Unreal Engine - Before the Storm [v0.55b] [Auril]

Typical Auril game. Could take you 20 mins to see everything or 4 hours depending on how much you pay attention to dialogue and know where stuff is. The stuff outside the village is too far away. The scenes are his standard stuff with more polygons. I'm still waiting on a 3d artist to really flesh out the contact part of the sex. Maybe add more anatomy, that would be dope. Still Auril is the only real artist doing 3d games with beast stuff. Also there's a freecam that just about as good as UUU 5, and a heck of a lot easier to use.

[v0.51b]
Pros: Good quality models, doesn't run too poorly, good scene quality and viewer.

Cons: No gallery, little to no UI, no sense of direction (map, waypoints, or compass)

Glorified scene viewer/chore simulator but at least it's pretty.

It is a game on Unreal Enigne so it goes without saying there is a massive ass map that has as little utilization as it can, in terms of interactivity with literally any object or the literal engine.

Which engine would you use if you were going to only implement a linear path towards progression? You'd think of levels, episodes, something much more curated, here we have a massive map that has literally nothing in it, not even the most basic of UI to guide yourself through it. If it werent for the walkthrough I'd give up playing until the latest patch.

The h-scenes are fine, they aren't bad for what seems to be, in-engine, the only thing properly UN was used for here, but the fact that th e game is linear, it means revisiting h-scenes is a major chore for the only way to do this is through the "Saves" of chic they have no information on date, location, or even part of the linear story. There are major flaws here that are getting ignored in favour of h-scene animations and watnot, I think the devs need to take a couple of steps back and approach this differently.

Review of version 0.45, I will update it on release if there are any changes.

Finally, nextgen in Auril's games!
NPCs have learned to walk, and not just stand! The world has become many times larger than in old games! The ability to somehow save progress! Wow!
The plot is much more interesting than in BB2 and the game about Alexstrasza. I'm glad that at least some technical progress has appeared, we have been waiting for this for many years.

Of course, the old problems are still there, namely:

Lack of hints of interactivity of objects (thanks of course for the butterflies on the lost script sheets, but what about the rest?)
Lack of a quest log
Lack of a map or marks where to go

Inventory still opens on I, and not on Tab or at least C
Weak soundeffects (or rather, its actual absence in many small things and in erotic scenes)

Excelent game. Waiting for a newer version for almost a year now. Loved it!!
We need more games like these. where you actually play a game, but also where you have to earn seeing somone naked. Filled with some "mood´-keepers". Very good

Review for update 0.3b.

The game is slowly coming to life, quite a few scenes, interesting story that gets straight to the point, big open map with a lot of areas to explore now and in the future, quality sex animations.

Right now I would say that there's only one real issue with the game, and that's the forced resolution scaling that makes things very blurry and pixelated at times, we need an option to disable that in the future.

This being 2024 and to still have a dev only asking for $5/month for complete access to everything, is commendable. I don't know about others but expecting the entire world for that when a lot of devs out there want $10/m and even that with limitations is unreasonable.

Very good so far, one of Auril best updates, really love the atmosphere and the plot the gameplay is not extensive to the point that you just walk, you actually have some freedom to explore, really good experience with the main character actually having some character development cant wait to see more

Another game from auril, not much different from the others. Still early stages but an interesting premise overall. Very big performance issues that will be never fixed (i suppose). Not much a different game from any others she has done. Female protag is good and hpefully will lead tyo many interesting things but wețll see

May 8, 2024 [v01b]
While the proximity pop-ups are a great addition on instructing new players the basic controls, how to access inventory, and how to save their games.

It's 2024 - present, not 2017. Let's do something fresh with the Whorecraft IP, shall we?
The same problems that's apparent in Blue is Better 2, and subsequently Blue is Better 1, make a return:

• We're of course back to the unstable FPS, getting 35FPS behind foliage, and only 55 FPS in town on Cine/High setting with ray trace disabled
  • 12th Gen Intel CPU, 3070 GPU, DDR4-3200 16GB RAM
• Awkward moaning that cut in and out for 20% of the sex scene.
• The world is so quiet & dead, here are some things that should make sounds:
  • Tauren hooves walking on cobblestone/dirt
  • Leather/Mail/Plate boots walking on cobblestone/dirt
  • Walking into a wooden tavern
  • Being underwater
  • Rustling of trees/bushes/twigs in the wind
• No voice-lined dialogue
• No Gallery
• No Save whenever and wherever you want
• (Maybe beta problem) Quests do not show up in Quest Journal
• After BiB1 and BiB2, we're again shown a static sex scene at 3 different positions with the same thrusting, and jiggly tits before the cum shot.
  • Just looking for a bit more variety in the sex rather than seeing a dude thrust his horse size cock to make the huge tits bounce

Definitely not holding my breath though for some fresh, new take on the Whorecraft universe.