Grozar
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Wish they completely focused on the mantics content and intergeate it perfectly with the plot, the sex scenes, the character animations on the train...
Unreal Engine Completed Subverse [v1.1.1] [Studio Fow]
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I'll leave this here.
PP, EXP, and all currency modifiers.
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dkao12
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I came back after 3 years to give this one another go as I had hopium this game will surprise me in v1.0. In the end, I was pleasantly... disappointed. I am changing my review from decent to sub-par. They didn't even bother to improve and add upon the existing game mechanics. It's like "Hey! Let's just ignore the game's foundation and add more fluff pieces!"
The Devotion Quests are meh, most of the erotic scenes are still outside of the story, character interaction is still minimum outside of the main plot, ground combat is braindead X-COM, space combat is repetitive chore, ship upgrades are literal tiny 5% number boost, loading screens almost everywhere even talking to crewmates, the writing is god awful cringey, and there is ZERO actual exploration(all of the extra planets are just text boxes).
I like the FuccBot idea as a fresh fun spin on rogue AI, I like the character designs(Demi, Killison, and Elaisha), the voice actors clearly had fun, and there is a decent foundation of world-building. But it is damaged by uninspired combat, dissonance between inside and outside of main plot, tone-deaf writing, lacklustre upgrade and reward system, vapid lack of exploration in a sci-fi adventure, and an abundance of loading screens.
I actually had more fun with Starfield with/without mods because at least I can physically pretend that I am in a sci-fi setting and interact within its limited space. The best I can describe this game is a glorified VN. It makes a parody of Mass Effect and its famous romance gameplay, yet they put little to no effort onto why Mass Effect's romance and companion system is beloved. I am sorry if I sound harsh, but this was a porn game that propped itself up as the "first" AAA high production game by its own developers. I am thoroughly disappointed.
The Devotion Quests are meh, most of the erotic scenes are still outside of the story, character interaction is still minimum outside of the main plot, ground combat is braindead X-COM, space combat is repetitive chore, ship upgrades are literal tiny 5% number boost, loading screens almost everywhere even talking to crewmates, the writing is god awful cringey, and there is ZERO actual exploration(all of the extra planets are just text boxes).
I like the FuccBot idea as a fresh fun spin on rogue AI, I like the character designs(Demi, Killison, and Elaisha), the voice actors clearly had fun, and there is a decent foundation of world-building. But it is damaged by uninspired combat, dissonance between inside and outside of main plot, tone-deaf writing, lacklustre upgrade and reward system, vapid lack of exploration in a sci-fi adventure, and an abundance of loading screens.
I actually had more fun with Starfield with/without mods because at least I can physically pretend that I am in a sci-fi setting and interact within its limited space. The best I can describe this game is a glorified VN. It makes a parody of Mass Effect and its famous romance gameplay, yet they put little to no effort onto why Mass Effect's romance and companion system is beloved. I am sorry if I sound harsh, but this was a porn game that propped itself up as the "first" AAA high production game by its own developers. I am thoroughly disappointed.
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PayneToTheMax
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I looked in the file and it's a devotion quest, but it's not every girl saddly
I guess? I grabbed the save in the OP and saw the system was the same. I just wish the smut aspect was better integrated into the main game, and not just shoved into a whole menu system.
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Cpt.SumTingWong
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Harem or Mantics should only choose one, doing both will give you the results we saw.
i rather they did not do the unlocks and just had more sex in the story. like Fortune fingering herself was hot i want more of that. and im not going to grind ill w8 for a 100% save its not fun. i only had to skip 1 time on that dumb DPS race blowing up the ship
Any scenes outside of pandora? Didn't see any scenes of the Celestina character in pandora. She is supposed to have sex scenes right?
I played when it was first released and don't want to play anymore unless there are sex scenes.
I played when it was first released and don't want to play anymore unless there are sex scenes.
CappoUnknown
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No sex scenes for Celestina.
The only sex scenes outside of pandora are the Devotion Quest.
Lily = 5:58
Killi = 5:09
Ela = 4:35
DEMi = 4:31
Sova = 4:29
Fortune = 4:20
Blythe = 4:19
Huntress = 4:06
Taron = 3:39
CappoUnknown
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Hey QA tester, did they add a keyboard shortcut, to (automatically) "cum" in premium scenes when you are in autoplay and cant see the UI?
Or enabled the controls from PANDORA when the UI is disabled?
Can you pls suggest Studiofow to add it.
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I already have the other girls at level 40 but my DEMI is stuck at level 36. All augmentation parts found, devotion quest completed. What do I do?
I just want to unlock the remaining rewards. Preferably without using external/cheating tools.
EDIT: I figured it out. Apparently, I had to comb the galaxies some more to look for the missing augmentations. Man, there's too much grind in this game.
I just want to unlock the remaining rewards. Preferably without using external/cheating tools.
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EDIT: I figured it out. Apparently, I had to comb the galaxies some more to look for the missing augmentations. Man, there's too much grind in this game.
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It honestly feels like they weren't confident enough to commit to anything.
