HTML Orphan [Ch.3.2] [Exalted Text]

[Nevart]

This is the one (and only) sequence in the game right now where you can actually die... quite brutally.

When I first published Chapter 2, I had one player in the Discord tell me that it took multiple playthroughs before he actually survived the arena. However, choosing the sling and then ending up with the spear/polearm shouldn't happen... Maybe you found a bug? I'm curious now; first I've heard of this happening.

The choices in the arena are linked to your stats and weapon selection, which synergize with your strategy/approach.

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Alright, so here is what I can give you:

As I already mentioned, my stats were 1 Might and 1 Mind. At the time, my MC was at 100% Knight personality. I went from choosing the sling to -> I need to help him! -> Stay loose and ready to run./Stay tight and guarded. There is no difference between staying loose or guarded, each time I end up with this:


I quickly went through the sequence again in a new game just in case, this time choosing the gladius, much to the same result.

The last choice I took was to have Gant flank it... and that pretty much ended the fight right there. A clean win, every time.

...I don't believe this to be the case but, surely that 1 point in Mind didn't cause riskier/more dangerous choices/circumstances to simply not appear, right?

I've put a lot of effort into the story, the UI and interface, the images... less than 5% of that effort is currently gated behind the patreon edition. But you're free to have your opinion, and I hope that you can come to respect mine. I want everyone to be able to experience the UNCUT edition, like the game is meant to be. I also need to sustain myself and make a living. I would really love to be able to do this full-time and pump out 30k+ words on a biweekly basis. Orphan will hit 1 million very quickly if we can get to that point. My patrons are currently the ones helping me potentially reach that goal.

Absolutely. Though I could've sworn that there was one more blocked scene at the bath-nevermind, my mistake. Indeed, the goblin maid scene is the only gated one. And only at the end too.

Still, I stand by what I said as well. I really do believe that ending a current build on a high note instead of a cockblock does make a world of a difference. And will endear you more to future supporters as well.

But enough of that. Again, all the best.

I assume that once the next expansion for the Ascender/Mage route gets released we will be able to visit the bath again without any problems? Or was that spot meant as the actual last stop/save-point before the next update? Either way, strange choice to include it in this way.

Soon, my man. The Academy/Ascender is the Mage route.

It's just a slowburn, after all.

While that is nice to hear, that still leaves... far too many immediate questions and concerns untouched. (From the MC's POV.) The wizard gave him a time window of three days, but as soon as he is taken away to Highrock he doesn't seem to concern himself with that reality at all. No questions or doubts in his mind about what he should ultimately do/what path he should take. Other than the brief appearance of Mearesdes in the tavern where he meets Leoris... this plot hook just seems conveniently ignored and forgotten. Hence my initial impression of the non-existent, but planned, Mage-Path.

I didn't record enough variables and wanted players to be able to continue their old saves.

However, I DID have variables for if you fucked her... And those variables impact the way that you interact with her.

Ah, okay. Then she is just naturally that... filthy? Because I made sure not to have sex with her on our first meeting, kind knight in shining armor that I am, and still she speaks in fluent innuendo.

 

[Muff Diver]

Enjoying the game but this locked patreon crap almost makes me want to get back in the game to share the patreon only to everyone here, which is how we did it when F95Zone started up.

 

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I quickly went through the sequence again in a new game just in case, this time choosing the gladius, much to the same result.

The last choice I took was to have Gant flank it... and that pretty much ended the fight right there. A clean win, every time.

I'm certain that I've found the issue. With the way that it was written, it seemed to be defaulting to the polearm branch of that passage regardless of your actual weapon variable. 1 Might and 1 Mind is a really good combo for this fight w/ the polearm, hence your constant wins.

Really thought that it was working at some point in the distant past... So I'm wondering if a Twine SugarCube update broke it, or whether it has always been fucked up. That's a really glaring bug and I'm surprised you're the first person to point it out.

I have some sick sword/sling passages written that I was quite proud of.

BTW, good luck with that stat combo and the sling. You can test it out when I push this bugfix if you'd like to experience your first death in Orphan.

I assume that once the next expansion for the Ascender/Mage route gets released we will be able to visit the bath again without any problems? Or was that spot meant as the actual last stop/save-point before the next update? Either way, strange choice to include it in this way.

2 locked scenes total. The goblin maid & the raven-haired courtesan for the Gladiator. Yeah, that locked choice at the end of the bath scene was a teaser for something that will be available in the next expansion, where the goblin scene left off.

I wanted to structure it differently but I have to try and be adaptable to get these updates out in a sustainable way. That applies to how I wrote the goblin maid scene too... Originally, I was thinking about locking it off entirely for the Knight so I wouldn't have to write multiple variations if you didn't engage with her in the alleys.

But that seemed like a lot of extra work for a rather minor difference, while also gatekeeping content from players, most of whom don't want to play through multiple times.

I agree that the lack of mage/wizard follow-up in the story is a bit jarring; I've had other players bring that to my attention too. I didn't mean for it to feel like a forgotten story beat, but that's entirely my fault.

The "3 days" part is something that I may just redact and rewrite. There's a lot that I'd like to rewrite and improve, but that's a constant struggle... Continuing forward and expanding the story seems to have more "bang for its buck" than constantly going back and redoing parts of the game.

Even the arena fight, I wanted to be far more dynamic when I first started working on it. But I think it serves its purpose as the first introduction to the arena, and I'd rather save that energy for the next foray into the colosseum.

As I always tell my patrons--
Onward.

 

[Quickpawmaud]

I am getting a bunch of bugs in the Stavrick fight. Just errors not letting me choose certain options so I can't win the fight. I can only tie.

