VN Ren'Py Race of Life [Act 1 v1.02 Steam] [Underground Studio]

[MrDude1977]

Dude chill, people will always find something to complain, if not lesbian sex it will be a hint of ntr or that some scene was forced on them and if not that they complain that the game have too many branches/LI's or it is too kinetic/few LI's, usually people always find something to complain about it is hard to please both Greeks and Trojans. Unfortunately there is not many like me that only post on games I enjoy, I simply ignore games I dislike (my usual "whining" is on how I dislike sandbox games but that is just a gameplay choice hehehe, a few of them are really good and I still play them).

Sure ppl are always going to complain, so no reason to give them justification to do so. examples you gave is choices a Dev makes to do his VN. This is miss tagging a game an actual mistake made and a reason for someone to complain. I've complained about certain tags in other VN's and ppl always tells me to just "go play one without that tag then" So i do. So when a someone like me goes to play a game without a certain tag like lesbian you do like i did you check tags and future tags and then you play but then go to find out it actually miss tagged. This one has been out a while if dev had it planned it should have been tagged properly.

 

[guidedbyvoices]

It kinda makes the theory/hints of her being a spy less valid, her being the daughter of an ambassador is something which is easly to verify and should have been verified when she entered college.

Diplomatic members in top positions are usually either very close to, or straight members of secret services. Working for embassies and related activities is one of the biggest red flags for detecting spies.


In lore it's very openly implied that she isn't who she says she is by:

-Her being intentionally vague about her relationship to her family, how she is related to them and where she comes from. Actual aristocrats can't shut up about their name and family relationships, they sometimes can be lazy about describing it to everyone around, but they are never intentionally vague about such things in a meaninful conversation.

-In the car scene, she talked about her past work in "operations", how she treated people working in them (hinting she fucked them to keep them happy). She immediately realised the term was too suspicious and she tried to cover it, explaining it as a normal civilian term. But that's spy terminology and usual tactics (fucking around, both inside her team and also fucking their targets), which doesn't fit with her being an aristocrat into physics.

-She was recommended to the University for a bridge course by the NATO General Secretary, which is the (nominally) highest ranking member of the NATO. People with those kind of connections are never concerned about the validity of their diplomas, they get special privileges which bypass normal requirements for nobodies, they don't need to wait around a professor and a car mechanic. She wouldn't require such a course in the first place, her European diplomas would be immediately admited in the USA.

There might be more because I'm still mid episode 2.



Out of lore, but also mentioned by MC (let's consider this is a world were hot women are into physics, but the MC said that a woman like that doesn't exist in reality, so even in such a world she is exceptional), she is simply too hot for her to be:

-Acting like that with a nobody (MC), going straight for him to fuck him for no reason at all, even when she didn't know him yet she was talking to his friend to meet him.

-Associating with nobodies (MC, his best friend and wife), those women are always travelling around the world and surrounded by the richest and most powerful.

-Into physics, such socially active and pretty women don't touch sciences with a 10 foot pole, specially if they aren't socially awkward (she is the opposite). There are (VERY few) hot women in physics, but they are either socially awkward (they don't fit elsewhere) or leave physics before graduating (when they discover they are much more valuable in other fields).



So more than likely she is either a state spy, or a company spy.

 

[3danims123]

Given the giant blue gemstone, I'd assumed that was just a ring Allison wears in place of the wedding ring in formal settings, either to snub the MC a little more, or to discourage would-be paramours. Or both.

Solo Allie route as well. If you go through with the Vanessa sex scene (I loaded and did it after just for viewing purposes!), Jake mentions that it's the engagement ring. Here's the exchange, read from bottom up:

 

[Ilhares]

She didnt suddenly realised "oh fuck, i still love him", imo its more like a "why do i still love this asshole?!" since the first time she appeared in this avn.

Do you consider that not sexy?

Are you kidding? I can barely take any woman seriously if she doesn't look at me with at least some disdain.

 

[Krytax123]

It's obviously a matter of interpretation, but to me Allison made a much bigger leap of faith when she invited the MC over for dinner after teaming up with him for the banquet. By that point she'd clearly recognized her conflicting feelings and made some level of peace with them. Hell, even when Allison wakes up with the MC cuddling her, she just thinks about how much she enjoys it rather than assuming the MC is pulling something, so clearly she's not blindsided by her feelings.

