VN Ren'Py New Antioch [R0.6] [TheRedMyst]

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Dev Log dated June 22, 2025:




Hey everyone,
First things first. I'd like to really thank all of you guys for your continued support of New Antioch, and welcome all of our new members. I sincerely hope you enjoy the ride.
I finished all of the scene plans this week, which wasn't easy. Episode 7 is shaping up to be one of (if not) the longest, and quite a lot will happen in it. I made a start on rendering a few days ago, and completed one of the shorter scenes (1 of 14 planned so far).
Episode 7 will conclude the expedition for Subject X, and see the group's return to New Antioch. There's going to be a family outing full of fun activities (incl. another M&M session), a visit from a foreign ruler, and a number of story-critical choices for you to make. You'll learn much more about the Collapse; its origin, causes, and effects.
I've been looking forward to working on this episode from the very start. Like I said, it'll be a big one. Thanks all, I'll see you in the dev log next week.
Cheers,
TheRedMyst

Cheers!!

 

[Hawka1O7]

It would be REALLY lame if you're locked in from that. It would basically either force a replay for MANY people, or they'd just drop the game. Like me. I'd probably just drop the game. Unless like the game ends in the next update, since I have a save before this one, for now. But like, 50 updates from now? Yeah, I'm dropping the game instead of restarting, if I'm locked in.

Creator said they were only gonna do like 10 chapters I think, it's not gonna be that long honestly.

 

[Rehwyn]

Creator said they were only gonna do like 10 chapters I think, it's not gonna be that long honestly.

Yeah, just saw this as well, though sounds like they might combine 9 and 10 into one big Chapter. Honestly was a bit surprised we were that far through, but we do feel like we're approaching a bit of a narrative climax. So it makes sense.

 

[LonerPrime]

Honestly, I did take his hand. He might be a coward, but he did get angry at his father on MC's behalf. So much so that he ended up killing him unwittingly. Granted that doesn't absolve him, but after seeing the fleshrobots created by the Queen, I'm not really sure whose side I'm on anymore.

I like neither of them, but I don't hate them either. And in this case, I'd rather keep a door open to him, just in case that one gesture of brotherhood, pulls him back from a rash decision. He is already struggling as a leader, but if left alone in the company of Joesf where he feels that he has no one else on his side, it's just going to end in disaster for damn sure.

Of-course all of this is just hope against hope. Only time will tell how it will play out.

 

[Pixillin']

Honestly, I did take his hand. He might be a coward, but he did get angry at his father on MC's behalf. So much so that he ended up killing him unwittingly. Granted that doesn't absolve him, but after seeing the fleshrobots created by the Queen, I'm not really sure whose side I'm on anymore.

I like neither of them, but I don't hate them either. And in this case, I'd rather keep a door open to him, just in case that one gesture of brotherhood, pulls him back from a rash decision. He is already struggling as a leader, but if left alone in the company of Joesf where he feels that he has no one else on his side, it's just going to end in disaster for damn sure.

Of-course all of this is just hope against hope. Only time will tell how it will play out.

For me, it's not just killing his father and framing MC. First, I have zero confidence in him as a leader to begin with. He has an inferiority complex, but in his case he's far more inferior than he thinks he is. At any rate if his rebellion succeeds he won't be the one in charge and who knows who will be. Also, he's chosen to ally himself with bandits and hasn't explained any of his thinking there.

I'm also not on the Empresses side (or her daughters) - the Fleshbot thing is evil, especially since they are conscious. They are fully aware of what is going on and they are standing in a warehouse ... waiting. They're all going to be insane. It also means that when/if they ever do get out they will be able to see familiar people and places but can't interact with them. They can see their friends and family but can't talk to them - they may even be asked to kill them, and won't have any choice in the matter. So the royals are pure evil, or unknowingly serve evil.

So I'm definitely opposed to both sides, but I don't know where that leaves me.

 

[UnoriginalUserName]

They are fully aware of what is going on and they are standing in a warehouse ... waiting. They're all going to be insane.

