Ren'Py Abandoned Power Vacuum [Ch. 12 Official] [What? Why? Games]

[kittenhead]

NameOfYourGamesFolder > PowerVacuum > game > saves

If you just installed it, there might not be a "saves" folder yet, it is created the first time you make a save file. You can either create a saves folder yourself, or if it is easier for you just open the game and make a random save file. You can also change the numbers in file name to control where the save file appears. The name "9-3-LT1.save" will place the save on the ninth page of saves in the third slot. If you rename it to "1-1-LT1.save" that will put it on the first page of saves in the first slot.

thank u!

 

[Guyin Cognito]

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can't find anything in thread search: I have over 60 pages of saves and I'm trying a What If scenario; is there a way to change the What If save location so that both it and the main game are always in Roaming/Renpy, but not the same "PowerVacuum-1561592800"? That way there aren't a bunch of standalone saves jammed randomly in the middle of the main game saves.

I think you'd have to edit some file and I don't know which. Fortunately, the latest What IF seems to be designed to store its own separate saves, and I think some of the others are as well, but sadly not all of them. Since the What If's are relatively short, I'd recommend just using the skip feature to get to the part you want rather than digging through save files.

 

[preskerd]

I wonder if we get a non-ntr 'what if' ever again. 7 what ifs and 6 of them are ntr... At this point I wish the developer would say 'yeah 90% off the what ifs are already NTR. So I will make a non-ntr what if without a poll. Since people who votes for non-ntr what ifs are human and they pay too. It doesn't hurt to give them a content once in a blue moon. Because at this rate all the what ifs will be ntr and people who votes for non-ntr will never get anything'

 

[richiman]

can someone help, I already put in the patch in my folder but it still does not work View attachment 2018016

Place patch.rpy in NameYourGame\Contents\Resources\game folder.

 

[PBS666]

how download it as file? i had click that file but i just got a link what full of code

have the same issue here bruh, hope someone can answer

guys i cant play this. it says it continues and it doesnt ... the rpy file isnt downloading, showing some codes. DAMN

Right click the link, save link as...

 

[PBS666]

can someone help, I already put in the patch in my folder but it still does not work View attachment 2018016

You have not put it in the game folder.

First, unzip the archive, preferably by The Unarchiver.
Then, right click the Powervacuum app, Show package contents, and navigate to /Contents/Resources/autorun/. There, and nowhere else, is the game folder.

 

[radical686]

The really sad thing is that I wouldn't mind the NTR in this game if the competition wasn't the Walking Dead. Shudder!

 

[paginou]

I let you play with your NTR update, not for me.

 

[sososjwnana]

What if vol.7 android pls

 

[Cavpal]

Another game that goes into my blacklist. DMD will have some company now.

 

[Miss Kobayashi's]

I really liked the game a coolly made game the plot is just a lamp with a soul and the characters are beautifully made the surrounding world is well done too I wish you success and a lot of fans for the game

 

[dartred]

Another game that goes into my blacklist. DMD will have some company now.

Is it because the spin offs have NTR?

I was wondering this, but why did the thread add NTR to the title? That title is not there in the what if. It's just adding negative attention and misleading the main game. The thread title is always updated to match the name of the file's update. In this case just "what if vol 7". So why was the NTR added when the dev didn't name it that way?

I was wondering if a mod can remove that from the thread title. It would stop a lot of people from thinking the game just turned full NTR.

 

[Bob Jewl]

I wonder if we get a non-ntr 'what if' ever again. 7 what ifs and 6 of them are ntr... At this point I wish the developer would say 'yeah 90% off the what ifs are already NTR. So I will make a non-ntr what if without a poll. Since people who votes for non-ntr what ifs are human and they pay too. It doesn't hurt to give them a content once in a blue moon. Because at this rate all the what ifs will be ntr and people who votes for non-ntr will never get anything'

I wouldn't mind another non-NTR "What if?", but the idea of the dev having to put limitations on certain suggestions isn't something I'm in favor for.

The 27$ tier gives people the ability to create "What if?" scenarios and vote for their favorite ones afterwards.
Limiting more suggestions isn't ideal and the majority of those tier level patrons voted for the NTR options, putting limitations on those winning suggestions seems a bit excessive and would kinda water down the point of that tier.

 

[Ghostboy031]

Is it because the spin offs have NTR?

I was wondering this, but why did the thread add NTR to the title? That title is not there in the what if. It's just adding negative attention and misleading the main game. The thread title is always updated to match the name of the file's update. In this case just "what if vol 7". So why was the NTR added when the dev didn't name it that way?

I was wondering if a mod can remove that from the thread title. It would stop a lot of people from thinking the game just turned full NTR.

Or people could you know......read the game description?

 

[bigguy_foryou]

Or people could you know......read the game description?

I mean, if I didn't already know what it was there is no way I'd even bother opening up a game advertising itself as NTR to find out if it really is what it says.

 

[Ghostboy031]

I mean, if I didn't already know what it was there is no way I'd even bother opening up a game advertising itself as NTR to find out if it really is what it says.

