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

[ename144]

I think we are pretty safe - a writer doesn't just want to repeat himself again. The warning at the start of BaDIK indicates some dark turns, but I'll venture it won't come close to something like AL. AL was dark from the beginning, BaDIK not so much.

Compare the lead up to the main story in the two cases:
- Get shot in a store v draw dick faces in a store
- Go into a coma v go to uni
- People coming to doors looking for a new "home" to stay

In AL they show up looking like this:

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In BaDIK, we look for new homes like this...

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So, yeah, the tone of the two stories are very different

For the most part I agree, though being less dark than Acting Lessons is a very low bar to clear.

That said, I do worry we are letting where we WANT the story to go cloud our judgement over where it will go. The narrative digressions about Bella and doors in Episode 3 are certainly ominous, and there's no shortage of other topics that could take a grim turn if DPC wanted them to.

I don't expect anything as crazy as, say, Maya to accidentally gun down Jill when Quinn finally drives her over the edge. But I could definitely see things like Maya being forced to withdraw from college and stuck under her father's thumb, or Sage taking the fall to protect the HOTs. Things that, even if we could avoid some of them, would still leave a very bittersweet taste when all is said and done.

Really, it comes down to whether this is a genuine lighthearted farce, or if it's only pretending to be one to amplify the shock when the real world intrudes on our fun. I'm certainly hoping for the former, but I can't rule out the latter until we get much closer to the ending.

 

[Tserriednich'sNen]

Get all new clean saves. If you used the scrappy mod and made saves with it, they don't work on a clean version.

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What if I'm only using Unren?

 

[Holy Bacchus]

What if I'm only using Unren?

No idea. I'd imagine that any any manual alteration to points, money, affinity, etc, will affect the game but can't say for sure. Probably best just to get a clean version and make some clean saves to be better safe than sorry.

 

[Naxer]

how long should I wait for this fucking update? quarantine was the perfect time to release season 2, but rendering a couple of animations takes 2+ months. very cool

Very first message. That's what I call making a triumpahnt entrance.

 

[Sorrow85]

I could spend Fridays evenining worse, drink beer and listen to

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Could you imagine DPC games without music? neither could I.

 

[Naxer]

I could spend Fridays evenining worse, drink beer and listen to

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Could you imagine DPC games without music? neither could I.

I've just said that a few pages before. Totally agreed. Some songs, like

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, or

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, or

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are perfect for the mood of the game. Wow, some of them gave me even chills, thinking on my own memories.

 

[Deleted member 15555]

Get all new clean saves. If you used the scrappy mod and made saves with it, they don't work on a clean version.

the console commands are undetected actually

 

[Sorrow85]

Wow, some of them gave me even chills, thinking on my own memories.

Yeah and maybe i spoil the mood now but when you listen to

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(warning ep3 ending)
Then i feel the knife in the heart.
Maybe I take too much emotion in these games but where there are no emotions they can’t be great.

Sorry about Offtopic but why but other games don't use music?
License or other reason?

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Mormont recommended that and I have personally used in other renpy and RPGM games without problems.

 

[Tserriednich'sNen]

the console commands are undetected actually

So I'll be able to only use Unrenpy on a unmodded save?

 

[Deleted member 15555]

So I'm able to only use Unrenpy on a unmodded save?

if u only edit the 00console and the console config to True, you are fine so long as you don't edit something else

there are console commands?

All renpy games have console commands or at least most of them xD

 

[Naxer]

Yeah and maybe i spoil the mood now but when you listen to

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(warning ep3 ending)
Then i feel the knife in the heart.
Maybe I take too much emotion in these games but where there are no emotions they can’t be great.

Sorry about Offtopic but why but other games don't use music?
License or other reason?

Edit: If you want use cheats like money, you can use this:

You must be registered to see the links

Mormont recommended that and I have personally used in other renpy and RPGM games without problems.

It's also the melody that Jill played on the piano. I think that we will hear this song again, with more emotions behind, and (I really hope not) drama.

