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

[Jericho85]

eh she could honestly be wife material, if MC wanted that. But he doesn't, so she comes off as clingy/jealous/etc... she thinks their relationship is much more serious than it actually is. Plus MC has his daughter as the priority, and in his place I'd rather take someone to the charity thing who actually knows the details about the project, and she couldn't understand that? Anyway, I won't be sad if that's the last we see of her.

Agreed. When I first tried this VN I thought I'd like Veronica because she's fuckin hot... But she started losing me when she started trying to slip in the word "Girlfriend" even after Jake's answer in the DTR conversation. They're clearly not on the same page.

This episode kind of changed my opinion on the LIs a little bit. I wound up picking Jasmine on my first Charity event playthrough purely because Veronica was kind of irritating me more than Jasmine was (even though both were being immature little shits). That choice ended up being worth it. I enjoyed the hell out of Jasmine and Alexa at the party.

Also Natalya is a lot more interesting in this chapter. I don't even care if she's a spy. My top 3 LIs right now are Jasmine, Natalya, and Doctor Mommy.

 

[Deleted member 3788572]

Veronica's path just feels like a poorly executed forced relationship route tbh. With forced relationships in general, it's always kinda hit and miss. I personally don't mind them if they're well integrated into the story.
Here it just feels like a big misunderstanding. 6 months of dating should be more than enough to figure out what you want and, most importantly, be clear about it. Is it too hard to say "I understand you want and deserve more, but I don't feel the same."? Instead, we have MC keeping Victoria at arm's length even before Lily's accident, not really opening up to her (which is kinda ironic give how quickly he opens up to Maggie) and acting clueless (pinnacle was trying to call her after she texted him she needed a break). As a result, she acted all clingy and pushy. Obviously, letting herself get riled up by a provocative student is not a great look either.

So yeah, in short, this could have ended much sooner if you don't want to be on her path. Honestly, just my personal preference, but since we already have Allie as a forced (ex-)relationship (which works much better imo), I could have done fine without Veronica, especially since she got a lot of content in the first two chapters. Ah well, the others will catch up at some point.

 

[Defenestrator.for.traitor]

Veronica's path just feels like a poorly executed forced relationship route tbh. With forced relationships in general, it's always kinda hit and miss. I personally don't mind them if they're well integrated into the story.
Here it just feels like a big misunderstanding. 6 months of dating should be more than enough to figure out what you want and, most importantly, be clear about it. Is it too hard to say "I understand you want and deserve more, but I don't feel the same."? Instead, we have MC keeping Victoria at arm's length even before Lily's accident, not really opening up to her (which is kinda ironic give how quickly he opens up to Maggie) and acting clueless (pinnacle was trying to call her after she texted him she needed a break). As a result, she acted all clingy and pushy. Obviously, letting herself get riled up by a provocative student is not a great look either.

So yeah, in short, this could have ended much sooner if you don't want to be on her path. Honestly, just my personal preference, but since we already have Allie as a forced (ex-)relationship (which works much better imo), I could have done fine without Veronica, especially since she got a lot of content in the first two chapters. Ah well, the others will catch up at some point.

Found the Cooper's alt account.

 

[Jericho85]

Veronica's path just feels like a poorly executed forced relationship route tbh. With forced relationships in general, it's always kinda hit and miss. I personally don't mind them if they're well integrated into the story.
Here it just feels like a big misunderstanding. 6 months of dating should be more than enough to figure out what you want and, most importantly, be clear about it. Is it too hard to say "I understand you want and deserve more, but I don't feel the same."? Instead, we have MC keeping Victoria at arm's length even before Lily's accident, not really opening up to her (which is kinda ironic give how quickly he opens up to Maggie) and acting clueless (pinnacle was trying to call her after she texted him she needed a break). As a result, she acted all clingy and pushy. Obviously, letting herself get riled up by a provocative student is not a great look either.

So yeah, in short, this could have ended much sooner if you don't want to be on her path. Honestly, just my personal preference, but since we already have Allie as a forced (ex-)relationship (which works much better imo), I could have done fine without Veronica, especially since she got a lot of content in the first two chapters. Ah well, the others will catch up at some point.

I don't think there's anything poorly executed about it. I think the dev set up that situation precisely to get this kind of reaction out of readers about Jake and Veronica's relationship. IMO it was really well-written.

