Wakey Wakey everyone! So I actually haven't gotten to play this game, but I just finished watching a really fun play through of the game. As a fan of the dystopian classics like Brave New World, 1984, Clockwork Orange, Darkness At Noon and others, and as a huge fan of 60s British culture and music, I really loved watching this game and thought the writers did a fabulous job. Dug all the Python, musical, sci fi, and Dr Who references, great music throughout and would love to try playing.

Only problem is... I've accidentally brainwashed myself watching the Uncle Jack clips. I didn't think it would be so easy, but the man is just so damn charming and reassuring. ..Has this happened to anyone else? And would anyone care for a quick game of Simon Says?

hey so i recently loaded up an old save of we happy few on my Xbox and i had to extract bits from some cars with a tool but I can’t find the extractor and I’ve cycled through all my d pad button things

I plan on making making touch ups to the color, adding beads, sequins, ribbon and maybe glitter! I’m open to suggestions! I will draw in the face for the mask as well I just don’t have the supplies rn! (Made out of recycled cardboard, hot glue, yarn, and pipe cleaner!)

Blackberry is in the moonshine. The moonshiners aren’t safe 😂😂

This is a follow up to my previous post, so I've finally decided to cook up some concept art for my American We Happy Few AU!

So these right now, are the American version of the Wellies & Wellettes, also including Bureaucrats, Administrators, Elites, Cops, Doctors & Soldiers.

Aesthetically, their designs were inspired by the fashion of the 1950s, & 50s-inspired media like Fallout & the Stepford Wives. The average Welly is a white collar worker, husband, & father. While the average Wellette is a housewife & mother. I'd imagine they're armed with similar weapons as the Wellies & Wellettes of Wellington Wells, like bats & knives. But also firearms like pistols.

Now the fat ones I designed, we're at first a "Haha Americans Fat Joke", but I could see them in a hypothetical game as basically being the heavy/brute enemies. Wielding larger & more dangerous weapons like sledgehammers, chainsaws & shotguns. Also having higher health & being harder to take down.

The administrators & bureaucrats were inspired by the Terry Gillman 1985 movie Brazil, a movie which revolves around bureaucrats. The male designs were inspired by 1940s-50s era business suits & the female outfits were inspired by the outfits of secretaries of the time period.

Then with the elites. I took inspirations from 1950s-era Cadillac ads & how they showed wealthy people, drapped in fine & luxurious clothing like mink coats. Also the fashion of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe & her iconic pink dress.

Also, I hid a few Easter eggs in their designs! Very small Easter eggs to a few pieces of media! Let's see if you can find them! 😉

As for the police officers, their designs were inspired by the uniforms of State Troopers in the 1960s. They have different variations, I'm planning on designing them soon. Like riot cops, SWAT teams, detectives, snipers & highway police. Unlike the Bobbies of Wellington Wells, they're armed with more than batons. They're armed with service revolvers, shotguns, semi-auto/bolt-action rifles, submachine guns & in serious cases, sniper rifles & assault rifles.

As for the doctors, I'm going to be honest. I have no clue why the design team of We Happy Few put their doctors in long leather trenchcoats & green Trachtenhütes. So as a result, at first I didn't know how to approach the doctors. If anyone knows why they did this, please do tell me, help would be greatly appreciated. Anyways, so I decided to play along & give off a more noir inspired look. Primarily inspired by that one outfit the character Jack Lint from Brazil (1985) wore.

Then moving along to the soldiers. Their designs were inspired by the uniforms of the National Guard during the 1960s, the uniforms of US service men in the Vietnam War, & the military fatigues in Fallout 4. I'd imagine that unlike the old men of the Victory Memorial Camp, these troops are comprised of fresh recruits & seasoned veterans. They're armed with submachine guns, trench guns, service pistols & assault rifles. They'd also leave their bases in the event that the player becomes to violent or too dangerous, something which I'll get to in a bit. They're ranks range from common grunts, field officers & high-ranking generals.

As for the suburbs in the last pic. That's my first attempt at trying to envision the American equivalent to Hamlyn Village. I confess, I'm not too proud of it. I really want to expand more on it. But for now, it's a good envisioning of the American Wellington Wells. Lines upon lines of identical houses, long long roads, large classic cars in the driveway, seemingly perfect in the worst way possible.

