That's pretty in-line with the idea. The combat gives you a chance to get the npcs aroused/interested in you, which makes them more "cooperative". In more dangerous or higher level areas, the npcs might be able to make you more cooperative instead. The KO would be running out of stamina or maxing out your pain/pleasure tolerance (basically tapping out). So it's a bit of a progression mechanic like combat in any game, but it opens up opportunities for sex scenes and relationship building.
Thanks! I do hope to add positions that do a better job of showcasing the action. The immersive, in-person game is the focus for the initial development push because I think it's how I can get the best "bang for the buck" out of my development time (and also because I think this kind of thing really lends itself to first-person, and I want "being there" to be the core of the experience). That's not to say there will never be 3rd person views, but it does come with a big tradeoff in dev time. Having to make the characters and animations look good from all angles is WAY more time intensive than a single view. That's might change somewhat as I get better at it of course, but I can't imagine it ever stops being a major factor, just due to having so much more to focus on.
I feel like in other 3D games I've seen where you can end up having sex "anywhere" it kinda ends up leading to situations where the sex should be hot but some other factor makes it awkward. A lot of environmental elements tend to be the cause of this, like uneven ground causing a character's legs to clip through, tall grasses obscuring the players vision, or even stuff like a stream of water coincidentally being the place where sex happens and a character has their head suspended underwater the whole time they're fucking.
I agree completely! I've actually thought quite a bit about this, and it's a tricky issue to solve while still giving freedom of movement and a non-bare-bones environment. However, I hope to make future builds have position transitions that are somewhat context aware so that a position wouldn't be available unless the nearby environment would support it (enough clear/flat space for lying down, near a vertical surface for leaning, etc.). For the upcoming build though, we'll just have to try not to finish our fights near any streams
The shadow quality should change with the quality level, but even the lowest level doesn't turn them off completely. I should be able to add a standalone shadow toggle though, not in the upcoming update, but maybe in the one after.
So scenes where the MC is getting fucked by the NPCs? Definitely
I have no objection to this, just as long as there is a switch to disable futa, disable gay, I want my male MC surrounded by lots of female snusnu
No gender pairing will ever be forced. At the moment, there's a single NPC selection (male, female, or futa) for all NPCs. However, once the things move along a bit, the current plan is to keep that type of selector for the Main story npcs but to have tick boxes to include the other genders in the random NPC population if you want. That way, you would be able to have, for example, all female story npcs and still be able to include (or exclude) males and/or futa in the general spawns. Mixing story NPC genders might happen eventually, but that's a much bigger organizational task.I have no objection to this, just as long as there is a switch to disable futa, disable gay, I want my male MC surrounded by lots of female snusnu
