VN Ren'Py New Antioch [R0.5] [TheRedMyst]

[fh321]

Wow. Loved-lovee-loved this game! It was one of only AVNs i have played where i felt like i could immerse myself and play 'as' the MC. Really incredible writing and work!

I have a bunch of things I don't understand about the plot, though, so if anyone has the time to answer my questions i'd be grateful!

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Spoiler: Things I didn't get

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What a great game. Very glad i gave it a go! Can't wait for the next update!

 

[Mommysbuttslut]

- is the whole story happening as a simulation? Like, i feel like there are moments with Milena and Luciana where it's the future, but after those scenes it is right back to Classical Roman era.

Did you just skip through the game without actually reading anything or something?

- how did Safiya get out of prison? I left her there to rot, didn't speak up for her, amd them a few scenes later she's hanging out with the crew. What the heck?!?

Did you just skip through the game without actually reading anything or something?

- is there a point to the class selection? I picked 'Warlock', but every fight was either with fists or a sword.

Did you just skip through the game without actually reading anything or something?

- are there any more women to be added?i haven't got any lewd scenes (because again - playing as 'myself' and no way any of those women would have anything to do with me lol). I'd like to see some more diversity in LIs, as all the ones in the game feel similar.

Did you just skip through this thread without actually reading anything or something? Okay, that last one is a joke. There's one more LI to come

 

[fh321]

Did you just skip through the game without actually reading anything or something?

Did you just skip through the game without actually reading anything or something?

Did you just skip through the game without actually reading anything or something?

Did you just skip through this thread without actually reading anything or something? Okay, that last one is a joke. There's one more LI to come

Thanks for the reply! Good to know there's one more.

 

[fh321]

So.... any actual answers?

 

[Skep-tiker]

So.... any actual answers?

Play again, pay more attention.

 

[fh321]

Play again, pay more attention.

Or someone could spend 90 seconds giving me an answer and sparing everyone else following this game from getting notifications when i keep asking.... because i'll keep asking.

 

[Skep-tiker]

Or someone could spend 90 seconds giving me an answer and sparing everyone else following this game from getting notifications when i keep asking.... because i'll keep asking.

Faster solution in that case

 

[MagicMan753]

Or someone could spend 90 seconds giving me an answer and sparing everyone else following this game from getting notifications when i keep asking.... because i'll keep asking.

You can asking, we can just put you on the ignore list, you clearly didn't read anything if you are asking those questions, so after you actually play the game and have a legit question after, we would be happy to answer but until than, no point.

 

[fh321]

You can asking, we can just put you on the ignore list, you clearly didn't read anything if you are asking those questions, so after you actually play the game and have a legit question after, we would be happy to answer but until than, no point.

I played everything available. Didn't understand certain things. You all spent more time explaining why you're not answering me than it would take to answer. I mean, i know the standard-issue response on the internet is to be a douchebag, but it's not like i came in hostile. Don't get why everyone's acting so offended.

 

[Skep-tiker]

I played everything available. Didn't understand certain things. You all spent more time explaining why you're not answering me than it would take to answer. I mean, i know the standard-issue response on the internet is to be a douchebag, but it's not like i came in hostile. Don't get why everyone's acting so offended.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

ahem, I meant

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

 

[TigerWolfe]

Faster solution in that case
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Already got it covered.

 

[Raziel_8]

I played everything available. Didn't understand certain things. You all spent more time explaining why you're not answering me than it would take to answer. I mean, i know the standard-issue response on the internet is to be a douchebag, but it's not like i came in hostile. Don't get why everyone's acting so offended.

Dude, what do expect when you ask questions like

- is the whole story happening as a simulation? Like, i feel like there are moments with Milena and Luciana where it's the future, but after those scenes it is right back to Classical Roman era.

It's impossible to miss the answer to that even if you read only half the game....like that is a, if not 'the', core point of the whole story. If you manage to miss that i can only recommend to read it again...

 

[Skep-tiker]

Dude, what do expect when you ask questions like

It's impossible to miss the answer to that even if you read only half the game....like that is a, if not 'the', core point of the whole story. If you manage to miss that i can only recommend to read it again...

At least one of the questions is literally answered in the OP

 

[PaxHadrian17]

Wow. Loved-lovee-loved this game! It was one of only AVNs i have played where i felt like i could immerse myself and play 'as' the MC. Really incredible writing and work!

I have a bunch of things I don't understand about the plot, though, so if anyone has the time to answer my questions i'd be grateful!

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Spoiler: Things I didn't get

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What a great game. Very glad i gave it a go! Can't wait for the next update!

The story takes place in the future, on the bones of a more advanced human civilization that fell into ruin.

I talked to the Empress about Safiya, as I promised when she gave me help for the final battle. The queen honored my request and set her free.

