Vortex00 ok did some testing and decided to record it. I recorded a lot more but would hit some game breaking bugs, or it being being seemingly impossible to progress with a certain character so I deleted those. I actually still need to play with Phia but I don’t have her charisma high enough to deal with high rank battles yet. Also I wanted to make a few more changes as describe below. So for these reasons mentioned it is not quite read for external testing yet. But Hopefully I can get all this done today when I get back home but we’ll see.
Notable changes:
I did various bug fixes to the main game in getting to the end game. There is a bug in this video where the support agent appears at the end of the battles instead of the agent is saying is unlocked. That has since been fixed.
Added rank battles, doing these battle resets any destroyed ship during a raid. so you might want to do it before of after you main the main person in that area. I would recommend doing this in the last area so you can gain the max amount of resources.
Added a extra passive bonus ability to the harder to find support Agent characters. They are specifically designed for rank stuff but some of the abilities wok outside of rank also.
Moiji
+100 node unit increase rate
Begin with +1000 x Rank units in your main node.
Purin
Reduces the number of nodes at the start of a battle by 10
removes Striker support ship in Rank Battle
Jaina
enemy EMP time reduction
removes barrier support ship.
Added a new item that cost 6k Reseouces, Khalei Crystal Reserve. This resets the cooldown on all your abilities and also allows you to do something about being EMP chained. Some characters have a really difficult time dealing with EMP chain in rank. it is basically because once it starts it will never wear off since the length of it is based on the rank difficulty.
you can now save Jeo’s max value, and add to that with Agents so I probably won’t have Luma be able to pump him up. Maybe only once the first time on unlock. you can still exploit and pump Jeo up with the same agent I think if you want to keep saving and loading the game, but it’s w/e if that’s how you want to play the game. Plus Jeo is supposed to be kind OP anyway storywise.
Gave Bri some hard nerfs. Now before Brigma complains, I used Bri a lot in he video to show it is not the end of the world, she is still imo a little OP and best to use in ranked battles. Her Weaken now slows down enemy laser speed by only half instead of setting the speed to 1. Her Disaster no longer removes enemy lock-on ability, so you might want bring Matrix. And I fixed a bug where her Weaken would cause the enemy to not shoot single lasers at all. Bri still causes shotgun laser not to shoot either thoguh, I still need to fix that also.
All scenes in Holodeck should unlock once you are past I think area 7 or 8 and at rank 8 or so. I can’t remember. Plus I will add any more that are tricky to unlock.
Jaina passively remove the barrier ship but I wanted to leave it in there overall, at least for his version. it is annoying as hell, but causes the gamepaly strategy to suddenly shift while that barrier is active.
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other changes I’m thinking about for 2.3
Nova reduces unit count down to 25% instead of a flat 500. maybe even 15% or 10%.
Adding additional effects to Remi’s abilities since you can’t add ship mods. Probably some strategical like when you capture a node with a assault ship it resets her seduce ability or something. and when she damages a enemy node she gains units in the main node.
Jeo might have a little neat little trick also that synergizes well with support characters. where if a laser hit a already captured node it adds units to it.
I need to buff the laser mod ability to capture nodes with lasers. It needs to add a few units to the node when captured. probably rank x 100 or something. and his lasers remove several hit points from enemy shields.
I reduced enemy shoot rate to half of what it was, but I might reduce it even more to match some of the laser mods of ARIA girls.
The main enemy lasers will be randomly decided at the start of battle. Assault ship will probably still be the same but shoot less frequently in exchange for increased damage and shied busting power. All this is in a effort to help deal with some potential lag issues.
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Nice to see the testing as expected I see you give a lot of option in other crew to help in battle. Me I like to secretly take the ships down. By going in there core with the females to take out the core or use the zero cannon that Aria can use to clear a path at the battlefield. How the game have so much content than ever before. It is almost like a brand new RTS.
Thanks yeah it It will definitely feel pretty different. In those special rank battles you can’t remove the enemy ship though you have to tough it out. The few of the support characters can remove some of them though.
I have ideas for more support character abilities but they will have to wait. I also wanted to expriment having lots of nodes but removing all the shotgun or spread Laser stuff. Not sure how much value that acutally brings as opposed to having more nodes and a more focused enemy laser variation to deal with. I also wanted enemy attack ships to come from the main enemy ship also.
Am I that predictable?
Yes
Dig the new looting from fights and the mod upgrades too.
Were you planning on doing anything specific for bringing characters into shops? EX: TT noticing extra items, Phia getting free stuff through sex, Bri getting a discount for being cute. Or is it just a visual thing and I’m reading too much into it?
I assume you’re right about the Bri overpoweredness but I thought it made sense for her to be a bit OP, since she now gets injured after every fight. Kinda the way that Jeo is OP but he has the stat decrease thing till Goo shows up.
I don’t plan to have that in 2.3 but those are some really good ideas.
Bri is still OP just not to point where the battle plays itself out. her abilities also actually bug the enemy lasers. so once all that is fixed I will take another look at it.
Well done on continuing to add interesting stuff to the game.
Thanks 2.3 is almost ready to test.
I want to know if there is a proper order to play these games. Seems like ARIA already has some backstory that I don’t know, besides the Arielle and Amp Stories. How should I play this saga.
Thanks in advance.
There is a order of events, or timeline that I was working on. I will need to post that.
Looking forward to that! Thanks for the answer.
@zatheus
this is the timeline I was coming up with so far:
Amp story pt 1
Umichan series stuff (slap, CC, CH, v2, 3D, dail)
Arielle story pt1
ARIA
(other stuff not yet made goes here)
Semitix
DoE
Gheist prologue
JLCK series stuff (not made yet)
this is the recommended order based on that:
Semitix (a story found in the Daughter of Eye game)
Amp story pt 1
Daughter of Eye
Umichan series stuff (slap, CC, CH, v2, 3D, dail,showball holiday, dark winter mmd aniamtion)
Arielle story pt1
ARIA
(other stuff not yet made goes here)
Gheist prologue (need to repost, or remake)
JLCK series stuff (not made yet)
Nice! thanks! I’m sure a lot of people will find this useful, or hope at least.
Looking better and better. Glad I became a patron. Any estimate on when the latest version will be available to download? For patrons, of course.
If you are on the hentai fan amout the test was posted today. If that test goes well that will be made public after a early DL period. I don’t expect there to be a lot of issues but who knows what people might find.
I will post some updates on various stuff over the weekend.
There are some minor bugs in 2.3h. Music not playing for Kim and Sui-May hentai. Talk button being there but not doing anything in rank battles. Can’t remember if there was anything else. I’m sure the other testers will catch it if there is. But very good considering all the changes you made!
Forgot to say I never got raided either, but that could just be coincidence?
Raids are working fine for me. From day 0 to day 9 in a zone you won’t get attacked, from day 10 to day 19 there’s any increasing chance if being raided and from day 20+ there’s a 100% chance. Stealth system prevents raids entirely and emp blast resets your day count.
If you never got raided then you were in an area for less than 10 days, less than 20 and got lucky, or had the stealth system activated.
Yup, less than 20 and must have got lucky. I hung around to unlock the Kim scene.
Thanks. 🙂
I’m not sure if it was your main goal or not, but Purin reducing the number of nodes greatly helps with lag on slower machines.
It was a side effect that I was aware would happen.
Going to post updates later tonight
This gameblooks beautiful! Its almost here, I can feel it!
Thanks glad you like it. yes I am trying to keep the updates flowing.