VN Ren'Py Ravager [v5.2.0] [4MinuteWarning]

[Lareit]

> Don't have malice

A. Heresy of the highest order. This game sole reason for existing is Malice.
Malice is Love. Malice is Life. Malice is the best character by far. This game should be renamed to include her name in the title. Something like "Malice's Story"

B. metagaming: MC explicitly does not know anything about a cataclysm in character until after having Malice. At which point it is unstoppable.

C. spoilers: There is zero indication that the Cataclysm is going to mutate your LI into hideous abominations. As the game is very intentionally vague about what the Cataclysm actually does.

D. time travel: This content was just added. So while future players have the possibility of getting spoilers (which are a can of worms), current players had no way to foresee the future and know this is what is going to happen to their waifu.

E. We are given a false choice. We can say we don't like it, and it happens anyways.

While this may sound insane by Porn Game standards, most narratives do not give a shit what the audience think. If you put down every book when a character you like dies than I can only imagine how few books you manage to get through.

If Malice is your #1 girl there is a path for you.
If Heliose is your #1 girl there is a path for you.
If Marie-Anne is your #1 girl there is a path for you(or two if you like deer).

Being unhappy that you can't get every girl to do exactly what you want them to do is short sighted.

 

[harem.king]

While this may sound insane by Porn Game standards, most narratives do not give a shit what the audience think. If you put down every book when a character you like dies than I can only imagine how few books you manage to get through.

If Malice is your #1 girl there is a path for you.
If Heliose is your #1 girl there is a path for you.
If Marie-Anne is your #1 girl there is a path for you(or two if you like deer).

Being unhappy that you can't get every girl to do exactly what you want them to do is short sighted.

You only address point A while pretending all the other points don't exist.

Where in the game did it tell you that you will get malice / cataclysm from elf fucking? nowhere, this is spoilers and metagaming.

Where in the game did it tell you that taking malice will mean that much much much later you will suddenly lose Marie-Anne? Nowhere. spoilers and metagaming.

You expect people to be time travellers from the future who read the wiki in full before playing a game.
And then call them "short sighted" for both not doing so in advance and also for wanting a complete harem.

At least when you sacrificed a girl to the deep ones, hell, or wizard then it told you upfront you will be sacrificing a girl to them. It told you which girl will be sacrificed. And it let you choose whether to sacrifice her or not.
And you either hadn't had her for long, or had not even gotten her yet.

Making it an upfront choice.

Finally. This is explicitly a harem game. I know a thing or two about harem games.
I can absolutely say that it is a bad choice for a harem game to force you lose some girls by surprise for flimsy justifications.
You might not agree, and its ok, you are allowed to have blatantly wrong opinions.

 

[Lareit]

You only address point A while pretending all the other points don't exist.

Where in the game did it tell you that you will get malice / cataclysm from elf fucking? nowhere, this is spoilers and metagaming.

Where in the game did it tell you that taking malice will mean that much much much later you will suddenly lose Marie-Anne? Nowhere. spoilers and metagaming.

You expect people to be time travellers from the future who read the wiki in full before playing a game.
And then call them "short sighted" for both not doing so in advance and also for wanting a complete harem.

At least when you sacrificed a girl to the deep ones, hell, or wizard then it told you upfront you will be sacrificing a girl to them. It told you which girl will be sacrificed. And it let you choose whether to sacrifice her or not.
And you either hadn't had her for long, or had not even gotten her yet.

Making it an upfront choice.

Finally. This is explicitly a harem game. I know a thing or two about harem games.
I can absolutely say that it is a bad choice for a harem game to force you lose some girls by surprise for flimsy justifications.
You might not agree, and its ok, you are allowed to have blatantly wrong opinions.

Where in the game did it tell you you get to control everything that happens?

Where in ANY store does the writer tell you they will change the narrative to fit your whims?

I don't expect anyone to know what is going to happen in a story. That is why we keep reading/watching. We want to see what happens.

It's not a harem game. It's a Dragon harem game with shockingly in-depth and consistent narrative/lore.

 

[Lillith491]

There can be no such thing, since which lair you choose for the dragon affects which scenes will be available.

You know you can have multiple saves right? i have had like 30 saves testing out different routes before. it's just a lot of work.

 

[packor]

shockingly in-depth and consistent narrative/lore.

wat

Edit:

 

[nejfan]

I can't get over that they made best bae into a fat fucking deer out of nowhere.

Like, from a step removed, it's hilarious. I play this game for the bestiality (animal on women), impregnation, and wholesome making bitches fall in love with me.

Not for fucking a Jabba the Hutt deer, lmao.

