Ren'Py Completed Callisto-X [v1.21] [ProfessorX-10]

[professorx10]

You didn't understand the question, or I didn't write it clearly. In a bike race, there is only one story arc - losing. I understand that was the case in the old game, but why lose according to a pre-prepared scenario in order to advance the plot? What is the point of this mini-game for the player if he loses all the time and there is no new story arc, it is just a waste of time.

Ok, let's take this point by point. The mini-game wasn't just a waste of time.

1st remember that I'm a modder, I'm limited by the original images and story. I do not have Daz 3D capabilities of creating new characters & images but must work with what exists and I'm attempting to follow while still improving the original story.

2nd Remember that this whole prologue was originally just a monologue with no options...nothing but a long introduction to the game. It needed to be made an integral part of the game, not just a 'intro.'

3rd Yes, the race was originally a short sequence of him losing a race so he had to ask the gangster for a loan. That was its purpose. What to do about it.

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Thus the new story arc expanded the story, made the acquisition of Callisto more difficult and logical, integrated the prologue into the game by adding player involvement and makes the character of the MC more resilient by forcing him to overcome harder obstacles to finally achieve his goal.

So as I said before, the purpose of the mini-game and story changes are multiple,

Sometimes Life throws you Sh*t. How we handle it shows life what we're made of. And the MC is no wimp.

I hope this helps you understand the purpose behind losing the bike race.

 

[professorx10]

I would get a new ship and continue to explore with my full crew and not just do nothing like your ending does - all the other girls are now thinking what a jerk he was
Continue the story with little ones from each of the girls and make the new ship HOME

Thank you for your suggestions.
The first thought, about the ending seems to me to apply to the original Callisto ending.
It's the reason I made Callisto X with other endings.
The second thought thought I can't help with. Sometimes things just don't work that way.

 

[rayminator]

thanks for sharing

 

[professorx10]

I'm late to the party and I didn't play this version yet but I'll talk about the beef I have with the original and it's ending:
You're the MC. You've just defeated the Hive with the loss of your ship. You're THE head of the Dione led defensive space force and THE right hand man of the president of the biggest alliance outside human space. You're standing before the human President who has asked you what your intentions are for your future. You have the option of retiring with one of your crew members or you don't just choose someone before you stabilise the mess currently going on.
...

My main gripe with the original was and still is the choice to help just one of the girls....
Even if we say that everything in the endings CAN or DOES happen without the MC, the original did a very poor job portraying that.

TL;DR: Make an option where the MC helps all the girls in his crew and only before Tanya leaves for her long journey have a farewell party where the MC can settle down.

Dunner Thanks for your thoughts! You may be 'late to the party' but you've added a lot. I'll only comment on a couple.

1. you've obviously played the Original. I agree. Your 'main gripe' and the choice of endings is why I've spent almost 2 years on my modified enhanced version with the alternative ending. The original left me not feeling satisfied and I spent over a year on the original production helping Xavster getting it done. Most comments are from guys who've not played the whole of my version.

2. There are elements of what you suggest in my ver 1.21. but I confess, you won't get quite that ending...just a hint of it.

3. your points and ideas about how powerful MC is at the end are interesting. I only wish I could have taken advantage of some of them. However, I have to work with what is within the original Callisto. I'm not an original image creator. If I were, I would have made other changes...heck, I would be writing my own Space Opera...Post log to Callisto... but I'm not.

It'd be nice if we could all settle down and be happy with either a big party or a harem with children so everybody could feel satisfied, but I'm afraid pigs still can't fly. So I'll just do the best I can with what I can do which is just work within what's there.

thanks again for your thoughts.

 

[professorx10]

What exactly is the diffirent compare to the original game ? I read the review but they are just prolix.

Lots. Read the post 1st page. Callisto-X is a DELUXE version of Callisto...as seen by me with an optional ending.

if you haven't played it, give ver 1.21 a try and decide for your self.

 

[Dunner]

Spoiler: Context

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Good to know your ending is trying to fix some of the, what seemed to be, rushed elements of the original.

I also understand the troubles with the MC's power levels regarding the endings. As I said previously, I pretty much created the Commander Shepard of the Callisto universe and 100% the game but what about the people that didn't? Should they get this ending I suggested above? How does 1 dev, that does this out of passion, account for all the variables?
It's a hard thing to balance especially since most devs, big and small, would LIKE to avoid the dreaded code spaghetti that will come with an in-depth system that takes into account player decisions. This is also why I said that such new ending would require the player to pretty much 100% the game since, with my limited codding experience, it would be the easiest requirement to set up.

