VN Ren'Py Imperial Chronicles [v0.11] [Lazy Monkey]

[GarudoSCHE]

Did all that but still just mind reading 1. I got the first scenes about reading each other's minds and asked the old mage about it, but URM showed one instance that called for mind reading 2. When is this second point supposed to be given?

Must be a mage:
Point 1: in Chapter 2: You must allow Elin to win. The dialogue at night after that, triggering it.
Point 2: Talk to Lockhart, she'll ask you to help with him.

EDIT::I could be wrong, but maybe the value of 2 is given if you're not playing as a mage. Then there'll be a scene with Elin in Episode 9 where you're swimming underwater and you're reading each other's minds.

 

[GarudoSCHE]

I think the intended difference between these two sub-paths for Seraphina is:

• Love: she genuinely falls in love with MC and ends up having his children out of love?
• Lust: she becomes MC's concubine. On this path, she never bears MC any children as she isn't in love with MC, they just use each other for sexual release.

If these aren't the planned endings, then there's no point in having the sub-paths IMHO.

Well, so far, on the love path, it doesn't seem like they have any feelings at all. Maybe that will happen in the future, but for now, the corruption path feels more like the love path.

 

[BCGuy]

Just started this one, and it appears to be a good game, but even when you choose English as the language, some of the text is in Russian. Even some of the scenes where there is a choice to make has Russian text as one of the choices. For instance, when the choice is apparently to go with Cass to the Thermae after the council meeting. The dev needs to play through game in English and identify where Russian text is still present.

 

[GarudoSCHE]

Just started this one, and it appears to be a good game, but even when you choose English as the language, some of the text is in Russian. Even some of the scenes where there is a choice to make has Russian text as one of the choices. For instance, when the choice is apparently to go with Cass to the Thermae after the council meeting. The dev needs to play through game in English and identify where Russian text is still present.

The OP contains a patch that improves English.

 

[Filipis]

Well, so far, on the love path, it doesn't seem like they have any feelings at all. Maybe that will happen in the future, but for now, the corruption path feels more like the love path.

Yeah, that's the biggest complaint about the 1.0 sex scene... the Love path did not build up to it at ALL.

The Lust path feels like a culmination of both, but given that it only happens because MC tampers with Seraphina's lust-reducing tonic, it firmly belongs on the "corruption" path - whereas on the "Love" path, she 'consciously' decides to have sex with MC, no matter how ham-fisted the whole scene turned out.

 

[Filipis]

Just started this one, and it appears to be a good game, but even when you choose English as the language, some of the text is in Russian. Even some of the scenes where there is a choice to make has Russian text as one of the choices. For instance, when the choice is apparently to go with Cass to the Thermae after the council meeting. The dev needs to play through game in English and identify where Russian text is still present.

The OP contains a patch that improves English.

Just an FYI, the patch is only for script up to 0.2 content - the "Definitive Edition" of Imperial Chronicles that I'm working on is currently on 0.5 content, but I'm not releasing it until I can complete the whole Chapter 1 (with a closed Beta test for when I finish the 0.6 content, a.k.a. the Coup update).

 

[desmosome]

Btw, all script files are in russian. Where are the script files for English? Is it some MTL auto translation tech?

 

[Filipis]

Btw, all script files are in russian. Where are the script files for English? Is it some MTL auto translation tech?

The "script" files for the English are dialogue translation strings only - the core script is written in Russian, and as such, changing it as is would break the built-in English translation.

 

[desmosome]

The "script" files for the English are dialogue translation strings only - the core script is written in Russian, and as such, changing it as is would break the built-in English translation.

where can I read this translation strings? There are so many blank lines of dialogues throughout the game.

 

[FalconLover420]

I think the intended difference between these two sub-paths for Seraphina is:

• Love: she genuinely falls in love with MC and ends up having his children out of love?
• Lust: she becomes MC's concubine. On this path, she never bears MC any children as she isn't in love with MC, they just use each other for sexual release.

If these aren't the planned endings, then there's no point in having the sub-paths IMHO.

True, but that is weird to have with love and lust on the queen especially when said queen has shown both sides in the lust route plus does not make sense for the queen to have duality of it though.


Compared to Elin where corruption and love makes sense especially with how the first sex scene between them get portrayed.

I just wish moving forward LM can look at said scenes and be like "I will do this character sex scene right"

 

[desmosome]

Man, Mage MC is so fucking useless at fighting. It's ridiculous how he acts like he doesn't know any magic despite supposedly focusing on his magic studies all his life. He never uses magic in battle.

 

[GibboBtw]

Man, Mage MC is so fucking useless at fighting. It's ridiculous how he acts like he doesn't know any magic despite supposedly focusing on his magic studies all his life. He never uses magic in battle.

Yeah, it does kinda feel like the most misused of the classes IMO. Really feels like bro should be making these combat situations a breeze. But he just doesn't for some reason.

