I mean, the mc should be around 18, or so various origins imply
That's exactly what many are doing right now, so this was unnecessary. And art is a matter of taste. What's ugly for some might be to others' liking, and vice versa.
Again, matter of taste. Art is subjective regardless if its for a porn game or any form whatsoever. AI imagery on the other hand is a tricky subject to touch upon, mainly since it involves ethics and arguments regarding its process and ownership.
Fair.
It doesn't need to be, but it can be someone else's favorite game. Sure most of the people here aren't financially supporting the game, but to pass judgement to the those disappointed with the supposed final update of the game when it was promised to fix (or at least mitigate) bugs from the previous version is off-putting. Mind you these are the same folks who invested their time into the game, be they a supporter or not, because they might have found the story and/or art to be appealing.
Yeah I completed every part and got the class. Guess she's gone. Fuck this "Gold Patch". What an absolute joke.
Good to know you haven't ignored tons of non-AI-related critical comments that highlight low-quality of the Gold Edition, which in turn suggests that "devs've chosen the different path" in reality is just devs cutting corners while failing to deliver their promises. Which kinda justify review bombing and all the negative attention devs got, given how they failed to do their job at developing the game.
I'm playing version 6.1, Dicktacles still work, but (I think) it gets nerfed. I've cleared novos, deep forest, ornesse, and summeredge, my rulwe is nowhere as strong as yours.
honestly the AI art replacement isn't what I hate about this "Gold" edition. It's the obvious lack of care that went into revision and playtesting. The 5.8 version is magnitudes more stable and bug free, and it's biggest complaint was the bugs it had. It's like Kal was alley-ooping himself to filter feed bug fixes on Patreon for another year on Roundscape.
In my attempts of moving saves from 6.0A to 6.1 I've founds that Rulwe seems to have a cap on how strong he can grow. He was somewhere around 900+ hp when I've tried it first, and at that point winning battles no longer grown his stats. So I stick to 6.0A just to see how ridiculous I can get him.
Precisely well said. Most AI pics in Rounscape are bad, but tolerably bad, spare for a few nice or horrendous examples. Complete lack of care, however, is anything but tolerable. Sadly, AI here seems to be a symptom of this lack of care rather than a genuine feature.
Another good point. There is nothing bad in using AI, but AI as it is now struggles to deliver quality product. Easy and intuitive remedy would be hiring an artist who would work on AI-generated image to relieve it from defects. Besides, if AI-image would receive such polishing, artist could bring their own touch, which would greatly help. Especially in departments such as general style (AI-images tend to be very repetive), facial expressions and body language (AI has very poor grasp of emotions, tends to make every character doll-like).
I suspect they might have started with the idea of having artists touch up the AI stuff, realized that artists would (rightly) charge as much for their work on editing these pictures as if they were working on stuff from scratch, and very quickly decided that they'd rather keep hoarding money instead at the cost of quality, especially since having artists fix things would have taken longer than just getting the bare minimum from Stable Diffusion, and the sooner they put out any given update, the sooner they get more money. It's not the first project I've seen in the past year where this has happened.
Sadly, I lean to the same conclusion. There is hardly a way they didn't have enough money and there is hardly a way they didn't have another option but using AI as is.