This kind of applies to almost every harem member, to an extent. There's very little corruption/manipulation allowed by the devs so instead we have to settle for brutally disfiguring, mind deletion or transformations we have no say or interest in.

Probably is by far the least fun thing about the game.

 

[Fikedever]

You have to agree - that one is a very specific stumble. Also, his duality - or, perhaps, it would be more apt to call it mutli-facedness - runs way deeper. Have you ever tried to give him out to the wolves? He fits in the pack. And the Eburon comments that he is a natural killer. If anything, I suspect "slutty" part being pure play-pretend to entice our Bad Dragon and not part of any real, deep duality.

So, we have someone who refers to himself as 'we' for no reason, emanated unnatural heat on death and is a killer. Makes a few clicks, doesn't it?
...
Also, IIRC, you could kill our Bussy lad at prior points. I don't remember there being anything about acrid blood, smell of petrichor and heat emanating from his body. So, it may be something event-specific.
...
Sidenote: can anyone recall anything about petrichor being mentioned anywhere in game? It's SOOOO SPECIFIC it begs into question a possibility of equally specific hint. So, was it mentioned before? In Malagar's section of the game, perhaps?

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[enelprinceofthemoon]

AS OF v5.2.0:

The game scans for .bat files and steam_appid.txt in its base directory (where Ravager.exe etc are), and quits during intialization if it finds any as an anti-piracy measure.

For now, the easiest fix would be to use the .bat method but rename the file to .cmd, or launch a command prompt in said base directory (Ctrl+Shift+Right Click -> "Open PowerShell window here" in Windows Explorer) and manually run the command:

lib\py3-windows-x86_64\pythonw.exe Ravager.py

I've attached a bypass that works for the time being: Extract Ravager.cmd to the same folder as Ravager.exe and use Ravager.cmd to start the game.

IF you have used any other cracks/bypasses before on the same installation make sure to delete any .bat files and (files ending with) steam_appid.txt from both the base directory AND from lib\py3-windows-x86_64

I get this error:
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "renpy/common/00start.rpy", line 287, in script
python:
ScriptError: could not find label 'start'.

Would appreciate any help from anyone in getting it to run :'))

 

[TowerEpik]

Where in the game did it tell you you get to control everything that happens?

The game is about being a dragon, you rape whoever you like, you conquer, you establish your will with violence. This is literally like the hook of the entire game. Hell, even one of the difficulty settings is "Power Fantasy".

Where in ANY store does the writer tell you they will change the narrative to fit your whims?

That's a strawman. It's not about "changing the narrative", people just want more options.

I don't expect anyone to know what is going to happen in a story. That is why we keep reading/watching. We want to see what happens.

Sure, the problem is "what happens" wasn't good. It didn't have to turn out this way at all, but it did and you can't do anything about it once you get to that point.

It's not a harem game. It's a Dragon harem game with shockingly in-depth and consistent narrative/lore.

It's not a harem game...but it's a harem game? Listen to yourself, this is absurd. Game has a wide appeal, just look at the tags, you can't just take your perspective on it and shove it into everyone else's face. People have different tastes and its really rude to force some of them onto those that didn't ask for it.

 

[TowerEpik]

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[Lareit]

The game is about being a dragon, you rape whoever you like, you conquer, you establish your will with violence. This is literally like the hook of the entire game. Hell, even one of the difficulty settings is "Power Fantasy".

Yet even in the Power Fantasy you are denied the opportunity to couple with the Maid/Adeline in the beginning. Will die if you stay and fight the guards and fail to defeat Sabetha and Inej if you attack them. So again, where in the narrative did the game tell you the story will do everything you want?

That's a strawman. It's not about "changing the narrative", people just want more options.

It's not a strawman. We are simply arguing different points of merit and failing to agree.

Sure, the problem is "what happens" wasn't good. It didn't have to turn out this way at all, but it did and you can't do anything about it once you get to that point.


It's not a harem game...but it's a harem game? Listen to yourself, this is absurd. Game has a wide appeal, just look at the tags, you can't just take your perspective on it and shove it into everyone else's face. People have different tastes and its really rude to force some of them onto those that didn't ask for it.

Well lets just throw that argument right back at you. People have different tastes and it's really rude to force some of them onto those who didn't ask for it.
Don't like Deer Marie Anne? Don't engage with it. Don't deny those who do the ability to.

and yes it's the only Dragon Harem game I am aware of, so it gets to have it's own set of rules and stipulations without having to fall into the trap all the others have.

