Ren'Py Lab Rats 2 - Reformulate [v2025 4.0.37]

[Jaxter]

I have now attempted to download and compile the beta version, it's throwing a type error. I'm guessing I'll have to wait for the next stable release whenever that comes around.

 

[Nobodysan]

Yes, IMO. And if you want a sort of alternative gameplay it's worth trying the infamous Dec 23 release.

(It took me weeks, but I finally realized that the develop branch is not the same as the Dec23 branch)

Could that be why when I flirt with a character with high sluttiness they don't give a reply and I don't get the option to start making out? I was about to go back to the stable release.

 

[SpikyHair]

I don't really get what's the point of working on this "Reformulate", besides the initial content they added all the new stuff is just some boring serum grindfest.

I must be imagining things like threesomes, additional sex poses and dialogues (or more dialogues in general), more granular and logical taboo breaks, or even much better control over your "business" and its employees.

This game needs more visual changes, more character models, hairstyles and clothes,

Could certainly use it, and is being slowly worked on. "Needs" though? No, you need that, not the game. Even with the frequent goblinoid faces it's still a solid game already.

not another pointless serum trait,

Playes the game based around serums, complains about more serum mechanics...

when the game can literally be played without using serums (besides selling them) at all.

Not without cheats, unless you have years of real time to grind dates with a single character.

Kind of curious why you'd play something you're clearly not enjoying. Or, hell, just jump onto the devgit, fork off, and start adding things you want. Pretty sure current folks slaving to give us any kind of additional content will be perfectly happy to merge additions that aren't too far out for their vision of the game.

 

[EggplantEnjoyer]

I must be imagining things like threesomes, additional sex poses and dialogues (or more dialogues in general), more granular and logical taboo breaks, or even much better control over your "business" and its employees.
Could certainly use it, and is being slowly worked on. "Needs" though? No, you need that, not the game. Even with the frequent goblinoid faces it's still a solid game already.
Playes the game based around serums, complains about more serum mechanics...
Not without cheats, unless you have years of real time to grind dates with a single character.

Kind of curious why you'd play something you're clearly not enjoying. Or, hell, just jump onto the devgit, fork off, and start adding things you want. Pretty sure current folks slaving to give us any kind of additional content will be perfectly happy to merge additions that aren't too far out for their vision of the game.

What are those additional positions? Copy pasting a position and calling it dildoing instead of fingering is not a new position.

 

[ZacariasF100]

I hope more things about corruption,NTR or public use so on.Because the main theme may be using SERUMs to make a good lady into a bad slut.It is meaningless that U just play pure love as a sim game when the developers and modders created so great SERUM mechanics.

 

[LickeyDs]

I hope more things about corruption,NTR or public use so on.Because the main theme may be using SERUMs to make a good lady into a bad slut.It is meaningless that U just play pure love as a sim game when the developers and modders created so great SERUM mechanics.

But there are all those things you mentioned in the game already.
Sluttiness is the corruption meter, with the girls dressing more and more whorishly and jumping your bones at every opportunity. The whole point of serums is mind control and shaping girls how you like. You want an insatiable bimbo slut? The game has got a serum for that.
Some girls have boyfriends/husbands that they can shit talk during your encounters and you can even get caught with a girl and keep fucking her while she moans about choosing your dick over her boyfriend. There is even cuckold pregnancy.
Public use is also pretty extensive. There is public sex and free use of your employees.
One thing you're right about is that it is indeed meaningless if YOU, ZacariasF100 in particular, are playing it as just a pure love simulator and not engaging in the aforementioned mechanics.

 

[Nobodysan]

Could that be why when I flirt with a character with high sluttiness they don't give a reply and I don't get the option to start making out? I was about to go back to the stable release.

Correction: $ the_person.call_dialogue("flirt_response_low") and $ the_person.call_dialogue("flirt_response_mid") seems to work fine for me, but $ the_person.call_dialogue("flirt_response_high") doesn't: it just skips their dialogue and goes straight back to the character interaction menu, even when I stick a line of dialogue before the first "if" in the relevant flirt_response_high. I've looked around in various personality.rpy files and the navigation.json file (and tried updating via git, but who knows if I did that right), and I still can't see why two work but the other doesn't. Does anyone have any idea of how to fix it?

 

[pinktoiletpaper]

I have now attempted to download and compile the beta version, it's throwing a type error. I'm guessing I'll have to wait for the next stable release whenever that comes around.

Alternative method:
1. Download the 09.23 (aka master) version here;
2. Open the "game" folder, delete all the rpa files except character_images.rpa;
3. Go to the LR2Mods GitGud page, search for "branches", download "develop";
4. Copy the content of the "game" folder from develop to 09.23.

