VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.11.1] [DrPinkCake]

[dalli_x]

Preview #14 Maya Rio
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I just wrote earlier so the MC could learn secrets from Riona. From the looks of it, Maya learned a secret from Riona. Riona's gestures and facial expressions indicate so it was something that some people already knew, but Maya didn't. Maya doesn't seem upset, but rather slightly worried or unsure.

The whole scene is probably the one from the camping trip, which is what we saw from the picture with the beer pong mini-game. The fence in the background is the same and the covered camping tables fit in well too.

Maya's line of sight could be, doesn't have to be, in the direction of the beer pong. Only 3 people can be seen correctly at Bier Pong. Sage, Elena and Sarah. There will also be a fourth person at the Beer Pong table because Sage has an opponent. It will probably be the MC, it's a mini game after all.

The only question is what Riona might have told Maya and if this scene is canon. I can imagine so Maya just learned from Riona that these girls, meaning Sage, Elena and Sarah are competitors in regards to the MC.

Maya's necklace is also interesting. Maybe it's just the light, but this chain is completely silver in Maya's past. Here is silver and golden. Talk is silver and silence is gold.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Preview #14 Maya Rio
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Thank you DPC for the second preview with beautiful, cute and charming Riona! It's a celebration for all Rio fans .
Stop, wait a minute! Who is this second girl, a blonde with a frightened look, and why is the preview called "Maya"?

 

[dalli_x]

Thank you DPC for the second preview with beautiful, cute and charming Riona! It's a celebration for all Rio fans .
Stop, wait a minute! Who is this second girl, a blonde with a frightened look, and why is the preview called "Maya"?

Maya is an LI and Riona is not. Question answered.

 

[NebulousShooter]

So what is the general consensus on the alignment system in this game? Do people like the way that changes some of the MC's lines of dialogue and limits the choices the player can make? Or would they rather have it just affect the way others act towards you?

I'm not a fan of it because it limits roleplaying options. You basically get to be a dudebro choad or a boy scout. The neutral path is a weird hodgepodge mix of the two that requires a lot of metagaming to get the results you want. Sometimes it just locks you out of content for no good reason, like with Heather's latest scene.

I was on a neutral path where I was as nice as possible to Heather, and as rude as possible to Tommy, and yet the game won't let me choose the option to let her blow me at the party because of my alignment score. Which is stupid. I made all the relevant choices to set up that scene. I beat Tommy up, ratted him out to Heather, told him I wasn't interested in being friends. I had even designed the party in a way that Tommy was the only guy unhappy with it. That's how petty I've been to him on this path.

But this one choice was off limits. I could fuck Camilla on the dance floor, and plow Jade in her kitchen (immediately after telling her I nailed her daughter), but a blow job from Heather was deemed to be totally out of character for some reason. The game wanted me to make more DIK choices with completely unrelated characters in scenes that have nothing to do with this scene. And that is a thing I've been annoyed with before.

The alignment system can't handle someone who wants to be nice to nice people and mean to mean people. You want to make fun of an asshole? Better creepily ogle a bunch of random women first to get your DIK score up. Want to tell Derek that a hot girl is hot? No! You will say that she's got a pretty necklace instead because you were polite one time too many and are now stuck acting like a guy hiding deep in the closet.

So that's my two cents on the issue. It would make sense for the alignment system to cause girls to reject you based on your reputation, but the way it prevents you from attempting to do things is lame.

Always hated morality systems, don't care if its lore friendly Kotor, or its just there to be there Mass Effect, it always forces encourages you to max one, instead of letting you role play each situation.

 

[Paynne]

Preview #14 Maya Rio
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Rio laughing gives me 100 years of life

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Maya is an LI and Riona is not. Question answered.

Objection! Side Girls shaming!

Don't mind, just kidding about thread attention got to Riona in first.
I like Maya's new hairstyle, looks like it's permanent now. That low-detailed tuft of hair should have been replaced a long time ago, given that the game has jumped ahead visually.

