You will never be a real baneblood. You have no honor, you have no nobility, you have no wealth. You are men twisted by envy and lies into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your clubmates are disgusted and ashamed of you, your Takaran “friends” laugh at your ghoulish bane behind closed doors.The Saints are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed men to sniff out baneless with incredible efficiency. Even Wulframites who “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to a commoner. Your bane is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk noblewoman home with you, she’ll turn tail and bolt the second she gets a whiff of your diseased, dilapidated manor.You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a revolver (Garing, Gutierrez, and Truscott™), load a percussion cap, put in a shot, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your servants will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your name and """""noble"""""house, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a Wulframite is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably a baneless.This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.(This post was sponsored by the generosity of Her Majesty's noble house of Rendower, long may She reign)
>>3210124I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than being a Royalist. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are feeding, clothing, drilling and leading your dragoons for at least 12 years solely so that your queen can get ravaged by Palliser. All the hard work you put into your beautiful little royal- representing her interests at the Commission, making your club turn royalist, making sure the Grain Treaty gets passed, lowering Wulframite power, winning the Battle for Aetoria. All of it has one simple result: her realm is more enjoyable for the man who will eventually fuck her in every hole.Raised the perfect monarch? Great. Who benefits? A man who had nothing to do with the way she grew up, who marries her. He gets to fuck her tight pussy every night. He gets the benefits of her strong political position that came from the way you supported her.As a Royalist, you are LITERALLY dedicating at least 17 years of your life simply to raise a queen for Palliser to enjoy. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.
>>3210139Replace Palliser with Lefebvre
>>3210124This meme literally doesn't make any sense. Wulfram is the richest Duke and literally buys off your debt if you support him.
the contradictions of capital... we must mantain a monetarily rich nobility without productive capacities for the sake of their ancestral privileges. this will be done by either constraining the backbone of society (yeomen, peasants, bourgeois and proletariat) through taxation or leaving us geopolitically weak by defunding our inefficient aristocratic military
>>3210124arent wulframites plutocratic republicans and the royalists populist autocrats?
>>3210293Republicanism doesn't exist outside of Butea. Wulfram wants to make Warburton king
>>3210288>we must mantain a monetarily rich nobilityThe nobility are broke as fuck. Almost every noble house is buried in as much debt as the dragoon if not more. Freedom from taxation is literally the only thing keeping them afloat.
>>3210124I have nothing to contribute besides saying I played the shit out of the crappy free choice of games publications on my kindle in 2010
>>3210384exactly. their livelihoods are contradictory. why do they need huge swathes of improductive lands? why do they need their vast estates? why do they need servants and tenants to mantain their lifestyle?
>>3210476>why do they need huge swathes of improductive lands?They're supposed to govern them, genius. That's like asking why does a mayor need to be in charge of a whole city?
>>3210493>They're supposed to govern them, geniusmagnificent job theyre doing thats for sure>why does a mayor need to be in charge of a whole city?a towns mayor is a public servant, not a proprietor
>>3210503Not my fault the average Tierran tenant has the iq of a cantaloupe.
>>3210124Is Fallen London any good? I played it ages ago and it seemed kinda ass.
>>3210700Kennedy's content is pretty good, new one often sucks ass and drops the atmosphere. But if you really want to sink your teeth into the universe, might as well play Sunless Sea instead.
>>3210700The setting is neat and the writing is pretty good, but the gameplay is an extremely grindy IRL timesink.
>>3210503>a towns mayor is a public servant, not a proprietorCovid proved that's not true.
>>3210293Wulframites are pro-Cortes, Royalists are pro-Crown. Both sides use populist rhetoric, although Isobel is more likely to actually give the baneless something if she has to in order to win, but it'll be out of sheer pragmatism, not out of any genuine ideological commitment.
>Isobel promotes like a dozen people ahead of you>Wulfram promotes you immediately after he's finished talking with TakaraRoyalistsisters...I don't feel so good...
