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I mean I can't read and I'm not very smart
but in my opinion wouldn't it make more sense to release the Remake first
I mean since it's going to force everybody to restart their playthrough
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but in my opinion wouldn't it make more sense to release the Remake first
I mean since it's going to force everybody to restart their playthrough
- Jul 12, 2020
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Yes....yes it would....
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I’ve talked about this before, but to be brief: I wanted to pause development on the thing that happens at the end of Chapter 10, and then backtrack to clean things up and remake Chapter 1. It just took longer to get there than I thought it would. See earlier comments re: one chapter essentially becoming three.
I could hem and haw about if it was a good decision or not, but.. It’s already done. Why worry about it?
Now, my task for the next few months is to get Chapter 1 fully remade, touch up some stuff for Chapters 2 and 3, pull all the variables out and place them so that the game doesn’t throw those “[X] not defined” errors in the future, and then go through every menu option and see if I need to add any variables. I also have to upgrade my PC with new parts.
It’s all going to be a pain in the ass for me, and not a ton of fun for my subscribers to read about. But, after putting out ten chapters, I’d hope that I’ve mostly earned their trust enough that they understand why I feel the need to move backwards, instead of forward.
If I’d suddenly stopped after Chapter 4, and then redone everything from the ground up, maybe they’d have been less forgiving? I dunno! Maybe not.
But, as I said: what’s done is done. If anyone wants to wait until the remake is done, that’s their prerogative. I personally don’t think it’s the biggest deal to just check out the new content, and then fast-forward through the remake to get back to Chapter 10. Most of the game’s scenes aren’t super difficult to get to. It’s rarely a situation where you need to do W, X, and Y, in order to unlock outcome Z.
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well as a monogamy player that has three separate save files I don't mind at all playing from the beginning
I'm not upset or anything I didn't mean anything by it
I just thought it would make more sense to release the update that starts everybody over first
but I don't mind I'm just grateful for monogamy as an option
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As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy that they remade the first episode, maybe then Nicky's face at the beginning will stop giving me nightmares. 
- Jun 15, 2017
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what was that chapter neonghosts really cooked this time and mason's mvp this time
neonghosts really cooked this time and mason's mvp this time
Yes, in love paths there will be throuples and poly relationships(unsure compatible girls as of now). On corruption there will be full harem, but that will be like fwb, and blackmailing, giving money to sleep with you.
Right now no consequences to pursuing love with multiple girls, but probably will happen in future.
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For me it's not really a problem to start from the beginning. And it will give me the opportunity to clean up my saves a bit. What does bother me is that the plot doesn't advance during a long period of development, but I put up with it and that's it. There's no need to be a whiner.
And well, I've played several times from the beginning and the truth is that the first chapters are noticeably worse than the rest. Chapter 1 in particular. But the real leap in quality is seen in the fourth chapter which, for whatever reason, the developer found his key. So yes, a rework is necessary. But it still pisses me off, frankly.
And well, I've played several times from the beginning and the truth is that the first chapters are noticeably worse than the rest. Chapter 1 in particular. But the real leap in quality is seen in the fourth chapter which, for whatever reason, the developer found his key. So yes, a rework is necessary. But it still pisses me off, frankly.
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FYI: The Beta is now available for $5, which adds an Ashe scene, assuming you're on her girlfriend path. That one requires that she slept over following the date, and made you breakfast. Also implemented some bug fixes, typo fixes, etc.
Yeah, I always cite the chapter where Britt has her photoshoot, as the one where everything suddenly clicked.
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I just came to this thread by chance (Thanks for the awesome game, by the way) and I don't even know what you all are talking about, but a good way to "future-proof" it is defining variables for all choices, regardless if you intend to use it or not.
Also I think it's possible to make an if or a try catch to see if some variable is undefined, and show a menu for the player to define it themself or something like that.
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here i was all excited after reading the changelog then i see the android version as not updated
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I get where you guys are coming from too, at least the ones who put it politely and are already fans. I'm mostly bitching into the abyss to the randos chiming in with the complaint, usually with an attitude and usually with no idea about the dev's plans or process, when the dev and others have stated several times that it's staying the way it is. I guess I'm just making pointless wishes here, but I wish more people would keep negative stank opinions to themselves and focus more on positivity and encouraging the dev. If they have a criticism, at least put it politely. But that's the internet, that isn't ever going to change
I'm pretty confident in the game's progress, though. The fact that it's (actually) well-written and seems to be well-loved, I think that's a big boon for the dev and keeps them interested in working on it. Other games frankly (exceptions here and there), even the ones that many others love, I don't get the appeal personally.. they just feel like mediocre games at least compared to FiN, albeit with great renders. I don't follow enough games to know what the pattern usually is for their demise, but this game's updates remain regular and of utmost quality; in fact, seems to get better and better as it goes along. All of this combined with the fact that the dev has laid out their plans on how to keep things from getting too crazy, i.e. soon time jumps will make sense story-wise and ero scenes can get shorter while certain routes can start to tamp down, as well as self-awareness for how long this game may take to make (5 more years? more? w/e) makes me feel pretty reassured. Obviously nobody knows, but we can at least just enjoy the ride while it lasts.
I think the dev said that the 'harem' in those routes is more like 'harem-lite'; basically, the dark route is pretty self-explanatory, it's just brute force and fear tactics to get the LIs to do what you want; and the corruption route is (usually) you just paying the LIs to get what you want. Keep in mind that none of that necessarily implies having sex with bunches of them at the same time in like an orgy or something, just that you can continue having relations with them without losing access to others like you would with a romantic relationship or what have you.
So, if I had to guess, I think you're probably safe because the dev usually gives quite a lot of freedom to shift routes with LIs at different points as the game moves forward, and they're usually pretty well-advertised to the player. If you're not on a LI's dark route, which should be obvious, and not her romance route, which again should be obvious, but you're still having sex with her, you're probably on her corruption route, especially if you're paying her. I think he mentioned a friends with benefits route for some/all of the LIs, so that might be another form of 'harem-lite'. It's complicated, I know, but honestly quite simple in actual play-through. Romance, in my experience, is the hardest route to get on, especially early; the rest are pretty straight-forward.
Damn, that's such a good character model! Probably my favorite actually haha, how unfortunate for me. When this game's finished, I bet super fans *cough* would love to hear about what the original ideas were and how they changed.
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Did you read what the person who makes the gallery mod said?
No point in doing the work multiple times, after all the version here is an alpha, the beta is now out, then the final/public.
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No rape/blackmail scenes and whenever the time comes no incest (incest isn't in the game yet but is planned for it in the future).
The "main version" is the same; to disable rape/blackmail scenes you just delete the patch, or change the patch from true to false and hit save.
Honestly as the dev said, the vanilla version should be removed from the OP, as you can just remove the patch to have the vanilla version.