RPGM Completed Arenus [v1.1G] [Arvus Games]

[Experimantal]

That “idea” is bad, no caps.

FYI, porn gamers (majority of them) are already not on board of the idea of the game being heavily restricted in any areas (which why more people preferred Renpy over RPGM). Your game is trying to appeal to that group of audiences but at the same time is doing everything to push it away in the gameplay aspects.

You’re saying this is for the people to live with their consequences but think about it, why’d they? If they wanna redo a choice, they’ll go back a save at the start of the day to redo that (this is the current method of save scumming), which is the more tedious way to get what they want & doing that on repeat is the definition of insanity, NOT having fun with the game. It’ll give them the incentive to just cheat, quit playing & wait for someone (like me) to post saves.

Although, I’m insane enough to go through that hell cuz I want everyone on here to have my saves & have fun.

I agree, the idea as it is isn't fun, and you explain exactly what I said is happening now.

We're also catering not to just the porn gamers, but porn gamers hungry for true gameplay, not JUST porn for the sake of porn, there's many out there, Arvus ain't a shovelware, CoC clone, cheap puzzle game type of dev...

It ain't easy finding the balance, but we're trying, experimenting, and I hear you when you say that porn crowd is hungry for porn (duh). Really trying to balance it out so that it is fun to play, while keeping the game vision. Sadly, not everyone might like it. Hell you'll never see me play Football games even if it was warhammer theme, because it ain't my cup of tea (sorry bloodbowl)

 

[anonym0u5]

We're also catering not to just the porn gamers, but porn gamers hungry for true gameplay, not JUST porn for the sake of porn, there's many out there, Arvus ain't a shovelware, CoC clone, cheap puzzle game type of dev...

You said it yourself, you wanted “true gameplay” right? Save scumming is the purest definition of “true gameplay”.

As of currently, the game doesn’t give you any incentive to grind or do anything for that matter (cuz it doesn’t feels rewarding in the slightest). Cheating & modding (or wait for a finished save) is better & that isn’t “true gameplay”.

 

[Edvin]

Of course unlimited saves is also an option, but then no matter your choice in game, you would feel like you got 0 insentive to deal with it "oh no got a trouble and she did overtime at office, reload", "oh no i didn't get a crit success, reload", and that isn't fun either.

You can never avoid that if you base your game on random rolls.
But there is a way to have unlimited game saves and prevent players from save scum.

Just make a hidden roll at the beginning of each day for all activities
The player will still be able to choose which activities to engage in, but their outcome will be decided in advance for the given day. This way you can have unlimited game saves without it being abusable.

Simple solutions are often the best.

 

[Experimantal]

You can never avoid that if you base your game on random rolls.
But there is a way to have unlimited game saves and prevent players from save scum.

Just make a hidden roll at the beginning of each day for all activities
The player will still be able to choose which activities to engage in, but their outcome will be decided in advance for the given day. This way you can have unlimited game saves without it being abusable.

Simple solutions are often the best.

That is a good idea indeed which I had thought of, but then could also lead to frustration, thanks!

Another good fellow on discord suggested, like fire emblem does, to implement two modes: one vanilla with save system as meant to be, and one easier mode with unlimited manual saves, that way everyone can be happy, gameplay purist and fellow perverts

 

[sloopcool]

In version 1.0D it is impossible to complete the mission to help Venaara escape, in the space port when opening the security door I get an error.....perhaps someone has already received this error? Previous versions did not have this error.

 

[anonym0u5]

Another good fellow on discord suggested, like fire emblem does, to implement two modes: one vanilla with save system as meant to be, and one easier mode with unlimited manual saves, that way everyone can be happy, gameplay purist and fellow perverts

As long as the defeated CGs aren’t restricted to hardcore mode only then that could work.

Also trying to deliver a package to Velissa seems to bug out. Her dialogue doesn’t trigger until a day later & that made you failed the delivery. Only Velissa seems to have this bug, other NPCs seems fine.

 

[Experimantal]

In version 1.0D it is impossible to complete the mission to help Venaara escape, in the space port when opening the security door I get an error.....perhaps someone has already received this error? Previous versions did not have this error.
View attachment 2327297

This is basic debugging questions, please don't take them personally :

Warden gender ?
Gladiator ?
Day ? (use debug core and choose day option)
Did you use cheats or modified some files ?

Thanks a lot, i'll report your bug asap once I got the infos

 

[Experimantal]

As long as the defeated CGs isn’t restricted to hardcore mode only then that could work.

Also trying to deliver a package to Velissa seems to bug out. Her dialogue doesn’t trigger until a day later & that made you failed the delivery.

Thanks for the Velissa package delivery bug info, should be fixed in 1.0E!

For the Fire Emblem idea, it'd be unrelated to Vanilla/Hardcore mode, more like an extra choice, so you can play vanilla with unlimited saves, hardcore intended way, or vice versa, you mix and match as your heart wishes!

