Ren'Py Desert Stalker [v0.19.4] [Zetan]

[Machete]

Maybe i don't recall correctly but the sole reason why the queen is in charge is because she was the biological heir and the late ruler was her father. It's now a matriarcal society. It just a society that allows both genders to inherit and have a title passed on.

 

[kosoyey]

But we do spend quite a lot of time debating such things as resource availability, logistics constraints whether it's believable or not for Z's car to still have unbroken windows

I know this detail might sound silly, compared to all those grandiose "sex and culture" discussions but the cars are the non-realistic detail that struck me.

While I can imagine a car having somehow its glasses still intact after that much time, I just cannot understand how, after so long:

• cars tires don't wear, their materials didn't degrade over time and turn into dust, which is what tires do after some years / a decade.
• cars electric wires plastic didn't degrade, letting cars still function. In real life, we actually had a batch of 1995+ Mercedes (not a cheap car!) suffering from massive electric wires degradation into dust. For some reason Mercedes made their wires plastic biodegradable and so, after about a decade, a lot of those cars stopped working. Now, imagine cars staying in such harsh climate, atmospheric conditions etc. for decades, yet their electric systems still work well enough to keep them trucking.
• the big one: car batteries just won't last more than 5-10 years. So, how does a kind of "middle age" civilization manage to manufacture new batteries?

I know the above might sound pedantic, but every time I see an "apocalypse" movie / game, they feature ancient cars that somehow still work... and it's just impossible and it breaks immersion.

 

[Paz]

I know this detail might sound silly, compared to all those grandiose "sex and culture" discussions but the cars are the non-realistic detail that struck me.

While I can imagine a car having somehow its glasses still intact after that much time, I just cannot understand how, after so long:

• cars tires don't wear, their materials didn't degrade over time and turn into dust, which is what tires do after some years / a decade.
• cars electric wires plastic didn't degrade, letting cars still function. In real life, we actually had a batch of 1995+ Mercedes (not a cheap car!) suffering from massive electric wires degradation into dust. For some reason Mercedes made their wires plastic biodegradable and so, after about a decade, a lot of those cars stopped working. Now, imagine cars staying in such harsh climate, atmospheric conditions etc. for decades, yet their electric systems still work well enough to keep them trucking.
• the big one: car batteries just won't last more than 5-10 years. So, how does a kind of "middle age" civilization manage to manufacture new batteries?

I know the above might sound pedantic, but every time I see an "apocalypse" movie / game, they feature ancient cars that somehow still work... and it's just impossible and it breaks immersion.

The whole car thing is solidly into the "hand-waving" territory. Rest assured that we've considered the whole gamut of logical limitations, and batteries were one of them (although, arguably, some form of battery is much more likely to be made by a not-so-advanced society than any rubber products).

That said, the alternative would be for the MC -or anyone for that matter- to ride camels or just walk around, which is a bit limiting and not really epic.
As with any post-apocalyptic setting some sort of suspension of disbelief is required for the setting to work.

Sometimes the story drives the content and sometimes the content drives the story, in which case we try to do our best to tie things as decently as possible. Would most things hold if subjected to thorough logical scrutiny? Not really, but sometimes it's a...let's say concession to be able to have a story.

Much like the discussions preceding this, about female-led societies. Would it be more logical to have a male-led society? Maybe, but I'd hazard a guess that the MC groping his king's manboobs is not as enticing for the most part.

 

[Kargan3033]

The whole car thing is solidly into the "hand-waving" territory. Rest assured that we've considered the whole gamut of logical limitations, and batteries were one of them (although, arguably, some form of battery is much more likely to be made by a not-so-advanced society than any rubber products).

That said, the alternative would be for the MC -or anyone for that matter- to ride camels or just walk around, which is a bit limiting and not really epic.
As with any post-apocalyptic setting some sort of suspension of disbelief is required for the setting to work.

