RPGM Caliross, the Shapeshifter's Legacy [v0.9.21] [mdqp]

[mdqp]

Just wondering, but when do you expect that this game is finished? Is this more like a couple of months, or rather in the 2030s?

The reason I am asking is that I played that game a couple of years ago. And while I would like to play it again, I am not that big of a fan to start large RPGM games over and over - therefore I am waiting for the release.

It should be this year. Note that you don't have to restart everytime. The saves are generally compatible from version to version, unless you wait years to update (in which case it's harder to guarantee things will work).

This game was 9.x for several years already. Can someone here explain why? Because that seems absolutely ridiculous. I do NOT believe that a game can be "almost complete" for 4 years

It's a mix of things: the main story is finished, so it felt appropriate to have 0.9 as the version, I wasn't following a particularly strict numbering for the updates to begin with, patrons voted to extend the development rather than have a more "cut down" 1.0 which further extended the life expectancy of pre-1.0, I have been having health issues the last 2-3 years so progress did suffer a little and so on and so forth.

has the h-scene walkthough been kept up to date?

Not up to date. It never was, since I started working on it several years after the game had began development, and it's obviously the first thing to get ignored if I fall behind when working on the game, so it's missing a lot.

Are the H-scenes animated or still images?

Only still images. There might be some minor visual effects every now and then, but that's about it.

 

[CutieLvr]

Can somebody, pretty please, tell me how to enable using the mouse?

 

[YetAnotherGamer]

Can somebody, pretty please, tell me how to enable using the mouse?

You could use the On-Screen Keyboard (osk.exe), I guess.

 

[KinkyPixy]

Can anyone tell me how to resize the window for this? This is absurdly small.

Normally with RPGM games I can just grab the corner of the window and make it whatever size I want, but I can't with this. Then again, most RPGM games also don't require me to install anything else before I can play them either.

 

[Fiamos]

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Press F6

 

[mdqp]

Can anyone tell me how to resize the window for this? This is absurdly small.

Normally with RPGM games I can just grab the corner of the window and make it whatever size I want, but I can't with this. Then again, most RPGM games also don't require me to install anything else before I can play them either.

You can play around with F5 and F6, they cycle through a few options. Resolution is still pretty low, though, this is an old version of the engine.

 

[ShiningPenguin]

It should be this year. Note that you don't have to restart everytime. The saves are generally compatible from version to version, unless you wait years to update (in which case it's harder to guarantee things will work).

Oh I am aware of that.
But because of two reasons I start new:

1. You are still working on the game, so it could be happen that I am past the stuff you are reworking / fixing / adding
2. Often I try these RPGM games every 1 or 2 years. No way, I remember what I did that long ago.

I think the last time I started your game was during your famous 0.99999999 updates. And the first time, I played your game quite a lot was in 2018 or 2019.

 

[JP Woods]

This game would work so much better using the mouse, then with the keyboard!

 

[mdqp]

This game would work so much better using the mouse, then with the keyboard!

Long story short, the mouse isn't natively supported in this version of RPG Maker (it's quite old at this point) and adding it with a script wouldn't be good enough, because it would break some of the puzzles/mechanics.

Trying to troubleshoot the game and re-design anything that would break this way is simply too much of a hassle, since I can't even estimate how much would break and how long it would take to fix everything (it MIGHT be doable, but it's too big of an unknown to risk wasting time on it).

 

[JP Woods]

Long story short, the mouse isn't natively supported in this version of RPG Maker (it's quite old at this point) and adding it with a script wouldn't be good enough, because it would break some of the puzzles/mechanics.

Trying to troubleshoot the game and re-design anything that would break this way is simply too much of a hassle, since I can't even estimate how much would break and how long it would take to fix everything (it MIGHT be doable, but it's too big of an unknown to risk wasting time on it).

Ahh, I see got it. But at least how do you Fullscreen this game thought, unless it'll have the exactly the same problem as with adding the use of the mouse or something like that?

 

[mdqp]

Ahh, I see got it. But at least how do you Fullscreen this game thought, unless it'll have the exactly the same problem as with adding the use of the mouse or something like that?

For fullscreen, you can play around with F5-F6 to cycle through a few options (including fullscreen), or you can press ALT+Enter to toggle it.

 

[Jeno]

I've really been wanting to restart this game again, as it is right up my alley. However, the last two times I started it, I dropped it pretty early on as I encountered scenes within the first couple of hours, which didn't have art.
Could anyone tell me if since then, these early scenes have been given art? (forgive me, I don't know what the scenes were)

 

[mdqp]

I've really been wanting to restart this game again, as it is right up my alley. However, the last two times I started it, I dropped it pretty early on as I encountered scenes within the first couple of hours, which didn't have art.
Could anyone tell me if since then, these early scenes have been given art? (forgive me, I don't know what the scenes were)

Basically all scenes should have art, although it's obviously hard to tell you for sure when we don't know which ones they were. If you find scenes without art, do let me know: I'll commission art for them if it's missing, or I'll check what's wrong if it's a bug.

 

[Cyberpunk20]

Hey mdqp
I was brute forcing different combinations to pass 'Noblesse Oblige' and I think I might have found a bug.
It seems like 4 points are required to get the +2 reward with the Adventurers Guild.
You can get 3 from Adam. 1 from Gar and either lose or gain a point from Kairos' nephew.
However, giving Lady Pandleton a cocktail doesn't seem to add any points to the pool, despite her saying "I'll make sure to let Adam know you were helpful". This happens even if you don't turn down the Drunk Noble.
Is this intended?

 

[mdqp]

Hey mdqp
I was brute forcing different combinations to pass 'Noblesse Oblige' and I think I might have found a bug.
It seems like 4 points are required to get the +2 reward with the Adventurers Guild.
You can get 3 from Adam. 1 from Gar and either lose or gain a point from Kairos' nephew.
However, giving Lady Pandleton a cocktail doesn't seem to add any points to the pool, despite her saying "I'll make sure to let Adam know you were helpful". This happens even if you don't turn down the Drunk Noble.
Is this intended?

You are correct that 4 or more points are necessary. To be specific, you have an "appreciation" score (the one you want to increase) and a shame score (the one you don't want to raise). If you reach a shame score of 4, Lord Kairos is embarrassed by your behaviour and you get a -1 to your appreciation score at the end.

The way it currently works is intended. You don't really do an important favour to Lady Pendleton, and that part of the event is more about avoiding shame points and/or loss of appreciation by navigating the various landmines: ignoring the drunk noble gives you a -1 to appreciation, while drinking with him raises the shame, and the noble couple at the end increases your shame by 2 if you go along with them.

In theory, it's still possible to get max shame and max reputation and get the +2 with the guild.

the overall possible score is +3 with Adam, + 2 with his nephew (although the max option also increases shame by 1) and Gar also increases shame and appreciation by 1, so there is plenty of wiggle room. Note that depending on traits and stats, some options might not be accessible in all playthroughs.

P.S.
It's also worth mentioning that shameful actions often raise your invisible slut reputation.