VN Ren'Py Lust Odyssey [v0.36.1] [Xperiment]

[WazawaiDa]

Two questions:
1) Does the tone of the email change anything? That creep can't be recruited, can he?
2) Is it actually possible to unlock the other destination on the galaxy map yet? If so, how?

1) It took me a minute to remember the context of what you are asking. If you are talking about the scene where Katari sends an email to his former employer, I don't think there are currently any consequences for wording it rudely or politely, maybe you get friendship points with Katari depending on what you pick?

2) I can't really tell at what point in the game you are, I'm assuming at the very beginning? If that's the case, you will first need to finish all of the quests Galiano gives you before you can take off and leave Arka.

 

[nackedsnake]

A cheat menu and a gallery are available in a version of the game released to higher Patreon tiers.

Imo, the gallery isn't very worth it, there are still very few CGs in the game right now and they are all part of scenes that are repeatable, while the sprite gallery only shows off some of the sprites. However, the cheat menu is pretty useful, you can give yourself more combat points with it, adjust relationship points with other characters, adjust respect in each location, and add materials to your inventory. It probably isn't very necessary for a regular playthrough, I feel like most battle encounters are rather simple to get through (outside of the Warlord, of course). But it would still be nice if it was included in the regular version of the game, like with Lustful Desires.

That's the thing tho.
LD includes the cheats to solve the flaws in it's game mechanics (The potion brewing is a neat concept but a mess in LD) >> you can treat it as a Quality of Life feature for players.

While in Lust Odyssey, "Selling the Cheats" is in the mindset of game development.

• The absurd amount of numbers required for certain things are to incentivize you to buy their "cheat version";
• The overly complicated Relationship system, you literally can only gain 1 point per interaction - although there's no point gates for scenes as of now - the dev can easily included those in.
• You can not easily flip the respect once you commit into one direction, which is totally unnecessary and another manufactured inconvenience
• It's a regular monetisation practice in mobile games - create problems/inconvenience intentionally, then sell the solutions.

TLDR: There's no way LO's dev will give out cheat version for free, they intended to sell them.

 

[Dept of Public Worms]

I can't really tell at what point in the game you are, I'm assuming at the very beginning? If that's the case, you will first need to finish all of the quests Galiano gives you before you can take off and leave Arka.

Oh, I've defeated the warlord in melee combat and by seducing him, I've seen the people waiting for the Great Birthing, I've taken Garth to the comet, I've taken a bribe to the police for Garth, I've done all sorts of stuff and I still have a question mark on a black background for the cauliflower planet. Do I need some ridiculously high relationship score with Elon to get there or is it simply not in the game yet?

 

[WazawaiDa]

Oh, I've defeated the warlord in melee combat and by seducing him, I've seen the people waiting for the Great Birthing, I've taken Garth to the comet, I've taken a bribe to the police for Garth, I've done all sorts of stuff and I still have a question mark on a black background for the cauliflower planet. Do I need some ridiculously high relationship score with Elon to get there or is it simply not in the game yet?

Yeah, you've basically reached the end of the game at the current stage in development. You can't really go to Egon's planet yet. Right now, the development is focusing on creating the 2nd level of Akra, since it won the Patreon poll, but other areas currently in development are a magic world, a space city with new alien races, and Earth.

That's the thing tho.
LD includes the cheats to solve the flaws in it's game mechanics (The potion brewing is a neat concept but a mess in LD) >> you can treat it as a Quality of Life feature for players.

While in Lust Odyssey, "Selling the Cheats" is in the mindset of game development.

• The absurd amount of numbers required for certain things are to incentivize you to buy their "cheat version";
• The overly complicated Relationship system, you literally can only gain 1 point per interaction - although there's no point gates for scenes as of now - the dev can easily included those in.
• You can not easily flip the respect once you commit into one direction, which is totally unnecessary and another manufactured inconvenience
• It's a regular monetisation practice in mobile games - create problems/inconvenience intentionally, then sell the solutions.

TLDR: There's no way LO's dev will give out cheat version for free, they intended to sell them.

