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Straight Forward Guide for 'Determiner of Fate'
By Edgy
I find the other guides excessive and a bit too in-depth so here's my own take on Determiner of Fate.
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Category: Achievements
Languages: English
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9 Mar, 2020 @ 3:44pm
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Guide Index
Overview
Premise 
1st Run: Neutral ending "To Eternity" 
2nd Run: Bad ending "Heirs" 
3rd Run: Good ending "Dweller in the Dark" 
After Final Boss! "Determiner of Fate" 
Trivia 
Comments
Premise
In order to view all the endings and achieve "Determiner of Fate", you will need 3 playthroughs MINIMUM.

There is 3 different endings and I suggest clearing them in the following order:

  • Neutral "To Eternity"
  • Bad "Heirs"
  • Good "Dwellers in the Dark"

The Good ending has an additional scene which you also need to watch in order to clear the achievement. That means, in the run for the Good ending, you will have to kill the final boss twice.
1st Run: Neutral ending "To Eternity"
Play the game the way it was meant to be.
Make sure to restore at least one successor but not all of them. Consult guides for the Vestige placement if need be. You only need to save ONE successor.
2nd Run: Bad ending "Heirs"
This is your speed run. The moment you spawn, send a distress signal. Rush. Run over all the mobs and don't take a single fight. You now know most of the maps well enough to know where you have to go. You will still get lost in Cathedral but it will be quicker then before.

Therefore equip Stamina passives. Bring your Ai partner. Most Coop randoms I got understood what I was doing, followed and helped me immensely. Both parties also receive Marks of Honor which helps with the Exalted achievement!

Rush to the end, save no successors at all and watch the credits roll.
3rd Run: Good ending "Dweller in the Dark"
You have familiarized yourself with the game and now you truly know most of the stuff. Therefore rush through every map again. Send distress signals. Except for the ones where there are successors to save which are in the following order:

- Cathedral (Aurora - Isis Vestige)
- Ridge of Frozen Souls (Nicola - Fionn Vestige)
- City of Falling Flame (Scathach Vestige)
- Crown of Sand (Eva - Harmonia Vestige)

Consult guides! Use the maps on this Wiki: https://codevein.wiki.fextralife.com/Maps to find all Vestiges immediately.

Make sure to restore the Vestiges before you trigger each boss fight. There is always an Io clone in front of each of these bosses!
After Final Boss! "Determiner of Fate"
You have cleared the final boss for the third time and achieved "Dweller in the Dark".

You have watched all the cut scenes, you are now in the home base and you cannot continue the game. When you have done all that you can do, when you have watched the final scene and credits roll, you are back in the Main Menu.

Hit Continue the game.

You are now back in front of the final boss. Unlock the Mistle, leave the room and go back to restore all EOS Vestiges. You can collect them now if you haven't before. Restore and repair them all.

Now clear the final boss once more.
Congratulations, you have now unlocked "Determiner of Fate".
Trivia
- Each Successor has two different blood codes, one is given to you depending on whether you saved him/her or let them die. Practically you will unlock all hidden Blood codes by aiming for Determiner of Fate.

- The endings achievements really only regard the Vestiges mentioned above and disregard anything else.

- Your weapons, items and level carry over to the next game.

- You do NOT have to increase difficulty and I suggest you don't. You can do that afterwards too.

- All of my achievements unlocked before Determiner of Fate. I'm only missing Exalted which is a grind as you need 400 Marks of Honor in total.

Hope I could be of some help!
13 Comments
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GibblesTheGible 5 Jul, 2022 @ 8:21pm 
Remember not to play in offline mode on steam. it will not update achievements. and they will not retroactively give them to you. so you will have to do it all again. ((also if you get the Thunder DLC. the only one that matters is killing the boss getting lightning dash and using that for the Cathedral Skip (saves like 2hours+ per speed run) and then use skill and guard. and walah mega fast, with the baton. and lets you do the skip to bypass all bosses pre successors. minus Collins. but yknow, cant skip the one that lets you free roam skip.this is only skip available on the current patch without having to unpatch the game. and can make finishing this much faster.:heartmia:
K-Birbs 23 Mar, 2022 @ 3:49pm 
To anyone who also read the comment of the user who claims that you do not need to restore the successors vestiges before the boss fight that user is wrong. the reason you need to do this before the fight is that after the fight you are put in a memory and after the cut scene before exiting the memory you have to interact with the statue of the person before leaving to save them. If you do not do that right then you cannot do it in that run through the game.
Edgy  [author] 11 Sep, 2021 @ 1:59am 
No, the game is intended to be played with just one character because you can customize it on the fly in both looks and equipment and skills at all times.
marcy 11 Sep, 2021 @ 12:22am 
do i have to create new character to arrive to each ending?
GhostGK 7 Sep, 2021 @ 12:20am 
Dose the order of the runs matter?
Shim0 6 Nov, 2020 @ 2:04pm 
actually this post is like sacret knowlege for me I got really into this game and after 2 days got neutral ending . thanks mate:happyio:
Shim0 6 Nov, 2020 @ 1:59pm 
oh so you say I was one vestige from good ending . ok (now I will know in future)
sergio.bobillier 27 Oct, 2020 @ 8:59am 
The Good ending has an additional scene which you also need to watch in order to clear the achievement.

Just as clarification (in case you are wondering which scene the author of the guide is referring to, like I did): The additional scene is really a change in the last cutscene of the good ending. So there is no additional scene, it's just a variation of the last scene.

This means: You can go to the hot springs in the Base and watch the scene that you got:

* If your character turns around at the end and calls Io's name then you need to complete the game again without restoring Eos’s vestiges .
* If your character doesn’t turn around then you need to complete the game and restore Eos’ vestiges .
Hartlocke 7 Oct, 2020 @ 11:43pm 
Vestiges don't need to be restored before boss fights. You only need to have all of the vestige parts in your inventory to be able to restore a successor's memories. You can restore them through Io at Home Base afterward.
Edgy  [author] 16 Apr, 2020 @ 7:21am 
While weapons and equipment does carry over to a new save, progress does not. Meaning if you 100 % on the first clear, it's all gone after reset. Depths are on 0 % again aswell as items you can find roaming.