>>3210139just marry the queen yourself, she gets your huge capital and military might if you aren't a retard that's still broke and you get legitimacy, political power and royal pussy
>>3211022>Wulframites lead a desperate charge against a vastly superior force in a bid to save hundreds of lives>Royalists stop Meran from burning down a building
I’m doing some changes to TAILOR on the Unsupervised WIP>Added helmet from pic related>Added color pink>Added symbols>Made it easier to navigate the menus>Game detects the prevalent color(s) on your overall costume instead of just the colors of specific piecesAny ideas or requests for it before I wrap things up?
>>3211106Branding is important, especially for a super hero. Can you already incorporate a big symbol that represents you into your costume? You know, the punisher has the skull, the Incredibles has that I, Superman has the S. Know what I mean?
>>3211107Yes, I added like a few hundred of those divided in these categories:>Letter>Animal (Mammal, Arthropod, Reptile/Amphibian)>Mythical Creature>Elemental/Nature>Object>Geometrical/Abstract/Other>Write Your OwnI'm also letting the player decide where in their costume the symbol will appear. They can select multiple spots, but some spots only unlock if you are wearing a piece that allows for that.Still working on the spots and the wording, but it's something like:>Forehead>Across Whole Face>Back >Front (Chest, Big, Small)>Front ("Insignia" on the right/left)>Pattern
>>3211124Fuck yeah Anon
>>3211106Add in a player input prompt for what the symbol is so players can be silly and editors won't bust you for people putting a copyright logo on their outfit since it's just player inputAlso my own cultivation game is getting no progress this week as it turns out vacations with your child are just babysitting 24/7 but all the things that calm them down or distract them are back home.
>>3211124Oh cool you already had a player input one, nice anon
>>3211132>as it turns out vacations with your child are just babysitting 24/7Man, you just put all my childhood vacations with my parents in a new perspective.
>>3211094>huge capital20k crown...woooooww...that's almost a fourth of what Warburton blows at a random party!>military mightA regiment that belongs to the Queen and you only get to run it as long as she allows you to...Damn...
>>3211143The rendowers always were the colonel-in-chief of the dragoon regiment from the day that it was raised. Wulfram merely replaces them
>>3211199Yeah, your point being? Cunaris at least was covering 40-50% of the maintenance involved and the most populated Duchy behind him, while you will be able to cover the Dragoons's pay for a few years max even in the best money-case scenario and a barony + an earldom in a war zone with a population that hates you.
>>3211223My point being that we are probably never going to get a truly private regiment.
>>3211249You'll get a private Army as the President of Reorganized National Government of the Republic of TerraOn a more serious note, Castermaine could afford a pretty sizeable private force. 9th of Foot was basically his.
>>3211249>>3211257Oh wait, he only had three companies. Lmao. It's so fucking over for caudilloobros...
>>3211264Well, most caudillio's didn't directly own their own forces
>Content Warning: This game is about vampires. Amoral, blood-sucking, exploitative, manipulative, murdering, self-destructive vampires.Okay, okay, sure, let me in alre->What's more, it's about the history of the United States and all the horrors that entails.AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SAVE ME COGGERMAN
Alright, stupid question to satisfy a stupid academic (me). Would you qualify stuff like Suzerain and The Life And Suffering of Sir Brante as interactive fiction? The older stuff (like Twisty Little Passages book) only treats parser games as "true IF" and the modern definitions are rather unclear. Like the one from the Spring Thing festival:>Essentially, we're talking about games that would still be recognizably the same work if everything other than the text and the way you interact with it were removed. I could also ask about mobile games akin to Choices/Episode/Romance Club (the VN-like CGs as rewards probably exclude them from the genre) but that's opening another can of worms.
>>3211426Well, why not? If you strip away the fancy looks they don't really play that much differently from, say, CoG stuff. Your only means of interacting with the game world is picking the choice options presented to you and that set stats and variables in the background.Interactive fiction is a stupid term anyway. A lot of games from the parser days over at ifdub are just simple text adventure games.
>set able_to_identify_jews trueWhat did Jason mean by this?
>>3211562Means you are more knowledge about their belief system and way of life, thus you can identify them and are able to appreciate their culture at a deeper level then those who cannot.
>>3211571So true, being a bloodsucker really does give one an appreciation for God's chosen people...
