Snooky

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I want to do a new 'clean' playthrough where I unlock everything again, i've deleted my saves an even tried a clean install but I can't get my gallery and what not to reset. Is there a specific file I need to delete?
Except your save files in your game folder you have to delete and your saves in the folder called %appdata%\RenPy\BeingaDIK-1535311494
 
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I'm far from convinced that Maya/Josy path has been entirely sacrificed. They are still intending to pledge HOT, which means going at the scavenger hunt list, and "threesome" is on that. They both still have strong feelings for MC, who else are they likely to ask to help out with it?
I told them i wouldnt help them with their quest, i told josy i wouldnt go with her to see her dad and i told derek that im moving along. there is no way that the HOTS hell week should still be on my MC except for plot contrivances
 

ename144

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Why am I now noticing that MC doesn't have Bella's phone number? :confused:
Because if the MC didn't stay with Bella in Episode 4, he's barely interacted with her. She just doesn't come up that often so it's easy to see why the MC wouldn't think to ask for her number (if she would give it), and why we don't notice it's absence. What would the MC call her up to say?
 

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Because if the MC didn't stay with Bella in Episode 4, he's barely interacted with her. She just doesn't come up that often so it's easy to see why the MC wouldn't think to ask for her number (if she would give it), and why we don't notice it's absence. What would the MC call her up to say?
MC to Bella: DTF? ;)
 

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If it's true, getting the Diks into trouble makes even less sense. It has none impact on Sage and Chad relationship. Furthermore Diks'parties are clearly the most pleasant. What's the point of getting them in trouble with Cathy's pictures ? Except being stupidly evil ? Not to mention the boring preps party was also Quinn's idea. If they want to separate Chad and Sage, why didn't they simply send the compromising pictures Chad want to hide, directly to Sage ?

Sarah and Melanie are Quinn's henchman, they're both involved in the prostitution and drugs stuff. Sage would not tolerate the drugs and smoking activities. The Diks mansion is the perfect place to do it, since Rusty has no problems with it and Tommy is directly involved. So once again, how getting the Diks into trouble serves their interest ?




Wow you really have a low opinion of them :LOL:
I was thinking about that,what if Quinn and Tommy are working together for being the presidentes of the DIKs and the HOTs? If the school blames Rusty for the pic of Cathy he is out of the president charge for sure and then Tommy gets his place. And with Quinn if she is behind of the Chad cheating and make him break up with Sage and then Sage feels a bad for that, Quinn plays the card of "Sage is not in condition of being the president". Is how you say it Sage is against the prostitution and drugs things and for me thats enough reason for Quinn wanting Sage out of the game.
 

Tserriednich'sNen

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Because if the MC didn't stay with Bella in Episode 4, he's barely interacted with her. She just doesn't come up that often so it's easy to see why the MC wouldn't think to ask for her number (if she would give it), and why we don't notice it's absence. What would the MC call her up to say?
He has every other girls number so I figured why not?

If the player doesn't accept Quinn's offer in Episode 1 Camila ends up giving him her number in Episode 5 to continue the story. Maybe there'll be a scene where he feels the need to call her for whatever reason but can't since he doesn't have her number so maybe he'll get it from Jill.
 

Tumai

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The bigger problem with the Bella storyline is that arguably the most important of her lewd scenes so far, character-wise, is the one you can most easily miss. The scene in Ep. 4, which you only get if you are staying with her, shows her developing an emotional connection to MC, beginning to accept her own attraction, and the barriers breaking down as she's willing to explore her sexuality with him. Her deep breathing and internal monologue as they hug in the pool are actually some of the best character building in the game, IMO. But you completely miss it if you choose to stay with either Derek or Sage, which I think is a mistake of story structure, given how much emotional context it provides.
Have to disagree with this. That scene was the entire point of picking the Bella door for people that are pursuing Bella.

Now I actually disagreed with DPC splitting the paths that early in the game, but since he did it, then there needs to be meaningful differences to the door one picks, otherwise what's the point?

Foregoing the multiple sexual encounters available via staying with Sage for that 1 insightful scene with Bella (believe me no one picked it just to play the Watering the plants mini-game) was the price one pays for those interested in Bella.
 

