VN Ren'Py College Kings [Act 2 v6.2.5] [Undergrad Steve]

[Night Hacker]

Yeah, it is. I used to like this game, but then it turned out to be awful. It´s a pity. And dev´s loss, of course, since at first all reviews were five stars, and now there are a lot of terrible reviews. This game at first seemed a decent try to clone "the game that shall not be spoken", just not so professionally done, but now is just another amateur and badly written game about college life, only more heavy and with more bugs than other similar ones like AOA Academy or The best days of our lives.

I'm seeing a lot of bugs in this v2 release. I don't think it should have been released as it is. But this is far from being a bad game. Been replaying it (the original, not this release) and absolutely loving it. Great story, some touching moments as well as some great humour that caused me to burst out laughing. I think you're just being a miserable little git who won't admit they're wrong and hating on this for no reason.

If you truly don't like it than do us all a favour and leave this thread as we do like it!!!

 

[Night Hacker]

They started it mostly because of all the issues. The last version had a lot of major problems because of all the old code and the major size the game had grown into so they felt it was easier to start a new game and import saves from the first one. Clean it up.

I compared code from the old version and the new version (while trying to fix bugs) and I honestly didn't see a huge difference. It's certainly very difficult to navigate and could be better organized in my opinion.

 

[Night Hacker]

I've got to ask, I just started season 1 and there is this ugly green line of text in the top left corner of the screen. Can it be turned off somehow?

I've posted this in the past, but I created a patch which will remove that (it's debug code that the dev forgot to disable). my patch disables developer mode which removes that...

View attachment CollegeKings Patch.7z

 

[Night Hacker]

Hey guys!
Why do i have crash in the start of the game at step 5? It says something about real life mode, but either i go with enable or disable, both ways i have crash. Can anyone help please?

I created a simple patch to fix that. BUT be warned, I have read about other bugs in these forums. This SHOULD help with this particular problem. No guarantees as I am not a dev of this.

View attachment CollegeKings2-2-patch.zip

 

[Night Hacker]

Wow, I think I'll stay out of this thread for a while. Nothing but bug reports in it. LOL

 

[saadniazi]

THE NAMING SCHEME IS SO CONFUSING!!! WHY CAN'T YOU USE SIMPLE CHAPTER NAMES. LIKE CHAPTER 1 , 2 ,3 ETC. EVEN THE NAMES ARE BUGGY! FK YOU UNDERGRAD STEVE! FK U!!!!!!

 

[Crusader of Romance]

Wow, it looks like this version is riddled with bugs. This bug has to do with a missing value from the relationship field. Yeesh... I am starting to think they didn't test this game AT ALL! Wow, this should not have been released. I'll play the original and wait for a while on this version I think.

At least this one has an easy fix. It happens if you select Advanced options before Step 5 in Path Builder.
The release was last minute delayed by one hour. My guess is that they fixed some stuff without having time to test it after. The bugs in this release are mostly when you are starting the game so it should be impossible to miss it in play tests. So logically, they should be new bugs that formed after play tests.

I compared code from the old version and the new version (while trying to fix bugs) and I honestly didn't see a huge difference. It's certainly very difficult to navigate and could be better organized in my opinion.

I don't know code so I take your word for it.

 

[zaqrwe]

Oh well.. but besides the bugs(which I luckily didn't encounter yet) it's pretty good game.

Just a thought, since the whole 'season 1' is that much of mess, it would be nice to at least have gallery integrated in the second one

 

[Crusader of Romance]

THE NAMING SCHEME IS SO CONFUSING!!! WHY CAN'T YOU USE SIMPLE CHAPTER NAMES. LIKE CHAPTER 1 , 2 ,3 ETC. EVEN THE NAMES ARE BUGGY! FK YOU UNDERGRAD STEVE! FK U!!!!!!

What, Act I, Act II and Act III too confusing for you?

 

[Crusader of Romance]

Oh well.. but besides the bugs(which I luckily didn't encounter yet) it's pretty good game.

