I just played through the Screecher mod for Don't Starve. The ending is somewhat anticlimactic, and even a YouTube run that collected all the collectables that are tracked had the same one.
Is it possible to gain a different "success" ending than the one where you die anyway?
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Thanks to my OCD, I ran through it several times to examine everything and try every permutation. Here are the results I came up with:
There’s some discussion on the Klei forums, but it seems the consensus is that there is only the single moribund ending.
That said, there is still a little bit more that one can get from this mod: the story. One thing that some people miss is that the screechers are actually people! It seems that they are like zombies and either kill/eat people, or turn them into screechers. There is some compelling evidence to this effect:
And now for the definitive answer. If you look in the file
mods\screecher\scripts\components\scarymodencountermanager.lua
, you will find a variable calledphases
which is an array of events in the game. The second last event is calledHelipad
and it triggers when you, well, arrive at the helipad; go figure. It has several conditions which dictate what happens at that point in the game like whether or not to show the “face eating screen”, whether or not the beacons around the helipad should be on or not, what line Bill should say, and most importantly, what happens when you pull the cord on the generator. This critical bit counts the number of times you have pulled the cord and reacts accordingly.Spoiler: