LadySmoks

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Not everyone enjoys a great, well thought out story, with myth blurring into reality. It took me a couple of play thrus to catch a lot of little hints from Bk 1 that play out later. Some folks see "harem" and figure it'll be a quick fap by page 4 with the girl of choice. LOM isn't for everyone. But, bitching about it at this point, isn't productive. Droid probably won't be doing a fappers delight rewrite any time soon. It's written, and even NG+ is done, so if not your cup of tea, just move along, nothing for you to see here.
 

Droid Productions

[Love of Magic & Morningstar]
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I spent some time this week setting up a full Chinese localization for Love of Magic book 1. I'll see if there's any bugs to deal with afterwards, and if there's non I'll move on to porting it to Book 2 & Book 3 (and eventually Morningstar).

Free Patreon post for those interested in the behind-the-scenes details:

 

DarkBlake

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Hello Droid and everyone,

I'm struggling with the saves and I didn't find my answer in the previous comments so here I am.

I finished the 3 books back in March 2024, but I don't have an Act16.sav3. Actually I don't have any saves from Act 12 to Act 16, although I find the book 3 ending save in game.
The latest save I find in my "User/.../LocalLow/Droid Productions" is day288.sav2 with all the material from Book 3 including the specific gems like VoidBlast, CircuitBreaker etc.

When I started the Book 1 again for NG+, the option wasn't offered, so I renamed a copy of my day288.sav2 into Act16.sav3.
That triggered the NG+ but without the specific gems of the 3rd book.
I managed to get all the NG+ content of Book 1 and Book 2 except "What was promised" as i imagine that the game doesn't recognise me beating Hel because the VoidBlast gem is missing.

Have you had that situation? Is there a way for me to make the missing original Act16.sav3 appear somehow?

Thanks a lot for your inputs.
 

Droid Productions

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Have you had that situation? Is there a way for me to make the missing original Act16.sav3 appear somehow?
So, the saves SHOULD be there. I've occasionally seen Steam Cloud fuck with things, which is why I store all the saves as backups in /Droid Productions/lombackup, I'd check if act16.sav3 or act16.ng3 is there.
 

DarkBlake

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So, the saves SHOULD be there. I've occasionally seen Steam Cloud fuck with things, which is why I store all the saves as backups in /Droid Productions/lombackup, I'd check if act16.sav3 or act16.ng3 is there.
Thanks a lot for your reply, I checked the LOMBackup and I don't find the save there either. Right now I only find saves from act 1 to 6.ng1
 

Droid Productions

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Thanks a lot for your reply, I checked the LOMBackup and I don't find the save there either. Right now I only find saves from act 1 to 6.ng1
That's.... really weird. Are you on the steam or F95 build?

There's no weird permission issues on the user account (copied from another hdd, or something)?
 

DarkBlake

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That's.... really weird. Are you on the steam or F95 build?

There's no weird permission issues on the user account (copied from another hdd, or something)?
I'm on F95 build.

I don't have permission issues but I copy/pasted my old files that I saved on another HDD because I needed to clean my C:
Maybe it has something to do with it?

What bothers me is that I don't have new saves for the 2nd book that I've just played in NG+. And now that I loaded my save I got this screen :

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Looks like a mess o_O

Maybe I should just delete everything and start from scratch again.
 

Droid Productions

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I don't have permission issues but I copy/pasted my old files that I saved on another HDD because I needed to clean my C:
Maybe it has something to do with it?
I suspect that's the issue; the user/ domains have special permissions, to stop an app from reading sensitive data from other apps. Because it doesn't consider the content to belong 'to' LoM, it may not let me save there.

 

DarkBlake

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I suspect that's the issue; the user/ domains have special permissions, to stop an app from reading sensitive data from other apps. Because it doesn't consider the content to belong 'to' LoM, it may not let me save there.

Thanks for the link, that's a plausible explanation. Eventhough I didn't receive any error message like the one in the forum post you pointed it might have occured in the background.

I'm going to delete everything and give the game a go again later, thanks a lot for taking the time to look into this :)
 
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Thanks for the link, that's a plausible explanation. Eventhough I didn't receive any error message like the one in the forum post you pointed it might have occured in the background.

I'm going to delete everything and give the game a go again later, thanks a lot for taking the time to look into this :)
You wouldn't get an error, since that's wrapped inside a try/catch block, and it can't write the log file.