Given that, you'd think she or the MC would at least acknowledge the elephant in the room, but neither does so. Instead they keep acting surprised when the other DOESN'T lash out at them, despite that being the norm in their relationship since the game started. I know the game has only been short time relative to their backstories, but it's been a very memorable time. That makes it feels like we're stuck going in circles rather than actually moving forward (however slowly).

Second, I worry this is going to be used as an excuse for Allison to start getting lewd scenes with the MC without them getting back together, and that would probably kill her character for me. I get that it's not much fun having to turn down most of the game to solo Allison, but I really think that's what the circumstances demand. Allison's LI path needs to be focused on rebuilding the emotions and trust the two used to have to the exclusion of all else; trying to sexualize things before that should be a surefire ticket to the MC cheating on her again.

I mean, well, i dont disagree with your points, Allison has these conflicting feelings since we saw her appear for the first time, being angry at the mc was like her shield against these feelings.

I just finished the allison/jasmine/natalya route for the first time just now and jasmine and natalya kinda cofirmed my viewpoint:

Spoiler: Jas and Nat thoughts about allison

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Its only natural imo that missing someone includes the sex too, and there are countless examples of couples who still have occasional sex after a breakup because well .. were all humans and are sometimes lonely, miss intimicay and so on. Sex and intimacy are things you miss deeply and passion can be bonding.

But i agree with you and would prefer them becoming a couple again before having sex again. Yet i dont think its an absolute dealbreaker if they have sex first and get back together afterwards (as long as its not too long afterwards).

In that context, focusing on Allison's libido was exactly the wrong move IMHO. First, because I don't buy it. If Allison hasn't started to come around on the MC, I don't think she'd be attracted to him in the slightest no matter how horny she was; if anything, she'd have taken any lingering sexual frustration out on the MC for groping her. Even if she had started coming around on the MC enough to feel aroused, she wouldn't stick around in bed enjoying the sensation. She'd get up and fret about how to handle these feelings - from a safe distance.

Its not possible for allison to end up in a bed with him in a bad relationship playthrough which makes this point kinda moot or am i wrong?

And she did the thing you mentioned as your other suggestions, she stayed there laying for about what 5-10 seconds and had some half-asleeep thoughts, than she realised whats up and got up with conflicting feelings starting to think about how she misses this/him but doesnt allow herself to continue the thought in front of him.

I guess, but how long does it take to swing by the institute and fund the next level of care? You can't tell me Cooper would be offended if the MC missed the cookout for that.

But even if the MC didn't have time or doesn't need more payments at the moment, the game needs to do a better job of explaining this. The overriding goal of the story has been to get money for Lily's treatment. The plot suddenly hands the MC a giant stack of cash and Cooper says to take care of Lily... then we proceed to spend the whole update doing everything but that. It's a really weird writing choice.

Uh what level of care? The treatment got started and they paid the needed funds for at least the month, i didnt got the impression that they can "upgrade" the treatment with more money. They just need this much money as its unforeseeable how long these costs keep ongoing as i understood it.

And looking at it realisticly, theres no way he can pay all the time in cash (like 250k) without anyone asking questions about the money lol. Kalani should focus on money laundering if its that easy to earn her funds lol

But yeah i agree the plot with getting randomly 250k was strange, way more strange than the mc not using all the illegal money to do something useful with it. It kinda only makes sense as a plot to get the mc into problems which would be annoying, i dont want to have to deal with the tax office in avns too

Given the giant blue gemstone, I'd assumed that was just a ring Allison wears in place of the wedding ring in formal settings, either to snub the MC a little more, or to discourage would-be paramours. Or both.

Also, she isn't wearing the ring when the MC picks her up, but she is when he wakes her up at the hotel, then she isn't again in the lobby. Maybe she just likes to fidget with it?

Is that a thing somewhere to not wear the wedding ring during your wedding lol? Shes literally wearing it during their wedding and its the same ring. Like how is that supposed to happen? Putting the ring off after your newlywed husband put it on her finger and switching to another ring?

 

[Krytax123]

Diplomatic members in top positions are usually either very close to, or straight members of secret services. Working for embassies and related activities is one of the biggest red flags for detecting spies.


