Seriously, how much effort would it take FOW to add some linking animations like many people have suggested, which could have extra dialogue and build-up before the actual loops we see now. And why not tie these scenes to certain planets or events you come across while exploring the galaxies or even your ship? Isn't the whole point of exploration in a game to get rewarded for it?
Brass tacks? An entire other focus. The right focus, but not the content production pipeline they have created. It is safe to say it's impossible to recut something identifiable as formerly being pandora into anything people expected or want.
Canned narrative intro and outtro's to sex content with variant framing for beast/mantic scenes treating them as Profane "haha kili you are banging my doggo" and the Crew category as literal NTR? Maybe.
Really this is what all the labor for cinematics should have gone towards. Making "walking and talking" interactive cutscenes frame the sex content instead of being wasted on looking pretty to cover (and be eaten by) load calls by their poorly optimized game.
I can respect what I think their initial idea was of being able to knit together sex scenes into one flowing narrative, but they buckled under scale and now it's likely unsalvagable. Beyond that, it was already dated on conception compared to the honey select inspired sandbox sex interfaces of games like Wildlife or Fallen Doll which are Subverse's direct contemporaries.
They simply don't have the resources, as even if they had the money they don't have the time, to make anything currently in pandora part of a coherent, impactful, erotic narrative. They never matted out how variants would function to cover the transition from mantics to the player to robots to random zombies to etc. Even if they established rules for pandora (scenes only can involve one category, one mantic and/or character) it would still be too much to handle. The VA footprint alone would be equal to the rest of the current game and only balloon with every additional scene.
Beyond scrapping literally everything they've designed (common theme really) and making a smaller subset of scenes narratively integrated and truly optional, they don't have a direction to just make the pandora system "better." They already tried with the descriptions, the laziest way to provide context (that undermines the pandora scene knitting... oops) to "improve" the system, and now it's worse than before.
It all comes down to needing a rebuild and reconceptualization. The current design doesn't work, flat out. It's a waste of talent and money. Twisted promises like VA without lip-synch, borderline lies like "Mass effect sandbox" gameplay of... ship navigation despite having a fully 3D ship environment in UE doing nothing but killing their game through a loadcell behind every button click. Being a once lauded animation studio and yet sitting here with this weaksauce store bought VN interface for all dialogue?
Even now they could still go back to the drawing board, maybe get some actual outside expertise, and make a real "adult game" out of the coom covered lego set of their games elements. Persisting with the current game design is doing irreprable harm to StudioFOW and crowdfunding as a whole.
As for Subverse, we are aware that our communication with the community has been pretty bad so far, we are taking steps to improve it, as you will soon see, we care about our community and this industry at large.
That rings hollow considering your past/current behavior as a company and taciturn support of 'Stans that are killing your games public perception on every forum in and out of your control.
If you aren't having a laugh cosplaying as Tibor with no developer tag, you have a lot to address to communities you cannot censor and the playbase you lost. Well beyond a canned response seemingly prompted out of being
a lil bit salty the top ranked most helpful GoG comment is putting you on blast over the Shitcoin scam. On that front, just accept bitcoin or doge or libra any stablecoin through a direct sales interface, which you don't have, if you really want to "help" the krauts buy smut right now that want to coom but can figure out alt tech like a coin wallet but not a VPN. You don't need your own coin, which is why everyone is calling it a scam.
Right now you are building nothing with your efforts but bad blood, which is actively harming both the western Hgame industry and the future of fan backed crowdfunding.
