Thread 3864463

What are other twine games that you've played? I like Shepherds of Haven.

Degrees of Lewdity. It was good till it got taken over by literal trannies.

>>3864463 (OP)
superstition was the first twine thing I've ever read and I cringe looking back at it no

>>3864472
Wasn't it always solely catered to playing a sub bottom who gets raped and treated like shit daily?

>>3864474
it was a customizable loli/shota rape simulator yes

>>3864474
Yeah and now it’s a fuckin futa farming simulator

What is Nicky even doing? Surely he knows this check is just impossible? I was winning the entire fight, passing every check and then suddenly I have 2 choices, both of which kill me from 100% to 0 within one page.

>>3864477
I thought the best way to farm money was to spread your legs in the cafe as a shota. Did they nerf it?

>>3864478
>What is Nicky even doing?
>Surely he knows this check is just impossible?

>>3864478
>ever playing poma on any difficulty other than story mode
He needs to realize that nobody cares about his convoluted """gameplay""".

>>3864478
Classic PoMA, always balanced around story mode. If you still have any shred of hope of Nikky fixing this mess, it means you haven't been paying attention.

>>3864463 (OP)
Will it suck?

>>3864479
I haven’t played it in years, the trannies just kept adding retarded niche shit to it

>>3864485
You have no option but to ask Fleur all of the available questions, but you can skip a segment of doing a favour for a crime boss. Why one and not the other?

>>3864485
>that pasted over mouth on the cop
lmfao

>>3864483
I don't get how he can sound so reasonable when describing the changes he's making, but then do exactly the opposite.

>>3864494
How new are you to NiggyDiggy's magnum opus?

>>3864494
Pretty easy to understand when you just have to realise that he's got no fucking idea what he's doing or what sort of mechanics he wants to implement.

What's the game with the best gameplay in your opinion?

>>3864500
sorcerery easily

>>3864502
Having to remember all the spells you can use is dogshit.

>>3864500
Aura Clash.

>>3864504
Genuinely
>simple
>easy to balance
>number go up
>every skill has it's uses

>>3864500
For IFs?
Arguably The Lost Heir series
A true RPG in a sense, with a fully customizable character, customizable skills, and various classes to choose from.

>>3864508
It's not even that it's simple to balance, it's just that anon doesn't have a panic attack everytime players figure out a way of becoming stronger than they're supposed to be.

>>3864500
Tally Ho and Jolly Good.

>>3864488
CoG-provided playtesters complained that they've skipped over the first and have no idea what's going on and that they can't avoid doing the other.

>>3864509
>pick the option you've trained the entire game and win
Wide but shallow. I did like the class fantasy though.

>>3864500
Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven, stats do matter, your choices actually matter, and you can be a complete saint to an absolute batshit schizo murderer, all while being a teenager
no other games in the CoG catalogue, or even on itch, even comes close to ZE:SH in terms of gameplay or even role playing

>>3864519
That's pon para though.

>>3864509
>learn-by-doing
>class divesity comes down to do you do the same thing but with x or y
>that endgame section
lol

>>3864521
This is the true answer.

>>3864500
PoMA. I don't even need to play it to be entertained.

>>3864500
AC for me, though i've yet to play sorcery!

>>3864521
I do like some of the preset professions
imagine, just a regular homemaker surviving the initial outbreak. after managing to stay alive, she meets up with other survivors, then forms a group and leads them to commit acts of violence against others.
really based game, one of the few that lets my imagination run wild

>>3864516
Those are shit playtesters. Imagine if release cuts the ability to skip that annoying Jangles sequence.

>>3864542
That actually doesn't seem too unlikely given that Jangles' days being numbered and the hood collapsing into gang warfare seems to be a pretty important plot point.

>>3864546
Wasn't that setup already in the meet-up scene and several exploration sequenced MC can take before the choice? Very hinted at, but at least it was subtle.

>>3864550
I don't think you get to meet the NPCs that'll be doing the gang warfare unless you work for Jangles. Pretty sure on Three-Eyes, not so sure about Dead Red.

>>3864554
Yeah, you can't meet them. You just learn that the place is pretty unstable and doesn't have much time left to live.

>>3864512
it bugs me to no end that the joyride scandle increases perception/intelligence when initially chosen but every option in the choice following it lowers perception/intelligence

Honestly impressive the port is finished, if we get the wip content side quests that were on hold before the year ends idk waht to say

>>3864500
Night Road
it just feels like a WoD game, you know?

Nice unwinnable stat check.

>>3864478
That checks is beatable, but you need to have level 7-8 dao and maxed qi power. Which is very unreasonable for where it's at in the game. I had the put off the arena for a few days even with dao eyes, and the necklace that boosts dao exp gain despite always having my training focused on it.

>>3864454
I don't get a chance to interact with her again though.

I'm jobbing to levels never thought possible...

>>3864630
If you somehow win this fight, nicky is gonna have to rework the game again.

>>3864633
The hardest part is that I can't turn off qi infusion. That -9 every fucking turn is retarded.

>>3864635
Btw, Haggler does seem to work for Robes, in case you wanna replay the entire game and try again.

This fight is horse shit. I've gotten him to 40%, but all of his checks are around65-70 and he decreases your stats constantly.

>>3864637
I could have sworn it didn't work.
>Double the qi
I do want to see tri-dao...

Oh fuck off. I've killed him twice so far. Apparently void struggles to do any fucking damage in this fight besides the one shot.

>Losing so badly not matter how hard you try
What's the appeal of PoMA again?

>>3864652
Minmax Autism.

>>3864652
just cheat

>>3864652
It's better than anything else CoG pumps out. They have a partnership with World of Darkness and still muck their games up by making it about homeless activism with no powers. Wang don't listen to their next awful pitch, write a vampire game and tell them to sell it. They will.

>>3864656
This game is completely up Wang's alley and exactly what he would write, though. Have you forgotten the refugee subplot where it was far more mechanically beneficial to let them in? The politics post that are easily trackable?

>Win fight
>Lose anyways

>>3864667
Yuan Fang better not be fucking dead.

>In POMA you can get a literal fucking nuke and the support of two geniuses and still lose.
>In Aura Clash you can literally be Broly.

>>3864669
Yeah I was kinda mad that nicky didn't atleast give us some povs this is a damn good cliffhanger. Seeing how everyone would react to the realm destroying fist in particular is interesting. I'm assuming next update shouldn't be too long even if he's releasing it after jinlai cause its gonna be just povs/rewrites + the activities/tattoo shop I guess.

>>3864665
>where it was far more mechanically beneficial to let them in?
well yeah? foreigners do not have the same protections as a citizen would, so it’d be easier for multinational corporations or small business owners to use them for hard labor and pay them next to nothing for their work, and that usually means more profit in the short and long term(?), and i’d imagine it’d be the same for a feudal society and a constitutional monarchy that probably has some protections for it’s citizens

So is POMA actually worth continuing if the unwinnable bs with long fuck pissed me off or does it get better

The newest rework for poma is a mixed bag, that I think made a lot of things worse while improving only a number of things.
The continued weakening of the trash tier annoys me personally as I personally enjoyed forcing my way though it. doubling the point cost while also halving the talents makes me fairly certain that you can't beat the game on it now. The gutting of talents and removal of perks has heavily homogenized builds, while nothing of substance was added to replace them. The majority of the talents are extremely weak, and lack much if any impact. A +3 to most stats simply doesn't have enough of an impact. Even with the compression of the stats you're never off by just 3 points. Talisman abuser has been nerfed yet again with how talismans now only give you one(1) stat point each, and iron will still only matters if you're going body. The only talents that make a difference are phoenix heart, regeneration, dao eyes, pristine meridians, martial Sovereign, and haggling.
I went Regeneration/dao eyes on normal for my run and I found that regeneration has been significantly improved, and it feels like the normal healing throughout has been significantly reduced. There were parts where I had to spend 10k to heal even with the phoenix tattoo.
The first section of the game now starves you for exp even more then it did before. Pills have been nerfed across the board, and the captivating beauty trait has been nerfed into the ground. Inversely the second part of the game practically drowns you in qi in spite of the story. Numbers in general seem to be rather strange now, with stat checks feeling either too low or too high. The same thing is apparent with the numbers in the refining mechanic. Which forces you spend even more time menuing then you would before. Just make the best value for refining the more expensive robes Nicky. I don't know why this didn't occur to you already. 1/2
>>3864684
There's 2 ways you can win that fight.

>>3864689
The new qi system is worse than it was before. refining qi feels like a massive waste of your time in spite of the fact that it should be your primary way of getting stronger. What's the difference between a early stage qi refiner and a great circle one? around 100 hp. There's clearly a focus around getting the player to use dao skills more, which while nice is still too expensive in a few areas. There's too many checks costing 100+ to be reasonable, and that not even taking into account qi power and how there's a number of checks you simply can't beat when they appear normally. Crits are also almost exclusively for strength or agility and seemingly only have 2 checks despite the 3 marks displayed by them. Overall the update is a 4/10.

>>3864694
Idk perks/talents felt very number heavy to me and the goal of the update was to remove bloat/distractions from the main game, yeah its very menu heavy rn but nothing a few balance updates can't change. I feel like the broad changes were sorely needed for the game going forward and the numbers are easier to get your head around. It *DOES* need a lot of balancing and tweaking which should be a lot easier to manage than the perks/talents from before though.

>>3864698
>Idk perks/talents felt very number heavy
The entire thing is a numbers game.
>the goal of the update was to remove bloat/distractions from the main game
All it seemed to do for me was removing nearly every active goal in the game completely, or making them so shit it's not worth bothering with.
>yeah its very menu heavy
I'd only say it is in regards to qi gathering. Which is mainly an issue of not paying enough attention to value comparisons.
>nothing a few balance updates can't change.
Even if the menu annoyance of refining was removed it wouldn't change the fact that progression feels worse the stronger you get.

If it were released today, PoMA would be GOTY!
Way better than Jinlai!

Question for Aura paypigs, is all the content ported yet to twine?

>>3864756
Yer, cut content before december! Trust the plan.

>>3864727
its never being released, ever. niki will be pushing that rework boulder uphill for forever

>>3864760
He seems quite confident on the numbers around here I feel like, I don't see another rework to this scale coming. I can definitely see book 1 or whatever coming out in 2026 if he gets in a nice writing rythm, only "cut" content in the game rn is the festival and activities so considering next update is gonna be mostly tuning and the activities system it should be pretty straight-forward afterwards. But who knows, I liked the changes a lot but other anons didn't so we'll see.

>>3864521
could you still impregnate that slut julian as a teen? or had that been patched out?

>>3864793
you still can

>>3864794
unfathomably based

Any cyoa where you can mind-break a love interest? Not in a sexual way mind you.

>>3864801
keeper of life and death, you can mindbreak your RO into forgetting about you or something

>>3864656
The authors are the ones that come up with the pitches thoughbeit.

>>3864698
>nothing a few balance updates can't change
My sides.

>>3864727
Jinlai is the better game by virtue of not having any mechanics for Nikolai to fuck up (yet)

>>3864669
When you job they do tell you he's dead while He Gang was only in a coma for 2 days.

