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Because to call her spinelessness would be a HUUUUUGE understatement.
Well...she should have kicked him to the curb long ago, true but she was trying to be supportive....I guess. Also isnt there a split personality dynamic going on with her anyway? She's super nice all the time because she suppresses a part of herself subconsciously instead of being perfectly melded. Could explain why, Her "other self" would have told that poor excuse for a human to hit the road ages ago.

I want to see Javi completely dragged through the mud before he dies, if it ever comes to that. Manipulative PoS that doesnt care for anyone but himself and to make it worse, doesnt even have guts to do anything himself. It's always somebody else's fault. Always a problem for someone else to fix. Worthless.

On a meta level, I know he was written to be exactly that on purpose, an amalgamation of the worst traits a man, or really anyone could have, but damn if it isnt still so easy to hate him lol.
 
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Abhai

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Hey everyone, the final public dev log before release. Enjoy
hmmm, not sure who to trust - you, or that dude on patreon stating "here will probably be one more dev log before release, so I'll see you all then.":HideThePain:
 
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Tomy75

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Episode 4 "Gold and Steel"

  • 20,041 words
  • 646 renders (excl. animations)
  • 11 animations
  • 9 music tracks
  • 17 sound effects
  • Major h-scenes with Safiya, Luciana, and Enzo's fan girl from episode 2
  • Minor h-scenes with Aquila and Faustina
The fan girl really? I would have never guessed because in my eyes she's a totally uninteresting dumb slut and a waste of renders.
I can't wait for Episode 4 though, the VN is getting better and better!
 

OWSam000

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The fan girl really? I would have never guessed because in my eyes she's a totally uninteresting dumb slut and a waste of renders.
I can't wait for Episode 4 though, the VN is getting better and better!
who is the fan girl?
 

Darkmetal

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...and see to its downfall.
You will decide the fate of New Antioch.
Is the choice to decide to bring down New Antioch still on the cards? It seems to me, looking briefly at the code at what's being tracked, seeing as how 3 of the main LIs on the banner are members of the Royal family, how Gaius is being molded into this fatherly mentor figure etc. that we're heading in only one direction and that is being New Antioch's savior - from both the Cicero/Jamie Lannister wannabe faction (I'd put money on Enzo killing Gaius at some stage and we're gonna have to avenge him too) and on the virus front.

Regardless of my 90% suspicion that Dante is the one who killed his father (10% its the Ferrymen) and will have to be dealt with, thus making MC's original mission bogus, this does not change the fact that you are a son (even a dug out of a pre-collapse pod one) of New Riften :p, not Antioch. A duped patsy who has a change of heart on learning the truth...is rather corny. Can we actively choose to work against the city on our own volition regardless? (Start our own little faction with Safiya, Rocco, the fishmonger, Titus, beer-belly guy and the blue team even :LOL:).

Being good and evil has got nothing to do with it. To use the same Roman analogy used by this game, the way I see it, if you're a son of Germania, Gaul, Britannia, Hispania etc. that have been ruthlessly exploited by Rome for centuries (they even use the same excuse "the advancement of civilization"); like Boudicca, like Arminius, like Hannibal son of Hamilcar, it's your duty to see Rome burn if you are able. (Keep the doctor and the techie though, we still want to cure the virus under a new MC led civilization :LOL:).

It's still cool if we can't though, am enjoying the game and looking forward to the next chapters.
 

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Is the choice to decide to bring down New Antioch still on the cards? It seems to me, looking briefly at the code at what's being tracked, seeing as how 3 of the main LIs on the banner are members of the Royal family, how Gaius is being molded into this fatherly mentor figure etc. that we're heading in only one direction and that is being New Antioch's savior - from both the Cicero/Jamie Lannister wannabe faction (I'd put money on Enzo killing Gaius at some stage and we're gonna have to avenge him too) and on the virus front.

Regardless of my 90% suspicion that Dante is the one who killed his father (10% its the Ferrymen) and will have to be dealt with, thus making MC's original mission bogus, this does not change the fact that you are a son (even a dug out of a pre-collapse pod one) of New Riften :p, not Antioch. A duped patsy who has a change of heart on learning the truth...is rather corny. Can we actively choose to work against the city on our own volition regardless? (Start our own little faction with Safiya, Rocco, the fishmonger, Titus, beer-belly guy and the blue team even :LOL:).

Being good and evil has got nothing to do with it. To use the same Roman analogy used by this game, the way I see it, if you're a son of Germania, Gaul, Britannia, Hispania etc. that have been ruthlessly exploited by Rome for centuries (they even use the same excuse "the advancement of civilization"); like Boudicca, like Arminius, like Hannibal son of Hamilcar, it's your duty to see Rome burn if you are able. (Keep the doctor and the techie though, we still want to cure the virus under a new MC led civilization :LOL:).

It's still cool if we can't though, am enjoying the game and looking forward to the next chapters.
Trying not to spoil too much :giggle:, but I'm planning 3 major endings based on whose side you take:
  • New Antioch
  • Aqua Palma
  • Super secret mystery faction
The Empire will thrive in one, fall in one, and be reshaped in one. I'd also like to have FONV-style ending slides for all of the player's other choices (e.g., what they decide to do with the virus). And you hit the nail on the head about it not being about good and evil. All of the factions have their pros and cons.

Ep 4 will have the first big choice in terms of which side you're on, and there will be more.
 

Tumai

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ruthlessly exploited by "Rome"
Not to mention the Imperatrix ordered a hit on the MC and even later dismissing it with her variant of the "it's nothing personal, it was just business" line (it was the right call at the time).

I'm looking to one day returning the favor; "nothing personal, just finishing the business of The War of Ruins" :p .
 

Darkmetal

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The fan girl really? I would have never guessed because in my eyes she's a totally uninteresting dumb slut and a waste of renders.
Don't remember her.
Her:
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Besides "just" giving us an H-Scene, from a writing perspective, I suspect the dev may intend for it to serve a couple of purposes in service of the main story:

1) Disseminate a rep for the MC's genuine 100% old-school pre-collapse schong TM beyond the upper crust and into the city gossip mill in general, and

2) To show Enzo gradually losing his fans to the new upstart hotstuff in town; "The aXeMan Champioooon of the Arena!!!" (thus progressing Enzo's jealousy/rivalry/antagonistic arc), and what better way to rub it in than for the MC to pound all vestiges of Enzo from his no.1 fan's memory.
 

OWSam000

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Her:
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Besides "just" giving us an H-Scene, from a writing perspective, I suspect the dev may intend for it to serve a couple of purposes in service of the main story:

1) Disseminate a rep for the MC's genuine 100% old-school pre-collapse schong TM beyond the upper crust and into the city gossip mill in general, and

2) To show Enzo gradually losing his fans to the new upstart hotstuff in town; "The aXeMan Champioooon of the Arena!!!" (thus progressing Enzo's jealousy/rivalry/antagonistic arc), and what better way to rub it in than for the MC to pound all vestiges of Enzo from his no.1 fan's memory.
Damn. Even you showed me her photo, I still don't have a bit memory of her.:ROFLMAO:
The fan girl definitely serve as a plot device to leading the conflict between MC and Enzo.
 
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