terroralpha

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Warning: some spoilers! (For XXXMas 2023)

Thoroughly enjoyed this year’s XXXmas episode personally. Got some crashes but it certainly wouldn’t be the first time I’m replaying an Auril game lol. Having played since the very first Whorecraft episode I was very happy to see Daemia and Alyniss again (had no idea Daemia was Luxia’s mom, I thought they looked similar in BiB 1 but the way she behaved really didn’t fit Daemia’s character I feel). I found Luxia x Goblin was hot af especially. Also, new Alex model is great. Overall very satisfied, thank you Auril and team!
anyone else get bad fps with high latency? or just me
smooth as butter for me. no crashed. then again, might be because my computer is for this game.

this game seems to eat a lot of vmem when running in DX 12 mode. 7.5GB at 1080p and about 9GB at 4k.

if your GPU has less than 10GB of vmem, maybe try running it in DX 11 mode? in dx11 mode, at 1080p, it only uses about 5GB of vmem.

PS: ray tracing check box doesn't seem to do anything
 

terroralpha

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5800x3D+6950XT OC'd, don't think my PC is the issue here but thank you for the advice! Maybe it's an unstable overclock I don't know, no issues with other games though. I see some slight changes to the lighting with Ray Tracing but nothing major. In any case I was able to finish the game and am very happy with it!
i'm using an HDR display, maybe that's why i can't perceive any ray tracing differences? might be too bright

random crashes does sound like an OC issue. that's what was happening to me when i undervolted my 4090 a little too much.
 

LRB

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Just finished this Xmas release and it was great, but man does it make me sad. Auril started and finished this Xmas episode within a month and 10 days (same as last Xmas). However, BiB2 is 3 years in developments and I guess it will take 3 more to finish it. I know BiB2 and Xmas are not on the same level, but my point is, If Auril really wanted to, he could of finished BiB2 within a year and we could be experiencing BiB4 or something completely different by now. He showed us that he can pull it off if he really wants to.

Even though it was short, we got 9 nice scenes to look at. Just imagine if every month we get something similar to this.

Oh well.. back to BiB2, where we wait for next update with 2/3 scenes in.. April?
 

Tfh5y

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Getting 60-90 fps with fresh OST_game folder on 4k with 70% image ress. I am on 3950x 64g quadchannel and rtx 3090
 

Madderdin

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Christmas episode runs at ~205-210, at 4K with all settings to max, with 3 characters on the screen for me. When it's just inside with just Luxia it goes up to 240.
I would say Auril found a way to optimize UE5, but... raytracing doesn't work at all in this build.
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I think our boi auril really did it , it was a great xmas chapter probs the best so far idk if its me but i really wished there were more futa scene there something hot about watching futa with a girl i can't explain it really but as other posters said if auril can do 9 scene in such limited time window why he taking so long to finish blue is better 2 so far
 

Jerak

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Christmas episode runs at ~205-210, at 4K with all settings to max, with 3 characters on the screen for me. When it's just inside with just Luxia it goes up to 240.
I would say Auril found a way to optimize UE5, but... raytracing doesn't work at all in this build.
what gpu did use? only got 40 fps on 2k resolution using 6600 xt
 

Ches91

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I've played all the whorecraft and tails of azeroth games and for some reason Bib2 and xmas 2022 are unplayable, both are under 10 fps with everything on low, I don't get it.. they have the same graphics as the other games but for some reason they don't work. I know I have a pretty old i5 pc but the same happened with Silicon Lust, everything was fine and after the last update it became unplayable. Am I missing something? I mean I can run Elden Ring on High graphics and it's pretty smooth but these games don't go above 10 fps on low... any ideas ?
 

Pedro121

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I've played all the whorecraft and tails of azeroth games and for some reason Bib2 and xmas 2022 are unplayable, both are under 10 fps with everything on low, I don't get it.. they have the same graphics as the other games but for some reason they don't work. I know I have a pretty old i5 pc but the same happened with Silicon Lust, everything was fine and after the last update it became unplayable. Am I missing something? I mean I can run Elden Ring on High graphics and it's pretty smooth but these games don't go above 10 fps on low... any ideas ?
Cause Auril converted the UE4 engine to UE5 cause "new = better". Ugh. It uses the new DirectX 12 api which comes with newer sets of problems especially if you're rocking old GPUs. You can force it to run with DirectX 11 just by creating a shortcut of 'OST_Game.exe" and opening that shortcuts properties. Just add [ -d3d11 ] at the end of the 'Target' section, after the parenthesis.
 

kasata

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Yeah, UE5 seems to only really work on 3000+ series cards, my performance also dropped from a solid 100fps to avg of 30 in this latest Xmas episode and as someone said, the game basically looks the same as before, Auril should've stayed on UE4.
 

Varisha

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Walkthrough of Xmas2022


After the "cinematic" of Luxia, Alex and Melona Talk to Melona

Head around the hallway past the stairs to the slightly opened door, After talking to Elena

Go back around the Stairs to the other slightly opened door
(First scene: Futa x Draenei)

Talk to Daemia and Alyniss

Go downstairs and talk to Sironas
Go Back upstairs and talk to Melona, then open the chest next to the bed.

Talk to Alyniss again:
(Second scene: Tauren x Luxia)

After the scene with Sironas go to the Wargen then back to Sironas
(Third Scene Secret: go around the left side of the building they go into Sironas x Worgen)

Open the main gate and go into the far building then head left and talk to the Goblin in the main dining room.
(Fourth Scene: Goblin x Luxia)

Head slightly out of the building then turn around back through the other door way and talk to "Sally" Whitemane

Head out of the building and head to the barn and talk to Imara
Head inside the building near the opening of the Barn

Go through the "maze" like bookshelves and interact with the fireplace

(you can now also interact with the Goblin again for a few lines)

Head back to Whitemane for another scene
(Fifth Scene: "Sally" whitemane x Santa)

Head towards the chair Whitemane was sitting on earlier and pick up the lighter
Go back to the fireplace you interacted with and light it with the lighter through your inventory
(Sixth Scene: Baracus x Luxia)

Pick up the gift next to the Fireplace
Head outside and pick up the ladder infront of the Goblin you talked to earlier

Head over to the barn (opposite side this time)
(Seventh Scene: Alexstrazsa x Horse)

Head back outside of the Main Gate and talk to Sironas To go back home

Before going upstairs go around the house to the dining area and interact with the first candle
(look left to find a lever for (Eight Scene Secret: Silicon Lust Reference)

Head upstairs and go right into Elena's Room and give her the gift
(Ninth Scene: Solo Draenei)

Head back to the starting Room for the Tenth Scene
(Tenth Scene: Melona x Alex x Luxia)

(End of Game)
(There apparently is another scene but no idea how to get it.)
 
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Holy shit! So there’s one more scene? My hunch would be with the goblin and helping him clear the snow. There was also a key in the store room but its not interactable.

There might also be one more in the house?

Wonder what that missing one is? :unsure:
 
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