>>3864689
>>3864694
I honestly really don't like the stat squish. One of the fun parts of cultivation is seeing number go up, but in poma now it's a struggle to get even 1 extra stat point after the excursion. It also makes it harder to have proper variance in the statchecks (though Nicky just ignores this and has a range of 20 statpoints within the same fight, making the early ones trivial and the later ones nearly impossible).

How do you improve popularity of the restaurant in poma?

>>3864849
I think you just need to invest gold into it.

ZESH Part 4 next year.

>>3864878
Madisonbros, we won.

>>3864878
November 2026, can't wait!

test

>>3864822
I think mostly number tuning more than anything else, I don't really see another rework to this scale coming again but who knows.

Fuck it, next time I'm picking heavenly talent because even knowing all the ways to maximize exp and qi, the checks are absurd. The vampire fight is fucking me up even when I know what checks to use, healing is stupid expensive and qi infusion constantly draining you is annoying. Does Nicky even play test himself? Because I don't know how he doesn't notice how annoying the difficulty is.

>>3864976
Nikolai is an enlightened man who knows that playing one's own game is akin to reading one's own smut and so he just autotests it with CSIDE. Blame his inner circle payipings who allegedly do actually play it and give feedback.

>>3864976
I don't think it's really worth playing the lower difficulties at all, is there even anything acknowledging your bodily talent?

>>3864808
geassing someone to hate you is schizokino

>>3864979
>is there even anything acknowledging your bodily talent?
No. Which is such an obvious thing to add. Aura clash does that a few times, and it always feels great to be acknowledged for playing on hard.

>>3865007
I requested anon to add more Mortal Limits content though admittedly, I have no idea what exactly I expect.

>>3864669
He only survives when you win both fights and immediately call out that He Gang is breaking the rules. An enforcer steps in immediately and announces that your side won before yuan fang can blow himself up like a retard.

>>3865020
There's a lot of strange perception checks related to Yuan Fang, so I don't think he truly dies.

>>3865024
>Fang Yuan explodes himself to trigger the Spring Autumn Cicada for the first regression
>Yuan Fang explodes himself to...
Trust the plan.

>>3865032
>he looks annoyed at you if you prevent his suicide bombing
I want to believe, but I expect he just wanted to fake his death for whatever reason.

>>3865033
>>he looks annoyed at you if you prevent his suicide bombing
it's russian mentally, you wouldn't get it

>>3864479
I like treasure hunting best since it's low investment ie don't have to manage that farm and stop invasions every few weeks, and doesn't nake you bigger rapebait from people figuring out your cream's secret ingredient

>>3864883
Has the game finally progressed far enough that adults can date the teen survivors or no?

>>3865062
No real point in avoiding rape while playing a rape sim, no? Or is it scientific interest / challenge / just a sense of pity for the poor rapebait?

>>3864463 (OP)
>>Shepherds of Haven
>best girl is the first one you meet right in the prologue
>the only one who comes close is her cousin who you meet 6 chapters later and only in the paid version
What was she thinking?

>>3865163
Chase, Trouble, Ariel and Red are clearly the superior, and better written characters than that bald cunt and her ugly as-sin cousin

>>3865178
>complete faggot
>shit taste
Every time

>>3865178
>Ariel
Phoneposters are a blight.

>>3865084
It gets tedious after a while, so I'd just rather beat the shit out of the rapists and avoid drawing them in except when I feel like getting every hole stuffed

>>3865163
The womanlet sand monkey's pretty cute, but yeah prologue ojousama was best girl

>>3865185
You’re lusting over a bald chick and her dyke cousin, YOU have shit tastes
>>3865186
Bald “people” are a blight to society

>there's already been nerfs
For what reason was qi strands nerfed to costing 5 instead of 4?

>>3865188
Yeah, I was surprised how much I liked her considering her introduction, she grew on me pretty quickly. Helps that she's the delicious kind of brown instead of the regular kind.

>>3865191
>TrickyNicky
>needing a reason to nerf anything

All the men in Shepherds are better written and more compelling than the women in the story, the women are bland as fuck, that’s a fact
And yes, the shy, skittish and soft-spoken lesbian is maybe the shittiest character in the book :p

>>3865199
Nature itself "writes" men better. Women are boring by birth.

>>3865190
Her hair grew back by the time you fug though

New Keeper update dropped.

>>3865208
Astrid sexo?

>>3865211
Sera and Katia sexo.

>>3865213
I sleep
Sera is fine too

>>3865213
>Katia
Coolio, but I'm still a bit burnt out from my last replays to try again right now

>>3865190
>and her dyke cousin
she's the only exclusively straight male romance bwo

>>3865191
Because you beat the fight where you were supposed to job.

I don't like the romances in most IFs. I'd rather see where the actual story goes than deal with uninteresting or annoying women.

>>3865191
I agree that was the only cheap option for Qi usage since everything else scales to absurdity. But unless the other options are tweaked then it will only cause more frustration than anything.
Also, is it just me or is there no use for Dao experience? Not only can't I use it, but every qi option in a fight is a trap since the spell checks are so absurdly high that the idea of passing even the lowest of them feels impossible, and supposedly the idea is to specialize in either that or physical stats, but without physical stats you will die to any random check, making it not really a balanced choice.

>>3865255
Martial sovereign + like 10-13 dao levels lets you spend 50 qi on something and only pay 1.
If you didn't dump everything into body cultivation to barely pass stat checks, going all in on casting is actually a viable alternative.

>>3864463 (OP)
Name me a bigger patreon milking cyoa than Shepherds of Haven.

>>3865260
Probably Wayhaven but the author at least put out 3 books.

>>3865208
schizophrenia kino?

What to do bros?

>>3865283
>American Healthcare System

>>3865255
Using spells requires you to only train dao, and ideally have the necklace that boosts dao exp by 30% on at all times. Even with dao eyes I barely managed to get to level 10 which allowed me to use any spell under 30ish for 1 qi.

>>3865323
This is terrifying

>>3865323
I forgive AI slop after seeing what they replaced.

>>3865323
A month or two of intence drawing will result in progress. Art is grindy by its nature - you just need to keep pushing. This seems to be made by a sanrio teen who likes chibis.

>>3865323
Thanks, I hate it.

>>3865323
why are they fat and brown?

>>3865335
they're tierrans

>>3865336
Tierrans should be thin since they're poor and retarded.

Tierrans are still more privileged than other parts of the Wangverse.

>>3865323
yikes

>>3865323
Oh no no nono... Fienceebros...

>>3865347
That's your sister althoughbeit.

>>3865323
cute sister

>>3865323
>bulge on the daughter

>>3865353
>>3865356
>sister
It literally has the four different potential surnames your fiancee's family can have on the picture bros

>>3865323
That's not a cute and naive hick fiancee.
Also remind me, wasn't the second son actually the one that was harder to duel? I never went with the feud because of how stupid and crippling it is but I seem to remember the checks for the second son fight being higher.

>>3865379
>Also remind me, wasn't the second son actually the one that was harder to duel?
He is the retard of their family who spent his time at university by duelling. If you make him your steward, he will attack the bandits and lose more tenants than Loch would.
If you duel the first son and kill him, the second will want to maintain the feud. If you kill the second son, the first one will decide to stop feuding, citing the reason that their family lost enough at your hands.
And if my memory serves me right, if you lose against the older son, he will spare you because he is squeamish about killing, while the younger one will go for the kill.
Also, super shit art.

here is your trad Cunarian fiancee bro, she totally waited 12 years for you

>>3865381
Is it even worth it to not make Loch a steward regardless of what you want to do?

i wonder how many artists or fanartists frequent this thread. i certainly remember gno, but who else?

>>3865395
No. All the decisions he makes are good and his building queue is decent, especially if you game the system and don't allow him to upgrade the wall. As long as you have the option to employ him, you should take it.
Saunderslay is probably the second best. Makes different decisions than Loch so you have to change your plan a bit. His building list is good and he is always available.
Brother in law is the third, think of him as Loch but incompetent. His advantage is that he prevents your relationship with the fiancee from deteriorating but if you plan to marry her, you probably should have stayed at the estate.
Younger brother is the worst. His rulership is as retarded as his building plan, and just by having him in your life your debt is increased by several thousands.

>>3865407
Why did Wang make having family members a punishment?

>>3865410
Such is life in the People's Republic

>>3865410
I think having a sister or a mother prevents health loss if you stay during winter. Not sure if it applies to brothers.

>>3865414
You can't have a brother without a sister. There are 3 possible stances about you and your siblings.
>single child
>MC has younger sister
>MC has younger sister and a younger brother
And they cost progressively more, increasing not only your debt but also your monthly expenditure due to them taking up allowance.
>>3865410
He is part of a civilization that often murders and abandons little girls. Please be understanding about his inherent psychopathy.

>>3865415
Having a brother seems even more useless, then. Cold dad, kill off mum, have a sis with good rel, stay at the estate, enjoy no health loss in winter.

>>3865417
Even better, loving parents, mom in good health, only child. You have all the good things you need. Mother prevents your health loss and helps you during the ball. You don't increase the debt and only have to pay her allowance.

>>3865419
But no siscon agenda, which is sad. Plus, I've always preferred interacting with siblings as a sibling in family-focused things, it feels more fun.

>>3865423
>siscon
She is a giga retard, arguably even worse than brother and father. The dragoon is the only person in this damned family who is not a complete failure.

>>3865379
How was the feud crippling? It's been a while since I played but I remember it being the only route where your stats don't automatically decrease.

>>3865419
But then you don't have a sister to marry off to your lieutenants or to at least poach Caz's. Don't you think any of those retards deserve a cute if annoying wife? They will all die virgins otherwise with how autistic the three of them are.
Well, you can also be stupid and let her have her way with your sergeant but it doesn't count.

>>3865425
She cannot be worse than father because tierran moids are a specific brand of retarded. The only ones who come even close are antari.

>>3865429
>But then you don't have a sister to marry off to your lieutenants
You have to pay her dowry, you dumbass. And personal alliance with these nobodies won't offer you any tangible benefit even now, let alone later when you might become rich and powerful.
>least poach Caz's
If you truly believe it will make Hawkins join you, instead of your sister eloping and becoming Cazarosta's pawn then there is no hope for you.
>>3865433
She almost destroyed the whole family because of an itch in her snatch. That's unforgivable and overshadows probably every other instance of retardation we witnessed in the whole saga.

>>3865323
...world politics worldbuilding autism?

>>3865436
Our dad did it first, though? We come back to a ruined estate with no walls or guards and two collective tenants paying rent like a polish schlyakhtitsch. Family was already destroyed, dragoon has to go above and beyond to restore it to at least a mid status. My character did several great deeds, and they're still poor and have no walls.

>>3865436
Who do you think will take care of your duties once you take full command of your regiment?
Having your loyal right hand man also be your brother in law is a sure way to give even more prestige and loyalty from your troops, why do you think that was so common?
That said, I doubt Wang will actually make it mechanically useful since he seems to despise anything to do with the siblings.

