Savin everyone. The man who hocks the name of a game where you can corrupt, mind break, and mentally fuck up other characters through various means hates all three of those and anything done by contributors who WANT to actually represent that part of the game world. :U
Absurd and absolute pussy of a man. You don't have to like rape, mind break, and mind fuckery. I certainly don't. But then don't make a sequel to a game where a major mechanic IS THAT YOU CAN DO THAT AND THAT'S WHAT IT'S KNOWN FOR.
Funny thing is that he doesn't care if this happens to the champion in various bad ends where we are forcible changed against our will. But that happening towards any npc is no good. This game has no bite to it at all, It's fucking TOOTHLESS. No consequences, no rewards, it's all just a drifting state of limbo. Filled with irrelevant npcs who satisfy the samey kinks.
It's not so much that he sneak attacks you, but how it's handled. The stat checks weren't added until way after the initial scene's implementation, the writing is juvenile, and it doesn't serve to establish Leofric as a combat pragmatist but instead to wank his power. It was peak Bubblelord.
I wouldn't even call it a proper wank because the tactic is cowardly. This muscular, powerful champion tip-toes behind you and knocks you out is lame as fuck. Then he calls you weak for it. I would get second-hand embarrassment even trying to write someone like that. BL was too focused on sucking his own cock to see how unlikable that would make his character, people need to have it beaten into them that the player character is the center to where the story is told and the people who play will be seeing and experiencing things through that center. So hoeing them for no reason would piss most of them off. It's not like we are going out of our way to fight the mercs they are trying to rob us and we are defending ourselves. Instead of the leader telling her mercs off she instead tries to fight us because we give her people a bad name by beating them.
As the champion, we should have had plenty of ways to handle this with the most glaring one being telling other kingdoms and Carmen that the mercs are harassing you and most likely other travelers like common bandits, which would really fuck up their chances of being hired and might even put a bounty on them. But that requires the game to be logical.
Jen tells you he called you lame.... like what? The whole thing is goofy and comes off extra self-inserty.
It was like watching a writer fan girl about themselves. Even the insult reeked of early high-school fan-fiction. I'd be extremely embarassed if I was BL tbh.
It's not even the fact that corrupt Drifa is not raped by anyone. It's the fact that the corruption is done by outsider third party, instead of you know the Champion.
Same with Ahmri, instead of Champ corrupting her, she just gets handed off to demons and later returned after skipping all the corruption process.
It's so fucking stupid. In the first game Champion was the driving force of purification or corruption of intractable characters. While in this shitshow Champ is just a silent voyeur, forever tied to a cuck chair (especially now that they removed bimbo hive, the only instance of Champ actually corrupting someone by their own hands).
I hate this shit with burning passion.
Same with Viviane too. Not only is it less empowering, but it's also far less interesting and kills alot of investment in said characters. The vibe of your camp changes so much with pure characters and how they interact with others, while your normal and non-corrupt followers want to avoid or have the corrupted outright killed. You actions could lead to the outright corruption of the main goddess of Mareth, Marae. That was wicked and had immediate consequences if you visited her again after that. This game has way more words and art but feels hollow in comparison. Everything is resulted and handled in the most off-hand, boring way possible.
Imagine after winning the fight, that's your chance to fuck his soldier right in front of him or even corrupt her if you've gone down that path. Hell, maybe you'd fuck and/or corrupt him. Imagine her beloved and respected commander getting railed or ridden right in front of her, slowly transforming to better your degenerate sexual preferences. Could've been femboy or full lady, or more. Would be pretty sweet to me, but instead, it's just yet another instance of having little player agency and how you're not even the protagonist of your own story.
I think the funniest part is just how Leo never expects it to happen, like you being so much stronger than him is a complete surprise, and near the end of his corruption route, he agonizes over the fact that if he didn't just try to flex on you, none of this would have happened.
That wouldn't be a problem if Savco wasn't going to fucking trash everything along with Leofric's special OC bit.
I wouldn't have a problem if he added as much content as he took away or actually worked on the companions. As things are going nothing is going to even feel remotely finished except the "story". We aren't even going to explore the world and see the different factions and regions, truly earning a championship from each king and queen. We do shit in Hawkethorne, then do shit in mino-city and we're done. Balls dropped left and right, people I guess the payers are more invested in the generic npcs then the actual story and promises made along the
The hive was a dead end but it didn't need removing, it needed the actual higher ups to get off their ass and do something with it and its corruption content. "Nobody wanted to write for it" my ass, you (you as in Savin) put it in there as an option, you should account for that branch ffs.
The mercs are a dead end bc Bubs dipped for his own good (I consider anyone fucking off from SavCo on their own merits as for their own good tbh (RIP Hugs mental health given his case was mostly unwilling tho he is doing a lot better lately), Bubs has been shown displeased with Savin in those discord logs years ago that I really need to fucking find again from I think the TiTS thread) and nobody's taking over for them. Bluebird I think recently said they could if they were able, but Savin would rather just nuke them all into the ether, despite the fact that Lusamine is one of the most popular mercs with many wanting to help her fertility issues, and Boomer is relatively unproblematic but doesn't have a lot going on. However as stated, the mercs have a lot of value in staying in, they just need someone to pick them up, and that is a lot of character (and some worldbuilding) content potential on its own through that gang if you do it well.
Quin is a dead end but we keep hearing that he's being worked on, but I've not seen anything on that. So until there is noted progress outside of a "he said she said" sorta thing, I consider him dead too and unfortunately yet another male companion at risk of being thrown out just bc Savin wants to.
He literally has the rights to the characters in the first place, but instead chooses to get rid of them which is very telling of how fucking selfish and lazy he is. If it doesn't make his peepee hard, he doesn't want to bother.
I was allowed to adopt Quin. His base set rework + a new set for him has been submitted since April 2024 (Savin's already looked at it and approved it) and Quin's menu rewrites + some overworld stuff were submitted a handful of months ago. His dad!expac is half written and his buttslut expac is drafted and next after his dad stuff.
Though as an aside, I was not allowed to write companion blurbs for him for the last Act 2 MSQ quest that Savin wrote, which is currently being coded
That's fucking stupid, why is that a thing? Every companion should have some reaction to stuff happening in the wuest, it just seems unnecessary. I thought the writers were just being extremely lazy but it just gets worst and worst,
wsan, and it's not even because of Brienne. I think he's better at setting a scene and describing actions characters performpe. Now, don't get me wrong he falls into just regular character archetypes that he makes and doing a lot of tell and little showing, but at the very least, there's a style there.You can recognize, with Savin it's like a mixture of different stuff that's not really flavored.You know?
Wsan writes good blowjobs and cock worship. Not to mention sometimes aftercare. I also feel the champ and wsan's characters have a more noticable sexual dynamic, it;s easy to fap to his stuff and agree with the sexual actions the champion takes, instead of winks, shrugs, winning grin Savin. Still not as bad as tobs tho.
man.