Like the writing is a great example. The storytelling aspect of this game is actually quite good. The Senu and the Veil, with the slow realization they originally weren't religious fanatics, but created the Veil to protect themselves due to their awful birth rates. And just slowly morphed into what we see today. The lingering questions of what happened to Earth, what happened to the Solars. The where is he actually at with Erark, whose side is he actually on.
There's a lot of good writing here! But they aren't confident in it at all and constantly feel the need to fall back to porn game tropes. So you constantly get pop culture references that were dated when this hit EA. You constantly have fourth wall breaking cringy moments. You've constantly got porn game ass dialogue to fill in the gaps. There's a few moments where they actually let the writing try to hold it's own, and it's strong enough to do so but they almost immediately panic and try to make light of it again.
The gameplay is another example. They wanted to move past just being a VN to make it an actual game. And in a lot of cases this works! As a SHMUP fan this is actually quite a good one. Good varied enemies, lots of focus on solid dodging mechanics, nice mixed ships and some actually well designed boss fights. The ground combat is way too basic, but the ship stuff is quite good if repetitive.
But they never let it shine. It's instead tied to the Mass Effect style stuff and becomes a repetitive grind alongside the ground combat. It's given some leeway in that you get a couple of great boss fights during it, but it's rarely a core pillar. The ship upgrades are awful, and they never do anything more then wave clearing and the occasional boss fight.
It's a weird mix at best throughout. If you come here just for the porn it's not enough. There's only really the recruitment and the devotion scenes, with Pandora being basically another sidegame to distract when bored with the grind. If you are here for the game, it's also not enough. The SHMUP stuff works but ends up incredibly basic at the end of the day, and the constant cringe porn game dialogue will take you out of the actual writing.
It's basically hyper designed for a very specific person. The person who really likes lore and worldbuilding, is a huge pervert who can put up with porny dialogue, and also loves SHMUPs AND VNs. That's the target audience for this game. And that audience is remarkably small I have to imagine.
I don't think it's as awful as this thread is making it out to be. I had enough fun going through the story/boss fights, the devotion scenes were good, and there's enough in Pandora + getting to know the characters through the story to get my moneys worth. It's a good enough first attempt, and I imagine a Subverse 2 would have quite a lot of potential to be excellent. I just don't think it's going to really take off, and is going to be largely disliked here where the most common poster is just asking for a 1.0 save so they can browse Pandora.
Like the writing is a great example. The storytelling aspect of this game is actually quite good. The Senu and the Veil, with the slow realization they originally weren't religious fanatics, but created the Veil to protect themselves due to their awful birth rates. And just slowly morphed into what we see today. The lingering questions of what happened to Earth, what happened to the Solars. The where is he actually at with Erark, whose side is he actually on.
There's a lot of good writing here! But they aren't confident in it at all and constantly feel the need to fall back to porn game tropes. So you constantly get pop culture references that were dated when this hit EA. You constantly have fourth wall breaking cringy moments. You've constantly got porn game ass dialogue to fill in the gaps. There's a few moments where they actually let the writing try to hold it's own, and it's strong enough to do so but they almost immediately panic and try to make light of it again.
The gameplay is another example. They wanted to move past just being a VN to make it an actual game. And in a lot of cases this works! As a SHMUP fan this is actually quite a good one. Good varied enemies, lots of focus on solid dodging mechanics, nice mixed ships and some actually well designed boss fights. The ground combat is way too basic, but the ship stuff is quite good if repetitive.
But they never let it shine. It's instead tied to the Mass Effect style stuff and becomes a repetitive grind alongside the ground combat. It's given some leeway in that you get a couple of great boss fights during it, but it's rarely a core pillar. The ship upgrades are awful, and they never do anything more then wave clearing and the occasional boss fight.
It's a weird mix at best throughout. If you come here just for the porn it's not enough. There's only really the recruitment and the devotion scenes, with Pandora being basically another sidegame to distract when bored with the grind. If you are here for the game, it's also not enough. The SHMUP stuff works but ends up incredibly basic at the end of the day, and the constant cringe porn game dialogue will take you out of the actual writing.
It's basically hyper designed for a very specific person. The person who really likes lore and worldbuilding, is a huge pervert who can put up with porny dialogue, and also loves SHMUPs AND VNs. That's the target audience for this game. And that audience is remarkably small I have to imagine.
I don't think it's as awful as this thread is making it out to be. I had enough fun going through the story/boss fights, the devotion scenes were good, and there's enough in Pandora + getting to know the characters through the story to get my moneys worth. It's a good enough first attempt, and I imagine a Subverse 2 would have quite a lot of potential to be excellent. I just don't think it's going to really take off, and is going to be largely disliked here where the most common poster is just asking for a 1.0 save so they can browse Pandora.
Well, you summed it up pretty well.
Story is not good enough to drive you forward.
Shmup is repetative, and tbf i don't think it is good, because you are always with same weapon and just strafing is enough to grind through.
Ground is also not much on tactical side, just kill them all.
Porn could have fixed that, but it kinda didn't.
Mr. Weeaboo
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I think that was one of my earliest requests, but that hasn’t come about yet. Like many QoL stuff we didn’t see til 1.0, stuff like this is hopefully things they can work on now that the main story is complete