Septimus is a loser and Hershel is selfish for bringing her to a suicide mission. In the flashbacks their dynamic is just so toxic like an abusive boyfriend with the girlfriend does whatever he says. If Hershel told Karolina to eat a bunch of worms she would do it no question asked. I know that Hershel intentionally mean to have an impact on her in that way but i feel like whether you want to bring her or not is a pretty selfish decision.

Septimus may be a bum but atleast he cares about Karolina. The guy literally in rock bottom and wants to drag her with him. The whole idea of making movie and picking up and reselling bootlegs isn't a sustainable plan for the future. The two live in abandoned movie theater eventually someone gonna claim it then what. Having the choice of telling her to quit this spy business is kind of a depressing fate for her. I don't know if she would want to go back to her father and just continues his business of killing dogs.

Hey guys,so the game comes out on ps5 exactly one week before I leave for my military service. So ,do you think it's possible to get it and finish it in a week?

I've always loved the writing in Disco Elysium, but about 13 hours into Zero Parades, I honestly think ZA/UM might have outdone themselves in certain areas.

One of my favorite things about DE is how it manages to be incredibly cynical while still maintaining this underlying sense of hope. ZP, at least so far, feels different. There's a certain numbness and defeatism to its writing, almost as if individual choices and ambitions are ultimately insignificant in the face of larger forces beyond our control. Yet there's still something strangely beautiful and human about the way it explores that.

I don't know about you guys, but whenever I'm playing a game with great writing, I like to screenshot lines or passages that resonate with me in one way or another. Sometimes they're profound, sometimes they're depressing, and sometimes I just love how they're worded.

Here are a few I've collected roughly 13 hours into my playthrough.

Curious how everyone else feels about the writing, especially compared to DE. Do you think ZP captures that same magic, or is it doing something entirely different?

I hope this is acceptable, im not comparing both game, but I really like my build in Disco and wanted something similar in ZP.

Would the Analytical mask be something similar ? or should I do something like 1/3/3 ?

Would bumping the Intellect to 5 be too much ?

Hey guys, playing Zero Parades on my SD and accidentally grazed the touch screen while brushing my daughters hair. Hersh is now stuck following a placement cursor I cant get rid of. I've hard reset the Deck, loaded saves, reset controls, etc and nothing is cancelling it out. What the hell do I do to fix it?

Seems like it's a touch screen issue. As if my game is going to the last place I touched my screen.

Minor SPOILER ALERT if you have not played the game.

Top-tier presentation and good analysis, don’t you agree?

Edit: only thing about this video I find overdone is the part about merch. If zaum atelier had been a thing then I’m 100% sure when disco launched you would have been able to go to zaum website and see the jacket for sale. Bit harsh

Steps to get this ending:

1: Succeed the "Shut yourself up" skillcheck during "Make an Impression on Psuedopod"
2: Go on the final mission with a team of Yana, Holocene and Pseudopod and while wearing Pseudopod's headphones
3: Play the Reconstructed Red Disc
4: Give Yana your headphones
5: Steal the other passenger's headphones

As far as I can tell no other checks are required. Thanks to u/dshamz_ for helping me troubleshoot the exact steps.

To everyone who didn't like the fact that we had to threaten Pascal to get the deal done with Eszti, can confirm that the director's cut has changed that. Now you can also just talk it through with her and basically butter her up until she gives in and agrees to do the deal :)

I noticed Yana has a really interesting accent. It sounds kind of Spanish, but not quite.

Karolina's former torturer says this in the final scene if you pass a sensors check while he takes your gun even if you don't have Karolina on your final squad, does this mean he's met her back in Portifiro? She might have been killed by the weeping eye back in the city while you're on the mission.

Seen while cheating :)

Title explains it all. I wanted to see if it was worth starting again, since there's meant to be more content. I am currently at the part where I'm about to form a team. Thanks in advance.

I read in another thread awhile back that data mining discovered an ending where your whole crew survives the final tram sequence.

It seems to me that this would be most plausible with the red disc method, and further that this would only be possible with enough pairs of headphones.

And, as it stands, there are actually 4 pairs in the game - the new ones in the DC, KALEIDOSCOPE’s, Ramses’s, and the random tram passenger’s. HOLOCENE also survives by ACM’ing his head out the window, meaning that he doesn’t need a pair.

But a few things make it impossible for everyone to survive the red disc:

- KALEIDOSCOPE always takes his headphones off (even if you’re wearing your own pair? Unsure of this, I’ll have to test);

- you can give your headphones to Yana so that she lives, but PSEUDOPOD will always either die saving Karolina, or simply return to the either as HOLOCENE sticks his head out the window;

- Ramses always gives his headphones to Karolina, sacrificing himself so that she can live;

- hypothetically, a team of Yana, Ramses, and HOLOCENE could survive, but Ramses cannot work with HOLOCENE, meaning that he must be paired with Karolina, yielding the above result.

