bobjones9792

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Ok, are some :star: characters forever missable?
Example:
InstaPic Girl [Iris] (unlocking oral taboo for sister, you can 'Let's Make a Deal', she asks you to buy phone, InstaPic Girl shows up when you do? ... only way?)
^if I go route of breaking the taboo 4 times instead of 'convincing', does InstaPic Girl [Iris] never show up?
There's a lot of missable content, unless there was a LOT of changes in this version. Iris is missable, don't change incest opinion for sis, and make sure you do the deal. For most, to be on the safe side, hire people if someone explicitly offers or suggests it, you don't have to hire alexia right away for example, but not hiring ellie will screw you over. Go through the tiers without using clarity, except the final one is ok. Don't hire your family members until you've completed ALL of their questlines. Blackmail Gabrielle, agree to find her, and make sure you have $50000+ money, fully invested cara, and decently corrupted aunt before exposing where she works. There's more, just try not to do things which will obviously shut down routes.
 

Larans

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Um, I searched thread for answer, got all the required steps, and months into game, Ashley still has not triggered!

Suggestion trait researched [drug that has +10 suggestion, right? but I only got it to mastery 1.5, does that matter?]
Have Stephanie as your head researcher [she started as such, and I have not changed her position]
Have an open employee spot [sitting on 2 open slots now]
Your business needs to be open for at least 14 days [10000% beyond this]
Then, monday followed all those. [months in game]

edit: ok ok i got stephanie mixed up with Sarah, let me take stephanie out on date next to test. [I'm pretty sure the search results i looked through mentioned it being sarah's sister, but meh]
IIRC you should also need to have up to 10 slots unlocked I think.
 

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Scene: First scene in r&d after buidling test room per stephanie request.
Code:
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/game_roles/role_head_researcher.rpy", line 840, in <module>
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'add_unique_on_room_enter_event'

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

Full traceback:
  File "script.rpyc", line 460, in script call
  File "script.rpyc", line 464, in script call
  File "script.rpyc", line 506, in script call
  File "game_roles/role_head_researcher.rpyc", line 840, in script
  File "C:\Users\megac\Downloads\New folder (19)\LabRats2-Reformulate-2024.05-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 1138, in execute
    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
  File "C:\Users\megac\Downloads\New folder (19)\LabRats2-Reformulate-2024.05-pc\renpy\python.py", line 1122, in py_exec_bytecode
    exec(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "game/game_roles/role_head_researcher.rpy", line 840, in <module>
  File "game/people/Ashley/production_assistant_role_definition_ren.py", line 48, in add_mc_serum_intro_action
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'add_unique_on_room_enter_event'

Windows-10-10.0.22631 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.1.3.23091805
Lab Rats 2 - Down to Business 2024.05
Sat May  4 23:28:33 2024
 

test951

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Um, I searched thread for answer, got all the required steps, and months into game, Ashley still has not triggered!

Suggestion trait researched [drug that has +10 suggestion, right? but I only got it to mastery 1.5, does that matter?]
Have Stephanie as your head researcher [she started as such, and I have not changed her position]
Have an open employee spot [sitting on 2 open slots now]
Your business needs to be open for at least 14 days [10000% beyond this]
Then, monday followed all those. [months in game]
For the introduction event you need to have unlocked research tier 1 as well. The exact requirements are
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McLOVINu

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Has it been confirmed?...
that you HAVE to go the blackmail route for cousin to get a fully unlocked stripclub? [i think someone said you can own it, and assign workers to it?]

Or is the non-blackmail path the same result? [owning and assigned workers to stripclub + of course cousin romance]
If not, I sure hope the devs at least have planned to allow both paths lead to that. As I don't like rape, and I don't like blackmail.

Judging by what is in the game already, seems 3 main paths: Obedience, Love, Lust. (with some slightly dipping into ntr or blackmail).
I hope dev plans to eventually have all 3 major paths worked out for the majority of the *Star characters.
 
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Javcore

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Hey All,

So at the start of the game we unlock the perk/trait that boosts us back to full energy once a week.

Is there a list of the other to unlock and how?
 

Harvey Danger

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Love the game, but are there ANY mods or ANYTHING that add more face options? I feel like some of them are just not good.
A graphical overhaul is in the works , largely by (so-called) AI processes. If memory serves, they've got the bodies & faces done and are working to get clothes to match? I think? Haven't paid much attention to it, personally, so my info may be wrong or outdated.
 
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A graphical overhaul is in the works , largely by (so-called) AI processes. If memory serves, they've got the bodies & faces done and are working to get clothes to match? I think? Haven't paid much attention to it, personally, so my info may be wrong or outdated.
I would prefer if the just simplified clothing options and focused on maybe less complex and more polished image generation. Hell, they could even go the Brothel King way and give (maybe separate?) option to source your own images for girls.
The girls as of now are almost exclusively staggeringly ugly and I doubt the new generator will give much better results. If it ever comes.
 

rb813

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Inspired by recent comments about how it's possible to completely miss scripted girls in the game (and how I never unlocked the university in my playthrough because I didn't do Nora for Tier 1, and I got Lily to quit school), I think I'm gonna start a fresh playthrough with the new AiO, and try to go through the full story routes for every named character. I'll document my choices as I go, and then when I'm done, that will hopefully be a walkthrough that others (and my future self) can use to prevent such misses from happening in the future.

