Game Guide - Corruption and the Shade Confusing

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Hello, I was reading through the extremely well put together game guide today to learn more about monoliths since I have reached that portion of the game.

I got to this paragraph on the Corruption and the Shade page/topic and found it very strangely worded.

Defeating Shade in a Timeline that has much lower corruption compared the Timeline with the highest corruption, making it much faster to progress corruption when moving between Timelines. The amount of Bonus Corruption defeating a Shade will be shown ion the Echo before entering it.

I luckily had seen a video on this that I think helped me understand what it is trying to explain? Perhaps something like this might be more illustrative of the point if I am understanding it correctly. (I will admit, I am unclear whether it should be “a Shade”, “the Shade”, or just “Shade”)

The amount of Bonus Corruption for defeating the Shade is increased based on the difference in the given Timeline and the Timeline with the highest corruption. For example, if you have a Timeline with corruption 250 and the Timeline you are defeating the Shade in has a corruption of 100 then the Bonus corruption will be much higher than if you were defeating the Shade in a Timeline with corruption 220.
(See reply from DJSamhein for proposed text)

I would also propose that the last sentence of the original text be kept and slightly reworded as a stand-alone statement.

The amount of Bonus Corrpution gained by defeating the Shade will be shown on the Echo before entering it.

I am sure even my wording could be improved as this is a somewhat difficult concept to explain.

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The catchup shade only shows up if there is enough difference between both monoliths. I think it’s percent based, but not sure. If you have one timeline at 120c and another at 100c, it won’t show up because the difference won’t be enough to justify it.
Likewise, it won’t give you the full corruption but also sets it at some percentage. Meaning if you have a timeline with 700c and another at 100c, it will only bring it up to something like 685c or something like that.

I think they missed a part of the sentence. Instead of:

Defeating Shade in a Timeline that has much lower corruption compared the Timeline with the highest corruption, making it much faster to progress corruption when moving between Timelines.

It should be something like (highlighted what I added):

Defeating Shade in a Timeline that has much lower corruption compared the Timeline with the highest corruption will award bonus corruption based on the difference, making it much faster to progress corruption when moving between Timelines.

There really isn’t a need to make it more specific, unless they want to paste the actual formulas.

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Thanks! I agree that what you have proposed is probably more in line with what was originally intended as the message. I have updated my post to reflect this.

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