Others Corruption of Champions II [v0.8.17] [Savin/Salamander Studios]

[CrimsonSongbird1982]

Doesn't this game unlike the first employ people to function as writers(whilst also graciously accepting free contributions)? That was just Fen in ye olden days with contributions from a certain deviant board so it was understandable that stuff got dead ended or unfinished, but in the last update log the impression I get is that stuff was cut cause "nobody was doing it". Do they pay them to write what they need or do they just get paid for whatever they write to then be added?

From my understanding, you can submit writing to their forum and they may look at it. It's basically free labor. If Savin likes your writing he may commission you to write a scene, another futa, maybe invite you to their creator's discord, or inform you of his content bounties. You're right in that it does have an official writing team though it's really just Savin's friends he hopefully divides the patreon money with, and a coding team of unknown size. Basically the writing team does whatever they want as long as it's in accordance with the main design doc and Savin's wishes. Unless you're Tobs, who gets minimal oversight it seems. Or Wsan who has been exiled to the horsecock mountain mines.

It makes Savin's "no one wanted to do it' complaint hollow when he has a team he's allegedly in charge of.

Then there's the topic of commissions as well as a Patreon,

I'm fully convinced he's using Patreon's rules as a shield to justify why he won't do certain content.

Or were his daddy issues and Japonophiliac tendencies just completely impossible for him to repress.

Occam's Razor I guess. Nobody, not even Savin or Tobs himself, can suppress his cringe weebbaggery. To even try is embrace the plight of Sisyphus.

A kind reminder that Tobs said he's Chinese.
A Chinese glorifying Imperial Japan.

Perhaps I'm getting too conspiracy theorist with this, but do we know for sure Tobs is actually Chinese and not lying about his nationality as part of an elaborate roleplay/psy-op? I'm not saying it's impossible, but someone from China simping that hard for a period in Japan's history that committed brutal atrocities against one's ancestors is really weird. Maybe Tobs has been a secret plant by the Happy Science cult in order to corner the market of porn.

The current loli side-quest discussion reminded me that Marble from CoC1 is the inverse of the five thousand year old dragon loli. For those possibly unaware, Marble is chronologically twelve with the body and writing of a full grown woman.

 

[Krosis/13]

Checked here to see what the response was to the new mod and wasn't surprised about the like for it. It made me want to start a new game to see what differences the official & modded stuff did after playing my old save for so long. Looked forward to the new Kinu content but I admit to being a bit disappointed that it didn't really change anything in the game and is more unconnected scenes (though they were good).

In my free time, I've been trying to rewrite Hime Kinu into something likeable and not just TObs'es weird masturbatory Japanese Yamato Nadeshiko blow up doll.

It's a character I'm calling Fake Princess Kinu, making her ,weeeelll , completely different. More childish, human, cute, warm, huggy, an egregious championcon, totally incesty, and not engaged to an self-insert racist douche.

But God, having to actually read TObs'es writing, and pay attention to what it actually says instead of just glancing over it.

It makes me wanna punch the guy in the face, holy crap, it's so awful.

Like, it reads so weird, I can barely explain it. So full of itself, you know. Filled to the brim with awkward conversations, strange messaging, constant reminders of how special his OC's are and how great japan, sorry the Kitsune, are. All the while reading like a college kid who took a semester of eastern culture studies trying to pad his thesis to get a high enough word count.

Also you can just feel the disgust for the player just dripping of it. It's the worst.

Like was it so hard just to write a daughter character, or a somewhat Japanese inspired people. Was any of this weirdness necessary. Or were his daddy issues and Japonophiliac tendencies just completely impossible for him to repress.

I don't fucking know, man. Fuck, he's just so weird, I just don't get it. Hell, I don't want to get it.

And he wrote waaaay too much, there's stuff in Kinu's text blurbs, no one will ever even see. Just pages and pages of pointless garbage. It almost makes me respect his work ethic, If it didn't read of obsession.

The guy is one giant weeb, in every bad aspect that term implies.

