Ren'Py Lab Rats 2 - Reformulate [v2025.04]

[TigerDiamonds]

Does anyone have suggestions for good potion designs for early on?

There's a lot of trait options, but most of them seem kinda useless.
The ones that raise lust or such only last until the drug wears off, right?

Currently I'm just trying to cook up something to make all of my employees not be so fucking fat.

I tend to rush towards unlocking the "slowly raise [stat] based on suggestibility" traits, but for early stuff:
There is a mechanic where you can turn temporary points into permanent points (at least for slut & iirc love, I forget if it works on the others) by making the girl orgasm. (that's why the game talks about the serums being more effective when orgasms happen.)

Later on you can get the climax cycler trait which can do this automatically.

 

[MaxTheDark]

You don't have to keep making the same serum. Make like 6 different ones that have good initial value, then rotate them in & out of production whenever one goes down too far. Over time (effected by market reach) they will go back up in value.

From what I understand it drops depending on how much you sell vs market reach. So simply shifting to another serum and letting the market recover will work. For me it is more a early game problem when you don't have that many different serums and don't have much market reach.

Awesome, good to know, thanks!

 

[Huerna]

Normally I will create a strong suggestion serum with all the "raise stat based on suggestibility" stuff; with extra stuff and give them to everyone. I try the latest version -which broke my old save- and I could not find the "raise stat based on suggestibility" serums. I even try to cheat to see if there are still available and I just not get the event to unlock them but I could not find them in the cheat menu. Is the suggestion slowly create love and sluttiness gone? Am I missing something?

 

[saitama the II]

Normally I will create a strong suggestion serum with all the "raise stat based on suggestibility" stuff; with extra stuff and give them to everyone. I try the latest version -which broke my old save- and I could not find the "raise stat based on suggestibility" serums. I even try to cheat to see if there are still available and I just not get the event to unlock them but I could not find them in the cheat menu. Is the suggestion slowly create love and sluttiness gone? Am I missing something?

in your room go into MOD settings ther you can activate those serums

 

[notright]

So I have been playing this game on-and-off for a while, pretty much enslaved every NPC in the game at this point and rule the world.

Does anyone know of a similar game that lets you interact with randomly generated NPCs or some more open ended fixed NPCs?

I've done Roguelike, Course of Temptation, Degrees of Lewd (too victim oriented), liliths throne (too easy), null hypothesis, ... I am sure there are others but I can't remember them right now.

Looking for games where you actually interact with the NPCs and not just straight up VNs with fixed paths, the sheer volume of abandoned crappy VNs flooding the internet is making searching for decent open world/sandboxy style games relatively difficult.

 

[Xathras]

You don't have to keep making the same serum. Make like 6 different ones that have good initial value, then rotate them in & out of production whenever one goes down too far. Over time (effected by market reach) they will go back up in value.

It also doesn't seem to go down below 30% so if you have a very valuable serum you can keep producing it and get a lot of money even at a much lower level. Though rotating can help a lot.

 

[Divine Comedy]

Is there a way or command to remove the shitty gifs playing during sex scenes?

 

[werneryw]

大佬能整个中文版吗，纯英文玩的好累

you need a app RenpyThief

 

[MaxTheDark]

I gotta say, Im getting really sick of employees randomly quitting while having a decent amount of happiness. One chick quit so quickly I couldn't even have the performance review with her.

Who on the dev's team thinks it's normal for people to quit less than a month after starting work?!

 

[Abaddon0]

Why is it, that you can only hire one person from the list? Sometimes you get batches that are all crap and others that have 2 or even 3 that you want to hire. Is there a way to change or modify it so you can hire more than one person in a single hire batch, if you have available positions?

 

[fplay8881]

Why is it, that you can only hire one person from the list? Sometimes you get batches that are all crap and others that have 2 or even 3 that you want to hire. Is there a way to change or modify it so you can hire more than one person in a single hire batch, if you have available positions?

The ones that you don't hire will become an NPC in the city and you can hunt them down and hire later if you so choose.

 

[MaxTheDark]

Why is it, that you can only hire one person from the list? Sometimes you get batches that are all crap and others that have 2 or even 3 that you want to hire. Is there a way to change or modify it so you can hire more than one person in a single hire batch, if you have available positions?

The ones that you don't hire will become an NPC in the city and you can hunt them down and hire later if you so choose.

I'm with Abaddon0, there should just be an option to tick a box under each candidate you want to hire, and then pressing 'Hire' means all ticked are hired.

 

[TigerDiamonds]

I gotta say, Im getting really sick of employees randomly quitting while having a decent amount of happiness. One chick quit so quickly I couldn't even have the performance review with her.

Who on the dev's team thinks it's normal for people to quit less than a month after starting work?!

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In my experience, it's because their pay is too low; just offer them a raise when they come to quit.

 

[YSP=]

Hmm, judging from some of the comments this update might be the buggiest in a while. Can anyone confirm this?

Could be just me but I happen to have my AMD Linux driver randomly crash while playing this game.
From my system log:
Sender: Labrats2-Reform
Time: 10:23:58 AM
Message: amdgpu: The CS has cancelled because the context is lost. This context is innocent.

Sender: systemd-coredump
Time: 10:24:00 AM
Message: Process 84373 (LabRats2-Reform) of user 1000 dumped core.

 

[rb813]

Using serum for losing weight is much slower and I've never seen it causing body type change.

It is slow, but it's definitely possible. I've taken Gabrielle and Cara all the way to Thin using only serums. And that was just with Tier 1 or 2 ingredients.

 

[bakota435]

Does anyone know of a similar game that lets you interact with randomly generated NPCs or some more open ended fixed NPCs?

School Game and Hentai High School both have generated NPCs which you can interact with.

 

[Funny Asian Pirate]

Did your best serum can fix infertile on random NPC ? I cannot find a way to fix that

no, it actually causes issues with Erica. She has a breeding fetish event where she will get rid of her IUD and lets you impregnate her. You need to use any serum with the breeding nanobots I think.

 

[iamnuff]

So I'm updating from .05b to .08, but all my saves are gone.
Are they actually incompatible, or do I just need to find out where the saves are stored and copy them into a new folder with the correct name?

Renpy games store their saves somewhere in your appdata folder, right?
Can anybody point me to the right file?
I 100% don't want to have to start over with every update. It's far too slow-paced a game for that.

 

[lossius]

Are they actually incompatible, or do I just need to find out where the saves are stored and copy them into a new folder with the correct name?

They are incompatible, you have to start over

 

[ibnarabi]

So I'm updating from .05b to .08, but all my saves are gone.
Are they actually incompatible, or do I just need to find out where the saves are stored and copy them into a new folder with the correct name?

Renpy games store their saves somewhere in your appdata folder, right?
Can anybody point me to the right file?
I 100% don't want to have to start over with every update. It's far too slow-paced a game for that.

You must start a new save. Way too many changes in the code.