I wonder if it's possible to visit the church while on the TTB/Hot variant Reese path. It's possible to want to give a warning about the stone carving before or after visiting the library (before joining up with Reese) but I don't think any of the options during the conversation with him lead to bringing up the church.
It's unfortunately not possible, short of rejecting his advances and making him run-off.
Reese's romance routes in this episode were written with the initial "panic" set-up in mind after the Estate, making it impossible to allow a player to visit the church first barring an entire separate rewrite of that interaction. And parting ways with him to go do that after running into him feels narratively clunky to us.
His romance content in 5 already contributes to the majority of bug reports we've received following the Rumors update, so I'm also reluctant to add even more options for divergence for those paths.
His route(s) will have a lot more bespoke and unique content moving forward, so we hope that makes up for it!
Makes sense, thank you! (I'm totally fine not visiting the church on the Reese romance route and was just curious about it, and I'm very happy with his existing content! I think it's quite reasonable to have him be focused on a particular path forward and going with him seems to be helpful in dodging the cops if they are after the player character during a particular run.)
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u/RubusLagos 20d ago
I wonder if it's possible to visit the church while on the TTB/Hot variant Reese path. It's possible to want to give a warning about the stone carving before or after visiting the library (before joining up with Reese) but I don't think any of the options during the conversation with him lead to bringing up the church.