#deltarune help

Why did the egg man in my copy of Deltarune tell me not to look for him anymore while other people are getting that weird but positively dialogue where he points into the distance to show that there are more of him??

My plan for the game was to have a save file for a casual run, a save file for a Snowgrave run (including all the optional encounters you'd be able to have after that), and a save file for a run where I did all the optional encounters as a potential True End file under the assumption that Toby has changed to the possibility of having more than one actual ending for the game (as I know originally Toby was saying there would only be one ending, but as of right now the store page says "… only 1 ending…?" which implies that Toby may actually have at least 2 endings for the game). This final file would end up going with whatever optional route reward was the best case for each chapter that has multiple potential rewards (ex. ch1 and 2 both having 2 on a non-Snowgrave run).

Honestly all of this does make me wish that Toby was allowing us to have 3 save files for EACH chapter clear option like I had originally assumed when I did a casual run through chapter 2 before I was corrected when I decided to try a run after doing a stream file for chapter 1.

Like when chapter 2 first came out I assumed that with the three save files there, we'd get to have one for EACH chapter 1 clear data, and that you'd only be able to access three at a time. Basically Ch1 Clear A would have 3 saves for Ch2, Clear B would have another 3, and Clear C would again have 3 for a total of 9 possible Ch2 clear data options.

That being said, I do understand WHY that could have never actually been the case, since doing that would mean that Ch3 would have 27 possible clear data options and Ch4 would have 81 and that's just too many to program into a game since by the time we'd hit Ch7 we'd have 729 total clear data options from a Ch6 file. And that's insane. So I do understand WHY there's a maximum of 3 saves from Ch2 onward. I just wish I had more save options because I am the kind of person that wants to fully complete this kind of game and that means exploring literally every option.

A control option where you just do a purely neutral run without ever dealing with the secrets or optional stuff for each chapter

Beating the secret/optional stuff through pure pacifism

Beating the secret/optional stuff through pure violence

Beating the entire non-optional stuff through pure violence

Mixing and matching the various above options.

Which would mean that yes, I would indeed likely go through the full maximum of 2,187 potential clear data for an entire 7 chapter game (I know it's likely that you could actually reduce that number by not counting all of the casual play stuff as separate clears and only focusing on the options that would have different impacts on the later chapters, but I do not have the math smarts to figure out what the actual number would end up being.) and that's all just assuming that there's only three options for each chapter, which chapter 2 ALREADY disproves since that has the potential of Casual, Casual + Secret w/Pacifism, Casual + Secret w/Violence, and Snowgrave, and that's just from a single casual run of Ch1 without even the option of going with a purely violent run through the Ch2 before you have the option to start the SG route, so in actuality there's more like 6 or 7 potential runs if you want to include a pure violent run instead of just always showing mercy and not recruit anything. So there's likely even MORE potential variations for the story than just 2,187, that was just the number I came to if we were to have 3 save slots for each chapter's clear data files.