Heh, here are some batch of questions for ya.
1) In v0.08 update, video/audio recording in Cordia's office heavily implied that both Wilfred & Cordia are aware of what MC has been up to; spying on the Family (whether through camera or audio).
Both argue what to do with the MC - Wilfred stating there needs to be some punishment regarding MC, and Cordia, trying to be more understanding (with how she feels MC is her responsibility).
Will the consequences of MC's actions at the start of season 1 be addressed in season 2? Since both Cordia and Wilfred started talking about it, I think it would feel odd if it's not addressed at some point.
And regarding how the issue is dealt with, I hate to disagree with Cordia, but I have to say Wilfred is right.
Ever since arriving at the DeLuca mansion in the beginning of the game, our MC had never gotten any sort of proper punishment, or had to deal with consequences of his actions (where he is at fault).
He always was either forgiven, or used his sly intelligence to neutralize the fallout.
Him taking the punishment (without trying to make excuses or attempting to use evade it by smarts) I'd say would show strength of his character, and would give him the lesson in discipline that "he can't always escape from the punishment if he does something wrong."
Just my two cents on it though.
A: If [povname] was recruited in the tradtionally way then it would apply. But you must remember what Cordia said during the office sneak in. She has a understanding of why [povname] would be so defensive and trying to figuere out what the Family wishes from him since they haven't straight up told him.
Plus some information that I cannot say right now also plays into it.
With that said, there are limits to what he can get away with and there may or may not be some punishment for it down the line.
2) In season 2, will most (if not all) of the characters who at least have some degree of importance, be revealed?
For example, out of The Four Serpents, so far we know and have seen Gottardo & "Serpent."
Cynthia has been referenced here and there (by characters like Giocabbe, Cordia, Gracie in events) but no appearance, and fourth Serpent, we haven't heard anything about him (not even a reference) or seen him (assuming fourth Serpent is male lol).
Will our MC be able to meet and interact with the other 2 Serpents in season 2?
A:Cynthia will make her appareance. Most of the major characters will also appear.
About some info on the 4th serpent. It's a he and he's been out on a mission for many years now. I have some nice plans with this one.
3) Ok, so we've had out Filius event, but where is our "Everybody being nice to everyone else while revealing (for no reason) where they are from" Day event?
Come on Hopes, I am disappointed in you.
That's the most famous day of all!
Tell me that surely you didn't forget.
A: Wouldn't really fit with this update but someday! Someday for sure.
4) I asked you did I think a long time ago, and I do remember you saying (back then) "there will be more."
About DeLucas and their bizarre (well in the other Families eyes, enough to call DeLucas "freaks") way of fighting and their weird weapons (like Gottardo's flail), are they still coming?
A: That's the plan
5) So crews.
The concept has been introduced from beginning of Straffan event, with Angelo & Caterina both trying to get MC to join their crew.
How does this whole system work in general?
I'm assuming Capos are the only ones who can have crews? Is there a limit to the number of crews they can have?
Or is it more like, "Whatever X number they want, they can have as long as it benefits the Family."?
Also, what would be a general number of crew members that a Capo would have?
A: Different Families have different structures. Some have many capos with shared/few crews (lower ranked) while Deluca has much fewer capos but higher number of crew members.
Quantity vs quality!
In DeLuca Structure only capos or other similiar status ranked people can have crews. That's why MC is only the unofficial boss of Eiza.
6) Wilfred's Division.
How does the system work in terms of Wilfred's Division?
We're told there's Male side of the Division and Female side of the Division (Beach prison event), but are there dedicated specialist sub-units with each side (e.g. female stealth specialist team or male frontal assault unit etc etc?)
A: Bad wording from me. There is no 'real' female division. It's one division with both male and female. The female just didn't want to go with gottardo due to him being such a charmer.
7) With Season 2, I remember you suggesting to you change of main menu pic/render (i.e. every season having different main menu page pic, and the old season 1 main menu pic gets unlocked in Gallery when player plays season 2).
You quite liked the idea.
