The Wayhaven Chronicles Guide

For easy and quick access, here is a compiled list of every Wayhaven guide we have completed so far! 

Book One

In book 1, when you first meet them and the game asks what your impression of them is, it sets the old relationship to 0, 1, 2, or 3. Does the new relationship with Bobby add onto this original stat or does it start a new counter?

For example, Bobby old relationship = 1, and by end of book 1 you gain 3 points into the new relationship. Will Bobby new relationship = 3 (because it starts a new counter) or 4 (including the point from the old relationship)?

Thanks!

I was aiming to get Adam as my best friend. First time I walked with Felix on my Mason route, I got Felix on the mission at the start of book three. Second time I chose to walk alone, and I got Adam.

It might be a coincidence but I thought I’d mention and see if it helped anyone.

Don't worry, it's just shorthand for "the non-romanced character in Book 3 that the Detective is closest to and gets extra scenes with". If it was working as I think was intended, it would more or less be determined by whichever member you gained the most Friendship Points with for the first two books, but because of the coding mistake it's not functioning that way.

Hello all! If you've been having trouble getting your desired member of Unit Bravo to be recognized as your Detective's Best Friend in Book 3, you're not alone! This is related to issues within the code of the game. We can't know when or if those issues will be patched, but in the meantime, here is some guidance to help you get your desired outcome!

Book 3 makes these determinations based on your friendship scores at the end of Book 2, and please be advised that some of these will be much harder to achieve than others. Hope it helps! 💖

N Romance

If F is your desired Best Friend, get their Friendship Points higher than M's or A's. F > M or A

If M is your desired Best Friend, get their Friendship Points higher than F or A, and make sure F doesn't have more Friendship Points than A. M > F or A, and F ≤ A

If A is your desired Best Friend, get F and M's Friendship Points to be equal, and get A's higher than them both. A > F and M, F=M

M Romance

If F is your desired Best Friend, get their Friendship Points higher than N's or A's. F > N or A

If N is your desired Best Friend, get their Friendship Points higher than A's or F's, and make sure F's are not higher than A's. N > A or F, and F ≤ A

If A is your desired Best Friend, get F and N's Friendship Points to be equal, and get A's higher than them both. A > F and N, F=N

F Romance

If M is your desired Best Friend, get their Friendship Points higher than N's or A's. M > N or A

If N is your desired Best Friend, get N's Friendship Points higher than M's or A's, and make sure M's is not higher than A's. N > M or A, and M ≤ A

If A is your desired Best Friend, get M and N's Friendship Points to be equal, and then get A's higher than them both. A > N and M, N=M

A Romance

*Note that there is an additional coding error for Best Friends in A's Romance Path that makes non-F selections particularly difficult.

If F is your desired Best Friend, get their Friendship Points higher than M's or A's. F > M or A

If M is your desired Best Friend, get their Friendship Points higher than F's or A's, and make sure F's are not higher than A's. M > F or A, and F≤A (This is very difficult unless you deliberately miss every point opportunity with F for Book 1 and 2)

If N is your desired Best Friend, get M's, F's, and A's Friendship Points equal, and get N's higher than all of them. N > M and F and A, M = F = A. (This is likely impossible unless you do not get any points with anyone except for N during Book 1 and 2)

Love Triangle

If F is your desired Best Friend, get F's Friendship Points higher or equal to M's. F ≥ M

If M is your desired Best Friend, get M's Friendship Points higher than F's. M > F

No Romance

If F is your desired Best Friend, get their Friendship Points higher than N's, M's, or A's. F > N or M or A

If M is your desired Best Friend, make F, N's and A's Friendship Points equal, and then get M's higher than the rest. M > F and N and A, F=N=A

If N is your desired Best Friend, make F, M's and A's Friendship Points equal, and then get N's higher than the rest. N > F and M and A, F=M=A

If A is your desired Best Friend, make F, M's and N's Friendship Points equal, and then get A's higher than the rest. A > F and M and N, F=M=N

You import a save where you romanced N. You have 15 points with A, 10 with M and 13 with F. Logically, A should be your best friend, but the way this code works, you'll get F.

It first checks for a tie. There is none, so the highfriend variable remains empty. The code then jumps to the next check: A.

A is higher than both M and F, so the variable changes to: highfriend="adam"

Then it jumps to the next check: M. Since their score is lower than both A and F, the variable remains the same.

