Gosh I guess I'm not the only one hating the way saves keep getting borked again and again, among other stuff XD
I need to add something else to all of this..... I'm not sure how it is in the latest public update (The last time I tried it was on the previous one, 07471) but for some wierdo reason saves made on the latest versions (And thus having stuff like Akabekos) works perfectly when loaded on older game engine versions (Such as 0723), but as u guys pointed, definetly not the other way around. Which would be the logical thing to happen.
For those of you acting like "If you dont like it dont play it" or "if you think you can do better just do it yourself". First of all if I were to make a game resembling this there's a looooooooooooooot of things I would have made different from the very begining. When I see people complaining in here is because on top of a lot of shitty things something like the saves happen. But I think is good to remind a couple of them cause people seem to not remember why some of us just are so annoyed on how things are going in this game:
- Taking myself as an example, that I play without males. You have futa on futa, futa on female but never ever female on female, and before u come saying that this is a breeding game. Breeding Season, which is the game in which BotN is directly inspired, had female on female interactions and if I remember also Male on Male. Yet here u would never have a male having a submissive role, not even to harvest semen for futas.
- No anal play and how could u even ask for it when the developer himself goes on saying stuff like "Anal is inferior in every way", yeah I heard those word said by Derelict himself on a server with a lot of people who's anal was their way (Sometimes only one) of fun.
- Only since the previous version (If you play as a female or subby futa) we started to be able to have sex while being pregnant outside of S.Sex moments; u know, sometimes u just want to have fun with your nephs and you had no problem putting something like Incest (Which to me is just an extra feature, not my thing but I dont judge u if u do) that actually gives u a "debuff" in the possible neph you get out of it, yet u cant have sex while pregnant unless you're the futa giverm and always being the giver, no recieving until the "baby" is out.
- Since pretty much the Pawsmatti update it keeps making u feel (At least me, but I bet Im not the only one) like every new content or sort of "story milestone" that the game puts u to beat, is just to unlock the same things u had available pretty much from start. And Pawsmatti with the sex positions is the best example because it was with her when all that crap started (I think). Im freaking tired of staying about 4 hours stuck doing only doggy, which btw is useless if you wanna top dragons. That was added on 0730 or so and its been about 20 versions (If you dont count the hotfixes) between her adition and now. Only now Dere is gonna start adding new sex animations and in the meanwhile only a single 1 was added. It would be nice if you could choose your starting animation but no. You're stuck on doggy, and youre stuck for a loooooooooooooooong while doing it cause the grindy way to earn favor, if like me you're even slightly picky with which nephs u capture. That's gonna take u ages to unlock one of the cheapest that could be Missionary.
- I could point out about the portals thingy but I think there's not much else to add, except one thing.... Even if you were to humour Dere's vision and follow his game's new grindy gameplay mecanics, is extremely annoying the way it works. I remember not being able to past the Thriae part in 0747 cause I was for like a freaking half an hour looking for a hornball bee and none freaking spawned. And I had raised my trait a bit to enhace my chances but there was no way. After a literal half an hour I just gave up.... Another thing is that by removing the portals the grindyness became 10 times as more annoying cause u now just cant even teleport from one area to another then back to the spawn area youre looking into. Like seriously even if you're to follow the gameplay's way of playing now is just a tedious as hell thing to do. And if you're into the "lategame" species like Succuby or Seraphims, my friend, without cheats you're done.
- I could point out the futas with balls thingy that were asked a lot but what I would point is that dude.... If you're adding males with very clear and noticeable balls and have futas, u should have a better explanation than just that silly "Sugar walls before balls". But I guess for someone who's that against anal and appearently sexual diversity....
- Im not that much into either male or exotic/furry types but.... Well, let's just say they were left to root without any news so soon. I also get that he's not willing to share his work with anyone going the "full Solo" way on deving, however he does seem to not care about males yet he does want to have them ingame. Thats the perfect scenario to have someone else helping him. But again, if you're willing to have something u dont wanna work with in your game but definetly dont want to share a single byte of your work with no one else even for minor things. Then you're definetly asking for people to complain with a reason.
I honestly thought on dropping the game so many times. But is not as easy as that you know. I remember starting playing it back when it was on public 0723.1 and I remember loving it entirely, for what it was. I remember being excited about what was to come. I felt in heaven when the game added the day/night cycle, made the gameplay harder in some ways but also interesting as well... Then the "grindy" era started and yeah, many nice things were added like the futa-on-futa SSex interactions being randomized (Veeery nice btw), the adition of the new hybrids, the BJs, some of the new NPCs like Widow (Which I never was able to reach without cheats btw), some of the body physics, etc.... But at the same time it progresively felt like for any nice thing that were added, another very shitty one came behind it to tackle it down (And not necesarily just the save wipes which is something I honestly would never understand besides them being deliberately made that way).
I recommended BotN a lot before, I even helped doing some of the translations because I did wanted to support it in some way in my economic situation and I honestly dont regret it cause even today I still think those first versions were nice.... However the constant shitty aspects of it makes me think is far more worth it getting a modpack for Skyrim that adds all the functionalities that BotN has to that game. Or maybe other game. And not because I think is gonna be better at it than BotN or anything. But at least if I wanted to make it work, if I even asked for help to make it work on a comunity of it, I wouldnt have as much hostily as I found in any server, group or forum when BotN is the main topic. At least this forum before felt like the lighthearted side of BotN but even in here the hostily of BotN is invading. You guys calling each other names and you're just not noticing how far that toxicity is going.
A game is suposed to bring fun, a nice time and maybe bringing people together. Not feeling like you're wasting half a day either grinding to get something of previously available fun at all or fighting with people for properly justify or debunk something that shouldnt have happened that way in the first place no matter how you wanna put it.