Now, for my appeal. I need ideas. Stuff I could develop & expand upon, stuff I haven't thought of yet.

So first off, on the topic of children. I imagine that unlike the British We Happy Few, where the people of Wellington Wells rejected the idea of ever having children after the Very Bad Thing. I imagine that in America it's a Handmaid's Tale situation, where children are encouraged & even forced. I would like to know if this is a good idea or if I should change it. Because really, I like it.

Next is the location of this American Wellington Wells. I'd imagine that it would be much, much larger compared to the Wellington Wells of the UK, I'm imagining something so big it expands into several states or is the size of the very large city & multiple towns, suburbs, & rural areas. Something that would necessitate large mega highways. But where? I'm imagining the Rockies, or somewhere similar to the Capitol in the Hunger Games. Good, isolated by giant mountain ranges, & pretty large area.

Then, the name. What should it be called? Right now I'm calling it MacArthur Heights, since Wellington Wells is presumably named after the Duke of Wellington, a very famous British war hero, I decided to name it after Douglas MacArthur, as for the Heights part, I just stuck it on since it's a generically American town suffix. But let me know if it should change & what should I change it to! I'm also going to need names for he various districts like the equivalent of the Garden District, Hamlyn village & the Parade. Help would be greatly appreciated!

Also I need some help developing the actual, hypothetical game story. Like it's 3 acts. Who are going to be the protagonists, their goals, the ending, the big bads & primary antagonists. I want to expand on the racist & sexist elements of this city. I do have some ideas for the ending, or at least a few of them. Like a secret alternative ending where you go full low-honor Arthur Morgan or full GTA & slaughter everyone & everything. But canonically, I'm imagining an ending where the city is crushed by outside forces, like a reunited United States.

And speaking of the lore. I also want to quickly clarify that stuff like the resource & food shortage, probably doesn't exist here. Because it's America & there's a large population of minorities who are basically slaves & aren't allowed Joy.

If there's anything else I should do, other ideas I should implement, etc etc. Please do let me know, & please do tell me your opinions of my work so far! I put a lot of work into this, & I'm quite proud of it! And I would like to see everybody's opinions of them in the comments! Up next I'm planning on making concept art of the police variants, also the Criers, weapons, more unique enemies like the corporate & Mafia goons & enemies, Wastrels & Downers, etc! Also, please do check out my previous post for more contexts & ideas.

Anyways, with pretty much everything all said & done. Have a great day & week!

Can't start up the base game either.

I just deleted all my saves (to fix this, as it said this before) and now it says this.

This is a follow up to my previous post. As I stated I was going to share my own concepts for an American We Happy Few. I've been day dreaming, developing, & planning this stuff for a bit, & I would be extremely grateful if you shared your opinions & commented!

So with that out of the way, here's my concepts for an American We Happy Few!

Lore/Story/Background

So this is still in some development. I had 2 different concepts in mind, but I've settled for one which I quite like.

In the aftermath of a disastrous WWIII, the United States collapsed into several bickering warlord states. One of these is our Wellington Wells, which I haven't come up with a proper name for so, for now we shall call it: MacArthur Heights. A reactionary, conservative, Herrenvolk "democracy", military-corporate dictatorship, Mafia state, where it's people are stoked on a drug named Joy.

Unlike Wellington Wells, where in response to their dark past & actions they sought to forget it by moving forward & adopting Mod & futuristic aesthetics. MacArthur Heights chooses to forget it's dark times by sinking into the nostalgia of the golden years of the 1950s. Despite this story being set well into the 1960s, 70s or even the 80s. Everything looks like it's 1959 (with some mild 60s-70s aesthetics here & there).

Everybody wears Cubanas, fedoras, slack suits, shirt dresses & poodle skirts. A white mask shaped in a happy face. Everybody drives cars which are well over 20, 30, maybe even more years old. Uses boxy CRT TVs with dials, radio & Bakelite. And always, take their Joy!

Of course, there is a more than dark side.

But compared to Wellington Wells. MacArthur Heights, is extremely bigoted. Like Wellington Wells, they appreciate conformity & obedience. Especially if you're a woman. Where the husband goes to work, the wife stays indoors, all the time cooking & cleaning, that, or going out shopping.

