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I think Sasha would spank both their asses if they would fightI just hope there will be more fights in the future, I'm looking forward to beating the white and blonde version of p.diddy.
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But what kind of fight are we really talking about.
After all, Dwight likes Nika, he's more of a material for another homie for life next to Jeffrey, I really doubt that Nika will have any enemies in the first team, most of these guys are pretty cool, especially Aziz and Jazz, and Dex is Jeff's buddy, if we're going to look for enemies, we'll probably find them in rival colleges. Nika can only get a slap in the face from them if he starts acting like a total Man-Whore and becomes a professional heartbreaker and anyway, this protection probably only applies to Sasha.
After all, Dwight likes Nika, he's more of a material for another homie for life next to Jeffrey, I really doubt that Nika will have any enemies in the first team, most of these guys are pretty cool, especially Aziz and Jazz, and Dex is Jeff's buddy, if we're going to look for enemies, we'll probably find them in rival colleges. Nika can only get a slap in the face from them if he starts acting like a total Man-Whore and becomes a professional heartbreaker and anyway, this protection probably only applies to Sasha.
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...because Ayua only needs Dwight's help when smashed
Most likely any fights will be with Sai, but early on, because they'll both be told to pull their heads in or they're off the team. The other place for fights is the racing community. It wouldn't make sense for Ayua to train him for nothing, surely there will be at least one scene with Nika displaying his Ayua sponsored moves.
I don't remember exactly who, I think Mila warned Nika that people from other colleges might try to seduce Nami to damage Nika reputation as a star basketball player. So those are also potential candidates. There are also Sonya's brothers and we don't know exactly what kind of threat Melanie Cerill is at this point if the prank Zara ordered went wrong. and of course the enemies that have not been discovered yet, which I am counting on being here, just as we know that we have them in WIAB, of course not the same ones...because Ayua only needs Dwight's help when smashed
Most likely any fights will be with Sai, but early on, because they'll both be told to pull their heads in or they're off the team. The other place for fights is the racing community. It wouldn't make sense for Ayua to train him for nothing, surely there will be at least one scene with Nika displaying his Ayua sponsored moves.
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honestly, now that i think about it... this game does have some massive gossip girl (or insert random teenage drama show/shite) vibes.
and as RNasc4444 said before, switching the debate here from the WiaB thread, ty, btw...... this is pretty vanilla shit. but, you know, everyone came here to fap before we all realized there's no dicky no matter how much clicky.
and now that we're here for the story, and after replaying it a few times.. it's just bland af at times.
i still think it's a slow burn thing. ocean gonna surprise us by un-fucking-believably slowly making it more gritty and/or darker.
I HOPE. -.-
and yeah, the whole summer thing... SO traumatic.
boy needs to fuck some of the supermodels around him and stop being 15 and angsty. the grunge era is over, mofo! xD
Nasty Frat Boy late 90s early 00s era let's begin still angsty but different kind in more William Zane way
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THe grunge era will never be over for me. It's a nice touch that Ocean mentioned AIC would be NIka's favourite band (at some point, can't remember where). I grew up on that, so seeing the dark moody renders, and thinking which song Nika's got for a sound track kinda give me my own internal existentialist playthrough
The only reason replaying it is boring is because you know what's coming up. No game's immune from that. If updates were faster, we'd be rushing to replay to remind ourselfs, but with the excitement of knowing there's stuff we don't know. I honestly don't care how long it takes for Ocean to get to fully lwd, but what I do care about is how long I hav to hold my breath for anything. Tomorrow would be a great day for a surprise, or the day after that
The trauma hasn't been shown yet. We don't know what Nika was charged for, and whether that was related to Summer or to just violence. Elsa's way of avoiding talking about details suggests that everyone who knew about SUmmer knew how traumatic it was for Nika, but don't forget their own trauma. Does Elsa know what happened to her cousin? NIa doesn't know. We don't even know what the news was like, or if it was just the family relocates abroad. We've grown used to the atmosphere and forgetten how much of the game is unexplained.
It will be interesting see how the Nami aspect will unfold if you are on or off her path and if you loyal or manwhore. If it was another game a NTR route would be logic but not for SG. For now I think Sai is the imeddiate threat.
Nadia has brothers ? I am really curious to see Cerill, if she will be the antagonist she has been promised to be, and what role she will play in the story, she is connected to 3 LIs so far and I have a suspicion that she and Vanessa might be friends.
Regarding fights, I am sure there are gonna be some, but does not seems to be Nika go to problem solving. For him to go looking for fights I would find uncharacteristic, but if another party iniciates one he would not fled, just so far I can't think of anyone who would do it.