 

[rickpool98]

Let me know what ones are missing and i'll look into adding them

there are quite a lot of futa scenes with the queen for each character for some reason when chooseing the jade queen it buugs out and goes with jade queen with nano dildo. theres a scene whith a character named Alliah stuck in the wall more scenes with Amantha a sceen with three red heads givine the male mc a blowjob and some robot type character giving the mc a hand job. i can send you the pictures. oh and the bathroom shower scenes are missiong for each love intrest

 

[sloopcool]

This is basic debugging questions, please don't take them personally :

Warden gender ?
Gladiator ?
Day ? (use debug core and choose day option)
Did you use cheats or modified some files ?

Thanks a lot, i'll report your bug asap once I got the infos

Warden Male, gladiator Elona,day 63 - Sunday, the only thing I did was get 50000 credits through the save editor and nothing more.

 

[elg]

Will 1.0E fix your relationship with your gladiator? Because I cannot get more than one heart (I'm in silver arena, it is a bit strange because i think i chose only decisions that improve affection)

 

[Experimantal]

Will 1.0E fix your relationship with your gladiator? Because I cannot get more than one heart

If you cannot get more than 1 heart, you didn't build enough affection with them (low mood reduce affection daily).

There is a bug though with gladiator quest which is a pre requisite for the 3rd heart event

 

[Prevat]

If you cannot get more than 1 heart, you didn't build enough affection with them (low mood reduce affection daily).

There is a bug though with gladiator quest which is a pre requisite for the 3rd heart event

It's not possible to progress past 2 hearts you guys are aware of that bug?

 

[Experimantal]

It's not possible to progress past 2 hearts you guys are aware of that bug?

To get the 3rd heart you need to

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But right now said content is bugged for at least 2 gladiator, one due to a new bug, another because we were dumb and none of use synched properly on who chose who on gladiator choice so Geyna didn't get debugged properly.

It should be fixed in v1.0E though!

 

[insertusernamehere]

am i making shit up or do i remember right that there was a post like a year or more ago about how they'd heard people hated the slow wandering left/right hub gameplay?

because that shit didn't get improved or even changed much

just so many design decisions that dont make any sense

 

[Groutron]

After defeating the first boss of the silver league I faced another one in a row, that's a bug right?

 

[Leo D. Marstone]

Hey Ho,

first of all awesome that you come here and engage in the thread although in the current sour state.
If you read my rant this was just my initial impression as a player going into the game mostly blind (did not follow the dev process of arenus) and only recently catched it existence again.
Also with that out of the way let me try being constructive.

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Better late than never but congratulations on finishing the game. This is always a accomplishment.

Also I will give you the benefit of the doubt and will play a bit further. Just recently finished the first bronze fight and the only scene was the shower and masturbation. So the porn failed me already in my 4-5 hour playtime and I just run to the gym then spa and back home again. Lets see how long I can keep this up until hopefully the gameplay opens up like you mentioned ,)


Last but not least I hope you, kaliyo and the whole team will have a break and gets better. This maybe sounds shallow but I can a bit imagine how draining game development is. (former 3D Artist here. Modeling and rigging and stuff)
I hope you can go strong into the gold patch of roundscape after some time because I am stoked for that. Really liked the stuff you showed for it.

Anyway take care.

 

[elg]

If you cannot get more than 1 heart, you didn't build enough affection with them (low mood reduce affection daily).

There is a bug though with gladiator quest which is a pre requisite for the 3rd heart event

i checked the affection with my gladiator(save editor) and i had 240 and she had full mood everyday

 

[BattleBattalion]

In your room interact with your closet

I can access the UI from the closet but the problem is that I can't do anything from there. I click on the boxes and it just tells me what they do. I can't spend my points on anything.

Edit: Nevermind, kept messing around with it since nobody said they were having the same issue. I was trying to buy from the wrong end

 

[sloopcool]

Hey Ho,

first of all awesome that you come here and engage in the thread although in the current sour state.
If you read my rant this was just my initial impression as a player going into the game mostly blind (did not follow the dev process of arenus) and only recently catched it existence again.
Also with that out of the way let me try being constructive.

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Better late than never but congratulations on finishing the game. This is always a accomplishment.

Also I will give you the benefit of the doubt and will play a bit further. Just recently finished the first bronze fight and the only scene was the shower and masturbation. So the porn failed me already in my 4-5 hour playtime and I just run to the gym then spa and back home again. Lets see how long I can keep this up until hopefully the gameplay opens up like you mentioned ,)


Last but not least I hope you, kaliyo and the whole team will have a break and gets better. This maybe sounds shallow but I can a bit imagine how draining game development is. (former 3D Artist here. Modeling and rigging and stuff)
I hope you can go strong into the gold patch of roundscape after some time because I am stoked for that. Really liked the stuff you showed for it.

Anyway take care.

Your truth and you are right! I think not everyone will dare to make such a huge game in a very interesting cyberpunk pixel art style. Of course, there are many shortcomings, but damn it .... I haven't spent more than 60 hours on the game for a very long time .... even AAA games can not always interest me so much. I hope in future updates the authors of the game will add more interactive and animations (for example, I would like to see in real time what the gladiator does when she goes to train or work as an escort, and not a screen with a report what results she has achieved in a day).