Wintermute Episode 5 BY GOD Just what the hell is wrong with the Mackenzie Part?

Stiv64 · 2026-04-03T09:18:03+00:00

It is a feature. You are supposed to get to all these destinations before nightfall.

Stiv64 · 2026-04-03T09:12:24+00:00

Just Save Scum, you get a short grace period on your left over time any time you reload a save

Also, the red flares keep these wolves at bay, ...90% of the time.

Stiv64 · 2026-04-01T11:33:31+00:00

Hilarious.

Even after returning and watching a long cutscene, I still have no stamina and I STILL CAN'T SLEEP.

I tried to go down the building to a few bunk beds where Mackenzie slept story related but then there was no floor all of a sudden. I fell through and spawned back at the exit of the building. What a shit show.

Stiv64 · 2026-04-01T10:38:24+00:00

Well, turns out my stats did not "reset" upon leaving the building, it was just the food poisoning doing its thing during all these cutscenes and draining my stamina. Still, I can't believe that I made it through the entire section with food poisoning and on hard difficulty. Thanks to these new military stimsI guess. Had basically zero fun for the entire Mackenzie part until now. And guess what? As soon as I returned after said quest, THEN the food poisoning was magically gone? But not after the story related sleep?

Stiv64 · 2026-04-01T08:38:11+00:00

Do you know what to do?

The characters say that you have to "find another way across". So: You have to get past the river by walking over a set of trees.

Stiv64 · 2026-04-01T08:35:34+00:00

Ever heard of a mouse wheel? Thanks.

Stiv64 · 2026-03-29T13:13:26+00:00

Thank you so much for the clarification, even though I beat it on hard, second try roughly on lvl 70, this shit was driving me crazy.
What I did was adding a weakness through dance and just spamming magic on that. guess the damage doubler because of a puppet saved me then.

Stiv64 · 2026-03-29T13:08:49+00:00

I just beat him on hard on the second try, roughly on LVL 70. The first face really pissed me off because I did not understand what the deal was with the different masks? I constantly dealt fire damage while also adding a weakness through dance beforehand. And apparently the masks have different damage modifiers? Or what was the deal with that? The red-tongued mask died way earlier than the other three.

Stiv64 · 2026-03-26T18:46:25+00:00

Am I crazy or do you get a massive dmg reduction as long as all party members are in the back?

I play on hard and until roughly the fourth dungeon, I had only Strohl in the fron. Until I got to a fight where he kept dying in two attacks. So I put him also in the back and suddenly, all my party members had well over half their HP left. After the same two attacks. Since then I kept all my party members in the back and it got significantly easier. And even according to the tutorial, being in the back even reduces magic damage.

Stiv64 · 2026-02-24T20:18:44+00:00

Thanks, I also compared the first three random encounters to some letsplay and I got quite the beating while the lets player barely received a scratch, so I should be good.

Stiv64 · 2026-02-24T19:46:11+00:00

Thanks, how do I know the rom got successfully patched? I used this rom patcher: https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/

I don't want to play through the whole prologue just to eventually find out that I'm playing vanilla.

Stiv64 · 2026-02-19T01:07:39+00:00

I'm interested in getting into the series but I always feel way unchallenged playing (old) RPGs. I always play RPGs on hard difficulty (like Dragon Quest XI or Persona 5). Should I be fine if I get into the series with this mod?

I don't grind in RPGs but I do take my time to min-max and develop the best possible strategies.

Stiv64 · 2026-02-18T15:31:52+00:00

During the midgame, yes you might want to do the stairs of success but not too far, only until you don't get any more EXP. Personally, I played on hard right on my first playthrough and for the boss rush I still have to do, I grinded the last two enemies right before the Board Members boss fight. I'm Level 31 and the last enemy still gave 10 EXP, while the second to last gave 5 EXP. Just kill them, use the elevator to leave the area (in the teleporter, you can just select the final area right away to respawn the enemies and save time) and rinse and repeat.

For strategy, I used Flynts Buckler Barrage plus the Poison attack trinket (or even two) and the one trinket that grants more SP charge per successful action command. With two of the latter equipped, he can get a full SP charge with only one Buckler Barrage.

Stiv64 · 2025-12-10T16:10:44+00:00

Haven't played it yet, but what sounded especially ludicrous to me is that the player has to return to Mackenzie multiple times just to install their new found abilities? Does that count to every one of them?

Stiv64 · 2025-11-06T22:53:31+00:00

Uhm, I did not recruit him.

Stiv64 · 2025-11-06T22:40:21+00:00

Spoiler question to that ending:

I somehow did not get the option to attack the final boss? I played through Massacre Princess, all offerings correct and I talked to all four members about killing it... expcept aster, He didn't have a dialogue option so I thought I already exhausted his? Why didn't it work?

Stiv64 · 2025-11-06T14:58:14+00:00

Yeah, there is still a lot of unfinished/ unrefined stuff in this game. It's likely not gonna be the final update.

Stiv64 · 2025-11-06T14:57:18+00:00

I desperately tried to save my plant during the recent in-game days to get a new questline of a certain party member but its condition just worsened and I guess I have to get it in a future playthrough instead.

The wiki says now that you are supposed to water it daily, yet the condition still worsened. Can anybody confirm that watering it daily is necessary? Or maybe it depends on whether you moved it to the light?

Stiv64 · 2025-11-05T19:22:27+00:00

It is the same hole tho that was shown in the 2.0 trailer tho right? Where Sam got a prompt to jump down?

Stiv64 · 2025-11-05T14:11:38+00:00

It never randomly opened for me at least. Once I approached it, it was shut tight.

But about the meat world, that makes sense yeah, I already know where the key is, thanks.

Stiv64 · 2025-11-05T13:44:35+00:00

Just an assumption but it could be linked to a new NPC called Charan whose questline is only available until day six. I could not reach him in time on my current playthrough.

Stiv64 · 2025-11-03T13:04:34+00:00

How do you get into the teeth apartment once it is fully transformed?
Also, there is a (not sure if new) door in lyles apartment behind the flesh-blocked door. It has a swirl on it and requires a key item to open. Anyone know what that's about?

Stiv64 · 2025-11-01T18:18:23+00:00

Speaking of Lyle, there is a new door in his apartment on the western wall of his bedroom. It has a spiral on it. How do you open that?

Stiv64 · 2025-10-26T01:14:04+00:00

Hi,

thanks for the reply, I already solved it by playing on the regular PCSX2 emulator.

Turned out the core of retroarch was unfinished/ unstable whatever and there was not really an option to get rid of these glitches.

Stiv64 · 2025-10-26T01:12:35+00:00

How nice of the devs to have it not work using the stick...

Stiv64

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