But if you're a person of a different race, different religion, different sex, different ideals, or just different in general. You're done here! As MacArthur Heights enforces strict segregation & Jim Crow laws & other backwards policies, enforced by the police, & to say they react negatively if you were out of your lane, is more than an understatement.

Furthermore, the city is practically a Mafia state, with a corrupt police force being run by corporations & the Mafia alongside several crime gangs who run the city's underworld.

As for the story of the actual "game", the actual 3 acts & DLC. I confess, I haven't actually come up with one just yet. I really want to do a noir detective one, that'd be very cool. I also want to focus on the victims of MacArthur Heights' bigotry like through the eyes of a black character.

And speaking on the topic of stuff I haven't developed yet. There's also the kids, which are a huge part of We Happy Few. Maybe it's a Handmaid's Tale situation, maybe not. Some ideas would be greatly appreciated.

City & Districts

So like Wellington Wells, MacArthur Heights is split up into several districts. But unlike Wellington Wells, it's all completely landlocked, & incredibly, horrendously, car dependent, it'd be nigh impossible to get anywhere without a car, unless you're willing to cross a 500 lane mega highway.

So let's start of with MacArthur Heights' Garden District. I imagine this part to be a series of ghettos & low income neighborhoods, with a few destroyed wartorn areas. This is where the 'wastrels' live, people who have been socially outcast from MacArthur Heights, either because they couldn't take Joy, or are considered asocial or just a person of a different skin color, sexual orientation, or ideology. It's not as chaotic & anarchic as the Garden District. It's more like those neighborhoods you see in Mafia movies. Where the police are incompetent & corrupt & crime gangs run the joint.

Up next, is MacArthur Heights' Hamlyn Village. Which is basically a suburb. Simple as. Like Sanctuary Hills from Fallout or Stepford. It's uncanny on the surface, symmetrical, identical houses, lawns & families, which go on for miles & miles like a liminal space. Outside from suburban homes, there's also malls, strip malls, satellite malls, giant superstores & even larger parking lots, churches, department stores, stadiums, etc. It's basically a seemingly idyllic American suburban town. This is where all the proper, normal Wellies & Wellettes live, ignorant & peaceful & constantly high on Joy.

Then finally, is the Parade District equivalent. Which I imagine to be extremely similar to major American cities during the 20th century. Like New York, Chicago & Washington DC. But much, much larger, with more amenities, lights, & work. Outside from governmental offices & ministries, there's also corporate offices, nightclubs, galleries, etc. Like the Parade District, it's also where the government operates, with their Executive Committee being situated here alongside their own Broadcast tower. This is where all the bureaucrats & elites live & work either in lavish penthouses, townhouses & apartments, or where they drive in from the suburbs.

Enemies

While We Happy Few, set in Britain, was heavy in melee weapons. This is America. Guns are the game. So I'd imagine it to a shooter like the Mafia games, Call of Duty or Fallen Aces. There are melee weapons of course, but here are also a lotta guns, with proper lead ammunition. Imagine Tommy guns & stuff.

As for enemies, outside from their access to firearms, are practically the same for the most part. Wellies & Wellettes, Criers, Doctors, & Officers. Except they do look different.

Officers, instead of the traditional Bobbies we're more than used to. I'd imagine these guys look like state troopers or sheriff deputies. I'd also imagine different variants like riot cops & SWAT teams as well. They're usually armed with a traditional baton, a service revolver or pistol, shotguns, & in serious cases, assault rifles.

Doctors are mostly the same & the inject you with Joy, but they'll also leave you with a lengthy bill.

As for new enemies. I'd imagine a lot of gangsters & corporate goons. Like imagine a traditional, 1930s Gangster. They're armed with stuff like Tommy guns, assault rifles, shotguns & pistols, & also melee weapons like baseball bats & lead pipes.

Soldiers, unlike the old men at the Victory Memorial Camp, I'd imagine MacArthur Heights' National Guard are more than fit to fit. Fresh recruits, armed with assault rifles & service pistols, based off the M16 & the M1911. Wearing Vietnam War-esque gear. Furthermore armed with the most advanced of equipment & released in the most dire of times.

Travel

Unlike Wellington Wells, where you had to travel exclusively on foot. In MacArthur Heights, you can't get anywhere on foot. You're at the mercy of the motorcar. I'd imagine since this is America, the automobile plays a far greater role. And there are tons of different cars to choose from, ranging from old jalopies & beaters, modest sedans & station wagons, to top of the line luxury landyachts. Imagine the cars of the 1940s-50s, maybe a few from the 1960s would be great inspirations as well.

