Unreal Engine Breeders of the Nephelym [v0.761.13 Public] [DerelictHelmsman]

[CaptainBipto]

I'm going to write down some of my thoughts on the state of the game here because I don't have access to the chats to convey these thoughts to the developers. Because pirate and all that. If any of the supporters here see this, of which there are a few because the file wouldn't have ended up here otherwise, I would ask them to forward it to the right channels somehow.

Introducing a progression system without giving the player a reason to work towards some kind of progress leads to the real problem of the progression system. Furthermore, I associate the high numbers required for some levels with not knowing where the developer wants to go with the system. What I would really think about at this point is do I want a sex simulator or a game with role-playing elements. Because the whole progression system would only make sense in a role-playing game. The simplest possibility from my point of view would be the introduction of corupted Nephelym (they can just have reverse colours for all I care, unlike the main representatives of their kind). These cannot be cleaned by the player, but must be cleaned by his best representative of his breed (perhaps at this point introduce a constraint that it may only be a representative of the same species). In addition to the breeding orders, this could at least lead to the player getting smaller targets through the corrupted Nephelym that he can work towards.

If you have any questions or suggestions I am happy to discuss them.

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My first question to you would be: Why would I capture that 'corrupt' Nephelym in the first place? Are you stating that there will be hidden stats, that the player are unaware of, until they stumble across said situation? Why wouldn't I just NOT capture said corrupt creature and continue on with breeding the normal Nephelym?
If you are going to FORCE some, arbitrary, situation upon the player (just as the cock block gates were), you haven't really changed anything. You will have just altered the focus from the gates to some special Nephelym.

Anything that gives a logical place to start or progress from is fine. The problem this game has is that it started with a free roaming sex game and is now trying to backtrack and add 'story' and 'progression' in the form of the gates and world leveling system. All that has done is add stumbling blocks to the game and your idea doesn't seem that much different.

How about this for a story idea, it adds a logical flow and has a progression system, without feeling like it was put into the game after the fact:

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[cannon9009]

am i doomed?
LowLevelFatalError [File:Unknown] [Line: 1157]
GameThread timed out waiting for RenderThread after 120.00 secs

Experiencing same problem as this guy while game is loading to menu on starting. Pretty annoying.

 

[JK3]

How do I get Hornball 2?
Do I have to raise an areas World Level, or can I get it through Hornball with Hornball?

 

[J_M]

How do I get Hornball 2?
Do I have to raise an areas World Level, or can I get it through Hornball with Hornball?

The Developer, in His wisdom, decided that traits do not stack so we shall have to grind up the world levels

 

[Charonn57]

Experiencing same problem as this guy while game is loading to menu on starting. Pretty annoying.

LowLevelFatalError's in UE4 can have multiple causes. (hard to tell without crash info , like CrashContext.runtime-xml),
but overclocking (XMP and/or CPU/GPU) are most common.

(GameThread timed out waiting for RenderThread after 120.00 secs) looks to me like a driver issue,
Turn on VSYNC. Unreal has a bug with Nvidia graphics systems where it tries to send render data to the driver before the device is ready to accept it and crashes the game. Sometimes VSYNC will fix the issue, other times you need to just reinstall the drivers or update them.

 

[Raven_Bloodrose]

its 0.754 still

tsk, well that sucks

 

[STet]

Here's what I assume the world level progress numbers are(I've only gotten to level 5 for now so I assume it goes up by 1,000 for each level):
Level 2: 600+
Level 3: 1000+
Level 4: 2000+
Level 5: 3000+

Edit: The max world level is 5

In version 0.754.1, the number of points required to obtain the maximum fifth World Level of the race has changed, now it looks like this:
Level 2: 400+
Level 3: 900+
Level 4: 1500+
Level 5: 2300+
Sylvan World includes Elf's, Goblin's, Orc's and Slime's. The World Level for all of these race variants goes up at the same time. Likewise with Harpy World, which includes variants of the Bat and Kestrel.

 

[Squark ⚧❤️]

tsk, well that sucks

Nope, we have links to 0.754.1 one page back, courtesy of dragkon and STet.

 

[Squark ⚧❤️]

I always have this PHYSX > CPU shown in the top left corner. Is this normal? Can this be removed?
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You're likely using an NVidia card. Open the NVidia Control Panel, go to 3D Settings and remove the check mark from "Show PhysX Visual Indicator".
This can also be an issue if you're using 3ds Max.

 

[JK3]

The Developer, in His wisdom, decided that traits do not stack

Why.

 

[J_M]

Why.

This, my friend, is beyond my ability to comprehend. Probably he reinvented a breeding system that doesn't require breeding at all. Releasing any critters in the wild will just do the trick as long as you have enough patience and dedication. I have to confess, I ran out of both...

 

[cannon9009]

LowLevelFatalError's in UE4 can have multiple causes. (hard to tell without crash info , like CrashContext.runtime-xml),
but overclocking (XMP and/or CPU/GPU) are most common.

(GameThread timed out waiting for RenderThread after 120.00 secs) looks to me like a driver issue,
Turn on VSYNC. Unreal has a bug with Nvidia graphics systems where it tries to send render data to the driver before the device is ready to accept it and crashes the game. Sometimes VSYNC will fix the issue, other times you need to just reinstall the drivers or update them.

How would I turn on VSync without a way to get into the settings menu? I'm assuming there's a setting in the *.ini files (wherever they may be)?

 

[Charonn57]

How would I turn on VSync without a way to get into the settings menu? I'm assuming there's a setting in the *.ini files (wherever they may be)?

ehhm, like with any other program without a good in-game graphics menu.

Nvidea control panel => Manage 3D Settings => not in Global Settings because then you change it for all software. but Program Settings. make a new one for OBF.exe (or the ..\BOTN_Windows_x64_DX11\OBF\Binaries\Win64\OBF-Win64-Shipping.exe) and turn it on there (and tweak other settings too if you like for better (worse?) performance or/and quality)

 

[RidiculousG]

Wait, supposedly the world level is now shown in barns and zones. Where do I see it? Am I stupid?

 

[STet]

Wait, supposedly the world level is now shown in barns and zones. Where do I see it? Am I stupid?

In the topic header, links to 0.754. Screenshots from 0.754.1. See links to the real version 0.754.1 in yesterday's posts - mine and dragkon.

 

[BigJohnny]

Why.

Because the dev thinks the players' time is worthless.

 

[TheInternetIsForThis]

Because the dev thinks the players' time is worthless.

With how grindy Derelict likes this game to be, are we sure he isn't into teasing/denial?

 

[STet]

Because the dev thinks the players' time is worthless.

You are funny. Why doesn't the developer do it, why does it do it ... Who are the questions addressed to? Have you seen DH posts here? Go to Discord and ask the developer questions. True, yesterday, when the F95 was mentioned there, the moderator immediately wrote:
"-F95 doesn't have a healthy relationship with this server."
"-Why?"
"-Because they annoy us with questions for stuff they don't legally have access to."
So, when asking questions on Discord, do not mention this forum.

 

[BreederFan]

This is a great game. I don't see any problem about new things.

Why? Isn't this game free?

 

[BigJohnny]

Go to Discord

No thanks. Shit design is shit design and it being pointed out here or on discord or wherever else is not going to change that.
If you feel like you're up to the task of defending the game's time wasting grindy design- go for it. You may even invite whatever discord mods to help you out.