Ren'Py A House in the Rift [v0.7.14b1] [Zanith]

[impBlues]

aren't there scenes with Naomi?
I tried to lose and win the dice game but all the mc does is take of her boots and the dream ends

 

[LaxJaxx]

Reiterating what other said - Minigames that prevent progress are a great way to get people to walk away. If you feel the need to reward players who pick up the combat system, let them skip ahead early. Otherwise, put a hard limit on how many times someone has to fight do the fight then let them just win. Three is a good choice, five should be your max. In the meantime, I can't recommend what is otherwise a very promising game. Great momentum right up until bridge combat becomes an option, and then everything seizes up. I'll come back when you patch this.

 

[Yume-Noun]

I can't do the damn fight scene, some of the patterns are just bullshit, i'm like in my 35th try and I just keep losing, just please, don't put RNG in this kind of game, grind and RNG are the two variables than most of the people hate on porn games.

 

[saru341]

interesting game so far. passed the first dream walk sequence no problem. save scummed my way through the combat one but still failed. oh well. i found a method that works and will use it.

characters look nice and unique.

 

[kirigayakazuto]

That shouldn't happen. Either a bug, or you're countering with the same defense a couple of times in a row (don't do that, Rae even tells you about it), or you're using an "OK" defense for the last attacks, those are stronger.


You're supposed to lose in the tavern game I know, I know, I'll change all that, it was a bad idea.

i fucking fight her and in the fucking first round no matter what i pick i lose 1/4 my hp
for real?
even when i attack i lose 1/4 my hp wtf is this?


edit
4 weeks in a row i lose 1/4 first round

5th week i finsh first round with out getting hurt but then i cant hurt her its me losing hp or none of us lose hp
2nd round same shit
3rd roud i lose 1/2 ho no matter what i do
4th round finaly i did it
5th round lose 1/4 hp
6th lost

i am getting tired of this dude

5th week 1/4 hp
6th week
went well
round 2 lost hp
this shit i too random

 

[Madridfan]

Ok... I licked it Naomi that her story end now... OK...
BUT that f*cking combat with Are... i can't win. I know roll back try every defending tactic etc but she always hit me and i never can hit her or about 10% with heay attack only once or twice...
this is bullshit.

 

[ZeroR3]

Fighting is easy - first 2 attacks are weaker, so try to parry them - for overhead and side attack you block, for thrust you deflect. Third and fourth attacks are stronger, so try to dodge - and logically, you can't dodge thrust by jumping back, because it's... well a thrust, so you should sidestep, and for swings you can jump back.
Now, after your dodges, she will probably lose her stance and you can do quick attack, heavy attack, or wait and rest. I recommend using quick attacks, as heavy attack will make you lose balance and defending in next round will be harder. So poke her, repeat defense, and watch your stamina, because if it will go to 0, you lose. If it's low, just rest between rounds,

 

[SlendermanX]

That shouldn't happen. Either a bug, or you're countering with the same defense a couple of times in a row (don't do that, Rae even tells you about it), or you're using an "OK" defense for the last attacks, those are stronger.


You're supposed to lose in the tavern game I know, I know, I'll change all that, it was a bad idea.

No i winn and become golden coin .... whats the matter about that? everytim the same game is easy but get no trough^^

 

[E_nigma]

Why do people making porn games insist on these rng grind mechanics that serve literally zero purpose outside of stonewalling?

 

[Madridfan]

Finally I dit it all in this upgrade...
About 3 hours and many many tryes...
we can defend 1 hit more than 1 way and try keep this variations up to back your mosue wheel in the fights...
and finally after win once need push up Azra relations 12 after... what is more"funny" need to win once more against her to can cleam the reward for her....

 

[Deleted member 894997]

Honestly, I think the combat is good in theory, but it just needs to be toned down so it's not too much grinding with only a 50/50 success rate. I can understand it being difficult at first, since you're a novice, but over time, it should become easier for the players to succeed without spending 5 minutes a piece trying to defeat her.

To be honest, it really should be the other way around.
Sure you get stronger, and this fight in particular should be easier, but other fights should make it harder as you progres, and old fights get easier.
You cant start of a game at the hardest lvl, thats just dumb design tbh.

Atm tho, its not really the fighting mechanics that are hard to understand or execute, its the MASSIVE rng in combination with a really long fight, that makes some fights (not just combos) 100% impossible to win, and that is just really dumb design.
No one will play this game for "sick and fun fights" anyway, it needs to be a compliment, and a breakoff from the normal game. But as it is now, its just a massive cockblock, that destroys the overall experience by miles!

