Rejoice tentacle fans, hopefully there's enough content for rest of us but it looks like their patreon took a hit if I'm not mistaken
I'm taking the educated guess that it might have to do with the patreon banking change mismanagement. That is to say that it might have to do with some banks flagging patreon payments as suspicious because Patreon changed its coordinates to UK ones (or at least so was reported in some thread on this forum). If I understood correctly this has practically happened to all patreon projects, it shouldn't be a KoD issue.
Riven pretty much fucked anyone as the town bike while being acknowledged as the hero of the village in their previous game, the horny king fucking all the peasants is a long used trope, equality, don't be sexist and let her be a slut if she wants to
I agree the bar scene was very disappointing. If they want immersion and choices to matter the bar scene should of been if sub enough fuck them and maybe murder them aswell for profit, then sleep with the investigator and witnesses, dom option murder them, frame or bride, offer cat girls etc.
I'm not saying she can't choose to be a slut, I'm saying that's hardly compatible with her long-term goal, thus it'd be a bad end.
The situation in NN was different, there was a general corruption aura at play, none of what happened in that game can be considered normal in another setting where such an effect is not present.
And there's a difference between being a village hero and being a military or political leader. The latter two require to be fit to exercise authority and usually that doesn't go well with lascivity, whether you are male, female or an attack helicopter.
Regarding immersion and player choice, the point is that KoD is a visual novel, whilst NN was a JRPG and the consequences of the different genre are relevant.
Visual novels, as the name suggests, are very close to novels as a concept. The player interaction is actually in most of them really minimal, with important choices only after shitloads of text and their impact limited to determining bad ends or a particular route in the game. This is especially true for Black Lilith titles, for instance.
However complex the visual novel's branching, the fact remains that they are designed not as much as sandboxes but as books. The protagonist isn't meant to be whatever you want as in games like Skyrim, but it has usually a very precise personality and the options (or lack of) will reflect that. Sabia is a character with her own mindset, prejudices and personality just as much as any book character. That's why the author doesn't give you the option to choose something which is against Sabia's characterization.
Now, KoD is arguably a bit of an hybrid between a VN and an RPG, but its VN nature in this is pretty manifest, you get some choices influencing her development, but you don't get to choose everything she does and says, once you go down a route she acts within the confines of her personality.
Did you not play Noxian Nights or the first half of KoD?
The game has definitely taken a turn, it should almost be tagged with reverse-corruption, If the updates stay on this course. Sabia was always goal driven, like Riven, then you corrupt her along the path to her goals using them as an excuse for her actions while the they rationalizes their growing passion for them as an inevitable consequence until they give in to the pleasure and admit they've become whores, this is the corruption genre in essence, as Sabia gets more standing she is becoming less of a whore, at least in public (which is the best part), makes perfect sense in reality, not so much in a porn game, a corruption one at that. People are simply surprised as this goes against porn games and Sierras previous work in general.
BUT it's very possible she'll go back and add alternative sub paths later, choosing to spend early dev time to progress the story first, here's to hoping.
If I'm not mistaken, the devs have clearly said that this isn't actually a corruption game. That's not what they are making.
That's why I think it's less of a porn game and more of a fantasy with a lot of sex in it.
No, but it would be cool if she blew all the Orcs and let them bang her to increase their morale. The orcs say, "Our Warlord is so good to us."
That is a possibility, but it remains to be seen if it'd make sense in the context she'd be in.
It'd be probably more effective to use whores and captives for that purpose and to reserve herself for upper ranks.
They should make her take pleasure in being submissive, not being reluctant about the sex she's obviously enjoying.
If you side with Tekrok only, it makes sense for her to get banged by all the Orcs and like it.
It is character development, you can't expect a woman who starts as a military officer engaged in a global warfare against all non-humans to become so quickly free of her prejudices and moral education. She clearly starts seeing orcs as beasts, it takes time for her to accept the fact that she can actually be even attracted by them (as with Lutvrog) and in any case it'd take even more time and some motivation to get to the point of spreading her legs for each and every orc that asks.
If you ally yourself with Tekrok you seriously indeed risk being abused a lot and that happens (see the festival night scene), but the motivating factor is that she wants to advance her plan and she submits to Tekrok's requests. It's one thing to submit to a high-standing dominant person and another thing to be everyone's cocksleeve. Sabia at the moment is not perverted enough to be the latter, she has no reason to.
Even if sex was what she wanted, she wouldn't need to steep low to get it, she could just get her action going with Lutvrog for instance. She has, at the moment, no kink for promiscuity.
This is not a defect, this is just character development in the making. She might get to the point you want, but that requires time, the game is barely in its first act.
I played the game some more. The game IS definitely about the sex, lol.
Of course there's a lot of emphasis on it, because it's an adult game, but I'm of the opinion that is not as central as one might be led to believe thinking of corruption games.
Here's what I would adjust for submissive sabia. These changes would make the game even better than it already is:
Submissive Sabia - Tekrok loyalty - Proposed Adjustments/Additions
1. Allow Bar Gropers to fuck her in the tents and recruit them into Tekrok's crew
2. Allow Orcs at the bar to grope you but only if they have your permission, you can give groping privileges to Tekrok's crew and the Bar gropers once they side with Tekrok. The other orcs get jealous and want to grope you too so they side with Tekrok.
3. You talk with Tekrok and expect him to help you raid the human city so you can gain your vengeance with all the recruiting you're doing for Tekrok.
4. If Sabia is loyal to Tekrok only and wears orc slave armor, make her face ENJOY all the sex she has with Orcs and never be reluctant and never challenge their authority during sex, PURE submission. She can be reluctant before the sex, playing games, but ultimately submitting.
5. If Sabia's domination score is zero, she does not make the first move with Lutrvig in the trainer area.
6. Sabia can choose to continue working in the tents if she sides with Tekrok, but she only has sex with Tekrok's men or the Bar gropers if they side with Tekrok.
She can still convince Tekrok to raid that human city so she can gain her vengeance.
Again, those things might as well happen, but they'd require time to build up reasons for why Sabia would be that kind of character. What you propose is substantially getting already to near end-game status.