Hey, you never know, maybe they all really, really enjoy standing still in a dark warehouse.

But yeah, the number of "likeable" people in the game is pretty fucking slim.

Aquila is, in my opinion, not as loyal to her adoptive "mother" (ha) as some folks think, especially once she finds out some of the shit that's actually going on. Her loyalty to Luci might prove to be problematic, though, but she isn't aware of the techno-zombie-apocolypse she's brewing up, and that sort of thing tends to change your mind about a lot of stuff. She also appears to be unaware of just how much of a psychopath Enzo is. Plus, while a lot of people dislike her for her initial deception of the MC, let's remember she could have murdered him very easily (in fact she was supposed to) but chose not to.

Safiya is another one that's likely "alright". She's willing to sacrifice herself for the greater good, so to speak, by potentially heading back home to face execution, and so far as I'm aware she hasn't done anything that could potentially harm the MC.

Dahlia is likely to be good. We don't know enough about her yet, though.

Lastly we have Gaius. He seems to be a pragmatic and relatively honorable guy, but he's letting an awful lot of nasty shit slide when he really shouldn't, and Faustina has a hold over him by keeping his cancerous husband alive, so his loyalties are unreliable at best.

Oh, and the ginger lesbian bartender chick from back home and Rocco. They're cool.

But so far everyone else is pretty much a piece of shit.

 

[LonerPrime]

But so far everyone else is pretty much a piece of shit.

Don't forget the dog!!! That mutt is even worse. May the gods of New Antioch forgive me, but in the words of MC- he is a

Spoiler: I mean the sas of this beasty.. HE IS NOT WRONG! BUT STILL!

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[Pixillin']

Hey, you never know, maybe they all really, really enjoy standing still in a dark warehouse.

But yeah, the number of "likeable" people in the game is pretty fucking slim.

Aquila is, in my opinion, not as loyal to her adoptive "mother" (ha) as some folks think, especially once she finds out some of the shit that's actually going on. Her loyalty to Luci might prove to be problematic, though, but she isn't aware of the techno-zombie-apocolypse she's brewing up, and that sort of thing tends to change you mind about a lot of stuff. She also appears to be unaware of just how much of a psychopath Enzo is. Plus, while a lot of people dislike her for her initial deception of the MC, let's remember she could have murdered him very easily (in fact she was supposed to) but chose not to.

Safiya is another one that's likely "alright". She's willing to sacrifice herself for the greater good, so to speak, by potentially heading back home to face execution, and so far as I'm aware she hasn't done anything that could potentially harm the MC.

Dahlia is likely to be good. We don't know enough about her yet, though.

Lastly we have Gaius. He seems to be a pragmatic and relatively honorable guy, but he's letting an awful lot of nasty shit slide when he really shouldn't, and Faustina has a hold over him by keeping his cancerous husband alive, so his loyalties are unreliable at best.

Oh, and the ginger lesbian bartender chick from back home and Rocco. They're cool.

But so far everyone else is pretty much a piece of shit.

Yeah, so far I'm sticking with Safiya - She's the only (significant) character I have confidence in. I don't doubt her loyalty to 'the greater good' or to MC. Gaius seems ok, but he's also old and I don't expect him to survive for long. He was limping for a week or so after the fight with the spiders. He just doesn't have much left in the tank. The bartender from back home is nice enough but a) she isn't going to be much help as an ally and b) if you're going to start shit I think she'd rather you kept her name out of your mouth and just let her be. If MC was smart, he and Safiya would vanish before it's time to return to the capital.

 

[LonerPrime]

One thing about Gaius bugs me. He is very close to the Queen and the first heir Luci. Given how much they trust him, there is a very good chance he is aware about the fleshbot army.

But given how pretty much he is under their thumb, I've this sneaky suspicion he has convinced himself, that the bots's existence is for the greater good. Like how this will save so many other lives and that science is a force for good in the right hands, no matter what the method employed. Especially given his husband is alive because of these advances.