 

[Deleted member 894997]

Finally I dit it all in this upgrade...
About 3 hours and many many tryes...
we can defend 1 hit more than 1 way and try keep this variations up to back your mosue wheel in the fights...
and finally after win once need push up Azra relations 12 after... what is more"funny" need to win once more against her to can cleam the reward for her....

This says everything tbh.... in NO WAY shape or form, should a minigame in a porn game, take 3h to beat.
Me my self spent at least 2h yesterday on this shit, and gave up after winning twice, and loosing because of massive rng dicking many times.
But still no reward, and FYI i have given the succubi icecream more times than i can remember, far more than twice thats for sure.

 

[UnoriginalUserName]

I shall agree with most people here about the combat. It *could* be fun if it was tweaked a bit, especially since the whole "Want a reward? " thing was teased for the first try.

That said, my philosophy is "When life gives you lemons, squeeze the juice into life's eyes, then cheat to gain a huge advantage and claim the fruits of your victory from best girl Rae"

*points to the screenshot's slightly modified combat stat bars*

By the way @ZanithOne : the "wanna have a quickie?" option in the living room disappears when Naomi shows up, or slightly before that, which is a shame, especially if you're trying to play a more "gentlemanly" Magi that wouldn't take the "Yo, bend over bitch" option that's available after knowing Rae for like 20 minutes.

After getting to "know" her a bit / beating her in the dream it would be a different story though, especially since the dialogue changes to the "quickie" option.

Anyway I'd suggest you leave it in.

 

[Deleted member 1019532]

I'm at Day 44 with the following statistics:

• Azraesha - Progress 10/10, Stage 1, 3 Ecchi happenings
• Naomi Roux - Progress 10/10, Stage 1, 0 Ecchi happenings
• Sakurai Rina - Progress 0/12, Stage 2, 0 Ecchi happenings

First off, apparently I've completed my progress with Azraesha and Naomi, but am only at Stage 1 with them. On the other hand, I've got absolutely no progress whatsoever with Sakurai, but I'm already at Stage 2. Huh?

Secondly, whatever is an Ecchi happening? Is that a good thing? A bad thing? Something related to a Yucky happening?

Oh, the reason I'm all the way up to Day 44 is because I wake up in the morning, see there's nothing to do all day long, so I fast-forward to bedtime to get stuck with yet another losing game of Combat. Yay!

 

[Master of Puppets]

Fighting is easy - first 2 attacks are weaker, so try to parry them - for overhead and side attack you block, for thrust you deflect. Third and fourth attacks are stronger, so try to dodge - and logically, you can't dodge thrust by jumping back, because it's... well a thrust, so you should sidestep, and for swings you can jump back.
Now, after your dodges, she will probably lose her stance and you can do quick attack, heavy attack, or wait and rest. I recommend using quick attacks, as heavy attack will make you lose balance and defending in next round will be harder. So poke her, repeat defense, and watch your stamina, because if it will go to 0, you lose. If it's low, just rest between rounds,

And when she does the same attack for 4 as she did for 3? You can't do the same dodge twice in a row for some reason, and you get hit. Also "Balance" isn't one of the bars visible which makes it feel even more random than it actually is.

 

[Deleted member 1019532]

Current combat rules - plan your defense, hope she does something that your defense will actually defend against. Huh?

Current combat rules - she gets to attack you four times. Then, if you've still got the energy, you can attack her, once. Makes sense to me.

 

[Symbolsz]

Where do I get the reward from Azraesha?

 

[ZanithOne]

Just uploaded version 0.2.3. Combat difficulty is greatly reduced, and there are more hints to suggest what's lacking if you can't progress in the event. There's also something I'd like to say about the current state of the game, if you care to read that, continue below under all the quotes.

So yeah, that got kinda boring. Perhaps tune down how many fights are needed for advancing story. Same goes with the dice game. That got boring after few matches.
Story started greatly and it was fun to ponder what's happening, but quite quickly I had used up all day encounters and only night scenes gave something new to do. And night scenes were almost always fight or dice game. I saw book reading girl three times but got no further with her and phone game scene only once.

I like this game a lot but this fight training is annoying.
I can hit her mostly one or two times, sometimes not at all, then I'm down. That's somewhat frustrating.
I don't remember but I think I leveled up 2-times HP and Stamina and 1-time concentration.

Regarding the combat, I like it in principle but when you pick the right counter and Rae hits you anyway? Yeah, that fucking sucks. The rules are not at all clear, which is really bad.

same problem
i cant win her becouse of that

hhmm,, the training and taverne non-sense makes the good promising game shit... 100 days train still go on and on and on and all full at the stages of the girls :-O

I agree completely. At this point the combat system seriously needs fixing.