If anyone knows of any other comments like this and this, which try to list all the known scripted characters, or any comments that gives notes about how to unlock them all, could you send them my way? The more data I have, the more chance of actually completing this project.
 
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hibakuxa

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Inspired by recent comments about how it's possible to completely miss scripted girls in the game (and how I never unlocked the university in my playthrough because I didn't do Nora for Tier 1, and I got Lily to quit school), I think I'm gonna start a fresh playthrough with the new AiO, and try to go through the full story routes for every named character. I'll document my choices as I go, and then when I'm done, that will hopefully be a walkthrough that others (and my future self) can use to prevent such misses from happening in the future.

If anyone knows of any other comments like this and this, which try to list all the known scripted characters, or any comments that gives notes about how to unlock them all, could you send them my way? The more data I have, the more chance of actually completing this project.
In the main post there is a wiki link, it's basically undone, but I would suggest you to start populating it as you progress through each character story line. That would be helpful for everyone and easily found and not lost in the middle of thousands of commentaries. I will try to help as well.

LINK:
 
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rb813

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In the main post there is a wiki link, it's basically undone, but I would suggest you to start populating it as you progress through each character story line. That would be helpful for everyone and easily found and not lost in the middle of thousands of commentaries. I will try to help as well.

LINK:
Oh, good to know, thanks.
 

Hybris

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I love the update except for how everything is locked down in the release version. I can understand from a development stand point why it was done but it does harm replay potential.
 

rb813

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I love the update except for how everything is locked down in the release version. I can understand from a development stand point why it was done but it does harm replay potential.
Can you elaborate on what was locked down?
 

mutantchicken

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can anyone help me get tier 2 of the personal serum libido enhancement? it says master the refined stimulants trait, but after getting it to level 5, it only unlocked tier 2 energy restoration. i remember in earlier versions there were different traits for different serums, but cannot remember which was for the libido enhancement.
 
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Is there a summary of new features anywhere? The commit list isn't really useful to get a sense of what's new since it's so granular and full of small edits.
 
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Hybris

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Can you elaborate on what was locked down?
In previous releases you had all the files available so you could mod serum traits and the like but now you have to go through an elaborate process to get the development version. I like to tweak my games but between navigating the Git system and figuring out the Renpy SDK it's too much time and effort to be worth it.
 

jackeasy

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Inspired by recent comments about how it's possible to completely miss scripted girls in the game (and how I never unlocked the university in my playthrough because I didn't do Nora for Tier 1, and I got Lily to quit school), I think I'm gonna start a fresh playthrough with the new AiO, and try to go through the full story routes for every named character. I'll document my choices as I go, and then when I'm done, that will hopefully be a walkthrough that others (and my future self) can use to prevent such misses from happening in the future.

If anyone knows of any other comments like this and this, which try to list all the known scripted characters, or any comments that gives notes about how to unlock them all, could you send them my way? The more data I have, the more chance of actually completing this project.

The big hurdles I'm aware of are the university, Ellie, and the Stripclub. The former two are tied to serum progression. The latter unlocks as part of Gabrielle's story, but as some in the thread have pointed out it may require you to be on her blackmailing route. The rest of them seem to advance naturally with time as long as you interact with the characters. From what I saw in the changelog, there's been a pretty sizeable overhaul to the character hint sections so navigating this might be a lot easier now.

The only issues I've ever ran into being locked out of a character's story was with Ellie. According to the discord, her early story events depend on Stephanie, and if you progress Stephanie's relationship too far before advancing your serum tiers, Ellie's taboo breaking events won't trigger. The trap caught me because I like to research all the available serums before advancing the serum tier, and since that took so much extra time, Stephanie was mostly corrupted before Ellie even showed up.

The University unlocks when you ask Stephanie for a way to further advance your research that doesn't involve nanobots. I can't remember the exact numbers, but the choice is very obviously flagged for her requiring a certain corruption/obedience. She contacts your old boss at the university and you both visit her.

The nanobots unlock in a similar fashion but it requires investing capital. Researching/using nanobots in a serum is the trigger for
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jackeasy

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Has it been confirmed?...
that you HAVE to go the blackmail route for cousin to get a fully unlocked stripclub? [i think someone said you can own it, and assign workers to it?]

Or is the non-blackmail path the same result? [owning and assigned workers to stripclub + of course cousin romance]
If not, I sure hope the devs at least have planned to allow both paths lead to that. As I don't like rape, and I don't like blackmail.

Judging by what is in the game already, seems 3 main paths: Obedience, Love, Lust. (with some slightly dipping into ntr or blackmail).
I hope dev plans to eventually have all 3 major paths worked out for the majority of the *Star characters.
Checked the discord. Finding the strip club is part of the blackmail route in that if you check Gabrielle's room after Rebecca asks you to figure out where she goes at night, you can find clues that point you toward the club. I think as long as you don't approach her while she's working in the club, you don't necessarily have to blackmail her.

Alternatively, if you want to avoid all of that entirely, apparently they added the option to explore downtown in the evening and you might be able to stumble onto it.
 
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