IXION BONUS: Alternate Endings (Spoilers) - IXION Gameplay - 24

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WHAT IS IXION?
IXION combines city building, survival elements and exploration, into a thrilling space opera as you explore the stars. Propelled onwards through a perilous journey, you are the Administrator of the Tiqqun space station, charged with finding a new home for humanity.
A population to manage, survivors to find, cryopods to recover... Maintain your crew's trust in the corporation that started this venture, or face failure and mutiny. Six sectors can be unlocked within the station, each able to house more population, support new jobs, and provide opportunity to monitor the crew with the Data Listening System. Will you bring hope to the people?
IXION combines survival elements, exploration, conflict and resolution through player choices, resource management, and and overarching story that takes players through the vastness of space.
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[@CharliePryor]

They really need to have more attention given to the endings IMO. This game has amazing visuals all the way through until the end. I want those scenes to have the same polish… and maybe be a bit more different. But, that’s it for our Ixion playthrough. Thanks for watching! EDIT: I kinda feel bad about now exploring the Free Will temple anyways, just to see what happens. So I went back and did it. results are below - TEMPLE OF FREE WILL: EXPLORE AND STUDY RESULTS: - 5 CREW MEMBERS LOST (same result) Summary: The Medusae team are *not responding* to our hails. Before *comms breakdown* , the team had started to act *differently* , ceasing to follow *recommended DOLOS protocol* . They seem to have *disappeared* into the depths of the temple. The Medusae will be *sent back* to the Tiqqun via its autopilot.

[@HauntedCorpseGaming]

Endings need a content patch. :D

[@axelhopfinger533]

The entire story and narration feels just bare bones and needs a serious do-over imho. It's the greatest weak point of the game as is, becaused it's just so linear yet confusing, with barely any memorable characters or actually impactful choices in it. And the static or barely animated pictures don''t do much to improve the narrative atmosphere either.

[@PJpuccii]

Great content I got the same feeling of a bit of an anti climactic ending, however maybe another play through with more added content could be in the future over all awesome coverage on the game charlie can't wait to see you on the bus playlist i think lol havnt decided exactly yet

[@AbhilekhPandey]

I think there is also another Romulus ending where you can use the 2nd AI to pilot the ship into Piranesi without sacking the administrator

[@axelhopfinger533]

I just noticed a massive construction flaw in the Tiqqun: when it moves, the acceleration from its thrusters would shift the gravity in the ship from the outer radius of the rotating drum to the backside wall, leading to all sorts of complications and making working or moving around in the ship very difficult if not impossible. Unless the ship accelerates VERY slowly and at low-G!

[@TheElMuffin]

It's a glaring plot hole that I've thought a long time on. Tiqqun accelerates fast enough to become a kinetic projectile powerful enough to destroy Perinesi. Tiqqun is designed to move around, so I believe it's a plot hole. What would solve this if sectors very longitudinally positioned to hinge for centrifugal gravity and thrust gravity as need arises. That would have required a lot more coding and animating. But it would be cool. Prepping for travel or back into rotation mode could require, say, a cycle for Tiqqun to re-arrange itself, making running from Piranesi even more challenging.

[@toddkes5890]

@@TheElMuffin Kinetic energy is based on velocity, low acceleration for longer periods of time can get the necessary velocity. Also most of the crew is evacuated from Tiqqun before it performs its attack, so higher acceleration is not an issue.

[@TheElMuffin]

@@toddkes5890 Tiqqun is animated to take off pretty fast when you move it on the celestial map. If a cycle is equal to 1 day, going from one planet to another in just a few days means those EKP engines pack a punch. Everything indicates that the more juice Tiqqun has, the faster and farther it can go, hence building 1000 tiles worth of batteries. Electro-kinetic propulsuon is purely theoretical right now but promises high engine efficiency, high specific impulse, high thrust-to-power ratio - a magical engine really, a unicorn. So no, I don't think Tiqqun moves slow, I think it zaps around and it's denizens hold on for dear life lest they smash into the back wall.

[@toddkes5890]

@@TheElMuffin I thought the 1000 spaces of batteries was to provide extra explosive power for when the Tiqqun rammed into Piranesi?

[@dimercamparini]

Weeeell...I guess they have the famous "inertial dampers" of Star Trek... :DDD

[@svsguru2000]

I just settled Romulus. I didn't come all this way just to mutate myself into off-brand Na'vi, just because they tell me to.

[@lonewaffle231]

True! Humanity is meant to bean the Nature to its Will, not vice versa!

