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Then it'd be clear even when you hadn't unlocked things that there's nothing in the game.
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The first sleeping pills 'buffout' comes from moving the main storyline forward. You extort them from a plant alien. That's also where you get an item he was using to smoke weed that was part of Ben's drill alien that helps create your base.
Once you have them, keep moving the story forward until you explain to Shar that the pills have to be used in battle. Then use them in battle. That night she'll be heavily sleeping and you can mess with her, and/or go down to the basement and work on your lab.
After a little more story, you can buy buffout pills from the shop online.
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Shar.lust=XX
Shar.corruption=XX
inventory.money=XXXXX
Ben.agility=14000 (19.11 speed)
Ben.combat_skill=14000 (57-95 damage)
Then replace 'Ben' with 'Shar'. Make sure to use the console commands for stats while you're actually in combat. If you use it before, it doesn't always activate. You'll actually get the stats once you finish a battle after you put them in.
I used 14000 because if you actually hit the cap of the stat using console commands it causes an error every time you run a patrol that isn't story related. 14k puts you near the top, but not quite there. About 1-2k short of the error spot. Feel free to mess with the number like I did.
I really don't care for the combat. Especially since the enemies can hit you with massive damage so easily. I've been hit by the same enemies anywhere from 1/8 of my max health, all the way to 1/4. And medkits only heal you for about 1.5 hits of damage, so they aren't very useful, either.
We either need a way to raise our health, or raise our defense so the enemies can't do so much damage.
With the way the combat currently sucks (to me), I'm just trying to rush my story forward to be able to buy tons of grenades. I don't like cheating for combat in rpg's, but the combat in this one is limited and painful as hell. Not to mention a huge grind with how long it takes to raise stats.
Edit: Thanks to bell10 for this post.
take with a grain of salt as I have 0 python experience, the cheats to make the fighting easier are "Ben.agility = 9999999" (which will put your speed at 20) and "Ben.combat_skill = 9999999" (which puts your damage at 60-100). You have to have a battle for the stats bars to update.
Edit: While I thank bell10 for the console command, using 9999999 causes a crash any time I went for a patrol that isn't story related. So I started running through numbers. I found out that if you actually hit the cap, it causes that error. So use 14000 as the stat number so that you're 'near' the end, but not likely to farm 1000-2000 more points to hit the end.
Shar.corruption=XX
inventory.money=XXXXX
Ben.agility=14000 (19.11 speed)
Ben.combat_skill=14000 (57-95 damage)
Then replace 'Ben' with 'Shar'. Make sure to use the console commands for stats while you're actually in combat. If you use it before, it doesn't always activate. You'll actually get the stats once you finish a battle after you put them in.
I used 14000 because if you actually hit the cap of the stat using console commands it causes an error every time you run a patrol that isn't story related. 14k puts you near the top, but not quite there. About 1-2k short of the error spot. Feel free to mess with the number like I did.
I really don't care for the combat. Especially since the enemies can hit you with massive damage so easily. I've been hit by the same enemies anywhere from 1/8 of my max health, all the way to 1/4. And medkits only heal you for about 1.5 hits of damage, so they aren't very useful, either.
We either need a way to raise our health, or raise our defense so the enemies can't do so much damage.
With the way the combat currently sucks (to me), I'm just trying to rush my story forward to be able to buy tons of grenades. I don't like cheating for combat in rpg's, but the combat in this one is limited and painful as hell. Not to mention a huge grind with how long it takes to raise stats.
Edit: Thanks to bell10 for this post.
take with a grain of salt as I have 0 python experience, the cheats to make the fighting easier are "Ben.agility = 9999999" (which will put your speed at 20) and "Ben.combat_skill = 9999999" (which puts your damage at 60-100). You have to have a battle for the stats bars to update.
Edit: While I thank bell10 for the console command, using 9999999 causes a crash any time I went for a patrol that isn't story related. So I started running through numbers. I found out that if you actually hit the cap, it causes that error. So use 14000 as the stat number so that you're 'near' the end, but not likely to farm 1000-2000 more points to hit the end.
