I say romance because it sort of delves into it in the epilogue but its more of you sleeping and flirting with them the whole game. Even though they arent an official R.O’s.

*P.S.S sorry forgot to reply >.<"

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Hey, Can you please give a walkthrough for the perfect run? And Happy New Year to everyone

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Dont go killing cops as much as possible. Save certain grenades for harder targets. Flash versus SWAT shielded armored personnel instead of a crowd of softies example. Save WP until end (it hints only weapon capable to stop Anomalies). I love Ulyssa so had her at my side for stopping Ark and fighting the Anomaly.

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If I keep WP for the end, then wont the police woman die? ?

Nope. Killing cops is what will have her killed instead. They stop trying ‘not’ to kill you and try to kill you. Become more serious than they would be. Willie Pete is ONLY way to end the biggest threat, Anomaly. The rest are just, getting in your way, so to speak.

Don’t have to target Anomaly but perfect ending and life of peace, yep!

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Awesome info man, thanks a ton!!

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Ulysses yells at Whiskey because he named their daughter Willie Pete

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I love your memes so much! Makes my day :rofl: also the fact the daughter is holding the WP is making me cry with laughter. Good job!

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I gotta say I found Uvarov as a concept really interesting. The mixture of sinister megacoporations and Eldritch cults.

A lot of people don’t know this but there actually is some history of companies having internal cults. Like, actual occultists study them. Multi-Level Marketing companies often have both bizarre cults of personality surrounding their founders as well as cult indoctrination tactics even if they’re not religious per se (a lot of experts on cults define the term by their indoctrination rather than whether they’re actually a religion), and a lot of folk medicine sellers use bizarre mysticism in combination with pseudoscience in their marketing in ways that more resemble what we usually think of when we think of cults. Some relatively normal business like the Kelloggs, original producers of Graham Crackers, and Sleepy Time Tea of all things, started out like this.

It’s actually not that surprising that Uvarov became as successful as it did in the sector it operates in because the reason these businesses do this, in addition to the founders believing in their new religion sometimes, is because cults are a fantastic way to get a stream of cheap or even free labor who’ll also put most of their money back into the business. It’s why there are so many cults that do drug running and such. Convincing people that they’re serving a greater purpose is a great motivator and Uvarov may worship more sinister beings but the line that members of the cult are doing all of this in preparation for something great and that working towards it is the only way to have a place in whatever great thing will happen is a tactic as old as dirt. Usually it’s something from a more conventional faith adopted for the cult’s purposes like the Second Coming.

For Uvarov, not only are they worshipping something that verifiably exists but advancing the sector they specialize in really is essential to bringing about their plans so it’s only natural they had an advantage in the FTL field. And you also get to convince your corporate wetworks agents that they’re not just thugs enforcing a corporation’s power grab, but are instead holy crusaders aiding a holy cause. This will likely make them more enthusiastic about it.

I also find it rather appropriate that there’s no name for the secret cult that runs Uvarov. The two are one and the same. A lot of stories that reveal an organization as a front for a cult give the cult a different aesthetic and organizational structure as well as a separate name. You’d transition from corporate thugs or gangsters in a fancy corporate HQ or abandoned warehouse to robed cultists in an ancient-looking temple underground or some such once you go further in. I don’t mind this at all but I find this take, where there’s no traditional cult imagery at all, the corporate HQ IS their temple of sorts. The corporate iconography like the founder painting function as cult iconography as well just as they would in irl examples of cult businesses. Context is all you need to change a perfectly mundane corporate dinner party into a cult gathering and the giant painting of the founder into the equivalent of a portrait of the pope.

And meanwhile the mundane corporate death squads who are your typical cold-blooded professional hitmen and cyberpunk corporate enforcers, and the radical cultist terrorists high on zeal performing a hijacking and terrorist attack are not only the same branch of the company but they’re the same people in some cases. You just don’t learn the head of the death squads hunting you is actually a hot-blooded fanatic rather than an unscrupulous goon until later. That makes sense too. Why bother having an indoctrinated militant wing of the cult AND a regular group of corporate enforcers when you could just send the people who want to be terrorists to the death squads? They’re the best fit for the job and they’re more effective with better training and hardware.

The fact that a group of crazy cultists are operating under a brand name is interesting too. I’ve seen it a few times but it’s a bit rare to see it played seriously because frankly the idea of juxtaposing soulless corporate branding with religious reverence is going to sound funny at first glance. In fact the fact that Uvarov is a transportation company calls to mind this Onion article. But it can actually be really interesting when done seriously given how corporate culture tries to cultivate that sort of dedication even when they aren’t cults. The only examples I can think of that did it seriously are Battletech with Commstar and a TTRPG called Degenesis where the remnants of a company that brainwashed people into cultists evolved into Morloks and in both cases they stopped being a company and started being a religion rather than being both. Having them be both at the same time in the present adds for some nice surreal juxtaposition that I really like.

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