Maverick was curious about the different endings of The Council. As part of exploring those endings, he figured out how switching between Quests and Episodes works.
Switching Between Quests and Episodes in the Council
Each of the five episodes of The Council is split into several sublevels, which the game calls Quests. Once you complete a Quest, you can go to your save game and choose to replay it through the “episodes” option. But does that mean you can change made choices easily? Unfortunately, not quite. Here is how it works:
- You can move back in time as much as you want and change any choices there
- However, you can’t move forward in time without undoing your choices. That means changed choices will not save unless you continue playing from there
For example, if we go back to the Quest where we chose to spend the night with Emily, we can now choose to go with Elizabeth Adams instead. Unless we continue playing all Quests from that point onward, however, this choice is not permanent. If we move back forward to e.g., Episode 4, the game will still play as if we chose Emily. To change a choice permanently, we need to keep playing from the changed choice all the way to the end.
That means it is relatively easy to change a choice you made in the previous Quest, but changing a choice you made a long time ago is a lot more work.
Skills and Achievements
Your skills work identically to the logic above. Changing them in an earlier episode does not carry them over to the future unless you keep playing from that point. Achievements, however, are a lot more lenient in The Council. None of them require a setup across multiple quests, meaning you can easily go back to earn those you missed.
Skipping Scenes
Once you reach the end of The Council once, regardless of the ending you get, you can skip scenes on that save file. That makes it a lot easier to change choices. Even though you need to keep playing from the point you rewinded to, it goes a lot faster when you can skip everything. Simply keep hitting spacebar when a scene you would like to skip is playing.
Skipping does come with some risks, too, however. When you are rushing through things, you are likely to miss things like side objectives, manuscripts, opportunity checks, vulnerabilities and immunities, all of which bring in experience. Remember to “skip responsibly” and pay attention to this if you decide to undo your choices in The Council.