>>3211426Sure, why not. I dont tend to be anal about labels anyway and both of those have been discussed here more than a few times.
>>3211436>>3211606Thanks for calming down my worries. I both tend to be anal about proper genre labels and have a habit of overthinking things. As I "reward" I give you a quote that I found quite funny in hindsight.>Since I started writing interactive fiction I’ve spent a fair amount of time not just creating it but trying to introduce and explain it to other people. The synopsis I give always begins the same way: “You remember those gamebooks where you choose which paragraph to read?”>To most IF devotees (including myself) such a description seems inadequate, not to mention toe-curling. It is like comparing hopscotch with football or “find the lady” with poker. A gamebook is a diversion, we might say, but a good IF game is alive>Jon Ingold, future Inkle cofounder.
>>3211098at end of the day I play horse book game to charge and woofham have more charge than roilist
>>3211264*cough* but... el dragón presidente... *cough*
How has Cyberpolice made so little progress? I swear, the demo is barely any different from how it was 3 years ago.
>>3211714They said they were taking a break to find themselves but I guess they never actually stopped taking that break.
>>3210938true. those that write the law are the owners of private property and viceversa. its no surprise that there is hardly any significant statemen from a working class background under capitalism
>>3211720>hardly any significant statemen from a working class background under capitalismThere's like 150 out of 400 congressmen ._. Most of them are so broke that a 10k bribe buys them AND their caucus. It's a failure not a success.
Any Griffith type LIs? The closest I've got to playing one myself was Golden Rose, even if the result was far more autistic in comparison because of constant emotional reactions forced on you.
When will Unsupervised be updated again? Lucas, I know you are still reading these threads.
>>3211855>yes we need more rich senators who can't be boughthow's your insurance dragoon
>>3211861No, it's the curse of a good romanceable characters - there are almost none, and that's why you are forced to play as a waifu you want yourself.
>>3211869The good news is that it should be in a couple of days, and it will be like 80k new words.The bad news is that these new words happen between the fight with Thaumaturge and meeting Crazy Chris, so there won't be anything new in terms of "advancing the plot" for people that already played that part.It's why we ended the "official" part of the demo earlier and put the warning there for people that wanted to keep playing. There was still a lot of content that we needed to add there, and we are only doing it now. I'll make a changelog with the specific changes and new contents when we update the demo.
>UnsupervisedWill there be harem? If so I buy 10 copies.
>>3212018Well, good to hear it's still being worked on.
I hope Unsupervised will have a sexo russian blond killer. I replay Diabolical for Count alone, cold unhinged blond men never fail to be pure sexo for me.
>>3211106hell yeh, the helmetI should now be able to make the cover character. I'm thinking of the name 'Utopian', since that's the only heroic name that starts with an U i can think of.
>>3212188Utopian is already one of the name suggestions for the mentor, but there's nothing stopping you using another one for them and picking Utopian for yourself.You could also go with:>Umbra>Ultimate>Underdog>Übermensch (heh)
>>3212191Yeah, but those don't really sound heroic.I was trying to go for a real 'Jonathan Joestar' or Superman type of guy, just very heroic good guy.
>>3212192Ultraman, maybe?
>>3212197I'd rather not get the 'sued for copyright infringement' ending
>I am deeply into the Primrose path through Chapter Six, which I expected to have finished by now. But I’m very happy with it, so that’s a comfort. Part of the complexity of it is that there is a route that I wanted to offer for people who have grown closer to PilcrowP-Pilcrowbros!?!?!?
>>3212313who???
>>3212316My wife.
>>3212313>>3212325In the first book she/he was unromanceable right? You can do it in the 2nd one??
>>3212441Author said she won't be/YET I BELIEVE-
>>3212313game?
>>3212497Jolly Good's sequel.
>>3212184>mengaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy
>Playing Bastard of Camelot>start patching up my relationship with my dad>my mom just sorta accepts it even though she literally gave birth to me to get revenge on Arthur's lineI kept waiting for some sort of event to ruin everything, but as of the end of the demo it hasn't happened yet. It's too friendly given the premise is "Potentially be the ruin of Camelot"I'm hoping in the final product there's some big event that turns you against either your mom or dad permanently.