Yeah, starting a new game and doing the Kiyoko quest content with more experienced eyes and knowing about TOBS now has it hit differently. There's a special scene with kid Kinu where she's upset with her mom and after talking to you she confides that she likes that you're an outsider because you don't have all the cultural and species hang ups that Kitsunes have, which was a nice scene to read. But her out of the orb makes that touching moment gone in the wind, she's fully accepting of the Kitsune way of life.

 

[Tsubuhaza]

I find they're usually between 6 and 16, I don't think I've actually encountered the 10,000 year old vampire loli meme in its natural habitat.
Even in the loli versions of CoC, with all its transformation stuff, they're actually usually much younger than they look, not older. Born yesterday, yet already looking 10!
I find the worst of the worst are the "bigger/more is always better" crowd. ZZ-cup tits and four feet of dick just feels juvenile, like something a 13-year-old comes up with.

Naju from Tenchi Muyo.

And I can confirm on the other bit, my little brother got caught with that once and was nicknamed Neanderthal by his peers over it.

I'm fully convinced he's using Patreon's rules as a shield to justify why he won't do certain content.

It's the anti-vampire excuse. I mean, congratulations to them for coming up with the wildest excuse for the smallest thing possible, at any rate.

Checked here to see what the response was to the new mod and wasn't surprised about the like for it. It made me want to start a new game to see what differences the official & modded stuff did after playing my old save for so long. Looked forward to the new Kinu content but I admit to being a bit disappointed that it didn't really change anything in the game and is more unconnected scenes (though they were good).

It's probably testing the waves a bit for now. A flakey anti-mod dev does that to a game.

 

[Jbuster]

I find they're usually between 6 and 16, I don't think I've actually encountered the 10,000 year old vampire loli meme in its natural habitat.
Even in the loli versions of CoC, with all its transformation stuff, they're actually usually much younger than they look, not older. Born yesterday, yet already looking 10!
I find the worst of the worst are the "bigger/more is always better" crowd. ZZ-cup tits and four feet of dick just feels juvenile, like something a 13-year-old comes up with.

It's an interesting debate for which my answer will always be, none of this ever mattered because it's all fictional and the only thing one should ever care about is having fun

Still I think is sad a lot of places that catered to the less socially aceptable fetishes are almost gone, for at least those places were a convenient containment zone, in the same way the death of tumblr as a porn site allowed the most unsavory people ever to spread their wings and ruin everything

Having said that, sometimes juvenile minds do have the most brilliant ideas

Checked here to see what the response was to the new mod and wasn't surprised about the like for it. It made me want to start a new game to see what differences the official & modded stuff did after playing my old save for so long. Looked forward to the new Kinu content but I admit to being a bit disappointed that it didn't really change anything in the game and is more unconnected scenes (though they were good).


Yeah, starting a new game and doing the Kiyoko quest content with more experienced eyes and knowing about TOBS now has it hit differently. There's a special scene with kid Kinu where she's upset with her mom and after talking to you she confides that she likes that you're an outsider because you don't have all the cultural and species hang ups that Kitsunes have, which was a nice scene to read. But her out of the orb makes that touching moment gone in the wind, she's fully accepting of the Kitsune way of life.

By that time Kinu was trapped in the timesphere for like ten years, that's enough time for Kiyoko to trim the fun parts out of the champion's first fox daughter. It would've been nice to embrace once again those parts of her once she's out and you become a constant presence in her life, but Tobs thinks that's bad and therefore said no. What a terrible guy, don't you think?

 

[Krosis/13]

If I was a better writer I would work on the idea explaining how we got from canon Kinu to the "I think you gave me twins." Kinu from the mod but alas.

 

[jamesonwulf]

Yeah, starting a new game and doing the Kiyoko quest content with more experienced eyes and knowing about TOBS now has it hit differently. There's a special scene with kid Kinu where she's upset with her mom and after talking to you she confides that she likes that you're an outsider because you don't have all the cultural and species hang ups that Kitsunes have, which was a nice scene to read. But her out of the orb makes that touching moment gone in the wind, she's fully accepting of the Kitsune way of life.

