VN Ren'Py A Couple's Duet of Love & Lust [v0.13.8] [King B]

[SomeOldFart]

we all knew she was into yoga, but that was kind of overblown... unless she was very disappointed with Ethan's lack of skill and was trying that many positions to make for it.
IDK but if I'm guessing she read Kama Sutra cover-to-cover many times!

Either that or instead of calling Nat, Ethan needed to call an Exorcist.

 

[Big Rooster]

It doesn't work, Just a bad release is all this is.

My PC is a 13-year-old Sandy Bridge i7 and the game works fine on that.
Maybe the release you downloaded, has something different going on with it (malware?)

 

[Big Rooster]

Either that or instead of calling Nat, Ethan needed to call an Exorcist.

Possessed by Parvati???

 

[SomeOldFart]

Possessed by Parvati???

Riya while all contorted and upside down looks under the bed... " Oh THAT'S where I put my Ouija Board!"

 

[Big Rooster]

In order to get with Riya in the NTR path you need to either be on the path where you kick Nat out of the house or the one where she wants you to forgive her after you confront her with Darrell. If you are still under her thumb in the NTR Nat dominant or Blackmail path you spend the night you would have spent with Riya worrying on the couch while Nat fucks college students. You can also be with Riya in a few of the cuckold paths (Ethan Dominant being one). My favorite, though, is the one where you are still on the Vanilla path but cheating on Nat with Riya anyway.

there is a path that Nat and Ethan are cool with each other. Ethan is flirting with Riya and telling Nat about it, shows Nat the texting and Nat says that she wants Ethan to seduce Riya to see what cuckolding is all about...

 

[NewTricks]

there is a path that Nat and Ethan are cool with each other. Ethan is flirting with Riya and telling Nat about it, shows Nat the texting and Nat says that she wants Ethan to seduce Riya to see what cuckolding is all about...

I haven't tested that one but I think it is the tale of the vanilla twist path where Ethan pulls out of cuckolding with reluctant Nat at the last minute or the vanilla exhibition path where he doesn't want Nat to get involved with Carl but they get naughty in the park instead. Of course, with how complicated the paths of this game are there could be more.

 

[Big Rooster]

I haven't tested that one but I think it is the tale of the vanilla twist path where Ethan pulls out of cuckolding with reluctant Nat at the last minute or the vanilla exhibition path where he doesn't want Nat to get involved with Carl but they get naughty in the park instead. Of course, with how complicated the paths of this game are there could be more.

I should be more organized with my save files, but that one was my favorite path so far. Ethan wasn't acting like an asshat or beta cuck/sissy boi, it is more of a sharing (stag, vixen, bull) path. I think that the date with Darrel where the guy bukkake Nat is that path... but IDK for sure.

 

[exsomon]

for all peter lovers a hard truth
why would nat fuck peter anyway (assuming Peter has a big viagra supply) after seeing a bbc?
but if she may witness old guy with another woman, maybe female jealosy might trigger if Peter survives
such a thing


Nat is getting fatter, she better hit the gym fast or become a caugar and hunt for some inexperienced young prey

 

[arcanlol]

I find it difficult to keep coming back to this game because of how entire routes and sub-routes can secretly open and close based on choices that seemed minor at the time.

Yeah, it has a lot of good content, but sadly it's basically guesswork to get on the desired path without a walkthrough. I still like the game, but that is a major flaw it has.

 

[cebs]

Game keeps crashing when I start it up

Spoiler: It's working for me

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Could you please provide log.txt

 

[Trainer7]

Hot little scene there, nicely done and keep up the good work!

 

[Trainer7]

From what I can tell, all of them stop there except the Riya path and that one gives you a couple of different options. Some of my old saves don't work and others do, like some of the story has been altered on different paths as well. I think I have all of the paths being played but the Riya one was the only one so far that I see any update on.

The frat party scene was updated, reload from just before then and things work fine.

 

[DeemLeem12]

I find it difficult to keep coming back to this game because of how entire routes and sub-routes can secretly open and close based on choices that seemed minor at the time.

I disagree. I love that the game branches out and lets the player take the plot in different directions. I love that choices actually matter, and are actually impactful to the story. This is what a good interactive fiction should be about.

My gripe is that the amount of content is low. It's only 1-2 plotlines per update. It's understandable because it's a solo dev, but some of the paths get left behind like the vanilla path where it doesn't get anything unique.

This is still better in my opinion. The game would be so boring if it took a more linear route. Imagine if all choices in the game only furthers Darrel fucking Nat the entire time. It will get repetitive and boring real quick.

 

[sweatysam]

My game also will not start, the only error in the log is:

Faled to initialize steam: FileNotFoundError("Could not find module 'C:\\Users\\[redacted]\\Desktop\\A_Couples_Duet-0.12.4-pc\\lib\\py3-windows-x86_64\\steam_api64.dll' (or one of its dependencies). Try using the full path with constructor syntax.")

