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Do you know which major decisions need to be different compared to previous patch's poly run? Before this update my runs consisted of picking every good option with both girls and got Jaye to convince MC for polyamory in chapter 9, but the chapter summary end statements would always say commitment to either Jaye or Mal.
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FYI, this is not accurate. I meet all these conditions and don't get poly option.
While i didnt do anything with Mallory in my whole Jaye pt (never had sex with mal) yet the MC is apparently in love with Mal anyway and Jaye offered the throuple. It was kinda strange.
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I can't say I'm all that surprised. The devs have been undercutting the game's pathing for years now. I have no idea why they coded so many choices when they had zero interest in fleshing out most of them, but here we are. The fact they can't see the difference between an MC trying to sleep around and one trying to start an honest polyamory relationship is, sadly, par for the course.
As I expected, the new patch doesn't change anything on my sexless Mallory run, either. Really looking forward to seeing the eventual epilogues find new and innovative ways to make this route even less sensical.
Wasn't this patch supposed to give you the choice to have a poly relationship with Mal and Jaye in the Open relationship path?
I don't understand how this fix anything besides giving you the option at the beginning of choosing one or the other... or being alone lol.
Having the poly path only on the Jaye path is simply stupid when the dev already have a Open relationship path in the game, why not use that?? If they want to make it harder to the player then have a requirement of 90 Love and trust for both of them or something like that.
Also moving Tara as a LI onto the next game makes me thinks the dev is gatekeeping it to that game so Tara fans go and buy that game since I got the feeling she is pretty popular.
Regarding the cameos (cross-promotion), they were funny the first time but there are simply too many now, if you haven't played those games you will kept wondering "who are they" because they are not introduced in the story, imo they should be unobtrusive to the player, like Stephanie at the end if you don't know her it doesnt matter, and if you do you will apreciate the nod to that game. Right now they feel like forced and bad product placement.
Honestly the dev had such missed opportunities here to make a massive hit, I really don't understand the rush to move on to the next game either.
Maybe its the inexperience of developing their first game but I feel they dont listen to what people really want.
I don't understand how this fix anything besides giving you the option at the beginning of choosing one or the other... or being alone lol.
Having the poly path only on the Jaye path is simply stupid when the dev already have a Open relationship path in the game, why not use that?? If they want to make it harder to the player then have a requirement of 90 Love and trust for both of them or something like that.
Also moving Tara as a LI onto the next game makes me thinks the dev is gatekeeping it to that game so Tara fans go and buy that game since I got the feeling she is pretty popular.
Regarding the cameos (cross-promotion), they were funny the first time but there are simply too many now, if you haven't played those games you will kept wondering "who are they" because they are not introduced in the story, imo they should be unobtrusive to the player, like Stephanie at the end if you don't know her it doesnt matter, and if you do you will apreciate the nod to that game. Right now they feel like forced and bad product placement.
Honestly the dev had such missed opportunities here to make a massive hit, I really don't understand the rush to move on to the next game either.
Maybe its the inexperience of developing their first game but I feel they dont listen to what people really want.
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::shrug:: Who knows, probably some specific choice somewhere. I've lost interest and moved on.
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The "main story" is finished.
There is still an epilogue to come.
Please read below, while this does finish it's main story, there are 3 more updates, read below.
More information can be found in this post here.
Thanks for this. Did a few reruns and turns out what I was supposed to do was give Jaye full points the entire run (only look at her sunbathing/telling Kaili you like Jaye instead of both her and Mal), let Mal go after she gets tricked by Amanda into touching MC in bed, avoid cheating with Bianca and Lisa, and commit to Jaye after sex scene (I want all the things); basically give Jaye full romance treatment while still trying to up Mal's love points as much as possible. Afterwards Mal's love points caught up and I'm looking at Jaye 100 and Mal 93 love points with poly ending.
It's funny that trying to go for an open relationship ultimately forces you to choose one girl or it's a no go, instead a solo romance path gives you the poly ending
I have to say that it damaged Jaye for me a bit. Its just not at all how i perceived her, her being easy peasy up for a throuple and encouraging it just felt wrong to me and annoyed me, this isnt a harem for fucks sake.
Its was just so weird, she finally is with the guy shes in love with her whole life and immediatly wants to share him with other girls (and not just a threesome but a full fledged throuple lol).
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How your text sounded in my head.
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I just started playing this game a couple days ago, so I haven't finished it yet. BUT, I just wanted to drop by this thread to say I love the fact that this game takes place in the same universe as Leap of Faith (and also Bare Witness)! Really enjoying the actual story so far, too. Love the sense of humour shown, and the characters' facial expressions during such scenes as well.
Agreed, it feels like chapter 9 was the dev team throwing a bone to the poly pathers like me with the extended Mal scene and surge in Mal points. At that point I just reasoned in my head canon that Jaye and Mal spent a lot of offscreen time bonding, which allowed Jaye to realize a special connection with Mal due to her bubbly personality plus the genetic relation.
Maybe the time Jaye spent growing up without Alex developed her maturity and helped her understand their incestual love can't be contained monogamously. Honestly grabbing at straws here but this game's best feature is definitely its approach to the complexity of incest theme, especially the brother-sister love dynamic
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No. See below from the devs.
I think including her because she is popular, yes, but gatekeeping her, no. I don't think there was ever any intention to have more of Tara in the ending here. A lot of people were expecting an MC/Jaye/Tara throuple, but actually there was never anything to telegraph that. Just because Jaye's best friend (who both Jaye and MC have been intimate with in the past) picked them up from the airport doesn't mean that they're going home to start a relationship together. I don't think Firebreak had anything to do with this.
CS was already winding down and I don't personally feel that there was a rush to get it out of the way so the devs could move on to the next game. I mean, that would be a pretty bad move, because it might lead to people deciding not to give Firebreak a chance if they felt CS was rushed and not given an appropriate ending as a result.
I understand that some people already feel this regardless, but for me, that's because they didn't read the game the way the devs did, and didn't get what they wanted out of it (which won't always happen regardless). That's understandable, as the devs are "in the head" of the characters, so what's easy for them to see might not always be easy for the players to see. I personally can see it from the devs' point of view. I would have gone a different way if it was me writing it, but I still appreciate the way the devs went, as I can see the signs that were there (and the signs that weren't).
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Because the developers had no intention of the MC being a revengeful asshole to Jaye, and if that's your 'conscience', they didn't want you to continue with their game.
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okay, that makes more sense now that you explained it. For the record though, I was messing with as many females in the game as i could until I got bored of the game and deleted everything lol.
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The fact the poly stuff is connected to Jaye's solo path is shit. Her path is tainted for me now. I thought devs said no gotcha moments.
But as usual devs lie.
I'm on the only Jaye path and this trouple stuff isn't my cup of tea. So everything is fine for me and found me happy about that. Keep up the good work devs!