By now I can only conclude that how TObs went about this was to serve his own muddled fantasies.
Like, somewhere while TObs was writing her, Kinu transformed from an OC to his full blown waifu, It's why she's paired so strongly with his self-insert character's.

Hell, I'm pretty certain the only reason why the ten year time-skip even happens is just so that he can pair them up. It's also why the engagement happens, there was no need for that at all.

It all feels as if he has gone out of his way to say, "Stay away from my waifu, you uncultured foreign barbarians, Kinu is mine!". Read that as his self-insert Nakano and you get the gist.

And his Japanophilia necessitates that at any moment all characters must love Japanese, I mean Kitsune culture. And must defend it, constantly, arguing at any moment without prompt, that all the possible issues that the kitsune might have, which they don't in his eyes, are good things actually.

So a normal Kinu who might have objections or problems with kitsune culture can't really exist, at least not written by him. She's his waifu and therefor must obsess over the things he obsesses about.

And I don't even want to get into how much all this stuff, also proceeds to kinda ruin Kiyoko as a character.

 

[YouShallNotLol]

From my understanding, you can submit writing to their forum and they may look at it. It's basically free labor. If Savin likes your writing he may commission you to write a scene, another futa, maybe invite you to their creator's discord, or inform you of his content bounties. You're right in that it does have an official writing team though it's really just Savin's friends he hopefully divides the patreon money with, and a coding team of unknown size. Basically the writing team does whatever they want as long as it's in accordance with the main design doc and Savin's wishes. Unless you're Tobs, who gets minimal oversight it seems. Or Wsan who has been exiled to the horsecock mountain mines.

It makes Savin's "no one wanted to do it' complaint hollow when he has a team he's allegedly in charge of.


I'm fully convinced he's using Patreon's rules as a shield to justify why he won't do certain content.


Occam's Razor I guess. Nobody, not even Savin or Tobs himself, can suppress his cringe weebbaggery. To even try is embrace the plight of Sisyphus.


Perhaps I'm getting too conspiracy theorist with this, but do we know for sure Tobs is actually Chinese and not lying about his nationality as part of an elaborate roleplay/psy-op? I'm not saying it's impossible, but someone from China simping that hard for a period in Japan's history that committed brutal atrocities against one's ancestors is really weird. Maybe Tobs has been a secret plant by the Happy Science cult in order to corner the market of porn.

The current loli side-quest discussion reminded me that Marble from CoC1 is the inverse of the five thousand year old dragon loli. For those possibly unaware, Marble is chronologically twelve with the body and writing of a full grown woman.

TOBS being chinese does not mean he's from China, I am giving you a 99% bet he was born and raised in America, from a family of chinese migrants who moved to America decades ago.
Also, he spoke chinese on another porn game's forum a few times.

 

[YouShallNotLol]

By now I can only conclude that how TObs went about this was to serve his own muddled fantasies.
Like, somewhere while TObs was writing her, Kinu transformed from an OC to his full blown waifu, It's why she's paired so strongly with his self-insert character's.

Hell, I'm pretty certain the only reason why the ten year time-skip even happens is just so that he can pair them up. It's also why the engagement happens, there was no need for that at all.

It all feels as if he has gone out of his way to say, "Stay away from my waifu, you uncultured foreign barbarians, Kinu is mine!". Read that as his self-insert Nakano and you get the gist.

And his Japanophilia necessitates that at any moment all characters must love Japanese, I mean Kitsune culture. And must defend it, constantly, arguing at any moment without prompt, that all the possible issues that the kitsune might have, which they don't in his eyes, are good things actually.

So a normal Kinu who might have objections or problems with kitsune culture can't really exist, at least not written by him. She's his waifu and therefor must obsess over the things he obsesses about.