 

[Exalted Text]

I am getting a bunch of bugs in the Stavrick fight. Just errors not letting me choose certain options so I can't win the fight. I can only tie.

Can't load your save file (corrupted), so it's hard to say. Seeing the errors might give me a better idea.

Is your save from a prior version, like earlier than Chapter 3.0? That could be the culprit.

Feel free to join the Discord and post in #bugs; a lot easier to troubleshoot there.

 

[Quickpawmaud]

Can't load your save file (corrupted), so it's hard to say. Seeing the errors might give me a better idea.

Is your save from a prior version, like earlier than Chapter 3.0? That could be the culprit.

Feel free to join the Discord and post in #bugs; a lot easier to troubleshoot there.

Just downloaded the game for the first time to play so that is not it lol. Save was like an hour or two old. Here is an example of one of the errors. This is choosing the head kick option. The fight is full of these.
This is beat him down with final surge, it won't even let you continue after that one there are others but I think think those two examples are enough to show

 

[Avernesh]

Just passing by to say that I gave this game a try and I enjoyed it very much. Currently I only played through the Academy route which I liked a lot... I must say though that seeing the goblin thief there, even if I loved her first scene, felt kind of forced. I would support if I could but I guess there is no clapping goblin cheeks this time.

I don't think I will be able to survive for long on the other path with 2 mind, though, we will see!

 

[Wregax]

I'm really enjoying the story so far!

Noticed wrong boldening of text in this part:

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Bold is switched between what she's saying and doing here.

 

[David__14]

I'm curious as to what the parameters are for who ends up buying the MC on the gladiator route, I'm mostly interested in novia and sibylla routes, but most of the time livia ends up outbiding everyone. if I don't pick a fight I can get novia to buy him, and I think its kinda funny that alessia tells him to pick a fight with the implication that she'll buy him if he does, but livia ends up buying him if he does pick a fight. his personality is mostly cowboy with some knight in him, told novia he'd want to be remembered for something true

 

[JLP603]

played the game for the first time. really like what I played so far hope this game gets completed in the way the dev intends. Hope writing so many branching paths will be doable for the devs.

bug report when I got novia to buy the PC there was an error saying the game couldnt find the <else> tag. also around before or during when the orc girl gets auctioned there was an error message for trying to play the BGM

 

[Exalted Text]

For the uploaded version of Chapter 3.2-- the 6 archetypes don't apply their stats correctly.

So if you download from f95, you need to 'defy the scale'/create your own custom character.
Otherwise you can play the free bugfixed version on itch.io without this issue.

Definitely more bugs to find, like the ones JLP603 posted about.
But this Chapter should hopefully fix quite a few that have been mentioned here, too!

Thanks for the interest and support, guys. The 8 positive reviews on here makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
Nothing that some self-flagellation and ritual torture can't remedy.

 

[Ka1tzer]

I got interested in the premise and CYOA style. It all seems very interesting, but I gotta ask - is the game mostly text or there is art to go along with it?

Not to be reductive of it all since the art that is shown in the previews is frankly great, but are there plentifull scenes in the game? I don't mean just sex scenes with visuals to match (though they are pretty important), but also most scenarios that would benefit from seeing the text described? Say, gladitorial fights?

Basically, are there enough visual elements present to complement the text? Cause man, if there is, I'm sinking my teeth into this hardcore, it looks like this game, overall, might be right up my alley. And if the visuals present in the previews are also abundant, than I'll be kicking myself for not trying the game sooner.

 

[frogbert]

whoever packed this, please in the future put the files inside a folder like Orphan_3.2/index.html inside the zip like everyone else does so it doesn't barf the files all over my hd, thanks.

 

[PickerLewd]

The 8 positive reviews on here makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

There are only eight reviews because writing them is hard work and people are lazy . I would place more value on the 67 likes and 5 hearts on the original post.

I stopped playing because the Countesses' Party arc was incomplete, but from what I've read here, the game has even reached the part where the protagonist is sold at auction, so I must continue .

 

[testyv1]

Enjoying the game but this locked patreon crap almost makes me want to get back in the game to share the patreon only to everyone here, which is how we did it when F95Zone started up.

100% Agree! this site allowing devs to release their neutered games instead of users sharing full versions like it used to be makes me a bit nauseous to be honest. They don't make pirates like they used to, cheers mate...

 

[yemred]

Has anyone had a flickering issue with joiplay? I click on new game and when the text comes there's a huge flickering in the back as if the screen is shaking

 

[Exalted Text]

100% Agree! this site allowing devs to release their neutered games instead of users sharing full versions like it used to be makes me a bit nauseous to be honest. They don't make pirates like they used to, cheers mate...

Sorry, but in all actuality, totally not sorry. Orphan isn't for you.

Gonna have to ask Tyrone to rail your Mom and Sister in a different game. Shoo now. Begone, filthy peasant.

 

[Ka1tzer]

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Sorry, but in all actuality, totally not sorry. Orphan isn't for you.

Gonna have to ask Tyrone to rail your Mom and Sister in a different game. Shoo now. Begone, filthy peasant.

B.A.S.E.D!

 

[Sacred_Lamb]

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Sorry, but in all actuality, totally not sorry. Orphan isn't for you.

Gonna have to ask Tyrone to rail your Mom and Sister in a different game. Shoo now. Begone, filthy peasant.

Big Oof, gtfo here cuck

 

[Meabe37]

100% Agree! this site allowing devs to release their neutered games instead of users sharing full versions like it used to be makes me a bit nauseous to be honest. They don't make pirates like they used to, cheers mate...

Devs can share their free public version if they want to but it doesn't prevent people to share the uncut one too :]

Like this for example:

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