 

[Krytax123]

Veronica's path just feels like a poorly executed forced relationship route tbh. With forced relationships in general, it's always kinda hit and miss. I personally don't mind them if they're well integrated into the story.
Here it just feels like a big misunderstanding. 6 months of dating should be more than enough to figure out what you want and, most importantly, be clear about it. Is it too hard to say "I understand you want and deserve more, but I don't feel the same."? Instead, we have MC keeping Victoria at arm's length even before Lily's accident, not really opening up to her (which is kinda ironic give how quickly he opens up to Maggie) and acting clueless (pinnacle was trying to call her after she texted him she needed a break). As a result, she acted all clingy and pushy. Obviously, letting herself get riled up by a provocative student is not a great look either.

So yeah, in short, this could have ended much sooner if you don't want to be on her path. Honestly, just my personal preference, but since we already have Allie as a forced (ex-)relationship (which works much better imo), I could have done fine without Veronica, especially since she got a lot of content in the first two chapters. Ah well, the others will catch up at some point.

To be fair, the mc is able to be somewhat clear about his intentions about the relationship with veronica at their date at her place when the have the dtr-talk which is pretty early. And imo its less the mc acting clueless in this situation and more like he doesnt really care.

 

[dazdncnfusd77]

New game

I'm having these types of errors as well with the text messages. Started a new game and even redownloaded/reinstalled.

 

[Garvelt]

Maybe she was justified to be pushy cause she was jealous or felt threatened by Jasmine however it felt like it was too soon to me almost comes off as she is being a bit selfish because of what the MC is dealing with. Because of the the whole thing with Lilly being in a coma and him needing to find a way to get money for the treatment to start. But I feel with the whole Lilly situation id imagine a relationship is the last thing he is even thinking about. Now if she waited till he got the treatment started would of been a better time to bring it up and wouldn't come off as pushy or selfish.

Oh, I'm not saying it wasn't too soon, it definitely was, but I think it all comes from the fact that she cares about the MC and wants to help him through this crisis. I don't think she would have brought up the whole let's get serious topic so soon after the accident if it wasn't for Jasmine's flirty nature. And let's be honest, not taking her to the ball is a huge kick in the teeth any way you look at it.

Anyway, it's not like I even like her that much, I just think her actions are justified if you look at the whole picture from her perspective.

Everyone talking about Natalya being spy etc. but ignore Alexa? Her father basically a capitalist tyrant, she knows all the wealthy people and she is good with investment, company stuff etc. she is very much into MC but shows that as she is just a slutty girl has hots for teacher maybe she is into MC for a different reason and hides it, whenever something happens with battery she is there and also stole MC's thumb drive with the research data and she is too knowledgeable about the topic. She is clearly up to something and all the slutty student stuff is a façade if you ask me.

P.S. PC hacking happened right after this scene, IIRC.

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She is definitely up to something other than wanting to bang the MC, but there was no indication that the flash drive contained any relevant information. The MC didn't even notice it was gone. So while Alexa might be involved with some shady stuff, taking the flash drive had nothing to do with the hacking attempt we saw.

 

[Deleted member 1838060]

see where people are getting some errors this is the one I got.
I got it when Racer Girl - Kris hands the MC his phone back and was talking about pictures someone sent him with "double Ds"

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/script/episode2/ep2_scene4.rpy", line 595, in <module>
KeyError: 'v2s4unknown'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "script/episode2/ep2_scene4.rpyc", line 595, in script
  File "C:\\RaceOfLife-Episode-2-Extra-pc\RaceOfLife-Episode-2-Extra-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 1131, in execute
    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
  File "C:\\RaceOfLife-Episode-2-Extra-pc\RaceOfLife-Episode-2-Extra-pc\renpy\python.py", line 1049, in py_exec_bytecode
    exec(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "game/script/episode2/ep2_scene4.rpy", line 595, in <module>
KeyError: 'v2s4unknown'

Windows-10-10.0.19045 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.0.1.22070801
Race of Life Episode-2-Extra
Tue Sep 12 10:27:56 2023

 

[georsak]

Absolutely enjoyed the new episode and the game in general. Not only the best new game of the year so far, but one of the top-5 in f95 in my opinion. The renders, animations, artistic direction are top notch. But since members of the development team seem to read this thread, I would like to offer some well intended criticism regarding the writing and pacing. It's about minor details, nitpicks really, but for me quite immersion breaking. Spoiler follows

Spoiler: Details that bug me

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Just my two cents. From a place of appreciation. From a fan

 

[Defenestrator.for.traitor]

She is definitely up to something other than wanting to bang the MC, but there was no indication that the flash drive contained any relevant information. The MC didn't even notice it was gone. So while Alexa might be involved with some shady stuff, taking the flash drive had nothing to do with the hacking attempt we saw.