That should be it. Now you have an "updated" 09.23 version, aka develop/beta. You could do the same for the dec23 version.

Correction: $ the_person.call_dialogue("flirt_response_low") and $ the_person.call_dialogue("flirt_response_mid") seems to work fine for me, but $ the_person.call_dialogue("flirt_response_high") doesn't: it just skips their dialogue and goes straight back to the character interaction menu, even when I stick a line of dialogue before the first "if" in the relevant flirt_response_high. I've looked around in various personality.rpy files and the navigation.json file (and tried updating via git, but who knows if I did that right), and I still can't see why two work but the other doesn't. Does anyone have any idea of how to fix it?

I thought it was a new feature, not a bug
Anyway, the dec23content has its own branch, you can download it and repeat the steps described above to see if the bug (?) has been fixed.

 

[silveryiris]

I have now attempted to download and compile the beta version, it's throwing a type error. I'm guessing I'll have to wait for the next stable release whenever that comes around.

Make sure your Renpy SDK is version 8.1.3 ( renpy-8.1.3-sdk ).

Renpy 8.2 will get errors on the game start.

 

[SpikyHair]

What are those additional positions? Copy pasting a position and calling it dildoing instead of fingering is not a new position.

It's called "using existing assets to their fullest." Just like the threesomes technically are, if you ignore all the text involved - which is actually the more important part of presentation, considering how limited the posing is, but never that mind altogether.

Again, why are you even wasting your time if you clearly don't enjoy this game? There's tons of others out there, find something that you get your rocks off to instead of complaining about things you get for free. Especially when it's about highly subjective things that make your complaints sound... inane, at best.

 

[ZacariasF100]

But there are all those things you mentioned in the game already.
Sluttiness is the corruption meter, with the girls dressing more and more whorishly and jumping your bones at every opportunity. The whole point of serums is mind control and shaping girls how you like. You want an insatiable bimbo slut? The game has got a serum for that.
Some girls have boyfriends/husbands that they can shit talk during your encounters and you can even get caught with a girl and keep fucking her while she moans about choosing your dick over her boyfriend. There is even cuckold pregnancy.
Public use is also pretty extensive. There is public sex and free use of your employees.
One thing you're right about is that it is indeed meaningless if YOU, ZacariasF100 in particular, are playing it as just a pure love simulator and not engaging in the aforementioned mechanics.

U may be some too sensitive or my words just hit u. May I offer you my sincerest apologies.

 

[Nobodysan]

No, from what I remember, usually before if you had high flirt response it would (often) start a dialogue where the woman asks if you want to fuck her. So I believe it may be a bug or something like that.

Yes, and I'm still scratching my head about why flirt_response_mid still works properly but flirt_response_high (and for that matter flirt_response_affair) don't. I suspect the answer is in changes that were made to Personality_ren.py, but I've been fiddling around in it and still haven't identified what the exact problem is. (And for whatever reason Sapphire won't let me create an account that would let me post a note on the gitgud page, so I'm complaining here instead.)

 

[mad_dog_chiefy]

would have to be the most troublsome mod iv ever played with lol. i just cant grasp how to get it to run!

 

[Jaxter]

Make sure your Renpy SDK is version 8.1.3 ( renpy-8.1.3-sdk ).

Renpy 8.2 will get errors on the game start.

8.2.0 is the one linked in the Original Post's "how to access the beta" so is what I used. Thank you for informing me, will be trying out 8.1.3.

Edit: Running 8.1.3 over 8.2 at least doesn't give the type error. I shall call this a MASSIVE SUCCESS, thank you kindly not only for providing a fix that might work, but one that actually works, and move on to tinkering with deleting stuff that pinktoiletpaper recommended.
So thank you.

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works.

Alternative method:
1. Download the 09.23 (aka master) version here;
2. Open the "game" folder, delete all the rpa files except character_images.rpa;
3. Go to the LR2Mods GitGud page, search for "branches", download "develop";
4. Copy the content of the "game" folder from develop to 09.23.

That should be it. Now you have an "updated" 09.23 version, aka develop/beta. You could do the same for the dec23 version.

Downloading, deleting some files, and moving some files into the folder seems a lot easier than getting the SDK, learning how it works, getting git, learning how that works, gitting the beta into the SDK folder, getting the SDK folder to launch the beta.
So thank you, I will definitely try this too when I'm done trying the SDK8.1.3 so I can sate my sunk-cost fallacy.

Edit: This was also a massive success, and so easy. A few other files was in the develop-branch that I had to overwrite in the base game, but no sitch. This worked out like a charm, and I don't have to deal with the SDK launcher. Thank you.

