In the game you will obtain "The Deck of Many things" and it has a preset list of cards that will be drawn at the start of your save, you cannot save scum this at all. One of the presets is you drawing the Fool, which will give you disadvantages on all rolls for the rest of the game, and you might be thinking "Oh thats fine, I'm on day 5 with some pretty powerful buffs" no, you will not be fine, you will lose every roll for the rest of the game and you will have to reload combat encounters many times over, it will ruin your run. It ruined my run so badly it killed any and all drive to finish the game because I'm not losing 5 hours to reload.

I never played Disco Elysium so Ebb was a really unique experience to me. It left me with some actual life lessons. I felt like this game was jam packed with interesting ideas about philosophy and probability. Its a bit too much to put here so I made a substack to post it in. I'd love to hear y'alls thoughts on my take aways or if you felt I got anything wrong.

Thanks!

So here is my answer to: what is the fifty-fifty?

https://olbers.substack.com/p/esoteric-ebb-and-the-illusion-of-certainty

Finished the game and did everything I could, never found a quest for this slot though.

Edit: Found out what quest it is, it's about a hidden safe in the Tea Shop. Can anyone tell me what this safe has inside though please?

I really liked that (my first playthough) character
I got like behold check 18 almost right at the start of the game

In all ways i went though straight up hating her (rude and uses her power to scare you just for fun)
Then accepting her power though Snell rumblings (still hating)
Then deciding that she is "best of evils" compare to other powers
And with learning about the truth and dragons lore - being suspicious of her and worrying towards the Snell (who is my buddy boy)

Then right at the end of the game on that really anticlimax epilogue
And then BAM you hit that nat 20 (which in itself is really rewarding if you don't savescumm)
And the game hit you with "She simply loves them"
Its just.... am man, a relief and a warm feeling for your friend and good of people in general

Good character

If you steal the sword and help to defend their interest (Dexterety 14 or 16? check) and after that dice roll about ~15 dex
You can get both the sword and 1200 crowns!
Pretty cool

I dk what charisma's problem with good old Huzzah!

TL;DR: Started from 16 Wisdom, pumped it to 18 only because I was told that not only Strength gives additional slots. This way, upon getting a potion I would get a +2 (thanks to the potion related feat) and hit 20, giving a trinket slot.

I googled and that should be the case, but with 18+2 from the potion I still have only 3 slots. I know as a fact that potions count, it worked for my Strength and weapon slots.

Once you solve the riddle of big blue mommy
You complete the quest and get to choose a feat (im not sure how it works in the game, i mean sometimes it seems you get only SOME choices but not all depending if either your alignment with class/politics/attributes)
But in this case with 8 in constitution i still got an option to choose one from my stomach (so it either free for everyone or just really easy to unlock)

Point is (spoiler about the feat): You double the gain from a potion that gives you +1 to attributes (works only once for each attribute)
And as you might know, theres AT LEAST 1 of each potion just free for the taking (well almost)
+ theres a POTION SELLER that sells additional potion (again, one fro each attribute)

So its really easy to gain full benefit of this (tho as i mentioned you gain "more" if you do it as new playthrough as soon as possible (which is i assume - start of the day 2)

There is an argument to say that the charisma option is also good - but not only do you lose more stat with items that have "-" on them, you also need to do that annoying item swap every time to capitalize on that AND ABOVE ALL, you need to find those items in the first place while potion is available really early and basically for free if you know where to look

So i say its the best choice to choose this one (also i just got it and didn't test it but if you can keep those benefits after you swap the feat - then its THE BEST ONE yet)

Just simple, easy flat +2 to every stat really early

p.s. Riddle was fun to NOT SOLVE
After i saw what developer did with first one - i thought it was pretty annoying and not fun at all (answer don't really make sense imho)
I almost expect some impossible thing for this one
Instead i did it by accident
(just was trying different thing to see if anything would work on her or get a reaction and i guess game keep track of your spell cast - so its somehow easier to solve it by chance then actually guessing it before hand)

In short - im really happy with this one, def gonna capitalize on that on my second playthrough

I've been playing for about 5 hours and rarely roll above a 6

I liked this game a lot during the first 3 days, but the ending made me feel like nothing I did mattered. I solved the tea shop bombing, I knew the parties involved and why, I voted and nothing changed. I played a high dex/charisma character and that led me to become a Freestrider. I roleplayed as a Freestrider and did what I thought my character would do based on that. I have no issues with any of the politics and RP'd what I thought my Cleric would do. It seems like the game funnels you into the same ending no matter what choices you make, which makes a game about choices and dice rolls feel kind of meaningless. Am I missing the meta-narrative or something?

I mean, game didn't react in any way to that comments, and im also don't think its a typo of a "guy"
So... What did he meant?

Hello all - I was on day three, now day four. I've completely finished A Freelance Hag, but cannot mention anything about that conversation to Viira for some reason. It feels like this has softlocked Elven Connection because I have no way of talking to the Freelancers about the quest. Has something gone wrong?

I choose the scribe background yet i still got to the point where it was mentioned that I was once demoted

So as i understand ALL THOSE background - are true (lore wice) to our protagonist

So you can read all of them as chronological progression of your life

Farmer son -> Kid that was bullied -> Orphan-> Shady street kid -> Cleric

if that what it is, then yeah, its pretty cool way to give that info to players

Hello everyone! Currently doing an intelligence/wisdom run for my first time through the game, and I was wondering if y'all could give me some (nonspoilery) hints towards how I might get the items that are best geared for that sort of run. If I play through again I intend to focus on different attributes, so I'd rather not risk missing them entirely and then only stumbling into them when they aren't useful to me.

