Ren'Py Lab Rats 2 - Reformulate [v2025 4.0.37]

[zeerin3125]

Oh gee, this game again. Wonder what system that wasn't broken they'll have "fixed" this time.

 

[panic_]

I have tried so many versions and none of them seem to work with Joiplay, if someone could confirm that would be nice because the thread implies you can use joiplay but I can't get it working with or without mods

 

[TS2016]

anysave anyone?

It is really pointless to ask for save for this game because every play though is different. I have played several play though and none of them are exactly the same. Events are triggered sooner or later, depending on how you play the game.

 

[Skybreaker1337]

Hmm tried this a year (two?) or more ago. I remember it was fun, but I wanted to claw my eyes out every time I had to interact with the abominations in the game. I know there was a better graphics mod or other in the works, what's the state of that?

 

[rb813]

I'm kind of lost with clips part. would it make sense to give the characters animation, instead of clips of random people. it kind of ruin the game little. I'm just saying

That's because the clips aren't actually part of the game. They're a mod that someone else made completely separate from the game's actual devs, and then a third person came along and posted a download link here that included all the working mods, and then a fourth person reported that download link as the latest update of the main game. And then someone on the moderation team saw that report and just mindlessly edited the front page to have only that heavily modded version instead of the actual latest stable release from the devs.

This "Reformulate" version of the game started out as a separate thread in the mods section. Honestly, ibnarabi, it would probably be better if you did the same thing. Post your download links of the latest beta build with all the mods included in a separate thread, to make sure this colossal fuck-up doesn't happen again.

 

[rb813]

You must be registered to see the links

This is the actual most recent version of the game from the actual devs making the game. The v2025-07-betavtmod4-0-36.32881 which is currently (5/31) the only available version on the front page is not a stable release, and includes a bunch of mods that many players won't want, or new players will be confused by. Can we please get this correct version put back into the OP?

EDIT: It looks like they have changed the OP to include both the stable dev build and the all-inclusive mod build.

 

[\\_Tremolo_//]

Mega

This is the actual most recent version of the game from the actual devs making the game. The v2025-07-betavtmod4-0-36.32881 which is currently (5/31) the only available version on the front page is not a stable release, and includes a bunch of mods that many players won't want, or new players will be confused by. Can we please get this correct version put back into the OP?

 

[rb813]

Mega

This is the actual most recent version of the game from the actual devs making the game. The v2025-07-betavtmod4-0-36.32881 which is currently (5/31) the only available version on the front page is not a stable release, and includes a bunch of mods that many players won't want, or new players will be confused by. Can we please get this correct version put back into the OP?

I reported this comment as Game Update, and it was rejected.

 

[Sir Anal]

as previous user, headers error when i try to unpack the last update

Me too, using 7zip 24.09 (x64)

 

[Lerd0]

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..bruh i swear.....zonies are just dum af.....

 

[mike31555]

any bug fixs i keep getting errors

 

[zotii]

what kind of errors? which version are you playing?

 

[scrooloose123]

Is this remake ever going to achieve save game compatibility? Every little update breaks everything.

 

[ibnarabi]

Mega

This is the actual most recent version of the game from the actual devs making the game. The v2025-07-betavtmod4-0-36.32881 which is currently (5/31) the only available version on the front page is not a stable release, and includes a bunch of mods that many players won't want, or new players will be confused by. Can we please get this correct version put back into the OP?

This isn't true, I occasionally post a clean Dev version without the mods, and the version with the mods gets about twelve times more downloads than the version without. F95 users most definitely prefer the modded version.

 

[Crell]

This isn't true, I occasionally post a clean Dev version without the mods, and the version with the mods gets about twelve times more downloads than the version without. F95 users most definitely prefer the modded version.

Not disputing that the modded version is more popular, but in this case correlation certainly doesn't imply causation. People are sheep. How you present something and how accessible it is will often be more important to them than what it includes.

And when you basically just imply "extra features", people will almost always go for it without even looking into it, since extra=more=better in our stupid monkey brains.

That said, I think most mods are great additions. But I personally would make another split for a real-porn mod version and a modded version without it. It bloats the game quite bit. And while not a problem for me, many people still have crappy connections.

 

[zaqrwe]

Is this remake ever going to achieve save game compatibility? Every little update breaks everything.

Not in foreseeable future, lol. They're changing the entire event system, so it's almost sure that next few updates will require new saves.