Is that still happening (if so, have you settled on a pic yet)?
A: Yush, that's what I want.
8) Kinda related to previous question I guess.
Variant of Sakura Blossom theme has been always used in the main menu, and I like that theme a lot.
Having said that, given you said before you're working with a music artist to have him/her produce some DeLuca original tracks, I actually wouldn't mind a new theme for each season, if it sounds fitting to the game (like Sakura Blossom variant does).
A: Could be a fun little thing to try and make a new theme with the sakura style actually.
9) What can we expect from the Gallery revamp that will be done?
Can you give us any info?
Just a simple gallery layout revamp or will you be adding some other (possibly new) stuff into it?
A: I dunno tbh
10) I'm guessing Season 2 will be a separate download from "The DeLuca Family Season 1 Complete" download, and will import the save file from season 1?
That's the format I've seen most devs use (ones who have multi-seasons or multi-acts game, such as Season 1/Season 2/Season 3, or Act 1/Act 2/Act 3 etc), or am I mistaken?
A: Not totally sure of that yet. Currently the plan is having the first season seperated in three parts. Ep1-3.
Have to really give it a proper look and test.
11) MC hasn't had a get together meal with the Family, since the game's opening Act (where he got poisoned).
Will we see another meal with the Family where everyone is sitting down, and conversing?
That would be lovely.
A: If you look closely at the last preview render you may notice we are in the dinner area.
Honestly, I do regret not utilizing the dinner room more with some events. Under the table lewds and so on. Just never got to it. But never too late!
12) So you've said before that in season 2, MC will spend some time with male characters in same age group as him (which includes other soldatos in the opening act).
Within them is Dominico, which from that opening's impression you're setting him up to be MC's rival of sorts.
Gracie, from the looks of it seems completely oblivious to Dom, though Luna, being involved in the Family business, seems to recognize Dom as one of the up and coming talent (as she quotes Dom during Fawkes' event to Gracie).
Would we see some relationship (and by this, I don't necessarily mean jealousy or love triangle. Could simply be Dom trying to get approval of the girls [while trying to outmatch MC] without trying to romance them, for his own benefit lol) between Dominico and the girls, and how it influences the whole relations dynamic between MC & the girls?
A: Can't get too much into that without spoiler territory unfortunately.
13) Cordia, ah..... Cordia. How we long for you.
When her event unlocks (we're almost halfway, with Gracie getting approval to work for the Family getting sealed in the upcoming update. Other half; Luna & Cordia's reconciliation happening in season 2) in the next season, how many more places would we unlock for free-roam in the mansion?
So far we have 6 places;
- Don's Entrance
- MC's room
- Living Room
- Luna's Room
- Gracie's Room
- Isabel & Antonio's Room
I'd actually be content that with Cordia's path, perhaps 2 or even 1 additional places get unlocked for free-roam.
One of many strengths that DeLuca has (compared to other VNs where free-roam is involved), is that free-roam is kept relatively simple, without the whole hassles of navigations making the whole ordeal clunky (sometimes having to navigate free-roam ends up being a maze lol).
And since it worked well till now, continuing to keep it relatively simple (without going crazy adding too many places) might be the best.
A: No clue. But as you said, I like to keep it simple so probably not a lot of new rooms. Maybe 2-3 more. Just guessing.
14) I'm guessing MC investigating Antonio (being bisexual) would be one part of Isabel's arc in season 2?
Heh, here is an idea.
How about as one of gameplay mechanics elements, a trip to "Daring Flamingo"? MC can either go by himself, or perhaps characters like Luna, Gracie, Joey, Eiza tags along, and causes mayhem?
A: Could be fun indeed!
15) Wilfred's wine collection. The collection is almost as famous as the man himself.
Given his Wine collection is in awe of people, who especially know and drink Wine, have other Dons or Donnas (who may love wines) ever tried to negotiate with Wilfred in order to gain some wine bottles from his collection?