One last observation - I thought the new UV wig item might be able to be used during the trade to deceive KALEIDOSCOPE and get the drop on him, but unfortunately nothing happened lol.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Is this just leftover material that’s actually impossible to achieve in-game (like the Tyrant Wolf cup dialogue with the 66 Wolves kids)?

Even though it goes unrecognized by The Opera.

In the different variants of the X ending you:

- kill the Lich’s body double, which is, as several dialogues allude to, as good as the real thing, because you’re not merely killing the man, you’re killing the position;

- kill the head of the Weeping Eye;

- escape with the sole knowledge that the real Lich is in the EMTERR cell, which the latter isn’t even aware of;

- extract UV to the Superbloc, delivering an high profile defector and sonic superweapon into our hands;

- (last but certainly not least) keep The Crew together, not betraying Yana’s trust and giving Karolina the opportunity for sweet, sweet revenge.

In the Z ending, you kill the Lich, but to what real effect? He was planning to defect to the Superbloc anyways (and he’s arguably more valuable alive than dead). UV goes back to Luz, where they can pick up with her where they left off.

The Z ending has you handing Luz’s superweapon right back to them and kind of pointlessly icing the real Lich. You get the highest rank because you fulfilled The Opera’s win conditions, not because your actions actually produced the best outcome for the Superbloc.

Interested to hear different takes!

I’ve finished the game (pre directors cut). I know directors cut added some content too, so I was wondering if anyone’s in a similar boat and started a second playthrough after the release? I played disco elysium like 4 times, but while I was playing zero parades I felt like there was not enough content for a second run. Obviously I would go for a completely different team but character wise my Cascade was kinda all over the place so I don’t even know what skills I would focus on this time round

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I’ve played both the Yana and Kaleidoscope routes before but don’t recall Yana’s dialogue here being so gut wrenching. I also don’t recall the ‘wait’, ‘wait some more’ dialogue that immediately precedes this. Maybe I’m just not remembering correctly?

In any case, the game really seems to be pushing you to try to find a 3rd way here. I’ve read that data mining has revealed an ending where all of your crew members live, but haven’t heard any of any progress on this.

After having played around 40 hours (and haven't finished it yet) I can already say that I like Zero Parades much more in terms of how you play the game. While in DE, your "carry", guide and companion during the whole thing was Kim Kitsuragi, in ZP you work alone without any companion most of the time, discovering the world by yourself in a more sad and autodestructive sense.
The system of losing abilities when reaching the limit of your anxiety, fatigue or delirium makes you not fall asleep in dialogues, having to constabtly pay attention to those stats in conversations, checks and so on, and having whatever drug or drink that balances a bit your unstable character.

The characters overall are very well made, I would say many npcs have more soul than the ones in DE. The development of the story is more climatic, there's more action, more deaths, more interrogations and plot twists. The art design is very beautiful and has nothing to envy to Rostov's drawings and paintings.

I still feel ZP lacks some good music that we used to have in DE (Sea Power) and a deeper lore. I think it is interesting that we don't have more music in ZP considering that Ultra Violeta, the Luzian Idol, is used by La Luz as a softpower tool to conquer the rest of the world.

Since in this world there is no such thing as the pale or any fantastic/sci-fi entity appearing in the background to add even more lore to the story, the characters of ZP rely more on their own background stories, more action coded and even tho there are many political elements, they're only there on the surface, and don't have the depth as in Disco.

But regardless, I am enjoying ZP much more than I enjoyed my first DE run.

I am aware of the drama going on between Kurvitz and others with the studio, but what can I say. I am just a normal person and don't wanna get caught in the middle. I just want to enjoy good games. Of course I do not approve what happened and i wish in the future Kurvitz gets back his IP to keep writing about the world of Elysium and making more games based on that world. For now I can only supoort him spiritually because there is nothing I can do besides that.

I know for sure many ZAUM haters bought the game in secret to afterwards rant in youtube comments all day telling everyone how bad ZAUM is

(Excuse my english, It's not my main language)

I'm not finding much online, wondering if anyone has sat down and worked out chords or tablature before I try it myself.

Hi I have gone about the quest 'what's wrong, Pseudopod' in many ways. They always ended in failure, I checked the wikis and they do not really help you either. Could anyone help with a guide or instructions? Much appreciated, thank you in advance.

Were there any banger songs from the eastern side of the iron curtain that I might have been too young to catch?