But it then jumps to F's check. And since F is higher than M, the variable is changed to: highfriend="felix"

Anon this is me virtually sending you bouquets: 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐

You have quite literally prevented me from staying up all night trying to figure this issue out. I think you're exactly right. In other words, it's not an issue of the game exactly "prioritizing" the best friend selections that people keep getting by mistake; it's that the correct selections are missing the necessary finish inputs that would lock them in, and the code is moving on until something else at the bottom gets chosen.

I don't know when or if that's ever going to get adjusted in the code, but in the meantime I will try to type up a weird and backwards workaround to try and help people get the best friend path they were actually working towards in the first two books 😅

Hello anon!

I am not going to tell you that you're incorrect because I fully look like that one guy in the conspiracy theory gif trying to sort out what could be going wrong with people's best friend selection. Especially as all of those things you just said 100%, completely track given the specific issues everyone's been sending us about it.

But with the app and website code I'm looking at... none of those issues you described should be true. As with the Maa-alused outcomes from Book 2, the order of how it's being weighed definitely matters, and after the existence of any ties is resolved, unless I'm so out of practice with this that I'm looking it wrong (honestly... quite possible!), A's point values should be sorted through first after the ties, which would make it easier for A to be designated than either M or F on N's route in all circumstances unless M and F were tied, in which case F would be chosen regardless of if A was highest. Still a potential issue there, but not the one you describe and the one other people seem to be actually having in game.

Likewise with the other routes. Your description sounds like what people are actually experiencing, but with, say, the friendship route, what I'm reading is that F's high point values are evaluated dead last, so it should in theory be harder to get F as your best friend than it is anyone else on that route. I genuinely don't get it.

Interesting! That definitely sounds possible, the script that determines which member is the best friend is a little bit strange on all routes except the love triangle and the friendship path, so it wouldn't necessarily surprise me if something is going wrong there for most people's playthroughs. I can see a clear error in the coding for the Best Friend in A's romance, as these two circled things should read "natef" instead since A is the Love Interest here. I'm not sure if that would actually be the source of the issue with your A-mance save though, since A's friendship point level would naturally be lower anyway... as the lower threshold that would be kicking it to M or F as the Best Friend even if N was correctly inserted.

So, new markers are indeed added for Book 3, but none of the additions to those thresholds influence who's designated as the "Best Friend" at the beginning of the book, because it's determined by the imported Book 2 friendship count. The only thing I can think that might explain getting a best friend you weren't expecting is if you're romancing M, and A was actually tied with F in Friendship Points, as on M's Path, a tie between A and F resolves with F being chosen as the best friend.

I'm playing twc book 2 on my phone, so I have a new save for the third book, following your guide. I'm playing the Love Triangle route, and for some reason, when I choose shy options for A, the "flirt" meter(? doesn't change, but when I choose shy options for N, it works, I don't know why u.u (i haven't try with bold options because it's not how my detective is)

I don't know if I explained myself correctly and sorry if my english is bad 😅

Hi! So... the explanation for this comes down to a confusing error within the code of Book Two. The display on your stats screen shows a separation in the "Bold" stat for A and N, and there indeed are separate variables nicknamed "abold" and "nbold" that control those meters. However, for many of the Love Triangle scenes that would influence the separate "Bold" stats based on your choices, the game instead uses those choices to influence "bold", without distinguishing if it's for A's Bold stat or for N's Bold stat.

To put it another way... the Love Triangle is supposed to have two separate "Bold" buckets, one for each LI. It's supposed to be that clicking a shy or bold choice for N will influence N's bucket, and clicking a shy or bold choice for A will influence A's bucket. Unfortunately, the Love Triangle instead is coded to have three "bold" buckets, and one of them is invisible to the player. Most of the time, the Love Triangle's choices are influencing that invisible bold stat, because the code doesn't distinguish "abold" or "nbold" in those choices. Other times, the code will make that distinction and the change will be reflected on your screen accurately.

That means a couple of things. First, we will not be answering any Book 3 content related questions until after April 20th. The plan right now is to leave our ask box open so we can hold onto those questions and answer them when the time comes, but that may change if the amount gets to be overwhelming. Secondly, all messages involving how long the guide will take, when to expect the guide, if we have an estimate countdown, etc. will be deleted automatically. We will provide updates on our progress when possible and appropriate.

We understand this may be disappointing to some, but we ask for patience given the nature and intensity of such a fan project, and the reality that the complexity of its completion grows with each subsequent book.