>>3212874Probably not, the setup is clearly a lot of simmering minor tensions to build up and you'll have to decide your stand over one big event such as>learning that one of your friends/love interests had Arthur as a free 3rd parent while he never bothered with you out of both trauma and convenience>Morgan abandoned her first son with the husband she was forced to marry and hated every moment of being with him with fucking the knight or being with Gareth her increasingly few respites from the situation, because she knew it'd be harder, if not outright impossible, to delay war between Camelot and Avalon as much as possible if she did the best thing from her and the two of them personally and took both sons to Avalon>Lancelot beating the shit out of your father (not-blood one) as basically a very obvious pissing contest specifically to you and your mother while Arthur watched>Morgan's totallynot-bipolar mood swings and how you can become even numb to it, and moreso a hint on how you can further distance yourself to how she feelsAnd so on. The biggest event to distance yourself from one or both parents was the drunken Lot confession and even then that was more of a last straw to existing buildup, mostly for if you want to have a relationship with Arthur at all. The "generational trauma" theme is one that seems to be not just a main theme but a slow burning one. And the only other big event that's setup now is the eventual war between Camelot and Avalon which might be what you're looking for but that's basically final act shit with what we know of the story as is and thus years away.
>>3212976I mean you definitely can start turning against one of your family members already, my Mordred is currently pretty cold towards Morgana. I guess I'm just hoping at some point there's a big split that sorta gives more gravitas to the story. Right now, it seems possible to essentially make a fully mostly happy family, Lot aside.Also I'm disappointed that you apparently meet Guenevere off screen between 11 and 15.
>>3212874To be fair. The narrative does make it clear that Morgan doesn't actually hate Arthur. She just resents how weak-willed he is. But, yeah, I agree that the story is missing something. It lacks tension.
>>3213346>I agree that the story is missing something. It lacks tension.It's the same in a lot of other WIPs - there is no antagonist to fight against
>>3213402I wouldn't even say that. The story is still basically in its prologue. It's just that given the setting and the characters, it feels like things should feel a lot more grandiose or romantic than it does. Maybe it's just a personal taste thing.
I updated Unsupervised, but the auto jannies are not letting me post the link
>>3213672Post a png with the link in it
>>3213683is it working now?
>>3213695No
>>3211106So how much of the game does the demo comprise, it's suprisingly good for a CoG title instead of HG
>>3211094this, queen pussy is the only reasonable option and any decent game would give it to us
>>3214101You know it'll never gonna happen because it wouldn't be (((realistic)))
>>3212325The definition of sex, women in suits are hot>>3214105It wouldn't happen because Wang's tiny wang can't conceive it happening>>3212976Morgana's right about Arthur being a useless faggot though, and her bipolarity can be excused because she's a woman. I like her
>>3213346>planned to play a full good boy (albeit unwilling to take anyone's shit) Mordred>Arthur is just such a spineless wimp end up wanting to kick him out of the throne solely for thatHe makes it so hard to like him, despite mom being something of a deceptive spite driven bitch
>People unironically want to fuck IsobelHave you somehow missed her portrait and being described as a cadaver
>>3214251>paying attention to portraits>paying attention to descriptionseveryone looks like a 10/10 in my mind, I don't care what the lets make everyone brown and ugly brigade does
>>3211094>>3214101>>3214105>>3214109>>3214251Wang has said multiple times on the forum at least that an Isobel romance will never happen. He said it's 'too much of a power fantasy' because God Forbid the player enjoys things. I don't know if that has changed at any point because I won't join his discord full of faggots and 3rd worlder paypigs.
>>3213672https://dashingdon.com/play/lucaszaper/unsupervised/mygame/pls report any bugs you find
>>3214279>wang has said multiple times he is gay and has shit tastewe know
Imagine being butthurt about not getting the La criatura de Tierra when the one we missed out on is Aleksandra
>>3214281Thank you Lucas, very cool!
>>3214289I wonder if fucking Cazarosta (male) is too much of a power fantasy for Wang as well. Wang had made a crazy blond twink romanceable before, and fucking Hawkins is far more of a power fantasy than creaming the autist.
