To be truly honest I wouldn't mind the game turning exponentially grindy on every update to some degree cause I know some of those updates bring something new that totally overhauls in a way how a part of the game feels, like when the Vagrants system was added, it benefited a damn lot certain gameplays like Female ones, since cis-lesbian sex turned out to be much more viable that way.
The biggest issue this game has is that every X amount of updates the dev forces you yes or yes to start all over again since the saves made on any previous game version simply make the new game version refuse to load them, so all of the progress you did in the previous update (And with this, could be incluided things like generating uniquely looking nephs from breeding a pair of nephs and getting an amazing combination that you are forced to sacrifice or keep on that old game version), making you having to choose on either hoard old game versions since they cannot load on new ones (Yet they can load on older ones ironically) and starting from zero, again, and again, and again, in a game in which every update becomes more and more grindy.... *Sigh* Even if you were commited to redo all the things we did again, it takes you plausibly longer on a new game version than how it took on a previous. Like I said before....
- At first you didnt had to bother about unlocking Missionary, to name an example, now you do.
- Before you could jump from the Hivelands to Moaning Crag and youll be fine, now you cant.
- You could start a game, buy the Neko condo and capture Catgirls as your first species, now you cant.
- Back then you saw a wild neph you liked and wanted to tame them by sexing them, just be fast enough on the clicks and youll capture them, now your stats need to be equal or higher than that and they are usually quite higher than yours, either do that or memorize the fluids that each subspecies has and use that instead, but that still forces you to deal with something that before was optional, now is kinda mandatory.
And yeah some nice things were brough but honestly....
- Since the Pawsmatti update all the new things we got in terms of sex positions were pairings between Wild Sex sizes, pairings on "most" (Cause not all of them have them) of the positions & pairings in the breeding yard, and just 1 new sex position that was the Lap Dance. That would be good if it wasnt by the fact that between the Pawsmatti introduction and the latest update it has been about 30 major updates or so.
- Although the disabling of jumping massive cliffs was a nice realism adition, it also turned certain parkouring sections or possibilities to be totally unviable, because it wasnt for realism, but more like forcing you to deal with the progression.
- Which speaking of progression, all of that would be amazing if the areas that we were unlocking happened to be ACTUALLY new areas, not the same areas as before. Honestly the only new areas we got since progression started to be added happened to be barely two. The promised Seraphim's heaven and very very recently the special bunnies corner on Lustwoods that feels super oddly placed to be honest. Besides the spot made for the new blessed nephs but those reinforces the previously mentioned issue.
- The new system of stats based capturing taming has been proven to be a design failure since another game I followed tried something similar and in BOTH game I missed the old annoying but effective speedy/clicky/imputy methods or whatever they used cause to make them replace the previous with stats the numbers have to be realistic with how your character's would have up to that point, and that my friends are something that is extremely hard to balance cause it depends a lot on how you made your character and I believe that coding such fair system wouldnt be something easy to implement, but punishing those players that dont follow the idea the dev might have to that set of ideal stats is a dangerously divise move.
I could go on and on, but my main point is that, having to deal with all of those things is already headaching enough. Now imagine doing that (Or potentially a worse scenario on a future update) after every 3-4 game updates from the begining AGAIN for the sake of a pair of things that barely soften how mega grindyer everything became, is honestly a deal breaker. I barely mentioned how things are in this game to a couple of friends and they say that they wont even try it precisely for about half of those said issues. But Derelict.... Derelict just wants his player base to suffer appearently, and if you say otherwise his moderators like Zobo would remind you how low intelligent you are for merely addressing that when the game is in Alpha.... And Alpha that always stays like that and that other games in also Alpha lacks about half of those issues.