 

[ramvivat]

Sorry, I forgot a little, what does it take for mom to have the official position of Job: Office slut in her information? Do I need to allow NTR or can I get such a position for Jennifer without this setting?
what is the right sequence of steps for this?
Sorry, my search skills are not very well developed. I can’t find the right search string, because probably someone has already answered this question.
At least tell me a suitable search string and then I’ll read it myself. Thank you.

 

[Ikaanos_citizen]

I have to disagree with you on a lot of things. First, storylines are not that bad, some of them I do very much like. I get that they may not be for everyone's taste though, and it's okay, it can never please everyone. Some of them you can bypass already, like the Nora storyline for the serum tier increase, you can just pay instead of going through Nora's story. Or also not have Sarah in the game either for the HR position. And I know there's plans to make it so Ellie the IT girl isn't necessary either so that any randomized character can be able to fill her IT position. The idea of letting the player have the freedom to choose is one of the goals of the current "team". It's just that, when you write a story, you don't just first put a " Else then unlock this ", you first write your story, and then you put the outcomes and choices / alternate ways. So yeah, it may seem like the game is trying to trap you in the story, but it has stuff allowing you to bypass it. But some stories may have more bypass choices in the months to come.

Perhaps I expressed myself too harshly. For the first time the plot is not bad at all. But the sandbox assumes replayability, and the second, third, or fourth time, scrolling through the same kilobytes of plot text is no longer so interesting. This is a typical problem with visual novels, and here it is greatly aggravated by the need to catch the desired event, which usually occurs only once a week. Also the romantic lines of the storyline NPCs come into strong conflict with what is happening in the game as a whole. The character dreams of someone's tits as a teenager, while having a whole harem of submissive sluts at work. It looks unnatural.

I will give one successful example of a story NPC. This is an inspector coming to check your business. She comes as expected, this event can be caused at any time or avoided altogether, this event does not depend on the relationship with anyone other than the inspector herself. In my opinion, the storyline can be built from such blocks, weakly dependent on the others and available at any time in the story. Maybe I want to start developing the MC nanobots at the very beginning, without waiting for dozens (?) of mandatory interactions with certain NPCs in a certain order. It shouldn't be that owning a strip club is magically linked to your cousin or relationship with the owner of a sex shop. And so on.

" generally fat ". That's classy... Well, tell you what, if you hate it, there is an option to change the body types at the start of the game for randomized characters, there's the gym option for non randomized character when you get under 70kg they will be " Standard bodytype ", and also a Cheat option on the bottom you can click when you talk to someone if you want it to be instant without the gym stuff, that allows you to change their bodytype.

Partially agreed, but at the very first screens of game i choose what types of body i want to see in the game. And that option works, but only for random characters, why it's so difficult to automatically change body types of story NPC's also, according to that what player wants to see? And stripper that weight 90 kilos, wtf is that? Its weird.

So that way, you never have to witness in the game what an IRL real woman's body may look like.

Dude, it's a game. And it's a porno game. With all of that sepums, mind control, aphrodisiacs and obedience enhancers. It's not a social justic manifest and not a real life like. Yes, i want to jerk off only on young beautyful slim girls, sorry for that.

 

[Bloodly]

Is there a way to raise Sluttiness en-mass?

Is there anything that might break from raising people's sluttiness?

 

[makeitso]

Is there a way to raise Sluttiness en-mass?

Is there anything that might break from raising people's sluttiness?

The Easy difficulty raises baseline Sluttiness across the board. If you immediately max out Sluttiness via cheats, for example, you'll probably skip intermediate states, (random) events and associated dialogue. Key events should trigger in sequence still, but they might happen a lot faster than intended for good flow and consistency if Sluttiness is the only condition.

From what I've seen, it won't break anything crucial, just limits your experience a lot.

 

[MasterGamer1234567890]

I've made the mistake of asking some of the girls to be part of my harem and invited them to live in the mansion. How do I kick them out again?

 

[SpikyHair]

Is there a way to raise Sluttiness en-mass?

I assume you mean non-employees, since you have the daily serum duty to cover that. Also, legitimate way, rather than cheating since that one's self-apparent.

You could do some heavy petting in public settings - as long as it's kept restrained so you don't trigger "Bake 'em away, toys" scene, that could add a point or two for witnesses for whom it hits the treshold of "hot but not offensive." Technically you could probably boost up sluttiness of the entire "world" that way, but probably should take a break for some retrospective look at what you're doing with your limited life before you get there....

Mostly, though, you need to do dates and dose targets individually. Effectively, your character is just a more intelligent version of the roofie candyman...

Is there anything that might break from raising people's sluttiness?

With cheats, you could potentially break progression on some characters by, say, triggering scenes out of progression and breaking control counters or whatnot.

With non-uniques, you might miss some progression in their corruption status (basically dialogue and wardrobe alterations). Also, a large part of gameplay itself, if you do it for everyone.