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I was thinking about that,what if Quinn and Tommy are working together for being the presidentes of the DIKs and the HOTs? If the school blames Rusty for the pic of Cathy he is out of the president charge for sure and then Tommy gets his place. And with Quinn if she is behind of the Chad cheating and make him break up with Sage and then Sage feels a bad for that, Quinn plays the card of "Sage is not in condition of being the president". Is how you say it Sage is against the prostitution and drugs things and for me thats enough reason for Quinn wanting Sage out of the game.
The only thing that im not sure is that in the flashback Tommy and Rusty looked like actually good friends but now theres no more Rustys money
 

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If it's true, getting the Diks into trouble makes even less sense. It has none impact on Sage and Chad relationship. Furthermore Diks'parties are clearly the most pleasant. What's the point of getting them in trouble with Cathy's pictures ? Except being stupidly evil ? Not to mention the boring preps party was also Quinn's idea. If they want to separate Chad and Sage, why didn't they simply send the compromising pictures Chad want to hide, directly to Sage ?

Sarah and Melanie are Quinn's henchman, they're both involved in the prostitution and drugs stuff. Sage would not tolerate the drugs and smoking activities. The Diks mansion is the perfect place to do it, since Rusty has no problems with it and Tommy is directly involved. So once again, how getting the Diks into trouble serves their interest ?

Wow you really have a low opinion of them :LOL:
Sage does not care about Arieth's achievements with DIKs and are fully awared on, so those photos not effective on her. Chad in other hand, is very sencitive to that kind of stuff, hot-tempered and not smart. And there was appeared obvious target for his temper. MC. Nice toy to play, and getting rid of public 3alfa's possessive claims on HOTs.

To deal with Cathy it is just pushing buttons and play with Cathy, Rusty and DIKs as well. And getting rid of public DIK's possessive claims on HOTs as well.

I dont think Quinn have full control over anyone exept Riona mb, and definetly not over Sara/Mel. They have some trades and deals and they really love messing around to everything they can reach. Quinn included. Its even not about parties really. They are just love сollege life that way. Like Quinn, but without massive shady business target in sight. Like i said. Pure Chaotic Evil.

They are trowing away really too much obvious provokes on left and right every time MC contact them. Their target, exept fun and amusement, is unclear, so i said they are chaotics, and we ll see how is it real in future EPs.

But im sure MC will have more troubles ahead with Sara/Mel. More than Quinn or Chad or Tommy. They will happily use every opportunity to play and go underestimated, unnoticed and unpunished. As Quinn's henchman or even helpless victims "her evil genius" for instance. In a heartbeat. (tm)


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ename144

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Have to disagree with this. That scene was the entire point of picking the Bella door for people that are pursuing Bella.

Now I actually disagreed with DPC splitting the paths that early in the game, but since he did it, then there needs to be meaningful differences to the door one picks, otherwise what's the point?

Foregoing the multiple sexual encounters available via staying with Sage for that 1 insightful scene with Bella (believe me no one picked it just to play the Watering the plants mini-game) was the price one pays for those interested in Bella.
I think it would make more sense to say if you want to pursue Bella you need to forego Sage's breakfast conversation and some random encounters with Melanie and Sage.

I don't think it's an unacceptable cost to expect people pursuing Bella to spend time with Bella in the process. You can still screw Sage's brains out if you stay with Bella, but Bella will only appear for about 15 seconds total if you chose to stay with Sage.
 
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I think it would make more sense to say if you want to pursue Bella you need to forego Sage's breakfast conversation and some random encounters with Melanie and Sage.

I don't think it's an unacceptable cost to expect people pursuing Bella to spend time with Bella in the process. You can still screw Sage's brains out if you stay with Bella, but Bella will only appear for about 15 seconds total if you chose to stay with Sage.
I can see why DPC has made all the paths so continuous though. If he was to make a a path for all the decisions (where stayed, girls you slept with, etc. etc.) this game would have us all at different points with different girls. Way to convoluted, can you imagine trying to program all the variables to make it work right? Holy Sheet Batman!!
 

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I know the requirements and I believed I've done all that... I was wrong. The thing is: I don't know what I missed and I don't which of my saves would be a good "savepoint". So, I'd have to start from scratch (again)
Open your phone and check Rionas bio. At least for the ep.4 tasks you should see the entries if you did it.
 

