Unity Pure Onyx [v0.138.1] [Eromancer]

[Poggersq]

SVScomics is a somewhat shady looking but mostly legit website that has ONLY links to direct downloads of H-stuff. Not just games but also doujins, western comics etc. No dramas, politics or community.

For me it was first source of "non-flash" h-games OUTSIDE of Ulmf forum (way back in 2013-2015).
Even if you don't download from there, it's a good source of info on what new updates are there for a lot of games. Like, you take a look and see "oh, Eromancer game is updated, I'll take a look at F95 or ulmf and see what's it all about".

Just remember to always read on who is an uploader and be kinda wary of any "non-Master" ranked users with less than few hundreds uploads because there's some increased risk of malware there. Better yet, wait a few days and look into comments if someone had any problems there.

And always have your adblock on because screenshots there are often hosted on adware infested websites, so you will have unnecesary flags all over the place by your AV just because of their existance.

EDIT: I almost forgot that there were also Animesharing and Hongfire (before constant link purges and russian ddos onslaught)...good times, simpler times...when pirate ships were free, bounty plentiful and no censorship took place...you could be as edgy as you wanted without hiding in the countless 4chan/8chan mirrors.

thnx for the info.

 

[Gnodab]

I don't think they were referring to actual mass-report attacks, but more the entitlement coming from forum members which is a problem here. I also don't think Ero is acting out because of entitlement (...well maybe financial entitlement), but more as a campaign to drive attention and symphony to his work. I mean why else drive up this elaborate agenda?

Critique ≠ Entitlement though. An awful lot of people confuse the two. How criticism is worded is ofc another thing, which unfortunately leads to people seeming entitled, just because they can't voice their criticism in a constructive way instead of babyraging (however justified that may be in some cases). But just because the wording might be off, doesn't change the fact that there are valid points made,depending on topic. And in this case, Pure Onyx and Eromancer as a whole, criticism is justified. I don't have to point out why, this dead horse has been beaten time and time again.

Sure, one could argue that just because you are not paying for stuff, you are not allowed to criticise it. But keep in mind, that if certain creators put in more of an actual effort there is the possibility, that people would end up actually supporting. However slim that possibility might be.

Personally, i supported various H - Projects on Patreon in the past, that i stopped supporting for various reasons. Eromancer with Malise and the Machine was one of them (Uploaded the Artbook here for example, which curiously ended up on svscomics hours later, back when i was still a Patreon of Eromancer ). And there are ones that i still support.

It just pains me to see, that Devs that are putting in real effort and provide quality content are but at a mere fraction of the income that projects like Pure Onyx generate. And yes, there are some entitled people on here, that can't be bothered paying like 1$ a month for updates on certain projects and keep begging for updates for a game, they obviously enjoy. Those are part of the problem.

But acting like this whole forum is just full of people that behave that way or even worse, support baseless accusations of mass reporting, just because of one instance that went "somewhat public" or whatever you want to call it...yeah that is a headscratcher for me personally, ngl.

There are level headed discussions / feedback on this forum, as well as drama / asinine shitflinging. But as it often goes, the more negative aspects are sadly getting more traction.
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[Mordona]

Critique ≠ Entitlement though. An awful lot of people confuse the two. How criticism is worded is ofc another thing, which unfortunately leads to people seeming entitled, just because they can't voice their criticism in a constructive way instead of babyraging (however justified that may be in some cases). But just because the wording might be off, doesn't change the fact that there are valid points made,depending on topic. And in this case, Pure Onyx and Eromancer as a whole, criticism is justified. I don't have to point out why, this dead horse has been beaten time and time again.

Sure, one could argue that just because you are not paying for stuff, you are not allowed to criticise it. But keep in mind, that if certain creators put in more of an actual effort there is the possibility, that people would end up actually supporting. However slim that possibility might be.

Personally, i supported various H - Projects on Patreon in the past, that i stopped supporting for various reasons. Eromancer with Malise and the Machine was one of them (Uploaded the Artbook here for example, which curiously ended up on svscomics hours later, back when i was still a Patreon of Eromancer ). And there are ones that i still support.

It just pains me to see, that Devs that are putting in real effort and provide quality content are but at a mere fraction of the income that projects like Pure Onyx generate. And yes, there are some entitled people on here, that can't be bothered paying like 1$ a month for updates on certain projects and keep begging for updates for a game, they obviously enjoy. Those are part of the problem.