 

[TowerEpik]

Yet even in the Power Fantasy you are denied the opportunity to couple with the Maid/Adeline in the beginning. Will die if you stay and fight the guards and fail to defeat Sabetha and Inej if you attack them. So again, where in the narrative did the game tell you the story will do everything you want?

This is not entirely correct, in Power Fantasy you have to go out of your way to get killed, it's not something that happens by accident, you essentially die on purpose.

It's not a strawman. We are simply arguing different points of merit and failing to agree.

It is a strawman because you misrepresent what is actually being asked of here. This isn't a book, there is no one set path, just many branches and when playing you tailor your experience to that. It's about having more choices, more control, over your story, not changing it.

Well lets just throw that argument right back at you. People have different tastes and it's really rude to force some of them onto those who didn't ask for it.
Don't like Deer Marie Anne? Don't engage with it. Don't deny those who do the ability to.

You literally cannot. Do you think people chose "yeah turn her into a deer" just to get mad on purpose? Only way to prevent this is to not have Malice, but what if you want Malice but don't want all this crazy shit happening? You have no such option.

and yes it's the only Dragon Harem game I am aware of, so it gets to have it's own set of rules and stipulations without having to fall into the trap all the others have.

What's a dragon got to do with whether its a harem or not? It makes no fucking difference! It's still a harem game about boinking people! I don't think you understand what genres and tropes are, they aren't "traps", they are the mechanism by which the story is structured around, and having your love interests get transformed against your will runs contrary to the core appeal of the game.

 

[jahall]

You know you can have multiple saves right? i have had like 30 saves testing out different routes before. it's just a lot of work.

Indeed, but the poster I was replying to asked for "a full save", and I doubt that they would want to be offered 30 - or even 3 - different saves. From their request it sounded like they didn't understand the nature of the game. They may have assumed that, because it's made in Renpy, that it's a VN with essentially one path, whereas it's actually a true game.

 

[Lareit]

This is not entirely correct, in Power Fantasy you have to go out of your way to get killed, it's not something that happens by accident, you essentially die on purpose.

But it can happen. So much for Power Fantasy by the logic you presented earlier.

It is a strawman because you misrepresent what is actually being asked of here. This isn't a book, there is no one set path, just many branches and when playing you tailor your experience to that. It's about having more choices, more control, over your story, not changing it.

Even in a choose your adventure book or opened ended game there is a very finite limit to the options presented. Those options are limited by what the creator put in place. I used books and writer as the example as it's the most direct comparison to a Visual Novel but that fact does not change regardless the form of Media chosen. The Creator chooses the story path(s) and the audience engages it, limited by what was put before them.

You literally cannot. Do you think people chose "yeah turn her into a deer" just to get mad on purpose? Only way to prevent this is to not have Malice, but what if you want Malice but don't want all this crazy shit happening? You have no such option.

I agree. If Malcie or Heliose is your favorite character then Deerie-Anne is an unfortunate casualty. It's not any different then missing Malygar Content because you choose Sunken Temple. It's a narrative choice by the creators. It's not a case of being unable to understand why people don't want their waifu to turn into a form no longer attractive. It's a case of not being able to understand why people want a plot so predictable and boring.

What's a dragon got to do with whether its a harem or not? It makes no fucking difference! It's still a harem game about boinking people! I don't think you understand what genres and tropes are, they aren't "traps", they are the mechanism by which the story is structured around, and having your love interests get transformed against your will runs contrary to the core appeal of the game.

Because a Dragon changes the power structure and relationship structure heavily. In a way even King/Emperor style Harems can not do. A Dragon does not have the same kind of relationship expectations with a Harem.

So yes, it is a meaningful distinction.

 

[hexkitty01]

i guess no matter what we do the 2 rogue girls gets away right? if thats the case i hope the dev in the future lets us capture them and keep them for good sometime down the road? View attachment 4280347

Huh? No... they escape if you push them too hard (any dialogue option with "Strength" or "charm" after it), otherwise they're with you for life... and inej's dragon-cat babies are kinda cute.

 

[Nobles]

Do we actually know what Issa is up too? It seems in the scene he has with Valzira he wants the naga to be born?
He hates kobolds and seems sad/annoyed if you respond that you want to make Adeline your queen and make more dragons.

But at the same time there is that scene where he goes all yandere on Naho, and I cant find any angle there that he is plotting something against us somehow. only wanting to "put her in her place" for daring to try to attack us.