And I don't even want to get into how much all this stuff, also proceeds to kinda ruin Kiyoko as a character.

Well, Kiyoko and Kinu (and the rest of the extended kitsune family) are pretty much abandoned by this point, or should I say Feature Complete™. So at least it's not gonna get worse any time soon.
Eventually, someone will rip it all apart and make a mod that turns post-orb kitsune family into something worth reading about.

 

[gods strongest gooner]

Eventually, someone will rip it all apart and make a mod that turns post-orb kitsune family into something worth reading about.

I believe that's the eventual goal of the /cocg/ modders, but they're in hibernation.

 

[CrimsonSongbird1982]

It's the anti-vampire excuse. I mean, congratulations to them for coming up with the wildest excuse for the smallest thing possible, at any rate.

And I'm still salty about it! The second he said that shit in response to me was the first massive crack in my good will. He could've just said they didn't want to or didn't feel comfortable with vampire related stuff but instead he lied. Lied through his teeth I tell you! Crimson Veil, THE vampire game, is on Patreon without issue. And CoC2 has Patreon violating stuff too but no suddenly they're worried Papa Patreon will get the belt. Savin is so full of shit but he can't help but run his mouth and get caught. Ghost fucking, grooming, and exalting historically harmful institutions are fine but apparently Vampires are what Savin thinks will stop his gravy train.

It's probably testing the waves a bit for now. A flakey anti-mod dev does that to a game.

I fully expect him to try to mod proof the game near the end and require a method of decompiling or untangling whatever botch job he does to the code. Thankfully I feel confident in saying that, while a bit of a pain to figure everything out, it running on Java and being editable with a find and replace function means anything he does will just mean it takes a little longer to find a new way to edit stuff. Unless he goes really nuclear. But there will always be old versions floating around if he does that.

This game will end the same way its predecessor did. Rushed, unsatisfying, and poorly balanced. But this will be worse.

Well, Kiyoko and Kinu (and the rest of the extended kitsune family) are pretty much abandoned by this point, or should I say Feature Complete™. So at least it's not gonna get worse any time soon.
Eventually, someone will rip it all apart and make a mod that turns post-orb kitsune family into something worth reading about.

Maybe someday we'll get a resolution to the whole "fox furries hate the weeb monster girls" plotline. Or maybe Tobs is pissy no one is fellating his kitsune family writing so he decided to just abandon it. Or make his own game based around them.

 

[Tamsay]

Perhaps I'm getting too conspiracy theorist with this, but do we know for sure Tobs is actually Chinese and not lying about his nationality as part of an elaborate roleplay/psy-op? I'm not saying it's impossible, but someone from China simping that hard for a period in Japan's history that committed brutal atrocities against one's ancestors is really weird. Maybe Tobs has been a secret plant by the Happy Science cult in order to corner the market of porn.

Honestly nothing can surprise me after I found out that there are (not a lot but still) people in Poland who glorify the Nazis and Shitler. The only difference is that the Germans admitted to everything they did, unlike the Japanese.

 

[K1ng_C00mer]

TOBS being chinese does not mean he's from China, I am giving you a 99% bet he was born and raised in America, from a family of chinese migrants who moved to America decades ago.
Also, he spoke chinese on another porn game's forum a few times.

Perhaps I'm getting too conspiracy theorist with this, but do we know for sure Tobs is actually Chinese and not lying about his nationality as part of an elaborate roleplay/psy-op? I'm not saying it's impossible, but someone from China simping that hard for a period in Japan's history that committed brutal atrocities against one's ancestors is really weird. Maybe Tobs has been a secret plant by the Happy Science cult in order to corner the market of porn.

If my memory is right, I think it came it that Tobs was a Straits Chinese, that is, from Singapore or Malaysia. Don't quote me on that. Like I said, it's all very strange why Tobs decided to tell his personal commentary on Japanese imperialism when there's no real consequences of it and no real events pertaining to it.

