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DeltaP5

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Been a while since I logged in but pretty sure they just give you an in-game mail with some currency for each character release, which worked up until the latest character, so just spend the currency you got for Juri on Talon?

Unless you already spent it hurrying up the dumbass grind... in which case I suspect Helius' position is "fuck you pay me another $19 to unlock a new model in the unfinished game you already paid $35 for."
well that sucks. I spent it mostly on Elizabeth’s costume haha. Lesson learned I guess. You can only get the cash currency if you’re a capitalist tier or above which is a whopping $135 CAD on my end lmao.
I guess I can’t get Talon then lol.
 

Badon2

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Really sucks that they changed the unlocks for each affinity tier this patch. I had my girls at lvl 2 to unlock pubic hair, but now pubic hair has been moved to lvl 4 so I'd have to grind to unlock it again.

Am I missing something or it's not nearly that bad? Unlocking Talon in game costs 150NEP, which is around 19$ in patreon subscriptions. Granted, it's still outrageous, but not nearly as bad as 95$
The post on their Patreon page is misleading IMO. It says that Capitalist and above will be sent the 150 NEP to use on Talon, which is just how they fulfill the "six character passes" part of the rewards for Capitalist. Ie. they send you the money to buy the next six character passes. Since it calls out Capitalist specifically it does make it sound like you need to be Capitalist to get the NEP for Talon, but this isn't true. Talon is 150 NEP, 1 USD on Patreon = 8 NEP, so a pledge of $18.75 would get you enough to buy her pass. Naturally there's no tier that costs $18.75 so you'd have to do the $25 tier.

It's a lot of money but idk, I've spend more on ships in Star Trek Online and I can't even fap to those.

I spent only $35 years ago when I was a patron. I have both Elizabeth and Celia, I skipped Juri since her since are meh imo. I like Talon more haha. Any other legit way to get them?
Same, although I just bought Liz and not Celia. I have the money that was meant for Celia saved for Galatea (yes I live on copium, don't judge me)
 
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well that sucks. I spent it mostly on Elizabeth’s costume haha. Lesson learned I guess. You can only get the cash currency if you’re a capitalist tier or above which is a whopping $135 CAD on my end lmao.
I guess I can’t get Talon then lol.
not my understanding

if you pledge them $19 youll get 152nep in your account in a few hours

at least according to the discord folks
 
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Nihil5320

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It's a lot of money
That's an understatement. The cost for one character model is more than 99% of adult games on Steam, it's pretty nuts. Especially when the game isn't anywhere near finished, has basically zero features other than playing animations and said animations are literally just a few seconds on loop without even a proper climax and no variation on most.

Combined total of $54 is maybe OK for something like Illusion titles where the quality is there and they foster community support to add even more content, but this?
 
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bcgibson

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Really sucks that they changed the unlocks for each affinity tier this patch. I had my girls at lvl 2 to unlock pubic hair, but now pubic hair has been moved to lvl 4 so I'd have to grind to unlock it again.



The post on their Patreon page is misleading IMO. It says that Capitalist and above will be sent the 150 NEP to use on Talon, which is just how they fulfill the "six character passes" part of the rewards for Capitalist. Ie. they send you the money to buy the next six character passes. Since it calls out Capitalist specifically it does make it sound like you need to be Capitalist to get the NEP for Talon, but this isn't true. Talon is 150 NEP, 1 USD on Patreon = 8 NEP, so a pledge of $18.75 would get you enough to buy her pass. Naturally there's no tier that costs $18.75 so you'd have to do the $25 tier.

It's a lot of money but idk, I've spend more on ships in Star Trek Online and I can't even fap to those.



Same, although I just bought Liz and not Celia. I have the money that was meant for Celia saved for Galatea (yes I live on copium, don't judge me)
I can’t believe STO still manages to get people to spend their money on ships. They had massive backlash after they significantly nerfed the way you can get free zen and destroying peoples builds. I actually sued them and got all my money back it was really bad.
 

bcgibson

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That's an understatement. The cost for one character model is more than 99% of adult games on Steam, it's pretty nuts. Especially when the game isn't anywhere near finished, has basically zero features other than playing animations and said animations are literally just a few seconds on loop without even a proper climax and no variation on most.

Combined total of $54 is maybe OK for something like Illusion titles where the quality is there and they foster community support to add even more content, but this?
This game make 35-100k$ a month.

I don’t know how anyone can make a informed choice to buy this game with good conscious.
 
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DeltaP5

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Really sucks that they changed the unlocks for each affinity tier this patch. I had my girls at lvl 2 to unlock pubic hair, but now pubic hair has been moved to lvl 4 so I'd have to grind to unlock it again.