[@tomhathaway2556]

I'm really curious about that "Lunaclysm was inevitable" line. How was it inevitable, and how did he know? How did he know it was called the Lunaclysm, when that was presumably recorded before they left? And why go ahead with the Tiqqun if he knew what would happen? It really frames the whole story differently.

[@TricksterPoi]

It's the talk in both steam and reddit as if he saw the future. It is likely he saw a possibly of the Future but then again his plans for humanity ain't really great and we saw how much it cost.

[@DeadDancers]

The game tells us that the element used to access 'self-same space' appears to have a deleterious effect on human minds, from obsession to delusions of godhood, suicide and other erratic behaviour. It also potentially allows access to or glimpses of other realities (and possible futures). I suspect that the founder guy and/or whoever discovered this element, basically got wrapped up in that delusion/obsession and either mistakenly thought the lunaclysm was inevitable ('seeing' other realities where it happened and assuming it was their own future) or decided it was inevitable because they wanted the potential futures they could have with the establishment of the Vohle engine.

[@kommodore6691]

He could just be lying about it being inevitable.

[@splitframe]

@@DeadDancers To add to that, there are missions on planets/astroids where you find weird spheres that consume people. I think I had one in the second system and lost a science ship and in the last system I got them back, though they now had red overralls instead of yellow, but all bio checks were saying it's the same people. Or another mission where you find the corpse of a crew member, but that crew member is alive and well on the Tiqqun. There are definitely some time shenanigans at play.

[@efran202]

@@DeadDancers it's not a delusion tho, as through the game it becomes clear, throu secondary missions that self-similar space particles can lead to travel between realities, not only teleportation. there are several events where you interact with alien devices which use self-similar space particles and your team gets sent to another system or your team gets swaped with other people from another dimension or same people, but from another dimension with different history and events, when they board the ixion back you find out they have discrepancies in their memories, like family members who they remember were aboard ixion are not or some who werent aboard ixion but left on earth but in our reality they are aboard ixion, different jumpsuits too

[@TheElMuffin]

Bulwark Studios is not even 10 people I think. This game is a banger but I do think they had to rush last chapters. Given more time and more developers, we'd have had more cutscenes, more story, more lore. I bet they hade a lot more ideas that never made it into the game. I would love a 3rd ending, where Tiqqun manages to destroy Piranesi using cargo ships packed with charged batteries as missiles, instead of destroying the entire Tiqqun itself. Or just research and invent an honest to God missile. How does Piranesi destroy an entire planet anyway? It's not that big. Etemenanki was magnitutes bigger than Piranesi.

[@METALFREAK03]

I imagine the Piranesi is like the architect from the Matrix where they can "decode" whole buildings by a flip of a button. Also Giovanni Battista Piranesi is a real life architect and archeologist from Italy in the 1700s. Also, also (:)) I believe one of the council was called Giovanni Battista to confirm they (the devs) are signalling this. I don't think they "rushed" the last chapters and cutscenes. I think it is exactly how they wanted to end it. It's just many people whom have played it don't know of (or just haven't seen it poetically as me I guess (and/or them too)) the legend of Romulus and Remus. I went into more detail in my comment above but it's basically very poetic. It's even down to the sector's design and placement of the planets/comets etc in the sector too.

[@METALFREAK03]

ps I just put that comment here: I am pretty sure the cutscene shows Remus as destroyed because of Roman Mythology rather than the devs being lazy or whatnot. Remus is a lie and not real, it's a fantasy. Even the Remus ending is you destroying humanity through you being turned into something else. And this is what the lesson is learnt from the Romulus and Remus foundation story for the ancients (and today). You can't have everything and there is no utopia. It is a lie. You gain from hard work, and working through your problems. If you saw the system, you had the two hills which they fought over the placement of (in our realities myth/legend) Palatine and Aventine. Palatine being closer to the star and on the right hand side of it and next to Plutarch (who wrote about Romulus and the first mention of Palatine Hill. The original, by Ovid only mentioned the two brothers finding Aventine and I think a mythical hill called Palatine). Plutarch also being a planet that speeds up time is also quite poetic as Plutarch was a historian :) Romulus being close to the star, meaning it will be harder to survive than that of Remus (you pointed this out in the finale I believe). I also believe this is a nod to the fact Rome was besieged in it's early days due to the Palatine (where Romulus settled) was much closer to the Sabine which nearly killed all the males of Rome in its cradle. If they were to went to Remus's hill (which I believe was Aventine) it would have been a lot further away. Plutarch believed though the omen from the Gods picked Palatine over Aventine due to Rome needing women to bore more future generations. The placement of these planets around the star in this sector replicates this. So the design is impeccable and I think the cut scenes are not lazy, yet calculated as long as you know the legend behind the whole storyline.

