Haamster

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It feels weird to ask this, but I hope we get more non-smut sidequests eventually. after the first couple of days I never had the infection be a problem, hell most of the time the bar never to 20.
 
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JoJoTheJo

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Hi everyone, I've a small question if someone can help.
I'm very early in the story, just met Adara for the first time since returning to the city from the relic expedition where I got my parasite. After a short conversation, I get two choices: ask her to meet me at the bar at night, or just tell her we'll catch up sometime. Telling her we'll catch up has a blue heart icon next to it (suggesting it's a good choice for romancing her) but asking to meet her at the bar literally gives access to a new scene. So what's the deal? What should I pick if I want to see all the content? And I want to romance Adara?
 

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Hi everyone, I've a small question if someone can help.
I'm very early in the story, just met Adara for the first time since returning to the city from the relic expedition where I got my parasite. After a short conversation, I get two choices: ask her to meet me at the bar at night, or just tell her we'll catch up sometime. Telling her we'll catch up has a blue heart icon next to it (suggesting it's a good choice for romancing her) but asking to meet her at the bar literally gives access to a new scene. So what's the deal? What should I pick if I want to see all the content? And I want to romance Adara?
Blue heart is a loss of affection. If you want to romance her you should chase after the red heart options.
 
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JoJoTheJo

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Blue heart is a loss of affection. If you want to romance her you should chase after the red heart options.
I considered that, but the text in her reaction doesn't seem to correspond to loss of affection. If anything, she seemed more excited when I told her I want to catch up sometime than when I asked her to meet me at the bar.

Good to know, from now on I'll stick to red hearts. Thanks for the help and have a great day!
 
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Rusoskibi

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When fighting it only gives experience for the first fight, after repeating it it only gives the unlocked scenes, there is no solution?
 

lostraven

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Alderian News (Important!)

Hey guys, we have a bit of important news to discuss some potential changes coming.

As some of you are aware, recently, one of our artists has been missing. While they have managed to make contact and deliver some work, communication lines with them are very difficult. We have managed to get a hold of them, maybe once or twice a month. We've been holding back on commenting further on the issue in the hopes that it resolves itself soon, but this does seem to potentially be a long-term issue.

Unfortunately, and while I can't delve too deep into their personal issues, for context, they live in a relatively unstable area in one of the south Americas, with both limited internet issues and rampant gang violence that seems to be having a flair up recently.

We've attempted to find an artist to fill in the void while hopefully things settle, and while the art produced was very high quality, unfortunately, for PB we fear it will just create more inconsistencies in the long run.

Furthermore, we're not exactly thrilled at the prospect of kicking someone while they're down, (aka, firing them and replacing them altogether), due to circumstances completely out of their control.

As such, when we did manage to have contact with the artist, with their permission, they agreed to allow us to use AI when necessary, based on their art to create new scenes possibly given the circumstances.

I want to stress that none of the art staff are being let go, in fact, we've hired on MORE art staff recently and their regular work will continue as normal.

Furthermore, any AI art produced, we plan to have the existing artists check it over to ensure it's the highest quality we can get it.

We further hope, of course, this approach will help speed up our production, but we are still entirely committed to delivering the highest quality we can.

We haven't made this decision lightly, we had many internal debates, and we're aware of the sensitive nature of AI, but we hope given the circumstances, and how we're handling things, you and the rest of our fans will be understanding.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. If the situation changes for whatever reason, we will let you know.

Thank you.

Alysha (Above) - If she survives her encounter with the Slave Master, she might just find a new meaning in life under the wing of Captain Nyx and the city guard

As always,
thank you all for your support so far,
you guys are awesome, and we couldn't do this without you,
Love,

-The Damned Studios Team
 

FrapFappers

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Erika's hat makes her look kind of stupid can't take her serious as an inquisitor with that thing on her head lol. View attachment 4523201
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This is from 0.158 Erika/sis looks better because of not having that hat and also her armour looks good and yeah her tiddies too lol.While the new version has looks like a cosplay with the hat and the dress instead of armour and also smaller tiddies lol.
Eww, they fucked the art.
 

Sayajin2205

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Eww, they fucked the art.
Well atleast it was art but from what I read they are going to use Ai for art I don't care about Ai but most of the Ai art looks bad lol.Also they are doing a second project which is prequel which has a good artist but tha main game will use Ai.The reason for Ai is silly too it is to avoid inconsistencies with artstyle better to have inconsistencies than use AI in your main game Also this game is always going through some problems.
 