>>3865441
>Our dad did it first, though?
No, he was an incompetent ruler but the cards were stacked against him. He inherited a tiny barony with a considerable debt during a time of a shit economy. He didn't even have any leverage to renegotiate the interest. You could also argue that his risky choice of taking another debt to buy you a commission was a correct choice that resulted in saving the family in the long run.
The sister, on the other hand, could have lost her life, had the sergeant executed and made your family pariahs for the generations to come, which would also mean that banks would increase your interest rate.
>>3865442
>Who do you think will take care of your duties once you take full command of your regiment?
As if I needed any of them to be related to me. I wasn't Cunaris's son in law when I filled Keane's shoes after his mental break.
>That said, I doubt Wang will actually make it mechanically useful since he seems to despise anything to do with the siblings.
At last, you truly see.

does it mean wang is mumcon?

>>3865444
>he didn't spend so much time with Cunaris he basically tells you he views you as a surrogate son
Don't know how I fucked that up, excuse me

>can't marry my sister to Fenton so that we can be bros for real instead of just in spirit
This is the true injustice of Tierra

>>3865444
>Cunaris goes on to absolutely fuck you and your men over
A real lesson on not investing in a man who isn't related to you by blood or marriage

>>3865455
That just means I will be allowed to screw over whoever takes the command, as long as they are not my in law.

>>3865455
I believe in the great Cunaris Comeback. After all he's my FUARKING hero!

>>3865460
bwo, he killed himself

>>3865464
Cunaris Jr will use the loss to level-up between games and come back as a 99/99/99 tactical nuke

>>3865464
>tfw we could have had cunaris (the duchy) 776
>wang is gonna force us to make renard pick between two retards instead of helping him kill them
we were so close to kino

I think the worst part of the siblings is the actual interactions with them. Literally all they do is replace some instances of your solicitor complaining with even worse bitching.
Oh great, now I have a nagging cunt who whines when I help people and a weird little faggot who throws a tantrum when I ask for emergency rents. It's sooo worth it having them.

>>3865455
>blood
How's that working out for Isobel?
>marriage
How's that working out for Wulfram?

>>3865439
You rang?

>>3865485
ugly

not funny, cute, unique, or carrying its own charm
ugly

Fuck Cunaris. Wishy washy old retard and his faggot son. Blaylock, shoot these cowards.

elves are going to win anyway. wang is not missing out on the colonialism sim.

>>3865487
that's not how you write Sandoral

>>3865487
>>3865491
You are both wrong. Now excuse me, I have retire to my tent to discuss logistics with Garret. Please ignore any weird sound that you may hear, the debates can get pretty heated.

Newfag here, these are my thoughts after playing a few of the popular games from here.
>Sabres + Guns of Infinity
I like them, you can definitely see that the author is passionate about late 18th century history. There's plenty of choices but it feels like the game intends for you to pick only certain choices. My first playthrough I died in the Forlorn Hope mission, I suppose my soldiering was not high enough? 8/10.
>Path of Martial Arts
I've played the game on story mode since I've heard that the gameplay is a big bother. The game is very tedious to navigate and it feels aimless. The first half of the game is disjointed and basically does not have a central plot. It's clear that the author doesn't have a clue how his story is gonna go. 6/10 but I'm a xianxiafag so it's a 7/10 for now.
>Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven
Really enjoyed the game, it's very well made. It's the first game that made me want to replay it and try out a lot of stuff. The setting is boring though and the zombies should be more dangerous. The Good GuysTM army and The Bad GuysTM army shtick is overrated. 8.5/10
>Aura Clash
It's a very immersive game. It made me care about the characters and I really like the MC and the amount of customization you get, from race to style and to elements, very good roleplay potential. The gameplay is good and I like the way you can engage with the choices. The Nanhou hub is cool. The reddit humour is a bit off-putting and the game seems a bit too lighthearted at times when it shouldn't. The antagonists behave like absolute buffoons that you just can't take serious, Jack especially. I hope the author can make it a bit more serious. 9/10 because I like shonens and this game feels like one.
>Unsupervised
I usually dislike capeshit and I disliked the game too. Really hated the cliffhanger ending. 5/10 since it's decently written.

>>3865493
>There's plenty of choices but it feels like the game intends for you to pick only certain choices.
There is a certain minmaxing aspect to its game design due to the author having a self-professed weakness of balancing the games around his superfans, but you really particularly required to pick the optimal choices. FH that you mentioned for one has a full alternative chapter that might be suboptimal but has a lot of nice writing in it that power gamers simply never read.
>My first playthrough I died in the Forlorn Hope mission, I suppose my soldiering was not high enough?
Soldiering is actually pretty low on the list there. The main thing is your squadron's stats.

>>3865493
What other games do you plan to read?

>>3865493
Try the orc game next, he's the only guy that frequents here that just works.

>>3865496
>really aren't particularly*

>>3865497
>>3865498
I'll read the orc game and the keeper games I think.

>>3865501
I've been meaning to check the keeper games out as well but man it's hard to suspend my disbelief with that the intro is just so bizarre.

I don't get it

>>3865502
You aren't missing out on anything. Anyone saying
>ackshually it gets really good 310,000/700,000 words in!!!
is just running on sunk cost.

>>3865502
Are zoomers really this stupid? It is a typical urban fantasy intro. Read more, dumbass.

>>3865505
Yeah the setup is not the problem, the problem I feel like is the way it's written. Feels like it was written by an 11yo but who knows maybe I'll give it another shot.

>>3865496
FH is not optimal. Real minmaxers do the alternative chapter and intentionally screw up for that one extra sergeant autonomy then proceed to sack as brutally as possible and keep all the money.

>>3865501
Could try other old works. Tin Star, Mecha Ace, Deathless, A Study in Steampunk.

>>3865493
>The setting is boring though and the zombies should be more dangerous. The Good GuysTM army and The Bad GuysTM army shtick
That is wrong though. There is the entire mystery, suggesting that zombies existed for a long time as some kind of spiritual entities that natives knew about, abd then government tried to weaponize them and there are probably more advanced zombies that escaped into wilds.

>>3865506
The writing stays reading someone's early draft they forgot to fill pretty much all the way. Just wait until you see all the abrupt scene transitions if the intro was enough to tip you off.

>>3865510
>suggesting that zombies existed for a long time as some kind of spiritual entities that natives knew about, abd then government tried to weaponize them and there are probably more advanced zombies that escaped into wilds.
I'm sorry where did you get this? The WIP? I didn't read that one.

>>3865508
money is just reputation but worthless though

>>3865508
>giving up the chance to be a fuarking hero (again) for money you don't even need

>>3865493
>6/10 but I'm a xianxiafag so it's a 7/10 for now.
I wonder what score you would give if you played on some other difficulty. Nothing you said about PoMA is wrong but people here mostly dunk on shit balance, mostly ignoring other flaws.

>>3865515
>>3865514
I'm sorry, but if you don't grab all the money, then it's not minmaxing. Bonafide minmaxers end the game with above 100k crowns of combined wealth and investments while living in shack in the docks.

>>3865517
When it's out I'll play it on trash, I'll see then lol.

>>3865508
>missing out on that shiny medal
Couldn't be me. I'll leave money matters to Wulf, he can eat my debt while I go earn some more glory.

>>3865517
I think they're less ignored than largely simply unmentioned since rebalancing and jobbing are so easy to meme. There were other criticisms back in the day, and noticeably you hardly hear any actual *praise* for it here outside MemeMemefags - and even those usually follow it up with saying she's stuck in a shit game.

>>3865522
People may not praise it, but they still play and enjoy the game. Even in this very thread you have anons still believing it can be salvaged.

>>3865526
Isn't it mostly just numberfags numberfagging one of the few games built on numberfagging? Other things like the plot hardly anyone seems to care about on here, even when from what I gather there have been some pretty major plot developments since I dropped it.

I go hero in infinity because A. Its really fucking kino at the end of sabres and has a great cynical/mercy choice to tell your men that any that want to desert are free to do so because you know how fucked you all are but your still gonna do your duty (and all the men choosing to stay because they are my fuarking lads) and B my dragoon would die multiple times in guns going on the extra suicide missions for the reward without his rune armor

>>3865522
It has several flaws but it is still plenty entertaining. I'm playing it now after almost two years and I have to admit that there really is a lot of new content and the second part does feel a lot more focused than before, even if it requires cutting off a lot of the superfluous minor plots. The balance still sucks but having played more I do think that the only real issue is the checks requirements in some sections, which can theoretically be fixed.

>>3865512
It is literally in the game.

So the estate path in LoI is just inconsequential ? Nothing i did seem to have had any impact at all, and i know it's the point of it to some extent but even then, i can't clear my debt, there's like a bajilions possible upgrade for the manor and the village but if you want to do the big project you will only be able to make 1-2 from the look of it, the siblings are boring, the marriage and the fiance bland, training and knighting Renard has no direct payoff so what was the point of it all ?

>>3865650
Clearing the debt is almost impossible unless you do the secret mission in guns, you can technically get rid of it if you are from the north but you need to know exactly what to do to get enough money, there's also the traitor path but that requires going to the capital.
The estate path itself is mostly easier and less dangerous than the capital if you export a suboptimal character but you can get an extremely successful estate with a great project underway that has room to be relevant in Wars and knighting Renard will definitely come back to help you when you need his support for the war. But yes, the capital is better for the most part.

I miss the days before thread anons' games infested the general

>>3865650
Estate is the middle path for the shitty builds. The best is the capital, but only if you have 130 int+cha and can make fuck-you money on top of already making it in guns. Otherwise, sitting around a bunch of snobs for 4 years feels even more inconsequential than the estate.

>>3865675
No one is even talking about it. Is this a bot or something?

>>3865698
The schizophrenia flared up.

>>3865479
They are obnoxious, retarded and infuriating but the thing that sets me off the most is how big a resource sink they are. Being saddled with vermins is one thing but having to pay heaps of money for that dubious honor is beyond my comprehension.

>>3865650
You get to turn around your fief's fortunes pretty radically especially if you've loadsamoney (which is ironically usually a lot more than Aetoria requires), there's a bunch of sideplots like the Feud, Major Project, Renard, Lord Ardant, Tenants' Petition etc. that are stated to come up further up in the series and even in the sequel series and it's the route with the most branching. It's pitched as the less demanding route where you're the big fish in a small pond as opposed to a small one in the big one, so obviously most of the things you do only really matter on the local level.

Can a non-cha build even achieve anything worthwhile in the capital?

>>3865781
If you have high int and reputation, you could aim for partial successes rather than full ones but at this point, you will probably achieve more at the estate. Maybe if you went Shipowner to invest, it could be feasible. Or if you went there only to dump your debt on Wulfram.

>>3865781
You can get the result you want at the ARC and help yourself to those delicious Wulfbucks

>>3865781
Depends on what you call a non cha build. If it's something like 30-40 then you can probably get by as long as you don't pick one of the social clubs, don't pick Rendower or Reformers and you will be fine, money is much more important anyway and a lot of the checks are mixed so just pick those that will fix your lack of charisma.
If your Charisma is in the dumps because you didn't know that there was going to be no way to raise it or you have no money then you are fucked.

>>3865781
You can get by with high enough rep and int carrying you through the combined checks, though to get the most out ouf it you'd still need around 40 or so.

the dragoon in the Admiralty club whats he gonna do

>>3865829
I actually really like Admiralty, even if it's suboptimal. It's pretty good for a soldiering dragoon and the boosts for being in good standing on a Wulfram ending are great. A shame it doesn't have any amazing check that gives you a massive advantage like the other clubs.