And with Wilfred, has he ever used his own Wine Collection to make deals for the Family (DeLucas)? Or is his wine collection more of his sacred thing, and only exceptions of him dealing with it are within the Family (for instance, Isabel is shown to have a bottle from Wilfred's collection, which I assume she gave something to him in return, not to mention MC getting a bottle in return for stealing one from another territory [even though he was scammed]).
My assumption is that Wilfred does use his Wine Collection to pull strings in deals, but deals he makes with these other Dons or Donnas, he heavily rigs the deal in his own/DeLucas favor (the price the other Dons or Donnas pay being hefty, hence giving his collection more of a holy grail like aspect to it, since it's so difficult to obtain), but I was wondering your thoughts about it.
A: Yes, other dons have indeed tried to get some wine from Wilfred, but to no avail!
No deals nor anything. No one touches Wilfreds wine collection!
16) You said before that we'll see more flashbacks of young Cordia and Wilfred, and how their first meets and relationship buildup (as mentor & apprentice) came to be.
Will we be seeing more flashbacks of Wilfred in his "devil" mode (i.e. like he was in Gildart training flashback) as well (a side we see rarely in current time of the game)?
A: Yeah for sure. Wilfred is very much a pivotal character in not only Cordia's rise to power, but the whole powershift from back before.
17) You've said in your recent Patreon post that with season 2, it will be more war orientated, but also involves Crime politics.
Does Crime politics mean Law enforcement like the police (which didn't really come into play in season 1, other than Gracie's references that Cordia has got friendly relationship with Chief of Police) will come more into play, with these Crime Families trying to manipulate the police to their own advantage?
Also, does that also mean more intelligence network factor into the storyline (Family's intelligence network leaking purposely incorrect information to their enemies to gain advantage; the whole subterfuge etc etc)?
A: Police relationships is just a small part of politics but is indeed part of it. Manipulating of information is also part of crime politics, yes.
18) So, the lore section will still be coming before the Season 1's steam release, as a "mini-update"?
I remember you mentioning the content that might be present in this lore section (such as history; i.e. the Big War, Families' sigils, Family descriptions/traditions, Family's organization structure, Other organizations like Pacificatoris etc etc), but I'm not sure I remember what format players will be access the lore section.
Not sure whether it was you who said this, but I somehow remember it being said somewhere that "Lore" section will be able to access in 2 ways:
- firstly, directly from Main Menu, by clicking the "Lore" option.
- secondly, from within game's free-roam, by MC clicking on a "book" on his bed which opens this section up
Am I correct, or do I have it wrong?
A: Yes, the lore section will definitly be with the steam release.
Nothing is certain of the method but sounds like good methods so highly possible ways for sure.
19) Here's hoping we can get some funsie time with the girls in MC's bathroom
and not just the peeking.
Though it does leave me wonder, despite the whole peek system being MC's stats dependent, whether there will be times that girls actual catch MC peeking (for story arc reasons, heh).
A: Another part of the game that I regret not having utlized more of. But alas! Still got time!
20) The release intervals for the game have slowed very much compared to the earlier development.
Loved the game till now, and always will (unless you do something crazy, like kill off Luna or something lol), but that's sadly the truth (despite me understanding you're doing this as a hobby and there is that main job you still have).
Your previously proposed "Quicker yet shorter" release format is yet to be implemented.
So is your plan to implement this format when season 2 begins (after season 1 releases, and after game releases on Steam)?
A: Yes, the whole season 2 is more smaller burst updates. I will also go back to the smaller event sized style as well as I feel events only has gotten longer which takes too much time.
And those are the questions.
I'm sure there are pitchforks which are rising already
, but before anyone does that, well..... it's that time of year again.
Christmas is coming (less than a week now).
I just wanted to wish
HopesGaming & everyone involved in game's development, as well as all the fellow DeLuca soldiers out there a Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays.
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, stay safe, and be well.
Cause you lot, are some of the best bunch on this site.
All the best,
JJJ84
Merry Christmas!
p.s. Couldn't end it without some lewd now, could we?
Here's a lewd to spice things up