[@METALFREAK03]

pss - just a note on your 3rd ending, it has to be Tiqqun destroying Piranesi as it's all about the poetic symbolism. Tiqqun was an anarchist figure in French 1700s. So it makes sense it would be the weapon to destory architect Piranesi. (also interesting they are French vs Italian. And at that time. The french were going through cultural revolutional change at the time when Italians were almost falling into being borderline decadent. (having their cultural revival in the 14th/13th century...) But I love symbolism..and history so probably reading too much into it :)

[@METALFREAK03]

psss also apparently Tiqqun was a french philosophy magazine from 99-01 and has a theory there about cybernetics and bloom theory. Quite interesting read.

[@DeadDancers]

I like how all endings have really dark undertones. In the 'paradise planet' ending, there's a lot of 'free will is an illusion, be joyful being controlled' stuff, not to mention only a fraction of your crew being 'converted' (looks like maybe their mind is transferred/most of their body becomes 'waste') with the rest (the majority) being killed ramming the Piranesi. But the alternative, Romulus, is a toxic wasteland seeming no better than the planet you left behind, except with less 'exploding moon' troubles. The sulphuric atmosphere, with humans weirdly being shown walking about bare-faced and breathing it, suggests a miserable future for them and/or a level of delusion in their colony efforts. At best, maybe, they might turn out to have the terraforming skills to fix that and the entire ecosystem that doesn't seem habitable... but nothing we've seen so far indicates that's likely. Most likely, if Romulus survives at all, it will go the way of history and humans from Romulus will eventually conquer Remus.

[@CharliePryor]

All are converted with Remus. Nobody was left behind… except the dog and Admin

[@DeadDancers]

@@CharliePryor In the video above, there are over 3,000 people left when the drop/end game animation is triggered.

[@CharliePryor]

There’s still people walking around the deck too. Developers just haven’t bothered updating the little things that bring immersion into it. The endings are definitely not as polished as the rest of the visuals in the game… but story wise, the crew has been converted

[@fallatiuso]

One thing to note about Romulus, there's no guarantee that what you see is what's there or accurate as the administrator, due to all of your information being able to be edited by Edden. For all we know it could have the perfect conditions for being or becoming habitable, but we'd have no way of knowing because Edden's programing would make her alter whatever we saw into being unsuitable for colonization. But the scientists researching the planet aren't hooked directly into the Tiqqun like we are and would thus be able to make unbiased observations on Romulus's conditions. Since i doubt the colonists would all be taking of their helmets if they hadn't already received an all clear that it *was* safe. It would however make a depressing, yet real, twist if the colonists of Romulus ended up taking Remus. Though not one i'd want for either of them. The Ashtangites were Dolos's first allies, it'd be nice if it remained so. But who knows, maybe Romulus only ends up serving as a springboard for constructing more space-habitats.

[@DeadDancers]

@@fallatiuso Honestly, the complete opposite is more likely to be true. We have canonical evidence that humans keep having delusions (the house thats bigger on the inside) leading to death (5 go in, 1 and a ball of goop comes out) , or believing dangerous things are safe (the crewmate taking off his helmet insisting the air was fine and dying in 20 minutes - I think the rest of his team do the same if you don't order them back ASAP) or believing they're going to become gods via mass-unaliving themselves (the crew on that one planet where you get a HELL of a lot of science and can keep them alive only if you a) allow only 2 rounds of investigation and b) require constant psychological monitoring via their ship's P.A.) and while it's certainly possible that Edden has been/could skew the information provided to us, we really don't have any evidence that she's done so until right at the veeeeeeerry end when she tells us that Romulus doesn't exist. And that's only if we assume that she is lying vs we are delusional.

[@ulruc]

Have you noticed that while you use the bio center, your pop is going down fast (you lost like 1500 non-workers that turned into waste)? Do not wonder where the waste is coming from :)

[@trogdor213]

Oh.....oh no. I did not realize that initially

[@05025257]

😨😨 the forbidden upgrade is to 'sacrifice' all the non-workers. I.e. Children Sacrifice!

