And what do you mean by that? You have only put the list of those characters that are subject to the RP, the RP is as important as affinity, without enough RP points you can not unlock scenes with certain characters, which leads you to be rejected at a certain point in the game, such as Maya and josy, for as much status and chick affinity you have if you have not added enough RP with them will reject you , so what you do with them during the game has relevance, not only if you are chick or dik, for something are the RPs, so there is no point in questioning how the players perceive you, it is not only perception but that according to your state you act one way or another and that makes you add or subtract points according to the character , and the MC also adopts a different attitude.
As for example when being dik you have the attitude to face camila in the bathroom and her, while as a chick you do not say it because a teenager with such attitude would not dare, which justifies your progress or defeats according to your RP, which add up more or less according the person and according to your affinity
The system is perfectly integrated, I do not understand that doubts arise around it.
So far, in Season 1 of Being a DIK, the Relationship Points (RP) haven't played any role unlocking certain paths or closing others (only DIK/CHICK status), will they become more relevant in the near future (Season 2 or Season 3 if planned)
I removed the visibility of the RP because I saw players playing the game to get as high of a score as possible with the girls. It became a hunt for stats and that was a big warning sign, since that's not at all what I wanted this game to be.
I want the game to be about choices and how a sum of choices, as well as key choices, can come together and affect the journey. The best example of this so far is in episode 3 where Isabella evaluates you and for the moment makes up her mind about you as a person. It wasn't a single choice that caused her to say that you're good or bad for Jill, it was a sum of your actions, where some of your choices mattered more than others.
The RP in the game so far have been used two times, during the visit to The Pink Rose in episode 3, where the RP with the DIKs alter Tommy's response and also in episode 3 how Maya's lewd scene is extended if she likes you.
I use and will use the RP to customize and give flavor to the journey and these points may be used in bigger forks along the road, but overall it's your personality and actions that will matter the most in the game. That's why I recommend everyone to have a main save where they follow their heart in their choices and don't get hung up on score hunting. Getting 100% RP with a girl may not matter depending on your other choices.
Not that they will become completely irrelevant but they're not very significant now and basically he said that they will not become more significant in the future.
Well, that's fair although I'd prefer use some another wording in this case. MC is young after all and might not even know what he'd chose the next moment.
I'm not sure if you mean this to come off as hostile, but it kinda does. Also, it was a response to your own speculation about the possible ending state of the game, so if anything we're equally engaged in that "worthless speculation".
Sorry, I didn't mean any hostility, it's just rather pointless to speculate, OP was about "what are peoples thought that MC will have to choose between M/J and Sage. " which is too open question by itself because we're witnessing very little exclusiveness regarding LIs so far.
Quinn was just an example but Maya is surrounded by a ton of single, attractive women and she hasn't flirted with any of them. Nor does she strike me as very experienced in sexual stuff anyway. In the flashback for Ep4 when her and Josy are in the tent. When Maya, who we know likes Josy because of what Derek says, leans forward to get the sweater and Josy kisses her. Maya reacts, again and as usual, with pure shock even though she likes Josy.
I would agree with your interpretation of why Maya is doing it if the night before last she wasn't willing to throw away one of her partners. As they say in the race world "I don't downshift that fast".
Maya flirting with other girls isn't in her nature. Aside from the fact that she doesn't seem to be the kind of person who initiates things, we don't really know if she's even attracted to any other girls or what exactly it is that attracts her to a person. Maya and Josy might have thought that Maya was only ever attracted to girls, but maybe Maya's only ever been attracted to one girl, and it wasn't necessarily a physical attraction but an emotional one.
In the scenario where the MC has done everything positive with Maya, this would certainly track with how her and the MC got so close so quickly because the MC provided for Maya's emotional needs by being there for her when she needed him and he showed her the warmth and affection she was needing as well. Josy too may have been this for Maya when they were in high school and so her feelings for Josy became romantic, just as they have become for the MC.
Yes, the apparent quick change is jarring, but like with a lot of things in this story, you just have to suspend your disbelief occasionally in order to get over certain things.
