VN Ren'Py Completed Battle of the Bulges [v1.0] [EpicLust]

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EpicLust

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Hello. I have a problem. I follow Zapallbugs' walkthrough but when i reach the end of day 7, after doing the threesome with Nikki and Chantelle, i go to sleep immediately after that and i have an error about the credit saying i'm missing a file "Icons/credits.png" but i use the latest version and the anti-anticheat doesn't remove anything if i remember correctly.
Well, apparently it does, because there IS a day08 in the game...
 

zapallbugs

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Hello. I have a problem. I follow Zapallbugs' walkthrough but when i reach the end of day 7, after doing the threesome with Nikki and Chantelle, i go to sleep immediately after that and i have an error about the credit saying i'm missing a file "Icons/credits.png" but i use the latest version and the anti-anticheat doesn't remove anything if i remember correctly.
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Just a question is the anit-stupid mod even updated for day 8? Looks like it whacked your game.
 

dahobo

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Sounds like you still have a game that is corrupted. Ignoring one missing picture should not get you another error, and certainly not one that kills the game.
Finally got it to work! Thanks for your advice. I had to go into the images folder, and select them manually, as the folder in the patch had next to no images. So, replacing the folder effectively removed all the images (mostly achievement screens, if i remember correctly). I think the instructions are geared to PC, which may have a "merge" option Mac doesn't have. Weird, since i hadn't had this problem until now. Anywho, thanks for cluing me in to this. Got the last scene with the 'correct' relationships. ;)
 

Rattatonga

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So I like to congratulate tim, for the "finished" development of BotB (as in "everything is in the game" not counting fixes or tweaking of any kind that still to happen or not). It's kind schocking to see just how time flew by, also a thumbs up from me for doing your thing and not heeding to some haters or trolls. (y)
Lastly I'd like to wish you further success with apocalypse and maybe any other project you come up with in the future, see you around!

p.s. You know I had a kinda crazy Idea some time ago, do you know Shapeways? Gabe who makes the LoQO games has figures of her chars there to buy...And I wouldn't mind some of your characters as "collectables" ...so once your game development empire is big enough go give EA, Ubisoft and Bethesda a paddlin... I then very much like you to "shut up and take my money" :ROFLMAO:
 

EpicLust

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So I like to congratulate tim, for the "finished" development of BotB (as in "everything is in the game" not counting fixes or tweaking of any kind that still to happen or not). It's kind schocking to see just how time flew by, also a thumbs up from me for doing your thing and not heeding to some haters or trolls. (y)
Lastly I'd like to wish you further success with apocalypse and maybe any other project you come up with in the future, see you around!

p.s. You know I had a kinda crazy Idea some time ago, do you know Shapeways? Gabe who makes the LoQO games has figures of her chars there to buy...And I wouldn't mind some of your characters as "collectables" ...so once your game development empire is big enough go give EA, Ubisoft and Bethesda a paddlin... I then very much like you to "shut up and take my money" :ROFLMAO:
Thanks for your kind words. it actually gave me an idea, I need to include the "shut up and take my money" in Apocalypse, I know just the place where to do it...
 

ZorggroZ

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@ EpicLust

Since I'm speaking here, I might as well first congratulate you for this wonderful game. Thank you very much for this highly entertaining experience. I particularly liked the sex contest aspect of this game and the total randomness of the points earned by the challenger which makes every playthrough quite unique.
It is pretty clear to me that you have grown tired of your creation at some point (otherwise you wouldn't have started another game) and yet you took the time to give it the proper ending it deserved. Not a rushed or a botched one like too many mediocre developpers would fancy. I'm not even talking about all the games abandoned for no other reason than the developper's own greed.

I wouldn't have normally tried to go for the ultimate achievement in the game. Since there is barely one third of the girls that I find attractive, it would make no sense for me to go for all of them. However, with the coronavirus situation, I had recently more free time than I would have dreamed of and to fight my boredom I tried a different play than usual.
And since I so thoroughly tried your game (more than any other western porn game), I have spotted along the way a few bugs that have not been reported yet (at least for the most annoying ones). The only reason I subscribed here is to make sure to be able to report them myself to give you the opportunity to deliver the most perfect game for all your awaiting fans.
I would also like to add that in this case it's not necessary to create a temporary patch just for me since I have no intention to play again the game until the final version is in my hands and you have officially stated that you are done with it.

The first two bugs are visual glitches and not very important since things are still working as intended in the game (otherwise I wouldn't have been able to unlock the ultimate achievement).
On the one hand, when you try to visit mom's room in the beginning of the week, sometimes a grey screen appears instead of the room but it is still possible to snoop around and retrieve the dildo.
On the other hand, when you are not a member of the jury and Halle wins the wet tee-shirt competition Wednesday, her model doesn't disappear of the screen if you try to console Chantelle. The second model just comes over it but that doesn't seem to have any other impact on the game than this visual glitch.

I'm not sure if the third bug is really a bug or something you made to make things more difficult for the player. After the threesome event with Daniella and Doris at the muscle contest Saturday, it becomes impossible after to score Katsumi at the massage parlour if your stamina is at 0 AND you have a stamina drink in your inventory. Unlike the other girls, there is no option given to the player to even use the stamina drink and Katsumi just denies the massage.

