Friday, August 26, 2016

v2c4m3 public release!

Chapter 4 Minor 3 is out for the general public!  4m3 is really designed to resolve a lot of the macro issues that you created as you traveled through Celee, enslaving the most beautiful women in the country.  The end of Kathleen's arc in 4m2 introduced a new threat which has to be resolved.   While everyone in the westlands is sworn to you, the relationship between the factions there is unsteady at best.  4m3 also starts the focus swing of 4m4.  4m4 will be heavily focused on individual characters and resolving leftover questions about them before heading into Corsix and adding depth to them.

4m4 is going a bit slower than I hoped.  Well no, it's gotten bigger than I expected.  We'll probably be about 300 images and more than 300 pages of text by the time that it's done.  Probably end up closer to a patreon release on the 10th than the 5th.

But enough talk, lets get to the porn!
v2c4m3.1

v2c4m3
Content Additions
-The end of Kathleen's sequence may have resolved her past, but it was a bit of a cliff-hanger for the rest of Celee. You'll have to work with the Celeean Swords to address this new threat and change your relationship with them fundamentally in the process.
-You control both of the human groups in the Westlands, but the peace between them is shaky at best. You'll need to unify your followers before going further into this new land.
-With a member of the Celeean Swords now part of your Harem, Heather will have additional quests for you.
-Terra, Sarah and Donna all have quests to explore their characters and get sweet unique gear for them as well!
-Added a new shop in Eowen next to Fiona's, Amazing Mechanics, selling off-hand items for those who can't use a shield or dual-wield.
-New Brothel scenes for Donna, Samantha (dark route only), Sarah, Heather and Kathleen
-8 new in game scenes, 5 brothel scenes and two bonus scenes added!
-167 new images, 210 pages of new text!
-Teased a new character!

Bug Fixes/Modifications
-Significant buff to Noemi, giving her new skills and reducing the cost of existing ones.
-Kathleen's Frozen Collar was supposed to be removed at the end of her questline and the stat buffs it gave her transferred to her directly. There was a few scenarios in 4m2 that wouldn't remove the collar, those have now been resolved retroactively.
-Increased the damage scaling of Terra's spells.
-Improved quest guidance through quest log item, still in beta state.
-Put conditionals into Naitay and Phoebe's brothel stories to adapt to plot/personal progression.
-Cleaned up Eowen as you progress the story to reflect the town rebuilding over time.

29 comments:

  1. just wanted to let you know that i'm playing the early areas over and it seems to crash quite a bit during the fight with sarah although it seems somewhat random as to what stage of the fight your in since you fight her multiple times maybe take a look and see if you can figure out the issue? also there are some dialogue boxes in the early game so far that still use the previous hero portrait as opposed to the brown haired variant that is now being used so you might want to take note of that as well.

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    1. *update report* the crashing commonly happens the most on sarah's third fight the most "RGSS3 has stopped working" so it is likely do to some sort of internal error regarding script used for the fight itself?

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    2. I think it has something to do with the save script as it's most commonly triggered after saving and reloading. Try shutting the game down and then loading to see if that helps.

      On 'Ralph's' face: I thought that I cleaned all of those up. Are you sure you're playing the 4m3 version? Where did you see them?

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    3. there are a few very early in the game but while playing right now i have found that during the dialogue with the old priest in the betan church the portrait shows there.

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  2. On the "Quest log" I've got two bugs, both related to Fiona. First it keeps telling me to "Return the shells to Lady Fiona in Eowen", but those were returned long ago and she's no longer even in Eowen.

    Second one is telling me to get 4 "Hearthwoods" from Bloodlashes in the North Woods, but that was finished long ago as well. Every one of my people is equipped with Improved Bloodwood Amulets and that wouldn't be possible if the quest hadn't been completed.

    As an aside, on balance, either I missed a armor shop somewhere or we've got a gap where it becomes stupidly difficult before we get access to Mythral. I had been doing great, much was even easy, then all the sudden I've got mobs that can kill my whole party in two or three rounds with no healing spell I have able to keep up with that level of damage. WTF?

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    1. I'll fix those entries in the quest log, thanks!

      As to the difficulty spike: I'm starting to use a dynamic enemy system that levels them to an appropriate range instead of static stats. While it's possible to outgear an enemy, you really can't outlevel them in 4m3.

      One of the things I'll be doing in 4m4 is putting caps on enemies level roughly appropriate to where I think they should be fought. Which would let you grind a bit to distance yourself past the enemies and make them easier.

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  3. I'm enjoying all the content so far. The Westlands stuff is particularly cool.

    ...Just hoping that the very last update before we're off to Corsix proper manages to squeeze in a non-brothel way to get the Noemi well quest!

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    1. Huh... found a girl running on the roof in Eowen, but I lost sight of her and can't seem to find her anywhere in town...

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    2. Also, because Naitay can't use claws, she can't use her 100 TP ultimate skill that unlocks at level 25.

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    3. I was planning on doing the well alternative for 4m4 but ran out of time unfortunately. I might put it in front of the ch5 content still, not sure.

      In 4m3 the runner is just a tease, you can't interact with her yet.

      I'll fix Naitay.

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    4. I honestly assumed the white haired character was simply a bug or glitch.

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  4. Hello there would just like to point out a glitch I ran across where I am not able to view Terra's brothel scene. I have just tried to activate it after doing nearly everything up to and in this version except Heather's 3rd new side task. When she asks me would I like to hear the story regardless of saying Yes or No it skips straight to her brothel stats.

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  5. JPG
    I don't know is this a bug, or something to do with my system. If last, can i fix this somehow? It's not about this particular message, it happens realy often. Usualy there are only 1-2 letters cut, but sometimes entire words become missing/unreadeble.
    And sorry for my bad English.

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    1. Hmm, somehow you default font settings got changed as text-clip should be extremely rare to nonexistent. I have no idea how that happened though nor how to fix it.

      Beyond the usual of delete and redownload.

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  6. Two things about Terra's unique quest.
    1. It doesn't seem to give her a new ability or a unique piece of equipment.
    2. After you get what you need from the dungeon, there is no message saying that you've completed the side quest.

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    1. 1. You should get a Tiara of Focus which is headgear unique to Terra. But you have to go back to Fiona after gathering the mats to make it.
      2. The variable tracking for that was very goofy as they weren't items unique to the quest. So making a notification that you were done would have been pages of code.

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  7. It appears once I transferred over save files from the previous version to this current one, the unlocked scenes from the previous version become locked again.

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    1. Did you transfer over the replay.rvdata2 file along with the saves? That's where the unlocks are kept.

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    2. Ah, I may have accidentally forgot to do that part this time haha. Sorry about that.

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  8. After transferring an old save over to this newer version, the quest log item does not appear in my inventory, is it something I am doing wrong or is it because it registers it as a sold item? possible fix could be put a single use only chest in hideout that gives it to people who have this issue.

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    1. That's a really good idea. In 4m4 there will be an ability to pick up a quest log if you do not have one in inventory.

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  9. A small question Regarding Claw Weapons:
    For whom are they?
    Naitai can have a skill named Claw dance but she cant equip claws, also they seem pretty weak in comparison to other weapons

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  10. Also, after transferring my save and getting Kathleen afterwards, the Collar stayed on her and she still goes on rampages randomly, even after getting the manual skill for the rampage mode

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    1. She'll always have a risk for possession, but 4m4 will give you better ways of dealing with it.

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    2. so the collar is supposed to be stuck on her?

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  11. I'm getting a crash in the Corsix Mines; whenever I get an encounter in Deep Mines 1 "RGSS3 has stopped working". Anyone else have this issue?

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