📋 Dispatch Choices Guide
Master all important decisions in Dispatch. Learn how your choices affect relationships, mission outcomes, and which ending you'll receive.
🎯 Choice System Overview
What Choices Affect:
- ✓Relationships: Team dynamics and morale
- ✓Mission Outcomes: Success/failure and casualties
- ✓Story Paths: Which missions unlock
- ✓Endings: Which of 5 endings you receive
- ✓Character Survival: Who lives or dies
Types of Choices:
- ⚡Dialogue Choices: Affect relationships
- ⚔️Tactical Decisions: Affect mission success
- 🔍Investigation Choices: Unlock secrets
- 💀Life/Death Decisions: Character survival
- 🎭Moral Dilemmas: Affect ending path
🎮 Key Choices by Episode
Episode 1: First Contact
Negotiate or Storm the Building
Consequences:
- →Negotiate: Better relationship with Nina, fewer casualties, slower progression
- →Storm: Faster mission completion, more casualties, Marcus respects you more
💡 Recommendation: Negotiate for Perfect Ending path
Trust Sarah's Tech Solution or Alex's Combat Approach
Consequences:
- →Sarah: Builds tech relationship, unlocks hacking abilities later
- →Alex: Builds tactical relationship, improves combat efficiency
💡 Recommendation: Balanced approach - consult both characters
Episode 5: The Missing
Which Mecha Man Contains the Bomb
Consequences:
- →Correct choice (Center/Mecha B): Mission success, all hostages saved
- →Wrong choice: 2 casualties, mission failure, team morale drops
💡 Recommendation: Analyze thermal signatures and Sarah's tech analysis
Rescue All Teens or Prioritize Mission Objective
Consequences:
- →Rescue All: Heroic ending, better relationships, harder difficulty
- →Prioritize: Mission success guaranteed, some teens lost, guilt
💡 Recommendation: Rescue All with optimal team composition
Episode 8: Final Hour
Trust Director Sullivan or Investigate Independently
Consequences:
- →Trust Sullivan: Follow official path, safer but less rewarding
- →Investigate: Unlock secret ending path, riskier missions, more truth
💡 Recommendation: Investigate for Secret Ending, Trust for Safe path
Sacrifice Play or Tactical Retreat
Consequences:
- →Sacrifice: One operative may die, mission success guaranteed
- →Retreat: All survive but mission partially fails, affects ending
💡 Recommendation: Depends on casualty count so far - use simulator
Final Confrontation Approach
Consequences:
- →Aggressive: Fast resolution, high casualties risk
- →Diplomatic: Slower, safer, unlocks alternative resolution
- →Deception: Tricky, best outcome if successful, worst if failed
💡 Recommendation: Diplomatic for Perfect Ending, Deception for Secret Ending
💬 Relationship-Building Choices
Positive Relationship Choices
- ✓Listen to operative concerns and address them
- ✓Give credit to team members for successes
- ✓Prioritize operative safety over mission speed
- ✓Share personal stories when prompted
- ✓Support personal requests and side objectives
Negative Relationship Choices
- ✗Ignore team input and make unilateral decisions
- ✗Take credit for team achievements
- ✗Sacrifice team members unnecessarily
- ✗Refuse to discuss personal matters
- ✗Dismiss personal requests as irrelevant
📊 Tracking Your Choices
Relationship Meter
Track team relationships in the Character menu. Green = positive, Red = negative, Yellow = neutral.
Target: All relationships above 0 for Perfect Ending
Mission Log
Review past decisions in the Mission Log. See which choices led to success/failure.
Use this to learn for future playthroughs
Save System
Create multiple saves before critical choices. Test different outcomes.
Recommended: Save before each episode finale
❓ Choice System FAQ
Can I change my choices?
No, choices are permanent within a playthrough. However, you can load earlier saves or start a new game to make different choices.
Do all choices matter equally?
No. Major story choices (marked with ⚠️) have bigger impacts than minor dialogue options. Episode finales contain the most critical choices.
Can I get the perfect ending on first playthrough?
Yes, if you make optimal choices and use the simulator for missions. However, most players get Perfect Ending on their 2nd or 3rd playthrough.
What happens if I make all the wrong choices?
You'll get the Failure Ending. Your team will suffer heavy casualties, missions will fail, and the overall operation collapses.