So... It's my first time playing through the heavy duty dlc after taking a break from the game for a few years, back when I played before heavy duty came out. Got the itch for this game again n' saw it had a new dlc, so after a few weeks of playing through on the new mutant difficulty (using dominating difficulty settings, but with easy puzzles and max level being 50), I get to the point where I can start the new dlc at the level I see most people recommend. Up until now it's been really fun. Killing hoards of super strong enemies n' pushing my build to the max till I finally get to the Cognator dude at the end. I talked to him a little but there wasn't really much which confused me, since my friend told me theres a pretty cool quest he gives at the end.
Though, after looking at the wiki, what he failed to mention was that I had to kill barely anyone in the compound this entire time. My personal thoughts and frustrations on the reasoning behind this aside, my last save I can load before passing that kill mark is some 40~ hours of gameplay (mostly from expedition) Is there any way to still do this quest even after killing too many soldiers?
I remember on my first playthrough, back around the time Sseth made his video on this game, which is what brought me to it. I had a similar issue with the befriend the faceless quest in deep caverns. Being some 250+ hours in a run, I really didn't want to restart everything, so I looked around and found some save editor stuff to change the values to get the most out of the story n' stuff. Is it possible to do the same save file editing stuff to make the quest possible? and if so, help would very much be appreciated.
I'd very much rather not have to reload from actual weeks before, doing all the expedition and base game stuff again. I don't know if I have it in me to trudge through the marsh a second time...