>>3865840
>for a soldiering dragoon
The fight club plot sucks so bad. You can't even fight the champion. Soldering dragoon is such a trash meme.

apparently in dispatch you can either fuck invisigal or the blond girl. with full cutscenes.

and they've left the entire plot in the game files

>>3865876
...fine, marketer-san, I'll buy your game.

>>3865876
No, I am not buying your Reddit zoomer game

>>3865886
the funniest thing about the leaks is the fact blonde is fake blonde. tits fake, hair fake, all fake, she's just a typical brown-haired girl

>>3865890
It's made by some of the people who made the good Telltale game, though.

>>3865893
So she is a Super Saiyan

>>3865493
I'm playing Zombie Exodus right now and also wanted to recount my thoughts itt. Definitely one of the better works hosted on COG today. There are lots of high adrenaline moments for a text game, and you can render a vivid picture of most scenes, like trading shots with a rooftop sniper on a pharmacy parkway because you're out of meds, or ducking from armed strangers behind your luxury car full of holes worried it'll explode next to an abandoned gas station. The author makes up for lame zombies by outlining all sorts of unprecedented situations.

Something that irked me though was how characters of different backgrounds largely seem to share the same wholesome neighbor personality. You'd think the apocalypse would change them over time, but you can count on one hand the ones who appear to have grown. Maybe trimming a few dozen characters would give the rest more development. Either way, it seems to be shaping up well with the current pace. I was going for part 4, but sadly when I reached it a few days ago, the author had pulled the beta from COG. Hope to try it in february

>have to choose between a gorgeous flying brick who is also your boss and a tsundere delicious brown tomboy

>>3865893
She is genuinely way hotter as a brunette, desu. And I like blondes. Though her normal look is still great as the 'classic super' look
And her VA is Snow White.

>includes a character that is just Moist
Game of the fucking year.

Does the trick where you hurt yourself with the evil cultivators technique to gain AP in aura clash work yet? Also what element has a technique that gives you AP for getting hurt?

>>3865911
I think it's missing from the menu. We can, should, must, and will kill cultivatoranon for this.

>>3865915
Calm down, Nicky-sama. Don't you have a game to be rebalancing?

>>3865911
I think a technique from the Endless Beating Sect can do that.

>>3865894
It is not, otherwise it wouldn't be so off-putting just from the trailer. The trailer alone is a Reddit galore.

>>3865893
can you fuck the demon-esque looking girl in the background?

>>3865911
>Does the trick where you hurt yourself with the evil cultivators technique to gain AP in aura clash work yet?
I don't think chapter 8 is even available yet, so you can't even get the technique to check it out.
> Also what element has a technique that gives you AP for getting hurt?
Fire. You can buy it in Nanhou.
There's also mido exclusive technique to buy there, endless beating manual you can get in chapter 6 and a racial technique you get as a monkey youkai.

>>3865932
cultivator anon finished the port apparently, he even posted here about uploading it, guess he must be playtesting and bugtesting/saving it for halloween cause he hasnt made any patreon posts

>>3865932
Mido monkey youkai with fire element and the endless beatings route? Ok bro I'm doing it.

>>3865898
Did you read the new chapters? Jaime is on the verge of a mental breakdown, his entire personality and mentality changes as you progress the later chapters
He beats the shit out of one of your potential neighbors, Sam I think it was so badly that he had to be hospitalized
He even recommends that you leave some people to die, a total 180 from his previous stance on helping survivors

>>3865946
Rachel also becomes more depressed lol, and Riley after his mom actually becomes more selfless and dependable
Yeah, idk what that other Anon was talking about, you do see some clear personality changes, though I think it depends on the mood of the camp itself, and how well supplied you are

>>3865928
no, but you can kick out her boyfriend voiced by moist, i think

>>3865937
It's been out for several days. It's playable. You might find a game-breaking bug if you are unlucky but as long as you pick a different path, you can finish it and meet Keiko.
A bunch of bugs were reported, some are already fixed and some are left for when he has more time.

>>3865954
Always the hotter, more interesting characters that are inromanceable
What a fucking waste
>>3865946
Don’t forget about the nephew, you could train him to be a little mini zombie slayer

>>3865964
>Always the hotter, more interesting characters that are inromanceable
>hotter
Heh

>>3865632
where

what transformations are available in poma? I know you get one from the demon queen and one from the yang clan, are any other ones available? This bum bastard monkey god hasn't given me shit I'm still waiting for that monkey grab.

>>3866006
Monke man teaches you how to not get bodied by space locking so you don't get hit with unavoidable death against DES.

>>3866016
DES?

>>3866019
demon extermination squad, they go after you during a tourney if you are evil enough.
If you are on void dao and weren't taught by monkey god how to avoid space locking techniques, you just die because they turn off your teleportation and beat you to death.

>>3866043
Is it based off of you personality or just if you hunt everyone down in the battle royale?

>>3866044
Personality. They stop you immediately as the tourney begins and replace the whole thing with their fight.

>>3865323
>Those proportions on the guys in the right.

>>3865781
>his dragoon didn't get the Saints's blessing
NGMI. Next you're gonna tell me you don't conveniently find a giant bag full of enough gold to pay off your debt the moment you arrived in your estate.

>>3866045
I'm fucking around with variables and I can't get them to spawn, do you need to be the demon queen's son or have suffered a breakout?

>>3866045
>we're here to 6v1 kill you for being a shithead!
>"Do you do this to He Gang?"
>no way, that guy's scawwy

I personally enjoy what the new poma update did, even if it's still messed up number wise in certain events and the scaling becoming unbearable later on, but that final fight was absolutely retarded on mortal difficulty. The checks were all over the place with some reasonable while others unacceptable, but the worst is how absurdly long that fight is while also constantly crippling you the longer it goes while throwing even more fuck you events the closer it is to the finish. At some point you will invariably either run out of Qi, talisman usages or healing sources. Am I missing some obvious way to win that doesn't involve cheating or going demon? I know there are s lot of variables depending on your choices but I would think they at least throw you at the hard part.

>>3866091
If you're using space you can skip the third and fourth phases if you have around 60 strength and 300+ qi. You can also skip the final phase if you tell him about your spirit body.

Which characters would you fuck, marry or kill in ZE:SH? Here’s mine
Fuck Brody
Marry Jillian
Kill Woody and Jaime

>>3866073
*to be fair* he gang is in the top 10 and we're broadly an unknown factor at this point.

That Welles better drain my MC like never in the next installment for leading me on for so long, her expiration date is getting near she could at least give me a quick fuck.

>>3866156
Fuck Jillian
Marry Madison
Kill Kelly

>>3866179
>blud thinks he's Warburton

>>3865493
>The reddit humour is a bit off-putting and the game seems a bit too lighthearted at times when it shouldn't. The antagonists behave like absolute buffoons that you just can't take serious, Jack especially.
You'll keep getting more of that since Aura Clash is actually a comedy game.

>>3866237
What she did in her past with her "charming but debauched" duke is none of your concern. Welles bros must be better men!

>>3866064
I'm not sure what the exact requirements are, generally by the time I hit tourney I'm already at 0% after taking every opportunity massacre people. But just massacring everyone at the town wu chao sends you to isn't enough on its own, I had a run where I did most of that stuff and the fight didn't proc.
At no point did I need a previous breakout or to be demon queen's son though.

>>3866178
>we're broadly an unknown factor at this point.
We're the sole heir to 1/9th of the Empire. On taxes and trade deals alone people should be afraid of us hiring a top fighter to kill them.

>>3866267
>We're the sole heir to 1/9th of the Empire.
The Wu clan is in utter ruins though, people aren't afraid to tell you that despite your status, your family is poor in comparison to even minor houses and your territories have been reduced to a joke, calling it a great clan in name only. Meanwhile the He have been gaining power and resources for generations, being arguably the second most powerful dynasty.
Now that I think about it, does becoming a He add considerable content now? I remember a year ago that it was mostly useless as a choice.

Wu Chao bros just trust the plan, Shangtian soon, total He genocide incoming.

>>3865503
the joke is that fallen hero makes you transition

>>3866272
>Hey son, not only do I know that you are technically not my child but I have also despised you and wished you died from the minute you were born, seriously considering doing the deed myself multiple times
>But I got over it, we cool now?
The only reason I'm sticking by is that the only other family choices are disgusting snakes, an insane demon lady or yandere worshippers.

>>3866280
The current retcon is that he couldn't advance to Shangtian because of Heart Demons from being cucked by the Heavens. Now that he starts to accept you and act like your father the bottleneck is going to go away and he will advance.

>>3866283
I thought it was because he had to give up half his soul for your life, making him physically unable to advance?

>>3866285
That is the reason he can't advance, the demon is just a bonus for the massive resentment he got out of the whole ordeal.

>>3866179
I think its really funny that you get a rep loss for fucking holding hands like its a massive scandal

>>3866156
Fuck Rachel
Marry Madison
Kill Kelly

>>3866398
Holding hands would actually be a big scandal since she's the second most important bachelorette in the kingdom and you a no name baron, you merely offer her your arm which is a much more formal method of doing it so it should have a more subdued reaction. Still, it is specified that the road is frozen so it being such a reputation killer is exaggerated, I think it was something like 20 reputation points just for that. Being caught brawling on the streets or turning into a Rake have much lesser loses than it I think.

>>3866408
>no name baron
but.. but I'm a knight of the red war hero...

>>3866156
I left the chick with a machine gun that tried to kill me for dead with the zombies and the friend guy was dissapointed saying he could fix her. brother she tried very hard to kill me and was with the raiders no you couldn't

>>3866429
Uh sweaty, you're a nobody, ignore the 10 medals you've got and your night impossible feats. You DON'T want to read a chud power fantasy for incels right?

>>3866442
if I'm nobody why do I keep getting fucking isa whatever her name is and wulfram knocking on my door every 5 minutes when I just want them to leave me alone and keep me out of their little spat because they are both CHILDREN

>>3866429
Sure you got some recognition for your actions in the war from people who care about that and who matter in the big picture. But why would being a good commander imply that the nobles would be okay with you trying to temp the Welles heiress into a scandalous affair? Even if you get the most amount of money you are still a poor baron with a joke of a fief, it would be seen as a sleazy attempt at marrying up, and they can be completely right if you play as an opportunist who is seducing her for your own benefit.

welles is like in her late 30s by the end of the game, realistically she shouldn't even be unwed to begin with

>>3866449
While I agree, you can excuse it by the fact that her and Katarina getting married is such a complicated affair that it is understandable they didn't get around to it between their participation in the war and the whole shit show that is Lords. The Cortes have to approve a family merger no matter who they marry and that by itself is also a political labyrinth.
It wasn't actually that uncommon for female heirs who were left with titles they couldn't pass to have difficulty getting married, if they did at all. There's even a few queens of England who had that exact problem.

>>3866449
she's 31 by the end. most likely already walled, but even in the best case she'd only look good for a couple more years, and we know she'll spend those in prison
there should be a scene where you re-meet her and realize she's ugly and you're not attracted anymore

>>3866446
this depends on the society and terra is such one that you get glazed for all the shit you did
chang wang just hates hero worship

Hunter died at first Blogia like a dumbass, and he's getting sainted. Drag can achieve something like this perfectly fine with even a fraction of potential medals.

