Others Predation [v0.2.7.3] [HornedLizardStudios, Veronika Repo]

[SamYote]

The shutter room bug was brought to the programmer's attention promptly, and a hotfix was pushed out to fix it. There was supposed to be a second door, but for some ungodly reason, this was only an issue on Windows PCs. Makes absolutely no sense, but it is fixed now.
Since we've got this new update out, I'm gonna be checking here a lot more frequently to forward any found bugs or issues to the programmer. Gotta cover all of the bases, right?

 

[strong_p4ssword]

The shutter room bug was brought to the programmer's attention promptly, and a hotfix was pushed out to fix it. There was supposed to be a second door, but for some ungodly reason, this was only an issue on Windows PCs. Makes absolutely no sense, but it is fixed now.
Since we've got this new update out, I'm gonna be checking here a lot more frequently to forward any found bugs or issues to the programmer. Gotta cover all of the bases, right?

We appreciate devs not being super toxic here. Always happy to offer free bug reports.

 

[SamYote]

We appreciate devs not being super toxic here. Always happy to offer free bug reports.

Oh, for sure! I mentioned it before, but I was a player long before I was a developer for this project. At the very least, I can keep an open mind, and check in with the entire playerbase, rather than a small pool of them! I don't hold any expectations, I'm not gonna pull any 'Ooghhh, now you HAVE to subscribe!!!" speeches.
At the end of the day, you're playing the game because you enjoy it, or want to see what it will become, and that's something that I will wholeheartedly support.

 

[strong_p4ssword]

I dunno, some people earlier in the thread were complaining about how you blew up the content that was already in the game and started over, but the new engine definitely feels a lot smoother and the opening chapter feels much more coherent. Here's hoping the game doesn't go to the big content farm in the sky due to slow development pace.

 

[bobbot]

I dunno, some people earlier in the thread were complaining about how you blew up the content that was already in the game and started over, but the new engine definitely feels a lot smoother and the opening chapter feels much more coherent. Here's hoping the game doesn't go to the big content farm in the sky due to slow development pace.

a lot of that if im remembering the story right was due to patreon meddling. only way outta further would be to convince most the patreons to jump onto subscribe star as last i rember most the income is comming from the patreon.

 

[SamYote]

I dunno, some people earlier in the thread were complaining about how you blew up the content that was already in the game and started over, but the new engine definitely feels a lot smoother and the opening chapter feels much more coherent. Here's hoping the game doesn't go to the big content farm in the sky due to slow development pace.

Starting back from scratch wasn't my idea, and I definitely agree that it sucked to have to take the content out. But we're gradually getting everything back in, and with the engine updates, the new moveset, everything we're putting in, I have a feeling we've got a great second shot at it.
If I've got my say, we'll keep on pushing out these improvements, and get back to adding brand new content, as well. It's taken way too long to start making the leaps and bounds I know we're capable of.

 

[SamYote]

a lot of that if im remembering the story right was due to patreon meddling. only way outta further would be to convince most the patreons to jump onto subscribe star as last i rember most the income is comming from the patreon.

There was an enemy, yes, that would have gotten us into deep hot water with Patreon, once they put in their new restrictions. And I know that came as a heavy blow, because a lot of people reaaaally liked that one. But you are exactly right, in that the only way around that would have been to get everyone on board with Subscribestar, and abandon Patreon entirely. And that would have been pretty complicated. I'm still hopeful we can make that switch, but for now, we've gotta keep working with the rules Patreon cracks the whip on our backs over.

 

[tacosnap123]

There was an enemy, yes, that would have gotten us into deep hot water with Patreon, once they put in their new restrictions. And I know that came as a heavy blow, because a lot of people reaaaally liked that one. But you are exactly right, in that the only way around that would have been to get everyone on board with Subscribestar, and abandon Patreon entirely. And that would have been pretty complicated. I'm still hopeful we can make that switch, but for now, we've gotta keep working with the rules Patreon cracks the whip on our backs over.

could leave a specal patch on for the foes not allowed on patrion

 

[strong_p4ssword]

There was an enemy, yes, that would have gotten us into deep hot water with Patreon, once they put in their new restrictions. And I know that came as a heavy blow, because a lot of people reaaaally liked that one. But you are exactly right, in that the only way around that would have been to get everyone on board with Subscribestar, and abandon Patreon entirely. And that would have been pretty complicated. I'm still hopeful we can make that switch, but for now, we've gotta keep working with the rules Patreon cracks the whip on our backs over.

could leave a specal patch on for the foes not allowed on patrion

I've seen games do this to allow "taboo" interactions: the build distributed on Patreon has the content locked, and the end user has to add a file with a specific name to reenable it. At a minimum, you could distribute the unrestricted build on Subscribestar, might even get people to switch over.

