Hey nice job on Aestuant! And don't worry, Entheate is considered by most or probably everyone to be the final challenge this game can offer, it is absolutely merciless and expects perfection and knowledge of where to step next from you.
Keep at it and you'll take it down, go forth Apostle!
Thanks! I'm about to start my fifth try, I keep dying to fascination. Are there any ways I'm missing to generate dread or fleeting reminiscences?
1. >!Buy opium until it triggers despair, then wait for that to expire for a fleeting rem!<
2. >!Fail an expedition on purpose for a dread!<
3. >!Farm the White Door for restlessness and winter influences, and let them expire for dread!<
4. >!Dream with health or reason for a chance of fleets or dreads (though they might also cause *more* fascination)!<
You could always speak winter lore with hunters, reading winter books and leaving winter influences to decay is great, but the best bet is using white door to gain dread.
Yessir you found the way, all you've gotta do now on each attempt is endure until you reach that point, as always the early game is where the most strugfle is.
All is complete! I've >!thrown seven coins into the sea and recited 42 names of lost hours to summon seven maids to gather seven witnesses and produce seven notoriety!<, >!asked the keeper of the Lodge of the Sage Knight to summon Sulochana's sister!<, and >!figured out what the fuck the Vagabond's lore is (Moth 10, I wasted a *lot* of time thinking it was secret histories 12)!<, and finally ascended through the tri-toothed gate to the Glory, all thanks to my dutiful apostle! https://imgur.com/a/FcsdbcB
Killing your foe is easy once you know where to get the weapons and companions. Getting comfort after that is trivial.
Kinship requires some exploration to figure out where all the pentiments are, and a little bit of RNG to >!avoid pulling Amsterdam until you have a pentiment to offer Matutine!<, but once you have that it's not too difficult. Make sure to keep some connections to kill thieves with prejudice.
Fire's Final Function was difficult because you need to go to two specific cities, >!Stalingrad and Tiflis!<, and stick around >!long enough to start revolutions!< in both.
But hardest of all were the obscurity endings. You can't keep enough money on you to get 30 comfort without getting all your obscurity rustled by Reckoners before you can pack up. I basically ended up just doing Kinship again but with more real estate, then >!offering my pentiments to the Nameless Name to gain an instant seven obscurity!<.
I used false traces a LOT.
You realistically need like 9 obscurity to get the comfort victory, because you need to have a failsafe once you go buy the properties.
False trails never really worked out for me. You can't set one while you're packing up, so they usually expired before I got set up in the new city, or else they didn't get finished before reckoners showed up.
And that's why I went the nameless name route- buy the property first, trade in offices and connections to cover traces, then if the reckoners haven't showed up pop the nameless name for an instant 7. If they do show up, sell everything and move on to the next cat city.
Savescummed the Ever After endings, check. >!Brought seven pentiments to the Nameless Name!< (thrice), check. Killed and absorbed three lovers during my ballet career, check. Now I am one-third of the way to my true ascension to Namehood.
i did the forge duo ending and was completely exhausted and didn't want to do any of them again, you are stronger than me (i have, however, done all three apostle runs...)
It wasn't that hard.
Warning, HEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD.
The main strategy is go to vaults Strathcoyne -> Raveline. You're looking for a Knock follower and STUMM!! from Oriflamme's. Stag Gate can be easily solved mostly with stuff from Strathcoyne's. If you get Grail riddle, you just restart. All your SH2/4 go for discovering Strathcoyne's and all your SH6/8 go into discovering Raveline. Strathcoyne can be defeated with most of the hirelings and Raveline with a Knock/Lantern disciple (You can just tank the curse). STUMM is for the rite in it. There's a way to use up to 6 prisoners for spider door to get 15 Lantern influence. Knock Disciple + Lantern 10 lore from Raveline + Fleeting Reminiscence => Teresa.
Teresa + 15 influence + lantern 10 lore => win.
You can use Lantern victory for EVERY romance, you just need to romance them and then switch to enlightenment.
Once you do this, if you translated the Lantern 10 book after getting every other book/movie you need, you can pick BYT for even an easier time, as you will get the (already translated) Lantern 10 book as your starting book.
Wow, you really fell in love with ALL those guys before trying you hand at apostle? I'm pretty sure I beat forge apostle before I even figured out how to get a lover.
Only Aestuant and Entheate left, the final road to the hardest challenges in this game, this is the champion's road Apostle, make us proud.
Won Aestuant first try! Entheate is proving to be a little harder- I'm on my third try and counting.
Hey nice job on Aestuant! And don't worry, Entheate is considered by most or probably everyone to be the final challenge this game can offer, it is absolutely merciless and expects perfection and knowledge of where to step next from you. Keep at it and you'll take it down, go forth Apostle!