Just for fun I did some quick sums. Based on various factors I think we are most likely to get chapter 6 on either 16th or the 23rd October 2020. This is based on the production timeline for chapters 4 and 5. (4 took 1 week longer than 5).
That said if we go by chapter one, which, based on the last Acting Lessons post took 60 days we could have a release on 28/07/20 and an average of production time on all 5 chapters would mean 13th September.
Chapters took 60, 85, 104, 147 and 140 days each. I think because of the increased content/ complex animations a time frame of October is probably right. I know that's what most of you were predicting anyway I just thought it would be interesting to look at the numbers.
Maya flirting with other girls isn't in her nature. Aside from the fact that she doesn't seem to be the kind of person who initiates things, we don't really know if she's even attracted to any other girls or what exactly it is that attracts her to a person. Maya and Josy might have thought that Maya was only ever attracted to girls, but maybe Maya's only ever been attracted to one girl, and it wasn't necessarily a physical attraction but an emotional one.
In the scenario where the MC has done everything positive with Maya, this would certainly track with how her and the MC got so close so quickly because the MC provided for Maya's emotional needs by being there for her when she needed him and he showed her the warmth and affection she was needing as well. Josy too may have been this for Maya when they were in high school and so her feelings for Josy became romantic, just as they have become for the MC.
Yes, the apparent quick change is jarring, but like with a lot of things in this story, you just have to suspend your disbelief occasionally in order to get over certain things.
I can see the emotional part of your argument after all Maya did say that the MC was more girlish as far as emotional aspect. Something about it sounding like an insult but wasn't meant as one when their laying on the bed during Ep5.
Yeah I said something similar a handful of pages back about suspension of disbelief.
I can see the emotional part of your argument after all Maya did say that the MC was more girlish as far as emotional aspect. Something about it sounding like an insult but wasn't meant as one when their laying on the bed during Ep5.
Yeah I said something similar a handful of pages back about suspension of disbelief.
I honestly think the whole "no strings" thing is purely to slow the Maya/Josy route down so DPC doesn't have to split from the common route this early. It's just to ease the writing.
Maya/Josy need to tread water for a while whilst we wait for every other LI to catch up. Even with my new "it was all casual" understanding of the Maya/Josy story it's still odd Maya is advocating for everyone (seemingly even Josy) to be in a "no strings" situation with each other. Would have made more sense if she just gave MC some time to see if he wants to join their existing monogamous relationship. This whole open relationship thing is out of character even if she was casual with MC... she wasn't casual with Josy.
Hopefully this doesn't last long and every route starts going forward soon.
People it seems I'm blind again and need a little help. This is for a special render, either Maya's 5th or the 26th Mixed. Instructions in the walkthrough state "go down, down, up [DONE THAT], click the magazine over the table to unlock a special render".
Can anybody please give me a pointer where to click?
I honestly think the whole "no strings" thing is purely to slow the Maya/Josy route down so DPC doesn't have to split from the common route this early. It's just to ease the writing.
Maya/Josy need to tread water for a while whilst we wait for every other LI to catch up. Even with my new "it was all casual" understanding of the Maya/Josy story it's still odd Maya is advocating for everyone (seemingly even Josy) to be in a "no strings" situation with each other. Would have made more sense if she just gave MC some time to see if he wants to join their existing monogamous relationship. This whole open relationship thing is out of character even if she was casual with MC... she wasn't casual with Josy.
Hopefully this doesn't last long and every route starts going forward soon.
In ep.1 Maya says to the mc that he is different ... and that she is different, too.
From the beginning both Josy and Maya behave different from the other girls in the game. They establish a more emotional and much closer relationship with mc which is not only based on sex but goes deeper. That's one of the reasons why I favour Josy and Maya as Love Interests.
(In comparison : The relation with Sage is more superficial and focuses more on sex, the relation with Jill is evolving very slowly, the relation with Bella is handicapped by her psychological trauma.)