[@TricksterPoi]

Ye. It is implying not everyone survives the genetic change. Don't forget to check your pop number too

[@Ebow00]

A very subtle "SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!" reference there

[@Damian-ek5lz]

My bio engenerin center is stuck on 4%. Do you know why?

[@SephirothRyu]

You didn't do the green ending? You could have become photo-reptilians. That world seemed nice. Well, in both this and the other path, you did save dog. ALL HAIL DOG.

[@SephirothRyu]

(spoilers, but as long as you have dog, yes, EVERY ENDING HAS DOG IF YOU HAVE DOG. HAIL DOG!!!)

[@danielgulbransen8476]

I did see in the last update for the year that they talk about working on the longevity of the game in the new year. They mention adding difficulty options, so I hope that they also add a survival mode, much like how Frostpunk added one in addition to their scenarios.

[@bubbles69138]

Thanks for the extra video!! Loved it :D Have fun on your trip!!

[@MrAmalsam]

I'd like to see an ending that provided for repairing the hull and continuing the mission to find more potential colony sites. Maybe a sequel game called Ixion 2.

[@TricksterPoi]

I doubt they'll. The pirenasi symbols humanities greed and desire to conquer which is why a certain lunatic attempt to assimilate every last human in space. Better use as scrap metal and make a better ship than repairing it. Who knows if that accursed PA is around.

[@ingiford175]

One thing, next to the iron there is a button to show what is in containers, so you (and viewers) can see what is in each container, and its a toggle. I have left mine on in play and it helps in situational awareness

[@ricorommeldumaplin4822]

All science team died in an expedition but the original medusae crew died twice I won't be surprised if they come back again for a third time If the devs were to continue the story it would be interesting if they allow the survivors of either remus or romulus (depends which planet is chosen) to go back to the immortan system and bring the crew of the protagoras back with them to the illa system while also collecting any cryo pods that were left behind as well

[@SephirothRyu]

Maybe someone can make a Stellaris mod?

[@paulmeahan3667]

Thanks for posting these, Charlie! Very cool. I am happy with what you chose for our canon ending. I think it's the best one now. Looking forward to whatever's next!

[@TheJDruck]

personally, I hate remos ending. there is actually so discussion how the plan to destroy the moon and kill old humanity to evolve into the creatures on remos was the true mission of ixion.

[@TricksterPoi]

Yeah it was. Hence edden is program to hide the other planet from the administrator

[@andrzejwysocki609]

@@TricksterPoi guess i can see why they are the enemies of humanity to the un, tho wtf is up with the bms going all evil SHODAN out of nowhere?

[@josephneil9076]

Here is my problem with the game. The workers that have supported the population during the whole game are left to die on the ship while the non-workers get to live on the new planet.

[@TheScaarab]

Welcome to the world of the WEF. Workers must sacrifice for the sake of those who have "moral superiority". After all working, surviving is a disgusting "human/nazy/far right/insert whatever lunacy" thing to do~

[@AbandonTheWest]

Everyone was evacuated. Thats what the shuttles were for. If you chose to genetically modify and live with them on Remus, the PA was designed to ram the Paranici once all crew had departed the station.

[@CharliePryor]

Yeah I’m not sure where the “workers were left behind to die” part is. Everyone makes it out.

[@jezworld]

I thought I saw people walking about on the streets when the ship launches?

[@CharliePryor]

@@jezworld i mean, sure, the game has graphics that play on a loop for the sake of immersion. I’m not connecting this to a story-significant visual.

[@zirtd9256]

NO DOG in the alternate ending!! in the other ending the dog you rescued is shown as alive and there!!

[@bytoadynolastname6149]

Not enough oxygen for good boy, and they probably don't have instructions on how to modify it to be half plant and lobotomized.

[@Savanna_WCUE]

It wasn't assimilated

[@Cel-es-Tien]

Thanks for showing the alternative endings, it ansered some of my question. If you want you should do a second run, to explore other option or just for fun :) I think many people would watch it how you use the experience you already got. If I may, I would recommend you a game, old one but gold: Haegemonia: Legions of Iron. I think you could make a good gameplay series from it :) Thanks for the good series

[@ZsoltPal23092011]

One of the few games I wish I could play again first time. Thanks for the uploads, good vids on the game.

[@badejong]

Great series! I finished my own playthrough in 85.8 hours and I had so much fun. I had so much room left in the Ticcun that I could build all big batteries in the end.. 👍👍👍

Hey Charlie... I love that game and your series. Thanx for the nice time I broke the like button :D Thanx again. I appreciated...