It literally says there is an OFF switch..... so if people see NTR that's on them and their stupidity and deserve it.

 

[mobrz]

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[ScareKing]

By the way, I would be more than happy to see more of Peyton in almost any context. I'm happy to have her join the MC's harem, although I'm not sure there's any reasonable way that would happen, unless maybe it involved her getting to be with Tiff.
I'm getting ideas for What Ifs now, too... Peyton and Drew double teaming, heh. 6 boobs + 2 dicks = 1 glorious Tiff sandwich.

Same, i think Peyton and Drew would be nice additions, and Peyton and Drew double teaming any girl would be realy nice, maybe we see something like that in What Ifs but i dont believe we going to see Peyton in "action" out of that.

 

[bigguy_foryou]

It literally says there is an OFF switch..... so if people see NTR that's on them and their stupidity and deserve it.

Not before you click on the game it doesn't. If you're just seeing it appear under latest updates and have never seen the game before all it says is the title, "Power Vacuum [What If... Vol. 7 NTR] [What? Why? Games]". And people not interested in NTR are just not going to bother clicking.

 

[acewinz]

In the Main Game, Hunter has been described by the developer as a Wile E. Coyote type character, always chasing the girls and instead ending up failing (and increasingly getting injured in comedic ways). The NTR is restricted to the Bad Ends which are by nature designed to be pretty easily avoidable but can also be fully deactivated never to be seen again. There is NO on-going story route that allows for NTR, only Bad Ends.

The What Ifs are voted on, and the NTR fans keep winning the votes. There is, I believe, ONE What If to date that is not NTR, where Sterling embraces his role as harem master and goes hog wild with all the women in sight.

The idea that development time is being taken away from the main game to produce the What If episodes has been repeatedly refuted by the dev along with an explanation of why that's not true, but some people (mostly people who really REALLY hate NTR) refuse to believe him. This has been made worse by the fact the the last few updates to the main game have gradually taken longer to complete. However, that fact was predicted and we were warned about it. The official stance of the dev is that the updates are taking longer because they are bigger, include more girls each time, and have more animations. The official explanation from the dev on why the What If episodes do not cause a delay is that he always had a set work schedule for development of the main game, which he has stuck to, and the work he is putting into the What Ifs he is doing during what had previously been his days off.

EDIT: To be clear, there is metric ton of non-NTR content in this game, most of it beautifully animated. It's one of the hottest games I've ever played. It is also written to be comedic a lot of the time. I personally do NOT like feeling helpless to avoid rivals and NTR, but I never feel that way while playing this. Hunter never feels like a real threat to me in the same way as the NTR threat characters in a lot of other games. He is essentially a parody of NTR characters. He is a hideous buffoon that the women have no interest in romantically and are not attracted to at all. He is a creep that is always lurking, but as long as you follow the story and don't watch the optional and easily avoided NTR Bad Ends, he consistently comes off as comedic foil with ridiculous schemes that constantly backfire in humorous ways.

That is one way to look at it. I just want to say that I like Power Vacuum overall, and was an early supporter because of the comedy, quality, and heartfelt moments with the cast and MC. I even thought the initial method of including optional "parody" NTR funny and innovative compared to the other versions out there, but just initially. It has become something else now. It started as a little "light hearted", relatively, way of including the fetish, while not really denigrating (my main concern) the characters, because it starts with short instance brought about through drugs or trickery of the girls and a MC who choose that path, and like you say restricted to "bad ends". But it "evolved" unfortunately... obviously because of how much money it is bringing in.

While "non-canon", the characters themselves stay in character during the bad ends and the what-if's, meaning that pretty much every female character in the game not only has the potential to become a relatively mindless cock-sleeve, but does so far more easily for the NTR scenarios (albeit, not as easily as your typical NTR), even when initially there is an excuse/lever to push them into it it is still very damaging to their characters as far as the main game is considered imho, especially in their treatment of Sterling in many of the scenarios. One canon part of the game itself that is proof that this is more of a multi-verse reality than random bad ends, is the fact the Gramps did to the MC's dad and his immediate family exactly what happens to the MC in the NTR situations. The MC never has (as is usual with NTR), an easier road (which is realistic, but hardly fair compared to the NTR).

Then add in all the girls first times going all the way, are almost always NTR, and you cannot tell me as a developer that a considerable portion of time and resources (rendering alone!) that could be spent on the main game are not instead being spent on the "What-if's" to bring in more cash overall across a longer development time, at a determent to the main game for vanilla players. I am quite positive the overall content NTR-vs non, is probably pretty even all together, but for a game where that started as non-canon side stuff... that doesn't seem to be the case now. There is also the potentially darker aspect I worry about, that everything happening in the main line of the game, is just a method for Gramps to train Sterling into being a new kind of seducer, one that uses feelings rather than drugs to achieve the same ends. Which while better, is still in it's own way a subversion of the "battle" between the two. Just a theory, but a scary one.

It is what it is and you do what you do as a developer to make a game profitable within your desired wheelhouse, and this is an interesting game. But you are putting a bit more sugar on it all than is fair I think.