But acting like this whole forum is just full of people that behave that way or even worse, support baseless accusations of mass reporting, just because of one instance that went "somewhat public" or whatever you want to call it...yeah that is a headscratcher for me personally, ngl.

There are level headed discussions / feedback on this forum, as well as drama / asinine shitflinging. But as it often goes, the more negative aspects are sadly getting more traction.

Yeah, I agree pretty much on all of it. I too supported Ero back in the MatM days up to the point of the sudden abandonment and shift to PO. There is a lot of baseless criticism here, and what I mean is simple 1 sentance "I dont like X" and give no rhyme, reason or suggestions. But there are those that fly off on devs that don't give these people what they want. Although 99.9% of it leads to nothing. Here in this case.. I understand the frustration. Honestly if it was reported for scam, and not bestiality I have even less issue with it because there is some subjective truth to it. Also people she be free to voice what grievances they have with the games here. It helps shape the outlooks of those that actually bother to read into the post history. But lastly I agree with Sam that F95 should be left out of any "campaign". F95 has one objective, we shouldn't do anything to ruin that.

 

[Emance]

Yeye too much text but upload version 096? Sjjssjjs

 

[KittyMaid]

Then i guess you or the mods have no issue providing proof of other instances of mass reports coming from this very forum, preferably backed by vile Russians.

Russian or not it doesn't matter, those are users from this site and its not hard to see how infested this threat is with hate towards him. It's easy to see what the intent is here. I'm myself have become a known figure to dislike because i "defend" him, that's how bad it's gotten. Nothing i've said has even been that crazy, people just like to exaggerate and blow things out of proportion because i simply don't side with them and their entitled nature. You're seriously saying its hard to believe any act of resentment came from this thread? What world are you living in? What more proof do you need then ppl actually admitting themselves.

Critique ≠ Entitlement though. An awful lot of people confuse the two. How criticism is worded is ofc another thing, which unfortunately leads to people seeming entitled

what critique? its literally the same people over and over, the main "critique" is that he does not put out enough content so what else is there left? You put out more "critique" than there is content.

 

[Buziol]

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Russian or not it doesn't matter, those are users from this site and its not hard to see how infested this threat is with hate towards him. It's easy to see what the intent is here. I'm myself have become a known figure to dislike because i "defend" him, that's how bad it's gotten. Nothing i've said has even been that crazy, people just like to exaggerate and blow things out of proportion because i simply don't side with them and their entitled nature. You're seriously saying its hard to believe any act of resentment came from this thread? What world are you living in? What more proof do you need then ppl actually admitting themselves.

How about you stop reigniting the issue? It was already said that some things went out of proportion among posters, some actions were taken to remedy that, end of the story.

Whether report to Patreon was justified or not is no longer a matter of debate at this point because it is up to Patreon to decide what's next.

And regardless of what you and Eromancer may believe, no, there was no organized hate-fueled conspiracy to report him. As was said a few times, to report hidden content, you need to support him. I highly doubt there was a huge influx of supporters recently, so that's about it.

I myself am a man of integrity and like I promised, I would never support him TILL he moves to SS entirely and changes modus operandi. I don't hate the project nor the people, merely their practices. A sentiment, I believe, many here share and simply vote with their wallets...

 

[Gnodab]

You're seriously saying its hard to believe any act of resentment came from this thread? What world are you living in? What more proof do you need then ppl actually admitting themselves.

You yourself linking the exact three people that i already mentioned and that also are on the Eromancer Tweet, is honestly far beyond hilarious. Where did i say, that it is hard to believe resentment coming from this thread? It is not,quite the contrary. I implied the opposite, although granted i didn't make a definite statement on that matter and thought me implying as much was enough. Apparently not. Stop putting words in my mouth, that i never said pretty please. Don't know how much clearer i can be, having already mentioned EXACTLY the three responses you bothered with providing screenshots for. I am talking about DEFINITE PROOF, how often do i have to repeat myself here? So far, we have one person that stated that they reported his Patreon. And even then, again....we do not know if they are taking the piss or not. There is nothing i can't stand more than just making statements about a whole group of peole, in that case this forum. Based on the asinine actions of a few.

"Nothing i've said has even been that crazy, people just like to exaggerate and blow things out of proportion" --> "Yes, a significant element of the board is interested in damaging western businesses and influence. They are defended by the same DDOS protection service as the Russian MoD."

