*insert ah shit here we go again gif here*
For folks with such negative thoughts on the game, y’all sure do keep coming back to it for more than a year and change, and 4 major updates in. Guess hate fucking is one of your kinks
Way too much to quote, so I’ll just run off the usual stuff.
Mass Effect/XCOM with porn - Never claimed by the studio, mainly a headline from articles written about it. If you looked at the initial trailer, early dev diaries, or even beta gameplay, you’d have seen what you were getting. Ship combat ala bullet hell shooters, and tactical RPG more akin to Final Fantasy Tactics than XCOM. The comparison simply comes from those two franchises being popular and also featuring aliens.
Sex/Pandora and its place in the story -
Something that’s been gone over numerous times, so I’ll reiterate, I was not pleased with Pandora when it initially dropped, as were many people. Plenty of people here and on the discord server had made their thoughts on the matter.
But that is not something that will be addressed immediately. Or rather it can’t be at this point. Given how much work already went into it, it would be a large setback in time and work to do the promised overhaul now. This is why I believe the way the scenes released changed from everyone getting a couple, to just the newest lady. More effort can be shown in Sova and Fortune’s scenes. If you can’t see the difference, then you probably should get off the thread then.
Scene variety - This is only by nature of early access, as mentioned recently. There should be a greater spread in kinks by the time every scene is available to unlock. Will every scene do something for you? Of course not, but I doubt any game has that potential. Even in some of my other favorite smut games, there will be girls I will ignore or not care to see their scenes. We all have our preferences. And no matter which way the scenes went, be it just humanoid or monster based, someone would still be complaining about something, be it their kinks not being in yet, or that a certain girl hasn’t done a specific thing yet.
As an extra tidbit for the ones not doing all the planets, you really ought to. Even if you’re not spending the points, you are getting materials for mantic creation and ship upgrades, as well as building the devotion bar. The devotion quests, when added, will more than likely require a maxed meter. Akin to the loyalty quests of Me2 (the only comparison this game really has had), they’ll be personal journeys with each gal, culminating in a multiple minute long cinematic lovemaking scene. Minus that silly fade to black when the good stuff occurs
This’ll likely be what makes or breaks the game for many of y’all, so we’ll have to wait and see. But for those that want to do the math, 3-4 minute scenes multiplied by 10 girls is gonna equal a very spicy compilation one day
NTR - not a thing. It’s a polyamorous harem. The devs already made a statement on it back in the Reddit Q and A. Some people took the waifu term far too literal, and not as a clear joke on the term. The only one in the game that even got a girl stolen is the bad guy you offed in the beginning of the game.
And for that one person claiming they got banned for asking for a skip feature…no you didn’t. Others were asking for methods of making the game easier too. Some with actual disabilities that made playing the space combat difficult. You wouldn’t have gotten banned unless you were doing monumentally against the rules, as the punishments scale from warnings to mutes, to kicks, to temp bans, and then full ones.
This game isn’t perfect, no game is. And FOW isn’t a one genre developer. They were known for certain big films, but that shouldn’t exclude the more vanilla and comedic work they’ve done. The tone of the game was expressed right in the initial trailer, referring to the Captain as a loser of no significance whatsoever. So naturally he isn’t gonna feel like a main character. But he is piloting the ship (the waifus are just the copilots remember) and directing the ground forces. So he still has his value.
That’ll do for now. You may now resume your usual banter, call me a white knight, secret paid employee, mega fanboy, and so on while you continue to wait and inevitably play the next update in the new year
