This has actually been noticed by some users. If the player makes an MC-like run (no nanobots chats, full censorship, no sharespace etc), then the dialogue and story feels a bit lacking in some parts. For some, the story and dialogue should still make full sense even w/o the nanobot chats.
Yeah, it's obvious, but in fact I don't say to remove nanobots, but to change their context in the story, just remove everything in the story about Nanobots and use same feature as an option for the user. The thing I was talking is not the nanobot itself, but how the story use them, that's a thing I think should be improved
Speaking of the leaked chats and their cost initially the cost was 100, it has been reduced to 75 and Nosy is considering to lower the price again since there are more chats incoming...
For AskItShareIt, i asked Nosy, you will be able to reply to what it is posted there and influence other characters when necessary for the story.
The tracking app is indeed a bit useless and only show you when she is lying about her location (if you think to clic on it of course).
For nanobots Nosy stated from the begining that most of the features they give are for the player only. The protagonist don't get them. And for the few things he go they are different from what the player get. That's why he intend to implement a true MC pov in the future to avoid confusion. Just to mention you can desactivate nanobot chat in the settings.
For NTS, right now there is no NTS path in game actually. It will be implemented in the next few updates. You can only push Liz toward a direction that will get you on this future path. There is two entry point on this path one from NTR the other from Happy. In the last update, at the beach you can have Liz to ask another guy to apply sunscreen on her. Her attitude is quite different onthe path you are on. On happy she quickly get uncomfortable while on NTR she thinks of getting fucked by the guy.
Those are very good news and let me hope a lot about the future. As I said, I like the game and I notice a lot of improvements and I just hope that problems get fixed in future and what you say confirm he's working on that, so I couldn't be happier.
About hacked chat, I think that how actually work (also reducing price) is not the best way, I would suggest a different app, maybe an unlock of bunch of apps or like buy wich phone you want to hack, but it's good that he's working on leveling it.
About AskItShareIt, now it got a lot more sense! That's a great idea, I can't wait to see it.
About tracking, Yeah, it's obvious but how much is this feature giving something to the user? I think like nothing, at least with nanobot who tell you everything you want to know. If she's cheating you with her boss and she say she's at home while she is at his home, you can understand it by nanobots right before tracking. Also for him as a development, I think it's not working as it is rn, I would think about removing it or change it's use (how? I don't know)
In the end, about Nanobots, as I told, the issue is on the story also because MC have to approve or not the use of nanobots, he ask to receive them, Nathan install the app in MC's phone, MC help Nathan to put nanobots in Liz, so the fact that he don't read them is pretty bad. As I told before, without this piece of story and just a text from Noizy who ask you if you want to read them extra story, that would be good. Knowing he's thinking about something like this, again, is really a good news, I think it will make this game better
For NTS path I'm in it then, I'm glad that I did not lost something
Is it not already possible to do a True MC POV anyway? There's probably no need for the dev to do anything additional.
- Toggle off nanobot chats.
- Don't follow Mattinator and Exhibitionist Sharespaces.
As far as the story is concerned, nothing about the MC suggests that he follows the Mattinator and Exhibitionist Sharespaces. At least, the Sluts in the City Sharespace makes sense for the MC to follow because that's how he relates with Sam. On the other hand, the leaked secret chats that can be purchased can still be there, since the MC is prompted by Richard to buy those.
As for the nanobot chats: the dev could have a toggle to turn them into *beep* messages and have a beeping sound since that is what the MC actually sees and hears according to the story. However, this would probably get annoying from the player/gameplay perspective to see and hear the constant beeps.
One way to think about this is that there's probably 2 related but different issues from the gameplay and story perspectives.
1. "The story doesn't make sense in a True MC POV. The MC wouldn't chat like this with Liz."
2. "Without the nanobot chats, the story is really lacking and feels incomplete for the player."
The idealized version of this game is that (a) the story should be "complete" from the player perspective and (b) the MC's dialogue and interaction with Liz should make sense without the nanobot chats.
Or, to use the language of Triple A gaming:
- The full game should have a complete story and an MC-GF chat interaction that makes sense. There is nothing missing from the story.
- The DLC of the game adds the nanobot chats and the Mattinator and Exhibitionist Sharepaces. These things do not fill in the holes of an incomplete story, but should be an additional perspective that "adds" to an already "complete" story.
I would agree with you IF THE GAME WAS COMPLETED, but we are still at v0.20.5, we are far from the final version and Noizy could (and probably will) change A LOT of things about it. He could (and probably will reading this forum) change the story to fix those things, so no problem
If this was always gonna be implemented anyway, then why even have the nanobot chats in the 1st place? Why not just have the game change perspectives so that the player can see what's happening to Liz or on her phone?
NeToRi Phone: Bull Simulator is probably one of the few phone games from the POV of the bull. The player makes the choices as the bull. As for an FMC pov NTR game, this is probably tricky to do.
IDK, but probably did not ALWAYS want to do it, maybe he was thinking at a totally different story, what matters is what will be in the final version
