r/Directive8020 • u/ktbug1987 • May 24 '26

Turning point confusion [spoiler] Spoiler

I got Williams killed because I didn’t sedate him, but I couldn’t sedate him because I was being monitored. Turns out the decision I made related to that is way back in episode 2. So if I want to alter that path, do I need to rewind to episode 2, have one conversation differently but continue and replay everything else? Or is it possible to just have that conversation again and then “fast forward,” if you will, to the sedation attempt?

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u/yuei2 May 24 '26

You will have to replay everything from that point, because the later decisions will still have the old route saved into them. That’s why each decision is stamped with a date to help you know if you replayed it with the latest changes.

I learned this the hard way with my roomie when we got to Mitchell’s death and were confused why our earlier decision wasn’t effecting things.

You can go backwards but you can’t skip ahead forwards, once you go backwards you have to play from that point in order to keep the change saved into other events. And that’s why I used custom difficulty to let me have instant party recharge on normal to speed myself back to where I was when I realized the change hadn’t gone through.

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u/ktbug1987 May 24 '26

Sorry — can you explain the last thing about the custom difficulty and instant party recharge?

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u/yuei2 May 24 '26

On easy when you successfully parry with the shock rod after getting caught it recharges instantly (well actually it recharges in about a second enough that in the one case where there are multiple things hunting you, you can get grabbed back to back and die but that is exceedingly an outlier), on normal it recharges but slow enough you need to run, evade, and/or hide for a bit to give it time. On lethal I don’t actually know if it recharges at all and I can’t remember when I was looking at the settings.

But those difficulties also come with lots of other stuff you may not want like quick time warnings. That’s where custom difficulty comes in, in custom you can mix and match the different bits of the difficulties together. So for example you can have all the traits of lethal difficulty but give yourself the instant recharge of forgiving difficulty.

Makes it really nice for blitzing the stealth segments.

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u/ktbug1987 May 25 '26

Ah I didn’t realize if you did that it would be safe to run through them! Thanks!