 

[Mr.Nonnypants]

My game also will not start, the only error in the log is:

Faled to initialize steam: FileNotFoundError("Could not find module 'C:\\Users\\[redacted]\\Desktop\\A_Couples_Duet-0.12.4-pc\\lib\\py3-windows-x86_64\\steam_api64.dll' (or one of its dependencies). Try using the full path with constructor syntax.")

Same thing is happening with me. Didn't work on android or on PC. Using an Nvidia card on the PC so not sure why this is crashing on android. Patch applied does not help.

 

[zoyle]

The game is not *crashing*, it is intentionally and cleanly closing itself. I edited the config to disable Steam and removed the steam error from my log. If you open it with no other windows open, you will see it reach the title screen menu for a few seconds before closing. There is some sort of alternative copy protection in place that is causing it to close - the developer probably used a different method than the one the previous 'copy protection fix' patch resolved. I am too busy to hunt it down, but that's what it's doing (and where it's doing it: immediately after the game displays the main menu for the first time)

King B is clearly willing to expend some effort to ensure that his Patreon early releases are in fact an early release that is hard to pirate, and given that he only provides them one week in advance that makes it improbable that the community will reliably hunt down and remove whatever method he's using in each release before the clean one comes out.

The people whom it is working for have something different than those it does not - perhaps they were at one point Patreon supporters of King B and previous installations left something behind that the game is checking for and assuming they are still current subscribers (or maybe they are). Somewhere right after the game pulls the main menu screen, it has an If statement that is checking for something and when it isn't present it is doing a clean return, which ends ren.py.

 

[chipsiup]

The game is not *crashing*, it is intentionally and cleanly closing itself. I edited the config to disable Steam and removed the steam error from my log. If you open it with no other windows open, you will see it reach the title screen menu for a few seconds before closing. There is some sort of alternative copy protection in place that is causing it to close - the developer probably used a different method than the one the previous 'copy protection fix' patch resolved. I am too busy to hunt it down, but that's what it's doing (and where it's doing it: immediately after the game displays the main menu for the first time)

Lmao, this reminds me of Batman: Arkham Asylum's DRM on PC. For those that don't remember, they added a sneaky DRM in the game that makes it so that Batman cannot use his glider if you used a pirated copy. You would play the intro normally, get maybe 30 or 40 minutes into the game and then when you hit the part where you need to glide to progress you're basically stuck, Batman's glider will just stop working when you try.

People went online to complain about the bug, and then the Edios devs said this: "The problem you have encountered is a hook in the copy protection, to catch out people who try and download cracked versions of the game for free. It's not a bug in the game's code, it's a bug in your moral code.""

 

[Mr.Nonnypants]

The game is not *crashing*, it is intentionally and cleanly closing itself. I edited the config to disable Steam and removed the steam error from my log. If you open it with no other windows open, you will see it reach the title screen menu for a few seconds before closing. There is some sort of alternative copy protection in place that is causing it to close - the developer probably used a different method than the one the previous 'copy protection fix' patch resolved. I am too busy to hunt it down, but that's what it's doing (and where it's doing it: immediately after the game displays the main menu for the first time)

King B is clearly willing to expend some effort to ensure that his Patreon early releases are in fact an early release that is hard to pirate, and given that he only provides them one week in advance that makes it improbable that the community will reliably hunt down and remove whatever method he's using in each release before the clean one comes out.

The people whom it is working for have something different than those it does not - perhaps they were at one point Patreon supporters of King B and previous installations left something behind that the game is checking for and assuming they are still current subscribers (or maybe they are). Somewhere right after the game pulls the main menu screen, it has an If statement that is checking for something and when it isn't present it is doing a clean return, which ends ren.py.

Interesting theory. Alright well looks like either an arms race occurs or people begin waiting for the official release.

I think that the week long wait will probably not irk too many people but I could definitely see people cracking this like an egg if the wait becomes extended.

 

[Mr.Nonnypants]

Lmao, this reminds me of Batman: Arkham Asylum's DRM on PC. For those that don't remember, they added a sneaky DRM in the game that makes it so that Batman cannot use his glider if you used a pirated copy. You would play the intro normally, get maybe 30 or 40 minutes into the game and then when you hit the part where you need to glide to progress you're basically stuck, Batman's glider will just stop working when you try.

People went online to complain about the bug, and then the Edios devs said this: "The problem you have encountered is a hook in the copy protection, to catch out people who try and download cracked versions of the game for free. It's not a bug in the game's code, it's a bug in your moral code.""

Considering Suicide Squad, I side with the pirates. Then again, this is F95.

 

[jantsc28]

Faled to initialize steam: FileNotFoundError("Could not find module 'E:\\CZline\\al\\A Couples Duet\\A_Couples_Duet-0.12.4-pc\\lib\\py3-windows-x86_64\\steam_api64.dll' (or one of its dependencies). Try using the full path with constructor syntax.")

And as you said