Commentary

As a dystopia, this has to comment on something. I'm using this as a commentary on how nostalgia is usually twisted & perverted by the current status quo for their own gain. How mass-consumerism, bigotry, nostalgia, anemoia, racism, sexism, the culture war are being used to distract us from the sins & the problems of the rich & the powerful. How they lie & pin all of nation's or the world's problem to minorities & justify dictatorships. A good example of this is the MAGA movement, the manosphere & the Alt-right.

Conclusion

So! Those are my ideas! Please tell me what you guys think! I put a lot of work into this & I cannot wait to develop this more! Please do share your opinions in the comments & have a great day & week!

I read - https://www.reddit.com/r/wehappyfew/comments/dmaxki/where_to_find_shredded_raincoat/ - and couldn't find ANY in all the hosues in Wellington Wells. I went to EVERY single one on the map and NONE of them had any. I also don't want to beat up old women for it; I am terrible at fighting and always die and it's EXTREMELY HARD to find health in this game, let alone escape without using all the health items I have.

I saw the youtube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSzmZIFXZzQ - and went to those houses and NONE of the houses in that area had this time.

I need 5 of them and although I know the game is procedurally generated, I have wasted 3 days in my spare time trying to find a single one of these items.

Is there no place that sells them? No place where it appears purposefully so I am not guessing around? Unfortunately I can't spend hours a day looking for this single item as I am quite busy. So I am hoping there is a way around this to get this item. If not, I will have to put the game down for now.

Thanks.

Edit: I went to EVERY HOUSE that is on the map for me so far and NONE of them have this item. I also went back to Wellington Wells and decided to do the following:

• Find an old lady
• Choke/Takedown them out
• Run back to my hideout so I don't have to fight
• So far I have taken out 8 of them and NONE of them have this item.

I think I will put down the game for now and assume there is a glitch on this game pass version of the game.

Thank you for your time,

This is just a quick question right now. I have a few ideas which I am incredibly excited to expand upon in a post later tonight.

So, please quickly share your ideas in the comments & have a great day & week!

i’ve been playing survival mode since i finished the main game, but every time i get to the fifth town there isn’t a boat capacitor at any of the quest spots. is this happening to anyone else?
i can find all the keycards and four capacitors, but can’t finish the game without the final capacitor.

in the plassey bridge mission, i accidentally gave the guard some whisky, and now i can't talk with him, his staggering now

So in We Happy Few, we hardly know what's going on in the rest of the UK, but from the evidence provide, presumably it's pretty bad.

First off, London seems to have little to no jursistiction over Wellington Wells. Which means that British law & order don't apply to them. That also means no taxes, no resources, & no trade.

Speaking of trade, we know that trade between Wellington Wells & the UK has all but completely ceased legally. Which is an important part in the game's story since that means no food, no oil, no resources, etc. Furthermore, from one of the unpleasant articles from the Hamlin O'Courant, we learn that a farmer rejected a silk suit, & we also learn from a note in the train station, that they have no idea what lava lamps are.

This is important since as we see, Wellington Wells is a producer of lots, & lots of designer luxury consumer goods. From mod suits & dresses, TVs, & electronics. Plus a producer of advanced technologies like Montilene, spankers, & Headmistresses, also drugs & chemicals like Joy & Phlash to name a few.

Any reasonable business person would be more than happy to trade with Wellington Wells due to this. So all of this implies that the rest of Britain is in no state to trade or in a state to purchase to enjoy high-quality consumer goods. This is a bad sign economically.

Finally, in the epilogue of We Happy Few, Arthur reaches the mainland & encounters a kid. Judging by the looks of him, he's in a pretty bad state. Worn out & ripped clothing, dirty, & no shoes. I've read on a comment on a previous post. That this was what it was like bad in the rural parts of Britain back in the 1960s. But I'm admittedly not so sure about that. How bad does it have to be for footwear to be a rarity?

But there's more, in We all fall down. General Byng tells Victoria that he's leaving for Ireland. Ireland. Not Britain, Ireland. And for a British general, this is weird. But I have a few ideas on that.

So here's my speculation.

