Ren'Py Abandoned The DeLuca Family [Season 1] [HopesGaming]

[JJJ84]

WDYM? The last couple of updates have been updates to the mission system and the GUI, which looks amazing, BTW. Or do you mean 0.7?

Probably referring to the

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during the rescue mission and

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in the aftermath with the 0.7.0 update.

 

[Joey the mangaka]

Yeah, I know. I met the dog again, pet it obsessively until it gave me the painkiller again.

I'm talking about the following in the 0.7.2's changelog:

"Added a little scene where the dog can save MC during nimble contract fight (Morbil)"

Fought the guy harassing the girl just north of where I met the dog again (after getting the painkiller), but the dog didn't show in the fight.
Must be cause my stats are too high or something.

You see the image up

 

[Joey the mangaka]

Probably referring to the

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during the rescue mission and

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in the aftermath with the 0.7.0 update.

Not forget the fingering in the delivery

 

[nukatexaswolf]

When is 7.2 for android update coming?

 

[JJJ84]

You see the image up

??? Not sure I'm understanding what is being said here.

Not forget the fingering in the delivery

Oh yeah. How could we forget Sister Amata! That scene was hot!

 

[Joey the mangaka]

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[sidiouspein]

Anyone have a full save?

 

[Lord Verminaard]

Hmm, right, so thinking of that structure and the fact that SS contracts are Serpent only (IIRC?)
We have:
D as Associate & Soldato.
C as Soldato & Elite Soldato, maybe?
B as Elite Soldato?
A as Capo?
S as Capo & Serpent?
SS as Serpent.

Maybe;

D as Associate & Soldato.
C as Soldato & Elite Soldato
B as Elite Soldato & Capo
A as Capo & Gent Under the supervision of a Serpent
S as Serpent
Exciding S as Serpent leading a chosen team -Like "Burn the Ombras?-.

And Exciding S part can be one timed, integrated under events or directly Wilfred menu? Honestly a repeatable exciding S class would destroy the world

Name me one of the games which you think has a "better story", from the "bunch" that you reference, please?
I'd put a few on par with this, RA, Ataegina, CoBD...
Not sure I'd say any are "better" stories.

This has a lot of excellent story, as you say I challenge anyone to find a more impactful event/sequence than My Name Is Luna.

You love finding people to impossible challenges, dont you?

 

[Lord Verminaard]

(2) When you talk about the new contract sytem you dislike (which is perfectly fine) you argue that "very, very few" people would like it. This somewhat clashes with what was said in this thread - I've seen quite a few people like it and consider it an improvement. That doesn't mean that you or anybody else has to like it, the 1 star can still stand, however I find it a bit misleading to claim some kind of majority here. Same for the "Let's all be honest" part referring to the same issue.

Nowadays I cant hang around much but people who love the new contract system are the majority like you said. After all this game is like "we wont give you rewards, you have to earn them" type of game and new contracts are very suitable for its playstyle. There are even esater eggs and secret renders in contracts, how cant this be an upgrade? There were people who didnt like contract system at first, but many of them later agreed that once the one get used to new system, it is far better than the old system.

(3) How did you come to the conclusion that a mafia game with capos going all the way from rollerblading, via flail wearing, to pretending to be karate nuns; a game with toddlers tormenting a poor Wilfred; a game with off hand dialogue about ice cream is taking itself "so seriously"? - I mean, you can still slam it: not well done, not fitting the mood, too many emotional ups and downs to be coherent, absolutely unfunny, incoherent characters, so again I do not want to diminish your 1 star conclusion - this is your opinion and as valid as anybody else's - but I do not get how you come out of this game and consider it taking itself seriously.

Come on, are you saying characters are not worth to take them seriously? Gottardo and Joey might have disagree with you

 

[Lord Verminaard]

I am literally backtracking the thread now Is it weird?

Reluctant Archon & Ataegina are both more on the mythical side.
As is Rebirth, although more horror associated.
All 3 have excellent stories. As do Sorcerer & Tales From The Unending Void, plus a couple more sci-fi types.

I didnt play rebirth yet but others have my full support (not that it would mean anyone to anything, but I wanted to support anyway )

Yeah, I do like mythology, crime, horror & sci-fi.
Think most of my books and films are in these genres, too!
lol will send you a PM with a couple more, in line with TFTUV.