The last two bugs are game-breaking ones. Things are clearly not working as intended and it hurts badly the replayability of your game (at least if you are seeking the ultimate achievement).
If you fuck Nikki for the first time during the threesome with Chantelle Saturday night and before the challenger, she is never added to your wins and it is like you have never fucked her. I am positive that this is not here a visual glitch. I reloaded this save with the last version and right after the threesome, the protagonist received a sms from the challenger saying that he was the one to score Nikki first.
The exact same thing happens with Maddy in the last day, when you trigger her epiclust after the swim contest and she invites you to the cabin. When you fuck her before the challenger, she is never added your wins. It is as if you have never fucked her. I can also confirm that this is not just some visual glitch because right after when I trigger the final meeting with the challenger, it says that the protagonist only fucked first 23 of the 24 girls (and the two last achievements do not appear in the list).

Now that all is done, I would like to give a few pointers to these players who enjoy this game as much as I do and would like to get the 24 girls the same as me without any kind of walkthrough. If the developper manages to at least correct the game-breaking bugs, I can personally confirm that there will be at least three different ways to get the achievement (one for sure with the present version).

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Finally, I cannot vouch for the walkthrough presented in this thread since I never read it and don't know if his creator tested it from a clean start with the last version (in earlier versions it was possible to score some of the girls more easily thanks to some flaws corrected by now).
 

EpicLust

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May 30, 2017
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@ EpicLust

Since I'm speaking here, I might as well first congratulate you for this wonderful game. Thank you very much for this highly entertaining experience. I particularly liked the sex contest aspect of this game and the total randomness of the points earned by the challenger which makes every playthrough quite unique.
It is pretty clear to me that you have grown tired of your creation at some point (otherwise you wouldn't have started another game) and yet you took the time to give it the proper ending it deserved. Not a rushed or a botched one like too many mediocre developpers would fancy. I'm not even talking about all the games abandoned for no other reason than the developper's own greed.

I wouldn't have normally tried to go for the ultimate achievement in the game. Since there is barely one third of the girls that I find attractive, it would make no sense for me to go for all of them. However, with the coronavirus situation, I had recently more free time than I would have dreamed of and to fight my boredom I tried a different play than usual.
And since I so thoroughly tried your game (more than any other western porn game), I have spotted along the way a few bugs that have not been reported yet (at least for the most annoying ones). The only reason I subscribed here is to make sure to be able to report them myself to give you the opportunity to deliver the most perfect game for all your awaiting fans.
I would also like to add that in this case it's not necessary to create a temporary patch just for me since I have no intention to play again the game until the final version is in my hands and you have officially stated that you are done with it.

The first two bugs are visual glitches and not very important since things are still working as intended in the game (otherwise I wouldn't have been able to unlock the ultimate achievement).
On the one hand, when you try to visit mom's room in the beginning of the week, sometimes a grey screen appears instead of the room but it is still possible to snoop around and retrieve the dildo.
On the other hand, when you are not a member of the jury and Halle wins the wet tee-shirt competition Wednesday, her model doesn't disappear of the screen if you try to console Chantelle. The second model just comes over it but that doesn't seem to have any other impact on the game than this visual glitch.

I'm not sure if the third bug is really a bug or something you made to make things more difficult for the player. After the threesome event with Daniella and Doris at the muscle contest Saturday, it becomes impossible after to score Katsumi at the massage parlour if your stamina is at 0 AND you have a stamina drink in your inventory. Unlike the other girls, there is no option given to the player to even use the stamina drink and Katsumi just denies the massage.

The last two bugs are game-breaking ones. Things are clearly not working as intended and it hurts badly the replayability of your game (at least if you are seeking the ultimate achievement).
If you fuck Nikki for the first time during the threesome with Chantelle Saturday night and before the challenger, she is never added to your wins and it is like you have never fucked her. I am positive that this is not here a visual glitch. I reloaded this save with the last version and right after the threesome, the protagonist received a sms from the challenger saying that he was the one to score Nikki first.
The exact same thing happens with Maddy in the last day, when you trigger her epiclust after the swim contest and she invites you to the cabin. When you fuck her before the challenger, she is never added your wins. It is as if you have never fucked her. I can also confirm that this is not just some visual glitch because right after when I trigger the final meeting with the challenger, it says that the protagonist only fucked first 23 of the 24 girls (and the two last achievements do not appear in the list).

Now that all is done, I would like to give a few pointers to these players who enjoy this game as much as I do and would like to get the 24 girls the same as me without any kind of walkthrough. If the developper manages to at least correct the game-breaking bugs, I can personally confirm that there will be at least three different ways to get the achievement (one for sure with the present version).

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Finally, I cannot vouch for the walkthrough presented in this thread since I never read it and don't know if his creator tested it from a clean start with the last version (in earlier versions it was possible to score some of the girls more easily thanks to some flaws corrected by now).
Thanks for your feedback and glad you enjoyed the game!
I will look into the bugs you mentioned. From the top of my head, I can answer that the Maddy fuck on Sunday shouldn't count as a win, because if you didn't save her, then José necessarily did on Thursday afternoon (normally, she appears as a "fail" in the computer interface at this stage). Don't you remember getting a text message from him at 4pm? I'll check that this is indeed the case in all situations, because this is how I intended it to be.

Edit: For Katsumi, I also intended for the MC not to be able to drink the white bull. You're naked and too far from your backpack.
 
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Battle of the Bulges [v1.0] [EpicLust]

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Immunity

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Is the 1.0 version still supposed to show v0.8 on the main menu background? Both folder and patch were list as 1.0.
 

ProofreadingRUS

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Anything new?
Will there be another game like this that makes more sense.
I like the game and the idea but it was too confusing in some areas.
I couldn't get all the girls. Need a better walkthrough badly
I didn't get the librarian
I didn't get the the blonde girl that kept asking me about the photoshoot when I didn't know how and where to get the camera and when I did it was too late.
If we can't have a better walkthrough, I think what we need is a save....peace.
 
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