Funny, that's the second time I hear about the caress interaction being an easy action, yet it always fails for me, no matter how many times I try it. Charisma is at 32.
Everything fails for me. No sweet or dirty talk and no caress or anything else. She just locks down after two or three tries and is angry for the rest of the day. Not sure how you guys do it 10+ times. I'm on day 16 and this is my build:
I get that I need to sweet talk her and caress her, but I can't get any points when the charm roll or manipulate always fails, always. This happens with any girl.
Everything fails for me. No sweet or dirty talk and no caress or anything else. She just locks down after two or three tries and is angry for the rest of the day. Not sure how you guys do it 10+ times. I'm on day 16 and this is my build:
I get that I need to sweet talk her and caress her, but I can't get any points when the charm roll or manipulate always fails, always. This happens with any girl.
Also, I think the Coilguns are bugged? They deal damage twice. In this example:
He dealt damage twice, first a 56 then a 33, but because I was dead, the damage went to a random ally. Is that supposed to happen? Save file is the one above at Kasey's Park.
So Mae has 112 willpower and Loren is a merc so it is always difficult. I bought Lovisa instead for testing.
Got her, took a shower with her, took her to dinner, did Start Seduction and alternated between Caress and Kissing and it was fine. Did not get a Charm +1 though. Anyway, in this try I only went for oral since Lovisa is a virgin and I generally reserve that part for when my Copulation is high enough that she can orgasm from the experience. Personal choice on my end, you can do whatever. Also, damn I think Grim introduced very new exhaustion mechanics in the alpha (which is why her arousal went to -4 due to low stamina)
So this is for the charm approach at least. There are other approaches but this is the one I use so it is what I have experience in. If you wish to explore other approaches like high Fear + high Respect + low Willpower, I am not versed in a high Fear playstyle so I cannot help there.
Lastly, try to get a gazebo in your backyard and upgrade it once for the pool. It will help.
Also, I think the Coilguns are bugged? They deal twice the damage. In this example:
He dealt damage twice, first a 56 then a 33, but because I was dead, the damage went to a random ally. Is that supposed to happen? Save file is the one above at Kasey's Park.
The 56 is the damage the coilgun is supposed to deal. You are wearing armor with 23 soak value so it reduced the damage you took by 23, meaning you only took 33 damage. That is normal, unless your ally actually took damage and you saw their health went down when the target was your MC.
The 56 is the damage the coilgun is supposed to deal. You are wearing armor with 23 soak value so it reduced the damage you took by 23, meaning you only took 33 damage. That is normal, unless your ally actually took damage and you saw their health went down when the target was your MC.
Everything fails for me. No sweet or dirty talk and no caress or anything else. She just locks down after two or three tries and is angry for the rest of the day. Not sure how you guys do it 10+ times. I'm on day 16 and this is my build:
I get that I need to sweet talk her and caress her, but I can't get any points when the charm roll or manipulate always fails, always. This happens with any girl.
Like I said, what you're going through is why I go for the master slaver start.
But you could always go hit up a bookstore to get your manipulation up or go get some 100k worth of plastic surgery to get your charm up. Some charm to be earned from books as well, but not near enough.
And FYI, the way people are hitting those critical successes on caress is by spamming CTRL+R in the roll screen until they hit that critical success that gives them the charm. I doubt anyone is farming it "honestly", that'd be insane.
And FYI, the way people are hitting those critical successes on caress is by spamming CTRL+R in the roll screen until they hit that critical success that gives them the charm. I doubt anyone is farming it "honestly", that'd be insane.
Does the NPC having the techie trait have to be a follower for the chance to find durasteel while scrapping merchandise to apply? Or can he be a non follower and the chance will still apply? And also, is it cumulative if i have more than 1 npc with the trait?
I was talking about the caress action during seduction. You try it on a 0 arousal girl, but it's unlikely to increase arousal.
Like I said, what you're going through is why I go for the master slaver start.
But you could always go hit up a bookstore to get your manipulation up or go get some 100k worth of plastic surgery to get your charm up. Some charm to be earned from books as well, but not near enough.
And FYI, the way people are hitting those critical successes on caress is by spamming CTRL+R in the roll screen until they hit that critical success that gives them the charm. I doubt anyone is farming it "honestly", that'd be insane.
Everything fails for me. No sweet or dirty talk and no caress or anything else. She just locks down after two or three tries and is angry for the rest of the day. Not sure how you guys do it 10+ times. I'm on day 16 and this is my build:
I get that I need to sweet talk her and caress her, but I can't get any points when the charm roll or manipulate always fails, always. This happens with any girl.
Everything fails for me. No sweet or dirty talk and no caress or anything else. She just locks down after two or three tries and is angry for the rest of the day. Not sure how you guys do it 10+ times. I'm on day 16 and this is my build:
Having taken a look at your save, the girls you have possess a lot of willpower and their affection for you is neutral or worse. Both these factors impose harsh penalties on any seduction actions.
You might be better off waiting until their relation improves at least to amiable -- for Loren, using the option to "spend time together" is easy way to get 2 happiness/1 affection per every 2 hours for free, and you can pretty much spam it.
When you start seduction, in your case "Dirty Talk" can be a better opening, because the skill is slightly higher for your character, it gets additional modifier if the girl has some corruption, and the payoff is 2 arousal points if it works:
This is on the same day your save is from, her affection is still neutral. I took a bath, put some wood in house stove, lit some incense (these give +2 contentment, although not sure if have any impact on the rolls anymore) then spent a few hours with her, and took her to a diner.
And with arousal at 4+ it becomes easier to get caress and the rest of actions going, in a self-reinforcing loop (the next chance bonus is after arousal hits 8+)
Does the NPC having the techie trait have to be a follower for the chance to find durasteel while scrapping merchandise to apply? Or can he be a non follower and the chance will still apply? And also, is it cumulative if i have more than 1 npc with the trait?
I haven't actually tried it on scrapping merchandise, but to get the hacking bonus from Techies, they do need to be followers and having multiple Techies does stack the bonus.
So presumably yes you need them as followers and yes it does stack, I'd say.
If I remember correctly, I already got my Charm up to almost 70 from purely the Caress options in under 100 days. The rest of it was from surgery, careful to make sure I end up at 84 charm so the final surgery gets me to 89 Charm. After that were the books.
It was manipulate that took me around 400+ days to get to 100 which is the maximum value I can gain from repeatable activities (or at least the request sex options). None of it involved books or class.