noname777

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If you don't reach something you want to reach in the first run, don't despair. Think back on what you can do better and try again. It's actually very rewarding when you figure it out on your own instead of giving up and using a walkthrough. It's a game. Games should have some difficulty.
The only thing I am really afraid of is that I will have to spent hours to get one or two problematic achievement, just because of one point in the stats.
For example, I really loved Tlaero's games (as well as some games from Chaotic), but sometimes it was a nightmare to make 100% of goals there. You had e.g. 69/70 romance points and you lost just because that one missing point. To make things harder, the statistics were not visible.
Here, with so many paths, the things might be even harder.
 

Huitieme

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The only thing I am really afraid of is that I will have to spent hours to get one or two problematic achievement, just because of one point in the stats.
For example, I really loved Tlaero's games (as well as some games from Chaotic), but sometimes it was a nightmare to make 100% of goals there. You had e.g. 69/70 romance points and you lost just because that one missing point. To make things harder, the statistics were not visible.
Here, with so many paths, the things might be even harder.
There are many paths, indeed, but there is no grind-type stats that you have to get up to 100 points or anything alike. It's more of a realistic approach, for example Annie inviting you to drinks if you've been the kind of laid-back people she likes to drink with. If you rile her up with regulations, she won't invite you because, frankly, who wants to get wasted with some bossy asshole?
 

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The only thing I am really afraid of is that I will have to spent hours to get one or two problematic achievement, just because of one point in the stats.
For example, I really loved Tlaero's games (as well as some games from Chaotic), but sometimes it was a nightmare to make 100% of goals there. You had e.g. 69/70 romance points and you lost just because that one missing point. To make things harder, the statistics were not visible.
Here, with so many paths, the things might be even harder.
You don't have to get every single choice 100% correct to progress. It's not about stat hoarding. Stats are there so that it works mechanically and logically. It's about choices and consequences. Some decisions have major impact, some minor, but you won't get stuck. You may miss some things, but the game will reach a conclusion based on your choices. The more you want to see, however, the more you have to diverge, replay and try different options.

You can't make a game where decisions matter any other way because then they wouldn't matter.
 
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Hey Nottravis. Great work. What do we have to do to get a Mac version up? Asking for a friend.
 
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*peeks in*

Hi guys...miss me? ;)

My apologies for absences and lateness and anything else you wish to throw at me. Life problems and whatnot but all sorted now and this isn't the place to bore you with any of that. Hopefully we're back to normal now.

I so would not play the version of three that is doing the rounds if you can avoid it. It does have some bugs (one is a game breaker and the other biggie can, depending on your saves, give you an odd result for the mission choice). My own fault for making last minute changes at a stupid time in the morning mainly. But I've today off work to sort out so all should be good. Thankfully they seem fairly straightforward and I'm kicking myself over them more than anything else.

I'll scan through posts and whatnot when I take little breaks and answer as best as I can.
Of course! But most of us are just glad you are doing better, and have returned to us.
Is "tritanium" a new space age strap-on?
With 3 ...prongs!
It's not standard because Ren'Py doesn't include it as a bog-standard feature. It requires a bit of hacking to do.
We also need people to make the 100 saves per page standard! ;)
It doesn't. This is not difficult to achieve if you use your head and pay attention.
There is lies the problem for most people these days... :LOL:
 
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noname777

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Also compress version?
Oh, and what about the Soviet version? Can we have Red October instead of Vanguard and Akula class battleship instead of "V" class? And of course Kuznetsov instead of Interpid!
Only one thing may be problematic: The native Ophions. Nobody can call them little green men! Could you make them blue instead?
 
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Here's my crunched version.

Note: This is an unofficial modified version of this game so if something goes wrong it goes wrong ;)

Image/audio/video quality is reduced to make this smaller. This is not a perfect process and sometimes can break a game. You've been warned so no complaining.