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Any solution? Im stuck with quests and I don't know how to begin Shar Training 3 or Hacked Plumber HQ
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Read my post literally one above for the console commands I currently know. Just replace the XX with 20 if that's what you're after.
Or you could just stick your finger in her mouth for +10 lust that can only be done once per day, every day. I was so disappointed when I finally hit 80 and found out using something thicker than a finger wasn't in-game yet
The game stops before you can do those things. The newest update wasn't for content, it was for QoL. So it stops at the same point that .4b stopped at.
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Really? But is it the volume or the sound itself? I'll ask around, see if more people think the same.
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It will have it, but not yet. It's going to be part of the story.
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You'll have to be a bit more specific. The story isn't terribly long, but there are multiple parts.
One of which requires you to go patrolling until you get a call from Max saying he's proud.
If you get stuck, run a few patrols, talk to Shar at various points of the day, go to the slums, or go to the plumber headquarters. There's one point where you have to talk to Gwen in the computer area headquarters and I think you can leave without doing it which means you have no idea to go back.
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I actually planned it like this on purpose, so you don't feel powerful AT ALL in the beginning of the game. It's going to be a long ride, so making players feel like they can handle things but are one step behind is a good way to encourage them to try combat items, experiment with different tactics and feel the need to get those game-changing perks, which really do pack a punch. At first, there isn't much money either, but now, with the cams, you'll have a steady income, and you can pack your team with cool toys to play with. Grenades are cool, yeah, but that's just Plumber Rank 2. There's more cool items coming. And characters as well. I'm still not done, but Gwen's powers are already pretty fun on paper. Can't wait to see her in action.
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And maybe when she's in-game, a group of four enemies focusing a single character won't immediately kill you (but I doubt it with how health doesn't increase EVER).
The way you've set up combat makes you feel worse than weak. Shar feels worthless with her crummy net and health pack that barely heals 1 hit worth of damage most of the time. I've had fights where Shar's entire purpose was healing herself because three of the four wouldn't leave her alone.
The combat is so limited in the beginning, that rng totally controls how much damage you take or even if you win. I've lost fights through no control of my own because all four enemies murdered Shar in the first turn from full health before her first turn came to use a weak medkit.
You say you want people to use tactics, when the only tactic that exists once you lose the other three aliens is that netted enemies give 100% crit chance.
For example, why doesn't Heat Blast have any aoe at all? He isn't limited to tiny fireballs. He has flamethrowers and wide angle fire walls, as well.
Why does Shar have no damaging ability? Not even an auto attack? She's a female based off a character who was incredibly capable in combat. The net deals around 10 damage even after I cheated her attack up to 14k. The medkit's max healing I've ever seen was 76 (and I've only ever seen a number at 70+ less than 5 times). And yet there seems to be no increase to her healing, no better medkits...nothing.
There's a difference between challenging and 'you rolled crit ones so you die'. And then the UC reward for a single fight is less than a single medkit cost. So you're actually losing money any time you heal until after the Hoes show up.
Then there's the damage. You go from taking 25-50 from the Bros. Then 25-75 from the Hoes. To 40-80 from the mechs... But because you can't increase maximum health or mitigate damage, eventually you're just going to get one shotted by the enemy that does 150.
There needs to be either health growth or damage mitigation. Even the diamonhead ability you can only use for a single map takes your only damaging character out of the game for the whole turn. Why is your only offense the one being your only defense? Spread the roles. Hell. Have Shar's net launcher make a wall that lowers the enemy damage passing through it weaker. She'll keep her crummy net gun, and you'll have a defensive ability that doesn't remove your only attacker from combat.
Oh, wait. Did i say the only offense is the only defense? Because he's also the only interrupt (since you can't neat anything that uses a charge attack). Shar serves very little purpose in combat other than throwing grenades once you unlock them.
I'm a little sorry for going into full on rant mode. I was dealing with an idiot in another forum who kept telling me I was wrong even when I showed visual evidence.
But I still stand by my complaints of gelding Ben 10, an incredibly strong (if a bit stupid) hero. Even in Dragon Quest games you start off being able to kill level 1 enemies without getting beaten bloody and needing to heal every fight. And you usually start that with a stick, not an alien form that gives you the ability to create seemingly limitless fire.
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