I mean, it's a good idea.
Fine let’s have the walking milk dispenser and… what the hell there is even in the suggestions thread on discord now?
Jesus
As of 0.5.2.5a there's a neat hidden easter egg with Cuddles the Cat:
This appears to be the only way to get repeated Demon Key drops, as a head's up.
Apart from that, the walkthrough is a bit raggedy: there's content that's not mentioned anywhere in the current version. e.g. Arianna has extra scenes if you do the following:
She then spends her days there with nice new bodypaint. There's also (probably) new NTR content with Frisha & the Card Shark, but I just paid the extortionate fine instead.
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Since the Dev is apparently active here and reading replies, some quick thoughts (especially in response to the above demands for farming pregancies
for food of all things):
1) Compared to say, Peasant's Quest, the choice to take seriously pregnancy and repercussions is fairly unique, and imo should be kept. Peasant's Quest basically makes getting 100+ children a meta game goal and it's a bit weird tonally (but the game itself isn't too serious, so...). I'd say stick with the current vibe which is: use your damn contraceptive potions, boys, or everyone's going to look at you badly.
1a) The town reputation system is still in effect, and yet... does nothing. You should really lock content behind a positive / negative rep already; otherwise, why is it ingame? e.g. No way the Queen should talk to you unless your Town Reputation is 4+ (for example). You'd then add a thief/rogue route to talk to her if players were determined to zero their Town Standing.
2) Given the long dev time and focus on Patreon content votes (ugh... just no), the story itself is getting really "MC centric". When it started (I think I first played way back when the Orc content wasn't in) there was at least a semblance of balance for male NPC characters and their stories (i.e. most of the heavy NTR is early content). It'd be a good idea to add quite a few (4-6) male NPCs in game with quests attached which is fairly easy to do (NTR / sharing scenes can be added much later, in much lower demand and you only need say 25% of the male NPCs to have it as a possibility). I say this to flesh out the world a bit more, add some more maps (seriously: you should be able to kick out a map a week with this engine / coding demands, solo, and you've not even got any serious hooks/triggers/flags to deal with mostly) and add more "game play".
2a) Given the dev time & the Patreon funds, the game should have at least 10+ more maps by now. Seriously. Maps are easy to make, the engine is simple snap / block tiles, not UE5 3D or even Unity. I was shocked coming back to this project after a couple of years to see
just how little world had grown.
3) More monsters please. Was pleasently surprised by the Plague Fiends and then... more Bandits (Anya). Spend the resources on more monsters to fight (and potentially fuck). The Patreon is making ~4.5K Euros a month, which a yearly salary of E54.000. This is not a small amount: you can afford to buy assets if required. Which are readily available, and we both know it.
3a) By now, should be at least 20+ more mobs to spank / splat and at least five fuckable monster types. It's basic. It's easy. It'll cost you less than E4.000 to just buy them all.
Which is a great investment.
Kudos for turning this into E54.000 a year, but really: way too slow for taking an above median wage from it. Also, the new update has
multiple English spelling errors in it - "carful" etc. Fine, we get it: not an English speaker, but you're not putting out Shakespeare here.
For the cat thing and Arianna everyone has already said that ain’t an easter egg and the walkthrough is released in updates X.0., but on other elements…
1) Although I agree that the reputation system is underutilized, it has also some stances where dialogues change or some choices are unlocked, for example Giron if asked to postpone Emily collection of the debt, he will do it only if your reputation is high.
And for the Queen, it makes damn sense, you basically defended and now control military the city and have a pact with the mayor, she would totally talk to you!
Not to mention the fact that the Queen talks to everybody, and I mean
everybody even an humble farmer like Penny during her routine!
2) I mean it’s MC centric because it is the story of the protagonist and through him we see the world and events.
But even then it’s not that MC centric at all, wars happen, shady deals with orcs and cultists happen, murders, plots et cetera.
MC only fortunately appears to be there during or after said event.
And it’s not like characters start to exist when MC appears, take a look at Anya or The Raven.
And the world is already fleshed out!
Wdym adding more maps when there is no need for them?
Game is even longer than most rpgs on this site that have 60 maps in it and they are empty walking simulator!
We have more than 30 maps with characters routines and events in it.
Dunno but seems it’s more of a your need this things for maps, since patrons, users and Chyos himself would prefer more to end fleshing out Arenfield for good rather than adding maps just for the sake of it.
Sometimes having less, smaller maps but with a better concentration of events and character routines is better instead of an open world that is “breathing and living” like all ubisoft games lmao
Also Chyos spends his time not only on maps mind you, scenes take a big chunk of his time, and let’s not even talk about bonus scenes which should go back on hiatus imo.
I don’t know much about coding, if you are an expert on this matter or not dunno, but the NTR part was already addressed by Eva so I won’t repeat.
3)And even now monsters!
The only real monsters in the game are like three, and one of them is an easter egg, that could be because ASWS is mostly a realistic fantasy, or dark fantasy if you will, magic is scarce, normal people don’t know about the existence of anything, real monsters don’t fuck will turn you into mashed potatoes, and the only creatures that aren’t human and are fuckable, are from other races with their culture and not really monsters with no brain that spawns randomly
The one that goes closer to a monster is Sypha, but it’s also a demon and the champion of a god (if I remember correctly).
So yeah still mostly a personal request, which ain’t really that bad because I am also guilty of wanting a Mermaid in the game, but alas
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Next non human girl should be a goblin girl.
Dunno if we will get more.
Yeah english is going to be reviewed and x.5. Updates have some grammatical errors, and the game itself has still some newbie errors that need to be fixed