VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.10.1] [DrPinkCake]

[DirtyMario]

I liked the game only infuriate these exits in the rooms, at first I did not even understand where they are)

Well no shit. The layout of the rooms and the arrow placement makes no fucking sense whatsoever in some locations. I was glad when he introduced the fast travel map. Hope he keeps that up for future free roams.

Also, I don't remember who said it but there CAN'T be a time skip. It's Sage's last semester and if she leaves and disappears in a puff of smoke like Cathy did I'm gonna burn down this Sodom & Gomorrah of a school.

 

[Q Who]

That will probably just break your game/save later down the line especially as the game swaps to a new exe. for season 3

i'll chance it. What's the worst that can happen? I can just speed through a fresh until I catch up. LOL, using the cheat mod again. I don't think that I ever had to restart due to problems. I did replay it once when I didn't play the last 2 updates. So I enjoyed starting from square 1.

 

[felicemastronzo]

The system works reasonably well as long as you don't think about it, but it runs into big problems on any sort of close inspection. It serves it's main role of providing replay value by making a "horndog" route feel very different from a "nice guy" run, and the Major Decisions add an element of gameplay that livens up the Visual Novel narrative.

But it starts to break down if you question what makes the Major Decisions so major: why is giving Steve a shoulder to cry on more important than defending Chad when he's nearly expelled? Why is fooling around with Jade a Major DIK act, but fooling around with Bella is neutral (and even occasionally CHICKish)? There's really no rhyme or reason to why most of those decisions are the big ones, which undercuts the system considerably.

In addition, the distinction between Status and Affinity is both poorly implemented and unnecessarily confusing. Sometimes, Status seems to be the MC's reputation/style whereas Affinity is more like his inherent personality: thus Status determines his speech patterns while Affinity will eventually go on to govern his actions in a 'crisis.' But that gets muddles when, for example, Jill will only offer to shower with an MC with CHICK affinity; by the previous logic, either she should only offer to shower with an MC who has CHICK status, or else an MC with CHICK Affinity should refuse to take advantage of her when showering. Similarly, the MC can only get a threesome with Mona and Camila if he has serious DIK Status, whereas you'd expect the MC should need DIK Affinity to make the attempt (and maybe DIK for them to accept). In the end, each system arbitrarily means whatever makes for better gameplay at the time.

I do think Permanent Affinity could be an interesting development, but it really depends on how it's implemented. If done well, it will help simplify the narrative (since things will eventually boil down to at most 3 "routes") while making the restrictions feel like an organic outgrowth of how we've chosen to mold the MC. If done badly, it will wreck the illusion that our choices ever mattered by forcing us to do things our MC would probably never have done, simply for the sake of the meter.

It's hard to be too optimistic given just how underthought the initial DIK/CHICK system was. Still, for all its faults BaDIK has been fantastic up to this point so I'm willing to give DPC the benefit of the doubt for now. Here's hoping!

it seems to me that overall the affinity experiment (which was interesting) is dead or at least has served its purpose. it was supposed to add a degree of complexity to what mc could or couldn't do, but in the end this freedom has become so inconvenient to manage (and arbitrary) that halfway through (maybe less) of the story it's already blocked for many players and will always be blocked for more players going forward.

If you've beaten up Troy, Dawe, Caleb and Tommy at this point the story wants you to beat up whoever is in front of you, with no choice.

As for affinity/LIs: it makes no sense to me that halfway through the game (or less) MC could already be out of the game with 4 out of 5 LIs, what are these players supposed to do in the next 3-4 years?

 

[AchedCroissant]

Well no shit. The layout of the rooms and the arrow placement makes no fucking sense whatsoever in some locations. I was glad when he introduced the fast travel map. Hope he keeps that up for future free roams.

Also, I don't remember who said it but there CAN'T be a time skip. It's Sage's last semester and if she leaves and disappears in a puff of smoke like Cathy did I'm gonna burn down this Sodom & Gomorrah of a school.

You are replying to a bot

 

[dalli_x]

I find it strange that no one has noticed that it is either another Maya, the MC has regained his memory, or there is a big time jump.

Read the message from the Cluck.

"Who else feels like the midterms are coming too fast? Anyone? #SoNotReady"



Midterms. Like Jill? Then Maya must be about Jill's age, so she's been in college longer. See what's in Maya's right hand? A calendar.
4 possibilities

Possibility 1:
Midterms. This is an older sister of Maya? This is only one possibility.

Possibility 2:
Something happened in the past where the MC lost his head. So his memory. DnG 1.

Possibility 3:
The others played a Halloween prank on the MC.

Possibility 4:
Time jump

 

[DirtyMario]

You are replying to a bot

1. How can you tell?
2. Doesn't really matter the statement is still true.

 

[sorco2003]

I find it strange that no one has noticed that it is either another Maya, the MC has regained his memory, or there is a big time jump.