Like it would be if I, a mixed Spanish-Native American, wrote in a commentary about the invasion of the Aztec empire and made all the Spanish conquistadors breedable stacked mommies who... You know what? I'm starting to like this image in my mind... I'm half joking. As hot as it is from a pure erotic standpoint, it would be weird if I seriously told you that it was serious commentary about what happened to my ancestors. Because who the fuck puts that stuff in a porn game!?

I find they're usually between 6 and 16, I don't think I've actually encountered the 10,000 year old vampire loli meme in its natural habitat.
Even in the loli versions of CoC, with all its transformation stuff, they're actually usually much younger than they look, not older. Born yesterday, yet already looking 10!
I find the worst of the worst are the "bigger/more is always better" crowd. ZZ-cup tits and four feet of dick just feels juvenile, like something a 13-year-old comes up with.

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Rory Mercury from Gate? Well, also Evileye from Overlord, that's more fitting considering she's an actual vampire. I feel like a lot of people tend to see a flat chested short anime girl and call them a loli, especially in modern anime discourse.

I'm glad to see someone else speak out about how big of a meme hyper is. Like, I can see it in the context of like hentai where a women getting her breasts enlarged to absurd levels is a part of her being corrupted/mindbroken, but in things like TiTs, where people are willingly getting balls the size of basketballs and waddling around casually- it's just too absurd for me to take seriously. And don't get me starting on stuff like Sparrow's art, where he draws people getting impaled on cock.

EDIT: Alright, which one of you went to the forum and talked about the mod? Do you want to kick the hornet's nest or something? Did you not hear a million times over and over that Savin and friends hate mods? Why would you go and ask for a dedicated mod section!?

 

[yuzuyo]

EDIT: Alright, which one of you went to the forum and talked about the mod? Do you want to kick the hornet's nest or something? Did you not hear a million times over and over that Savin and friends hate mods? Why would you go and ask for a dedicated mod section!?

All of the talk about Tobs being a spiteful cunt, now people go and act much the same. The difference is: we can be annoying while they can actually make the modders' life more difficult. What's the point of doing that shit? Fucking hell. Adult website, by the way.

 

[Welwick]

EDIT: Alright, which one of you went to the forum and talked about the mod? Do you want to kick the hornet's nest or something? Did you not hear a million times over and over that Savin and friends hate mods? Why would you go and ask for a dedicated mod section!?

I admit I had a huge urge to rub this in their faces, but I held back, I wouldn't be surprised if they made programming difficult in some way just to get in the way of modding.

 

[gods strongest gooner]

I admit I had a huge urge to rub this in their faces, but I held back, I wouldn't be surprised if they made programming difficult in some way just to get in the way of modding.

They already did that, several mods stopped updating for that exact reason.

 

[Tamsay]

First off, it was a really short-sighted move to draw attention to the mod on that forum.

Second: Oh yes, the ban is definitely for pointing to piracy websites (wait, isn't it usually linking that is bannable?)

 

[telescopick]

From my understanding, you can submit writing to their forum and they may look at it. It's basically free labor.

Okay, that was what I assumed, it's just weird to me to say something wasn't being done and is therefore being removed as if there was no possibility of it being done. I suppose that's also why the game is taking forever despite being rather short if the next act is indeed the finale and why TITS rarely updates as well. World's quite different and amateur game dev'ing far easier nowadays than even the days of CoC1, it'd make more sense to just do your own thing than to work for free for somebody else.

But at the end of the day this is also just a porno game and I've never paid a dime for one so I really shouldn't do much more than hope an update includes wank material for me. Too much pondering of how things work inside the gooncord that develops the stuff I jerk off to is bad for the soul.

 

[HereBe123]

I have a question, can someone give me a rundown of all the Savin/CoC II drama and whatnot in a more concise manner? I knew CoC II had lowish reviews on steam but never knew why.

 

[Neighborsknowmyname]

In my free time, I've been trying to rewrite Hime Kinu into something likeable and not just TObs'es weird masturbatory Japanese Yamato Nadeshiko blow up doll.