This is also the reason I made one choice amendment at the end of the second last update. When I saw the bot army, I reloaded an old save from the ship when I was talking with Gaius, and amended my answer to his question about "What do you think of New Antioch". Initially, I supported it as a good thing, but after seeing the end, I changed the answer to a more neutral "I'm not sure what I think about it." You actually loose favor with Gaius if you don't think positively about the city, which makes me think that either he has been kept in the dark about the bots or he knows about them and still thinks the city is in the right.

Whatever the truth, one of two things might happen. Gaius will either be made aware of the truth and will suffer a crisis of faith and duty pretty much becoming emotionally paralyzed. Orrrrr he will challenge MC to take a side and will stand in his way to defend the royalty, which will inevitably end up with MC killing a good friend.

 

[Pixillin']

One thing about Gaius bugs me. He is very close to the Queen and the first heir Luci. Given how much they trust him, there is a very good chance he is aware about the fleshbot army.

But given how pretty much he is under their thumb, I've this sneaky suspicion he has convinced himself, that the bots's existence is for the greater good. Like how this will save so many other lives and that science is a force for good in the right hands, no matter what the method employed. Especially given his husband is alive because of these advances.

This is also the reason I made one choice amendment at the end of the second last update. When I saw the bot army, I reloaded an old save from the ship when I was talking with Gaius, and amended my answer to his question about "What do you think of New Antioch". Initially, I supported it as a good thing, but after seeing the end, I changed the answer to a more neutral "I'm not sure what I think about it." You actually loose favor with Gaius if you don't think positively about the city, which makes me think that either he has been kept in the dark about the bots or he knows about them and still thinks the city is in the right.

Whatever the truth, one of two things might happen. Gaius will either be made aware of the truth and will suffer a crisis of faith and duty pretty much becoming emotionally paralyzed. Orrrrr he will challenge MC to take a side and will stand in his way to defend the royalty, which will inevitably end up with MC killing a good friend.

I honestly didn't think Gaius would make it to the end of the expedition.

 

[erkper]

One thing about Gaius bugs me. He is very close to the Queen and the first heir Luci. Given how much they trust him, there is a very good chance he is aware about the fleshbot army.

But given how pretty much he is under their thumb, I've this sneaky suspicion he has convinced himself, that the bots's existence is for the greater good. Like how this will save so many other lives and that science is a force for good in the right hands, no matter what the method employed. Especially given his husband is alive because of these advances.

This is also the reason I made one choice amendment at the end of the second last update. When I saw the bot army, I reloaded an old save from the ship when I was talking with Gaius, and amended my answer to his question about "What do you think of New Antioch". Initially, I supported it as a good thing, but after seeing the end, I changed the answer to a more neutral "I'm not sure what I think about it." You actually loose favor with Gaius if you don't think positively about the city, which makes me think that either he has been kept in the dark about the bots or he knows about them and still thinks the city is in the right.

Whatever the truth, one of two things might happen. Gaius will either be made aware of the truth and will suffer a crisis of faith and duty pretty much becoming emotionally paralyzed. Orrrrr he will challenge MC to take a side and will stand in his way to defend the royalty, which will inevitably end up with MC killing a good friend.

I chose "necessary evil" to describe New Antioch, which pleased Gaius and yet leaves me room that when the MC becomes cognizant of the cyborg army, the evil can shift to outweigh the necessary part. For the same reason I have one save keeping Luci on as an LI but honestly even in that playthrough I doubt her repentance will be strong or believable enough to keep her off my "walking dead" list along with her mother and almost the entire current government.

 

[UnoriginalUserName]

Yeah, so far I'm sticking with Safiya - She's the only (significant) character I have confidence in. I don't doubt her loyalty to 'the greater good' or to MC. Gaius seems ok, but he's also old and I don't expect him to survive for long. He was limping for a week or so after the fight with the spiders. He just doesn't have much left in the tank. The bartender from back home is nice enough but a) she isn't going to be much help as an ally and b) if you're going to start shit I think she'd rather you kept her name out of your mouth and just let her be. If MC was smart, he and Safiya would vanish before it's time to return to the capital.

