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

[Just Jericho]

Seeing a post by a like minded player, who actually did jump the fence. What's the sandbox like?
I'm still on the fence, good renders or story ain't things that pull me over the fence, that's how much I detest sandbox games...
And the mention of those other two possibles put me off even more,
but I'm openminded enough to hear the reasoning from someone feeling the same who did decide to try it.
And I don't mean the game hype, I mean what's the sandbox like...

It's not really a sandbox. It's a hub system which lets you choose the order in which you do events. Other than that, it's just a regular VN where most of the choices are for dialogue flavor. There are no free roams, no resource management, and there's not even very much branching.

Honestly, the "Sandbox" tag is even less of an accurate descriptor of Desert Stalker than the "Female Protagonist" tag. At least with the FP tag, it's justified because there is a small part of the game from Shani's perspective even though 90% of the game is Zaton's perspective. "Sandbox" just doesn't fit at all.

 

[With The]

I like this type of sandbox, is not like typical grindfest sandbox like other games. It's more like you choose wich quest you want to do it first.

 

[DaynNight090]

If a decisive fact for you to play Desert Stalker is knowing if you're able to shave off Zaton's beard, then I'll suggest you to look for something else. Maybe the comments mentioning the MC getting rid of his beard were probably Igor's boyfriends believing he was the main protagonist again.

Igor is a better MAN than Zaton

 

[DaynNight090]

I like this type of sandbox, is not like typical grindfest sandbox like other games. It's more like you choose wich quest you want to do it first.

Just thank the the devs for not putting in trash puzzle and mini games. Oh and btw Shani solo quests SUCK, she will never be a Stalker that dum wannabe bich

 

[hitman2511]

Igor is a better MAN than Zaton

 

[colombianhoes]

Bro if MC role was reversed they would be puking on Zaton lmao

 

[RandomDude73672]

anyone know where to find the music for the game? it doesn't have usual mp3 files in the game folders

game\audio.rpa is a renpy archive file that contains all the mp3s you're looking for
you can extract or listen to the files directly in

You must be registered to see the links

 

[Maviarab]

game\audio.rpa is a renpy archive file that contains all the mp3s you're looking for
you can extract or listen to the files directly in

You must be registered to see the links

Or just use

You must be registered to see the links

so you have the files locally and save a step....

 

[RandomDude73672]

Or just use

You must be registered to see the links

so you have the files locally and save a step....

grviewer runs locally too, has a nice interface, lets you decompile rpyc files and display their content with syntax highlighting, is browser based and therefore os independent and best of all: you can paste a link to it on a forum for anyone to use immediately without having to download something first.
but yeah, for the purpose of having all files of one archive extracted at once, rpaextract works one or two clicks more quickly

 

[Lordroedor]

It's not really a sandbox. It's a hub system which lets you choose the order in which you do events. Other than that, it's just a regular VN where most of the choices are for dialogue flavor. There are no free roams, no resource management, and there's not even very much branching.

Honestly, the "Sandbox" tag is even less of an accurate descriptor of Desert Stalker than the "Female Protagonist" tag. At least with the FP tag, it's justified because there is a small part of the game from Shani's perspective even though 90% of the game is Zaton's perspective. "Sandbox" just doesn't fit at all.

I am not sure I agree with your conclusion. When I just read people saying this was a sandbox I was surprised and thought what you wrote but after thinking a bit more, I don't know. There's truly a sandbox feeling attached to the game that I can't entirely...

At the end of the day, you choose what to do, mostly the order in which you do it, you can make every quest in a different way, with different conclusions and different consequences (for example, you can lose quests as a consequence of some choices).

Sure, there is a main story line but for now, in this update... I'd say sandbox fits. Not greatly, not exactly, not perfectly. But I am surprised to admit that it fits to some degree. This game has a lot of sandbox elements mixed.

Maybe it gets more defined as they complete the game.

 

[The Senior Perv]

Igor is a better MAN than Zaton

Most normal comment from one of Igor's boyfriends.

 

[srfsmrf_]

game\audio.rpa is a renpy archive file that contains all the mp3s you're looking for
you can extract or listen to the files directly in

You must be registered to see the links

Or just use

You must be registered to see the links

so you have the files locally and save a step....

OR use Sam's versatile UnRen, which comes with

You must be registered to see the links

, which is more versatile than RPA Extract. You can e.g. list the contents first, and then just extract what you need (not perfect though, e.g. wildcards aren't supported AFAICT). In this case you could just extract the audio folder (or at least that's true for the compressed version, where everything's in a single .rpa IIRC).

 

[Satou Pendragon]

Is there any way to make the old saves (0.16b) work?

No there isn't.

 

[MAGO-DAG]

Is there any way to make the old saves (0.16b) work? I wont start over around 10 hours progress... I hate when devs do this...
If isnt, can someone send an old save before the last update (0.16b)?

No. Even if you could get old saves to work, you'd miss a lot!

There's a lot of rework here, and getting old saves to work will give you a lot of errors.

 

[HogRocket]

No. Even if you could get old saves to work, you'd miss a lot!

There's a lot of rework here, and getting old saves to work will give you a lot of errors.

I understand why this can become necessary, but in a situation with this much content to replay plus new stuff - it's kind of a game killer. I'll probably wait until it's complete and then do the whole thing. Once a "old saves will not work" post goes up it quite often happens again.

 

[Incestman21]

So, I'm kinda stuck.

After breeding Lirah, nothing is happening, even though it still says I have quests active.

 

[blurrypop]

No. Even if you could get old saves to work, you'd miss a lot!

There's a lot of rework here, and getting old saves to work will give you a lot of errors.

Reworks aren't game changing experience in my opinion. Even the extra added renders, you aren't missing anything of value if you have played the old version. It wasn't like old renders were awful and new renders are an upgrade.

 

[GetOutOfMyLab]

Reworks aren't game changing experience in my opinion. Even the extra added renders, you aren't missing anything of value if you have played the old version. It wasn't like old renders were awful and new renders are an upgrade.

Except some scenes were changed... and made hotter. Like returning Kyra to Adira... there's new characters during the sex scene, which was also extended.

 

[Victor Shakespeare]

Still stucked at some missions,really need a full saves.

 

[VReal]

Of course, this is cool and big work. The game stands out from the crowd with its atmosphere and interior.
I won't look for flaws, they can always be found. But I don't want to.
Let the developer have the patience, desire, and imagination to continue.