What is Best in Life - Achievement Fix

Egosoft introducted some patches to the bonus mission after the Paranid Unification plot, which prior to Update 8. 00 (Diplomacy) allowed players to trigger a war between the Paranid and other factions.

Unfortunately, they did not remember to also make the achievement possible in different ways - making this achievement impossible to acquire for anyone who wasn't already at this stage of the plot.

This mod fixes that. Like before 8. 00, about an hour after finishing the Unification of the Paranid into TRI - Dal Busta will contact you and you will be able to play and complete the mission exactly like you could before 8. 00.

This will also enable you to get the achievement once you trigger a war between TRI and other factions.

TIP: Bug reports (from Vanilla, not this mod) from well before patch 8. 00 seem to recommend you listen to all options before choosing one for the achievement to work. I would recommend doing so just in case this is still a problem. It's worth the 20 seconds this will take to potentially prevent any issues.

What does this mod do, exactly?

It's a fairly simple patch to the Paranid plot, it doesn't touch anything other than the bonus mission.

Egosoft introduced some code which disabled the bonus mission from being able to be triggered and subsequently activated and I've added a patch which overrides this.

Nothing is happening?

This doesn't change how the bonus mission worked before patch 8. 00.

Once the follow-up is triggered, it takes 1 hour in-game before Dal Busta contacts you and you are offered the follow-up bonus mission.

Does it work if I already completed the Paranid plot?

Yes! Obviously only for the Unification path, as this bonus mission and the subsequent choices never existed for the other path to begin with. But this is written as a patch exactly like Egosoft would do - and even if the 'cue' in your save game is already completed, it will patch it and ensure this still triggers.

I've done it myself under those circumstances. (Which is why I made it to begin with.)

Can this break the plot?

No. It doesn't touch any of the rest of the plot.

Works on both new and existing save games.