In lore it's very openly implied that she isn't who she says she is by:

-Her being intentionally vague about her relationship to her family, how she is related to them and where she comes from. Actual aristocrats can't shut up about their name and family relationships, they sometimes can be lazy about describing it to everyone around, but they are never intentionally vague about such things in a meaninful conversation.

-In the car scene, she talked about her past work in "operations", how she treated people working in them (hinting she fucked them to keep them happy). She immediately realised the term was too suspicious and she tried to cover it, explaining it as a normal civilian term. But that's spy terminology and usual tactics (fucking around, both inside her team and also fucking their targets), which doesn't fit with her being an aristocrat into physics.

-She was recommended to the University for a bridge course by the NATO General Secretary, which is the (nominally) highest ranking member of the NATO. People with those kind of connections are never concerned about the validity of their diplomas, they get special privileges which bypass normal requirements for nobodies, they don't need to wait around a professor and a car mechanic. She wouldn't require such a course in the first place, her European diplomas would be immediately admited in the USA.

There might be more because I'm still mid episode 2.



Out of lore, but also mentioned by MC (let's consider this is a world were hot women are into physics, but the MC said that a woman like that doesn't exist in reality, so even in such a world she is exceptional), she is simply too hot for her to be:

-Acting like that with a nobody (MC), going straight for him to fuck him for no reason at all, even when she didn't know him yet she was talking to his friend to meet him.

-Associating with nobodies (MC, his best friend and wife), those women are always travelling around the world and surrounded by the richest and most powerful.

-Into physics, such socially active and pretty women don't touch sciences with a 10 foot pole, specially if they aren't socially awkward (she is the opposite). There are (VERY few) hot women in physics, but they are either socially awkward (they don't fit elsewhere) or leave physics before graduating (when they discover they are much more valuable in other fields).



So more than likely she is either a state spy, or a company spy.

I mean thats what i was talking about, if her Dad is a ambassador (which would have needed to be verified when she registered at the college) it would be imo less likely for her to be a company spy and if at all she would (probably) be a state spy.

And i consider states spying out the mc specificly (on such a personal level too) is ridicilously unlikely considering that the mc's project isnt widely known when she arrives. The MC did mention a data leak in the university some time ago, its possible that they got the intel there.

As far as im aware youre not needing any "bridge courses" or anything similar if you work in the usa with a german diploma in reality, this whole thing is suspect.

And yeah of course Natalya is obviously sus and strange yet being a spy would still be very ... shoehorned, these guys would have to have figured out the immense potential of the mc's project before he even did it himself.

And lets be honest, she would be a really bad spy considering her intellect seeing how pushy and obvious she is, the mc recognizes it himself at their second meeting already.

I just think the spy thing is still not really fitting and its maybe something else but yeah i wouldnt bet my house on it

 

[DIRTY FILTHY Animal]

i only unlocked one scene in the gallery in this update? the kris & alexa scene thats it! plenty of exception errors, everytime he gets a phone call or text it crashes and my night ended at the elevator cause it crashes to the main menu.
anybody have a universal gallery unlocker that works on this game?

 

[pitao]

I'm afraid that her only "content" will be in the hate route...

For me that was evident since the start, her constant nagging to the MC about an event in their lives that players had no choice about it leads mostly for a hate route, was the only interactions that really annoyed me in the game. But Allison is a polarizing LI, people or will hate her or love her, and for me Allison and Veronica are the least interesting LI's in the context of the game story about racing and specially after reading the short introduction in the OP and kind of hinting to be a "free spirit" aiming to rebuild his life after a divorce.

Meet Jake, a 30-something divorcee rebuilding his life.
He’s smart, attractive and confident, and he knows it.
Meet smoking hot women, participate in illegal street races, win money, and achieve your goal!
Have fun guiding Jake's life and choose the best path (and the sexiest woman) possible.

Never thought it was a good idea bringing an EX or a current GF/Wife/Partner to the start of an adult game unless the game story revolves primarily around those relationships, and usually they are not stories for my taste anyway. Hate routes don't really seem fun for me either.

I have saves for those 2 LI routes just because maybe I'm wrong and will get more interesting later. But Allison and Veronica are the 2 paths I play in the end and mostly just skipping already seen content.