You mean, blowing things out of proportion like claiming that an ENTIRE Forum as a WHOLE (i would have been more on board with this, if Eromancer would only mention this thread. But as stated before, all the constructive conversations on this board get "swept under the rug" in favor of painting this forum in as much of a bad way as possible) is out here mass reporting? That is allegedly backed by Russians (and yes, it DOES matter if someone just pulls out "facts" like that out of their ass, targeting a specific demographic) as well as those ridicilous claims of wanting to damage western businesses yada yada?

Not saying you are wrong on the whole blown out of proportion aspect, again on the contrary. But you can't complain about that one and then just choose to ignore everything eromancer said in his tweet, come on now.

what critique? its literally the same people over and over, the main "critique" is that he does not put out enough content so what else is there left? You put out more "critique" than there is content.

Not enough Content is one of the critques, among other things, yeah. And you can put it in quotation marks as much as you like, it is still valid critique. And just because said critique gets repeated over and over again, doesn't make it any less justified. As tedious and annoying as it might get. I definetly agree on there being more critique then there is content, which is why i went with "And in this case, Pure Onyx and Eromancer as a whole, criticism is justified. I don't have to point out why, this dead horse has been beaten time and time again".

Just to quote myself here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Gnodab]

Checked the Twitter just now, that is indeed the case.

Sadly, he is taking the reply of one moderator here as definite proof that mass reports from F95 is what caused this.

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But it looks like he will be bringing back cut content, now that Patreon isn't an option anymore. So there is that.

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(other tweets where he goes on further about F95 being the literal devil, but you can look these up on your own)

Honestly i think this turn of events is most unfortunate, even if screaming bloody murder with unproven outrageous accusations wasn't the way to handle things on his part imho. Can't really fathom why Patreon decides to nuke his account this time around, when it was fine before. Patreon as a whole sadly just seems to be less and less an option for H - Content focused games etc. No matter if i agree with the business practices of some of the "H - creators" on there or not.

If Subscribestar added Paypal to their payment methods, that would help out a great deal. The reason why i can't support creators on Subscribestar, is because i simply don't have a credit card. And i can't be bothered getting one and paying fees, just for H - Games. Because the vast majority of the ones i want to support, are luckily on Patreon still.

 

[EvilEyeGames]

As a person yeah feel to be honest here yeah, think people had enough of the censoredship of games and nobody shouldn't have to deal with it.

 

[TotalDegenerate]

nobody shouldn't have to deal with it.

I think you meant the opposite but okay.

In general, I agree with what (I think) you tried to say, but you realize It's not always in the devs or admins (rule 7) might not to censor their product/platform, right?

 

[jamdan]

In the past we've considered it under rule 1 - "opinions are fine, attacks are not", you can't get much more of an attack than actively trying to destroy someone's livelihood. If we see an increase in incidents like this, we'll spell it out in black and white.

Honestly, you should do that anyway. From the Harem game thread that got nuked to people reporting various games because they get upset about it's existence, people already do this on a regular basis. Perhaps not on a large scale, but many if not most of them originate from here.

People don't seem to understand that being a pirate doesn't mean you can be an asshole and try to have devs you dislike banned from their support sites.

 

[Mordona]

Well that happened.

 

[erdi06]

In Eromancer's own words, Pure Onyx is:

"The goal is to take part of the team and get a very fun and accessible side project built in Unity with a much smaller scope than MATM to you and to retailers ASAP. The game will take place in MATM's world, and act as an introduction to MATM's setting, the theme, the denizens of New Babylon, and even some of the characters. It will require MUCH less overhead development time, and what you'll see in this update is from only two weeks spent on pre-visualization."

That quote is from Sep 21, 2018.
Clearly $20K+/month for his team of 10+ people (+freelancers) is not enough to finish the game in 5+ years.

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Nope, not anytime soon.

WOW, that big information for me, i didnt pay attention

so do you know how long the game will be finished, or at least 88% close to complete

i really like this game, but the world is going crazy now, i hope they can finish the game before the world goes more crazy, cuz it will be more difficult

let's pray they can make it

 

[Yojimbo543]

judging from the pace, awhile. It kinda depends when Eromancer wants to consider this game complete and we honestly don't know when that will be as we don't have a roadmap to really understand what the endgame will look like. We could be close to that, we might not be at all. This was supposed to be a side project but really turned into the main project as MatM really hasn't been mentioned at all. My educated guess is years to go.