 

[dalli_x]

Rio laughing gives me 100 years of life

The years you will need to see the end of BaDIK.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

I thought Maya had gone to her father, but she's at a party. But where are they? This is not a campus area. It's somewhere out of town, maybe it's an area of an abandoned factory or something like that. I'm sure MС said something embarrassing and Maya blushed and Riona laughed.

HOT's house backyard mostly.

 

[funkymonkeyjedi]

I like Maya's new hairstyle, looks like it's permanent now.

Looks like a dead animal or a wig made to fit Tybalt's watermelon...

 

[ProxyGist]

Guys, which girl do you think will have the darkest path? A lot of people think it will be Quinn or even Sage, but my money is definitely on Bella.
I won't talk about the mysterious traumatic past and the disappearance of her husband.
Bella will probably be isolated from all MC parties. All the parties will have his ex-LIs (Sage, Maya, and the unexpectedly always in love with him Josy) and some will definitely have Jill, considering how close she has become to Sage. But not Bella. Given that there are cheating points in the game, and the fact that there will be sexy girls constantly swirling around MC, the player way of Bella will have a very hard time resisting temptation.
Sage, Maya, and Josy are open to experimentation in sex, while Bella and Jill are more conservative. I'm pretty sure DPC will play the "girl's tears" card when the crying Jill comes on to him and MC can't refuse.

 

[ProxyGist]

HOT's house backyard mostly.

There is always a brick fence on campus. Here there is a dirty wooden fence.

 

[Deleted member 1044901]

Based on the previews already released, we can say that in Ep.10 there will be a kind of outdoor gathering, right? A starry sky, tents with mattresses and pillows... I wonder what choice will be given to the MC who doesn't have his love interest at this event (Bella/Jill/Nicole/)? Does the party end early or do they have to sleep in the tent with one of the girls and hope none of them jump on his dick during the night? Sage, help me! Please! (You know these girls are naughty when the safest option is to sleep with Sage - if she's not the MC's love interest, of course).

 

[lipe2410]

Preview #14 Maya Rio
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It's not Maya and Nicole, but ok. I accept this threesome with happiness in my heart

With the most horrible 2-sec photoshop:
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I don't trust in anyone who didn't melt with this:

 

[Deleted member 1044901]

Guys, which girl do you think will have the darkest path? A lot of people think it will be Quinn or even Sage, but my money is definitely on Bella.
I won't talk about the mysterious traumatic past and the disappearance of her husband.
Bella will probably be isolated from all MC parties. All the parties will have his ex-LIs (Sage, Maya, and the unexpectedly always in love with him Josy) and some will definitely have Jill, considering how close she has become to Sage. But not Bella. Given that there are cheating points in the game, and the fact that there will be sexy girls constantly swirling around MC, the player way of Bella will have a very hard time resisting temptation.
Sage, Maya, and Josy are open to experimentation in sex, while Bella and Jill are more conservative. I'm pretty sure DPC will play the "girl's tears" card when the crying Jill comes on to him and MC can't refuse.

A dark ending for Bella only if the player does it on purpose. For example, cheating on Bella or leaving her after choosing her to be with Jill (in this scenario she would lose everyone, her best friend and the guy she was in love with). Remember Bella has no family, she is alone in the world. I don't think Bella will endure another heartbreak if the player makes the MC be an asshole to her.

 

[ProxyGist]

A dark ending for Bella only if the player does it on purpose. For example, cheating on Bella or leaving her after choosing her to be with Jill (in this scenario she would lose everyone, her best friend and the guy she was in love with). Remember Bella has no family, she is alone in the world. I don't think Bella will endure another heartbreak if the player makes the MC be an asshole to her.

Yes, I think that Bella will be the one who will have more drama and experiences along the way. Even though Bella seems calm, I have a feeling that she could snap at any moment because of the weight of psychological trauma she's holding inside.

 

[dalli_x]

There is always a brick fence on campus. Here there is a dirty wooden fence.
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[Deleted member 1044901]

All the parties will have his ex-LIs (Sage, Maya, and the unexpectedly always in love with him Josy) and some will definitely have Jill, considering how close she has become to Sage. But not Bella.