Edit: Edited to cut so many times I wrote "mostly", got annoyed at myself after reading it a second time .

 

[ename144]

i only unlocked one scene in the gallery in this update? the kris & alexa scene thats it! plenty of exception errors, everytime he gets a phone call or text it crashes and my night ended at the elevator cause it crashes to the main menu.
anybody have a universal gallery unlocker that works on this game?

I haven't run into any bugs in the course of normal gameplay (though really I only played one route), but I did get a lot of errors trying to load old saves. What's more, even if I rolled back or ignored those errors, I ran into a new error just trying to access the menu (by hitting the right mouse button or Escape).

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I do have the URM mod installed, but I doubt that's causing the glitch.

 

[pitao]

I haven't run into any bugs in the course of normal gameplay (though really I only played one route), but I did get a lot of errors trying to load old saves. What's more, even if I rolled back or ignored those errors, I ran into a new error just trying to access the menu (by hitting the right mouse button or Escape).

Spoiler: 2nd Error

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I do have the URM mod installed, but I doubt that's causing the glitch.

Yep those appeared to me also in a few of the old saves, but I bypassed them by ignore once and rollback next also only once or else it just kick you out of the game or doesn't let you to go to the menu. I simply skipped until I went to the start of the new content and save on each playthrough save I had. No more errors like those after.

You are right URM has nothing to do with it. Not using in this game and got those same errors.

 

[BBC246]

game crashed when the mc and Veronica was checking in at the desk. any fixes?

 

[eki6859]

For me that was evident since the start, her constant nagging to the MC about an event in their lives that players had no choice about it leads mostly for a hate route, was the only interactions that really annoyed me in the game. But Allison is a polarizing LI, people or will hate her or love her, and for me Allison and Veronica are the least interesting LI's in the context of the game story about racing and specially after reading the short introduction in the OP and kind of hinting to be a "free spirit" aiming to rebuild his life after a divorce.

Yeah maybe I was wrong and this isn't for me after all, but I liked the slighty change of her
temperament in the previous updates toward the MC , in a good way. and the model also.

 

[MiltonPowers]

game crashed when the mc and Veronica was checking in at the desk. any fixes?

Just the one. Don't take Veronica.

(Just joking)

 

[pitao]

Yeah maybe I was wrong and this isn't for me after all, but I liked the slighty change of her
temperament in the previous updates toward the MC , in a good way. and the model also.

Yep it got better their interactions specially in the 3.1 version. That is why I said maybe I'm wrong and get more interesting her love route. And yes she is beautiful, not the hottest of the LI's but for sure the most elegant but that all depends on each one taste.

 

[Jah-Ith-Ber]

Allison just continues to steal the show. Really the only good end game LI. Veronica is so whiney and needy. Natyla little too prissy and european lol. Red head is cute but a little too hoe-ish tbh good for a romp but not a future step-mom. Maggie is a good second choice.

 

[Dessolos]

yeah yeah I know im slow as fuck. I just played the topless pool scene on Allie's path. Yeah it's a little weird and she should know better since it's a public place and all. But the way it happened was pretty natural I thought with Jas and Nat talking her into doing it. For me it didn't really feel to much out of character other than her doing it at a public pool. As I feel with how she usually acts all professional that is something she still wouldn't do in a public pool especially right before an important conference to help her husband and potentially help Lilly. But I think if it was a public beach for example it would not of been out of character at all because of how the girls talked her into it.

 

[Razrback16]

Great update, thank you dev -

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Keep up the great work. Looking forward to buying Act 1 when it launches on Steam.

 

[regis nex]

Anybody have the android version?

 

[Ray_D]

Anybody have the android version?

Nah man only PC and MAC.

 

[donaldlee86]

yeah yeah I know im slow as fuck. I just played the topless pool scene on Allie's path. Yeah it's a little weird and she should know better since it's a public place and all. But the way it happened was pretty natural I thought with Jas and Nat talking her into doing it. For me it didn't really feel to much out of character other than her doing it at a public pool. As I feel with how she usually acts all professional that is something she still wouldn't do in a public pool especially right before an important conference to help her husband and potentially help Lilly. But I think if it was a public beach for example it would not of been out of character at all because of how the girls talked her into it.

how can i unlock the Allie's new scene of Ep 3.2? I tried again and again but could not make it.