Important Poll: Path Builder / Starting Point Creator (Patreon)

Hey everyone,

Whilst we're fixing remaining bugs and issues, I would like to run an idea by you.
So two important pieces of information lead to this idea.
1) A lot of the bugs are caused by saves, which means that 90% of issues could be resolved if people would just start a new game. That's however very tiresome if you just wanna play the last update.
2) A lot of you love to play the different paths and experience all the choices and scenes we have. Therefore lots of you have pages of saves with different girls, frats, kcts, etc.

Essentially I wanna propose a main menu path builder. You'd access it much like the scene gallery, with spoiler warning and everything. On there you'd be taken through a process, where you can basically pick the most important elements of your starting point. Which frat, which kct (even lock the KCT so it doesn't change) and what girls. Then you choose a starting location and it's almost like you had a save there, just much quicker and without all the bugs and incompatibilities.  (Images for clarification below)

Does that mean your choices no longer matter?
Not at all. All this does it set the variables of previous choices as if you had tried to achieve this outcome by playing through the game. Once you start the game, at whatever starting location you choose, it's like loading a save. You can still mess up, you can still change everything with future choices. It doesn't limit or affect what you pick once the game starts at all. It simply ensures that your on the right path up until that point.

What about relationships that develop after the starting point I picked?
Say you pick Nora as romantically involved, and then start of Act 2 as starting location. In this case, you really wouldn't notice a difference, as the most impactful Nora choices are still to come and you will have to make them on your own.  The path builder won't railroad you into future choices, merely affect the choices up until that point.

Would this affect normal playthroughs or saves?
Not at all, this is a separate feature accessible from the main menu. You can still play the game normally and we recommend you only use this once you've already played through the game.

What about smaller choices?
The biggest downside of this compared to a normal playthrough is the lack of nuance. The game has thousands of choices, lots of which are highly impactful. We can't let you pick every single decision in the path builder, that's why it will only be the most important ones. Like frat, kct or romantic involvement.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and please if you have ideas on what you'd like to see as part of the path builder leave them in the comments!

If you guys want this and vote yes, we might be able to patch a basic version in over the next few days. This would allow people that lost their saves, or had bugs with saves to properly enjoy the latest update without having to replay everything.

- Steve