Ren'Py Bright Past [v0.99.6.1] [Kosmos Games]

[ifyounevertry]

Hey,
can't talk to Bonnie when she's alone. In library, music store, even in the burger restaurant. All the time, i have "i'll come later" and time don't pass also.
Any thing to do ? A bug ?
I have the last game version and also the last cheatmod version 0.99.5.

Thanks

 

[MachoGuy]

The "keep practicing with Falsetto" quite often has a bug in which a girl sits there and prevents Alex from continuing.
That girl is Falsettos whore and the action you can witness in the second quest. Meaning technically that quest started ...
But since that girl actually does not leave because HER short introduction event did not start and at the same time is blocking michaels introduction event ...

What triggers that bug is unknown, as is the fix to that. Forcing the event by save editing or via console does not work for some reason.
Long story short you sadly are forced to start a new game. Maybe reverting to an earlier save "is enough", though.

Damn

 

[ifyounevertry]

I just downloaded a save file (save page v3).
I have no idea where i have to put it. Its looks like that : game -> scripts -> gui.rpy and gui.rpyc . And also a screens file : screens.rpy and screens.rpyc.

I dont think i have to overwrite the old "game" with the new one because this old one has a lot more files into it.

Ty

 

[ZenoMod]

I just downloaded a save file (save page v3).
I have no idea where i have to put it. Its looks like that : game -> scripts -> gui.rpy and gui.rpyc . And also a screens file : screens.rpy and screens.rpyc.

I dont think i have to overwrite the old "game" with the new one because this old one has a lot more files into it.

Ty

If you mean this, it's not a save file, it's a mod to let you unlock the save pages greater than page 25.

Because Kosmos, the Dev of Bright Past, had the obnoxious idea to spend coding effort to tamper with the perfectly working paging system for save files creation and loading that comes for free in any empty Ren'Py project.

Kosmos, from a certain release onwards, decided that 25 pages are enough and hacked the predefined code so that clicking on next ( > ) while at page 25 loops back to page 1 instead of going forward to page 26.

What a great idea. So any saves on page 26 or greater are not reachable anymore. Thanks goodness they are not deleted, at least...

So S0k4 (my thanks to him for this!) reverted the paging system to the infinite pages default.

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You do have to copy the "game" folder in the zip you downloaded at the same level of your original "game" folder, but doing so you are not replacing the old "game" with the new "game". Instead, you are merging the two folders: meaning that any files that are in the source folder but not in the destination folder are copied in the destination folder, while any files in the destination folders but not in the source folder are not deleted, they remain untouched.
Instead, you will receive a prompt to overwrite only those files that are both in the source and the destination folder. That's what you want to do. Select overwrite all to overwrite four files and the patch is applied.

 

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[wolflagang]

I haven't played this for years the grind must be ungodly to get to new content

 

[Enot1964]

I haven't played this for years the grind must be ungodly to get to new content

Believe me, compared to the projects from SerialNumberComics (you can't call them by the existing rules, but here's a screenshot, pay attention to the ratings) this game is a kindergarten in terms of complexity. There are more terrible projects by the level of grind, and this one - so, to relax under a beer.

 

[Prokopije]

I haven't played this for years the grind must be ungodly to get to new content

Not as it was. They reduced amount of grind. Where you needed to do 12 or so lessons, now you need to do only 5 etc. Money and food items you can always cheat.

 

[ZenoMod]

I haven't played this for years the grind must be ungodly to get to new content

Personally I find the grinding too much for a replay every each minor release. There have been several minor releases, and even if technically the new releases don't break old saves (meaning that loading an old save on a new release the game doesn't crash nor gives you any error message), still the quest log doesn't get updated properly and some new content is unlockable if you run latest release from an old save.

To see just the few new content I just cheated following the instructions I've found on this thread.

Since the game should be near its completion, I suggest you to wait for the final release and replay from scratch.
The grinding is still there, but it should be less than what you are used to if you played years ago.

Besides in most minor releases some bugs are fixed and other bugs sneak in.

I hope that when the Dev is satisfied with the story and contents at last, he will spend his coding efforts on debugging only.
That's the only way to deliver a bug free product.

As any programmer knows, any new feature is the entrance door for new bugs as well.
(Besides, breaking backward compatibility is annoying for the audience)

 

[ZenoMod]

Not as it was. They reduced amount of grind. Where you needed to do 12 or so lessons, now you need to do only 5 etc. Money and food items you can always cheat.