 

[tacosnap123]

I've seen games do this to allow "taboo" interactions: the build distributed on Patreon has the content locked, and the end user has to add a file with a specific name to reenable it. At a minimum, you could distribute the unrestricted build on Subscribestar, might even get people to switch over.

as long as the steps are simple just move from downlaods to game then it shouldnt be that bad

 

[DenseFool]

At a minimum, you could distribute the unrestricted build on Subscribestar, might even get people to switch over.

They actually did this a few testbuild versions ago, Stopped doing so, Dunno why.

 

[MichaeltheUmbreon]

Um. So is there a way around the whole vulkan issue?

 

[SamYote]

Um. So is there a way around the whole vulkan issue?

Predation uses the Vulkan Renderer, so if your PC doesn't support Vulkan, there's not a lot that can be done, unfortunately.

 

[JuanokuG4]

holy shit the animations are so elaborate. there's so much action that i had to rewatch some of them to actually catch everything. some dbz fight choreography level shit.
hope the game gets more game tho, pretty short as of now. characters so far are fun, even if the protag really needs to learn when to shut up. threatening a guy flanked by 2 girls with guns is not the best idea. i do dig how agressive she is tho, with her kicking the dumpster and taking shit from no one, stark contrast to a lot of other protags. the animations sell this a lot, she fights back with FORCE, it's cool, she doesn't feel helpless

 

[Elder Drake]

I'm confused, this is a 2d game and I've played it in the past but now on their Itch on top of just the old promo stuff of the first stage theres a 3d environment now? wtf is this becoming Doom or something?

 

[MTCF]

Game is getting worked on stuff that i dont' think are necessary

 

[DenseFool]

I'm confused, this is a 2d game and I've played it in the past but now on their Itch on top of just the old promo stuff of the first stage theres a 3d environment now? wtf is this becoming Doom or something?
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imho, i think dev is working on random stuff like this to avoid burnout, but that's just a theory

a game theory

iirc this is hardly used and is just there to look cool i guess (also probably the reason vulkan/future rendering is required lol)
i dunno if more will be done with 3d for this game, but i doubt it tbh

 

[strong_p4ssword]

I'm confused, this is a 2d game and I've played it in the past but now on their Itch on top of just the old promo stuff of the first stage theres a 3d environment now? wtf is this becoming Doom or something?
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I don't think this is material for the game, just a recreation of the apartment in 3D. Does kinda seem odd to spend time on given the lack of updates we've seen.

 

[limesseur]

I'm confused, this is a 2d game and I've played it in the past but now on their Itch on top of just the old promo stuff of the first stage theres a 3d environment now? wtf is this becoming Doom or something?
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imho, i think dev is working on random stuff like this to avoid burnout, but that's just a theory

a game theory

iirc this is hardly used and is just there to look cool i guess (also probably the reason vulkan/future rendering is required lol)
i dunno if more will be done with 3d for this game, but i doubt it tbh

I don't think this is material for the game, just a recreation of the apartment in 3D. Does kinda seem odd to spend time on given the lack of updates we've seen.

The 3D apartment was the original idea for Amber's apartment where you would be able to use the gallery and interact with other stuff later on. It's now a 2D apartment similar to how the rest of the game looks, while the 3D one is not in the newest version.

As for why it was 3D? Devs were experimenting a bit, and it caused some issues so they removed it, and now it's 2D so whatever. And if them doing small things like it to avoid burnout then I'm all for it, don't want yet another good and promising game to end up abandoned because the devs lose interest from burnout.

 

[spamfolde]

Engine upgrades are cool and all but I swear there hasn't been new sex animations for this for like a year+ now.

Is working on both just not possible or something?