People it seems I'm blind again and need a little help. This is for a special render, either Maya's 5th or the 26th Mixed. Instructions in the walkthrough state "go down, down, up [DONE THAT], click the magazine over the table to unlock a special render".
Absolutely LOVE this game, has to be the best one out there in terms of pure visuals at the minute. Loving both the DIK and CHICK paths.
Dunno if it's just me though but, I just can't stop seeing Josy as a bitch for the way she treated the MC in the early chapters, even on the love route when she has apologised, explained and forgiven and is now being nice and loving......I still cant stop seeing her as just a selfish manipulative bitch
I couldn't came up with any valid theory on it yet but I'm curious: was any consensus here about envelopes in the first place? Who has a motive to set up MC so early? (except for Chad himself but... erm) Pretty much no one so it's much more likely about Chad than MC but still totally unclear, right?
I agree with Cndyrvr4lf, I don't think the message to Chad said anything about the MC specifically. Chad just assumed the MC left them when he realized the MC might have overheard him having phone sex in the locker room.
As for what the goal of those envelopes was, I have no good ideas because the two letters seem so different (at least from what we have seen). Chad's letter shows a secret Chad was utterly terrified of it getting out; he's so unnerved he assumes it must be blackmail. Dawe's letter instead reveal Aerith's secret, a secret so poorly guarded she has probably already tagged Dawe about it on Rooster herself.
Unless the sender just wanted to piss off those two in general, it's not really clear what goal the combined letters were intended to achieve. But even if the sender did just want to piss Chad and Dawe off, it's still not clear who would have done it. The pictures of Aerith imply the sender had access to the DIK laptop, and the DIKs do hate Chad and Dawe. But Tommy is the only DIK who I could see doing something like that in secret, and he seems much more likely to make really harmful info on Chad public directly.
Based on the scene at the end of Episode 5, we can add Melanie and Sarah to the suspect list. They could have had access to Arieth's pictures from Arieth, and they clearly have an agenda. But I see no clear indication of what that agenda is, so they are effectively stuck on the list because it is impossible to rule them out.
So I'm at a loss. IMHO, either the sender is a minor character(s) who just hates Chad and Dawe and didn't mean anything more, or it's a more significant character motivated by things that have not been revealed yet. That doesn't narrow it down much.
I agree with Cndyrvr4lf, I don't think the message to Chad said anything about the MC specifically. Chad just assumed the MC left them when he realized the MC might have overheard him having phone sex in the locker room.
As for what the goal of those envelopes was, I have no good ideas because the two letters seem so different (at least from what we have seen). Chad's letter shows a secret Chad was utterly terrified of it getting out; he's so unnerved he assumes it must be blackmail. Dawe's letter instead reveal Aerith's secret, a secret so poorly guarded she has probably already tagged Dawe about it on Rooster herself.
Unless the sender just wanted to piss off those two in general, it's not really clear what goal the combined letters were intended to achieve. But even if the sender did just want to piss Chad and Dawe off, it's still not clear who would have done it. The pictures of Aerith imply the sender had access to the DIK laptop, and the DIKs do hate Chad and Dawe. But Tommy is the only DIK who I could see doing something like that in secret, and he seems much more likely to make really harmful info on Chad public directly.
Based on the scene at the end of Episode 5, we can add Melanie and Sarah to the suspect list. They could have had access to Arieth's pictures from Arieth, and they clearly have an agenda. But I see no clear indication of what that agenda is, so they are effectively stuck on the list because it is impossible to rule them out.
So I'm at a loss. IMHO, either the sender is a minor character(s) who just hates Chad and Dawe and didn't mean anything more, or it's a more significant character motivated by things that have not been revealed yet. That doesn't narrow it down much.
Same problem we have been having...... To many questions, not enough information. Don't get me wrong I both love and hate all the wild speculation but we don't do anything other than rile each other up and run in circles
If we want to get extremely nitpicky, the picture of Jacob and Derek with Arieth (when the MC stays at the DIK party) could be in the neighborhood of technically qualifying.
But that probably is about as close as the game will get.