 

[falconhawk223]

No. She does. You already have enough points with her if she's invited you to the meeting to begin with. So it basically says to me, that she was, and is all in on Elis working with her. That if he turns her down, she realises it's kind of fucked and is willing to let him kill her. And as for doing it anyway. Well obviously she does, she even tells you she will before she offers the chance to kill her. I mean first of all, she's hellbent on getting revenge against her mothers "killer". And second, she's trying to save the empire from her fathers passivness. So you know her goals pretty quickly, and I respect them tbh. Meanwhile, I don't give a shit about Alaina and her "The Elven Cause"

I think it’s clear you have a very different interpretation of the characters than I do. Looking through your comments, I don’t really agree with your take on most of them. You seem way way too harsh on characters you don’t like, and not nearly harsh enough on the ones you do. And this thing with Alania just feels like an attempt to shift blame off Cass, despite both Cass and Alania doing very clearly messed up things for their own goals. I don’t think Cass offering to let Elis kill her has anything to do with guilt, she just thought it was kind of a lost cause, since the planned coup was already in motion and pretty much doomed to fail without Elis’s support.

"some noble woman she barely knows." Alaina tells you that they were quite close and rather good friends. I mean the first proof of that is that when she "accidentally" kills her husband. She went straight to Alaina for help. It would be a bit weird if she just went to someone she "barely knows" to help her cover it up imo.

I'll take your word for it for the two of them being friends, but imo even if they were best friends it's not comparable to letting killing your own sibling. The whole Cass comparison there is a false equivalent

Because it is...I've played hundreds and hundreds of games. I've been the goody two shoes hero SOOOO many times. So you can bet your arse that if I find one, that can give me the option to be a little bit of a "villain" and murder the fantasy race I dislike the most, generally speaking. I'm 100% GOING FOR IT, WTF.

It's more that I'm sick of it coming up all the time. I'm an Elder Scrolls fan, and all Elder Scrolls fans seem to want to do is pretend to be racist against fantasy races. I don't find that stuff funny. You can be evil, I don't care, although it honestly doesn't sound like you actually want to be evil based on your other comments. I'm just tired of seeing "kill the elves" comments everywhere I go. I almost didn't get involved in the thread because I wanted to talk about something other than fantasy genocide.

Elis is too "dumb" for her to be willing share anything with him? Not something like, she doesn't want to burden him with that knowledge. So she'll be his lovely little guardian angel.

No, instead it's just "He's a dumbass..." But he's literally her "grand creation for the future of elvenkind"

He's her best goal for elven equality sure but he's also but he's also makes dumb decisions all the time. Even bookworm mc doesn't really act smart. Besides she wasn't keeping his mother in the dark. Like I said though I feel like you have too much bias when it comes to how you interpret character's actions and motivations, so I'm just going to leave here and agree to disagree.

 

[falconhawk223]

This is a game with multiple variables. I replayed the scene and that moment never popped up so I asked what variables you used to get that since unlike you I'm actually arguing in good faith. I asked how you got the scene so I could at least get a better understanding of the content as in my runs she just swears she's going to help Elis. You've already dismissed Aurora fear route so I don't know why you are dismissing route differences here

No idea if you've seen it yet, but it's honestly not that bad. She just said she sent a bunch of near identical letters to members of her family with one detail changed but told them to keep that detail a secret. Seems like kind of a harmless prank to me. Not the "I love manipulating people" thing. I'm not really sure why he described it like that.

 

[DrakoGhoul]

You know, thinking about it now. I wonder how hot our Elven grandma must be. She's supposedly an Elder on the Council? Though, we don't really have an age range for Sera and Celest. But I imagine that she's still youthful, maybe. Seeing as Elves might be a major focus for the upcoming arc. I'm sure we'll get at least a look at her.

 

[falconhawk223]

You know, thinking about it now. I wonder how hot our Elven grandma must be. She's supposedly an Elder on the Council? Though, we don't really have an age range for Sera and Celest. But I imagine that she's still youthful, maybe. Seeing as Elves might be a major focus for the upcoming arc. I'm sure we'll get at least a look at her.

I'm more interested in seeing the north/south. Sera is supposed to be young for an elf so I can't imagine grandma would be that old.

 

[DrakoGhoul]

I'm more interested in seeing the north/south. Sera is supposed to be young for an elf so I can't imagine grandma would be that old.

I'm sure we'll see the in-laws in the future. Probably after the kids are born. Since it wouldn't be wise to travel currently.

 

[josh963]

Any chance of a release next weekend?

 

[n00bPanda]

Yeah, it does kinda feel like the most misused of the classes IMO. Really feels like bro should be making these combat situations a breeze. But he just doesn't for some reason.

I seem to remember that it was said men can't control the magic like women do. Not a 'power' but control issue AFAIR, like in Randland.

 

[GibboBtw]

I seem to remember that it was said men can't control the magic like women do. Not a 'power' but control issue AFAIR, like in Randland.

I guess I just figured with all this prophecy shit around Elis being basically a borderline "chosen one" type of archetype, and his visions of a goddess and his infamous ancestor talking to him etc etc.

He would at least be able to match the power of a level 5 wizard in DND by now. But who knows, maybe he'll get there eventually.