Just a thought, since the whole 'season 1' is that much of mess, it would be nice to at least have gallery integrated in the second one

The second one does have a gallery.
Hopefully season one will be less messy after they update Act III on Steam to give it a proper ending.

 

[Night Hacker]

At least this one has an easy fix. It happens if you select Advanced options before Step 5 in Path Builder.
The release was last minute delayed by one hour. My guess is that they fixed some stuff without having time to test it after. The bugs in this release are mostly when you are starting the game so it should be impossible to miss it in play tests. So logically, they should be new bugs that formed after play tests.

I will try out v2. I took screenshots of my relationships etc... from the old game so i know what to set in the pathfinder to keep things close to the same.

If I get energetic, maybe I'll look into some of these bugs, but man, this code is so... spaghetti like... and the nature of how Python works in RenPY doesn't help as you don't need to include any header files which would help me know where certain code comes from, instead I need to guess where it is and search all files... and they have a lot of code scattered all over the place. It's not surprising this has bugs. And it won't be surprising if it takes time to fix them.

 

[Crusader of Romance]

Wow, I think I'll stay out of this thread for a while. Nothing but bug reports in it. LOL

Yeah, I hope someone adds a notice on the first page because I'm getting tired of explaining the same thing over and over again.

 

[juniorforlife17313]

New writer kinda leaning too feminist for me. Chapter felt weird ASF compared to previous ones. Def a different feel. Stil enjoyed the good renders and locations

 

[zaqrwe]

The second one does have a gallery.
Hopefully season one will be less messy after they update Act III on Steam to give it a proper ending.

Gallery with scenes from 1st? Well, in that case i didn't say anything

Also hold on, you're saying there will be updates despite dev(s) switching to 'college kings 2'? Because from earlier posts in this thread I thought only the second will be continued, because o that broken update and size of the whole game

 

[Jacksonbbc]

MAC Version for S2?

 

[Crusader of Romance]

New writer kinda leaning too feminist for me. Chapter felt weird ASF compared to previous ones. Def a different feel. Stil enjoyed the good renders and locations

Could be because the "new" (she's been writing the game for almost a year now) writer is a woman and the old writer was a man.

 

[Crusader of Romance]

Gallery with scenes from 1st? Well, in that case i didn't say anything

Also hold on, you're saying there will be updates despite dev(s) switching to 'college kings 2'? Because from earlier posts in this thread I thought only the second will be continued, because o that broken update and size of the whole game

Sorry, I misunderstood you. Only scenes from the 2nd are in College Kings 2. However, scenes from College Kings 1 can be seen in College King 1's Gallery.

They hadn't planned for College Kings 1 to end so there was no proper ending to it. It would have ended during the Europe trip, kind of in the middle of things.
What they plan to do is take the beginning of what was Act IV part 1 and put it into Act III to give it a proper ending. After that, all focused will be on College Kings 2.
Hopefully they will do the same to the patreon version but I'm not sure.

 

[buser333]

I took screenshots of my relationships etc... from the old game so i know what to set in the pathfinder to keep things close to the same.

Where are you able to see this information in 15.0.2?

 

[Night Hacker]

Could be because the "new" (she's been writing the game for almost a year now) writer is a woman and the old writer was a man.

I like the fact that the new writer is a female. I would love to see their perspective on the story (so long as it doesn't get too feminist). I feel that many of the women in these games are far too easy, and it would be interesting to have more of a challenge. I little more realism wouldn't hurt in my opinion.

 

[Night Hacker]

Where are you able to see this information in 15.0.2?

EDIT: Ooops, sorry, this is from version 15.1.0. I guess not all these buttons are available in earlier versions. Personally, I prefer 15.1.0 over the newer version 2. I was able to play the first four acts without problems with it.

Click your PHONE in game then click RELATIONSHIPS to see all your relationships...


Then to see whether you are LOYAL or whatever, click on STATS to bring that up...