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That mod makes the black difficulty significantly harder by giving the Hippians a much larger army to work with on top of drastically buffing the siege weapon enemy type causing repeated attacks to reduce forts and towers to rubble(that was all that was changed, the siege weapons still move slow and die easy). To put it bluntly, I had to fall back to previous forts when the damage got to be too much and when they would capture the now destroyed fort I would counter-attack to quickly defeat them. One of my heroines actually got legitimately NTRed before I could build up the strength to attack though.

I had plans to release another mod "Usurp The King", which would allow you to romance every single girl in one playthrough. If you romanced them all, impregnated them all, were the only one to impregnate them, and beat the game it would have an end scene showing Ares romancing all the girls one by one with text explaining that after the king's death the kingdoms all unified to form the Ares Empire, ruled by the queens and their children. Ares's sister becomes the archbishop, she also can't have gotten fucked.

I started modding other games and working on my own games and largely forgot about this.
I will play the fuck out of that if you do make the mod.
 

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You need to aquire every slime possible. They solo most enemies if you upgrade them. Had one solo a place with 10 enemies in it and not get touched.
Those f-ing puddings have way too high of an HP pool.
Takes like 3 or more to beat 'em.

I think I joined the wrong faction :KEK:
No matter what game it is, Mages are f-ing broken!!!
 
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Those f-ing puddings have way too high of an HP pool.
Takes like 3 or more to beat 'em.

I think I joined the wrong faction :KEK:
No matter what game it is, Mages are f-ing broken!!!
I personally went for knights and found them easy to beat cause I did around 1k to their health which made me think they were weak at first till I used them.
 

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I will play the fuck out of that if you do make the mod.
I mean if you want to do all the bug testing work I don't really have a problem with releasing some versions of that mod in like a day. The issue I have is it takes a REALLY long time with many of them having some crazy steps to romance these girls. So during the bug testing part of making these mods I'm just testing all these pages and pages of dialogue that make me bored.

The coding part is always the easy part, the pain comes when it's time for bug testing.
 
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I mean if you want to do all the bug testing work I don't really have a problem with releasing some versions of that mod in like a day. The issue I have is it takes a REALLY long time with many of them having some crazy steps to romance these girls. So during the bug testing part of making these mods I'm just testing all these pages and pages of dialogue that make me bored.

The coding part is always the easy part, the pain comes when it's time for bug testing.
My man teach me how and I'll play test.
 
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My man teach me how and I'll play test.
You'd just play the game and report if something goes wrong. For instance in this case you would test if literally all of them are romance able. You would need to save your game before attempting each romance though as the way the game engine works it saves actual script execution into your save file so once you've done something you can't just change the code and it be different. You need to reload your save to the point before you did the thing.
 
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You'd just play the game and report if something goes wrong. For instance in this case you would test if literally all of them are romance able. You would need to save your game before attempting each romance though as the way the game engine works it saves actual script execution into your save file so once you've done something you can't just change the code and it be different. You need to reload your save to the point before you did the thing.
I'd be fine with that, would using cheats possibly mess with it or no? Since it would be easier to do it with them I'm wondering.
Also by "attempt" do you mean activating the first scene from talking? Or just the choice part where you say "I'll marry you"
 
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I'd be fine with that, would using cheats possibly mess with it or no? Since it would be easier to do it with them I'm wondering.
Also by "attempt" do you mean activating the first scene from talking? Or just the choice part where you say "I'll marry you"
Cheats wouldn't mess up anything as they are separate from the main code where the mod is applied. There is some nasty curve balls though. For example you may need an entire new game if they initialized which girls are romance able on game start, which is something I know they do and would be the first thing I fix... It is still potentially a problem though if I missed something.

These devs didn't do us any favors with how they coded this game, rather than needing to edit 1 function to change all instances they instead opted for the "Literally copy/paste code into each function independently" so for example there is, as far as I know, at least 3 separate checks to romance Cynthia AT ALL(One on game start, you must play as Aura. A second one checking that you completed the initial prologue. A third one right before it allows you past like step 7 or something). Then an additional 4 separate checks to actually be able to have sex with her(as you know she must be virgin-queen until someone else takes it and all of sudden it's fine :rolleyes:).
 
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Cheats wouldn't mess up anything as they are separate from the main code where the mod is applied. There is some nasty curve balls though. For example you may need an entire new game if they initialized which girls are romance able on game start, which is something I know they do and would be the first thing I fix... It is still potentially a problem though if I missed something.