>>3214317>fucking Wang's donutsteel self-insert OC is far more of a power fantasy than fucking blue!Charftfy
>>3214322I mean, blue!Char gets redeemed WITH THE POWER OF LOVE, something even Amuro could not do to the original Char. I haven't read any Lords stuff about Cazarosta, but he seemed like a typical autist that dedicates his life to his special interest. I wanted to fuck him because he's the only one who managed to have some chemistry with MC in Sabres.
>>3214330>redeemed WITH THE POWER OF LOVETo be honest, that was kinda bullshit, it needed way more buildup and time spent together to work, maybe carry out a few military operations together, yeah? Save each other's lives once or twice?>Hello, commander, I am autist who loves battle and thinks humanity should always be in conflict>Hey baby, want some fuck?>Maybe later [...] I will now proceed to betray everyone in a very poorly thought-out attempt to keep the war going by ensuring that one faction is one-sidedly massacred, sorry friend>No way... but what about the fuck?>Yes, I suppose I would like some fuck after all, guess I'll abandon my strongly held beliefs for you despite the fact that we only just met face-to-face for the first time like 10 minutes ago
>>3214364I thought that maybe it was autust-to-autist connection since you need to have high Warrior in order to even romance Hawkins. But honestly, I agree. I like his romance, but I always had a weakness for blond autists with disregard for human life. I guess it was supposed to be a Char-Quattro-Casval type of transformation, but it was far too short to feel any proper change and author constantly implied that the only person Hawkins cares about in CODEC and Empire both is (You), the commander. Thus, it's much easier to see this as "I love everything about you, you are the only man that had ever understood me, let's fuck because I haven't met any other autist like me before", not as a Char arc. It's implied he's quite lonely even if he manages to pull a lot of important connections right out of his arse in Damocles ending. It is quite easy to see his romance switch as "shit, I'm about to kill the other autist that's just like me, I can't kill him, we understand each other so well, abort, abort, abort" since it's only available there. But it really doesn't feel like it got enough development either...
Finally playing the Unsupervised here, and can i just say that i really like the superman like mentor? He's just a really, really good guy. Luv it. Nowadays heroes are either "morally grey" or just meme-spouting funnymen, but this guy is just a true boy scout.
>>3214495I do like that we can also be pretty much his spiritual successor. Kind of a shame we can't fly, though, even in that beginning segment where we're at the peak of our power.
>>3214330>that dedicates his life to his special interest.I honestly don't really think Cazarosta has any actual interests beyond doing what the Saints want him to do. Even him choosing to join the Army was because he was good at soldiering stuff, so obviously it means the Saints want him to become one.
Made this. Pick your favourite
>>3214590Warburton has the coolest one. It would also look the best on a flag flying in the battlefield.
>>3214590Isn't the coat of Tierra supposed to be the same as Rendowers's? The Gryphons and Towers should also switch places.
>>3214597Eh, who cares. I mostly kept the griffons apart as the un-quarted version of the coat of arms
>>3214550I think it was more like his father putting him into probably the only place where he could get his life together. Since Ca-chan seems to enjoy drilling his soldiers and killing partisans, I feel he does enjoy the army life somewhat, he is just autistic, has a very fatalistic outlook and prefers to ignore his mistakes and opposing opinions unless (You) with good relationship values tell him to pay more attention to them. He seemed fairly stubborn "my way or the highway" kind of guy, but in Sabres and Guns he wasn't too OP, just a bit snowflakey and very spiteful. He fucks up if he leads the attack at the ship and gets chewed up for it. His plan in Sabres showed that he can reach retard levels in his methods of dealing with Antari, and it takes (You) to devise a plan that actually works and incorporates good parts of his ideas. To be honest, I really liked that dynamic despite the fact our interactions with Elson and Ca-chan were very limited and incredibly short. I liked working between them in order to actually secure useful advantages, I liked their dynamic with both (You) and each other if they've started to treat each other better. Once Elson dies at Blogia I felt his character got worse since he didn't have as many chances to royally fuck up and writing didn't seem to make his choices bite him in the ass. He also didn't have anyone to play off of since (You) can be his carbon copy in almost anything and idealistic MCs don't get a lot of content with him.Disclaimer, I haven't played Lords.
