Gods Will Be Watching

Gods Will Be Watching

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Marvin Loves You
By roguefrog
Chapter 4 - Gods Will Be Watching
Keep everyone alive: Or how I did it anway
   
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HOW TO GO

FIRST WEEK

Top Priority Day 1-3
  • Add Wood
  • Shoot Wood
  • Get Wood
  • Cook
  • Talk to Everyone ONCE (Starting with Doc or Sarah on day 1)
Note: I hunted with the rife during the night on these first couple days as actions weren't used to make spears and I wanted to bolster the food supply as much as possible. Don't be afraid to use up some ammo.

Priority Two
Use Donald to Fix the radio as much as possible before first attack (30% +)

EVERY DAY ACTIONS
Check Morale and always Cook and Add Wood if the fire is going to go out. The fire will last for 4 days before you need to add more wood. Don't let it burn out. Once you have 3-4 Delicious Meals cooked, focus on fixing the radio. Substitute fixing the radio for talking if someones morale goes danerously low.

RARE EXCEPTION
If at the start of a day ALL of the following conditions are met:
  • There is no wood left
  • The fire needs wood or else it will burn out during the night
  • There is no food
  • There are no spears

Don't panic. Do the Hunger pep talk and feed NOTHING to everyone at night. Use the remaining two actions during the day to get wood and feed the fire. It is too risky to hunt and fail with all the required actions needed. Use the next day to get caught up: make spears, hunt, and cook and feed everyone. (with two extra actions as backup just in case)

EVERY NIGHT ACTIONS
Feed everyone except Marvin cooked meet. If only 3 delicous meals are available, give Jack raw meat or in dire circumstances nothing. He can take the hit. Feed Marvin raw meat every 3-4 days. Everyone rests. No night activity. Sending Jack to Hunt will drop morale. Abusing this will cause some to leave, especially the Doc. That being said you should be able to hunt at night once or twice during the first week without problems. (I did so using the rifle)

FIRST ATTACK (around 15 Days left or so)
Make spears instead of fixing the radio around this time to build up to at least 5-6. Make sure to feed everyone the night before the attack. After the attack it is actually a very good idea to give the Predator pep talk as long as you can still cook and feed everyone. This will raise everyones morale. This is better at this point in time than repairing the radio (unless you can get it completely fixed)

SECOND ATTACK
You want to get the radio over 50% prior to the second attack. I've found that once the radio is over 50% morale will become more stabilized. After the second attack, focus on fixing the radio completely ASAP. Once this is done everyones morale should go up quite a bit and never go down unless they go hungry. From this point you only need to tread the the daily food quota until the rescue ship arrives. Maintain tempo and you will win with everyone alive.

RNG Factors

Hunt Success
This is the single biggest thing you need working in your favor as you generally need to feed 4 mouths everyday continously for 20+ days. This is a huge factor. May the RNG gods take pity on thee.

Medusea Infection
Based on timing, frequency and who is infected, this could be very bad. Otherwise you could save some food by waiting to cure them before they succumb after night 3 of the infection. The benefit is their morale freezes while infected and you don't have to feed them at night. Case in point if Sarah get infected. Donald getting infected is very bad and must be cured ASAP so he can work on fixing the radio. When I have the Doc work on a cure, also talk to him afterwards since he is prone to lose morale for every possible reason under the sun.

Wood/Fire Timing Windows
Not a huge problem, but feeding the fire should be prioritized above fixing the radio and equal to cooking.

Good Luck.
TL;DR Overview
FIRST - Make sure to talk to everyone by day 3.

Optimal Day/Night when wood isn't needed:
  • Cook food = 5 delicious meals
  • Hunt = 5 rations
  • Repair radio x3
  • Feed everyone cooked meat. Feed Marvin raw meat.
  • No night activity

Maintain the wood economy!
Wood -> Spears -> Hunt/Defense (As needed for food/more before attacks)
Wood -> Cooked Food: (Everyday)
Wood -> Fire (Every 4 days)

  • Make spears instead of fixing the radio when you hear animal noises.
  • Use the hunger pep talk when you plan to feed everyone nothing due to no food/spears/wood/fire dying combo
  • Use the predator pep talk after animals attack for morale recovery
  • Don't accidently shoot anyone on the Last Day.

Good Luck.
8 Comments
Todd Fuccmann 21 Aug, 2024 @ 3:42pm 
I love you too, Marvin. :,)
OmnipotentNoodle 6 Jan, 2018 @ 11:23pm 
P.S. -- Funny story, Sarah got Medusa on 4 days left, and I panicked because I thought I accidentally gave her nothing two nights in a row. I realized on the second night of her infection, and managed to just barely save her by having the doctor work the night shit. Woulda' been a shame to restart on the Final Day... Me from an alternate universe must be in tears.
OmnipotentNoodle 6 Jan, 2018 @ 11:22pm 
Thanks! I managed to get it first shot with this guide's help, and I had multiple attempts behind me before this. I guess I got a little luckier than usual with the graces of RNGeesus (Despite one time where Jack failed at hunting and lost his spear twice in a row, and forced me to give the hunger speech). However the main problem I think I was having previously was that my priorities were out of order. I underestimated talking, I overestimated speeches, I underestimated the morale stability/boost from a well progressed radio, I underestimated how devastating frequent night shifts can be, I tried too hard (especially in the early game) to save ammo, and I over prioritized trying to maintain large food stores. It's significantly more efficient to keep your head just above the water in terms of food, and focus on the radio. Morale, I find, is the biggest, quickest killer in this chapter.
Tau ⦿ 6 Sep, 2015 @ 4:34pm 
Ty m80 this got me through on the 2-3rd try
internetrules 17 Aug, 2015 @ 11:43am 
with this guide i was able to finish this chaptor with everyone alive everyones morale at 0 no one ate at the last day and i had to use donald on the last night shift to get the 5% more i needed on the radio and then i won thanks for the guide
Neon Sky 28 Jun, 2015 @ 3:57pm 
The first time I did this without a walkthrough I got through it all with no attacks...
roguefrog  [author] 27 Jun, 2015 @ 10:47pm 
Glad it was helpful. Note that you should always use Donald to repair the radio because he repairs at 5% while BR4D0N only repairs at 4%. Overworking Donald doesn't seem to impact his morale.
MeloChimi 27 Jun, 2015 @ 12:44pm 
Thank you so much !!!
I was stuck in this chapter but not anymore thanks to your tips.

Fueling the fire before it goes out, talk to the guys and chase with rifle during the first days, and after always focus on the cooking and the wood available, this is what I missed.

In the last 4-5 days, i just had to rush repair the radio with BR4ND0N in addition to Donald (without forget cooked meals) for the win !