Kellermann

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It definitely is abit worrying with how many "factions" devs have to juggle all while releasing decent amount of porn into it. With updates releasing not really tackling all factions but a few in understandably and narratively slow steps, things are abit worrisome (mostly cuz im paranoid from seeing games abandoned)

Still, the game hasnt let me down yet. Im still very much intrigued and excited. Just hope im still alive by its finale lol
I wouldn't worry much about that mate. I am also always on guard about abandoned games, but I never got that impression here. Devs seem to enjoy making DS as much as I enjoy playing it, which is a lot. I am looking forward to many more episodes of being a lecherous landlord and desert marauder stalker.

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It was obvious that a reality punch of sads was going to hit a lot of players right in gonads this episode. A wave of people entered the thread recently, crowing about content they assumed they would get with their preferred LI/kink. But apparently none of them kept an eye on the dev log (regularly posted here) which made it clear they would not be getting all they wanted in v0-14. All i could do was smh at the poor saps knowing what they had in store.

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I am happy with v0-14, but that doesn't mean I got everything I wanted..few ever do. Did get my Asani scene :cool: , but I have been eagerly awaiting more Elf girl action. However, I was fully aware I wasn't getting it this time around. Anyway, still need to do a secondary playthrough once the fix update drops and I really need start from the beginning to sort out my saves which are a damn jumbled mess rn.
 

SecondsSince

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label have wrong variable name in it that scene are specific problem because variable name in label is missing character 'n' in 'kateryna' name so if adding character back into it her naming for it then no more throwing errors ;)
Any tips on if and how i would do that?
 

OWSam000

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Is it a bug in the 0.14 beta version that I can't revisit the raider camp unless there is a mission tag at the icon?
 

GetOutOfMyLab

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Oh you treat the game as literature and intellectual stimulation! Cool!:LOL:
lol you don't? Seriously though, story-wise it's better than most of the games uploaded to this site, many of which simply look at how they can make their "story" fit the next lewd scene they want to put in. And I was mostly referring to people who hold down CTRL through all the story bits and then complain it is short.

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Xythurr

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lol you don't? Seriously though, story-wise it's better than most of the games uploaded to this site, many of which simply look at how they can make their "story" fit the next lewd scene they want to put in. And I was mostly referring to people who hold down CTRL through all the story bits and then complain it is short.


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Yabba

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Just done a full replay and found new queen scene near begining if you take no crap from her - you get a prison scene- and near the end there are 6 or so queen missions that are very blue balls but i love em - final queen shani sexual scene is awesome ! only complaint really is there seems to be certain cutoffs in shani missions in the wastes - if you investigate the queens guy first you exit the area not having met the elf or gone into the factory area - the open world aspect needs a clearer path i feel.
 

Muramasa0

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+4GB!? Jesus fucking Christ, this needs a really strongly compressed version ASAP.
 

Sleeping In Pieces

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Was getting errors when introducing Fairy to the family. Something about a Kateryna variable going wrong.
Because of the way these story elements were added piecemeal, we now have issues with the chronological order of some events.

So I started over, and almost right from the start I get this annoying exclamation point alert on the map even though there's nothing there. It doesn't go away.

The Fairy introduction error cleared out. Introducing Kateryna to the family first was one of the conditions messing it up. I think the script should be adjusted so as to make clear the sequence for these two events. Or rather, I guess it's clear if you're not going off an older save.

Now I get an error where Shani is back, but I haven't gone to deal with the General yet. And I have an option to meet with the queen where one of the topics for discussion is how I dealt with him. Apparently going to the Zone messed up the flow of time or something.
 

9alwa

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Some people bashing the ones that felt the update was short/underwhelming are not making a great case for the game.

I get and agree that some folks really are coomer addled self-indulgent folks that are complaining about their favorite LI or kinks (namely sharing) not being featured this time around. For me personally, the less sharing there is, the better. But that's beside the point.

This update felt underwhelming because I did not feel like it made any significant progress in any of the directions the game started with. It felt like "multiple prologs" based on locations, with no actual meaningful developments or resolutions to any of them. Namely Kira's Town, the Palace, the decayed in Cairo, our own household and the Asani bit.

All that was presented was nice, pretty and interesting, but there was nothing for me to really sink my teeth into. It'd have been much better to focus on one or two of those things.

The household probably needed to be priority number one with the official introduction of Fairy and the joining of Kateryna (as well as a follow-up on Shani being back). That kind of thing really doesn't move the plot forward though, so priority number two should've been ONE of these four: the Palace, the Raiders, the Mutants or the Decayed. Probably going with the decayed as priority 2 would've been the best choice in here as I don't see (and don't want to see really) much sexy-time when dealing with them, leaving things "free" to be focused on the story moving forward.

The progress we got on all the different fronts was simply not nearly enough to let me satisfied. There was character development with the Queen and an introduction to a problem she is having with some people around her. But nothing as to the development of this problem, nevermind it's resolution.

Kira's town... what was the point of going there? I mean, really? No repeatable scenes since the place gets locked down after 2 visits and NOTHING happens. The only thing that "technically" happens is that folks in there now call you boss. Aaaand... that's it. Look I really, REALLY like Asha and Kira, but what we got here was just... nothing.

The Decayed part was nice. It felt like things were moving along and progressing. Things were getting interesting... and 5 minutes later, it's over. What? That's it? Might as well have put that part in the next update and make it 3x longer.

Asani was kinda nice but came out of the blue. It was a literal "I'll just go visit her, cause why not?". And that's fine, really, but I think that these inconsequential one-offs really should be implemented in an update where you'll have a lot of content focused on the story with small amounts of sex. Because that's basically what that scene is there for - sex.

No development with the mutants at all. And I'm glad that's the case this time because if the content with them was just to go to their base, say hi and then come back, I'd be pissed.

Now see, maybe I'm being unreasonable with my expectations. But the truth is that Desert Stalker was "in the zone" (pun intended) for so long that my expectations rose high. I always expect things from the DS team to be fucking great. Not meh, not lukewarm, not even good, I expected something awesome. The only other game that makes me have these kinds of expectations is Eternum.

And now, unfortunately, it's also the only one. Still hoping for great things from this game into the future though.
You perfectly described my sentiment after playing this update (and the last one). This game is still part of my absolute favorites but I'm really not fan of developing several plots at once. It's as you said, feels like everything is ending so abrubtly that you keep wondering why it's been implemented in the first place. The worst part imo is that the general package feels lacking, even if some individual bits hit the mark (really liked the household new scenes and the queen progression) Heck, it didn't even feel like 1000 renders like Zetan said, unless idk he included the animation renders in the count. I really hope he'd focus on one arc at a time.
 

ding123

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Was getting errors when introducing Fairy to the family. Something about a Kateryna variable going wrong.
Because of the way these story elements were added piecemeal, we now have issues with the chronological order of some events.
There are typos in day14.rpy and harem.rpy. The variable introduction_katerya should be introduction_kateryna.
 
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