It's a character I'm calling Fake Princess Kinu, making her ,weeeelll , completely different. More childish, human, cute, warm, huggy, an egregious championcon, totally incesty, and not engaged to an self-insert racist douche.

But God, having to actually read TObs'es writing, and pay attention to what it actually says instead of just glancing over it.

It makes me wanna punch the guy in the face, holy crap, it's so awful.

Like, it reads so weird, I can barely explain it. So full of itself, you know. Filled to the brim with awkward conversations, strange messaging, constant reminders of how special his OC's are and how great japan, sorry the Kitsune, are. All the while reading like a college kid who took a semester of eastern culture studies trying to pad his thesis to get a high enough word count.

Also you can just feel the disgust for the player just dripping of it. It's the worst.

Like was it so hard just to write a daughter character, or a somewhat Japanese inspired people. Was any of this weirdness necessary. Or were his daddy issues and Japonophiliac tendencies just completely impossible for him to repress.

I don't fucking know, man. Fuck, he's just so weird, I just don't get it. Hell, I don't want to get it.

And he wrote waaaay too much, there's stuff in Kinu's text blurbs, no one will ever even see. Just pages and pages of pointless garbage. It almost makes me respect his work ethic, If it didn't read of obsession.

The guy is one giant weeb, in every bad aspect that term implies.

Ay me too! I'm working on a tomboy Kinu as we speak!

 

[CrimsonSongbird1982]

Well, also Evileye from Overlord, that's more fitting considering she's an actual vampire. I feel like a lot of people tend to see a flat chested short anime girl and call them a loli, especially in modern anime discourse.

Shalltear is intended as loli by her in universe creator, but aside from lolita inspired clothes she's drawn more like a petite woman. I think, at least in anime, loli characters are set apart by being drawn with bigger eyes and head to evoke childlike design philosophy.

EDIT: Alright, which one of you went to the forum and talked about the mod? Do you want to kick the hornet's nest or something? Did you not hear a million times over and over that Savin and friends hate mods? Why would you go and ask for a dedicated mod section!?

Goddammit. Savin is absolutely gonna do something petty now. Between the divisive to poor reception of last patch, the release of the mod, and now it being brought up on the official forum means something bad will happen. I hope I'm wrong but Savin has a track record. I know it's really tempting to try to one up or dunk on him but maybe we should hold off until the game is closer to actually being done.

I have a question, can someone give me a rundown of all the Savin/CoC II drama and whatnot in a more concise manner? I knew CoC II had lowish reviews on steam but never knew why.

Oh boy. Ok. So in the shortest and not most detailed way I can make it:

Savin started on the first CoC with a character called Helia. She was very popular and while he didn't follow through on all promised content she was still very well liked. He became friends with the creator Fen. Savin has several chips on his shoulder from this period that he still carries to this day. After the failing of a spiritual CoC successor called Fall of Eden, Savin decided to make a full on 'sequel'. To compress the stuff down Savin has brought on people like Tobs who is equally as toxic and has proceeded to be a failure of a team lead. He's run off writers, focuses content solely on his specific fetishes, has an inflated view of his writing and world building, gutted content, claims ownership of anything people submit that gets in game, left various content in a state of limbo he deems complete, is a performative ally who fetishizes groups he allegedly supports, is difficult to work with, and is using the name recognition to profit. There's a lot more and I'm leaving out details for the sake of brevity but the short version is Savin is a toxic dumbass who read a webcomic about the demon queen yuri after playing DnD with his friends and decided he to make a game about it where he can stuff futadom and netorase content in it with his friends. He then slapped the name of his friend's successful first game to profit off of name recognition.

There's a lot more and some details left out and I don't know everything. K1ng_C00mer has mentioned some details as well and honestly one could fill numerous pages of a document detailing all the drama from Helia to now. I'm probably doing a disservice by compressing it but real talk, I'd make Tobs blush at the word count if I wrote out just what I know and remember and my ADHD brain would commit die if I tried.