Not really. In fact, not at all. Believe me, I did some pretty thorough tests. You can find them and the initial results here:
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and then what's actually required for you to pursue Ellie and Patricia here:
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Long story short, you can't even come close to attaining either Ellie or Patricia without either chasing the two boys or every other piece of dick thrown at you. It's as simple as that. And as I've stated many times, it snowballs extremely quickly, so as soon as you're even remotely short on points and don't meet the requirements, you can never make up for it and fall more and more behind faster and faster.
If he reduced the Filthy points, then he reduced them from completely nut-house worthy insane to merely stupidly insane. Given his comments too it's pretty clear that what he meant and what he stated with regards to this are two different things, though that may be down to English not being his first language. He made it sound like he'd reduced the Filthy requirement(s) for several scenes with later updates but he didn't at all as the requirements have been consistently the same when it comes to the offending moments (i.e. he made it sound like in the latest update the Ellie Filthy points requirement was going to be lower for the dressing room scene, but it was still the same). What he actually seems to have meant is that he's lowered the
total Filthy points overall. This is evident from his response later on the same page to my criticism(s) of his game's design.
I'm not sure who gets it worse either. Patricia's is very bad because you just can't access scenes to get Patricia points at all rather quickly unless you act like a slut early, while Ellie's is also bad because you think you're doing well with her for the longest time if you're just going for girls, with no barriers at all during most of her key scenes (for example, there's
no Filthy points needed at all to rub lotion into her when she's one bikini item away from being naked) but then you suddenly get hit with a massive, blindsiding 21 Filthy points in the dressing room, for a scene where Sophia can simply tell her she looks attractive/sexy in her underwear.
Sorry, but it's just bad game design. Pure and simple. It's inconsistent and illogical. Made even worse by the fact that in Ellie's case the initial parts string you along quite willingly to make it seem like a character is possible, only to rip the rug out from under your feet suddenly later on. And in Patricia's case you just straight up miss scenes and points with her that you might not even be aware of unless you also do a full Filthy playthrough, since many of her scenes give you no prompt or direct indication that you failed, but are simply bypassed automatically. Two different cases of bad design right there both stemming from the same issue.