If there are additions to your old list, I would gladly try them to If there are anyone who knows a game with good story and want to suggest I would gladly try them to

Well, it's been over 30 years since I wrote any games in BASIC, so I guess I'm a bit rusty.

It does amuse me when people pretend to be professional game developers when they can't even use punctuation or provide a simple example of their work. I understand that NDA's prevent details being disclosed, but no game developer would ever refuse to point at a game and say "I made part of that". Even if it was an extremely bad game in their opinion, it could be used to show how much they have improved by pointing at a game they made and liked later on to show how they have improved.

I've never worked on a commercial piece of software, but I've coded, debugged, sworn at and threatened to murder the family of many millions of lines of code in many languages over the last 40 years, (yes I'm a old man), more than enough to know that although I could debug the volume of code in a project the size of this game in a few hours once I was familiar with it, I wouldn't have a clue where to start with the creative side of things.

Writing code is very easy, writing good code is harder, but having a reason to write the code in the first place is very hard. HopesGaming has infinitely more creativity than I do, and has quite openly admitted to having a limited skillset as far as that side of things is concerned. The creative side of things is by far the most important component in a game, code monkeys are 10-a-penny but people with a vision for a good game are not.

Anyone who thinks that 2 bug release in 2 weeks working on code that several other people wrote, (or getting the writers to debug their own sections of the code), has quite obviously never worked with code, (or code monkeys), before and can be happily ignored or made fun of by people with more than two brain cells.

Anyway, can we have a scene where one of the Dragons rides Floaty into battle next update please?

Words worth to respect and request is even better

 

[luwinkle]

Probably referring to the

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during the rescue mission and

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in the aftermath with the 0.7.0 update.

Aye. While I enjoyed both they felt out of pace with the game as a whole. Felt like a "Here you horny bastards, now shush" kinda thing.

 

[Lord Verminaard]

Well, you know, if they're going to say they know of a bunch of games with better story, I have to ask what they are.
Didn't get an answer. Unsurprising, yet still sad.

A couple of more games with stories worth to read would be great but a man cant have everything.

Honestly, when I see a comment "with better story" I read the rest sceptically. I never read a story from an adult game before playing this game and regret instantly after trying to read it. DeLuca family was the game shows me there are stories worth to read in this site. No other game even come close to this games story except those 3-4 games you wrote before. So a criteria like "with better story" than DeLuca is an obvious lie in my eyes.

 

[JJJ84]

You know, this is just me thinking, but I'd actually love it if our MC gets to experience going on missions under command of each of the 4 Serpents (perhaps for some of them like "Serpent", more than once, to build relationship).

MC in mission under Gottardo:
Luna was pretty peeved off she couldn't join the Ombra mission, so perhaps she'll force Cordia and Wilfred's hand somehow to get herself to join with MC on this mission.
Of course, with Gottardo in command, things are way less organized and prepared (I have a feeling Gottardo just normally does things on a whim, without much preparation) resulting in huge chaos

Gottardo entering a room: (seeing Luna and MC with blood on their clothes and their faces, with enemies dead on the floor) "Little Lulu! Hope! How could both of you make such a beautiful mess without me being present! My heart is broken!! (feigns pain motion)"

Luna: "Oh come on, uncle Gottardo, you've already slaughtered twice as many as this number in the other rooms! Stop being so greedy!"

Gottardo: (Coughs pretending ignorance) "This wonderful picture without me being present. Such a tragedy!"



Don't know much about Cynthia all that much nor the 4th Serpent yet, but still, I admit they would be pretty darn awesome.

 

[Lord Verminaard]

Of course, with Gottardo in command, things are way less organized and prepared (I have a feeling Gottardo just normally does things on a whim, without much preparation) resulting in huge chaos

If there would be any organization in the first place. My image for Gottardo is like a more talented Luna. Look at the field, assume the beginning of a plan than just dash into the combat guns blazing (or maybe "flail" blazing? in his case) like Luna did in the warehouse.

And if this one comes in the future, please let there be Joey to. It would make all of ours day

 

[JJJ84]

If there would be any organization in the first place. My image for Gottardo is like a more talented Luna. Look at the field, assume the beginning of a plan than just dash into the combat guns blazing (or maybe "flail" blazing? in his case) like Luna did in the warehouse.

