"Others" route showing again why is this game called being a DIK. Aside from Sage, every other girl seems more interesting than the LI's, they can make every moment waaay more pleaseble, up to a point that I don't even feel the need to be dating any girl. Thing's should be just like this, I really don't wanna to make a choice
This Episode more then any previous made me miss a Quick button for "Tasks"
I mean.. How many times can you click the Phone, See all the people you have to talk to, or various extra tasks you can do for them, and remember all of that? Honestly i spent as much time looking at the Task screen as actually playing the game. I lost track on many people i just had to talk to before i could move on.
Add to that how many tasks now happen randomly "it seems" just by stepping in or out of a room. Feels like i lost control of even browsing the free roam sections.
I find the Free roam a boring part of the game, but that is just personal. It was ok early on when you could quickly pass though them on your replays to get new paths or branches. But later when you need to Mix drinks, do shores and do everything in a specific order, it becomes very time consuming.
And now we have more then 8 different branches! So to play a fresh Episode 9 for a specific branch, you have to repeat season 1-2 in 8 different ways.
I feel the game is caving in by it's own weight at this point. If you plan a main story and let all the branches be side stories and never cross the main your good. But if you plan to branch out in 8 (And later more) story lines.. You need to create as many versions of each episode as there are branches. A Trippe A game company would find this hard to keep up with. I expect develop time to increase by the same amount as branches are added. May be DPC is happy as long as cash keeps coming in. But this will be a PITA for all of us trying to play the game until it's finished. (About year 2031 with the going rate)
Anyways.. Please give us a Quick button for tasks...
Oh I was wondering - does anyone know if music used in scenes is dependent on path/who you are with in the scene? I know some girls always had a "theme", same for tense situations and such, but I wonder if there's like flag for few songs to play during certain scenes, instead of it being completely random or just one particular song.
I find music selection to be huge part of the experience and it sometimes feels like even when no "theme" is playing, the songs in scene are chosen to fit, even when it's few of them.
Well, I think that this episode is far from the best too. But it isn't garbage. Sure, after my first playthrough (on my Bella branch - Bella ftw) I was a "little bit" disappointed. It's like a big free roam and though I appreciate a free roam in a episode as a loosening up, I hate them if they to long and big. Now, after I played nearly all my saves, I understand the dev a little bit more why he does this episode like this.
After the "big decision" in Ep8 he has to clear the story and conflate five branches into one plot. After this party all branches are back on the same level of the main plot lines. Sure, DPC could've made this via a story focused work but I think this way with the free roam gives the players the illusion it was something the player had done by himself and not to "eat" what he gets from the author. Those illusions is what the players gives the feel about the story and the characters.
We don't have to forget that Interlude + Episode 9 is the start of Season 3 of 4 (if DPC didn't lied about his plans with 16 episodes in 4 seasons). The story arc of the second half of this game has to seed. When this AVN ends after 16 episodes and you look on this as a complete work this Halloween episode is only a little part. It feels like shit at the moment because many people was hyped and eight months since the last update which was an Interlude and not a progress with the knowned characters is a long time to wait.
We'll see what future brings. After my first playthrough I was pissed and gave this episode 2/10. Now I've played all my saves and looked after hints, foreshadowing and easter eggs I'm more lenient about it. Especially you learn with each playthrough to optimize your work with the task list and the waste of time with clicking through the mansion gets lower. After all I've made my freedom with this episode. It's not the best and clearly the worst of all to me but no reason to stop playing.
P.S.: I hope you don't mind I crossanswered your post here. In the other thread it would be clearly off topic. In the main thread about the game it's not.
I’m thinking the dust hasn’t settled yet, Heather still has a bad taste in her mouth…
But there’s never a bad time to discuss spanking!
So I may be wrong, but off the top of my head, I can only recall two characters with a stinging buttocks this episode: Sage (which felt meaningless) and Quinn.
So Sage first. She'll literally just pulled a butt plug out of her ass. A bit of spanking to distribute the discomfort is required, but it was not presented in any way enticingly. So like I said, meaningless, but I still acknowledge the effort.
Now with Quinn, she was all about dominating the mc, and suddenly she's over his knee:
I have the same error on macOS build. compressed or not no matter flashlight.rpy error occures. When you have planned the party i gues haunted or something like that event cause of it. Horror story tellin if u have picked, no error happens.
Now all people that fucked up their saves are complaining the game starts looping..... And we all know why...
If he didn't make that protection the same guys would be complaining the game crashes or does things that are impossible...
So DPC made a choice that results in people fucking up their saves looking bad, instead of having these people make his product look bad.... Seems to me he doesn't care if any of us cheats, he just doesn't want it to reflect negatively on him...
Is there a walkthrough mod that do not modify the saves, so that you can use them with future updates? I just want to see which dialogue options does what to affinity, I don't need any cheats.
SanchoMod and ScrappyMod are both safe, i use ScappyMod myself since SanchoMod has no money cheat....
Just following the highlighted choices or adding some money is never a problem for your saves...
HOWEVER : If you start fiddling around with changing events and such and then make saves, those saves will likely be the ones that activate DPC's cheat detection. So change whatever you want to see different texts or have a different option, JUST DO NOT MAKE A SAVE AFTER THAT!.... And if you have to make such a save put it in the NAME.... (M-Path-whatever-xx)
(the "M' for modded, i use "S" for safe saves)
On the Jill path, MC does not want to subject her to the Walk Of Shame. 100% understandable. MC asks the guy not to do it because he has a girlfriend. Tommy says No, but Leon and Rusty say it's cool. MC introduces Jill as the girlfriend. Rusty has this freaked out look on his. I was thinking, "Bruh!! Just bruh! One date that didn't work out, and you have the look of death on your face? You've been banging a ton of other chicks."
When this game is finally done, i hope he adds voice acting. That would truly elevate this game to the next level. pro voice acting. it would cost a lot of money though.....
DPC could definitely afford it, question is if it would make any financial sense. Years from now when the game is finished, almost everyone who has heard about/played the game will probably already have decided wether or not to pay for it.
I could see happening is part of a digital deluxe edition of the finished game. - BiaD - Extra pink frosting edition ™️, or something like that. He could remaster/ redo the early game models from the first seasons, add voice acting, throw in some exclusive renders and charge a 20-30 usd/euro premium on steam.
DPC could definitely afford it, question is if it would make any financial sense. Years from now when the game is finished, almost everyone who has heard about/played the game will probably already have decided wether or not to pay for it.
I could see happening is part of a digital deluxe edition of the finished game. - BiaD - Extra pink frosting edition ™️, or something like that. He could remaster/ redo the early game models from the first seasons, add voice acting, throw in some exclusive renders and charge a 20-30 usd/euro premium on steam.
Be sure to read the note on the door, it gives the clues to find the keys, if you don't read it you will not be able to get 2 keys.
One is in the cage (needs some clicking but it's somewhere up on a bar), another in the green goo jar, third in the freezer.....
(click that medieval punishment bench for combination to freezer)
Does anybody have a screenshot when you break up with J&M in ep9? I heard Josy tries to hide her tears by leaving and going back to the tour but I can't see Maya's reaction to it. Thanks brothers.