[@judi1009]

47:28 remus destroyed in the background

[@atlas9603]

Fantastic series, one of if not the best series I've watched on youtube.

[@michael200003]

Very comprehensive, great!

[@Dark__Thoughts]

So the Romulus ending always assumes that you couldn't save Remus, even if you did. lol

[@nicholasvogel9783]

Ah the best ending, killing the aliens as pay back for earth as they were most likely the ones behind the engine (as the ceo sends you there with the admin ai that hides the truth), while settling on the desert planet.

[@francesco8000]

Considering how defenseless those people are i feel that it's only a matter of time (few centuries) before the inhabitant of Romulus decide to take control of both planets.

[@AbandonTheWest]

Those "aliens" were us, genetically modified. We adapted ourselves to a greener-state of life. They arrived here who knows how long ago before us. Remember the Tiqqun jumped and Earth was ok, then a barren dust bowl. That has to be hundreds of years. Even the technology they've stated through the game, appeared more advanced. We removed ourselves from time and missed a great deal of things. There was no alien sabotage. We don't even know if there was any, or the prototype engine just didn't act as expected. Your logic and understanding of the situation is alarming how misguided your conclusions are.

[@pete531]

@@francesco8000 fax

[@pete531]

they couldnt have done that imo as they are 100% pacifist nation

[@francesco8000]

@@pete531 Right now is really not necessary and it won't be for a very long time considering that there are only few thousands people on Romulus right now. Once the population had grown significantly i can see that happening. Then again it may not be necessary considering how advanced their technology currently is.

[@Graveyard-humor]

Loved the series! I really enjoyed the whole adventure. If you do another play through of this, it would be cool to see an optimized sections run. (No criticism on your run though cause clearly you got through fine! Lol). But some thoughts for how to do it (and do it with less of a hassle). One thing I noticed was how many non workers you had in each section, when you get the the opening of section 6, If you get those housing upgrades (to increase capacity per house), it does affect the domatic quarters. Build all your extra housing there so you can tear it down in other sections, leaving room for other buildings. I think you could do it pretty easily if you use a couple “reorganize” specific storage management tips. (Using your play through as an example) -when you unlock section 6 and start building housing, place down temporary medium stockpile for alloy and another stockpile for your electronic. -in section 1 (with almost 1200 non workers), get rid of a few houses normally, with all the normal storage issues that come with it, then make a medium stockpile for alloys in section 1 -in resource management tap, tell section 1 to only export to section 6. And tell section 6 to only get resources from section 1 (so make sure section 1 has an electronic for section 6 to steal for domatic houses) Doing this means you will have alloy stockpiles in 1 that won’t fill up from other sources to use to take down buildings and those allows will immediately be taken to 6’s alloy storage (that also won’t be filled up from other sources) so you can effectively move buildings, or more specifically, move the exact resources for a building/buildings from one sector to another without waiting for storage. And as soon as you get the first couple houses out of the way it becomes easier as you have more free space for stockpiles. -just select the export to and import from to be isolated between the two sectors you’re working in. The only reason I think this is even a worthwhile thing to do is I noticed most sectors had around 250ish workers. The upgraded domatic quarters should hold about 110 people. So if you make a real population section to have all your non workers, you only need about 3 houses per other sector. And that could clear lots of room in those other sectors. And that means more places for stockpiles so you have to switch what they are less to avoid bottle necks!

[@-_simsim_-]

Imagine they went straight up surviving Mars with it and this wasn't actually the end but only the beginning. Damn id watch that too. I love this game. And also do wish the endings had more of the games proper visuals. But still a very cool game!

[@rpengler1]

There are eight ending variations. The endings are: Remus destroyed Remus colonized with the dog Remus colonized Romulus destroyed Romulus colonized with the dog, remus destroyed Romulus colonized, remus destroyed Romulus colonized with the dog Romulus colonized

[@Crackhonos]

How do you get romulus destroyed ?

[@rpengler1]

@@Crackhonos If you are too slow of course. After killing Remus, Piranesi goes after Romulus as well

[@Crackhonos]

@@rpengler1 Aaah thanks, I was thinking that it is just game over after Remus is destroyed

[@futotesan]

@@rpengler1 Reading some comments here it is my understanding that the game's story has poetic reference to a Roman story. That being said, this ending (if it indeed exists) leaves me disappointed. Maybe I'm misunderstanding some game lore, but if Edden is blinding me (the administrator/player/audience) to Romulus and Naraka is supposed to be an amalgamation of similar cannibalized AI then shouldn't it also be just as blind to the existence of Romulus. If so, without a human crew how is the Piranesi able to conceive of Romulus much less destroy something that (at least in terms of it's own...mind? term used loosely) doesn't exist?