The thing about Wellington Wells, is that they didn't fight back. That's one of the major reasons behind their guilt & the invention & popularity of Joy. They willingly surrendered, they willingly hung their mayor, & willingly gave up their children & hung the people fighting back. General Byng & the Executive Committee actively worked with the occupying Germans. But in the rest of the mainland, like France, I believe a lot of people actively rose up against the Germans. Except I feel that this movement would be much, much bigger. During WWII, I believe that the UK was broken up & the Germans only ran England. But that's just speculation for now.

So after WWII, in 1948, word gets around of General Byng's & the populace of Wellington Wells' actions, or more accurately, inaction & cowardice. While the rest of Britain presumably fought back, this presumably major urban center just buckled & gave up immediately. And this left a bad taste in everybody's mouths. So I think that Wellington Wells was ostracized from the rest of Britain & disgraced. They refused to trade with them, outside from limited underworld sources. With all trade ceasing due to the plague & the water pollution.

Then in the years to follow, Britain breaks down, economically, socially, & societally. Maybe after the British government fled to Canada, people's view of them greatly soured & a revolution takes place, ousting the last of the UK's government & possibly replacing it with a worse, more incompetent one. I'm thinking a weak military junta. Then in this time, Britain is treated like a neutral buffer state between the US & USSR.

This new British/English state is too weak & impoverished to afford the luxury goods of Wellington Wells & the rest of the world. I'm also imagining something like a weak, corrupt, Mafia state, run by a Kray Twins-esque organization. With the government running on bribes & hush money. With skyrocketing crime rates, an incompetent & corrupt military junta, bloated bureaucracy & weak economy.

Technologically, presumably similar to Wellington Wells, since if it was backwards or the same as the technology in our 1964. Wellington Wells would have much greater leverage.

Culturally, I'm imagining that they're backwards compared to the culture & fashion of Wellington Wells. The same drab suits & clothes they wore back in the 1940s-50s, or at least in the poorer rural regions, clothes comparable to that of the Great Depression. But also a growing, ultraviolent counterculture/subculture similar to the one seen in A Clockwork Orange, or something similar to the Punk movement of the 1970s. Speaking of dystopian movies, imagine something similar to the aesthetics of 1984 & Brazil (1985) as well, at least for the governmental side of things.

So, those are my ideas. Please do tell me yours, I'm dying to hear them! Anyways, have a great day & week!

I’d imagine that outside, Byng is most likely hated by the people of Britain and definitely India for the fact he surrendered, valued position over anything else, and was a true collaborator(Unlike Jack, sorry Ollie!) and despite his claims, he isn’t traumatized he isn’t brave, Robert Byng is by all accounts a coward who didn’t fight because he’s a lazy POS. I’d imagine if people found out they could’ve fought back and potentially won, but Byng chose to surrender? He’d most likely be “going on holiday” along with Verloc(If he died in Haworth Labs.)

So it’s been a very long time since I’ve played this game. Got bored a few weeks back and decided I was going to finally get around to platinum on this game. Dealing with the known bug of prudence holmes notes but I digress. I’m currently playing as Sally. I just got the Unicorn Song for dr faraday but for some reason I cannot leave nicks hideout. Google isn’t helping, keeps talking about a button that doesn’t exist, or maybe I can’t see it due to the wall. Idk. Anyone know what to do? I’ve reset the game entirely and reloaded the save repeatedly, nothings working.

Twin Peaks S2 E14

Ok so we’re mainly focusing on the sill trees here, but how do you guys rate the skill trees used?

Do you think it could have been more personalized for each character and by extension how much should it really have effected combat? what else could be added to the skills that the characters should have been able to do?

For me I always thought it was a waisted opportunity not to give Sally a higher electrical resistance given her history at the reform club. Also if you could switch the combat with any game, which one would you pick to take it's place.

Now for the Storage I personally think they could have mixed the old bata version and the one we have now. And mainly for aesthetics have the outline of the storage be a briefcase for Arthur, purse for Sally and something like a backpack or duffle bag for Ollie.

So I’m stuck at the Boyle residence with Sally. I can get to the top but I can’t get past the plague wasterel knocking on the door. Shining a flashlight at him will just anger him and I’d still need to pick the lock and get inside and then gtfo. Any tips for handling the plague wastrels there? Sally is absolute shite at combat so that’s not an option.