Hey Crys, you doing well? I mean, your game is doing well, so... that's that.
Anyway, a few things;
- How come the -Wind Blade- skill has no mastery? (I'm gonna assume that it's the same for the other elemental skills.) I don't think you just forgot about it, but I still wanted to ask.
- The option to challenge Aspasia to a... uhm... sexy Escarmouche is not yet implemented, right?
Please tell me I'm right. Speaking of Aspasia...
- I found it kind of odd that she just... straight up joined the group I guess? - Like, no objections from your friends whatsoever? - She literally went down the route of: Can I join? (It can't be that easy.) MC: YES. ...(It was that easy.) - I can see at least half the team chide our MC for being too trusting of strangers. - Again. One of these days it will surely come back to bite him. Literally and figuratively.
- Also, like you yourself have pointed out, she is quite the handful in a 1v1. If you fight against her without knowing what's coming, - then you're probably gonna lose. - Which brings me to this: I'm guessing that you didn't have a loss scene variant at the time, so, if there is one now, then feel free to ignore the point. BUT. As far as I can tell (I only tested Sam, Metatron and Aspasia) there are still no loss scenes in general. (Speaking about the mock/training battles.) Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to chew you out or something, - I just want to figure out if there really are no scenes yet, or if there is actually some kind of bug that stops them from triggering when you do lose a fight. ...And speaking of training...
- While the grand opening to the Aether path was very well written, or rather because it was so good, it got almost immediately overshadowed by a ''cheap'' aftertaste of ''That was it?''. I fully expected there to be 1 or 2 more scenes where Metatron actually trains/coaches you a bit like she does with Sarah. - But no, instead the MC pretty much instantly mastered the basics like it was nothing. No coaching/training required. Aaaaaaaaaaand I've already mastery mastered them. Huh. ...Speaking of suddenly mastering new magic.
I'm so sorry.
- Wouldn't someone like Sam or Sarah instantly bring it up (and/or find it a bit strange/worrisome in Sams case) that you are now suddenly able to use Aether magic? ...Speaking of Sam...
Please don't hit me.
- Why did she/he start with the same amount of Affection/Trust as the temple trio? The MC and Sam are childhood friends right? So shouldn't Sam have at least a bit more in that department akin to Celica? Not to the same extreme of course, - more in the 15-20 Affection and 5-10 Trust range I mean.
- ...Having too many traits results in not being able to read the last 3-4 trait descriptions properly. Who would've thought.
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- At what point can you consider the -Libido- stat to be high? Is 25 points in -Libido- already high? 50? (From a future event perspective.) Or would 50 Libido work as the perfect middle ground? - Neither too high nor too low.
- I think that we are still leveling up too fast. Yes, the infinite EXP-Chain is no more, but with every update also come a few runs through the Forest/Expanse, - which most of us are probably already overleveled for. I am at level 32 with my party, - more than 10 levels over the recommendation of them both, and the EXP needed to get to the next level is still far too easy to acquire. (and too fast) I'd suggest to cut the EXP down by 75%-90% if you are already over the recommended level to avoid, well, overleveling. - Be it accidental or otherwise.
- re am. ...What was that? ore sam. D-Did you read that?! more sam. More Sam! MORE SAM!
Thanks for the in-depth concrit Nevart!
Yeah, none of the Blades have a mastery ATM. They are obscenely powerful with a base 140% multiplier, especially if you rush 10 focus to spam them, so I had to think about what a mastery for them would even do. They'll definitely be masterable sooner or later though.
You can't re-challenge Aspasia to another sex battle yet, correct, though it will definitely be a thing. For now, you'd need a save before she joined. On joining: reactions to her (and other future joins) are intended to be conversation options in camp, but didn't happen yet due to a lack of time.
The loss/win thing was a bug that was fixed for the next update. When you spar in camp, they do have short loss scenes, they seemed to work ok when Aspasia kicked my ass anyways? There are longer ones planned, especially if you lose a sex battle huehuehue
On Aether... here's the thing. I actually agree with you almost entirely, the original plan was for there to be 3 training scenes to unlock. That said, I decided to try 1 instead because it felt kinda grindy/demanding to have to go back over and over, and Aether magic is split up into a number of tiers that each require their own training anyways. So you'll have to go back and learn from her for stronger magic. You're only unlocking the basics and have to learn/practice them on your own, and it takes a time slot. Not sure if that's a good enough solution, will probably have to experiment with other elements.
Sarah definitely will mention it, but all these scenes take time and I can't fit everything into every update.
Sam prolly should have started with higher yeah, went simple/consistent to start.
Traits will get their own tab Soon(tm), with a reworked UI.
Don't worry about libido too much right now. When I update sex battles and add their progression system (0.9 hopefully), it'll probably get reworked and current points refunded.
Some people are complaining the game is too grindy already, so I'm hesitant to innately slow it down much. There's already an increasing penalty to xp the higher your level is than the enemy, but as levels go up it means less.
0.8 or 0.9 will probably have the first implementation of cheats (MAYBE cheat shop, idk) which will have some kind of options to speed up/slow down xp/affection/trust. I'm ok with the default experience being a bit on the easy side, though.
Sam should get scenes in 0.8!