One thing about Gaius bugs me. He is very close to the Queen and the first heir Luci. Given how much they trust him, there is a very good chance he is aware about the fleshbot army.

But given how pretty much he is under their thumb, I've this sneaky suspicion he has convinced himself, that the bots's existence is for the greater good. Like how this will save so many other lives and that science is a force for good in the right hands, no matter what the method employed. Especially given his husband is alive because of these advances.

This is also the reason I made one choice amendment at the end of the second last update. When I saw the bot army, I reloaded an old save from the ship when I was talking with Gaius, and amended my answer to his question about "What do you think of New Antioch". Initially, I supported it as a good thing, but after seeing the end, I changed the answer to a more neutral "I'm not sure what I think about it." You actually loose favor with Gaius if you don't think positively about the city, which makes me think that either he has been kept in the dark about the bots or he knows about them and still thinks the city is in the right.

Whatever the truth, one of two things might happen. Gaius will either be made aware of the truth and will suffer a crisis of faith and duty pretty much becoming emotionally paralyzed. Orrrrr he will challenge MC to take a side and will stand in his way to defend the royalty, which will inevitably end up with MC killing a good friend.

I'm not sure about Gaius knowing, but it wouldn't surprise me. But this post did remind me of something I noticed during my last playthrough. You know who IS aware of the terminators? Safiya. She mentions it off-handedly and I just remembered it after reading LonerPrime's post. So she does have that mark against her.

 

[Pixillin']

I'm not sure about Gaius knowing, but it wouldn't surprise me. But this post did remind me of something I noticed during my last playthrough. You know who IS aware of the terminators? Safiya. She mentions it off-handedly and I just remembered it after reading LonerPrime's post. So she does have that mark against her.

Meh. She may know about them but it's not like she was involved in any way in creating them. She's an outsider to the city as well and MC had to beg to keep them from executing her. I'm not really concerned about her knowing.

 

[UnoriginalUserName]

Meh. She may know about them but it's not like she was involved in any way in creating them. She's an outsider to the city as well and MC had to beg to keep them from executing her. I'm not really concerned about her knowing.

True, but you'd think she might considering mentioning it to the MC in a kind of "Oh, by the way, there's a genocide factory full of killer robots run by Luci and the queen in the north quarter." way.

 

[NoDeEvA]

Well, finally played the last update. Sex scenes with Luci are unbeatable so far, that's enough of a reason to keep her as a LI. Nice development overall, world is vast though, would love to expand on it but that will probably deviate the story from the same plot, but honestly no idea what is the dev's plan, so guess I'll just wait and enjoy the next one.

 

[Zhileps]

guys can anyone share spoiler pics of what's new in R0.6 to see it's worth it?

I'm in the Middle East and more or less involved in war, my network is working on a limited basis so I can't take any risks

 

[DevinHesi]

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Hey everyone,

First things first. I'd like to really thank all of you guys for your continued support of New Antioch, and welcome all of our new members. I sincerely hope you enjoy the ride.

I finished all of the scene plans this week, which wasn't easy. Episode 7 is shaping up to be one of (if not) the longest, and quite a lot will happen in it. I made a start on rendering a few days ago, and completed one of the shorter scenes (1 of 14 planned so far).

Episode 7 will conclude the expedition for Subject X, and see the group's return to New Antioch. There's going to be a family outing full of fun activities (incl. another M&M session), a visit from a foreign ruler, and a number of story-critical choices for you to make. You'll learn much more about the Collapse; its origin, causes, and effects.

I've been looking forward to working on this episode from the very start. Like I said, it'll be a big one. Thanks all, I'll see you in the dev log next week.

Cheers,

TheRedMyst

 

[ALBERTANO]

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Hi, Could someone please upload what the dev posted on Patreon? The seven realms

 

[faldeck]

guys can anyone share spoiler pics of what's new in R0.6 to see it's worth it?

I'm in the Middle East and more or less involved in war, my network is working on a limited basis so I can't take any risks

It is worth it, my friend

 

[Wolfram99]

There is potentially another reference to muffin
All hail the new MC.

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