Put it this way, Bluecat is doing the thing people were saying he should have done before, and is releasing content while the Merge is done in the background. While Latecomer still needs to finish his work, Bluecat will work in parallel to start releasing new content again to get stuff back underway.
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That was my understanding of it. Thanks for clarifying.
I don't really want to come across as mean but there's not really a nice way to ask this question. Why is latecomer even still on the team at all? As a programmer myself, everytime latecomer himself has said what he's doing with the merge it's been very obviously a lie (not talking about the usual digs at the dev team about missing deadlines but just straight up what he was saying he was doing either made no sense, was factually incorrect, or was far simpler to do than he made it sound). Frankly, it seems he is wholly incompetent as a coder and would be very easy to replace in that sense. Additionally, since the MTL issue came up, going by what most of the actual German speakers have said, it sounds like he is terrible at translations as well. I just don't see what he adds to the team at this point. Since the merge itself is basically on the backburner right now it would be the perfect opportunity to find a competent coder that could replace him since there would be plenty of time for them to get familiar with the code while the next couple updates come out.
Again, I know how the question comes across but I'm just genuinely curious as to why he would still be on the team given everything.
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hi all, have a couple questions regarding the game and would appreciate any info
1. Can I install/extract the main 16 gb file then extract and copy week 2 and 3 over and just play the entire thing or do i have to week one do a playthrough then 2 then playthrough then 3
2. I thought I read all the holiday specials are standalone is this correct? And while it says there are patches for all the standalones thought I saw some missing. Also with the main game can I just load the day 21 patch along with extracting all three weeks at once?
3. Walkthrough - can I ask where I can find the latest and what works with what?
1. Can I install/extract the main 16 gb file then extract and copy week 2 and 3 over and just play the entire thing or do i have to week one do a playthrough then 2 then playthrough then 3
2. I thought I read all the holiday specials are standalone is this correct? And while it says there are patches for all the standalones thought I saw some missing. Also with the main game can I just load the day 21 patch along with extracting all three weeks at once?
3. Walkthrough - can I ask where I can find the latest and what works with what?
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That's literally the opposite of what I just said. Supposedly the big issue was getting translators to stick around. Skummy convinced him to go with machine translation for now, and with the examples shown a few days, the translation is looking better than Latecomer's translation.And let me guess, the new content will be released after the merge
I didn't follow this thread for a long time, but iirc bluecat said he was working on new content back when i last checked and that was arround the halloween update...
Sidelined may have been a poor choice of words on my part, but it seems like it's no longer the main focus anymore.
1. They're currently independent of each other. You can carry over saves, but that's it. And you can skip weeks, if you want.
2. Yeah, the specials are standalone, and some have been implemented into the main game as flashbacks or dream sequences. As for what patches you need: For Week 1 you need "Week 1 - Final". For Week 2, you need "Day 8-14 - Final Release" and for Week 3, you need "Day 20+21 - Final".
3. There's no traditional walkthrough, but if Week 1 has Lain's mod, which will tell you what each choice leads to. Week 2 and Week 3 have something like that implemented by default.
Hope that helps
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I don't think we'll ever get an answer too this, my head canon is maybe they're personal friends or something so it'll never change since it seems like business comes second is the impression I've gotten over time otherwise this would already be a solved problem. Ecchi Sensei must come 2nd (3rd, 4th, etc I dunno) to the other games Latecomer also works on (I know of 1) which seems to release on schedule as far as I know.
If there was more details on how exactly the merge is supposed to work on the back end (saves etc) and the future someone could've easily just ported and made said version, then offered it to BlueCat for $40k cause that's seem fair TBH.
I'm not so sure that Latecomer *can* be easily thrown off the team.
If I understand correctly, then BC is writing the german script and doing the renders.
And if previous posts are to be believed, making the images is not all that much work with the systems in use.
I'm not bringing this up to attack BC here. It's about something else.
Latecomer did the coding, management and translations.
While translations generally might not seem hugely important, these are translations *to* english and not *from* english. So they are extremely important for the success of the game.