And if this one comes in the future, please let there be Joey to. It would make all of ours day

Yeah, A lot of headache for Wilfred, who likes to have preparations for everything
Considering Gottardo and Joey's appearances together in Blizzard Princess event, I actually wouldn't dismiss that possibility of Joey being in Gottardo's team along with MC and Luna.

Gottardo: "Ahhhaahahahaha!"
Joey: "Ahahahaha!"
Gottardo: "Ahahahahahahahha!!!"
Luna: (Shaking her head) Not this again.


Come to think of it, Hopes said an event may happen in the future where Family members introduce where they are from for apparently no reason (Inspired by real-life event; the "Be nice to everyone on DeLuca Thread" day! ), and it will feature Gottardo and Joey,.

 

[Lord Verminaard]

Inspired by true events; the "Be nice to everyone on DeLuca Thread" day!

I am stil sad to miss it. I remember I backtracked to that day too and it was hilarious. Suprisingly not just regulars but also newcomers commented same way. How was beeing present at that day?

Yeah, A lot of headache for Wilfred, who likes to have preparations for everything
Considering Gottardo and Joey's appearances together in Blizzard Princess event, I actually wouldn't dismiss that possibility of Joey being in Gottardo's team along with MC and Luna.

Gottardo: "Ahhhaahahahaha!"
Joey: "Ahahahaha!"
Gottardo: "Ahahahahahahahha!!!"
Luna: (Shaking her head) Not this again.


Come to think of it, Hopes said an event may happen in the future where Family members introduce where they are from for apparently no reason and it will feature Gottardo and Joey,.

I geniunely hope that event happens. Just before a mission would be great fun. I dont think it would happen when Wilfred or Serpent present but a sight of Wilfred looking everyone with his eyes clearly saying "unbelievable" would be priceless.

 

[ravendarklock]

I worked my ass off, got everything done, alot of money stored away. Then, my computer crashed. Now having to rebuild, and it is a bit of a bitch, as I don't remember half of the things that I need to do.
So, yes, I did ask for it as I figured that maybe someone here would be kind enough to help.

 

[Lord Verminaard]

I worked my ass off, got everything done, alot of money stored away. Then, my computer crashed. Now having to rebuild, and it is a bit of a bitch, as I don't remember half of the things that I need to do.
So, yes, I did ask for it as I figured that maybe someone here would be kind enough to help.

Please keep cool, if there were an answer to your question someone would reply. There are no known console commands for the game, so we cant help in that aspect. There were a save file in the older replies which just before Burn Down the Ombras contract. If you want to play game from start and cheat to just avoid money problems that kind of impossible right know (as far as I know)

 

[Spideyknight]

Me too! I feel really bad, he's been really nice to us & we're working on banging his wife, his sisters, his Mum, all the while waiting for him to get removed from the picture so we can have free play with Isabel & take over the criminal enterprise...
It's not right, but it's too late for moral objections.
Antonio must die.

The game gives you pretty solid evidence that he bats for the other team. So really just doing him a favor so he can be true to himself.

Plus technically, we've only banged his wife. Had some lewdness with the two sisters, but that's about it. Bit of a slow burn, but all good things in time.

 

[JJJ84]

I worked my ass off, got everything done, alot of money stored away. Then, my computer crashed. Now having to rebuild, and it is a bit of a bitch, as I don't remember half of the things that I need to do.
So, yes, I did ask for it as I figured that maybe someone here would be kind enough to help.

Well, you didn't state that your PC crashed in your original post, so from your original post, it was really impossible to know why you need the money in the first place.

The thing is, this game itself is pretty straight forward for most part(as long as you follow the Journal's instructions), only things that are tricky are the contracts, and the guide for them already exists on the OP.

Use them to get through the contracts again, and use ctrl fast skip to finish these contracts faster and faster.

With DeLuca, it only takes a little grind in contracts to get through all events. It's when you try to store away money for the future (after maxing everything out) where quite a lot of grinding is required.
So for the money gathering, only advice I can give you is use control fast skip, and master the contracts as much as you can so you can complete them as quick as possible with repetition, cause there is no console code for money.
It really sucks that you lost your data, but it's the only way.

Well, it seems like I spoke too soon, with someone uploading a cheat mode down below, so I guess you can use that.