[@rpengler1]

@futotesan if you go with the ashtangites, the game ends with the destruction of Remus. If you go against and aim for Romulus, the game ends if Romulus is destroyed. Either way, edden(dolos) is only a blind. Remus and piranesi are quite aware of Romulus

[@Seetiyan]

I was hoping to see Romulus destroyed too. 😆 Thanks for bringing us along this adventure! EDIT: 1:40 No poverty or conflict, yes . . . but also some idiocy, cause they had no way to defend themselves! I'm all for peace amongst my people, but we know that OTHER people may not want peace, so if I was starting a lovey-dovey colony somewhere, I'd still have some weaponry, but responsibly held in wait just in case.

[@zachariahrich3354]

Thank you sir

[@thebluehat6814]

makes me wish ixion had a "space station mode" where its just like a colony manager without the story, not really because of the endings but because of how much you miss with all the urgency and whatnot

[@roninbowling]

So how'd the Ashtangites get there, because in the last system there was a piece of the Tiqqun?

[@efran202]

there is another difference, if you have the copy of the PA of the other ship, you don't have to sink with the ship, as you have to deactivate the PA of the ship and fly it yourself into the piranesi

[@marcusmadrid6225]

Im guessing that "Waste" is the corpses of the crew

[@carrieullrich5059]

I'm still wondering if you fully rebuild the hull with chapels if you still have to repair it. ❤

[@CharliePryor]

Bonus is only one-per-sector.

[@richardvaldes3959]

I got to say. I feel like the ending of this game just fizzles out

[@CharliePryor]

Often times, on a long trip, especially a dangerous one, the journey is more exciting than the destination - especially when the destination and plans are already known, but the way to get there is a mystery. :)

[@axelhopfinger533]

It's definitely anticlimactic and not very rewarding. Gives the feeling that no choices made before even matter in the end. And in fact, they don't. The whole storyline is just too linear and unsatisfying, with too many questions and mysteries unanswered and too little actual rewards beyond varying amounts of simple resources. And the ending cinematics, if one can even call them that, are more than underwhelming. Also i miss the option to simply destroy the Piranesi whilst disabled by the pulsar, maybe with a nuclear power plant (if researched) converted into a bomb and brought to the ship in order to make sure it will never move again. Or by tugging its hulk into the gravity well of a planet or the pulsar. Leading to a much less stressful ending.

[@METALFREAK03]

it's so poetic if you know the romulus and remus foundation of rome legend. (plus take into the account placement, design, sound etc of that last sector...) The final cutscene is a nod to that and what it means. "Remus is a lie" aka ultra utopian society can never be achieved. Romulus is humanity's grit and determination of sruvival and to adapt & overcoming dire circumstances and hurdles. This is why Remus is a lie.

[@METALFREAK03]

@@axelhopfinger533 There is nothing unanswered really. It's linear but that doesn't make the story incomplete or unsatisfactory in my opinion. It's just very poetic. The design is almost impeccable.

[@michaelchaney2336]

Free-Will, Merit, and Commonsense are counters to sorcery. Electrons have free will. Whenever you override the free will of electrons, then your metabolism acquires a disability. Merit is also a measure of the survival of human spirit and making nature into a source of strength. Common sense is the strength that comes from relying on what is common to all beings. The uncommon develops freely. Sorcery is not common neither is spellcraft. True physical strength.

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

Welp...you're insane.

[@METALFREAK03]

I am pretty sure the cutscene shows Remus as destroyed because of Roman Mythology rather than the devs being lazy or whatnot. Remus is a lie and not real, it's a fantasy. Even the Remus ending is you destroying humanity through you being turned into something else. And this is what the lesson is learnt from the Romulus and Remus foundation story for the ancients (and today). You can't have everything and there is no utopia. It is a lie. You gain from hard work, and working through your problems. If you saw the system, you had the two hills which they fought over the placement of (in our realities myth/legend) Palatine and Aventine. Palatine being closer to the star and on the right hand side of it and next to Plutarch (who wrote about Romulus and the first mention of Palatine Hill. The original, by Ovid only mentioned the two brothers finding Aventine and I think a mythical hill called Palatine). Plutarch also being a planet that speeds up time is also quite poetic as Plutarch was a historian :) Romulus being close to the star, meaning it will be harder to survive than that of Remus (you pointed this out in the finale I believe). I also believe this is a nod to the fact Rome was besieged in it's early days due to the Palatine (where Romulus settled) was much closer to the Sabine which nearly killed all the males of Rome in its cradle. If they were to went to Remus's hill (which I believe was Aventine) it would have been a lot further away. Plutarch believed though the omen from the Gods picked Palatine over Aventine due to Rome needing women to bore more future generations. The placement of these planets around the star in this sector replicates this. So the design is impeccable and I think the cut scenes are not lazy, yet calculated as long as you know the legend behind the whole storyline.