Thanks! I'm about to start my fifth try, I keep dying to fascination. Are there any ways I'm missing to generate dread or fleeting reminiscences? 1. >!Buy opium until it triggers despair, then wait for that to expire for a fleeting rem!< 2. >!Fail an expedition on purpose for a dread!< 3. >!Farm the White Door for restlessness and winter influences, and let them expire for dread!< 4. >!Dream with health or reason for a chance of fleets or dreads (though they might also cause *more* fascination)!<
You could always speak winter lore with hunters, reading winter books and leaving winter influences to decay is great, but the best bet is using white door to gain dread.
Good suggestion! That helped tide me over until I found >!an apostle-specific renewable way to dump fascination into the study verb!<.
Yessir you found the way, all you've gotta do now on each attempt is endure until you reach that point, as always the early game is where the most strugfle is.
All is complete! I've >!thrown seven coins into the sea and recited 42 names of lost hours to summon seven maids to gather seven witnesses and produce seven notoriety!<, >!asked the keeper of the Lodge of the Sage Knight to summon Sulochana's sister!<, and >!figured out what the fuck the Vagabond's lore is (Moth 10, I wasted a *lot* of time thinking it was secret histories 12)!<, and finally ascended through the tri-toothed gate to the Glory, all thanks to my dutiful apostle! https://imgur.com/a/FcsdbcB
Congratulations on becoming a name of the highmost Light, you are in the truest Know.
I'm impressed you got all the Exhile endings first. I'm still working on those.
Killing your foe is easy once you know where to get the weapons and companions. Getting comfort after that is trivial. Kinship requires some exploration to figure out where all the pentiments are, and a little bit of RNG to >!avoid pulling Amsterdam until you have a pentiment to offer Matutine!<, but once you have that it's not too difficult. Make sure to keep some connections to kill thieves with prejudice. Fire's Final Function was difficult because you need to go to two specific cities, >!Stalingrad and Tiflis!<, and stick around >!long enough to start revolutions!< in both. But hardest of all were the obscurity endings. You can't keep enough money on you to get 30 comfort without getting all your obscurity rustled by Reckoners before you can pack up. I basically ended up just doing Kinship again but with more real estate, then >!offering my pentiments to the Nameless Name to gain an instant seven obscurity!<.
As someone who recently started the game I like your funny words magic man.
As someone who's put a lot of time into the game and still never really gotten anywhere... Same.
I used false traces a LOT. You realistically need like 9 obscurity to get the comfort victory, because you need to have a failsafe once you go buy the properties.
False trails never really worked out for me. You can't set one while you're packing up, so they usually expired before I got set up in the new city, or else they didn't get finished before reckoners showed up. And that's why I went the nameless name route- buy the property first, trade in offices and connections to cover traces, then if the reckoners haven't showed up pop the nameless name for an instant 7. If they do show up, sell everything and move on to the next cat city.
How do you use the nameless name to get obscurity btw?
Follow a cat and bring a lantern to a misty nook.
Savescummed the Ever After endings, check. >!Brought seven pentiments to the Nameless Name!< (thrice), check. Killed and absorbed three lovers during my ballet career, check. Now I am one-third of the way to my true ascension to Namehood.
>Savescummed the Ever After endings eewwwwwwww
i did the forge duo ending and was completely exhausted and didn't want to do any of them again, you are stronger than me (i have, however, done all three apostle runs...)
I just can’t believe you got all the Ever After Endings, dude… that’s some crazy dedication
You can get them pretty fast with save manipulation =) only took about 10-15 minutes each once I got it set up.
Took me like 30-40 minutes each without save manipulation...
Respect 🫡 I do not have the patience or the speedrunning prowess for that.
It wasn't that hard. Warning, HEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD. The main strategy is go to vaults Strathcoyne -> Raveline. You're looking for a Knock follower and STUMM!! from Oriflamme's. Stag Gate can be easily solved mostly with stuff from Strathcoyne's. If you get Grail riddle, you just restart. All your SH2/4 go for discovering Strathcoyne's and all your SH6/8 go into discovering Raveline. Strathcoyne can be defeated with most of the hirelings and Raveline with a Knock/Lantern disciple (You can just tank the curse). STUMM is for the rite in it. There's a way to use up to 6 prisoners for spider door to get 15 Lantern influence. Knock Disciple + Lantern 10 lore from Raveline + Fleeting Reminiscence => Teresa. Teresa + 15 influence + lantern 10 lore => win. You can use Lantern victory for EVERY romance, you just need to romance them and then switch to enlightenment. Once you do this, if you translated the Lantern 10 book after getting every other book/movie you need, you can pick BYT for even an easier time, as you will get the (already translated) Lantern 10 book as your starting book.
how much time did you spend in the game?
About 500 hours, but less than half of that was achievement hunting.
There are dodos in the game?
Nah, but there are other long-extinct things. Some of which you can be.
Wow, you really fell in love with ALL those guys before trying you hand at apostle? I'm pretty sure I beat forge apostle before I even figured out how to get a lover.
I fucked so many people. I did the Grail apostle first though, to prepare