I agree. It's hard to predict the level of feature creep of this game, and based on past experience we know we can't expect a steady pace.

That being said, Eromancer's current enemy content (by faction) is:

Splicers: Boss, Brute, Thug, Runt, Looter, Chain
Police: Female, Male
Syndicate: Batbunny, Swordbunny
Biomonsters: Vioreaper, Charger, Larvae

That's 13 enemies in 5 years. (I'm not counting the flying ball and mystery-guy vendor because they're in the background or Semi because she's just in a short H-scene, not in game)

For the splicer faction, Eromancer has already announced 4 more enemies "in the pipeline" (meaning their models have been ready for years): FK-Doll, Biker, Grenadier, Dog.

So, if he wants 5-7 factions with 10 enemies or so each (I already talked about this in detail in a previous post)... the game is below 20% completion.

And that's only regarding enemies, then there's stages, story, equipment (8 levels of visual equipment on Onyx), RPG elements, combat mechanics (like throws, skills...), 2 additional playable characters (Malise and Neon), guns, VAs, and the list goes on and on.

 

[KittyMaid]

For the splicer faction, Eromancer has already announced 4 more enemies "in the pipeline" (meaning their models have been ready for years): FK-Doll, Biker, Grenadier, Dog.

and from the other factions, the spiders, and ring girl have also been made. Both which have lesser history, from what i know.

 

[CourierNPC]

i really like this game, but the world is going crazy now, i hope they can finish the game before the world goes more crazy, cuz it will be more difficult

Some info you should know:

1. Ero's first project is Malise and the Machine, an RPGM game that started around 2014 (or earlier). This year marks its 10th anniversary of existing as a h-game franchise.
2. In 2018, Malise and the Machine halted all progress updates in favor of introducing Pure Onyx, this is where we at right now. This year marks its 6th anniversary.
3. In 2022, while Pure Onyx is still in development, Ero announced a new project called XXXIV. Going by the Roman numbers, this is probably some sort of video or image set involving porn of our beloved ladies across multiple fandoms (e.g. Nyotengu from DOA, 2B from NieR, you name it). The last update was in October 2022 and we never heard of it mentioned or updated. What it did produce was a few 3D renders, some of which are wireframe in nature, and a few sketches involving various positions and characters... and an 8K figurine (perhaps) of Olga Discordia.
4. Ero's focus now is bug fixing and developing content for Pure Onyx, leaving the other two projects in development limbo. Whether or not we will see Project XXXIV and Malise and the Machine again is... similar to waiting for Valve to tease us about Half-Life 3.

During this timeline, I have finished college, got a degree, and finished three, yearly TOEFL/IELTS tests to keep my English sharp. Can't afford to get it dull!

As Teemo said, hope is a dangerous thing.

 

[EmDotRand]

Hmm... I think I need yet another handicap, any ideas?

Most of the stuff coming to mind seem more annoying than challenging (Kicks only, No stamina usage aka no dash or dodge, zoom always at max, etc)

 

[juventaroll1994]

I wish I could add a free camera here, there will be another game

 

[KittyMaid]

I was talking about YOUR thoughts on the matter. Especially regarding the claim, that F95 is set out to "damaging western businesses and influence.

Oki, my thoughts are that it's very strange for him to randomly claim that and not have anything to back it. He must have some convincing evidence that led him to make that statement. So my stance is neither "its true" or "its false", it's more towards plausible. I don't see it as an "exaggeration" as you do, I'm open to hearing him out.

 

[CourierNPC]

I don't see it as an "exaggeration" as you do

I think the reason why people think Eromancer's statement is an "exaggeration" is the fact that Eromancer implies the whole F95 forum is responsible for his Patreon account closure, rather than a few bad actors that did so for brownie points on the internet. People do not take kindly into something they haven't done, the best they can offer is to ask a question of why would they be lumped into something they don't do and sometimes even be persistent about it.

Claiming the Reds or otherwise Eromancer et al. competitor(s) for foul play while having little evidence to back it up is a harmful thought as a project leader. I don't think it's wise to blame one side to prove they're in the wrong without asking questions first and hearing what they know about the matter.

I'm not much in the know as you do since you've been supporting him for quite some time, now. I wish him good luck and hope that he can recover whatever he lost and this issue is resolved without anyone being harmed/harassed.

As a lost proverb once said:
Walk the walk, talk the talk.