VN Others Finding Color in the Ashes [Alpha v1.02 HotFix] [MooncatcherStudios]

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ZheWatcher

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my dumbass destroyed my save using cheat engine lol.

Got too impatient and also started messing around the days. Now i'm at -5167421 days before summer

i suspect it has something to do with not aligning to the weekdays when I changed it. :v
I'm rather inexperienced using cheat engine. Was able to do things like restore my health in combat. But seem to be failing on resources. So far it's not a big deal, but I am curious what I should be doing or what I'm doing wrong.
 

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I'm rather inexperienced using cheat engine. Was able to do things like restore my health in combat. But seem to be failing on resources. So far it's not a big deal, but I am curious what I should be doing or what I'm doing wrong.
the only resource you really need to cheat is gold and it's pretty easy. The rest you can just spam buy on a weekend using the cheat gold. Wood, alchohol, and food also have this weird interaction that fixes its amount eventually after 3 days so buying 1000s of those will still bring its amount back to its cap, so don't buy more than 200 for those three. You don't need the other resources as much as those three.
 
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Soulcatch

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I hope this becomes available to mobile in the future
The engine supports mobile, so it's not impossible, but sorry to say I have no plans at the moment. Once it releases and I see how well it does, it'll be more clear on whether or not I can afford the time to get it moved over. If it does well, I'm absolutely willing to make it happen.
 
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Nick4

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At some point, the game started to freeze, when choosing to knock on the door. The music is playing, a flower appears from the girl's sprite, and that's it. The game doesn't react to anything.
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Soulcatch

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At some point, the game started to freeze, when choosing to knock on the door. The music is playing, a flower appears from the girl's sprite, and that's it. The game doesn't react to anything.
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Can I ask, what version are you playing, and did you start a fresh save on that version? I'm trying to hunt down a few bugs like this right now. I made some changes in 1.02 specifically to kill a sequence break bug that could cause this, but if you started a new save in 1.02 and still got this, let me know.
 

Soulcatch

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v1.02.
Save from v1.01.
In v1.01 was same problem with this save.

Do I need to start the game again?
Yeah the fix in 1.02 doesnt unjank older saves. The problem is an annoying one to fix, because it was caused (I think) by a sequence break made possible by changes to how Lucy gets romanced in the newer versions. I'll try to include a fix for older saves in the next version, but I can't guarantee it'll fix everything without a bunch of testing.

So, up to you. Starting a new save in 1.02 should prevent the issue from showing up again. If you just want to wait for the next update to see if it unbreaks things, also viable, but again, no promises that it'll fix your exact problem right away.
 
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mezkal4p

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The engine supports mobile, so it's not impossible, but sorry to say I have no plans at the moment. Once it releases and I see how well it does, it'll be more clear on whether or not I can afford the time to get it moved over. If it does well, I'm absolutely willing to make it happen.
There are many developers who tend to develop the mobile ports alongside the PC versions, which is understandable considering the scope of the mobile market, but they end up with extremely buggy releases, waiting on updates and fixes that may never come. So let me say THANK YOU for focusing on the PC release first before considering porting it to mobile.
 
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Maki_

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How do you increase affinity with the scout? She's been sitting at 15 for forever no matter how much I talk to her.
 

Soulcatch

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How do you increase affinity with the scout? She's been sitting at 15 for forever no matter how much I talk to her.
She stays at a distance until you progress the plot a bit. After you encounter the undead, and restore the tower, you will have the chance to research the undead at night. This will get you on the way.

Scout has a couple of scenes and a bit of story right now, but there's a lot more coming for all the NPCs.
 
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winceptor

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The engine supports mobile, so it's not impossible, but sorry to say I have no plans at the moment. Once it releases and I see how well it does, it'll be more clear on whether or not I can afford the time to get it moved over. If it does well, I'm absolutely willing to make it happen.
I would not worry too much. The engine you use works very well through windows emulators. I just tried out of curiosity and seems to run well on Winlator 7.1.5 glibc. Except the bad news is it crashes right after you go through the intro and click "Lets start".
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winceptor

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I would not worry too much. The engine you use works very well through windows emulators. I just tried out of curiosity and seems to run well on Winlator 7.1.5 glibc. Except the bad news is it crashes right after you go through the intro and click "Lets start".
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I tried alot of things yet could not make it work past this screen:
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I could only manage to break it more...
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Have any idea what could cause the problem and is there some logging setting i could run with? If it was playable on Winlator it would reduce the need of android port for now.
 

Soulcatch

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I tried alot of things yet could not make it work past this screen:
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I could only manage to break it more...
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Have any idea what could cause the problem and is there some logging setting i could run with? If it was playable on Winlator it would reduce the need of android port for now.
Couldn't say, no experience whatsoever with windows emulators on mobile. If I were to port the game, I'd probably rebuild it entirely for mobile because I can't imagine it'll work too well as is for a variety of reasons (especially UI). Maybe someone with more experience getting these things working will be of more help to you, sorry.
 
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