>>3214677Elson, Cazarosta and the MC work because they fill the classic freudian trio.Elson is the id, Cazarosta the ego and the MC the superego
>>3214677There are some neat touches with Katarina telling you how he was once a massive crybaby and still keeps confessing her every lie he told someone + him going on a rant about why him picking up smoking is the Will of the Saints™ as a joke, but both of those moments are rather out of the way and in general he doesn't get much screen time.The problem with Cazarosta in Lords is that he gets turned into an invincible central plot device and everyone has to be turned into a drooling retard for him to function as such.
>>3214495I'm partial to the obvious 'it was you from the future all along' time manipulator mentor.
>>3214690Aiya, that's another reason for me to postpone playing Lords. Weirdly enough, it feels the series just keeps getting worse from book to book in terms of characters interaction and reaction: Sabres at least had somewhat memorable splats of supporting cast, Elson / MC / Cazarosta dynamic that helped to ground MC in the world and secure him to at least something, Guns has fairly pleasant cast, but it seems they don't really interact and play off each other, they more so serve for MC to work their values off of, and from what I've played and seen for Lords, aside from some very pleasant moments (Betrothed, Marcus, Cassius), it seems the cast is even more disjointed and barely connected. I guess it's to be expected when it keeps growing, but it just feels there's nothing to latch onto except your ideals and political arguments on forum about your preferred side. It feels so boring when there's nothing to latch onto character-wise outside of the civil war conflict.
>>3214495>>3214513I love edgy stuff just as much as any anon but it was important to me that those wanting to roleplay true heroes had the chance to do so. This particular mentor is like Grant Morrisson’s All Star Superman or Mark Millar’s Huck, a total bro without an ounce of malice.Even the other mentor, the brooding one, has some heartwarming moments, like when you show Derek the list of all the people he saved over the years and how he’d keep track of what happened to them so he could help improve their lives past just saving them from some immediate danger.
>>3214694>it feels the series just keeps getting worse from book to book in terms of characters interaction and reactionHonestly after replaying Sabres recently I've come to conclusion that it was a weakness even then. Hunter is barely there, Lefebvre is barely there, Cunaris is barely there and for how you're supposed to form the main trio with Elson and Cazarosta when you think about it you don't really get all that much interaction with them either. As far as character writing itself I'd say Lords is actually a rather big improvement. The big characters like Lefebvre, Carol Cassius, Renard or Cunaris get some more dimensions to themselves, there are some new fun side characters like Meran or Ardant and the central cast of Wulframites is well-written. The main weakness is that the sheer scope, yes, makes them feel barely connected as a whole, which is the most apparent on the Royalist route where you don't really get to interact much with the rest of the faction or even Miguel himself and on the Estate route where you're suddenly thrust back into the main plot and required to pick a side between people your character has barely spoken with (In Isobel's case you haven't ever met her before even, lmao). Well, I guess it can be spun into some sort of genius commentary how war fosters a sense of community and that's part of the reason people find themselves nostalgic about such a terrible thing or something.
>>3214703Two parts i really like from the super man mentor are from the same mission, the warehouse raid. First is the part where you describe the balkan death squad attack, and how he ends up getting so distraught over all the people that died to the point where he literally begs for forgiveness for the families of the victims, and thenbasically pulls a Red Son and ends the war in a few hours entirely by himself. No idea if the other mentors also do it if you pick them, but i just think it's really kino when he's the one that does it. The second part is when crazy mike talks about how annoying he was to the crime family, and specifically the part where he says that you couldn't make a drug deal without him appearing to offer life advice.It really makes me want to heroismmax solely so i can make him feel proud when we eventually rescue him. Though honestly, we sure haven't done a lot of normal heroism for a city that is apparently steadily growing in supervillain crime, isn't it? The only actual superfights we had was against Thaumaturge and Rattlebag. No idea how much of the game is done, but unless we're like at a mere third of it i really wish there were some more simple generic hero missions.
>>3214279Doesn't she already fuck the deathborn?