Heavy Five [Ch. 3 v1.2] [Nottravis] - Original Size: 1.89GB

Download Win (288.38MB): -

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So, as a small recap: there is currently no romance path for Chris, and all we can do is hoard affection, respect and lust points for her?
 
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So, as a small recap: there is currently no romance path for Chris, and all we can do is hoard affection, respect and lust points for her?
As far as I know, all sex and really naughty scenes (except these ones already mentioned in the walkthrough) has been moved to the Chapter 4. This includes Chris romance path. At least that is what Nottravis said.

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Is anyone else getting a crash after giving the blond the test drug for the first time? Is that an end of content for her or a bug?

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/chapter3.rpy", line 5080, in script
jump c3sarahbadend2
ScriptError: could not find label 'c3sarahbadend2'.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "game/chapter3.rpy", line 5080, in script
jump c3sarahbadend2
File "EDITED\HeavyFive-11-pc\HeavyFive-1.1-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 1674, in execute
rv = renpy.game.script.lookup(target)
File "EDITED\HeavyFive-11-pc\HeavyFive-1.1-pc\renpy\script.py", line 886, in lookup
raise ScriptError("could not find label '%s'." % str(original))
ScriptError: could not find label 'c3sarahbadend2'.
 

Nottravis

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Is anyone else getting a crash after giving the blond the test drug for the first time? Is that an end of content for her or a bug?

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/chapter3.rpy", line 5080, in script
jump c3sarahbadend2
ScriptError: could not find label 'c3sarahbadend2'.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "game/chapter3.rpy", line 5080, in script
jump c3sarahbadend2
File "EDITED\HeavyFive-11-pc\HeavyFive-1.1-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 1674, in execute
rv = renpy.game.script.lookup(target)
File "EDITED\HeavyFive-11-pc\HeavyFive-1.1-pc\renpy\script.py", line 886, in lookup
raise ScriptError("could not find label '%s'." % str(original))
ScriptError: could not find label 'c3sarahbadend2'.
*peeks in over coffee*

For some reason they pirated the bugged version despite knowing I was working on it. Why they'd do that I've no idea. You just can't get quality pirates these days I think. All these have been fixed.
 

Nottravis

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Stats are irrelevant, choices matter and from what Notty told us, the romance path with Chris could've been already started
So, as a small recap: there is currently no romance path for Chris, and all we can do is hoard affection, respect and lust points for her?
It first started gently in Chapter Two. You get a more visible clue that's it begun in Chapter Three. Note that Chris Romance (as opposed to just sexual content) is one of the harder paths to trigger.

Oh, and what about the Soviet version? Can we have Red October instead of Vanguard and Akula class battleship instead of "V" class? And of course Kuznetsov instead of Interpid!
Only one thing may be problematic: The native Ophions. Nobody can call them little green men! Could you make them blue instead?
*laughs!* Good spot. :) I did throw a bone to Russian names in Chapter Three however. Rather nicely to if I say so myself.

Hey Nottravis. Great work. What do we have to do to get a Mac version up? Asking for a friend.
Thankees and so glad you enjoyed it. I'll have a look at the front page when I get back from a quick trip away and makes sure the public links are all up to date. They should be a MAC version available for up to Chapter Two, but I've to skip off to work shortly so won't be able to upload one if there isn't in time.
 

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WOW! Could you put a few sample images (about 3-5) from the original and crunched version, so people can compare quality?
Just watch out for spoilers.
here you go
 

noname777

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*peeks in over coffee*

For some reason they pirated the bugged version despite knowing I was working on it. Why they'd do that I've no idea. You just can't get quality pirates these days I think. All these have been fixed.
I just wonder one thing: Is there any validator for RenPy games? It should be quite easy to create something like this:
- search for all "jump" points
- check if they are valid (the "label" exist)
What else can go wrong? Dead ends? Loops without a way out? Unreachable paths? These things are rather rare. And script errors like this one are quite common.
 
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