The post on their Patreon page is misleading IMO. It says that Capitalist and above will be sent the 150 NEP to use on Talon, which is just how they fulfill the "six character passes" part of the rewards for Capitalist. Ie. they send you the money to buy the next six character passes. Since it calls out Capitalist specifically it does make it sound like you need to be Capitalist to get the NEP for Talon, but this isn't true. Talon is 150 NEP, 1 USD on Patreon = 8 NEP, so a pledge of $18.75 would get you enough to buy her pass. Naturally there's no tier that costs $18.75 so you'd have to do the $25 tier.

It's a lot of money but idk, I've spend more on ships in Star Trek Online and I can't even fap to those.



Same, although I just bought Liz and not Celia. I have the money that was meant for Celia saved for Galatea (yes I live on copium, don't judge me)
Oh, okay. I’ll check later if I did get more NEP, I doubt it but better to check it if I have some lol. If not then I’ll just keep grinding for the weird insight. The solo play in the space station is pretty hot anyway
 

BobKilan

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Game still broken, Endless logging in, Character menu doesn't work. I came back to see and check and nothing got better as expected. Someone needs to find a way to cheatengine the NEP real bad.
That is never going to happen.

What do you think was one of the deciding factors of making it online only? To prevent people from instantly unlocking everything.

I'm just waiting until someone trains the new Hunyuan AI video generation model on Helius' content and then anyone can generate videos of the game for free with whatever character they want while Helius cries. :WeSmart: :ROFLMAO:
They already have gotten LoRa working recently for training new characters, sex concepts, etc. and the model is inherently uncensored towards NSFW content.
 

Tay623

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Trust me,I think they have a fully version of the game ,but for each Research girls, they're keeping released each 1 new girl for 6 or 7 months I think so, because I knew the list of up coming next research girls are Galatea ,A.d.a and Mina , that's what I think
 

Nihil5320

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So curiosity got the better of me and I downloaded the game again to see the latest changes, few notes:
  • Two new maps: some kind of dock and a highway station. Neither seem to be anything special, just look like extremely small stock asset affairs with no novel features.
  • Gallery doesn't seem to let you select the new characters, whether they're unlocked or not. UI is also the old design, even including the settings menu... I thought this was meant to have been updated?
  • There is now a "crew quarters," not sure wtf the point of it is tbh.
  • The gameplay loop is still just [log in daily and play x animations y times]. Now with affinity added to likes, ideas, NEP etc. End result is getting mildly confusing, especially given the poor ux design, but excitingly this has allowed Helius to extend the grind to include new concepts like sitting down and playing the drinking animation 3 times a day to grind affinity. Truly pushing the boundaries here.
  • There are some comical localisation errors, the hardcoded "REASEACHER" in the video that plays when unlocking blueprints is my personal favourite.
  • Blueprints now seem to sometimes unlock one animation at a time rather than three? But this appears inconsistent, I'm sure there's some logic to it but nothing obvious (again bad ux design).
  • No idea how long it would take to grind out a characters animations... extrapolating from my short dive back in my best guess is that it would be a close race between this and the Sun going red giant and sterilising Earth. Doesn't get much more sci-fi than that, well done Helius.
  • Monetisation has quietly ramped up. Now with more costumes, accessories and items to accelerate the grinds for affinity, ideas etc. All costing real money on top of the characters and base game.
  • They've also adopted that scarcity marketing tactic of having a store with rotating time-limited items, pretty sure Helius has just taken everything ever implemented in a f2p game and thrown it all at the wall to see what sticks.
In terms of the actual game there doesn't seem to be any notable progress other than a character being added, this is truly now just a vehicle for selling hats butt plugs.

Haven't tried the VR yet but I might later. I have a sneaking suspicion that I know exactly what it's going to be like though (my guess is it will be akin to the VR in 0.34 with updated ux, new characters and extremely limited animation sets).

All told this is... pretty much exactly what I expected tbh.
 

18Scythe

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is there any way to buy the game as a one-time purchase on steam or are we forced into a patreon subscription to get the latest stuff?
 

breathe

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is there any way to buy the game as a one-time purchase on steam or are we forced into a patreon subscription to get the latest stuff?
I don't think they are still developing it. the project hasn't had any updates in a very long time.
 
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BoobsDxD

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is there any way to buy the game as a one-time purchase on steam or are we forced into a patreon subscription to get the latest stuff?
Yeah, the Patreon gives you a steam key code that you use. It's one time purchase effectively if you cancel your sub soon as you get your key. Staying Subbed just means you get a monthly injection of premium currency, based on what tier you are subbed to. All updates are basically free once you get your key.

EDIT: Also to correct the person above me, it just got updated two days ago so nice try on trying to pass around misinfomation.
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meri2356

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friends if you have any questions about the game im happy to share informations im grinding daily (idk why im doing this every day)
 
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