About the ending, how does this make sense?

[Ouroboros226]

I managed to approach the endgame in a way that killed all the principe captains. Furrante and Aelys were both dead, and that prim dude was the last to fall. Went for Vailian ending this time. Here's what doesn't make sense to me. How is this an ending where "piracy continued to flourish"? I thought maybe there would be a secret achievement or ending for taking out all the captains. But it didn't seem to change anything major?

[Boeroer]

You cannot take out all leaders of a faction.

One-eyed dude gets replaced with two-eyed dude (no joke) and so on. 

When you kill Onekaza her Brother will hide and vice versa. If you kill one Vaillian head the others will not be accessible anymore etcpp. 

Josh tried to make sure that there's always some leader for a faction left. 

And who knows? Maybe two-eyed dude was just the perfect leader...

Edited September 17, 2021 by Boeroer

[Ouroboros226]

6 minutes ago, Boeroer said:

You cannot take out all leaders of a faction.

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One-eyed dude gets replaced with two-eyed dude (no joke) and so on. 

When you kill Onekaza her Brother will hide and vice versa. If you kill one Vaillian head the others will not be accessible anymore etcpp. 

Josh tried to make sure that there's always some leader for a faction left. 

And who knows? Maybe two-eyed dude was just the perfect leader...

 

Thanks! Hmm strange. I actually managed to kill Furante and Aelys both, so that the prim guy appearing at the end then being the last leader. Killed the other captains, morana, benweth etc. I could have missed one. 

[Boeroer]

If you kill One-Eyed Prim then Two-Eyed Prim will take over after that (you can see that if you kill One-Eyed Prim earlier). And iirc you can't kill Two-Eyed Prim. I never tried but I saw Josh's talk about faction leadres where he explained how the game handles the killing of faction heads. 

Two-Eyed Prim is intentionally silly of course.  

[Ouroboros226]

11 hours ago, Boeroer said:

If you kill One-Eyed Prim then Two-Eyed Prim will take over after that (you can see that if you kill One-Eyed Prim earlier). And iirc you can't kill Two-Eyed Prim. I never tried but I saw Josh's talk about faction leadres where he explained how the game handles the killing of faction heads. 

Two-Eyed Prim is intentionally silly of course.  

Challenge accepted  

  

If you read this Josh. I'm gonna find out how deep the prim rabbit hole goes!