Read the message from the Cluck.

"Who else feels like the midterms are coming too fast? Anyone? #SoNotReady"

View attachment 1460239

Midterms. Like Jill? Then Maya must be about Jill's age, so she's been in college longer. See what's in Maya's right hand? A calendar.
4 possibilities

Possibility 1:
Midterms. This is an older sister of Maya? This is only one possibility.

Possibility 2:
Something happened in the past where the MC lost his head. So his memory. DnG 1.

Possibility 3:
The others played a Halloween prank on the MC.

Possibility 4:
Time jump

Or Maybe she's just talking about the exams.

 

[shazba]

I find it strange that no one has noticed that it is either another Maya, the MC has regained his memory, or there is a big time jump.

Read the message from the Cluck.

"Who else feels like the midterms are coming too fast? Anyone? #SoNotReady"

View attachment 1460239

Midterms. Like Jill? Then Maya must be about Jill's age, so she's been in college longer. See what's in Maya's right hand? A calendar.
4 possibilities

Possibility 1:
Midterms. This is an older sister of Maya? This is only one possibility.

Possibility 2:
Something happened in the past where the MC lost his head. So his memory. DnG 1.

Possibility 3:
The others played a Halloween prank on the MC.

Possibility 4:
Time jump

Not sure what you think a midterm test is, but it’s just a test that students take in the middle of a term, so it just means that we are approaching the middle of the first term that the mc has been at college. So that’s like a month or two in, depending on how long the terms are in this game.

 

[AchedCroissant]

1. How can you tell?
2. Doesn't really matter the statement is still true.

The signature has a link and the date the profile was created, the mods always say not to respond to these users and I have seen them in threads with different accounts always saying things like "this game is good" "I like sex scenes" things like that

 

[emmit33112]

Wow. This game blew me away. I can't wait for even more episodes to come out.

 

[AchedCroissant]

I find it strange that no one has noticed that it is either another Maya, the MC has regained his memory, or there is a big time jump.

Read the message from the Cluck.

"Who else feels like the midterms are coming too fast? Anyone? #SoNotReady"

View attachment 1460239

Midterms. Like Jill? Then Maya must be about Jill's age, so she's been in college longer. See what's in Maya's right hand? A calendar.
4 possibilities

Possibility 1:
Midterms. This is an older sister of Maya? This is only one possibility.

Possibility 2:
Something happened in the past where the MC lost his head. So his memory. DnG 1.

Possibility 3:
The others played a Halloween prank on the MC.

Possibility 4:
Time jump

The only thing I can confirm is that Maya's boobs are more bigger

 

[godkingxerxes]

One thing I don't understand is how is Halloween anywhere close to coming.

The newspaper Neil is reading in chapter one is from March but yet a few short weeks later it's October?

 

[DirtyMario]

The signature has a link and the date the profile was created, the mods always say not to respond to these users and I have seen them in threads with different accounts always saying things like "this game is good" "I like sex scenes" things like that

Interesting. I personally can't tell all these barely english speaking middle easterners apart (no offense to middle eastern citizens) so I'll reply to everyone out of sheer boredom. See, I even replied to you.

What surprises me, though, is that the Cluck text doesn't mention Maya's name or B&R.

Because it's really Derek wearing Mayas scalp. How's that for a dark twist?

 

[Kellermann]

The only thing I can confirm is that Maya's boobs are more bigger
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Yeah, I was mentioning that the other day. Each lady's boobage goes up at least one cup size when in Daz clothing. They shrink back down to normal when naked, sadly. Quite odd, but I'm not complaining. Sweater puppies are great!

 

[AchedCroissant]

One thing I don't understand is how is Halloween anywhere close to coming.

The newspaper Neil is reading in chapter one is from March but yet a few short weeks later it's October?

Another thing that I do not understand is how Isabella and Neil read the same newspaper when several days have passed

 

[Finisher69]

Did DPC give a release date for the upcoming update?

 

[shazba]

Another thing that I do not understand is how Isabella and Neil read the same newspaper when several days have passed
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Who reads it first? I’d buy that Neil can’t afford the newspaper so he rummages through his neighbour’s garbage after it’s been tossed out.

 

[AchedCroissant]

Who reads it first? I’d buy that Neil can’t afford the newspaper so he rummages through his neighbour’s garbage after it’s been tossed out.

And Isabella stole it from Neil? Because looking at her cheese sandwiches, she doesn't have a lot of money either

 

[AchedCroissant]

Yeah, I was mentioning that the other day. Each lady's boobage goes up at least one cup size when in Daz clothing. They shrink back down to normal when naked, sadly. Quite odd, but I'm not complaining. Sweater puppies are great!

That explains Jill's size, her clothes make her look like an Amazon

 

[hakuna-matata]

Did DPC give a release date for the upcoming update?

Yeah, it came out a few weeks ago.