>>3866488
Funnily enough, in Mecha Ace you get plenty of glazing for high rep, and, in case of not char rival, for wins. I wonder if it was because he had far less time for worldbuilding, lore, and hasn't created the basis for the setting in his teenage years.

>>3866491
reality must have chewed him out and spat him out like a chinese escalator, which sucks since its degrades his CYOAs

>>3866491
him being sainted got co-oped by wulfram and turned into a political thing.

when can I adopt renard

>>3866280
WE are marrying Ruo bro, trust the Tang plan.

Is there any to make Guiren keep his arm?

>>3866511
No, the best is to come clean to Boss. He will then recreate Guiren's arm. Do note that regeneration of that case is possible in the setting by using pricy alchemy so it's not like he will 100% stay as a cripple.

What races have the best content? Lunargoth runes are cute but I don't think I've seen anything close to the stuff that monkeys get with wukong. also if you name yourself the same name as him you get some funny scenes.

>>3866444
You're relevant enough to constantly participate in major history changing events, not to be actually recognized for your part in them. Don't expect anything more than an imaginary earldom consisting of a barren shithole or a slightly less banrren shithole.

>>3866457
>couple years
You'll have lucky if you manage to kiss her by the time you're 50, even if you picked 14 years old. Children? Not until you're 70 of course.

>>3866527
Reptile Yokai has a few fun ones (reptile civil rights faggot, telling snakes to fuck off, getting pissed at fake dragons)

>>3866457
>>3866535
HagGODs always win in the end

>>3866527
Lunargoths will have their time when we meet Allfather Yakub and go through his Agarthan Portal to the Moon.

>>3866545
What the fuck do humans get, I assume oni have something going for them and even lunarGODS have the runes o algo

>>3866546
Well you have to remember "humanity" here means you are chinese.

>>3866547
I'm assuming that'll be a big deal once you're actually in the archonate but yea guess its the no flavour option

>>3866546
That racist Magistrate apologizes to you for Oni bothering such a fine upstanding Human in his city. He gives you 300 shards as a tip.

I take it that wang’s new WoD is absolute shit? Nobody is talking about it…

>>3866546
Human spirit saves your ass on your first run where you do not even know how to use seals?

>>3866527
I think Kitsunes are still at the top of the unique content list. They get a second tail and have their nature exposed to everyone scenes, they get some unique choices with their racial skill, unique comments and a boost in romancing the Kitsune announcer by the looks of it.
On the other end it's either wolf, bovine or cat yokai. The first eat regurgitated food but it's not unique to them, the second get massive boobs but only females so it's only partial and the third have a few interactions here and there but nothing too impressive.

Can yokai and oni ascend? Are yokai technically still animals? If a cultivator becomes strong enough and he's an yokai does he just become a wild god?

>aura spics
:/

Name one cyoa with an actual route split that isn't lords of infinty. despite being named "choose your own adventure" theres startlingly litte adventure you get to choose, it just gets foisted upon your character and you get 6 different ways to say the same thing but it changes a different personality slider

>>3866587
Tally Ho! Divergence of whether you do the buttler missions or serve properly, perhaps?

>>3866587
KaE? Author had said there are several different routes that your character could pick
Maybe Choice of Romance? you could prematurely end the game by marrying the rich merchant
And would the Keeper series count? From what we’ve been seeing there’s a route where you could destroy reality

>>3866587
A Study in Steampunk has quite a lot of route splits and unique endings. Plus, where else can you become magical Jack the Ripper?

>>3866556
It's a v5 hunter in vancouver (v5 hunters do not have any powers and the government is on their side [Second Inquisition]). To top it off, you aren't even trained in anything. You're literally homeless and failed at basic living like having a career. It's not about rising above that and becoming some Van Hellsing either, it's about homeless actovism and uniting them. They announced another game that is the SAME THING, a v5 no powers hunter but this time in hollywood where you also have no skills or training and failed at a normal career.

like ok im trying to go into this with an open mind but how can you read this and not chuckle, seriously?

>>3866587
An Unexpectedly Green Journey is incredibly good at exactly that. Wholly different game based on choices.

>>3866636
>xe
>xer
What abomination is this?

>>3866639
Its like their pronouns for a god of the setting or something, I just started this so I can't really say. Just feels somewhat unserious to me, having pronouns in character pages and even some they/thems like fine I'll roll my eyes but whatever but neo-pronouns are just too funny. Actually ridiculous

>>3866635
The Hollywood game has acting, actual corruption arc and something to do as its selling points. Wang's game offers nothing of the sort.

>>3866651
I just do not give a shit about being a loser who finally finds their true calling of still not having powers. V5 hunter isn't Hunter, it's Mortal.

>>3866653
Isn't it more about corpo glowcore?

>>3866654
Actually not. Despite some people claiming it's Vigil dressed up as Reckoning and the whole SI thing in V5, H5 isn't about playing the human orgs and those general tend to be cast as unsavoury if not outright le bad. Your average players are meant to be Reckoning-tier random schmucks but without the Imbued powers. A classic case of Paradox era WW mixing oWoD with CofD only to end up with something shittier than both.

Oh wow see you guys in 9 months.

>>3866580
>Can yokai and oni ascend?
Yes.
>Are yokai technically still animals?
No.
>If a cultivator becomes strong enough and he's an yokai does he just become a wild god?
No, it's the other way around. Wild Gods want to become yokai.

>>3866587
I've been avoiding cyoa with big splits because they tend to drastically shorten routes and design the game around requiring the player to read both to get a playthrough's worth, and in case one of them sucks, it's your loss

>>3866791
This is why I couldn't finish orcbro's game. I like his game but I can't stomach it.

i wish cyoas where like devil survivor

>>3866750
I thought wild gods distinctivly choose not to become yokai

>>3866732
he needs to find a way to speed that up, i really wanna see the aftermath of that fight

>>3866889
It's more that they don't necessarily gain intelligence while gaining power so it's not even a choice. Some become yokai and can maybe ascend, others are mindless animals getting stronger and stronger like some Cerberus or some shit

>>3866899
What about gharuzha and monkey king?

>>3866900
In ch6 Angelo says most gain intelligence when they hit 20k AP and unlock all chi types, including Sacred Chi. I figure that's how the fish got smart. I don't know about the monkey king, because if you're a monkey yokai in the mist chamber you think on the legends of him stealing cultivation secrets from the heavens to give to Beasts. That might be a fake legend or he might be older than all the others.

>>3866732
Anon, we know you are here and we know you can transform 1 million words from one engine to another while completely overhauling it in 3 months.
Taking your sweet fucking time releasing chapters will no longer be tolerated

>>3866732
>>3866898
I'm assuming we're getting a side quests + cut content smaller update before that comes out but yeah earliest I can see it coming is like february, feels bad but the following chapters should moslty be the trials and side quests so I can see the development going smoother afterwards.

>aura spics
:/

>aura spics
>:/

>>3866908
How’s Bastard of Camelot’s rewrite coming along flip tranny?

>>3866907
At the very least , we are not getting rebalance updates

What's your favorite RO from any game?

>>3866915
Ecstasy from Slammed

>>3866915
Lady Argent. Malin was able to coerce me into wanting her to act exactly how she would proceed to act.

>>3866920
Fallen Hero book 3
whatever happened there

>>3866921
branching bloat
that won't even matter because everything is getting merged back again and the one branch that would actually meaningfully change anything didn't make the cut to start with

>>3866921
Did you just reference a Blogia OP referencing the Sopranos 2 years ago?

>>3866915
Roach, she's perfect.

>"Oh heavens I broke my leg! Won't you help this old man, Mr. Protagonist? If you ignore me your run will miss out on my village's 80k words side-plot kekekeke!"
>tfw my character is supposed to be a cynical introvert who doesn't help strangers
>tfw there's no option to ask my goody-two-shoes companion for their opinion that I should save this old man
>be forced to break off character and save him for no conceivable reason to access his side plot
>end up with +99 GOOD stat
Fuck this.

>>3866902
Translating takes less time than writing though, innit? When you write, you need to take care so everything you're writing is congruent with the game as a whole. Including the different choices.

>>3866915
myself

>>3865398
I draw as a hobby but I've never made any CYOA fanart.

>>3867034
Post some of your art

>>3867036
Why not? Here ya go anon.

>>3867067
wow not bad at all, really. is that an oc on the left or what?

>>3867068
Hey thanks! Left and right are both OC's. Middle is a recreation of the character on the left that I made in a sci-fi anime vidya.

>>3867070
you got a portfolio?

>>3867071
Closest I've got is a Twitter (@StjerneStirre).

>>3865454
Based fellow FentonFag

There's just something wholesome about childhood friends reuniting at war and going through thick and thin together. Always my pick.

>>3865876
> fuck invisigal
If she doesn't go invisible, letting me see my dick in her, then what's the point?

What about either of the muscle mommies?

>>3865954
Damn

>>3865964
I'm with ya Anon.

>>3866635
>v5 hunters do not have any powers
I'm going to be honest. I don't give a shit about powers. I just want to be some vagabond on the edge of a nervous breakdown that keeps a flask of whisky in my left coat pocket and a sawn off in my right.

>>3866623
>Jack the Ripper?
>tfw my gay lover Not!Sherlock walked in on me
>tfw I was the only one that walked out of that room

>>3866915
Seraphina

2 years of non stop seething.

When are we going to get a proper Christmas game?

>>3866915
Seraphina from Keeper series

>>3867116
Bro...Your In the Service of Mrs. Claus?

>>3867121
2019 was 6 years ago. Please give me something new other than that chink Christmas game.

>>3867100
Mindbroken

>>3867076
Do people really pick someone other than Lanzerel?

>>3867192
Yes. Lanzerel is for power gamers, Fenton for roleplayers. And if you know what you are doing, Fenton is perfectly viable.

>>3867193
Meh. I save edit anyway, so it's not about power. I just like Lanzerel's whole deal. He feels like a very fittting sergeant character if you're going with a young dragoon

>>3867192
>Mr. "Civilians are the real enemy"
No thanks, sirrah.

>>3865454
I want my sister to marry the antari dude because they get along and his wall autism be damned he can manage a barony just fine

KEK
https://www.patreon.com/posts/142500419

>>3867298
>AI sloppa
>Unironically caring what Redditors think of him and his game
>Rehashing drama from months ago
This is just sad and cringe, Bryce really mind-broke Cult-anon and his chud fanboys

>>3867298
based
kill all anti-ai niggers

>>3867298
this one got me cackling, good one cultivator anon.

>>3867298
>giving the twine framework for free
Ok, this is epic.

>>3867201
illiterate-kun...

>it's been half a year since last officer of the fleet update
Yeah, enders game the cyoa is kill.
We are cursed to talk about AC, POMA and monthly infinity cope lore from Wang until the end of time

>>3867479
and even ac & poma are only playable every 2 months on every update ( still the only wips that actively get updates btw )

>>3867479
Don't be so pessimistic, we have 3 (three) whole releases to look forward to between now and the end of 2026.
>next Tally Good
>next Orc game
>next Hyuga
Yup, the future is looking bright.

>>3867490
I trust the plan book 1 of poma will be out before 2026 ends.

>>3867492
lol

>>3867429
He literally tells you to kill women and children without hesitation when you meet him and is the only sgt to defend Lefebvre's civie hunting.

