Not For Broadcast: Live and spooky achievements

This DLC can be confusing because it is not really clear what it wants from you. While the Bits of your life is intuitive and have in-game notes, this one isn’t.

So, the “saving/sacrificing” mechanic IMO isn’t properly explained. One may assume that you need to chose 1 character, who are you going to “save”, manipulate the machine to do so, and repeat for everybody you want. The character you’ve left count as “sacrificed”, as the ghost asked (“Sacrifice one or I’ll take the last!”) – that is NOT CORRECT.

In reality the game wants you to sacrifice MULTIPLE characters for most of the roots. And what affects the outcome is the order of sacrificed/saved characters. To do that without a guide takes a lot of time, trial and error.

in this guide I will show you how to see all the endings while doing minimum repeats. If you don’t want to replay yourself or more like a visual learner, watch the videos!

Since this was first DLC, the replay mechanic was a bit clunky. They corrected in in Bits of your life, where you can easily do as many playthroughs as you want, but in Live and spooky to start fresh you need go to the menu and do it manually every time. After you complete the game at least once, you need to pick the first checkpoint and overwrite it (by choosing that option in the pop-up).

Can be done in any playthrough. You need to touch the ghost machine multiple times while asked not to do so). This can be triggered early in the game when you get to know the working place, so you can get this achievement any time you start the playthrough.

First set of achievements is easy and depends on what room you picked last to visit. For some reason out of 4 possible rooms there are only 3 achievements (one is part of true ending, 2 optionals), this leaves us with at least 3 playthroughs. Happily all the other stuff can be done in these 3 playthroughs as well, so that is enough to 100% this DLC.

In the first playthrough you can get one of the optional achievements for the first part and also get the worst ending))

A Wallet Full Of Treasure
Determine the fate of Brent Backflip.
Make sure that the third room you pick is going to be The Stage (upper button).

A Deadly Comeuppance
This is the worst ending. To get it you need to refuse sacrificing anybody. As soon as the spirit jammer starts going off charts, go and fix it. Each round you can fix the spirit jammer 3 times, then it breaks and the 4th time you don’t even need to do anything.
In the end of the playthrough you will get this achievement as well as

I Think I Felt A Chill
Complete the Live & Spooky Bannon Special.
This achievement appears with any ending you get.

After completing the first, restart and begin the second playthrough.
Now you can get final optional achievement in act 1.

A Possession To Remember
Establish Cecil Sloane’s perilous past.
To get this pick the Prop Store as a third room (right button).

Final optional ending is
Close But No Cigar
To get it you need to sacrifice Holly in act 2. You need to save anybody who is attacked before her by using the spirit jammer, when Holly is attacked, let the spirit take her.

This is all you need to do in that playthrough, any other choices don’t matter

Now it’s time to get everything related to the true ending and get 100% of the DLC!

A Fall From Grace?
Discover the cause of the falling stunt man.

The game wanted us to start from the Costume room, but at this point it is obvious that you need to pick it as a third room. So do it, start anywhere else and make it the third choice (bottom button).
The costume room is also a place where you can find the first tape.

A Burning Question
Solve the mystery of the unfortunate fire.
This act 2 achievement is very similar to the Close But No Cigar ending achievement. You need to sacrifice Holly as soon as possible, exactly like it was for that achievement. But also at the same time you need save Patrick every time he is going to be attacked. So let the spirit take Holly ASAP, manipulate the spirit jammer each time Patrick is in trouble, and you are good.
If everything was done correctly, you will also get the second tape in the end of act 2.

Credit Where It’s Due
The true ending achievement. You will get it in the end of act 3 if you’ve found the tapes in act 1 and 2. The third tape will be found automatically, if these conditions were met.
Basically if you did everything listed above in acts 1-2, now you can sit and relax and watch the true ending unfold.