Ah, I see. Now I understand where you're coming from. You remember my old train wreck. Painful, but I understand. I learned the hard way that first impressions are super important. If I had known I would've waited to release in the first place.
Oh yeah. I remember that it was giving affection, but I don't think it mattered much in the grand scheme of things. It was great to type Tyson and see Dave freak the fuck out lmao.
“Well if you do Liam’s first then Ryan’s makes more sense”, which just seems rather baffling."
Hm. Is that so? Ryan gets more depth as you explore Liam's route. I don't see anything wrong with that. People who like Ryan don't need Liam's route to enjoy the character.
Besides... you'd be surprised. Every experience is different and I've seen people pick Liam first.
"But you’ve sorta introduced him as like the ‘main’ love interest since he’s CLEARLY into Joel."
I don't consider him the main LI. That's for you to decide. Just because Ryan likes Joel doesn't mean we're obligated to return that sentiment.
"Why would anyone pick Liam above Ryan in terms of who to read first based on introductions?"
Well, that's your opinion. Not everyone started with Ryan just like others started with Liam first.
It's a unique experience that changes depending on the route order, because it recontextualizes stuff.
"So what type of hive mind to act so bi-polar? Geth style where every ‘drone’ has a voice or a gestalt consciousness?"
I think it's closer to a gestalt consciousness. I wrote about this in Liam 5. The strongest one takes control, but can be replaced by another.
"The name on the phone you said is a password reference, but password’s actually has a use. Does MC’s?"
The... coffee cup at the beginning of the same has a use? I thought it was just a silly Easter egg. Damn. I replayed the game 5 months ago and I don't remember that being important at all.
The name chosen will return later in the game. I just don't want to say more.
You have to delete the old version and then download the new one. Saves usually carry over, but for this patch we deleted all saves. They wouldn't work because we updated old content. Don't worry though, you can easily resume to where you stopped last by going into settings and turning off "stop at unseen text" if you do that you can skip to where you were last.
I was thinking about having Joel himself tell the reader that he updates the notebook himself at the end of the day if there are new keywords available. Right now you have three unlocks. The default one in N3, a second one at the beginning of D4 and a Patrice unique unlock for Black ghost on his day. I'll keep that in mind for next patches.