 

[Overlord070]

Personally, I think the Modded version is the superior version of the game, so big thanks to those that leak it provide the links and the RL porn clips mod definitely adds a lot to the sex scenes as well, I get that people might not like real porn in these types of games, but it's mostly done correctly, it will only show the actress faces when it's a blowjob scene for the most part.

 

[AnotherMike]

Here is a snapshot of the img2img version of the GenAI mod (attached zip file), based on version 0.31 (I don't use Discord, so not sure if this is the latest one) I added a few options in the config to switch between img2img and text2img, and to set the denoising strength. The settings I currently use with the DMD2 Real Dream model are this:

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I recommend also playing with the denoising strength - a low value like 0.3 will stick more closely to the original graphics/clothing (the ADetailer will still "fix" the face, which can be an improvement) while larger numbers will yield more creative interpretation of the scene/prompt, and possibly more realistic image, but things can also get a bit weird, especially as you get closer to 1 - I would stay below 0.7

Note that the prompt generation is tweaked to work best with img2img, so if you turn img2img off, you might get different results. You can add things to the "Prompt Style" for additional prompting, or edit the python code for more custom prompt construction.

This is still mainly a proof of concept, no a polished product by any means - the prompting needs more work still. Each model has its own optimal settings (sampler, steps, cfg) and handles the prompting differently as well, so its always worth playing around with that if you want different results, but at least this can be a starting point.

There are also situations the mod doesn't handle yet (displaying multiple people at one time ?) and things can also get out of sync when lots of images are being generated in rapid succession, and the wrong image is generated or image skipped/lost. Sometimes generation just stops for me too, and requires a reload (Shift-R in dev mode) and occasionally the game just crashes - not sure if due to bugs in this code, or something else - so beware and YMMV.

Also, model switching from the GenAI mod config screen might not currently work (I commented out some stuff that was giving me issues, but didn't have time to debug) - I use the a1111 Web GUI to switch the model, and just ignore the model in the mod config for now.

Edit: I have been making refinements to the prompting to fix issues that crop up as I play along, so the version attached to the post has been updated to V2 - it's still not perfect, but definitely a lot better, so I recommend upgrading if you are playing along. I have also changed the parameters slightly from above, and now use CFG of 1.5 and denoising strength of 0.6 which seems to work better overall, but feel free to experiment for best results (especially if using different models)

EDIT: This is not the latest version of my modded mod, check this post: https://f95zone.to/threads/lab-rats-2-reformulate-v2025-04.32881/post-17293354


Thank you so much for this! it worked amazingly, using img2img and a low noise value really does wonders for keeping things appearances consistent and the poses "sane" while still getting some nice improvements.

I figured I'd do my part and help out a bit as well by trying to remove the square background, which proved to be both easier and more annoying than I thought, mostly because the way I started doing it (using the rembg extension) just refused to work, but after I finally switched to another extension instead, it was incredibly simple so now I'm beating myself up over all the hours I wasted working on the wrong solution




I've attached my modified sdcclient_ren.py file, but all I did was literally to add this line to the API-request:
'"script_args": [true, false, false, "#000000", false], "script_name": "abg remover", ' + \

There's no settings to turn it off or anything, so if anyone tries to use this, you have to make sure that the ABG extension is installed.



EDIT: This is not the latest version of my modded mod, check this post: https://f95zone.to/threads/lab-rats-2-reformulate-v2025-04.32881/post-17293354

 

[rb813]

This isn't true, I occasionally post a clean Dev version without the mods, and the version with the mods gets about twelve times more downloads than the version without. F95 users most definitely prefer the modded version.

Of course people download your link to the modded version more often than your link to the clean version, when they can just get the most stable clean Dev build in the OP. Well, they used to be able to. I bet if you posted a link to the next AIO stable dev version whenever they release a new one, that would get a hell of a lot more downloads than when you just post the latest beta without mods. I find it extremely hard to believe that the modded version is more popular than the stable dev build.

 

[zaqrwe]

Personally, I think the Modded version is the superior version of the game, so big thanks to those that leak it and the RL porn clips mod definitely adds a lot to the sex scenes as well, I get that people might not like it real porn in these types of games, but it's mostly done correctly, it will only show the actress faces when it's a blowjob scene for the most part.

It's not really a leak, everything is free. But it is very nice for someone to put all those mods together as one package.