>>3867490
>>next Hyuga
lol, lmao

>>3867490
>kusogger trying to worm its way back to relevancy

I am waiting for Keeper 3, Fallen Hero 3, ITFO 2 and Tally Ho 2 for more chuuni kino

>>3867570
>FH 3
Will be shit
>ITFO 2
Will be shit and less angsty since the writer is not depressed anymore

>>3867570
>chuuni kino
>lists woman games
really makes you ponder

>be third worlder from bangladesh or india
>write 470k words of eslslop
>somehow make around $650 a month on patreon
>start rewriting the game from the beginning
KEK these "people" are shameless. The moment they got a small audience, the patreon scam starts. This is Summertime Saga all over again.

>>3867680
patreon piggies deserve it

>>3867240
Karol is based and would be a good choice (my second behind Fenton) but he only likes milfs.

>>3867680
I hear the newer content is better written, and the older stuff definitely needed polish. I ain't mad (this time).

>>3867680
reminder this nigga's unironically planning for his game to be like 10 mil word count

>>3867716
Three Gravity's Rainbows, or four Ulysses

Finally gotten around to playing Mecha Ace. I'm not really a Gundam guy but it's been pretty great.

But fucking Asadi.
>land on the planet
>see the destruction the enemy forces left behind
>RAGE.png
>explain to him that it was probably collateral damage from the enemy mechs rushing through the city
>order the lance to move through carefully so we don't add to the damage
>"BUT THEY"LL GET AWAY!!!"
>RAGE.gif
Hotheaded retard-kun. . .

Lance 3 a cute btw
A CUTE!

I remember playing Mecha Ace a loong-ass time ago and being mad because they killed a bunch of characters off-screen when a ship exploded.

I feel like I keep seeing the same shit on coh/hostedgames/cogdemos. Any interesting stuff on itch.io or wherever else?

>>3867831
lol
lmao even
itch scene is pretty much just droves of 10 minute Slopjam 2017 nongames and as of more recently CoGfugees bringing the absolute worst of their format with them. There's a reason why Trigaea sits on the top there and it's not because it's particuraly good.

>>3867823
That's why we're all shitting on wang at best or ignoring him at worst for making a no-powers homeless activism game when he was supposed to be making the next Night Road to let us play WoD properly. He has the skills to make a good game and chooses to make bad ones.

>>3867847
>no-powers
Is this really a sticking point for some people? I always thought the draw for Hunter was that you were essentially just playing some dude. Sure you could get some mystical artifacts or learn some neat tricks but that was more a result of you knowing about these things rather than being something special and innate.

>>3867828
ngl I was expecting the unnamed members of your squad to be killed off in the prologue.

>>3867887
>Is this really a sticking point for some people?
When you're raised on Hunter where it's about being a schizophrenic paladin, yes. Removing the powers makes it asinine. Without any form of True Faith or other Imbued Zeal you literally do not fight these supernaturals. A werewolf turning into Chrinos triggers Delerium and you piss your pants. A Vampire using Presence tells you what to do and you do it. As a hunter you're still far below them, still broke, still hated by the law since the monsters have civilian identities, but you can spend precious resources to shrug off the auto-wins and sometimes hurt them or see through their tricks. As a normal Mortal it's just an asspull and bad writing if you ever win against anything but the lamest enemies, you have to completely ignore your enemy's abilities.

>>3867887
>I always thought the draw for Hunter was that you were essentially just playing some dude.
Look how Glenkildove did it and compare it to Wang's demo.

>>3867904
You're saying this as if most of the Edges you had in Reckoning weren't absolute dogshit and you wouldn't instantly job to your enemies had you played them by their actual splat rules.
You also should actually read up on V5 Hunter because both of your examples can be tanked with Endowment Edges.

Man, I got so used to the old A.I slop images for Aura clash, the new ones look jarring

>>3868037
Which ones are you talking about?

>>3868039
New AIslop placeholder images in the twine build.

>>3868040
Did those just come out? I played it a couple days ago and didn't see anything new.

>>3868041
Dunno.
I just started playing today on the twine build.
This is nu-Jack.

>>3868044
Oh yeah I just played it too and while the scenery ones of the village I quite like I don't like this at all, the other ones atleast felt like they had a direction somewhat fidelity etc, will see if these are just placeholders it's probably fine.

>>3868037
Yeah, I'm not feeling the new ones at all either.

>>3868044
Le sigh... guess im replaying the entire game again to see all the new images... Woe is me... Cultivator-Anon this steak is too juicy, my bread too warm, my lobster too buttery!

>>3868044
>more AIsloppa

>>3868030
Honestly I feel like Glenkildove really hit that sweet spot for me of being way in over our heads but not actually completely incompetent.

Who cares about placeholders desu, let's hope the real ones are good.

>>3868030
>go compare a full game to a demo

>>3868037
Honestly going through it now I have got to agree, the older ones felt like they had more character. Ofc they're placeholders but the style shift is super jaring

>>3868069
>noooo it's going to be good! don't look at the demo, it doesn't matter it's crap now!
I will use that argument again when it's out. I wonder what your next cope is going to be.

>>3868068
>he still thinks there will be actual portraits and not AI slop ones

>>3868074
As if it concerned you fujotranny.

>>3868075
>projecting this hard just because someone points out how greedy the author is

ok how the fuck can you not chuckle at the new desdemona portrait, actually funnier than the stupid ai song.

>>3868076
You are not tricking anyone.

>>3868071
I'm flattered, the old ones were a lot of custom work with hundreds of attempts until one felt like it had the right impression. Still, I appreciated the guys making the picture set for months. The main reason for the shift is the tool I originally used "updated" itself into looking entirely different, so more and more characters were being introduced without portraits. As for the ones I do have, I'll be providing both to the illustrationist (who are all either charing $200 for a good pic or dead by suicide at this point).

Let me know your favorites/least favorites so I can tell the guys to try some redos. I'm mostly focused on the writing again now that all the translating is done.

>>3868084
Desdemona & Leona look fucking goofy but I suppose it fits, it also was kinda of an issue that so many new characters were blank while earlier side characters had portraits (big chu & khan) so I can see why you went with that and as placeholders they're fine.
Do you still plan to release an update including companion quests and older "cut" content ( like boar fight I think you mentioned ) before going for chapter 9 fullsteam ahead? The pace is honestly impressive regardless thanks for the effort

>>3868084
I feel like Fang is an improvement. Her previous portrait didn't fit her ditzy personality. Chu looked a bit weird but it also complemented his jovial personality, now he is more serious than I imagined him. Dou Nohal is also too regal now in comparison to his usual antics.
Personally, I will miss old goofy Taio. He looks more menacing one which is probably the correct choice but I'm used to his old look.

>>3868084
Did you find anyone that won't cost you an arm and a leg?

>>3868084
Chu needs mroe fat man, jovial energy.
Callous looks too much like a drow

>>3868091
The total opposite, I found a cute picture that had Leona vibes and reached out to the artist asking if they'd do 60 pics for $6k, got ghosted, and then found out they have a patreon where they make that in a month for making 1 picture. It dawned on me that I am old and do no know who is e-famous anymore.

It was centurii-chan btw and you should all check out their comics. Gyaru landsknecht best girl.

>>3868096
>centurii-chan
>history/yuri artist
>all my characters are very gay
>sometimes
Anon, I beg of you, find some decent no name artist, if they are popular enough to strike several hundred thousand views on youtube, they won't do any deal with you.

>>3868072
I haven't said that the demo is crap because it isn't. It's a decent show of how the full game's gonna work and does a far better job at that than Glenkildove's, which was literally just the story hook and nothing else. With all the seething about it, one'd think there'd be something more to the criticism than
>I don't wanna play a powerless hobo!!!
>it reads like reddit!!!
>muh precious skills!!! Like this wasn't the weakest point of Glenkildove by far

>>3868101
>because it isn't
Lol.
>It's a decent show of how the full game's gonna work
That's true actually but in a bad way. Wang is done, face it. It should have been obvious after Kendrickstone 2 but everyone here including me gave him the benefit of the doubt. At this point I am starting to agree with the shitposters that Wars is going to be crap too.

>>3868084
Is there a reason why you feel such a pressing need to have art to start with? I get that you've barely played any games beyond Night Road, but you should've realized by now artwork isn't really something people readily expect in this scene, and it's not like wanting to make the game look good is a factor when you went through the pains of making twine look like a Choicescript knockoff.

>>3868096
>60 pics for 6k
For 60 characters or what? Do 30 pics for 6k, better quality

>>3868084
It's tough to separate "I don't like this because of the sudden style change" from "I don't like this because it looks appalling" but from looking over the new ones and the old ones, I've so far got:
>leona is by far the biggest downgrade from the old version
>desdemona looks more plain in comparison to the old version
>big chu looks like a completely different character now
>crusher mao looks like he had an afro trimmed down to a buzz cut, I can't take him seriously looking like that
>maybe because of an unflattering angle but bo lo straight up looks like a 10 year old instead of just being a turbo manlet
Oh and most importantly, misuka isn't just Koto from yyh but with 3 tails, so my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

>>3868096
>Centurii-chan
Will somebody PLEASE reccomend cultivator anon a good artist

Does lost jester have a pic? I only did a run with jahi

>>3868126
He'll just have to scour comm websites I think, we have a resident artist I think maybe he can recommend someone.

>>3868104
>Wars is going to be crap too.
Obviously. The story is going the direction where each interation is getting wider and more branching but the story and characters are getting worse.

Where can I see these new images?

>>3868134
https://www.auraclash.com/merchants/
There's a folder for the new, current images and a second folder for the old images.

>>3868126
Just go to pixiv, there are plenty of great no name artists

>>3868137
Damn, Dessies tits are ENORMOUS!

How can I betray and kill her for AP from now on?...

>aura spics
>ai slop
:/

Must have been the wind...

>>3868137
Fang!

>aura spics
>ai sloppa
:/
you guys aren’t even discussing CYOA
games, but ai slop art, or about how your cult-leader got ripped off, two times mind you, when paying for this ai slop
this isn’t relevant to the thread, fuck off back to your discord if you want to talk about off-topic crap :/

>>3868096
Just pay novelai or something similar 10$ and use their image generator. It lets you copy artists' art style for your images. The only thing you need to learn is how to prompt, but its kind of intuitive.

These are the prompts I used to get a centurii-chan influenced leona from the /merchants/images folder.

1girl, best quality, highres, absurdres, long eyelashes, fair skin, artist: centurii-chan, full lips, long luscious blonde hair, heterochrome green and blue eyes, large breasts, blue scale armor, warrior

>>3868169
I can't lie that looks too goofy

>>3868170
She stores all her AP in her boobs.

>>3868173
I mean its fine for dessy to have those stupid ones since thats half of her character anyway, Leona? Whatever she's insane. The archon armor just looks stupid with mmo boobs on them lol its so funny

>>3868176
Just pretend she is from a Vanillaware game

>>3868169
Tbh the way I see it you should always pick her if you're a JDF since she's also one and if you have two yang or two yin elements.

>>3868169
you can pick? i thought it would get picked for you based on your actions

what's the password for the premium version of poma on itch.io?