Sometimes the story drives the content and sometimes the content drives the story, in which case we try to do our best to tie things as decently as possible. Would most things hold if subjected to thorough logical scrutiny? Not really, but sometimes it's a...let's say concession to be able to have a story.

Much like the discussions preceding this, about female-led societies. Would it be more logical to have a male-led society? Maybe, but I'd hazard a guess that the MC groping his king's manboobs is not as enticing for the most part.

Well said but the thing I think people have to keep in mind that this game is a fantasy game and that logic is not really meant to apply to the game, however with that said I think it's a given that most fantasies would have some sense of logic to them to help the player immerse himself into the game setting, hell look at the first two Mad Max movies when they first came out I don't think many people went to see them for the logical content of the movies but as a momentary escape from the harshness of real life, hell it could be *said* that the MC or certain people in zeta would have the know how to not only preserve Old World tech but patch it/mod it to suit their needs like in the first two, maybe the third Mad Max movies and not the shit remakes/fury road of the classic Mad Max movies.

But at the end of the day you really can't say that this post apoc setting is not made cooler with some Old World tech/vehicles to get that whole shit hole of a world wasteland vibe.

But that's just me.

 

[Kargan3033]

Honestly I'm in love with the girls in this game. I've never seen such beatifully rendered characters before. Ain (default name) has to be my favorite among all these gorgeous Beauties.

I agree, so far my fav gal is the raider girl you capture at your house and have the option of taking her back to her sister so you can have *sexy* times with said sister, maybe it's because I like to be an evil asshole in a post apoc setting which is one of the issues I have with Fallout 3 and maybe Fallout 4 that you are pretty much railroaded into being a hero with very few to no options to be a truly evil warlord of the wastelands.

 

[Dysphorika]

In case of a game under development, you can try to influence the creators.

And some times, some people try to do it when the game is already finished and delivered.

 

[StingerWolf]

Soo, by checking the last progress report, I have to assume, there will be no Queen content in this update as well. I hope I am gravely mistaken.

 

[amesama]

In case of a game, there are choices which you can make in accordance with your own morality. In case of a game under development, you can try to influence the creators.

So what you're saying that you should try to influence the creator into adding/removing content/choices from their game to something that suits you? Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but to me that sounds like that's undermining what the creator is trying to make simply because you don't like it or it doesn't suit your morality.

 

[COOLMASTER]

For the queen its perfectly understanding she s not appear yet but next or one up date yet, cause some story's and side story as to be continued before main story goes one but she s not lost....not yet lol

 

[LurkyMcLurkFace]

In-between fapping neckbeards pointlessly arguing, has anyone shared the dev update?

 

[Alleyway]

In-between fapping neckbeards pointlessly arguing, has anyone shared the dev update?

Not sure if they have. Coming out on the 18th for EA Patrons. Funny, I was literally just looking at that post.

 

[Mrblack]

Love this game, great story, amazing character personalities and breathtaking visuals.

 

[mide]

i see male and fem protag. do you control 2 different protags, or do you choose?

 

[Dylan741]

i see male and fem protag. do you control 2 different protags, or do you choose?

Control, the MC and his older daughter Shani.

 

[Drakan47]

i see male and fem protag. do you control 2 different protags, or do you choose?

it's male protag, there's just a couple situations where you can see another character's POV

 

[Ifartedtoolong]

It's both female and male protagonist and the coming updates you'll be controlling Shani.

 

[Walnutt]

Why tf is there a politcal study group happening in a thread for a porn game lmao

 

[Ifartedtoolong]

This talk should be done in off topics and not in a game thread as it not where you should be discussing it.

 

[ThtsMyScrtCapImAlwysHorny]

This talk should be done in off topics and not in a game thread as it not where you should be discussing it.

I was gonna offer a (perhaps questionably) clever retort, but you're right, just reporting and moving on is the correct response.

 

[JD59]

I was gonna offer a (perhaps questionably) clever retort, but you're right, just reporting and moving on is the correct response.

Already done. This kind of conversation has no place in this site.