[@ccarlile02]

I got a cutscene of Remus being destroyed while I was sending ships down to Romulus. That was a couple of weeks ago? I wonder if yours just bugged out.

[@tyalikanky]

I think ending would be better with nuclear weapons on Ixion. However, this enemy ship could be destroyed by just fast enough piece of asteroid.

[@AlexanderZak81]

What would happen if you go to the strange gravity / time speed up planet directly with the mother ship. Then you would be able to deliver the stuff in „time“ ?

[@Damian-ek5lz]

My bio engenerin center is stuck on 4%. Do you know why?

[@tarosetantu868]

My personal theory as to why the endings were so mediocre is, they ran out of time/budget to make the actual ending, and this last chapter was meant to be the penultimate chapter with the *next* vohle jump being the final leading to Romulus. With this chapter meant to be themed around the Piranesi AI having corrupted Edden (Note the lines of dialogue in the previous chapter that speak about 'consuming' Naomi and having access to the back door Naomi protocols. Assuming the plot for this theoretical penultimate chapter was going to be the Piranesi taking over Edden, the story suddenly makes a much creepier level of sense with what we encounter of the Ashtangites and all that. In this theoretical version of events, Piranesi Edden would be manipulating the experiences and sensory feeds of ships and crew we deploy, creating this false narrative of upliftment to join the Ashtangites. When in reality we would be collecting and assembling the Piranesi technology to build it a new biomechanical neural net. The scientists die when trying to examine the 'temples' because the corrupted Edden terminates them for finding something they shouldn't have. And assembling the final machine; the fact it seems to just be killing your people and leaving trash from the process would make a lot more sense too. You're inadvertently feeding them to this Piranesi tech. End out there with spacing Edden, taking the remaining humans still alive and working out the last jump to Romulus (Which the beginning of the game indicates is impossible quite explicitly, which would make for a bit of an unused Checkhov's gun outside of the arbitrary 'we need to find the next coordinates' mechanic of the game. And it breaks down into the real final chapter being arriving at Romulus and getting started on the colony etc. It's a big reach I know, but would help make the rushed feeling slapped together ending make sense, specially with how many narrative threats like the magic time orbs, and other stuff that just go completely unresolved.

[@Foranzer486]

I am stuck on chapter three no matter what I do I cannot send food to another sector its all good when I am in chapter 2 but as soon as I jump the next cycle will not transfer food and everyone riots and starves. I even built insect farms with dedicated storage in each sector and it just won't send the food to the mess hall. I have reloaded the save, uninstalled the game and started over 3 times and it just breaks when I hit chapter 3.

[@Foranzer486]

So I'm glad I had your videos to let me enjoy the game!

[@andrzejwysocki609]

engineering people into elves! yay!...wait..wwhy is my population going down a ton..and my waste going up? *horror*

[@headoverheels88]

So the Remus ending was basically just space communism? Lol. But the perfect-only-in-theory kind. Interesting.

[@dimercamparini]

The "Remus story" is fantastic (and terrible at the same time)...you basically condemn humankind to a future similar to the Borg of Star Trek...some kind of "utopian" society with no free will, merit, common sense etc...the ability to think and act individually...is basically "space communism" :DDDDD (yes, you live in harmony with nature, basically being an integral part of it...but is so dehumanizing...and fragile...no further space travel, no defenses...if something happens to that planet you are fkd...)

[@METALFREAK03]

Remus is a lie. Is basically what is meant by this. (I think anyway) If you judge it on the romulus and remus legend.

