JustAl

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Jan 28, 2022
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baldur's gate 4 looking great
Nice that you like the game but really it's more Skyrim by design. If you want another "Baldur's Gate 3" experience, rewind back a few years to play Larian's DOS:2. Otherwise if you want a BG1/2 style experience, try Planescape Torment.

Now on to my playtest notes for the latest build.

I speedran the latest build this weekend and there's definitely more sex in both proper scenes and NPC world animations. That said I didn't get to see all the sex animations because I'm here to do all the quests and take inventory of sex content later.

My short notes: Rejoice, the highest dialogue check in-game now only needs 10 presence instead of 20, that's 2/3 points of a single levelup instead of all 3 points of 4 levelups each. The new climbing system is useful, there's much more essence to collect in the world than before for unlocking physical forms, and the shipwrecked anubites quest extends into an optional dungeon quest with a proper though stereotype stealth section and boss battle that unlocks a sex scene and extra quest later. This team knows plenty about good scene choreography but residual bugs around the anubites proves they're not up to spec with quest programming yet - once again I had to revert to an earlier save because the anubites suddenly vanished and made turning their quest in impossible.

Pro tips for the shipwrecked anubites quest: avoid touching the fishing boats up north at all cost. You may as well skip the anubites' weapon recovery too, because killing the kravenrook is a better option. Your possible results in this quest are: a) evacuate them for the weak-but-okay end that saves theier lives but nothing else, b) give them their weapons for the worst ending that kills them all, or c) beat the kravenrook and give its decapitated head to the captain after informing the priestess so you save them and unlock a sex scene and follow-up quest with the priestess. The follow up quest currently does not exist yet but dialogue is set for it.

Past that, Pleasure Island is busier now.
Knowing the sex game community, it was probably due to their frequent criticism that the game needs more sex animations. The sex game community tends to derail gameplay development for sex so credit where due, the game got a healthy addition of both this update. I'm not sure if the bad pregnancy-related bugs got fixed (I didn't spare time to test), but odd item-spawning bugs and Damaris' lines did get fixed.

Nifty though unimportant fluff and factoids in my run: a few NPCs wear non-encounterable clothing variations, like red bandages and blue civilian clothes. There appears to be no white anubite armor collar without the helmet, but that's a very easy fix. There's giant humanoid skeletal remains in the abandoned ruins up North-West so lore may talk about giants and even give us one as a boss. Along with the 2-handed sword I also finally found the axe weapon (attacked wagon's corpse lets you loot it) and it's an easy to miss though an often weak choice due to lack of bleed possibility on common and important enemies - stone and bone. I wish lootable weapons glowed, because the fact that weapons can be unlootable decoration static meshes in the world makes jaded players miss out on cool unlocks.

TL;DR for lazies: Pleasure Island has significantly more sex to see and have now. You can save the anubites by killing the beast that was stalking them in a dungeon and unlock an additional sex scene. Starting area is more fun. No new equipment or forms yet. World showing more locations that will be used later.

What I'm waiting for: either a statement about the starting area finally being finished, or a debug-mode kind of placeholder in which we can keep our old saves and go back to the start area every update to see what has changed. It would significantly speed up playtesting to only come back for newly added content instead of restarting fresh every time. Granted, this game bugs out often so I'm not sure they could manage that without adding more bugs.
 

Dexxi

New Member
Sep 27, 2023
6
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the u4 ver is pretty good, doesn't try to hard to be a real game plenty of good h scenes the balance of porn and game play is perfect.
the u5 ver tho... First off they changed everything, it tries to hard to be a real game, like sheesh i dont wanna fight a hard ass boss (the bosses are real bosses in this ver, unlike ver 4, but with a worse combat system) to fap, it leads you on a ridiculous story bound non optional linear quest at the beginning that is really more of a chore. the new world looks nice and new npcs are nice BUT...And this is a big but for this kinda game: THERES NO NEW H SCENES (also missing centars and nagas and you have to buy all the body mods and such with essence now, instead of just being able to find and unlock most things)
Just all the old ones from ver 4, not even all its actually (thats all Pleasure island is , plus some non interactable npcs fuckin) missing some and those being some of the best from ver 4. so yeah ik you're here to fap with some simple game play.
You are not here to play furry desert skyrim.

I recommend the u4 ver, u5 is literally pointless i mean unless the graphics bump means that much to you, imo the difference isn't even very noticeable compared side by side on ultra.


to summarize : new map and story with better graphics but no new and less sex scenes.
 
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Dexxi

New Member
Sep 27, 2023
6
11
Nice that you like the game but really it's more Skyrim by design. If you want another "Baldur's Gate 3" experience, rewind back a few years to play Larian's DOS:2. Otherwise if you want a BG1/2 style experience, try Planescape Torment.

Now on to my playtest notes for the latest build.

I speedran the latest build this weekend and there's definitely more sex in both proper scenes and NPC world animations. That said I didn't get to see all the sex animations because I'm here to do all the quests and take inventory of sex content later.

My short notes: Rejoice, the highest dialogue check in-game now only needs 10 presence instead of 20, that's 2/3 points of a single levelup instead of all 3 points of 4 levelups each. The new climbing system is useful, there's much more essence to collect in the world than before for unlocking physical forms, and the shipwrecked anubites quest extends into an optional dungeon quest with a proper though stereotype stealth section and boss battle that unlocks a sex scene and extra quest later. This team knows plenty about good scene choreography but residual bugs around the anubites proves they're not up to spec with quest programming yet - once again I had to revert to an earlier save because the anubites suddenly vanished and made turning their quest in impossible.

