HTML Beast Companions [v1.7.0] [Azla1]

[GothFuta]

Heya, I've been keeping an eye on this throughout the releases and I have to say the new combat is terrible.

This new combat system does not reduce the spam, it makes the spam more annoying and incredibly slow. The actual experience of selecting the radio buttons is abysmal and finicky when you are trying to get through a basic combat quickly. In addition, you now have to micromanage your distance to cast spells at all, which will mean your melee team mates are too far away to attack. The game was a massive grind for a rather limited selection of lewd scenes and now that grind is infinitely worse. I quit the new version before I even finished the intro town quests because I couldn't tolerate the awful combat changes.

I highly suggest you check out other HTML RPG games that try similar things. I remember Battle Quest had decent enough system that felt like a turn based RPG, with equipment, skills, and stats included.

 

[theickobicko]

It has potential, but there are problems. the battles are kind of a slog, you have to micromanage a lot of things and selecting radio buttons is a terrible experience - it should be selectable by the label as well, not just the tiny radio button.
the main issue for me is there are not enough pictures. a lot of the times there is just a page or two of description and that is it. and the pictures that are there are not that good.

for the combat i suggest having a setting that let you choose the desired distance per party member and that party member automatically tries to keep that distance every round, with optional setting during combat to change it.
for the radio buttons, at least make the label also clickable.
maybe use AI with option to turn them off for the ones that don't like it. for me ai pictures is better than no pictures.

 

[AzLa1]

Hello everyone!

Thanks for the feedbacks.
After reading the suggestions, I've just ended testing making label selectables. It will be implemented with version 1.10.0 (or on 1.9.1, version 1.9.0 being already released privately).

In the meanwhile and with last version (1.9.0), I've made some adjustments: you will now be able to use spells even when close ranged or a few steps away from the monster (but using spells close ranged will make you take some damage in the process).

Before working on 1.10.0, I'm gonna check all the fight systems mentionned (Battle Quest and a Succubus is born) to see what good ideas I could have from them, knowing the limitations of the used engine.
Truth to be told, the current fight system inspiration is DoL (which I really liked), but applied to BC. I still have in mind adding animations on the fight system and more options, but in the meanwhile it might indeed be a little sloppy and in need of more work / inspiration.

I will keep you updated!

 

[Michael1957]

I just discovered that by delivering 2 bandits to the prison, I get the message "you receive 40$". But my purse only increased by 20$.

 

[grumbles097]

I don't understand how to seduce enemies. I get that I have to be alone, but when I take off my clothes their arousal goes up maybe 4% per turn maximum, and they defeat me before they even reach 10%. Is there a seduction skill to learn somewhere? The brothel is closed to me, and is never open regardless of the time of day, if I'm alone, or how aroused I am. Maybe 645 corruption isn't high enough to make a goblin's blood boil?

The only sex action I can do that will reduce my arousal is having Arod lick my pussy, and when camping I almost never get the option to interact with Arod or Gabriel. I only ever get to masturbate, which brings my arousal down 20 but then it rises back 20 by sleeping so I am always doing reduced damage from being too aroused. I don't like buying the anti-arousal potions, because money is so hard to get.

I wish there was a way to initiate sex with your companions in town.

I am also running into the issue that people have been talking about in version 1.7, where trying to turn in two bandits or horses only gives money for one.

Getting money in this game is a real slog. I don't know if there's a way to speed it up a bit, or if that's on purpose to encourage people to support so they can use cheats.

I'm enjoying the game for the most part though. More artwork and/or more scenes would always be good

 

[grmpff]

I don't understand how to seduce enemies. I get that I have to be alone, but when I take off my clothes their arousal goes up maybe 4% per turn maximum, and they defeat me before they even reach 10%. Is there a seduction skill to learn somewhere? The brothel is closed to me, and is never open regardless of the time of day, if I'm alone, or how aroused I am. Maybe 645 corruption isn't high enough to make a goblin's blood boil?

you have to withdraw from time to time to keep the distance to the enemy, thats how the %tage will get higher

 

[grumbles097]

you have to withdraw from time to time to keep the distance to the enemy, thats how the %tage will get higher

Ah, I see. I can't keep my distance though, my agility is 10 and I almost always fail to put distance between. At this point, I don't want to start over. I'm a mage, most of my points have gone into magic. I just went and found a goblin in the forest outside Morya, started the fight 4 meters away. Failed ten consecutive times to put distance, then finally did. 30% arousal. 32 times total in that fight I failed to put distance between us, adding 2-3% to his arousal means 40+ turns of combat, and then I finally got the message that non-consensual scenes need to be added still lol.

I feel like if the player wants to seduce enemies though, that there should be a quicker way to do it though than 40 rounds of combat and am opaque system. Thanks for telling me how to do it, though! Are there any enemies in the game so far who have noncon scenes implemented?

 

[AzLa1]

Hello!

I just discovered that by delivering 2 bandits to the prison, I get the message "you receive 40$". But my purse only increased by 20$.

This one should have been fixed, but looking again at that old issue, I discovered another one with the payment.
It will be fixed for the next release (1.10). Thanks for the report

I don't understand how to seduce enemies. I get that I have to be alone, but when I take off my clothes their arousal goes up maybe 4% per turn maximum, and they defeat me before they even reach 10%. Is there a seduction skill to learn somewhere? The brothel is closed to me, and is never open regardless of the time of day, if I'm alone, or how aroused I am. Maybe 645 corruption isn't high enough to make a goblin's blood boil?

The only sex action I can do that will reduce my arousal is having Arod lick my pussy, and when camping I almost never get the option to interact with Arod or Gabriel. I only ever get to masturbate, which brings my arousal down 20 but then it rises back 20 by sleeping so I am always doing reduced damage from being too aroused. I don't like buying the anti-arousal potions, because money is so hard to get.

I wish there was a way to initiate sex with your companions in town.

I am also running into the issue that people have been talking about in version 1.7, where trying to turn in two bandits or horses only gives money for one.

Getting money in this game is a real slog. I don't know if there's a way to speed it up a bit, or if that's on purpose to encourage people to support so they can use cheats.

I'm enjoying the game for the most part though. More artwork and/or more scenes would always be good

With more corruption comes more options (because as you are not, it would indeed take an eternity to get the monster aroused enough to have chances to succeed, chances being his arousal percentage) : the different steps giving more options are at 250 (removing the armor), 500 (removing the clothes), 750, 1000, 1250 and 1500. The last three options are the one that would help increasing that enemy arousal way faster.

 

[Michael1957]

When on my way to Bolyam I met this guy asking for information on demon kids. I denied the offered contract and was subsequently defeated. Thus I was returned to my starting point. After getting healed I headed to the caravan and there I was offered a ride to Bolyam. When I took that offer and visited the guild there, I was told I finished the quest for guarding someone to go from Morya to Bolyam. Both (travel option and quest finishing) seems a bit odd.

Afterward the quest for the orphanage can only be done at the docks, but it needs a lot of grind to get the elemental stones required. While checking in the orphanage the silk and normal stones are finished relatively soon. The fire elemental stones went negative. The missing elemental stones are only triggered when mining. It takes many days and camping. Finally the quest is done successfully anyway.

No complaints. I got what I had to do. But I like to explain the things that seem odd while doing it.

 

[AzLa1]

Thanks for the report!
I'm gonna check on them, both are indeed bugs

 

[katenchan98]

Is the bed post scene image from somewere?, i just saw that it had a different syle to the other scenes