Try to rename the current one, start a new book 3 run, make sure it's saving correctly, then copy the file you want to continue from, and see if that works.
 
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DarkBlake

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You wouldn't get an error, since that's wrapped inside a try/catch block, and it can't write the log file.

Try to rename the current one, start a new book 3 run, make sure it's saving correctly, then copy the file you want to continue from, and see if that works.
Oh well... I already deleted everything :LOL: but I will try this if I have that issue again.
Anyway for now I don't intend to copy/paste the future files on anotherHDD so logically I will not run into this.
 

notBatman747

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Thanks for the heads up, I'll go see if I can reproduce the bug!

Glad you enjoyed the game, and Book 3's already turning out a lot of fun. After the slightly darker tones of the end of Book 2, Book 3 opens with MC taking the brakes off.
Was looking for info on a bug I encountered and this might be related even if it's old.
I'm playing the latest version "love_of_magic_book2_1_2_7i_win64" and encountered a bug. During warthog quest after defeating an outsider with the help of orks the quest lock up. After outsider is defeated screen shows destroyed warthog rom before but there is no dialogue. Game can't be continued normally.

But since the rest of interface is present I can use "Advance time. Remember time is precious" button and skip to next event. Warthog quest stays in quest log unfinished.
 

notBatman747

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Tried this fight again today and after killing outsider. dialog worked fine and I can continue normally. The only difference is that I used fire gems setup instead of lightning =\

Could constant stuns bork something in dialogue logic?
 

mrbombadil

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Man, I'm sad to say that after slogging through Book 1 and Book 2, the game kept getting gradually more annoying. Now I played the first 5 hours of Book 3 and simply could not go a second more, I had to uninstall. All the little frustrations and the weak story have gotten to me.

The writing for all three books is extremely long-winded, derivative, and honestly sounds like it's written by a teenager. And I wish I had counted the number of times the MC says "crap".

There are far too many things wrong with the story and gameplay to list them all. On a positive note, several of the girls are really nice. At it's best, the relationship between the Chosen and the MC, despite being borderline statutory rape, is somewhat touching. Mostly though I didn't enjoy the writing. And there is just so very much of it. Anyone can write verbosely, writing succinctly is far harder. (Which is one of many reasons I'm no writer.)

After wasting some 50 hours on on this game I'm so frustrated. I genuinely don't understand why Love of Magic has a good average rating. I'm really wondering what people enjoy about it. I'm assuming that people like the story since it's unlikely to be the gameplay or the sex scenes.

Speaking of... this porn game has far too little porn. And the few sex scenes there are include far too little penetration, animations, variety, etc.

The gameplay is a imo lackluster, point-and-click grind. For me it required a walkthrough since it's quite counter intuitive.

By the way, imagine if you could see a count of the total number of mouse clicks you've had to use in this game. It will be staggering.
 

Daemoniac

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Man, I'm sad to say that after slogging through Book 1 and Book 2, the game kept getting gradually more annoying. Now I played the first 5 hours of Book 3 and simply could not go a second more, I had to uninstall. All the little frustrations and the weak story have gotten to me.

The writing for all three books is extremely long-winded, derivative, and honestly sounds like it's written by a teenager. And I wish I had counted the number of times the MC says "crap".

There are far too many things wrong with the story and gameplay to list them all. On a positive note, several of the girls are really nice. At it's best, the relationship between the Chosen and the MC, despite being borderline statutory rape, is somewhat touching. Mostly though I didn't enjoy the writing. And there is just so very much of it. Anyone can write verbosely, writing succinctly is far harder. (Which is one of many reasons I'm no writer.)

After wasting some 50 hours on on this game I'm so frustrated. I genuinely don't understand why Love of Magic has a good average rating. I'm really wondering what people enjoy about it. I'm assuming that people like the story since it's unlikely to be the gameplay or the sex scenes.

Speaking of... this porn game has far too little porn. And the few sex scenes there are include far too little penetration, animations, variety, etc.

The gameplay is a imo lackluster, point-and-click grind. For me it required a walkthrough since it's quite counter intuitive.

By the way, imagine if you could see a count of the total number of mouse clicks you've had to use in this game. It will be staggering.
... You do not understand... And that is all we have to know...
We like good stories, you like fap games... taht is ok, for you... Great, see ya! :D
 
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