Definitely a 1. I tried briefly Lab Rats 1 and didn't care for it all. They are only related through a few characters and even those characters rarely even reference the events that happened in 1. Completely unnecessary to play 1.
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gregers
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I'd go as high as maybe 2? The MC and most of the core cast are the same, but the events of the preceding game are pretty much brushed aside in a sentence of the "whew, that sure was a crazy summer, huh? too bad I've mostly forgotten what happened" variety.
The only event that really acknowledges the previous game is when the MC helps his Mom out with the rent in return for various favours.
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You don't need to but you should want to as it's still an overall better game than the sequel. Much better character models, better story progression, less grindy mechanics. And it's a finished game.
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Dont need to play LR1 at all, unless you want some back story maybe at best, nothing much really, the game also is very different in terms of quality and gameplay. I'd say skip LR1 and go for 2 directly.
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..Well the game is something enterly different.
less scenes and no interactivity dureing the normal gameplay or sex scenes.
The game is an accumulation and repeat of Events, which can only be triggered by RNG.
the game CAN be much more grindy than the second part and you also have a very narrow Timelimit before an Ending based on your success triggers... actually the ending dialogue is the most interactive Event in the Entire game
1. These two games may not as well even be connected and, since I expected this to be more like the 1st, I almost dropped it early on. I'm glad I didn't, though, because as sad as these updates are, I've really enjoyed LR2. That said, I do highly recommend Lab Rats 1 as well because it's fantastic.
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The better character models are debatable and upto taste I'd say, for me it was very generic Honey Select 1 character models you can find in dime and dozen around these areas.
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It doesn't take much to be better than the ugly mannish faces in this. Honey Select is nothing special but it's popular because it works.
You must be joking. It's a much shorter game, first of all, and payoff from actions is much more immediate. The progression isn't caught up in a complicated economic simulator or anything.
No different than usual. If you're accustomed to having easy access to console you may just have gotten used to the mod or used something like the 00dirtycheater.rpy file I found somewhere on these boards and have always used for that purpose
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I agree, I played the game for a while now and in terms of changes made to the game, there was always a wall of text (changelog), while the updated content was sparse. As for example "Nora research traits are no longer impossible to improve the mastery of - instead, they require a significant amount of Clarity to unlock. It is still possible to put the trait into a serum and study it by experimenting on a person." which seems more like a bug fix to me rather than additional content and that was only a single point out of many. The porn part of the game was stale for quite a while and while I appreciate additional dialogues and story expansions, we got to keep in mind that this is not text-based game, plot can't be the only thing that gets improved here. (The fact that 2/3 female faces look like a foot doesn't help either.
)The last two updates were about game mechanics and economics stuff that was IMO not wanted by anyone but the dev.
I stick with the last modded version.
I wish dev would implement more poses for fully naked women (where all the graphics of other clothes for the pose are not needed).
Also, the night club should have more customers than employees.
I stick with the last modded version.
I wish dev would implement more poses for fully naked women (where all the graphics of other clothes for the pose are not needed).
Also, the night club should have more customers than employees.
The "use spoilers" note is because some bug reports are infinitely recursive loops, which scroll the page they're posted on. That requirement isn't to hide bugs like some sort of conspiracy cover-up. It's so nobody who doesn't want to look at a bug report has to scroll through literally dozens of pages of a bug report to get to the next post. It's also not an uncommon requirement, and you may find similar if not identical notes in the OP of other game threads
Any fan bug fixing is done on a purely voluntary basis by players who want to help other players. Nothing posted here is read or used by Vren unless it is cross-posted to the Patreon post comments or PMed to Vren on Patreon, which several of us do. Vren has always expressed nothing but gratitude for help fixing bugs, at least in my experience, and has never said anything like "do it yourself if you want it to work." Vren has always, again in my experience, worked hard to fix any bugs brought to their attention
Any fan bug fixing is done on a purely voluntary basis by players who want to help other players. Nothing posted here is read or used by Vren unless it is cross-posted to the Patreon post comments or PMed to Vren on Patreon, which several of us do. Vren has always expressed nothing but gratitude for help fixing bugs, at least in my experience, and has never said anything like "do it yourself if you want it to work." Vren has always, again in my experience, worked hard to fix any bugs brought to their attention
the Nora research trait thing used to be "impossible" to raise mastery via research because by design the player was supposed to make a serum with the Nora trait and use it on a subject and then observe them to raise mastery - something you can do for all traits btw. This was the original "tutorial" of sorts for that mechanic, so Vren wrote it in the code that research for mastery of the Nora traits would be infeasible. But enough players didn't read the text Steph says during that scene and then complained that research was taking forever - again because they didn't read the fing words on the screen - that Vren changed it to make the game easier. It was working as intended, but people are stupid so he finally dumbed it down to the least common denominator. yaaay...?I agree, I played the game for a while now and in terms of changes made to the game, there was always a wall of text (changelog), while the updated content was sparse. As for example "Nora research traits are no longer impossible to improve the mastery of - instead, they require a significant amount of Clarity to unlock. It is still possible to put the trait into a serum and study it by experimenting on a person." which seems more like a bug fix to me rather than additional content and that was only a single point out of many. The porn part of the game was stale for quite a while and while I appreciate additional dialogues and story expansions, we got to keep in mind that this is not text-based game, plot can't be the only thing that gets improved here. (The fact that 2/3 female faces look like a foot doesn't help either.
Have the characters been updated yet? Been watching this since it first came out (loved LR1), but couldn't stand playing it due to the women looking like bricks (imho). Hoping the characters from LR1 will look the same when this is complete.
The characters from LR1 look better/different because that used Honey Select, LR2 is like Blender or something equally free. I agree they looked better, but definitely generic once you see some other games that also use Honey Select, and so hilariously shiny they look like the characters were shrink-wrapped. But yes, game loops in LR1 much simpler. However, simpler game loops also reduce chances for game growth, can really limit final game product.
LR2 deliberately has a more complex game so that it can also randomize introduction of randomly generated characters, instead of LR1's exact set of 5, AND ONLY 5! Don't get me wrong, I agree that at some point Vren gonna have to add some more characters models (fat and crazy muscular at a minimum, some peeps are into that stuff). But that is kinda scut work, since so many blobs to move around (ie, no skeletal system for character models, as far as I can tell). And yes, the faces do look ridiculous. Maybe not like feet, but barely like faces...
I understand that. I'm not asking for much, just that the models won't appear in any nightmares and the recurring women (at the very least) have the same skeletal structure. I still remember my reaction to seeing Steph again. I was like [wut? ... who? HER?! HOW!?]
I wish the Dev would fix the faces. Most of them are atrocious.