HTML X-Change™ Life [v0.21.7.1] [Aphrodite]

[l1lym]

0.22 has just gone into playtesting with subscribers! Really excited to get this one out, a lot of big ticket items:

1. Purchasable car
2. Huge bukkake / gokkun sex scene to win the car without buying it, but it's a pretty degrading sex scene
3. Overhauled IndexedDB save system - no more corrupt saves and dumb issues from Twine's local storage nonsense
4. A new addition I really like from McLurkington, the ability to see what is affecting your skill rolls under the hood:

 

[KillerFish66]

0.22 has just gone into playtesting with subscribers! Really excited to get this one out, a lot of big ticket items:

1. Purchasable car
2. Huge bukkake / gokkun sex scene to win the car without buying it, but it's a pretty degrading sex scene
3. Overhauled IndexedDB save system - no more corrupt saves and dumb issues from Twine's local storage nonsense
4. A new addition I really like from McLurkington, the ability to see what is affecting your skill rolls under the hood:

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when do you think this will go public?

 

[TheFamilyDog]

when do you think this will go public?

I'm guessing it will be a week or two, since playtesting just became available today.

Let it be noted I'm horrible at the driving game.

 

[scannatore]

I'm guessing it will be a week or two, since playtesting just became available today.

Let it be noted I'm horrible at the driving game.

Let's hope it's not long like the first titris.

 

[danco91]

anyone know how to get the strippers on parade achievement last time i looked you have to try and leave when taking the job as a stripper for dred and have the exhibition side effect i have that but see no option to leave

 

[Sneikice12]

anyone know how to get the strippers on parade achievement last time i looked you have to try and leave when taking the job as a stripper for dred and have the exhibition side effect i have that but see no option to leave

This happens the first time you take the pill and you need to turn on the masculinity crisis mini-game and you need to fail it. Then the MC will get scared and run away. After this attempt it can no longer be done and you have to start a new game, if I remember correctly.

 

[danco91]

This happens the first time you take the pill and you need to turn on the masculinity crisis mini-game and you need to fail it. Then the MC will get scared and run away. After this attempt it can no longer be done and you have to start a new game, if I remember correctly.

ok thanks

 

[cumthos]

Is the Bruce/Corporate revenge scene tied to Bruce's Dom/Sub Stat? I've tried pilling him but I can't get the scene to retrigger

 

[VasaraGlyndark]

I'm guessing it will be a week or two, since playtesting just became available today.

Let it be noted I'm horrible at the driving game.

Is the driving game skippable with the cheats menu? Please tell me it is skippable with the cheats menu.

 

[VasaraGlyndark]

Can anyone tell me what to do here? Do you know which mod(s) might be causing it?

 

[RenFL]

Is the Bruce/Corporate revenge scene tied to Bruce's Dom/Sub Stat? I've tried pilling him but I can't get the scene to retrigger

Scene is non-repeatable.

 

[VasaraGlyndark]

Can anyone tell me what to do here? Do you know which mod(s) might be causing it?

Turns out trying to store the game on a USB drive won't let you load mods. No matter what combination I tried, mods wouldn't load always the same error, it may have refrenced a different file.

As soon as I moved it to my desktop the same mod that returned an error worked.

 

[TheFamilyDog]

Let's hope it's not long like the first titris.

I'm going to predict that the car driving mini-game won't be what people will complain about. I finally got enough cards to enter the car contest and even with high skills (due to cheats putting them at 10), the bukkake game was tough (and far longer). Would hate to see it played with normal skill lvls after securing the nessacary card set (which is a task in itself).

 

[hecom]

I'm going to predict that the car driving mini-game won't be what people will complain about. I finally got enough cards to enter the car contest and even with high skills (due to cheats putting them at 10), the bukkake game was tough (and far longer). Would hate to see it played with normal skill lvls after securing the nessacary card set (which is a task in itself).

can you share the playtest with us ?

 

[TheFamilyDog]

can you share the playtest with us ?

I will let better people explain the "Bukkake" game to XCL fans on F95, since I suck at doing such. But in my first play-thru I learned this is the most complicated mini-game, where you not only have to guess what the prisoner wants but how to approach the oral sex. Then how to handle the results, not gagging, while keeping yourself happy (or at least in a good mood) and the prisoners too. So there are a lot of choices in each phase of the game, and you have to do it like 20 times to win the car.

So your oral skills need to be at lvl 6, but even at 10th lvl I was having problems. Guessing what the prisoner wants is hidden in the flavor text, and handling the flow can get overwhelming at times. So for many just buying the car outright would likely be the better choice. Getting a set of cards is hard enough, so at least you have that to slow one down and get your skills up there when the time comes.

As to the writing, it looks pretty good but I will need to read it all over again to be sure. But she does cover some of her bases when like explaining why all the girls look the same in the sex scenes. Shame I spend the morning putting on make-up when the MC get a scene with a older woman who is doing one's make-up before the trip to the prison. They provide the outfit too, so I also wasted money on a sexy girl scout outfit.

Time wise from start to finish, maybe close to 20 mins.

 

[Thorsten]

There is a bug/exploit:

After your work day ends and you hear the "cash sound", you can click on adress book, than dyna cas and do anything in there. Then you can directly end the day again with another payout ... and repeat this infinitely with the adress book again.

 

[loshad]

The recent implementation of the "Bruce takes his revenge at your job" sequence is likely the cleanest demonstration of the strengths and weaknesses of this game.

The good:

• Reliable porn visuals and consistent writing
• Integration of new content with some of the existing game play systems (New U machine, etc.)

The bad:

• The consequences for one of the largest "plot point decisions" we have so far are either a) meaningless b) can be easily mitigated with a few of shifts in the warehouse
  • Side note: what kind of mind wipe technology is that "Facilities" guy deploying to rewire the brains of your coworkers, and make them forget what happened two nights ago?
    
• The event completely ignores your character's other choices. Like most other events in the game, it takes your character in as a blank slate, ignoring anything else about them. And like most other events, once it's happened - it stops mattering almost immediately.
  • Why in the world would my "Office Mattress" junior saleswoman give a single hoot about Bruce's "evil humiliation plan"? It's literally just another Tuesday for her. Why write a set-piece centered on playing around with the player's workplace reputation - and have it ignore the player's current workplace reputation?
  • None of my co-workers mentioned the "big event" once it was over. Bruce didn't mention the "big event" after it was over. Bruce didn't even recognize my character.

"Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle" is just about apt. The game is a jumble of disconnected, cotton-candy-like vignettes - but it does look clean and well put together.