I mean, sure, the cheat menus between the games serve different functions right now, and in LO's case it's a reward for patrons, so it has a lot of overpowered features. But I don't think it's impossible that some of its features may trickle down into the base game eventually, in a form of QoL options. The base game does offer, for example, a way to lock crew respect in place.

I also wouldn't say that the game is particularly unfair without the cheats, I've never really felt like I had to use the cheat menu or couldn't progress without it. The one thing it does do is save the player's time, which only really matters in LO's case because it is a porn game, and so a lot of players will inevitably want to skip past the rpg stuff to get to the content they want to see. But I don't think that it's, like, scummy for a dev to charge $4 for cheats that break the whole game when the base game is already free to play with all of the same content anyway.

 

[nackedsnake]

I mean, sure, the cheat menus between the games serve different functions right now, and in LO's case it's a reward for patrons, so it has a lot of overpowered features. But I don't think it's impossible that some of its features may trickle down into the base game eventually, in a form of QoL options. The base game does offer, for example, a way to lock crew respect in place.

I also wouldn't say that the game is particularly unfair without the cheats, I've never really felt like I had to use the cheat menu or couldn't progress without it. The one thing it does do is save the player's time, which only really matters in LO's case because it is a porn game, and so a lot of players will inevitably want to skip past the rpg stuff to get to the content they want to see. But I don't think that it's, like, scummy for a dev to charge $4 for cheats that break the whole game when the base game is already free to play with all of the same content anyway.

It's not they can't, but they won't.

Am Not sure what you are trying to defend here. Are you denying that LO's dev designed what on my list, so they can sell the cheat better?
I'm solely calling out that practice. Not against LO's dev.
There's nothing wrong when the dev choose to better monetise their game, as long as it doesn't affect the actually gameplay. And even when it does (like LO and Tavern of Spear), if the game itself is good, people can overlook that.
It's a delicate balance when indie dev's going this direction.

And mind you there's no shortage of devs go too far into anti-player direction (like Hornstown, ToS)

 

[jcbchris]

It's not they can't, but they won't.

Am Not sure what you are trying to defend here. Are you denying that LO's dev designed what on my list, so they can sell the cheat better?
I'm solely calling out that practice. Not against LO's dev.
There's nothing wrong when the dev choose to better monetise their game, as long as it doesn't affect the actually gameplay. And even when it does (like LO and Tavern of Spear), if the game itself is good, people can overlook that.
It's a delicate balance when indie dev's going this direction.

And mind you there's no shortage of devs go too far into anti-player direction (like Hornstown, ToS)

I agree, I rather walk the long path rather than stuck behind paywall. At least I got something full than pricey piecemeal.

 

[Icekingchernobog]

Honestly, wake me up when they progress Bradley's romance.

 

[WazawaiDa]

It's not they can't, but they won't.

Am Not sure what you are trying to defend here. Are you denying that LO's dev designed what on my list, so they can sell the cheat better?
I'm solely calling out that practice. Not against LO's dev.
There's nothing wrong when the dev choose to better monetise their game, as long as it doesn't affect the actually gameplay. And even when it does (like LO and Tavern of Spear), if the game itself is good, people can overlook that.
It's a delicate balance when indie dev's going this direction.

And mind you there's no shortage of devs go too far into anti-player direction (like Hornstown, ToS)

I'm not really defending anything, I just disagree with your conclusion that the game was designed with charging for cheats in mind. The cheats were only added half a year or so into the development, and a lot of the features like adjusting relationship points weren't added until much later.

I also just don't that the game has complicated or inconvenient mechanics. The relationship system, for example, isn't complicated at all, you just get or lose points based on dialogue choices or certain actions, which is something literally any VN does. Some of the RPG mechanics were poorly designed at the beginning, like the high exp requirements and slow character progression, but they were adjusted with future updates, which I don't think the creator would have done if they wanted to push for cheats. Iirc, some of the material requirements, like the scrap needed to repair the ship, were also lowered with time. I will give you, though, that it's time consuming and not very convenient to change the respect level (probably, haven't really needed to do it before, but I feel like you could maybe adjust it by working part time at the club or repeating certain dialogues?).

