We're always willing and trying to make navigation better.
I mean branching story beats and dialogue/interactions exclusive to how you act sounds like plenty of replay value and your ability to choose sounds like there is player agency.
Admittedly, Chapter 1 is an introduction to the setting as it's not an exact copy of the mainline comics. Chapter 2 onwards as well as some side content will show more.
The limit is there for a reason. Progression wise, the time you spend in each season should only be about 2 weeks depending on what's going on. When you progress to the next one, all the stuff that would objectively be grinding happens off screen.
Like we want to focus on relationships but do you guys want to do chores and talk about the weather while doing homework to get 1% up in trust and be unable to talk to characters because you're cramming for midterms? That'd be a little too realistic in the relationship building.
So the removal of the cap when the season transitions is Null doing the less exciting bits of relationship building off screen.
While maybe something could be done to enable certain sex acts earlier if you play your cards right, we're careful on how we go about that because 1. We want the narrative to make sense and 2. We actively put effort into ensuring there's no "optimal path."
We're splitting up the quirk system so that it's more customizable. So rather than the binary of quirk or no quirk you have a lot more to choose from.
Since you like Jean I'll break it down with her in mind.
Without a quirk she's just a modern update from her 60s counterpart. With a quirk she's a control freak with a faux-incest complex.
However with our revisions, you can encourage the dom aspect without the incest kink. Or you can encourage the incest kink without the dom aspect. Or you can have regular Jean act dominate.
Along with this, we're allowing you to have all these combinations while remaining platonic. So if you enable dommy big sis Jean but don't date her. She'll boss you around like a bigger sister and complain about all those "hussies" that you're dating. It may not sound all too fun but from dev discussions some of the things that can happen are HILARIOUS.
And that's just counting one girl and not even discussing her changed behavior/involvement in the main narrative or side content.
You don't. In the current build you only need to get a minimum trust value and see less than half of their total events just so they're not a complete stranger when you interact with them in the main story.
Like once you tell Laura to be friends with Rogue and get enough hand to hand lessons, I think that's the end of required content.
"Bitter Null" isn't meant to be "Asshole Null." In fact all three girls appreciate a bitter comment contextually. An example is Laura liking your lack of forgiveness for the people who took part in the riot.
As said this is just the world introduction. A lot of stuff is gonna pay off and/or get more complicated going forward.
Also the intro alone has 4 different outcomes with like 8 different variations within it.
A lot of people zoom through the content and think there's no replay value... without actually attempting to replay it to see what they missed.
While we're adapting the mainline comics narratively, outfits from any and all material and alternate universes and timelines are on the table.