FrapFappers

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Well atleast it was art but from what I read they are going to use Ai for art I don't care about Ai but most of the Ai art looks bad lol.Also they are doing a second project which is prequel which has a good artist but tha main game will use Ai.The reason for Ai is silly too it is to avoid inconsistencies with artstyle better to have inconsistencies than use AI in your main game Also this game is always going through some problems.
Oh god, I wasn't sure if It was Ai at first and I was hopeful i wasn't. Ai slop is gonna hurt this game already with a few glaring issues. I mean why redo the art? That almost never works out well for most games. Like that Danny Phantom game (artist quit or left tho) and they redid all the previous artists scenes.
 

TheCragger

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Well atleast it was art but from what I read they are going to use Ai for art I don't care about Ai but most of the Ai art looks bad lol.Also they are doing a second project which is prequel which has a good artist but tha main game will use Ai.The reason for Ai is silly too it is to avoid inconsistencies with artstyle better to have inconsistencies than use AI in your main game Also this game is always going through some problems.
I was so about to buy the game on steam too. I know it isn't a lot of money but I'm just jaded after so many bait and switched or uncompleted games. Already Ves (The main reason my attention to the game was drawn) has been completely changed to something that so far feels far less unique. What is this AI going to be used for? Scene art, character art, location art? Etc. That's all very important to know.
 

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Oh god, I wasn't sure if It was Ai at first and I was hopeful i wasn't. Ai slop is gonna hurt this game already with a few glaring issues. I mean why redo the art? That almost never works out well for most games. Like that Danny Phantom game (artist quit or left tho) and they redid all the previous artists scenes.
There's not any AI in the game yet. I haven't even looked at a single sample of AI to decide if it gets the pass or not. (And I've made it clear in a line-up, I expect it indistinguishable.)

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The reason for Ai is silly too it is to avoid inconsistencies with artstyle better to have inconsistencies than use AI in your main game Also this game is always going through some problems.
No.

Inconsistencies pile up and need to be fixed, and the end product looks terrible the more out of control those inconsistencies get. Having inconsistencies is not *better.*
 

Sayajin2205

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There's not any AI in the game yet. I haven't even looked at a single sample of AI to decide if it gets the pass or not. (And I've made it clear in a line-up, I expect it indistinguishable.)

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No.

Inconsistencies pile up and need to be fixed, and the end product looks terrible the more out of control those inconsistencies get. Having inconsistencies is not *better.*
Better than anything Ai tho side game with the famous adventurer gets better artist than the main game . People loved the art of this game.It used to look unique and to now have Ai art each time it gets downgraded it's just a sad state for such a cool concept and plot.First it was getting artists who draw everything too soft which looks out of place for the setting to now getting AI art.
 

lostraven

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Better than anything Ai tho side games get better artists and everything than the main game . People loved the art this game used to have now it will get Ai art each time it gets downgraded it's just a sad state for such a cool concept and plot.
The AI is literally, with permission, being fed art from the artist in question.
The artist who, otherwise, we'd likely have to fire if we didn't do this.

... And again, if it looks shit, I'll just reject it...? I have no interest in something that doesn't look indistinguishable.
 

Sayajin2205

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The AI is literally, with permission, being fed art from the artist in question.
The artist who, otherwise, we'd likely have to fire if we didn't do this.

... And again, if it looks shit, I'll just reject it...? I have no interest in something that doesn't look indistinguishable.
I already said I don't care about Ai being used in that sense you don't need to tell me about it I know you guys are supportive to artists what I really care about is Ai doesn't look as good .Ai. Art can look somewhat good but has the weird shine for some art style , regardless this game for the last 2 years have been always going through something artists always having problems and you guys supporting them which is noble but the game suffers and I honestly just don't trust Ai delivering good.I don't believe the game will look good enough with that.This game has one of the better settings and one of the best writing as you can choose to do be a hero or even a bad person or somewhere in between and the storylines are great too but the art part has been going downhill for this game,first the new artstyle chosen looked so soft that it felt it didn't even belong in the setting and now you will be adding AI.These are just my thoughts I honestly don't believe AI being good enough.
 
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Sayajin2205

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Oh god, I wasn't sure if It was Ai at first and I was hopeful i wasn't. Ai slop is gonna hurt this game already with a few glaring issues. I mean why redo the art? That almost never works out well for most games. Like that Danny Phantom game (artist quit or left tho) and they redid all the previous artists scenes.
The game doesn't have any Ai right now that's just a different artist
 
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