I did not play the version where you left her imprisoned but, given the story after the MC won his freedom, I surmise that Safiya persuaded the queen to give her a chance to prove herself - specifics unknown since it was not my chosen path.

I don't know that there has been significant variation in the story based on class selection to date; I did not try multiple classes so ...

And yes, as already covered - there will be one more LI.

As to why you are not seeing any lewd scenes - that is likely choice driven since I have enjoyed a significant number of lewd scenes so far, including the MC domination scene with Luciana and her BF - which was Awesome!!!

Cheers!!

 

[fh321]

The story takes place in the future, on the bones of a more advanced human civilization that fell into ruin.

I talked to the Empress about Safiya, as I promised when she gave me help for the final battle. The queen honored my request and set her free.

I did not play the version where you left her imprisoned but, given the story after the MC won his freedom, I surmise that Safiya persuaded the queen to give her a chance to prove herself - specifics unknown since it was not my chosen path.

I don't know that there has been significant variation in the story based on class selection to date; I did not try multiple classes so ...

And yes, as already covered - there will be one more LI.

As to why you are not seeing any lewd scenes - that is likely choice driven since I have enjoyed a significant number of lewd scenes so far, including the MC domination scene with Luciana and her BF - which was Awesome!!!

Cheers!!

Yea, I knew my choices were the reason for no lewd scenes, and that's the result i expected.

Wait - so it's the future (fine, dystopia, okay) then WHY - if they are technologically advanced enough to have super advanced equipment like Milena and Luciana use - are swords and spears still the dominant weaponry? That doesn't make sense.. it's like if in a post-apocalyptic world, people all had flying cars but didn't know how to make fire!

I liked it better when i thought it was a simulation lol.

 

[gregers]

Yea, I knew my choices were the reason for no lewd scenes, and that's the result i expected.

Wait - so it's the future (fine, dystopia, okay) then WHY - if they are technologically advanced enough to have super advanced equipment like Milena and Luciana use - are swords and spears still the dominant weaponry? That doesn't make sense.. it's like if in a post-apocalyptic world, people all had flying cars but didn't know how to make fire!

I liked it better when i thought it was a simulation lol.

The ruling class in the corrupt empire is hoarding technology, keeping it from everyone else. Most people live a quasi-mediaeval existence, with old tech concentrated in the hands of a privileged few.

It might not really work if you think about it critically for more than a few minutes, but that's the premise.

Other than that:

Safiya cut a deal with Faustina, she tells the MC. There are minor line variations for if the MC had secured her freedom or not.

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And the class selection is not real. It describes what class the MC prefers to play as in tabletop RPG's, not his own actual skills and abilities.

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The choice is referenced later but has no mechanical effects.

 

[fh321]

Yea, RE: Safiya, I had assumed (based on how the MC had to reject her a half dozen times) that the dev simply wanted to shoehorn her into the plot, but that does make the choice to leave her to die in the cell kind of meaningless, given she is freed about 90 seconds later.

Still a fantastic story and one of the best AVNs I've come across... but not quite as good as my first impression

 

[Pgsurprise]

Yea, RE: Safiya, I had assumed (based on how the MC had to reject her a half dozen times) that the dev simply wanted to shoehorn her into the plot, but that does make the choice to leave her to die in the cell kind of meaningless, given she is freed about 90 seconds later.

Still a fantastic story and one of the best AVNs I've come across... but not quite as good as my first impression

I asked to have her free, but the Empress said that she had impressed her. She didn't say it was because I asked to free her. She's a plot character, so unlikely to stay in jail. Probably doesn't like you much.

Isn't one of the tags dystopian setting. The state of the world is described throughout the game. There was a war and a plague, so the society collapsed. Half the dialog is about (spoiler) you being the cure and the resistance not thinking the world is ready for another war?

 

[Raziel_8]

Isn't one of the tags dystopian setting. The state of the world is described throughout the game. There was a war and a plague, so the society collapsed. Half the dialog is about (spoiler) you being the cure and the resistance not thinking the world is ready for another war?

Yes...it's impossible to miss...if you read, also it's in the op
'' New Antioch is an adult visual novel set in a post-apocalyptic world, millenia after an ancient, civilisation-ending conflict. Mankind has regressed into another feudal age and, amid cutthroat politics, war without end, and a mysterious reproductive crisis, is on the long road to extinction. ''

 

[Pgsurprise]

Yes...it's impossible to miss...if you read, also it's in the op
'' New Antioch is an adult visual novel set in a post-apocalyptic world, millenia after an ancient, civilisation-ending conflict. Mankind has regressed into another feudal age and, amid cutthroat politics, war without end, and a mysterious reproductive crisis, is on the long road to extinction. ''

Fair point. It's been a while since I read the OP. I was just tired of reading the same stuff and hoped it would change the thread back to something interesting.