Nonetheless I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only person that was "disappointed" (for a lack of better word) with the original. I'm even more glad to see someone tries to enhance what was already a good Ren'py experience because of it.

As for the harem idea it's just that in my book, an idea. It would be nice but not necessary especially since it comes with many problems both lore-wise and code-wise.

Depending on play style, Lia and Kara are the my "canon" ending candidates with Tif and Tanya following close by.

Keep up the good work. I look forward to play your version of Callisto

 

[DoubleDabbler]

I'm late to the party and I didn't play this version yet but I'll talk about the beef I have with the original and it's ending:
You're the MC. You've just defeated the Hive with the loss of your ship. You're THE head of the Dione led defensive space force and THE right hand man of the president of the biggest alliance outside human space. You're standing before the human President who has asked you what your intentions are for your future. You have the option of retiring with one of your crew members or you don't just choose someone before you stabilise the mess currently going on.

It was silly to "Choose" a LI and then watch as, at least, 2 major developments end in an ambiguous way. Like you're telling me that the MC couldn't help his girls because he doesn't bang them anymore?

So my proposition is the

Spoiler: I didn't hear no bell Branch

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My main gripe with the original was and still is the choice to help just one of the girls. Like ffs I built the biggest fuckoff fleet in the galaxy. I won the trust of all the races in the anti-hive alliance (humans included). I UTTERLY CRUSHED THE HIVE UNDER MY FEET! But still I can't let's say help both Lia and Tiffany because I don't bang one of them so suddenly I'm a bit too busy to care about the struggles of the other girls. OOPS! TEHE~
Even if we say that everything in the endings CAN or DOES happen without the MC, the original did a very poor job portraying that.

TL;DR: Make an option where the MC helps all the girls in his crew and only before Tanya leaves for her long journey have a farewell party where the MC can settle down.

Yeah, for some reason this is a big blind spot for them. Devs are anti-harem. Makes zero sense for most of the LIs the way the game developed but fine.

Then to go completely so far to the other extreme. No endings for 3 of the girls. Fuck off endings for most every girl he doesn't pick.

Despite the devs heavily laying down and reinforcing things like a throuple with Lia and Tanya they act like such expectations came out of left field and can't seem to see any gradient between Harem and an extreme Mike Pence monogamy where MC breaks off even friendship with the LI's you don't pick.

 

[DoubleDabbler]

Depending on play style, Lia and Kara are the my "canon" ending candidates with Tif and Tanya following close by.

Keep up the good work. I look forward to play your version of Callisto

Is anyone more canon than Lia and Tanya?

We must have really played the game differently. I don't even remember Lia + Kara or Tiffany + Tanya. Kara's secondary seemed to Rachael. Tiffany and Tanya both seemed to have Julia as a secondary.

 

[DoubleDabbler]

What exactly is the diffirent compare to the original game ? I read the review but they are just prolix.

Well he just changed some things in response to feedback. He's vague on what has changed so I haven't played through the whole thing for what I expect to be minor changes. but before that..

1. added qol things like some sound effects
2. made a valid attempt to add some more life/animation in some of the interactions
3. added mini games that almost everyone hated
4. replaced the original 4 endings with one ending that actually everyone hated...a lot.

 

[professorx10]

Well he just changed some things in response to feedback. He's vague on what has changed so I haven't played through the whole thing for what I expect to be minor changes. but before that..

1. added qol things like some sound effects
2. made a valid attempt to add some more life/animation in some of the interactions
3. added mini games that almost everyone hated
4. replaced the original 4 endings with one ending that actually everyone hated...a lot.

DoubleDabbler Thanks for trying to be more explicit in describing my changes.
Forgive me if I correct your list a little?

To be accurate, my mod:
1. added voice acting in h-scenes (silent h-scenes?) and sound effects in battles for more realism
2. added significant animations to fill out scene interactions. EG battle scenes became more dynamic
3. Altered & incorporated the prologue into the story
4. added several interactive mini-games into the story (skip-able with walk-throughs)
5. DID NOT replace the original endings. I added an additional story line with different, plausible main character endings.
6. I added many new scenes throughout the story and upgraded a previously peripheral character with new ending for her.

This is SOME of what I did to make Callisto-X a deluxe, upgraded version of the original game.

It is up to each player to decide if they like my changes and additions.
Thank you for providing yours.

 

[Dunner]

Is anyone more canon than Lia and Tanya?