>>3868220
nevermind found it in the archives
crit_checks

>>3868160
this looks disgusting

while you thirsted after ROs I studied the blade

>Constantly get recommended the Infinity series
>Look it up and even big fans of it say you shouldn't play without a guide otherwise you'll constantly fuck your playthroughs
Getting really mixed signals here. The latter sounds like an awful way to have to play, but everyone seems to love it regardless

>>3868268
Based. Ignore women, acquire swords.

>>3868310
No need for guides, you can just optimize your runs yourself. If you don't do it and just import the first character you get into the next game then yeah, prepare to constantly eat dirt due to your shit stats.

>>3868310
"People" are profoundly retarded and genuinely believe that if you don't 100% the game with the most minmaxed build from the get go, you shouldn't have bothered in the first place. Just play it at your own pace.

Did anon push some retarded stealth nerf again? Tried starting a new run and shard cycling cost started skyrocketing after every use regardless of handseal level

>>3868328
Works on my machine. Did you forget to buy the hungry ritual thing?

>>3868329
Prior to chapter 3 and it was never an issue before. First time I'm seeing the cost being your current ap + 10

>>3868310
Just pick the 14 year old dragoon and save edit so you can have a protagonist that doesn't end up 60 year old by the end of the game.

>>3868331
>>3868328
It's as intended without the Hungry Seal

>>3868338
>so you can have a protagonist that doesn't end up 60 year old
Being an old man is funny, though. If anything I wish more games would let me do it.
18 to 45 is such a boring age range, give me 6 and 60 year old protagonists.

>>3868343
No, it isn't, dipshit. This literally wasn't a thing until a few days ago.

>>3868354
Let's try this again.
Yes, it is a nerf and works as intended.
Not a bug, cause that is a possibility (a few things get broken/weird)

>>3868331
That's what the cost is supposed to be, a patchnote mentioned the twine build started glitched where you had maximum discount as long as you were BELOW 6 handseals instead of ABOVE. Peak retard moment and I pray for more.

>>3868350
Off topic but MGS4. Snake has all the old man traits in that game and if you just look at the game from his perspective the game is depressing

I'm getting back into cyberpunkdreams after 2 years. Am I stupid?

>>3868408
not just stupid, but also retarded

>>3868408
>getting back
>When it still has that action system
lol

>>3868408
Why are you the way you are?

>>3868408
not much has really changed so i don't think you will stick around for long

>>3868408
Have they fixed the real-time system, yet?
I used to play it when you could get around that.

>next ac chapter is gonna gonna be 300k words
Minmaxchads, this is where we get to shine and get on a different route by performing better during the trials than the rpeasants!

>>3868517
Aren't the trials already over? I thought we ended up in 5th place.

>>3868518
Those were more like preliminaries. The real hard part starts now.

>>3868519
How are we gonna do the trials if we have to go on a long-ass sidequest to restore our powers?

>>3868520
I guess there might be a break before the next stage and we wont get the minmaxer route yet afterall.

>>3868520
>>3868524
>>3868519
It's explained by Mao.
You have 3 trials done on a row, then 6-7 more per week

>>3868518
That was 4 trials out of 12 or so

>>3868525
I thought it was 2 per week so cultivator anon has plenty of time to put in side quests and adventures + character interaction.

>>3868527
I meant one trial doen per week out of the remaining.
>"Fucking Hells." Mao curses, sitting cross-legged on the mat and facing you. "I'm not a scribe so we'll only go over the important parts. The Trials are twelve challenges. The first three are close together, the nine after that have at least a week apart. Each one will have its own rules and its own five judges from the Inner Kingdoms. Everyone knows that, but what you need to know is the obstacles in your way."

>>3868531
So we need to get our power back in one week, no?

>>3868542
Or get low scores for a couple trials before bouncing back.
But our boy grows quickly

>>3868517
9 more months just in time for the 3rd kid!

The next 3 trials are not fights, they're about your smarts, you'll probably be able to get max points even without cores.

>>3868561
I wonder if jack might fall out of the top 5 if we burst his dragon medallion.
also why can't monkey yokai use titan as a kiikachad, come on cultivation-anon, you know you want to.

>>3868551
It'll be here before february comes around, the stars told me so.

It's crazy how much better the Aoyusumu mentor is to everyone else

>inb4 the waifu options
They're cool girls, but they're not cool mentors. Angelo is the only one who really feels like a mentor.

>>3868561
They're probably not just fights, but I highly doubt they wont require any cultivation at all.
>>3868563
>can't participate in the final challenge
>still stays ahead of you if you get 27/21 points (can you get more?)
These trials seem rigged.

>Trying to pay off any debt in nanhou softlocks you because a return button isn't coded in for the scene
There's a joke waiting to be made there somewhere. Also the guard points from kiihakai technique don't display in the stat menu, even though the technique otherwise works okay.

>>3868408
>Am I stupid?
Yes. Do you really want to do pointless grind on top of waiting 10min for a single action refresh?

>>3868571
Considering you can get points for how you interact with archons in the lightbringer fight I think the implication is that jack multiple interactions like that on his months training with Tian's sect & on his way to nanhou. Still feels like an asspull to me but he has been crammed with elixirs since he's 5yo. Also are we ever going to see him and mao on the same screen? Wonder what their dynamic is like

>>3868567
Considering he's (literally) Kung-Fu Jesus, it makes sense.

>>3868585
Oh yeah, and bloodfuel can finally be triggered, but it doesn't actually restore chi.

>>3868609
Wait I'm pretty sure I tried yesterday and couldnt use it. Was it fixed just now?

>>3868585
I did pay off the debt you get from the hospital if you meet Mia

>>3868617
You need to have less than full chi to use it.

>>3868622
Still doesnt work for me.

>>3868635
Retard-chama, the game moved to twine. CoGdemos version isn't getting updated ever.
https://www.auraclash.com/merchants/aura-clash.html
patron
keiko

>>3868635
That's not how that button is supposed to read like. Your version is out of date.

>>3868648
I am not a retard ok, it's because https://www.auraclash.com/merchants/ still links the old version of the game!
Thanks though.

>samefagging
>shilling/promoting the game openly
you guys are better off making an /AC/-Aura Clash general
oh wait, you all already tried that on /tg/, and got mocked and laughed out lmao

>>3868567
Desdemona and Dreamdemona are fun to interact with too

>>3868664
As I said, they're cool, but they're not very good mentor characters. Desdemona is barely better than you. Angelo hits all the "cool mentor" boxes.

>>3868660
you made the thread fliptranny or someone like you, talk about games

>>3868668
>you made the thread fliptranny or someone like you
see >>3741937
wouldn't have used a girl as the OP, see my other threads i had made as reference, mostly males in the OP :p
keeper of life and death got a recent update, have any of you read it yet?!
oh and twisted scene is a good music wip if you didn't like press play! or infamous for whatever reason, it focuses more on music rather than romance or drama

jolly good but its lupin the third

>>3868675
>>I’d rather have a slow thread with sparse content than a thread where I have to avoid stepping on the toe of one massive faggot
Well, he got what he wanted, a slow thread with very little content to talk about outside of Aura Clash, PoMA, Infinity, and the occasional WoD slop

>>3868137
Literally built for Big LunarCHAD Cock

>>3868684
Who isn't?

>My first experience with tabletop roleplaying games was when I got the Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 starter set at the age of twelve. In the twenty years since then, I’ve played 4th Ed, 5th Ed, Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, Dark Heresy, Shadowrun, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Lancer, and Blades in the Dark.
>But here’s the thing: aside from Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines, I had never played anything – digital or tabletop – set in the World of Darkness. Not “Hunter: The Reckoning,” not “Werewolf: The Apocalypse,” not even “Vampire: The Masquerade.”
M-my knees...my fucking knees...

>>3868719
Based beyond belief

>>3868719
This is Wang right? He's so passionate...

>>3868719
>finally, an experienced author for a vampire game! We can have another Night Road!
>Wang: "What the hell is Night Road?"
Making it Hunter: The Homelessing for the fourth time was just icing on the cake.

>>3868747
I remember when people were complaining we would have to play as some shitty thinbloods because the only known things about Wang's sekrit project were that it would be WoD and protagonists are marginalized community. Little did they know.

>>3868753
Tbf my guess was half-right since thinbloods are in and a central part of the plot.

>>3868757
Yeah but we have to play as something even more pathetic than lowly thinbloods. At this point I wish it would be Vampire: The Thinblooding instead. I would still complain of course but I would exist blissfully unaware of how worse things could be.

>>3868747
I want to roleplay as a schizo hobo stabbing vampires in dark alleyways. does wang's demo let me do that

>>3868765
>schizo hobo
You are some loser college-aged (?) hobo. Not even a proper druggie.
>stabbing vampires in dark alleyways
No but you can observe how notCazarosta whoops one with an iron pipe. You can romance a reddit tranny though.

>>3868767
You can actually beat him and not even meet the glowredskin hobo there. It doesn't look that way , but the prologue is actually pretty branchy.
>>3868765
Kind of. You can play a rather antisocial character and in one instance murder a rando out of nowhere. Even the gangster who gave you the job is freaked out.

> If there's any consistent feedback I've gotten on my past games, it's that they're too hard and unforgiving, especially when it comes to skill checks.
It's so over. Now i get why the demo felt like shit.

>>3868795
He goes on to say it's an issue of poor signposting and implies people should just play with Storyteller.
It doesn't really play much differently from his previous games. I even got the Wang classic of low charisma railroading me out of content.

>While a vampire can pretend that they’re a representative of the othered and the marginalised, that the hierarchy of their society shackles them, and the cost of their ‘curse’ robs them of their humanity, that line of argument rings rather hollow when you remember that vampires are still, for the most part, immortal nigh-indestructible superhumans with supernatural powers
Great job misunderstanding the core premise of the setting you dipshit.

>>3868804
Vampires struggling with their shitty elders while being the shitty elders to someone else is a cornerstone of the setting, retardbro. So is the vampions shit.

>>3868813
Go back to your infinitycord. Your pathetic attempt at damage control is doomed to fail.

cultivator-anon, if you're here, the twine version is really buggy. All the text keeps vanishing, aside from the 4 boxes. Going into those menus a few times seems to fix it for that page, but it keeps happening.

>>3868767
>You can romance a reddit tranny though
Do they still have a penis? This is important.

>>3868795
>>3868802
I recall people complaining about the stat checks in night road and subsequent WoD slop games

>>3868813
>>3868804
isn't that the anarch's whole thing is basically being social justice warriors but just for vampires. like they are right that the camerilla are a scam but they are that stoner roomate of the vampire ecosystem that just endlessly complains about how bullshit everything is while still being complicit in the thing they're complaining about

>>3868855
But it's pretty easy to tell what stats will be tested in both Night Roads and Glenkildove. And as long as you don't spread yourself too thin and focus on half a dozen skills or so you're generally pretty golden.

>>3868820
Aw crud, what browser?

>>3868820
>>3868922
Reporting bugs is NOT on topic, fuck off back to your discord or reddit for that

I might've bought Wang's game but after playing the demo I am not convinced. It's just bland.

>>3868922
It also happens in Mozilla.
It's as if the transition for the text showing up halts

>>3868922
I'm getting this bug too >>3868976
and also when I go to the caravan stalls, then activate the handseal for persuasion in the second month of the free year, it puts me into the event where you race against Bo Lo when I click return to game, even though I already did it in the first month.

