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

[sik43]

I´d stick with the v0.37. The later version just have to many bugs in it. Even though they are both broken in the story/quest department.

I tried updating to current version and its straight up broken.

 

[Draakaap23]

Updating never works. Treat each version as its own thing and put it in its own directory, no merging and/or overwriting, that never works since it is not a mod, it is an entire game! Saves will hardly ever be transferable. Starting anew is the only option.

 

[sik43]

Updating never works. Treat each version as its own thing and put it in its own directory, no merging and/or overwriting, that never works since it is not a mod, it is an entire game! Saves will hardly ever be transferable. Starting anew is the only option.

I was combining both downloads in one directory. is that what I'm doing wrong? Do I need the first download. the market zip?

 

[minfe712]

if you wait maybe 15-20 years stable diffusion might be possible on a phone

But no, it's way too resource intensive. Stable diffusion uses the GPU on your actual computer to generate the images rather than a massive server that something like Sora or Grok uses. Even with a top of the line GPU, each image takes 5+ sec. If some company makes a chatbot that allows free API calls and does a good job of making NSFW images, then mods like this would be possible on a phone

Thank you very much, so I'll give up.

 

[themagiman]

There doesn't look like much commits are made on the project recently. What are the next plans with the project?

 

[JakeyEng]

There doesn't look like much commits are made on the project recently. What are the next plans with the project?

Starbuck (the main writing contributor to the mod) has a big Lily/Jenniffer/Rebecca rewrite that'll break saves coming within the month. E0fkwbno (the latest person to try updating the clothing and model system) was "nearly finished" last month before life problems got in their way.

The Starbuck one is mostly complete to my knowledge, she is just waiting until it is ALL done because it'll break saves and she doesn't want to push multiple commits that each require a restart, I've lost hope for the visual rework tho

 

[AccidentalGadgeteer]

I've lost hope for the visual rework tho

How many people do we have to lose before we consider a battle lost?

 

[ZacariasF100]

I feel sry for our developers.Best Wishs.

 

[Factor96]

How many people do we have to lose before we consider a battle lost?

I feel sry for our developers.Best Wishs.

I mean, at least in this case there's in theory some work left behind someone else can take advantage of. With that said, yeah, attempting to fix the game's graphics has consumed far too many devs.

 

[themagiman]

Starbuck (the main writing contributor to the mod) has a big Lily/Jenniffer/Rebecca rewrite that'll break saves coming within the month. E0fkwbno (the latest person to try updating the clothing and model system) was "nearly finished" last month before life problems got in their way.

The Starbuck one is mostly complete to my knowledge, she is just waiting until it is ALL done because it'll break saves and she doesn't want to push multiple commits that each require a restart, I've lost hope for the visual rework tho

Both updates are long needed. Thanks.

 

[Draakaap23]

I just want the bugs fixed. Every new 'update', only brings extra bugs with it that breaks other stuff. Who is gonna care about a new quest/story-line if nobody can get to it because the game broke way before it is supposed to kick in? Updates only break more stuff at this point and it is becoming pointless this way.
Worrying about saves is really the lowest priority for me.

 

[SMC85]

thats the problem... theres should be a zip file where the exe is. delete renpy and libs folder ... replace it with the ones from zipped file. Dont overwrite, there will be leftover files that will break your game

Alright, thanks.

 

[NVRCK]

Why isn't it all hands on deck for the visual update? The visuals are the worst part of the game

 

[SDN111]

Why isn't it all hands on deck for the visual update? The visuals are the worst part of the game

Because current system takes a stupid amount of time to add new outfits. Trying to rebuild the system from scratch is a massive undertaking.

The first option just adds more fuel to the fire. The second option likely takes a full team to work on the project to even get off of the ground with coordination.

Knowing where the final story goes would tell what scenes need to be rendered. Consistency in quality is something people will complain about so that will likely be one of the last things done if they go to this second option. First option will likely not make visuals much better.

 

[Chriss475]

When trying to run the game I get past the "loading images" initial screen but then the game window stays blank white. Looking through the log I can see "Could not open 'cache/shaders.txt'" under the section titled "Initializing gl2 renderer" . I am using a RX 7900 XT with the latest drivers. Is this a known issue? The unmodded game runs fine.

EDIT: Looks like I fixed the issue myself by holding shift as renpy started and upping target frames to 60 and turning off power conserve.

 

[luostogi]

Is it possible to change your employees' to be standing instead of sitting by default when you go to talk to them? That's the one thing I miss from the base game now that I started playing the mod.

 

[popfan]

getting the following error:
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/people/Myrabelle/role_myrabelle.rpy", line 45, in <module>
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'draw_person'

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

Full traceback:
File "script.rpyc", line 461, in script call
File "script.rpyc", line 470, in script call
File "script.rpyc", line 502, in script call
File "people/Myrabelle/role_myrabelle.rpyc", line 45, in script
File "E:\Tor Browser\Browser\browser\New folder\Lab Rats 2 2025.04\renpy\ast.py", line 834, in execute
renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
File "E:\Tor Browser\Browser\browser\New folder\Lab Rats 2 2025.04\renpy\python.py", line 1184, in py_exec_bytecode
exec(bytecode, globals, locals)
File "game/people/Myrabelle/role_myrabelle.rpy", line 45, in <module>
File "game/major_game_classes/character_related/scene_manager_ren.py", line 139, in add_actor
File "game/major_game_classes/character_related/scene_manager_ren.py", line 380, in draw_scene
File "game/major_game_classes/character_related/scene_manager_ren.py", line 86, in draw_actor
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'draw_person'

Windows-10-10.0.26200 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.3.6.25022803
Lab Rats 2 - Down to Business 2025.04
Mon Nov 3 13:39:17 2025

 

[ZacariasF100]

I just want the bugs fixed. Every new 'update', only brings extra bugs with it that breaks other stuff. Who is gonna care about a new quest/story-line if nobody can get to it because the game broke way before it is supposed to kick in? Updates only break more stuff at this point and it is becoming pointless this way.
Worrying about saves is really the lowest priority for me.

It really makes sense.Most players are not Boss or CEO.They may not be so eagar to see the improvement of Codes and UIs. Adding sth new in a hurry may brings some problems.It is a step-by-step thing to fix the bugs which takes more time.

 

[RogueEagle]

Well, new update seens to have fucked the game for me, i started the game for the first time and it worked normally but once i try to open it the second time it gives a error.

 

[ddCeka]

Is the mod pack version on page 1 broken?

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