 

[Sorrow85]

It's also the melody that Jill played on the piano. I think that we will hear this song again, with more emotions behind, and (I really hope not) drama.

Maybe Jill the route, Jill playing piano and MC guitar in front of an audience.... someday.

 

[Aristos]

I'm most likely and idiot and that's why I don't understand, but I'll ask anyway.

I believed that Season 1 and 2 were going to be split into two different files for size reasons. Therefore, when ep 5 came out we'd only need to download it as a separate game and continue playing our previous saves from 0.4, which we should never delete if we wanted to start a new game.

Therefore, if they were conceived as two separate games, why the fuck do we need a patch which needs a clean 0.4 game or whatever it is? Wouldn't that be an addition to the previous file instead of a new one? What did I miss?

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I'm most likely and idiot and that's why I don't understand, but I'll ask anyway.

I believed that Season 1 and 2 were going to be split into two different files for size reasons. Therefore, when ep 5 came out we'd only need to download it as a separate game and continue playing our previous saves from 0.4, which we should never delete if we wanted to start a new game.

Therefore, if they were conceived as two separate games, why the fuck do we need a patch which needs a clean 0.4 game or whatever it is? Wouldn't that be an addition to the previous file instead of a new one? What did I miss?

Episode 5, like every new episode from now on, with be an add-on to the current game, not a separate game and I don't believe it was ever "conceived as two separate games". It's all going to be playable from a single game file.

The update file will be approximately 2GB and will contain files like "ep5_images.rpa" and "music_ep5.rpa", as well updated files for "scripts.rpa", "gallery.rpa", "movies.rpa", etc.

A clean version is necessary likely because mods like scrappy's alter the game code and the clean update files are incompatible with those modded ones, just as save files made with a modded version are incompatible with a clean version of the game because they need the modded code to work.

 

[MR.Z...]

does anyone know when the new update might come?

 

[Benben92222]

Hi everyone !

Just to be clear (and prepared for the update), If we used a mod to cheat during Ep 1-4, we need to restart the entire game with a "clean" game to have a"clean" save ? Or is it an other way to do it ?

 

[Holy Bacchus]

does anyone know when the new update might come?

1st or 2nd week of June, depending on how beta testing goes and how many bugs need fixed.

 

[MR.Z...]

1st or 2nd week of June, depending on how beta testing goes and how many bugs need fixed.

thanks for the info

 

[Holy Bacchus]

Hi everyone !

Just to be clear (and prepared for the update), If we used a mod to cheat during Ep 1-4, we need to restart the entire game with a "clean" game to have a"clean" save ? Or is it an other way to do it ?

Yes, you will need to re-download the full game from one of the links in the OP if you don't have an unmodded version of the game, then you will need to go through the game again making a set of clean saves, or at least a save at the end of ep 4 when it prompts you to "save your game here".

You can back-up your modded saves beforehand by copying and pasting them from the hidden folder (AppData > Roaming > RenPy) into a different folder if you want to keep them for when the scrappy mod gets released, but ultimately you need to ensure that the ones in that hidden folder are clean saves for when the next episode arrives.

 

[Aristos]

Episode 5, like every new episode from now on, with be an add-on to the current game, not a separate game and I don't believe it was ever "conceived as two separate games". It's all going to be playable from a single game file.

The update file will be approximately 2GB and will contain files like "ep5_images.rpa" and "music_ep5.rpa", as well updated files for "scripts.rpa", "gallery.rpa", "movies.rpa", etc.

A clean version is necessary likely because mods like scrappy's alter the game code and the clean update files are incompatible with those modded ones, just as save files made with a modded version are incompatible with a clean version of the game because they need the modded code to work.

I don't get it.



"A new folder with a new executable." That's why we were requested to save right at the end of 0.4 or else our saves would not be compatible in Season 2. That's not what I consider a patch or add-on.
Anyway, I'll have no problem at all since I never used a game mod. I imagine that saves from compressed versions will work perfect.