Pro tips for the shipwrecked anubites quest: avoid touching the fishing boats up north at all cost. You may as well skip the anubites' weapon recovery too, because killing the kravenrook is a better option. Your possible results in this quest are: a) evacuate them for the weak-but-okay end that saves theier lives but nothing else, b) give them their weapons for the worst ending that kills them all, or c) beat the kravenrook and give its decapitated head to the captain after informing the priestess so you save them and unlock a sex scene and follow-up quest with the priestess. The follow up quest currently does not exist yet but dialogue is set for it.

Past that, Pleasure Island is busier now.
Knowing the sex game community, it was probably due to their frequent criticism that the game needs more sex animations. The sex game community tends to derail gameplay development for sex so credit where due, the game got a healthy addition of both this update. I'm not sure if the bad pregnancy-related bugs got fixed (I didn't spare time to test), but odd item-spawning bugs and Damaris' lines did get fixed.

Nifty though unimportant fluff and factoids in my run: a few NPCs wear non-encounterable clothing variations, like red bandages and blue civilian clothes. There appears to be no white anubite armor collar without the helmet, but that's a very easy fix. There's giant humanoid skeletal remains in the abandoned ruins up North-West so lore may talk about giants and even give us one as a boss. Along with the 2-handed sword I also finally found the axe weapon (attacked wagon's corpse lets you loot it) and it's an easy to miss though an often weak choice due to lack of bleed possibility on common and important enemies - stone and bone. I wish lootable weapons glowed, because the fact that weapons can be unlootable decoration static meshes in the world makes jaded players miss out on cool unlocks.

TL;DR for lazies: Pleasure Island has significantly more sex to see and have now. You can save the anubites by killing the beast that was stalking them in a dungeon and unlock an additional sex scene. Starting area is more fun. No new equipment or forms yet. World showing more locations that will be used later.

What I'm waiting for: either a statement about the starting area finally being finished, or a debug-mode kind of placeholder in which we can keep our old saves and go back to the start area every update to see what has changed. It would significantly speed up playtesting to only come back for newly added content instead of restarting fresh every time. Granted, this game bugs out often so I'm not sure they could manage that without adding more bugs.
its a porn game dude, you're talking like you're alpha testing tes6...also i did say it was a porn game right?
 
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.Sirene

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Jul 24, 2022
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its a porn game dude, you're talking like you're alpha testing tes6...also i did say it was a porn game right?
What are you saying, to be precise?

Because on one hand, if people say nothing - the game does not improve.

If people say anything, then people like yourself, come on here, make a fresh account with jack all understanding of how a forum actually works and mocks someone who actually gives a shit that a game gets feedback and updates. Which is it?

Are you against feedback, or you just woke up feeling like being a douche today?
 

rungtate

Newbie
Aug 20, 2021
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It baffles me how some people only think with their south head and completely neglect their actual brain when it comes to any sort of NSFW/porn content.

I, personally, prefer games that incorporate both gameplay (it's a 'game'... it kinda need this) and various animated "scenes". If I just wanted a quick crank, there's hundreds of other options out there to get that without having to screech about it on some forum for a game that isn't even a place that give feedback to the devs in the first place.

I look at it like I do games such as Skyrim or Fallout 4. I like those games and the gameplay provided by them but the lack of NSFW stuff is a little odd given the nature of them and certain lore/quests in them. So modding those allows for that mesh of NSFW/porn content while also still being a good game to play. In this case the game is coming with those mods I would have downloaded anyway just pre-installed for us and given more to them without the jankiness of normal modding.
 

Yellow Pheaver

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Jan 20, 2019
598
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What compression manager are you using? 7zip works fine for just about any compressed file I've ever seen. Btw, what game is your sig from...looks interesting.
actually i dont know lol, im going to have to download 7zip, when i right click i have an option to extract, and thats what i have been using for everything on this website, and as far as the sig, its been so long i have forgotten what game its from.. been 4+ years since i added the sig right be fore i joined the military and i joined in 2020
 

crash.7ds

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Nov 18, 2018
879
762
actually i dont know lol, im going to have to download 7zip, when i right click i have an option to extract, and thats what i have been using for everything on this website, and as far as the sig, its been so long i have forgotten what game its from.. been 4+ years since i added the sig right be fore i joined the military and i joined in 2020
You're probably using what ever software comes default with Windows (probably Winzip I think?), which is almost never better than what else is out there. Windows like to do that, bundling crap software you either don't need or someone's done better.

Now, something else that comes to mind if this continues even with 7zip is try actually opening the file with 7zip and directly extracting to same location from the 7zip manager. In the past I've ran into issues where sometimes a compressed file would fail to extract when using the 7zip "extract here" option from Window's right click drop down but worked fine opening it from 7zip first. Hope this helps.
 

jayjaymax

Newbie
May 2, 2018
65
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This is a porn game ffs, if I wanted interesting gameplay and soulful dialogue I'd play Witcher or something.
Sure. But if you just want to see the sex animations, you could as well go download the many sandbox games out there that'll let you do that. If you wanted to add H-content in AAA games, it's almost always through mods which means, the sex is an action you can trigger at any time and is not part of the main story. It's controlled by you and you do not discover that content through the story. There aren't many (none that I know of) erotic games with great graphics and a story. So personally I like where this is going and where this is at this point in the game's development stage.
 

Yellow Pheaver

Active Member
Jan 20, 2019
598
283
You're probably using what ever software comes default with Windows (probably Winzip I think?), which is almost never better than what else is out there. Windows like to do that, bundling crap software you either don't need or someone's done better.

Now, something else that comes to mind if this continues even with 7zip is try actually opening the file with 7zip and directly extracting to same location from the 7zip manager. In the past I've ran into issues where sometimes a compressed file would fail to extract when using the 7zip "extract here" option from Window's right click drop down but worked fine opening it from 7zip first. Hope this helps.
ok well downloaded 7zip and it extracted perfectly fine no issues
 
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