The only "issue" id say i have is that there is a little "little" information on how to play the minigames.
A little note saying "You may sometimes want to loose to progress", or a poetic version
Anyway, looking forward to the next release with fixes and other issues resolved

Should focus more on Azrea imo, and yeah mini game are abit too grindy

Great game, up untill the grind just becomes to much.
The fighting is freeking broken AF! And even if you get blessed by RNGesus the fight is still WAY to long.
As it is now, it just frustrating as HELL!

Can't figure out the dice game, can't figure out the combat shit.
Some sexual activity with Azrea early on, then nothing, followed up by more nothing.
Saw blue-haired girl once, then no more. I think "dream on" has multiple meanings here, the most common being "you're not gonna get nothing".
Speaking of, all you can look forward to during the daytime is nighttime, then you can play a stupid game in your dream and accomplish nothing.

Honestly, I think the combat is good in theory, but it just needs to be toned down so it's not too much grinding with only a 50/50 success rate. I can understand it being difficult at first, since you're a novice, but over time, it should become easier for the players to succeed without spending 5 minutes a piece trying to defeat her.

Reiterating what other said - Minigames that prevent progress are a great way to get people to walk away. If you feel the need to reward players who pick up the combat system, let them skip ahead early. Otherwise, put a hard limit on how many times someone has to fight do the fight then let them just win. Three is a good choice, five should be your max. In the meantime, I can't recommend what is otherwise a very promising game. Great momentum right up until bridge combat becomes an option, and then everything seizes up. I'll come back when you patch this.

I can't do the damn fight scene, some of the patterns are just bullshit, i'm like in my 35th try and I just keep losing, just please, don't put RNG in this kind of game, grind and RNG are the two variables than most of the people hate on porn games.

interesting game so far. passed the first dream walk sequence no problem. save scummed my way through the combat one but still failed. oh well. i found a method that works and will use it.

i fucking fight her and in the fucking first round no matter what i pick i lose 1/4 my hp
for real?
even when i attack i lose 1/4 my hp wtf is this?

BUT that f*cking combat with Are... i can't win. I know roll back try every defending tactic etc but she always hit me and i never can hit her or about 10% with heay attack only once or twice...
this is bullshit.

Why do people making porn games insist on these rng grind mechanics that serve literally zero purpose outside of stonewalling?

This says everything tbh.... in NO WAY shape or form, should a minigame in a porn game, take 3h to beat.
Me my self spent at least 2h yesterday on this shit, and gave up after winning twice, and loosing because of massive rng dicking many times.

This is realy shitless figth mechanic. I cant win this for sake 3-4 times now. Someone say ''41'nd time and ı lose'' thats too much...

Sorry for quoting all of you guys, just wanted to have some context.

So... Yeah... I freely admit that I screwed up this update, a lot. The 0.2.3 should be a little bit more bearable in regards to combat, and dice game, but it's not enough. You know it's bad when you're writing a walkthrough for your own game and for most of the time you just sit there, skipping days to get to the actual content.

I realize my mistake, and version 0.3 will change a lot. I'm going to redo the whole progress system to be more transparent and in line with the sandbox nature of the game. I will concentrate on the house interactions and meaningful story and sex events. Those weird minigames would be either gone, or dramatically remade to be less intrusive. I will make a bigger post on my Patreon this week, you can follow me there, but I'll link to it here as well.

 

[ZanithOne]

Where do I get the reward from Azraesha?

You need to max out her relationship progress and then win the fight.

aren't there scenes with Naomi?
I tried to lose and win the dice game but all the mc does is take of her boots and the dream ends

There is one scene, you have to lose the dice game and have high enough concentration level and relationship with Naomi to get is.

By the way @ZanithOne : the "wanna have a quickie?" option in the living room disappears when Naomi shows up, or slightly before that, which is a shame, especially if you're trying to play a more "gentlemanly" Magi that wouldn't take the "Yo, bend over bitch" option that's available after knowing Rae for like 20 minutes.

After getting to "know" her a bit / beating her in the dream it would be a different story though, especially since the dialogue changes to the "quickie" option.

Anyway I'd suggest you leave it in.

It will be coming back, it's just that when Naomi just arrived in the house, having sex in the main room is a bit... Improper. I've added a short line about that.

No i winn and become golden coin .... whats the matter about that? everytim the same game is easy but get no trough^^

You need to lose the dice game to get this particular scene.

PS: What does concentration do btw?

Concentration is needed to get the scene in Naomi's dream.

 

[UnoriginalUserName]

Secondly, whatever is an Ecchi happening? Is that a good thing? A bad thing? Something related to a Yucky happening?

You, sir, need to watch more anime.

Ecchi is basically a slightly more tame version of Hentai. So more traditional "vanilla" porn stuff and fewer tentacle rapes.

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