Yeah, its why I asked a few posts earlier.. My instincts are telling me to kill him. The way he acts, the things hes been scurrying around behind everyone's backs. The way he talks to Valria like she be a useful tool for him. But if he has a storyline and most of his actions are a misconception or mabye hes just bad at it or prone with mistakes. I would rather see it play out. Im not really sure how we even go so close to begin with.. as far as I was aware, he was just another Kobold that looked diferent because he was engineered. I didnt even know he was classed as a captive like your other girls ?

Well, Malice is kind of just like you. You're a big rapey dragon, she's a big rapey snake.

I remember in the dream. She mentions she got her body and looks from her mother, but her strength, personality and motives/dires were from her daddy. So I did expect she be alot like you ? a daddies girl :3

 

[leafus]

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Truly a blessed era in the Ravager thread! And another proof that Malice is the best girl - it is her doin, after all. :3


To be perfectly honest all the warnings were vague AF. Nowhere did no one say that Malice and her Cataclysm will have waifu deerification consequences. Its like telling some goof to not hang around that weird stone cause its a bad one.

The weird stone in question? The Elephant Foot.

Probably should have told your buddy about the dangers of radiation poisoning instead of: "STONE BAD! STONE DANGER!". Before he started convulsing and his hair fell off.

It doesn't help that you basically HAD to bang an elf for years if you wanted new content. You lose SO MUCH by not fucking an elf. In fact you lose like THREE love interests worth of content if you DON'T fuck an elf.
Also the game at times just straight up tells you "NO" to things for no real reason. Best example is the guy who tells you you can't make a law saying you have multiple wives, despite the fact you are a totalitarian dictator dragon. Change our religion, make us slaves, let wolfmen rape us, cripple us with taxes. TWO wives though? Absolutely horrendous I will die on the spot for this.

 

[Thedude715]

Yeah, its why I asked a few posts earlier.. My instincts are telling me to kill him. The way he acts, the things hes been scurring around behind everyone's backs. The way he talks to Valria like she be a useful too for him. But if he has a storyline and most of his actions are a misconception or mabye hes just bad at it or prone with mistakes. I would rather see it play out. Im not really sure how we even go so close to begin with.. as far as I was aware, he was just another Kobold that looked diferent because he was engineered. I didnt even know he was classed as a captive like your other girls ?


I remember in the dream. She mentions she got her body and looks from her mother, but her strength, personality and motives/dires were from her daddy. So I did expect she be alot like you ? a daddies girl :3

Pretty much mainly him just being way smarter then a normal kobold yeah, also looks (if we are looking out of game he is there to satisfy the niche of a trap) Would have killed him myself the way he acts but well I like femboys and I cant lie, and he is the only one in the game so

 

[TowerEpik]

But it can happen. So much for Power Fantasy by the logic you presented earlier.

How does that contradict it? If you want to get killed, why should you not be allowed to do it? You're the one in the driver's seat.

Even in a choose your adventure book or opened ended game there is a very finite limit to the options presented. Those options are limited by what the creator put in place. I used books and writer as the example as it's the most direct comparison to a Visual Novel but that fact does not change regardless the form of Media chosen. The Creator chooses the story path(s) and the audience engages it, limited by what was put before them.

I agree. If Malcie or Heliose is your favorite character then Deerie-Anne is an unfortunate casualty. It's not any different then missing Malygar Content because you choose Sunken Temple. It's a narrative choice by the creators. It's not a case of being unable to understand why people don't want their waifu to turn into a form no longer attractive. It's a case of not being able to understand why people want a plot so predictable and boring.

Nobody is asking for *every* single idea or option to be available. Only those that are actually important to people. If you were so dead set on the creator having the final holy word on everything, why have these different branching paths, why give people the choice if you're just going to take it away from them? Surely if the writer's word is law and you have no say in the matter, giving people choices is pointless? Answer is obviously no, you craft your own experience to your liking, it is the player who is the dragon who makes choices and forms bonds with the people he meets. This is why the comparison of your love interests to someone like Magalar doesn't make sense, normal people aren't okay with their loved ones being changed against their will. You do so only because you come from a dispassionate angle where you do not really see these characters as people close to you.

The point isn't to remove the story you like as it is currently, just to add more paths to deal with the issue. You can keep Deerie-Anne if you want, but you shouldn't be forced into it if you don't want to give up Heloise and Malice.

Because a Dragon changes the power structure and relationship structure heavily. In a way even King/Emperor style Harems can not do. A Dragon does not have the same kind of relationship expectations with a Harem.

So yes, it is a meaningful distinction.

Dragon is just a big lizard dude, it's not that deep. There are harems where the protagonist has incredible powers too, it doesn't really matter, it's still a harem game, you're in it for the girls (or boys).

 

[Mansy_mans]

Is there a walkthrough for the game?