He wasn't the main coder in those early days, the original coder is unnamed and why the first three days needed redone originally, then it was Boom, before Late took over I think in week 1's merge, and has been working on improvements and the like since then.
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That depends on continuity, if your personal preference matters
I assume it would be in the realm of programing nightmare to go back and do a head-count of the choices previously made, even for those playing it
Daughter for dessert had to make cheats
Isn't that what already happens tho? It does makes sense to an extent, but keep in mind that issues with older versions likely need to be fixed in the new ones anyway.
If they were made with different engines or had major changes in gameplay it would make sense (like a turn-base rpg becoming an action rpg or fps). I haven't really played it yet so correct me if i'm wrong, but it is just a simple visual novel made with Ren'Py in terms of gameplay.
Perhaps it is an issue with Ren'Py handling too much content? I'm don't know much about the engine, but if that is the case it is understandable at least.
I'll put your last point into perspective, there's this company called Black Lilith making this series of VN called Taimanin
I know i shouldn't compare a company that had such a long time learning how to handle a code to a newbie, but as someone i know that's working on reverse a game made from a heavily modified-source code of another genre puts it "the quality of the code is directly proportional to how competent the coder/programer is" when you lean into that logic, you are lowering the standar, which leads to giving excuses for games like yandere simulator or fallout 76
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Actually it would be pretty easy because all choices were tracked with variables such as d1d1 (day 1 decision 1) and so on.
Well, let's take a look at that really quick:
Ren'Py is a ready to use engine made for VNs. While someone obviously had to code it, this doesn't mean the author of this VN even touched the source code. Like i said, IF it is Ren'Py's fault by any means (which tbh I doubt) it is understandable, not everyone knows how to code and/or have time to learn after all.
Yandere Simulator and Fallout 76 issues are more related to "how do we handle that problem?" than skills imo. Both have shit game designs, and the Yandere Sim. dev manages to be worse than whoever makes the decisions at Bethesda. Also FO76 engine was originally for single-player games.
Bluecat has a bunch of features he wants in the game that are not standard to Ren'py and probably shouldn't have been tried without more experience. Frankly, this is why I tell new devs that they should make a small game first before trying something more ambitious. But it's his game and once the merge is complete it all should work and saves should transfer between weeks. That is the main reason for the merge and why it's taking so long.
In this case breaking the game up was necessary. Day 1 (not week 1, Day 1) on release was over 2 Gb and had more content than most completed games at the time. Each subsequent day has been roughly as large, although thanks to better compression and coding have been much smaller in size. While there's not a lot of branching, the current 21 days are probably enough to put this in the top 3 biggest porn games. There's also some bugs with some of the features that can crash the game when trying to transfer saves, so breaking it into weeks wasn't entirely by choice.
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We're going to be hitting a year soon, and personally I dont mind...broke up or a full file, I just want to see something. Like cant we get the next updates that were ready by themselves while they work on the merge? The merged is supposed to be the full game right, with nothing new added. So why not just release the next update as update the latest one, and work on the merge. At this point its been so long probably have to replay the story anyway. Just to remember what happened.
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The character info is my favorite feature of the game as well!
Glad the team is making some progress. I feel really bad for that crew- so much negativity surrounding their works. Hopefully everything can get back on track once they release the merger and we can get the stats back later ^_^.
Two problems with that, one the update has to play nice with the merge, so it has to be done first before anything new is released. Two? You'll have to replay the whole game anyways, this whole thing will be incompatible with anything previously done of course, therefore you wouldn't have any degree of variables loaded into the updates properly until you first played through Month 1, and to do that, the Merge must finish.
This is why the smartest decision was to do it all at once, to avoid these types of headaches in the staggered format that was also suggested. This way, all you have to do is sit and wait, no fumbling around with shit or having things break because of updates not playing nice or correctly as the merge processes stretches out.
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That sounds like a pleasant problem to have. Much enjoyment!!!
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They are there. They're just poorly named. Click "Show previous versions" and it will show you all the past patches.
Week 1: Week 1 - Final
Week 2: 8-14 - Final Release
Week 3: Day 20+21 - Final
Hopefully, when the Merge releases, they'll clear out the old ones and only save the most recent update of any particular release.
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Sorry i meant that week 1 dark mind patch is not available it has been taken down.
also what happened to day 15 to 18 there does not seem to be a download for it.
also what happened to day 15 to 18 there does not seem to be a download for it.
Go to the Lewdpatcher page and click on 'Show previous versions'.
You are welcome.
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Personally I hope the cardinfo feature keeps getting pushed back beyond month 1 release. I get people like it and all but at the end of the day the game needs to get back to a regular schedule and it's already going to be a game for the longhaul since bluecat wants to do a full year in the game. If the cardinfo gets pushed back a couple months (whatever that translates into for 'game world time') but we get consistent updates I think that's the better solution going forward.
That said, that's based on knowing nothing about post month 1 content and if the cardinfo is "important" to that immediate future content.
Either way it'll be interesting to see if anything notable has been changed in the merge but replaying it will also take time so I guess I'll find out. I know I'll be changing some of the choices I made previously for the new save based on what I somewhat explored in multiple saves before.
That said, that's based on knowing nothing about post month 1 content and if the cardinfo is "important" to that immediate future content.
Either way it'll be interesting to see if anything notable has been changed in the merge but replaying it will also take time so I guess I'll find out. I know I'll be changing some of the choices I made previously for the new save based on what I somewhat explored in multiple saves before.
Realistically that is the idea, the info will be held off while they establish themselves with regular updates again, then work will be done to patch it back into everything later.
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I'm guessing that will be during it's own merge? Unless they intend to retroactively patch it into everything that came before, but that sounds like a pain in the arse.
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this is what it says when i click on the week 1 final in lewd patches
The file you are trying to download is no longer available.
This could be due to the following reasons:
The file has been removed because of a ToS or AUP violation.
Invalid URL - the link you are trying to access does not exist
The file has been deleted by the user.
so no for getting that patch for that game
The file you are trying to download is no longer available.
This could be due to the following reasons:
The file has been removed because of a ToS or AUP violation.
Invalid URL - the link you are trying to access does not exist
The file has been deleted by the user.
so no for getting that patch for that game
Try it again, the Week 1 patch seems to be up when I click on it.