Anyway, I don't disagree with you that this practice exists, it is definitely the case with some games. Hornstown is a good example, paying players have a vastly different experience than f2p ones. I just don't think this applies to LO, but we can simply agree to disagree here.

 

[kkkkknuc]

I have a situation or bug where my MC is still stuck in chastity even after Rylan or Asmodeo agree to release her. Has anyone encountered this issue? It's messed up quite a bit of character interactions afterwards if I'm always stuck in a chastity belt.

 

[strangecircle]

I haven't played this game in almost a year. How worth it is it playing this game now? Even if it means playing from the beginning. Is there a detailed guide? I don't want to miss anything like I might have last time. The art has also improved a lot.

 

[Qwarter]

That's the thing tho.
LD includes the cheats to solve the flaws in it's game mechanics (The potion brewing is a neat concept but a mess in LD) >> you can treat it as a Quality of Life feature for players.

While in Lust Odyssey, "Selling the Cheats" is in the mindset of game development.

• The absurd amount of numbers required for certain things are to incentivize you to buy their "cheat version";
• The overly complicated Relationship system, you literally can only gain 1 point per interaction - although there's no point gates for scenes as of now - the dev can easily included those in.
• You can not easily flip the respect once you commit into one direction, which is totally unnecessary and another manufactured inconvenience
• It's a regular monetisation practice in mobile games - create problems/inconvenience intentionally, then sell the solutions.

TLDR: There's no way LO's dev will give out cheat version for free, they intended to sell them.

well, they can't stop anyone from using a save editor

 

[Garnser]

well, they can't stop anyone from using a save editor

Unless they inscript save files or hide variables, so save editor won't work anymore.

 

[Pervtron3000]

This is fucking incredible. Perfect sub-slut powerbottom fantasy with an actually good storyline and enables a pacifist "can't we all just get along?" playstyle. Which slots in perfectly with how I'm playing it. A coy "I don't know what I'm doing lol" character who puts way too much trust into everyone.

Its a strange feeling because irl ofc its utterly foolish to put too much blind faith into people, but wouldn't it be nice if you could? This game is so nice that you can approach things from a perspective of it not being a lost cause.

And the universe can all come together and agree that using your cum toilet body like its a disposable napkin is the correct way to settle it's differences.

 

[Icekingchernobog]

This is fucking incredible. Perfect sub-slut powerbottom fantasy with an actually good storyline and enables a pacifist "can't we all just get along?" playstyle. Which slots in perfectly with how I'm playing it. A coy "I don't know what I'm doing lol" character who puts way too much trust into everyone.

Its a strange feeling because irl ofc its utterly foolish to put too much blind faith into people, but wouldn't it be nice if you could? This game is so nice that you can approach things from a perspective of it not being a lost cause.

And the universe can all come together and agree that using your cum toilet body like its a disposable napkin is the correct way to settle it's differences.

It makes it fun when you have to be mediator to your crew cause they want to tear each other's heads off. I think the only ones who are at least the most drama free is phoenix, samuel, and kitani.

 

[alexxxx000]

It makes it fun when you have to be mediator to your crew cause they want to tear each other's heads off. I think the only ones who are at least the most drama free is phoenix, samuel, and kitani.

Katari is such a sweetheart, but he also destroys us during sex scenes
I want one immediately

 

[Pervtron3000]

Error when asking Garth about the forecasts: View attachment 2748037

I was able to fix this with the following two lines, there were syntax errors on the and condition lines


I mean this is basically the end of the content anyways afaik but hey, you can get flavor text XD

 

[Aeriku]

Changelog v 0.19

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[CherryFry]

New update is out!

 

[Icekingchernobog]

Katari is such a sweetheart, but he also destroys us during sex scenes
I want one immediately

Kitari is definitely a sweet heart. More of a bradley fan though.

 

[Fallow Milk]

New update v.019

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