Is it guaranteed that cheating on money and food items won't break your game?

 

[Prokopije]

Is it guaranteed that cheating on money and food items won't break your game?

I don't know if it' guaranteed, but I did it every time and never had any issues. Didn't cheated anything else, as variables, relationship points or other stuff.

 

[wolflagang]

Personally I find the grinding too much for a replay every each minor release. There have been several minor releases, and even if technically the new releases don't break old saves (meaning that loading an old save on a new release the game doesn't crash nor gives you any error message), still the quest log doesn't get updated properly and some new content is unlockable if you run latest release from an old save.

To see just the few new content I just cheated following the instructions I've found on this thread.

Since the game should be near its completion, I suggest you to wait for the final release and replay from scratch.
The grinding is still there, but it should be less than what you are used to if you played years ago.

Besides in most minor releases some bugs are fixed and other bugs sneak in.

I hope that when the Dev is satisfied with the story and contents at last, he will spend his coding efforts on debugging only.
That's the only way to deliver a bug free product.

As any programmer knows, any new feature is the entrance door for new bugs as well.
(Besides, breaking backward compatibility is annoying for the audience)

Thanks, I guess I will wait then.

 

[Enot1964]

Is it guaranteed that cheating on money and food items won't break your game?

Cheats with money, sexual tension are built into the game by the developer. That is, they will not affect the game. In the cheat mod you can without fear, change the weather, relieve headaches, hunger and depression, prevent MC pregnancy. The rest of the variables - courage, rhetoric, etc. I highly recommend you do not touch. As experience shows, it is fraught with unpleasant consequences (for example, in the form of softlock).

 

[ZenoMod]

Cheats with money, sexual tension are built into the game by the developer. That is, they will not affect the game. In the cheat mod you can without fear, change the weather, relieve headaches, hunger and depression, prevent MC pregnancy. The rest of the variables - courage, rhetoric, etc. I highly recommend you do not touch. As experience shows, it is fraught with unpleasant consequences (for example, in the form of softlock).

Thank you!
I was thinking the same, but getting confirmation from another player is always extra reassurance.

 

[Mmushy]

I have reached these screens. I am guessing I have reached the end until the final wrap up?

 

[MWolf55]

I have reached these screens. I am guessing I have reached the end until the final wrap up?
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For the first screenshot yes; if you do anymore with that part it will end the game. For the second, no. Looks like your missing the whole online cam-girl part which starts with Barbara and the gym part that starts with Fred. You have to buy a dress and mask from downtown and go back to Barbara at night. For Fred, you are probably at the part where you find him clients for the gym. Search this form using "gym" and should find the list of those that will go to the gym. If I remember correctly that includes Barbara, the daughter's boyfriend, and the guy from the bar. You could advance quite a bit with those two arcs; you missed some stuff by not pushing those two parts forward.

 

[Mmushy]

I think for me, those to dos remaining there are bugs.
I have already setup the cam studio and bought everything required.
For Fred, I have gotten him clients and resolved his relationship with his old GF. Right now I can't even talk to him anymore.

 

[ZenoMod]

I think for me, those to dos remaining there are bugs.
I have already setup the cam studio and bought everything required.
For Fred, I have gotten him clients and resolved his relationship with his old GF. Right now I can't even talk to him anymore.

Yeah... This game is quite buggy, and the quest log is the buggiest part of it.

Many times the hints say to do something you can't do anymore because you already completed that arc.

That's because the Dev didn't implement an automatic management of the hints, so he must add and remove items to the hint array at the right time by explicitly coding a line. And since the game is sandbox, this way of coding is very error prone and difficult to test.
He may have tested it by doing the arcs in 10 different orders, but there are 100s (if not 1000s) possible orders, so it's impossible to test them all.

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By the way, did you start your game from scratch on current release, or did you load a save you made with a previous release?

 

[Mmushy]

It's a saved game from previous release.......from 2023 actually.

 

[Enot1964]

It's a saved game from previous release.......from 2023 actually.

Version 0.95 was released at the very beginning of 2023.
However, the OP clearly states:
Saves from previous versions to 0.98 are not supported. Version 0.98 appeared here at the end of June 2023. Do you remember which version's saves you used?