These devs didn't do us any favors with how they coded this game, rather than needing to edit 1 function to change all instances they instead opted for the "Literally copy/paste code into each function independently" so for example there is, as far as I know, at least 3 separate checks to romance Cynthia AT ALL(One on game start, you must play as Aura. A second one checking that you completed the initial prologue. A third one right before it allows you past like step 7 or something). Then an additional 4 separate checks to actually be able to have sex with her(as you know she must be virgin-queen until someone else takes it and all of sudden it's fine :rolleyes:).
I'd be find just playing without cheats I'm fairly competent with the gameplay and if need be I can lower the difficulty.
 

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I wonder if restarting would count as a new save.
Like, when you start a new game but keep the stats from your previous run.
Restarting does count as a new game, the way restart works is it initializes a new game and THEN it loads all the relevant new game+ data from your previous run into that newly initialized game. It's not actually a continuation of the original save.
 
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Restarting does count as a new game, the way restart works is it initializes a new game and THEN it loads all the relevant new game+ data from your previous run into that newly initialized game. It's not actually a continuation of the original save.
Oh, so I've just been starting from scratch for no reason lol
 

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Oh, so I've just been starting from scratch for no reason lol
I'm not sure I understand the message you're giving me here. The game engine they are working with probably can't do a new game+ natively so they opted to just start a new game and then override the things that would matter in a new game+. I should also mention I'm not defending them, they half-assed the f*** out of new game+ in numerous ways. Perhaps the most glaring is putting such a tiny cap on health and mana so you end up with a level 200 character who literally isn't gaining any stats from these levels. Also the best new game+ games actually make this new game interesting to play with secrets, new enemies/items, or even whole new story lines.

If you'd like me to open up the "romance all the girls route" for ONLY new game+ that is doable.
 

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I'm also willing to lend a hand in any way I can. This is by far one of my favourite games but I think it could benefit from some tune-ups like what's been discussed thus far. I could play test if need be.
Alright, the first update will be this Wednesday. This update will:
  1. Remove the requirement of being in specific kingdoms to romance the girls(no longer do you need to be in Aura to romance Cynthia or Hestia for Beatrice.)
  2. Apply this removal for both the normal game initialization AND the new game+ one, they do not use the same code.
  3. Remove the numerous checks in the game blocking you from romancing more than one girl.
The second update will be the following Wednesday. This update will:
  1. Allow Ares to have sex with the girls more than one time, most likely through talk interaction if no one has a reason I shouldn't do that.
  2. Allow Ares to have sex with Cynthia for her first time.
The third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh updates to completely finish everything will be always Wednesdays but we'll see how things run regarding bugs that may need fixing in terms of actual ETAs.
Third = Ares can get the girls pregnant.
Fourth = There is new dialogue for children conceived with Ares.
Fifth = After the king's death, the girls conspire with Ares to seize the kingdom.
Sixth(very hard and tedious) = The ending of the game is modified with a scene of every girl you have romanced.
Seventh = The ending changes based on whether they had a child with Ares already, for each girl.
 
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Alright, the first update will be this Wednesday. This update will:
  1. Remove the requirement of being in specific kingdoms to romance the girls(no longer do you need to be in Aura to romance Cynthia or Hestia for Beatrice.)
  2. Apply this removal for both the normal game initialization AND the new game+ one, they do not use the same code.
  3. Remove the numerous checks in the game blocking you from romancing more than one girl.
The second update will be the following Wednesday. This update will:
  1. Allow Ares to have sex with the girls more than one time, most likely through talk interaction if no one has a reason I shouldn't do that.
  2. Allow Ares to have sex with Cynthia for her first time.
The third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh updates to completely finish everything will be always Wednesdays but we'll see how things run regarding bugs that may need fixing in terms of actual ETAs.
Third = Ares can get the girls pregnant.
Fourth = There is new dialogue for children conceived with Ares.
Fifth = After the king's death, the girls conspire with Ares to seize the kingdom.
Sixth(very hard and tedious) = The ending of the game is modified with a scene of every girl you have romanced.
Seventh = The ending changes based on whether they had a child with Ares already, for each girl.
This sounds glorious, I'll be more than happy to play-test for the foreseeable future.
 

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I'm not sure I understand the message you're giving me here.
Nah, I've just been doing this thing where I open a new save a lot when I didn't have to. Don't worry about it lmao.
Fifth = After the king's death, the girls conspire with Ares to seize the kingdom.
So, this takes place during the Demon War Era of things then? After the Hippian stuff? Cause for some reason my income decreases after the King dies and I'm not sure if that's just me.
 
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