Is there some kind of a guide for this? I've spent hours total on a few retries, even used cheats to carefully add a bit of courage in the start (didn't want to add too much for fear of skipping & bugging content) and never got anywhere at all. Is it supposed to take like idk 10-20h to get to the lewd content?
I could be wrong ofc and probably am but it seems like there's a million things to do early on and between the massive and not always clear quest log plus the timegated events it just feels like a mess of an unbelievable grind to even get started? But from all I've read about the positives of the game I'd really like to get to the content.
is there a way to cheat stats? The cheat menu is reduced to the minimum (arousal, money...), that does not help with the grind.
I strongly suggest you don't cheat with courage, rethoric, and other stats, because there are high chances that doing so you are going to miss some content, and even get a soft lock (meaning that some content is needed to progress the game, and if you lock yourself out of that content by tampering with stats, you can't progress the game).
I think you can cheat without worry with the following: money, weather, makeup, perfume, cum on MC's body/face, body odor, stress, pain, pregnancy, depression, hunger, tiredness, arousal.
While courage, strength, rethoric, are supposed to increase by performing actions and unlocking contents.
The only thing you can do if you are 1 courage short is drinking alcohol to get a temporary +1 courage.
Example: Action X need 10 courage points, and you have 9. Drink a beer, you get a temporary +1. Now you have total 10 courage and you can perform action X. After you performed action X, your
permanent courage is raised to 10.
Now you need to perform action Y which requires 11 courage points. You drink a beer, you get a trmporary +1, so the total is 11 and you can perform action Y. And so on.
If you cheat and you jump from 9 to 11 you can miss some content. And since contents are designed to unlock each other in waterfall, you could soft lock the game (i.e. not being able to progress anymore).
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Yes, the quest log
is buggy. Many times some hints don't get cleared from the quest log even if you performed the requested action.
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Also, yes, I agree that the grinding is too much (but in the ealry releases it used to be even more), but cheating with the non-cheat-safe stats will break your game.
