ahhh, looks like i wasnt on test branch. Indeed quick run through habitat shows that there is nothing I can do lol.
I'm not sure. Doesn't sneak affect the amount of yellow/red tiles that appear? There's a trick you can do with Samuel - that I remember you showcasing - with stealth gadget which results in you being able to kill everyone without triggering a combat encounter; but I don't remember if you need high stealth score for it.
indeed it does. fyi that gadget works only on 1st round kind of, to enter normally yellow/red zones for a kill
Gee, I don't know... are there?
Why did you make me as your MCGee, I don't know... are there?
Seriously though, I can't give Silas the message from his predecessor. I rescued a spy and the dialogue said he gave me a drive he hasn't managed to decrypt. Do I need to do it somehow first?
You didn't miss anything, that's how the quest is supposed to go. The important thing about the spy's message isn't the specifics of what he was carrying, it's that Silas' predecessor was holding secret peace talks with Hanson. By progressing his questline to the "let him think about it" stage, you're restarting those peace talks and provoking Silas to think about starting a civil war within the Protectors to get rid of the internal faction that wants to continue the war. The rest of that story will then presumably play out when you return to the Habitat later in the game.
That can't be right, can it? You learn about the secret peace talks from Hanson, you don't need the secret message for that. Feels like, if it worked correctly, there should be a dialogue option specifically referencing the message. Now that I think about it, the first conversation with Silas has the MC tell him "Matheson wanted peace and the Committee killed him for it" - is that it? Spy says as much when first met, without the need to get the message from him. Confusing is what this all is.
I'll take another look when I have time.
It's not that I think it needs revision. I was convinced I'm missing some portion of the content because the game never outright says "You hand the drive over to Silas and wait while he reviews its contents with a cogitative expression on his face." or something like that. The spy mentions that Matheson wasn't a traitor to the Mission, so much as he had a different vision for it in mind than the Executive Committee and that's what MC tells Silas - so I reasoned this is something you would be able to tell him regardless of acquiring the message and the eventual fate of the spy. When no further dialogue made reference to the message, I thought I missed something.
Tithe? Money is but a small price for your immortal soul.
Tithe collected from whom exactly? Their own people? They have fewer of those than the Protectors or the Brotherhood, who are very well capable of collecting their own taxes. Tithes from members of other factions? "Conspiring with the enemy"/"Undermining social cohesion" - other factions would never allow it.
Good point. One thing to consider however is that all colonists are descendants of Christian zealots. So church has monopoly on faith.
Could just be that they are making less money than the other two factions, but they haven't been locked in a war for a century, so they have reserves to spare.
I think if you give the church the device, you're allied with them regardless of the state of the Pit.