So possibly, Latecomer might have put as much work into the first three weeks as BC did.
(I agree that much of what we heard about the coding of the merge was BS, but I'm talking about the first three weeks here.)
It's not that easy to let the guy go that created half of your product...
Now, this is speculation. But BC and Latecomer are RL friends right?
So, suppose that BC had the idea and Latecomer helped make it happen.
Then it seems possible that he did half of the work without receiving half of the income...
Making it even more difficult to let him go.
I don't know whether this is true but at least it seems like a plausible explanation.
If I understand correctly, then BC is writing the german script and doing the renders.
And if previous posts are to be believed, making the images is not all that much work with the systems in use.
I'm not bringing this up to attack BC here. It's about something else.
Latecomer did the coding, management and translations.
While translations generally might not seem hugely important, these are translations *to* english and not *from* english. So they are extremely important for the success of the game.
So possibly, Latecomer might have put as much work into the first three weeks as BC did.
(I agree that much of what we heard about the coding of the merge was BS, but I'm talking about the first three weeks here.)
It's not that easy to let the guy go that created half of your product...
Now, this is speculation. But BC and Latecomer are RL friends right?
So, suppose that BC had the idea and Latecomer helped make it happen.
Then it seems possible that he did half of the work without receiving half of the income...
Making it even more difficult to let him go.
I don't know whether this is true but at least it seems like a plausible explanation.
I think the MTL did fine with the translation. As others have said, I'd rather have the content with possibly iffy grammar than no content at all. At this point having ANY content released would be better than continual delays that have damaged the enthusiasm for this otherwise excellent game.
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When?
Bluecat now has a specific plan, and knows what he needs to do, even though all his fans have been telling him this for over a year (one wonders what he was doing all this time), so he should be able to give a rough estimate, say a 3-4 month window.
So. When will new content be released? Will we or his patrons see anything in 2022?
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There will never be new content. I can't believe you guys are falling for this again.
BC is a certified nutter who cracked under the pressure of being a game Dev and will never put out anything new. He does like the money though, so he will keep coming up with BS excuses as long as it gets suckers to keep paying him for nothing.
If the money ever actually runs out, he will retreat to his padded cell and stay where he belongs.
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There will never be new content. I can't believe you guys are falling for this again.
BC is a certified nutter who cracked under the pressure of being a game Dev and will never put out anything new. He does like the money though, so he will keep coming up with BS excuses as long as it gets suckers to keep paying him for nothing.
If the money ever actually runs out, he will retreat to his padded cell and stay where he belongs.
Days 21-22 are complete!! I just need a translator! I just need a translator!
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They're not going to promise anything, and risk missing the deadline again. I don't like it, but as long as they get it out, they're less likely to have it blow up in their face if they don't set deadlines.
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What makes it funnier is that they're not even new lines. It's old dialogue that was translated. I guess there aren't enough new lines to be able to compare them
Bluecat will wait until Plan R until he admits he's been committing Robbery by taking money from badly informed, misled people
Bluecat will wait until Plan R until he admits he's been committing Robbery by taking money from badly informed, misled people
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Everytime someone mentions a Plan B or Plan XYZ or whatever, I always think of Patrick from Spongebob and I imagine Bluecat is writing his To-Do list while the second image is Latecomer working on the merge.
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A new update?
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Yeah there will be a new update....sometime between now and when the Patreon money drops below 100 dollars.
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Probably not soon, but apparently BlueCat has decided to work on new days while Latecomer continues trying to get the merge working. There was a brief concern regarding translators not sticking around, but they were convinced to go with a machine translation, which looks pretty good based on the examples shown.
Not sure how long it'll take, but it seems like the most amount of progress that we've got in a good while.
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Or until a Jack Reacher of porn games blows this wide open. Guess we'll have to entertain ourselves with this mess until then.
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A Spanish guy is taking over development. The game will be renamed to Ese Sensei.
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Considering how Spanish people are hard workers we should see new content within the next 2-3 weeks. No more than a month.A Spanish guy is taking over development. The game will be renamed to Ese Sensei.