Sorry I confused her with Sonya, as Bob says it would be nice if the update was just around the corner so there would be motivation to replay and remember some things
hell i listened to AIC just the other day, i love grunge, i just don't like all the mental trauma too much anymore. i grew out of soul crushing misery and i don't really wanna go back. xD
the only band i can't listen to at all anymore is nirvana. like, enough, already, goddamn.
i didn't say boring, i said bland. like i know what's gonna happen and i still replay it, or can skip those scenes i don't like, but sometimes the story is a bit lackluster. not to mention all of this shite happens across like 3 days. how long are those damn days lol wtf?
then again, suspension of disbelief is a necessity in fiction so maybe i'm just being too serious about it. idk.
well... aren't you all master theorycrafters, tho, bob?
and this thread already got like 3 pages of responses in 2 days... so might as well continue! xD
i refuse to partake!!! - he says, partaking. fml.
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There's a lot of interesting theories from people, I think once an update drops in either thread, we'll have the use of spoilers again. Personally, I just like hearing what other people notice - some of it is easy to miss. You have to play every path to get all the different info about Nika or Bella or Nami or Zara. Most people who play the game just making choices to favour their chosen LI miss a lot of the details. Nia's a good example, some posters don't like her, so they didn't meet up with her and wondered why ch5 was short.hell i listened to AIC just the other day, i love grunge, i just don't like all the mental trauma too much anymore. i grew out of soul crushing misery and i don't really wanna go back. xD
the only band i can't listen to at all anymore is nirvana. like, enough, already, goddamn.
i didn't say boring, i said bland. like i know what's gonna happen and i still replay it, or can skip those scenes i don't like, but sometimes the story is a bit lackluster. not to mention all of this shite happens across like 3 days. how long are those damn days lol wtf?
then again, suspension of disbelief is a necessity in fiction so maybe i'm just being too serious about it. idk.
well... aren't you all master theorycrafters, tho, bob?
and this thread already got like 3 pages of responses in 2 days... so might as well continue! xD
i refuse to partake!!! - he says, partaking. fml.
Even if I have preferred characters, I going to probably replay all the choices just to get an idea of all the plot points. Ocean likes hiding them where people don't look.
Speaking of music, does anyone know if he wrote anything in blogs or Discord about arranging new tracks for the second season ?. I really like these chillstep tracks from Vesky, but when you know that you'll come across them in every third or fourth scene, it quickly becomes tiresome, especially when replaying. When you play with a mod that restores music with a wider selection of tracks, the whole thing is much more enjoyable and fresh to listen to, not to mention those beautifully matched songs to cinematics. I secretly dream that if he were to achieve commercial success even on a half scale similar to Pink, he would officially release a remastered version of the first season in which he would renew all the lost licenses.
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He's written a lot about it in the devlogs, easiest thing is to search for them and read up, in both WiaB and here.
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I look forward to the update but how those ever-increasing update sizes do not alarm Ocean, I don't understand.
That being said, I'd like to share optimistic math for once. If Ocean can sustain 70 renders per day with his new workstation, he can achieve his quoted average of 2250 renders per update in only 32 days! If he can release every half chapter in 2 months or so, we could see the 30th chapter in 2029... not that far away anymore. But I'll believe it when I see it
Could Nika be her son? From what I remember: Nojiko didn't like seeing Katie at the book club mentioning she hasn't seen her there in a while but she joined the book club on the same day Nika joined for the first time. She must've come for him. But the reason I believe this is because of that render with her sitting on the floor looking towards Nika and Nami. She had that motherly look on her face. And if not Nika's mother, maybe aunt/cousin/sister? Haven't played WIAB.
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I'm a little skeptical about this too. Yes, the new workstation will have two more A6000s in addition to the couple he already has, so it's going to be an insanely powerful rendering rig. But before he can queue up a render, he has to set it up, choose backgrounds and environments, place characters, dress them, pose them, set up the lights, etc. Make a 3D sketch of the scene, as I understand it. And that's where most of a developer's time is spent. So I have no doubt that his shiny rig's throughput will allow him to render quite more than 70 images a day, but the question is, can he feed the queue with ready-to-render scenes at this pace?I look forward to the update but how those ever-increasing update sizes do not alarm Ocean, I don't understand.
That being said, I'd like to share optimistic math for once. If Ocean can sustain 70 renders per day with his new workstation, he can achieve his quoted average of 2250 renders per update in only 32 days! If he can release every half chapter in 2 months or so, we could see the 30th chapter in 2029... not that far away anymore. But I'll believe it when I see it
Just 5 minutes spent on each of 70 scenes will take 350 minutes or about 6 hours of continuous work, and many developers say that it often takes much more: half an hour to prepare a complex scene is quite normal. But there is also WiAB, which is being done simultaneously as stated
But there are also all sorts of experiments, with Blender, lighting, work with the music, detailing the script, writing dialogues, and so on and so forth...In other words, I'll believe it when I see it
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I thought that also but another poster said something that I didn't remember Nika wasn't supposed to be there even Nojiko didn't know he was coming so Katie wouldn't have known.
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You're right about MC... Only Nami supposed to be there.