MC refers to that flash drive when he was talking to Jasmine and after that he say data is important to keep manufacturers happy. I know he was talking about the recent data they produced but if he was using that flash drive for the job, that means that flash drive probably contains previous data. I don't say it is definitely related but I am merely suggesting Alexa being sketchy. For the hacking part, mine was only speculation obviously but if hacking related anyone we saw I think Alexa is more likely candidate rather than Natalya.

 

[Quibble Bubble]

see where people are getting some errors this is the one I got.
I got it when Racer Girl - Kris hands the MC his phone back and was talking about pictures someone sent him with "double Ds"

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/script/episode2/ep2_scene4.rpy", line 595, in <module>
KeyError: 'v2s4unknown'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "script/episode2/ep2_scene4.rpyc", line 595, in script
  File "C:\\RaceOfLife-Episode-2-Extra-pc\RaceOfLife-Episode-2-Extra-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 1131, in execute
    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
  File "C:\\RaceOfLife-Episode-2-Extra-pc\RaceOfLife-Episode-2-Extra-pc\renpy\python.py", line 1049, in py_exec_bytecode
    exec(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "game/script/episode2/ep2_scene4.rpy", line 595, in <module>
KeyError: 'v2s4unknown'

Windows-10-10.0.19045 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.0.1.22070801
Race of Life Episode-2-Extra
Tue Sep 12 10:27:56 2023

I've modded it a bit, and it seems to work for me. Try this version:

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[SamualHand]

There's no way a (as much as rebelious and flirty she may be) student will behave like that in front of two professors, seemingly out of the blue.

Besides of pr0n logic?!

 

[Bolero]

Anyone knows how to get the last scene with Alison? I tried starting new game a couple of times and went only for Alison points etc, also downloaded the cheat mode and changed stats and still i cant get it. Do not know what else to do.

 

[sp4ckj4rr0w_420]

Spoiler: xD

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[Xeron_Xr]

Anyone knows how to get the last scene with Alison? I tried starting new game a couple of times and went only for Alison points etc, also downloaded the cheat mode and changed stats and still i cant get it. Do not know what else to do.

now start another game and dont go for alli u will get the scene at the end

 

[SASHAKAMEN]

wish Mc can be more asserative

 

[Defenestrator.for.traitor]

Anyone knows how to get the last scene with Alison? I tried starting new game a couple of times and went only for Alison points etc, also downloaded the cheat mode and changed stats and still i cant get it. Do not know what else to do.

Play however you want Allie route but when it comes to bringing someone to gala choose someone besides Allie then when doc offers some tea accept it, it should work that.
Don't save that route though, no one should be rude to Allie.

 

[Jericho85]

now start another game and dont go for alli u will get the scene at the end

Pretty sure you can still get the hate fuck scene even if you are a complete gentleman to Allison all throughout chapter 1 and 2. Even on the "Nice" Allison path, Jake says something that pisses Allison off. When that happens, choose to fight back instead of apologizing. It ends the Allison path in spectacular fashion just the same as with the asshole path.

Full disclosure: In my playthrough, I was nice to Allison but I took Jasmine to the ball and I stayed to have tea with Doctor Mommy. So it's possible I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what happens in the Allison Date if you went with Allison on those choices.

 

[tydog99]

Great update but I wouldn't be surprised if this is the last one. Didn't take many updates before this studio abandoned their last game. It's the reason I won't support on Patreon yet either.

 

[camube]

Pretty sure you can still get the hate fuck scene even if you are a complete gentleman to Allison all throughout chapter 1 and 2. Even on the "Nice" Allison path, Jake says something that pisses Allison off. When that happens, choose to fight back instead of apologizing. It ends the Allison path in spectacular fashion just the same as with the asshole path.

Full disclosure: In my playthrough, I was nice to Allison but I took Jasmine to the ball and I stayed to have tea with Doctor Mommy. So it's possible I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what happens in the Allison Date if you went with Allison on those choices.

staying with the doctor is not "nice", in context
idk about the game's points programming