We must have really played the game differently. I don't even remember Lia + Kara or Tiffany + Tanya. Kara's secondary seemed to Rachael. Tiffany and Tanya both seemed to have Julia as a secondary.

Hmm, you misunderstood me here. I was talking about the original endings and personally I find that Lia or/and Kara's endings make the most sense in the original for the "Commander Shepard" MC I made.

The way I rank the endings is something like this:

Spoiler: Ze Endings

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As for the whole harem aspect, no matter how much sense it would make for the players, it was ultimately up to the dev. Xan didn't want a harem ending, even if it would work one way or another, so it is what it is.

 

[BOZZU]

Here's my Unofficial Android Port of "Callisto-X" 1.21:

Mods: Built-In WT & Cheats

Download:

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APK size: 1,3 GB

Spoiler: Saves location

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Some phones may require you to force close and relaunch the app after granting storage permissions in order for the game to load.

 

[professorx10]

Here's my Unofficial Android Port of "Callisto-X" 1.00:
Mods: Built-In WT & Cheats
Download:

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APK size: 1,3 GB
Some phones may require you to force close and relaunch the app after granting storage permissions in order for the game to load.

To those reading this thread. I tried to get BOZZU link for a .APK (android) file to connect and got a virus warning.

Callisto ver 1.21 already has a walk through (& cheat) built into it in all versions (win,mac,& android). I recommend you Download the original from F-95.

 

[BOZZU]

To those reading this thread. I tried to get BOZZU link for a .APK (android) file to connect and got a virus warning.

Callisto ver 1.21 already has a built in walk through (& cheat) built into it in all versions (win,mac,& android). I recommend you Download the original from F-95.

All my ports are scanned by Kaspersky before compressing (after downloading the game from F95Zone) and after porting them so it's 99% a false positive. I didn't put any mods/patches except gesture support. So it's 99% chance its a false positive from your AV/scanner.

Edit: APKAdmin without an adblocker have a few ads and maybe one of the ads was flagged.

 

[professorx10]

All my ports are scanned by Kaspersky before compressing (after downloading the game from F95Zone) and after porting them so it's 99% a false positive. I didn't put any mods/patches except gesture support. So it's 99% chance its a false positive from your AV/scanner.

Edit: APKAdmin without an adblocker have a few ads and maybe one of the ads was flagged.

To be clear, it wasn't from your port. I got it from the website you uploaded it to. I got the virus alert, a tracking alert and several ads and was unable to get your port to download due to ads redirecting the button. That site is not clean.
Although I respect your desire to mod my game, I can't help wonder why you felt you even needed to. It already has those features. (BTW, your post said it was for ver 1.0 (now obsolete) and your port file site said it was the current version. Thought you'd want to know.)
cheers,

 

[BOZZU]

To be clear, it wasn't from your port. I got it from the website you uploaded it to. I got the virus alert, a tracking alert and several ads and was unable to get your port to download due to ads redirecting the button. That site is not clean.
Although I respect your desire to mod my game, I can't help wonder why you felt you even needed to. It already has those features. (BTW, your post said it was for ver 1.0 (now obsolete) and your port file site said it was the current version. Thought you'd want to know.)
cheers,

No worries, I've been using APKAdmin as the hosting as it gives unlimited storage and also other Android porters use it. It's also on the F95's approved files host list. As per why it was ported, it was requested by a few people - also as far I've seen no other bigger porters have ported your game. Compressing sucked balls though as it's basically the same size as the official version.

Use an adblocker next time though, Internet is pretty unusable today without it.

 

[DoubleDabbler]

5. DID NOT replace the original endings. I added an additional story line with different, plausible main character endings.

Well, OK. Fair. But it's the walkthrough approved best ending so I counted it as THE ending. I think this was a dissatisfaction I had with the original. Lia seemed to be THE ending in a similar way for the original. To get endings with the other 3 possibilities it seemed you needed to make poorer decisions in game play. But you kinda inherited that.

Seemed you said in another post you acknowledged you were limited in what you could do. Like had permission but not all the original render files. So even though the new ending is not for me I appreciated the effort if nothing else.

 

[DoubleDabbler]

Hmm, you misunderstood me here. I was talking about the original endings and personally I find that Lia or/and Kara's endings make the most sense in the original for the "Commander Shepard" MC I made.

The way I rank the endings is something like this:

Spoiler: Ze Endings

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As for the whole harem aspect, no matter how much sense it would make for the players, it was ultimately up to the dev. Xan didn't want a harem ending, even if it would work one way or another, so it is what it is.

You are so right. I totally misunderstood.

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