[@TheDreamLeaf]

Except he was wrong. Any attempt to save our species after the lunaclysm was _not_ doomed to fail. The Ashtangites proves this lol

[@lykan2]

TIME happend.... 12:45

[@ulruc]

As an idea of games (in case you truly have nothing new to play in 2023, which I am sure is not the case). After doing all the trip to a foreign system and colonizing them, how about playing a game where you land on a planet and establish a colony? Nope, I am not talking of Surviving Mars there but of Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth. Up to you to decide as always :)

[@yudhyharyantowijaya]

Maybe there another ending (2 maybe) about tiqqun x protagoras and administrator(who?) What happen if you steal all piccolo tech but refuse to join them >_

[@AA-jw7wf]

Maybe if you move Tiqqun to Plutarch and then do the investigation... instead of waiting for delivery to happen. Alternate Ending Part 3!

[@TricksterPoi]

Nah. It does prevent the team from dying though

[@someguyontheinternet8063]

so i wonder if its possible to save the asthengites and settle in the other planet

[@colinsmith1495]

That's what he did the first time. He saved the Ashtengites from the Piranessi but chose to settle Romulus.

[@Sev51]

Yes, aliens successfully terminated

[@almeidachannel7121]

Nice Video ! Sub & Big Like ! Nice sharing !!

[@giguy2002]

I chose Romulus to begin with since I didn't like the idea of being assimilated like Borg into another race which isn't actually saving humanity it's altering it. I also agree with the others remarking how the endings were pitiful after such effort was put into the game graphics and dynamics. Two thumbs down there. The whole emphasis behind the game was heading out off earth to find a new Eden and all we get is a crappy picture. After putting in 130+ hours I expected a great couple-minute video with scenes/pictures and awesome narrative detailing the trips adventures and exploits and how the human race was saved. I will say I enjoyed the game a lot. With no real replay-ability It's now done and will sit in dry-dock Unless/until there's a new mission if that ever happens.

[@Mirkoviv]

im the only dumb who didnt keep the dog omg i have hard time !

[@rikomos1]

how you triger the romulus ending??

[@CharliePryor]

See episodes 22-23

[@maxamil6282]

I wonder what would happen if you let the 2 planets be destroyed but have the Tiquun not near them

[@CharliePryor]

Tiqqun is breaking apart. Time is limited before the station cannot be inhabited. If both planets are destroyed - game over anyways.

[@maxamil6282]

@@CharliePryor Yeah I was just curious if there was aa slightly different ending though

[@briangikonyo5186]

is there an ending with romulus destroyed?

[@CharliePryor]

Sure, but it isn’t any different from what was shown here

[@Unthinkable92]

sounds like they adapted to become "avatars" lol

[@trogdor213]

Man. What a bad episode for scientists I am curious how the scientists would have died in the free will temple lol. Seems like you made the right choice initially with Romulus. Appreciate seeing the other endings! Such a cool game. Wonder if there will be an DLC to make it worth another playthrough.

[@trogdor213]

Remus looks much better than Romulus, but imo not worth sacrificing your humanity.

[@METALFREAK03]

@@trogdor213 Remus is a lie

[@ahmedsachwani2868]

So temple of common sense they removed helmets, temple of merit they killed each other. Wonder what they would do in the temple of free will

[@CharliePryor]

Yeah I should have done it anyways just to show it.... in fact... I'm gonna reload it and see. I'll leave it here.

[@ahmedsachwani2868]

@@CharliePryor sure looking forward to it

[@CharliePryor]

TEMPLE OF FREE WILL: EXPLORE AND STUDY RESULTS: - 5 CREW MEMBERS LOST (same result) Summary: The Medusae team are *not responding* to our hails. Before *comms breakdown* , the team had started to act *differently* , ceasing to follow *recommended DOLOS protocol* . They seem to have *disappeared* into the depths of the temple. The Medusae will be *sent back* to the Tiqqun via its autopilot.

[@ahmedsachwani2868]

@@CharliePryor into the void they went then lol

[@paulmeahan3667]

@@CharliePryor Yeh can't tell me what to do Administrator Charlie. Muh freedom means I'm dying in this cave now. Take that. [Return ship via autopilot]

[@SteakMeatpie]

I kind of get what the director was going for by crashing the ship into Piranesi. But the execution was horrible. I HATED the ending. The whole of the game after chapter 3 was SO rushed with so little thoughts put in to game design and etc. UGH. I just beat the game and left with feeling of irritation. UGH!

[@Saika_Sakitora]

i see this 2nd ending is the good end (trash the remus is answer )

[@leandronunescavalcante7367]

essa desculpa da lua, é passar pano pra empresa privada

[@Greenmachine305]

Dissapointing endings. All of them.

[@heinwelters]

yes now we get to see what would happend if you choose remus or left the piranzi alive ahahah

[@Sujad]

Oof. That merit temple. That is some commie cringe right there.