As for Bella and Jill not attending most parties involving DIKs, I don't think Jill will miss as many parties as Bella. It is likely that Jill will be able to attend all parties or 90% of them. Bella's case is already more complicated, but the player (and the MC) were already aware of this when they chose to have a romance with her. Honestly, it doesn't bother me that Bella doesn't show up to parties. I believe this gives the MC a more mature air, as his "girlfriend" is not present and he must behave like a committed man and not like a college boy who will take advantage of his girlfriend not being around to enjoy every second with other girls. This is not exclusive to Bella, players who chose to romance Jade, Nora or Nicole have also experienced this.

 

[ProxyGist]

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Where do you think it is? It's definitely not on campus. It's really weird that they didn't throw a party in the woods, considering the woods are literally right next door.

 

[felicemastronzo]

So what is the general consensus on the alignment system in this game? Do people like the way that changes some of the MC's lines of dialogue and limits the choices the player can make? Or would they rather have it just affect the way others act towards you?

I'm not a fan of it because it limits roleplaying options. You basically get to be a dudebro choad or a boy scout. The neutral path is a weird hodgepodge mix of the two that requires a lot of metagaming to get the results you want. Sometimes it just locks you out of content for no good reason, like with Heather's latest scene.

I was on a neutral path where I was as nice as possible to Heather, and as rude as possible to Tommy, and yet the game won't let me choose the option to let her blow me at the party because of my alignment score. Which is stupid. I made all the relevant choices to set up that scene. I beat Tommy up, ratted him out to Heather, told him I wasn't interested in being friends. I had even designed the party in a way that Tommy was the only guy unhappy with it. That's how petty I've been to him on this path.

But this one choice was off limits. I could fuck Camilla on the dance floor, and plow Jade in her kitchen (immediately after telling her I nailed her daughter), but a blow job from Heather was deemed to be totally out of character for some reason. The game wanted me to make more DIK choices with completely unrelated characters in scenes that have nothing to do with this scene. And that is a thing I've been annoyed with before.

The alignment system can't handle someone who wants to be nice to nice people and mean to mean people. You want to make fun of an asshole? Better creepily ogle a bunch of random women first to get your DIK score up. Want to tell Derek that a hot girl is hot? No! You will say that she's got a pretty necklace instead because you were polite one time too many and are now stuck acting like a guy hiding deep in the closet.

So that's my two cents on the issue. It would make sense for the alignment system to cause girls to reject you based on your reputation, but the way it prevents you from attempting to do things is lame.

the mistake is thinking that affinity establishes who MC is and what he can do, instead it simply changes how others perceive MC and thus what they are willing to let him do.

since it is in fact a 'bias' it remains questionable. furthermore, since DIK affinity is very punitive with LIs, in all other contexts it gives the best results, the variations in MC CHICK dialogue are truly embarrassing....

 

[yossa999]

Guys, which girl do you think will have the darkest path? A lot of people think it will be Quinn or even Sage, but my money is definitely on Bella.
I won't talk about the mysterious traumatic past and the disappearance of her husband.
Bella will probably be isolated from all MC parties. All the parties will have his ex-LIs (Sage, Maya, and the unexpectedly always in love with him Josy) and some will definitely have Jill, considering how close she has become to Sage. But not Bella. Given that there are cheating points in the game, and the fact that there will be sexy girls constantly swirling around MC, the player way of Bella will have a very hard time resisting temptation.
Sage, Maya, and Josy are open to experimentation in sex, while Bella and Jill are more conservative. I'm pretty sure DPC will play the "girl's tears" card when the crying Jill comes on to him and MC can't refuse.

Are we talking about the Josy who fell in love with him literally from the first episode? Yes, it's unexpected And Bella is conservative in bed? Man, Fuckface barely survived their real first night together at her house when she jumped on him like a hungry beast. And those mischievous smiles in the library as the MC were putting Le Brian in his place. I'm telling you, she's just starting to warm up. But speaking of the dark path, I would bet on Jill, I think it's totally DPC's style. Bella, Sage, Maya or Quinn are all too obvious, each of them has their own problems that can quickly escalate. On the other hand, Tybalt is a pretty vindictive bitch and Jill humiliated him. And her family does not seem to be the most pleasant people in the world. They are definitely up to something