>>3868861
They do more than complain? I seem to recall them waging a war against the kue jin and winning, while the camarilla were around and doing nothing?

>>3868169
>>3868187
You can pick Archons now? Was there an update?

>>3869033
Not yet, but you'll have to choose between JDF mommy archon, orochimaru archon and beast fighter archon.

>>3869035
Jamaica Defense Force?

>>3869035
hope the dragon girl says something if you reveal the monkey king connection, seriously that should have as much reactivity as jdf kinda crazy anon let us reveal it so soon.

>>3868922
nta but i've had a few errors, code text, or seeing text from different routes on brave, aoyu path if it matters

>>3869047
>monkey king connection
Is this a monkey youkai thing?

>>3869056
Yeah, you get to learn the clone technique and you have the most unique jack fight ending I think. you get like +30 prestige

>>3869035
>beast fighter archon
Beast fighter like Godfrey or a beast fighter like a yokai?

>>3869087
Like Godfrey I think.

>>3869115
Hell yeah.

Vendetta bros...

>>3868609
>"Eternal Warrior" "Passively increases AP by +3 when suffering a Wound and your Wounds no longer subtract from AP gained when defeating an enemy. Increases Chi Pool by +2 when focused." for Monkey Yokai.
>"Palm of Endless Beating" "Passively increases AP by +3 when suffering a Wound and your Wounds no longer subtract from AP gained when defeating an enemy. Increases Health Pool by +1 when focused." from the Endless Beating Sect.
>"Berserker" "Melee Physical Attack. Passively increases AP by +3 when suffering a Wound and your Wounds no longer subtract from AP gained when defeating an enemy. Increases Health by +1 when focused." for Midorikatai.
>"Burning Rage" "Passively increases AP by +3 when suffering a Wound and your Wounds no longer subtract from AP gained when defeating an enemy. Increases Chi by +1 when focused." for Fire.

Do all of these stack? By the way, let's look for some extra synergies.

>"Chi-Hardened Skin" "Passively increases Health Pool by +1. Increases Fortitude Surge by +1 when focused." For Midorikatai.
>"Hoarfrost" "Melee Physical and Energy Attack. Passively increases Health Pool by +1." For Ice.
>"Starlight Enforcement" "Passively increases Health Pool by +1." For Light.
>"Seismic Closing Palms" "Ranged Physical Attack. Grants +1 Fortitude Core when focused." For Earth.
>"Trial of the Dragon" "Physical and Energy Melee Attack. Increases Weapon Quality when Focused. +2 Health when Focused." Requires Akakiru, Wind, Bladed Weapon, or Spirit Pact.

Plus Yin Yang accessories and a custom made weapon that grants Health Pool, Fortiude cores and maybe regeneration. Also, high alchemy allows for fairly cheap production of healing elixirs. Now anon only needs to add the ritual that turns Chi into shards. I will try this build out later.

>>3869143
There are also 2 techniquest that lower the price of elixirs, one for Kurokonton, the other for Water.
>"Swirling Spirit Purification" "Melee Physical-Energy Attack. Passively reduces the cost of Alchemy by 1 Reagent. Increases Power Surge by +1 when focused."
And extra alchemy dots also lower the costs. One of the easier is Factotum Mask. Milling the Yomijin cuck's soul for another one. And if you decide to advance your Fire element during the Daichi fight, you also improve alchemy. My fucking sides if the game allows you to make healing elixirs for the cost of one component.

>>3869143
He'll probably have to nerf it eventually yeah, but for now we can test how high we can get.

>>3869199
There are multiple ways to balance it without making it shit. On top of my head:
>Using the blood cultivators technique to harm yourself and get AP is considered blood cultivation, so it counts against the inner hellscape's limit, while getting bodied in a normal way grants you normal AP. That way doesn't impede any other character while allowing Blood Thunderfaller to still get tons of AP. Probably would need a scene where both Taios watch in amazement as you reach the limit of the hellscape in less than a week after unlocking it. Bandit could heckle the Scholar, how could he have never thought of that if he is so smart, while the Scholar starts sperging out at the Thunderfaller that he doesn't think like a proper cultivator and instead like a filthy peasant, gaming the system. Thunderfaller could retort that he is simply not retarded.
>When making elixirs, make it cost Chi. That's already in the setting if you play the prologue as a herbalist. It would nerf every character that relies on alchemy, though, which is a downside.
>Add another mechanic of toxicity. Every time you use an elixir, you get some toxicity in your body. If you reach the threshold, you have to wait until you cleanse yourself out of it. I don't think there is a player who chugs elixirs and replenishers so hard that nerf would break the build, so it would only target Masochistic Thunderfallers.

I want more content with the taio monks. They're a fun duo.

>>3869125
This one was about the superpowered mafia MC right?

infinity girls ranked by boob size please, this is important for my playthrough

>>3869231
Random elf stacy>Welles>Katarina>Garett

>>3869143
They all do. And yeah, it would be all about using every guaranteed heal spot for churning out constant AP boosts every rest. Regeneration on a weapon also means that whenever a timepass check happens, you get to do another full hp to ap transfer. There will be plenty of room to play with it in chapter 9

>>3869207
When originally pointing out how easily bloodfuel could be abused and asking for a more convenient menu for it, I did consider how it could be balanced if anon decided not to just let it be. I was thinking that all these wounds to AP techniques could be given an AP limit they count toward after which the technique stops giving AP, but transforms into a passive that just gives you the focused effects outright + blocking AP penalty on getting wounded.
If you don't abuse it, you just keep getting AP whenever. If you do abuse it to the point of exhaustion, you get free health bonuses and free up some room for new techniques which incentivizes looking for new AP to wound stuff.

>>3868820
>>3868976
Try now, turns out mozilla handles animation calls differently so the ease-in method was breaking at opacity 0. I hate computers.

>>3869125
One day he will return and save us all.

>>3869291
Are you adding the other companion sidequests before a full chapter 9/10 release? Or is the plan to just have a huge update next?

>>3869231
I'm going to guess it's some specific variation of the Fiancee.

>>3869291
Loads text faster and has not gotten stuck so far.
Good work

>>3869207
Just the elixir nerf wouldn't be enough I feel, since you could still do it whenever time passes and you get healed to full, which is only gonna make it more powerful, the longer the game goes on. The blood one feels a bit unintuitive and arbitrary, since it's not the demonic technique giving you the AP.
>>3869249
This might work I think.

>aura spics
:/

>farquaad
:/

aughrah! sppeeex....

I haven't touched the jolly good 2 demo because I want to go in blind in 2030 when its finally finished

>>3869231
>>3869293
Yeah seconding fiance. My Saltcoast fiance is probable flat as a board due to our less than bountiful harvests.

But I imagine that Aetoria or Kunaris girls are probably quite buxom and plump.

>>3869443
haze romance for butler was amazing, but haze romance for noble will be even more amazing

Still playing my whole CoG / HG backlog chronologically to really appreciate the progression of practices and writing.
Can't shitpost with you guys yet, I'm still in 2014 with Life of a Mobster and Sabres of Infinity.

>>3869593
Godspeed!

>>3869594
Thanks anon!

>>3869593
Which were your favourites year-wise?

Just finished my first blind run of Mecha Ace.
Notes:
>Wingman MIA
>Weaver and Watanabe dead
>Wasn't a big enough War-tist for the chief wartist
>Wiped out enemy fleet

I don't usually complain about stats but I wish it said somewhere more specifically what the stats did. Like, do I need good Piloting, good Perception or a combination of the two to go toe to toe with Hawkins and shoot him?

Overall I wish the game was twice the length and had more mech customization options.

>>3869593
Would love to hear your thoughts on what you play as you play it while comparing it to other games you've played.

>>3869554
I was surprised at how much I liked Rory but gaslighting Haze into get a proper job to spite his family was excellent.

>>3869477
>My Saltcoast fiance is probable flat as a board due to our less than bountiful harvests.
Maybe the Salt Coast isn't all bad...

>>3869598
2010/2011: Affairs of the Court (special mention to Choice of Vampire for the lore and edgy choice but lacks too much player agency)
2012: got no game from that year
2013: Sabres of Infinity
2014: Mecha Ace / Choice of Robots

A lot of these were quite primitive and limited in some way or another, depth or writing wise, so I was extremely surprised by Affairs of the Court. A true court intrigue, character based story with deep lore, devious political choices and a feeling of rigid social mobility that makes your progress so satisfying.
It's quite good for an entry released so early.

Other than that, the classics. Sabres and Choice of Robots are celebrated for a reason, especially at that time when the level was so wide between them and the competitors.

The ones I liked the least were Creatures such as we. Fuck off with le "no choice" meme narrative.
Also, Zombie Exodus and A Wise Use of Time have the most childish and cliché writing I've read in these games. I hope the author improved for Safe Haven because it's gonna rough otherwise.

>>3869605
A lot of these early titles* I meant, not the games I listed above.
>>3869603
Quite a based salted earth first playthrough! Now you got a reason to try it again at least.
>to go toe to toe with Hawkins and shoot him?
I think you do yeah but it's been a while since I played.
>Would love to hear your thoughts on what you play as you play it while comparing it to other games you've played.
Nice, I will give my updates here as I go through these games then!
Going through Life of a Mobster now. I'm already seeing a trend of better writing as I go.

>>3869603
Piloting / Perception are attacking stats that are combined with your mech's stats. Mech stats mainly matter until you get Lionheart: Uxbridge is melee-focused, and thus needs you to have good piloting and prefer melee, Manningham is ranged and needs you to have good Perception. You mainly win the duel with Hawkins by prioritising solely these stats, 4 + fitting mech is the safest number. Mechs also have unlisted stats like speed, weapon damage and the like - that's why it's important to pick a good mech.

And for the man who can change your blood chemistry, he needs the war numbers high! 70 Approval, above 65 Warrior, one flirt at enemy base which only triggers if the approval is higher than 65

There are other ways to win the two duels, but they either require hard number crunching or, yet again, a mech better than Picton.

>>3869608
>salted earth first playthrough
Funnily enough I leaned heavy into protecting civvies at every opportunity. Most of my fuckups came from spreading my forces too thin.

>>3869615
Thanks!
Hidden stats are kinda bullshit.

>above 65% warrior
>tfw 98% Diplomat
It just was never meant to be.

>>3869636
I thought it'd be way worse, honestly. Like 90 Warrior and 100 Approval - I wonder why Mecha Ace is still his best-designed game mechanics-wise.

>>3869636
>spreading my forces too thin.
Yeah I feel like you always gets fucked when you try for both options. Even when it narratively makes sense to do so, I always focus on one thing.
I got fucked over too many times and I instinctively avoid it in any CYOA I try.

>>3869641
It's ass in Mecha Ace because the squad's survival is tied to solely Asadi's mental state. It needs a very specific value set after MC's advice, is gated behind very high relationship value and is only available during Crown Station interlude. If any of those things are wrong, nothing will save them. The game also fakes you out on the right answer - it's identical for all three or four options, but only one will let them survive if you split the squad.

>>3869125
It was cringe, so that's good

>Oni
>Black hair
>Beast style
>Corruption
>Spiritbranded skin
>Asura transformation