Velvet Violet

This is an annoyingly recurring bug. I've rewritten some stuff to hopefully solve it permanently in the next release.

Bug should be fixed with the latest patch. Unless you specifically ask to take Binding Blade with you, they are not SUPPOSED to follow you (the dialog tells you who is supposed to be with you and who goes on the other team). If they keep following after this patch, please inform.

It's possible to get them both in one run. Getting Uncomfortable Truths might possibly have a minor negative impact on meeting the relationship requirements with West required to kick off the Truth Seeker sidequest, but it's only 1 of 4 dialog choices that does so.

When you say "replaced everyone", do you mean after the mutiny? From what you're saying, Binding Blade and Sacred Stone (BiB staying with you is a bug that I am trying to work out) should have been sent away and then been both lost, leaving Blazing Blade and Shadow Dragon on your team. Then you'd have had Moon Fang, White Haze, and Slaughterscape on your team in the next door mission with BlB and SD. Did that happen? If not, who was it? Did you acquiesce and leave or force the mutiny? If they mutinied, who turned on you? And did you then tell West that you wanted all of the mutineers removed from the team? If you did, do you remember who spawned in the "Deal with Alpha Team" mission? In case no one could tell, this arc has a lot of moving parts

Here are a couple of hints about the bonus badges: 1) Uncomfortable Truths - You might be able to break Ken's brain if you confront him about his deeply held beliefs, but he'll only listen if he believes you're speaking in good faith. 2) Truth Seeker - A current tragedy might cause West to tell you about a past tragedy, assuming she likes you enough to open up.

If you get rid of either Shadow Dragon or Radiant Dawn prior to this mission, then split the team 2 and 2, there will be no one left there. In that event, it activates and is what allows you to complete the mission.

Yeah, you're only supposed to get 2 people to go with you ever. Binding Blade is funky and occasionally sticks with the team. What AT is the character that played the mission?

Nice catch.

This is a rare bug that happens, I cannot get it to replicate. If you can get it to happen again, please let me know your character AT, if all of the Alphas were in the mission or not, and what dialog selections you made for splitting the team.

I helped out with it somewhat and thankfully most of the quotes I helped with were picked up via internet osmosis rather than direct observation.

No, they should fight back. I'll look into it. Thanks, I'll make sure that objective clears. Waypoint is coming. There technically is one, but it's bugged for some reason and points to the middle of nowhere. I'm trying to figure it out. The four different choices on how to deal with the final mission change which objectives you need to complete to finish the mission (defeat the Altruists, run back to the entrance, save the hostages, or some combination of those). It also changes the final conversation with the contact. My arcs are very dialog heavy (particularly in this page). This won't be changing, though future ones will not be so text dense. Sorry.

You need to complete the tip mission before you can see it in Flashback

No disrespect taken. The order of creation for stuff was out of whack, I agree. West and Kogan were supposed to be finished last page and I was going to have the other arcs finished this page. It was bad planning on my part, that's it.

They are both from West, Kogan doesn't have a bonus objective. West is at least an order of magnitude more complicated an arc than Kogan, so it got 2 this time.

There will be stuff in the next page that explains the power jump. It is not in this page because my story arcs (particularly Erin West) are complex and required far more debugging than I initially expected. I cannot promise that you will like the explanations, but I tend to have a high standard for writing and believe it will all make sense.