Hmm, I got my update yesterday on Steam. It's literally over 24 hours online there right now. Close your Steam client and start it up again. You should get the update.
Very strange. As I said, there was a small update but my game ends after Mal reveals all on TV and the CEO of Pfizer is arrested. I assume that's the end of Chapter 9. I even verified the files.
I'll try again later to see if the update is there.
Ideally, it should be the same as for any other ending: paying off the player's decisions and showing how they weave together into a possible future for the MC. While the weave might be much courser than on the main endings, we could still make a functional garment. We didn't get that. To continue the metaphor, we got a small tangle of yarn reeking of cat piss, along with a flyer advertising the awesome clothing available at SexyJaye.com The solo endings are interested only in establishing that only Jaye and Mallory could ever matter to the MC. Indeed, they're so devoted to that task that I honestly wonder why they were made at all.
Speaking for myself, you overstate the problems, but you aren't wrong. Some of the things you objected to I didn't--the resolution of the legal case was okay for me, though not wonderful. But other things disappointed me. I went through it on the "neither of them" path just hoping for a scene with Ricky, but didn't get one; that was a little sad.
But the main thing is the emotional payoff, or lack thereof. I loved this game a great deal all the way through, so I felt let down. The big thing (for me) was that the Mal and Jaye path turned out to be--the Jaye path. After setting things up for the threesome, in the end we see no sexual, and, even more, no emotional connection between MC and Mal, or MC and Jaye and Mal which would have been ever better. She's a friend of the family, and that's it. Unless I missed some clues somewhere, that is not what we were promised with the Mal and Jaye path. It's a good game, but he didn't stick the landing.
I deleted the game and downloaded it again, 8.3 GB on Linux. Same thing.
But my saves look weird, few will open without getting a traceback (I could swear they are without any mods, but it's been awhile so...)
Guess I'll have to play from the start at some point, but I'll probably wait for the reworked prologue and Ch1.
in the end we see no sexual, and, even more, no emotional connection between MC and Mal, or MC and Jaye and Mal which would have been ever better. She's a friend of the family, and that's it.
well they did have a threesome together, so that counts in my book as sexual connection? Also what friend of the family? They both have kids with him and raise them together. Unless you are on the wrong route
Speaking for myself, you overstate the problems, but you aren't wrong. Some of the things you objected to I didn't--the resolution of the legal case was okay for me, though not wonderful. But other things disappointed me. I went through it on the "neither of them" path just hoping for a scene with Ricky, but didn't get one; that was a little sad.
But the main thing is the emotional payoff, or lack thereof. I loved this game a great deal all the way through, so I felt let down. The big thing (for me) was that the Mal and Jaye path turned out to be--the Jaye path. After setting things up for the threesome, in the end we see no sexual, and, even more, no emotional connection between MC and Mal, or MC and Jaye and Mal which would have been ever better. She's a friend of the family, and that's it. Unless I missed some clues somewhere, that is not what we were promised with the Mal and Jaye path. It's a good game, but he didn't stick the landing.
I was also hoping for more emotional moments on all paths. I've always felt that this VN is heavy on the humour, but lacking in emotional depth. Don't get me wrong I enjoy some humour but it shouldn't overtake the emotional moments. Like the MC finding out that both Jaye and Mallory are pregnant is just treated as another joke, then we move on. Even the MC and Jaye's wedding starts off well but ends up being treated as a joke.
Very strange. As I said, there was a small update but my game ends after Mal reveals all on TV and the CEO of Pfizer is arrested. I assume that's the end of Chapter 9. I even verified the files.
I'll try again later to see if the update is there.
The big thing (for me) was that the Mal and Jaye path turned out to be--the Jaye path. After setting things up for the threesome, in the end we see no sexual, and, even more, no emotional connection between MC and Mal, or MC and Jaye and Mal which would have been ever better. She's a friend of the family, and that's it. Unless I missed some clues somewhere, that is not what we were promised with the Mal and Jaye path.
Well, I've played Chapter 10. No sugar coating it, that may be the worst AVN ending I have ever seen. Admittedly, I was stuck with the solo ending because there was no plan to account for someone on Mallory's path not having sex with her after Amanda's stunt; I had to pick an ending after the code couldn't make sense of my variables. The game clearly had no interest in fleshing out the "wrong" paths, so the process was uninteresting and choppy. But that's still no excuse for making the solo path an advertisement for the *real* endings with Jaye, to say nothing of the wretched excuse for a resolution to the legal case. This was BAD, much worse than it had any right to be after all the time spent tinkering with it.
I was planning to try the Jaye and Mallory paths afterwards just to see what difference it made when the developers were trying, but given my virulent reaction to the story I think I'm going to call it here. This game had enormous potential, but only the artwork ever realized it. The gameplay was incredibly poorly coded, the story was clearly regarded as gibberish despite the time spent on it in the early game, and the characters turn out not to have much dramatic range.
tl;dr A complete waste of time and potential, at least if you don't accept Jaye as the MC's one true pair. These devs should be capable of so much more.
As much as I disagree with almost everything you argumented against, I will at least acknowledge that you took the time to get your point across…
But yeah, if you hate Amanda, don’t want Jaye or Mal as your LI in what has always been said to be a game with only two main LIs being…Jaye and Mal, I can see why you’d feel frustrated, but that would have happened before the epilogue, surely?
That's definitely what it looks like, but I'm pretty sure I started clean when the game was released on Steam. Could certainly be wrong though, my memory was never good and I haven't played since chapter 8 so it's been awhile.
That's definitely what it looks like, but I'm pretty sure I started clean when the game was released on Steam. Could certainly be wrong though, my memory was never good and I haven't played since chapter 8 so it's been awhile.
When you remove the game from Steam, if you had mods in the past, they are still in the game folder. Make sure to manually delete everything from the game folder before reinstalling it. Then after you start a fresh game it should work without errors.
When you remove the game from Steam, if you had mods in the past, they are still in the game folder. Make sure to manually delete everything from the game folder before reinstalling it. Then after you start a fresh game it should work without errors.
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Speaking for myself, you overstate the problems, but you aren't wrong. Some of the things you objected to I didn't--the resolution of the legal case was okay for me, though not wonderful. But other things disappointed me. I went through it on the "neither of them" path just hoping for a scene with Ricky, but didn't get one; that was a little sad.
But the main thing is the emotional payoff, or lack thereof. I loved this game a great deal all the way through, so I felt let down. The big thing (for me) was that the Mal and Jaye path turned out to be--the Jaye path. After setting things up for the threesome, in the end we see no sexual, and, even more, no emotional connection between MC and Mal, or MC and Jaye and Mal which would have been ever better. She's a friend of the family, and that's it. Unless I missed some clues somewhere, that is not what we were promised with the Mal and Jaye path. It's a good game, but he didn't stick the landing.
I'll avoid posting any more spoilers since it sounds like you might be on a different route, but on the poly route, Mal definitely felt like much more than just a friend of the family to me and seemed like she had an emotional and sexual connection to varying degrees with both MC and Jaye.
Edit: On that note, in case you need to check, your Chapter 9 ending summary should say this on the poly route:
Congratulations on finishing this game! i LOVED this game when I discovered it, and Jaye was in my top 3 LI's, but then something weird happened. When the moment supreme update came - I had got over her and rejected her advances. And since I couldn't stand to be around Mallory, that didn't leave me anywhere to go. I think development length is a real issue with many of these games - If I'd discovered this in its completed state on Steam and played it in one go, I probably would have remained emotionally and otherwise invested all the way through. In any case - great to see that one of the classic titles of the genre wrapped everything up in the way the dev intended.