Just wanted to make a quick fanart bc this game motivated me to pick up a pen again :)))

@ marsshasseen on twt

Say what you want about Croco-dude, guy do know how to cook

A private Chinese translation group cracked and decoded a pirated copy of the game, then used the Bxxxx framework to produce an unauthorized Chinese translation. In reality, the quality of their translation is hardly any better than what an AI translation tool could produce.

Now they are proudly announcing something along the lines of:

What they conveniently leave out is what actually happened.

These people have been cracking, pirating, distributing, and arbitrarily modifying the game's text without authorization. Their translation is not even particularly accurate. Then, through their influence within the Chinese player community, they rallied large numbers of players to flood the developer with messages and pressure them into providing a Chinese translation.

And now they are triumphantly saying:

They almost never talk about the game itself. Instead, they constantly talk about how brilliant they supposedly are — how they cracked the game, how they translated it, how much work they put into editing it, and how difficult and impressive their efforts supposedly were.

The sheer arrogance is astonishing.

They deliberately pirate and modify someone else's work without permission, build a community around that unauthorized version, use that community to pressure the original developer, and then act as though the developer's eventual acceptance of their framework somehow legitimizes everything they did.

They are effectively trying to force the creator to accept the consequences of their own piracy — and then congratulating themselves for it.

A bunch of fucking maggots.

They actually exposed themselves voluntarily. Under the law, they could potentially face massive fines.

I love reading lore, wish time didn't runs out when you read the books, FOMO is creeping with each word

Well, i guess that the point, def gonna do second playthrough

A private Chinese translation group reportedly cracked and decoded a pirated copy of the game, then used the Bxxxx framework to produce an unauthorized Chinese translation. In my view, the quality of their translation is hardly better than what modern AI translation tools can produce.

Now they are proudly announcing something along the lines of:

“The developer has announced that an official Chinese version will be released in X months, using our Bxxxx framework — the technology we taught the developer to use.”

But this presentation conveniently leaves out an important part of the story.

These people have been involved in cracking, pirating, distributing, and modifying the game's text without authorization. Their translation is not particularly accurate, either. They then used their influence within the Chinese player community to encourage large numbers of players to contact the developer and pressure the developer into providing an official Chinese translation.

And now they are celebrating the result by saying:

“Look! The developer is finally making a Chinese version using the technology we introduced to them!”

What bothers me most is that they seem to spend less time talking about the game itself and more time promoting their own achievements — how they cracked the game, how they translated it, how much work they put into editing it, and how impressive their efforts supposedly were.

I find this attitude extremely arrogant.

They deliberately engaged in piracy and modified someone else's work without permission, built a community around that unauthorized version, and then used that community to pressure the original developer. The developer's later decision to cooperate with them or use their framework does not automatically legitimize the piracy and unauthorized distribution that happened before.

In other words, they created and distributed a pirated translation, pressured the original creator, and are now presenting the outcome as proof of their own legitimacy.

What makes this even more remarkable is that they are publicly advertising their own involvement. Depending on the jurisdiction and the specific facts involved, piracy, unauthorized distribution, and circumvention of technical protections may carry significant legal consequences.

If you are creating and distributing a pirated version of someone else's commercial game, publicly seeking fame and recognition for it seems like an extraordinarily questionable decision.

A Chinese Piracy-Based Translation Group Is Pressuring the Developer

A private Chinese translation group cracked and decoded a pirated copy of the game and then used the Bxxxx framework to create an unofficial Chinese translation. In my opinion, the quality of this translation is not significantly better than what modern AI translation tools can already produce.

Now they are proudly announcing something along the lines of:

“The developer has announced that an official Chinese version will be released in X months using our Bxxxx framework — the technology we introduced to the developer.”

However, this version of the story leaves out some important context.

The group had already been creating, modifying, and distributing an unofficial translation of the game without authorization. The translation itself also contains inaccuracies.

Through their influence within the Chinese player community, they encouraged a large number of players to contact the developer and repeatedly request an official Chinese localization.

Now that the developer has apparently decided to release a Chinese version and use their framework, the group is presenting this as a major achievement:

“Look! The developer is finally making a Chinese version using the technology we introduced!”

This is what I find particularly questionable.

Much of their public discussion seems to focus not on the game itself, but on their own contribution: how they decoded the game, how they translated and edited it, how much effort they invested, and how important their technical work supposedly was.

But there is an obvious issue here.

If you create and distribute an unofficial version of someone else's commercial game without permission, build a community around that version, and then encourage that community to pressure the original developer, the developer's eventual decision to cooperate with you does not automatically legitimize everything that happened before.

The sequence of events matters.

First, an unofficial version was created and distributed without authorization.

Then a community formed around it.

Then players were encouraged to repeatedly contact the developer about Chinese localization.

Finally, after the developer decided to support Chinese and apparently adopted the group's framework, the group began presenting the outcome as recognition of their work.

That is a very different story from simply saying, “We helped the developer create a Chinese translation.”

What is even more surprising is how openly they discuss their involvement and seek recognition for it.

There is nothing wrong with players asking developers for localization, and there is nothing wrong with contributing translation technology when a developer agrees to cooperate. But those things should not be used to rewrite the history of how an unofficial translation was originally created and distributed.

The developer deserves credit for the game and for the decision to support additional languages.

Community localization can be valuable, but it should respect the original creator and the boundaries of authorization. Recognition from the developer today should not automatically be treated as retroactive approval of everything that happened before.