I am not complaining here. It's just the way I play these kinds of games is if there's a LI that is in any way singled out (being introduced first, playing an important role in the plot, etc) I can't make myself steer away from a perceived "main" plot. And it makes me internally conflicted about making all that development effort that went into making these side character go to waste.
I didn't take it as complaining, nor am I complaining. I understand you and just want to share my intentions.
Like I said, I don't want to give away too much about the story yet, but the effort for her won't go to waste.
I was trying to say that having environments be almost exactly the same makes perfect sense, areas become distinct after people have lived in them at least for a bit. And most everyone on the ship is actually asleep. Having the feeling of being lost initially also is a nice immersive bit, but I see how it can be problematic from the gameplay perspective
That's exactly how I see it too.
I did not think I could be impressed even more. This is actually my main complaint - this game is so good, I don't know how it can be any better.
Thanks. I really appreciate it.
I really couldn't tell. Writing quality is higher than some of the professionally written stories I've read. As for plot holes, there is an obvious
But I'm sure it will be revealed alongside the reason as to why we are in the current situation.
Regarding the crew. I thought it would be obvious that they are in cryo-sleep too. For the wake-up procedure I had a wake-up-timeline in mind, something like: Medical team => Crew => Staff => Squad-Attendants=> Colonists.
I'm not sure I mentioned how long the flight actually is in the game. The exact time wasn't important to me when I was writing it. It just should be very long, so > 50yrs. I think I had 64 or 96yrs written in my notes somewhere. If I haven't mentioned it in the game yet, I'll add it. Should make the story more consistent and than it probably comes more intuitive that the crew is in cryo-sleep too.
I'm curious, what kind of rendering hardware are we looking at for this level of detail?
I'm rendering with Octane on 2 RTX 2070. As the prices for GPU's are dropping I'm considering upgrading, but I'm pretty struggling with this decision. My biggest problem is the vram mangement of octane or the octane render plugin for daz3d. I've frequent render engine crashes. Even if I reduce the detail of the environment and have only 2 characters with SubD level 3 can sometimes be enough to crash. So I wanted to upgrade from 8GB VRAM to 24.
However, the reason I'm struggling is the development of the octane render. On one hand I like the style and speed on the other hand the development of the daz3d plugin is pretty much abandoned. It doesn't get new features nor do terrible old 'simple' bugs getting fixed. However, I don't really want to switch style mid-way through development.
Also the octane team develops a new geometry streaming pipeline which they promise would get rid for the need of caching geometry and textures in the vram. Kinda like the Nanite pipeline of the Unreal Engine 5. However, this technology is just in development and I have no hopes that it will make it to the plugin.
As I don't want to wait until this technology arrives I'll probably get new GPU's down the line anyway.
Atm, I would rather switch to blender and keep rendering with an up-to-date octane plugin, but I hesitate to spend time setting up a workflow for this.
I hope its ok to add my 2 cents on this...this is usually an attempt by devs to have players engage in multiple playthroughs so as to cover all the different paths. I hope this is not the case here. After my initial apprehension concerning the engine, the game is quite riveting. However, forcing players into multiple playthroughs (a la Heavy Five) is not nice (to put it simply).
I probably expressed myself a bit unfavorably there. I don't want to enforce multiple playthroughs. I don't like that either. I'd rather want the players to be able to bypass certain characters they may don't like or don't feel comfortable with. This is my intention at least. However, my main focus is and will be to keep the story consistent so I may need to add checkpoints with other characters as well, but sexual content should be optional.
I have quite a few story events and plots for the second act in mind, but the structure for the story at whole isn't fully developed yet. So I can't or rather don't want to promise anything regarding this.
I don't want to go in any sort of branching madness. It will most likely still be a linear story with some optional content left and right and a bit more freedom in which order you will do certain events.
But keep in mind, that's the way I want to do it right now. I can't promise I'll manage it and won't need any adjustments on my writing down the line.
I make mistakes and need to learn from them. Like my character-configuration. Neat idea, but overly complex and still not sophisticated enough to fulfill all it's intention. So, I try to learn from it and adapt.