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I can see why DPC has made all the paths so continuous though. If he was to make a a path for all the decisions (where stayed, girls you slept with, etc. etc.) this game would have us all at different points with different girls. Way to convoluted, can you imagine trying to program all the variables to make it work right? Holy Sheet Batman!!
It's not that I disagree as such, but Bella has had a such small part in the story that skipping her house in Episode 4 is probably something like missing a third of her total content to that point. If that content is optional, her path in Episode 5 needs to either branch to accommodate two different stages of the relationship, or it needs to slow the relationship back down to where it was in Episode 3 and then ramp back up.

The former would be a massive programming and rendering headache. The latter is possible, but it would still come down to adding more scenes with Bella, which is ultimately still more workload for DPC. I think gating Bella's path through Episode 4 is the lesser evil, but I can understand the counterargument.
 
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About a potential "time skip" (too many comments to quote), there pretty much has to be one, or at least a significant acceleration of the amount of time passing per episode. Ep. 5 revealed that Bella teaches a class and MC is supposed to take it next semester. That wouldn't have been introduced if it wasn't going to come into play. So if nothing else, we're going to need to advance to next semester, and if we do it at the same rate we've been going that'll take about 50 episodes.

Have to disagree on this. Context says Chad is talking to her already and then the game giving this straight look on girls, clear "show, don't tell" technique which DPC's using quite often and effectively enough to my liking. I mean, of course it's still possible for any of thouse girls to be secret Chad's lover but, given this scene, it would be retarded.
n theory she could be talking to Chad on a pinktooth headset, but it would be a real stretch. Who has phone sex when they're jogging on a treadmill? Wrong type of heavy breathing! I'd certainly call foul if that turns out to be the reveal.
Well... yeah, you guys are right. It's definitely an imperfect solution. The problem is we're rapidly running out of proper suspects for Chad's lover that aren't going to be straight out of nowhere. Also, I'm not sure why Mel would call Chad about MC and Sage otherwise, except just to be a bitch... which, while not out of character, doesn't really seem like the vibe that scene was trying to portray (since Mel follows it up by seeking reassurance from Sarah that she'll have her back if/when things get bad).

So yeah, your criticisms of the theory are valid, I just don't have a better one.

I was thinking about that,what if Quinn and Tommy are working together for being the presidentes of the DIKs and the HOTs? If the school blames Rusty for the pic of Cathy he is out of the president charge for sure and then Tommy gets his place. And with Quinn if she is behind of the Chad cheating and make him break up with Sage and then Sage feels a bad for that, Quinn plays the card of "Sage is not in condition of being the president". Is how you say it Sage is against the prostitution and drugs things and for me thats enough reason for Quinn wanting Sage out of the game.
Quinn is clearly trying to get Sage to step down so she can take over, mostly by making it seem like the stuff Quinn is doing is Sage's fault (and it's sort of working, see Heather and Riona's convo in Ep. 5). She could just wait, given that Sage is graduating anyway, but Quinn doesn't strike me as reasonable or patient.

As for Tommy, I don't think he wants to be president: the way things are now he basically gets all the power while Rusty does all the work, and I think that's exactly how he likes it. And even if he did want Rusty out, there's clearly no conspiracy between he and Quinn, or at least not after Ep. 5, where Tommy basically tells Quinn to fuck off.

Have to disagree with this. That scene was the entire point of picking the Bella door for people that are pursuing Bella.

Now I actually disagreed with DPC splitting the paths that early in the game, but since he did it, then there needs to be meaningful differences to the door one picks, otherwise what's the point?

Foregoing the multiple sexual encounters available via staying with Sage for that 1 insightful scene with Bella (believe me no one picked it just to play the Watering the plants mini-game) was the price one pays for those interested in Bella.
Meaningful differences require meaningfully different results. That scene is a pivotal relationship building scene between Bella and MC, and a landmark character moment for Bella individually. Despite this, missing out on it changes nothing going forward: it doesn't impede your ability to pursue Bella, nor does it change how you and she interact. And given the context of the scene, it really should. If you wanted to make that scene a meaningful reward for choosing the Bella route, then the Bella route needs to change based on whether or not you made that choice. As it stands now, it didn't.
 
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