>>3214590Havenport
>>3214845Cazarosta was her favourite in the old Shadow Regiment timeline.Whether it will happen in the current timeline is up to guess. At the very least, Caz getting Leoniscourt, Wulfram and becoming Chief of the General Staff seems unlikely to happen with MC existing.
WTF is the waiter's problem. He was acting like a creep so I gave him the cold shoulder one time, so he treats me like I'm the jerk the rest of the game. And what was with him knowing my usual order at the start?
Fitzie hug.
>>3215116>he>giving best girl the cold shoulder
>>3215116Literally who
>>3215230fernweh
>>3215116>>3215166>girl>waiter>human
>>3215287my evil demonwife is not a human!
>>3214590coomnaris
>>3215116I mean, you are a jerk. Next time give the nice guy™ a chance
>>3215439you can be a jerk and still get her path
Reese / Ruby is better, though. Tsundere blond oujo that's both your rival and a reluctant friend has led to some very interesting dynamics with him.
>>3215465Not really, the waitress calling me killer gives me a boner.
>>3215465>TsundereShit
>>3215641This, I want the girl to chase me like a cock-starved hyena while being honest with herself, not to act like an irl woman.
>>3215649Girls should be evil and try convert you.There should be full-fledged routes for going along with it.
>>3215666Girls should be evil and you should also be evil from the start and you should make life horrible for everyone else while being lovey dovey with each other. Games need more representation for wholesome evilxevil romance.
>>3215666Anon, may i suggest reading Genesis in the Old Testament?
>>3215742Lilith did nothing wrong, and Abel was a faggot.
>>3214281No bugs, a few typos here and there but nothing big. I really enjoyed it, I haven't done a supervillain playthrough yet but I hope we can have our childhood friend be our sidekick or partner or something. Their powers and mental instability makes them perfect supervillain material
>>3215752Lilith isn’t mentioned in the Old Testament, she’s in the (((Talmud))) which only dates to what, 400 AD?
>>3215771>reading the knock-off instead of the original classic
>>3215641Skill issue, tsunderes work best when you break the ice around them slowly and steadily until you're their life and soul and they open their heart to you.
>>3214281Only bug I found is when you come back to base after the rattlebag scene. Going to the trophy room after talking with someone will let you talk to them again, so if you're autistic enough you can just max relationships with everyone.
>>3215901>and they open their heart to you.And then you smash it on the ground and leave their life forever right?
>>3215936>Going to the trophy room after talking with someone will let you talk to them againCan confirm, I didnt know the trophy room was how you did it but I was able to talk to Rattlebag twice.
>>3214782Glad you liked those. The whole incident only happens for that particular mentor, and we try to give each mentor/powerset a bunch of unique content at different places. For example, Elemental Mastery changes the city a lot, and you can even become its mayor as a teenager (we are still expanding on that pathway, though).The demo is around 60/70% of the full game, and I agree that it needs more missions. They are coming, but honestly we have a tight deadline and not everything I wanted to put on it is making the final cut, so I'm thinking about asking the editors to let us make it a two-part or something. We don’t have the final say on that, but my idea would be to let players know from the get-go that this is part 1 of two and even ask the company to charge less for the first game to reflect that. Either way, I plan to keep updating the game with free content.>>3215769Thank you. That's pretty much what we have in mind for Blair.>>3215936>>3216026Thanks bros. Will fix it ASAP.
>>3216050>Either way, I plan to keep updating the game with free content.If changing it isn't possible, then this is fine too. Not having more generic hero stuff between the missions is a shame, but it's still a good story anyway.Either way, i like where it's going. I want to see more of supermentor.
>>3216050>The demo is around 60/70Really? But we haven't even met all the sidekicks yet right?
>>3216082There are two left, Alloy and Vorpal. They'll be introduced next. Then there's Fluke, who's a recruitable former supervillain lackey, and Comeback Kid, who only appears if you don't have Time Manipulation, and is not exactly a sidekick.
>>3216147>who only appears if you don't have Time ManipulationImagine not picking the power that can literally grant you immortality.I mean sure, we will lose our memories like what happens if you de-age that drug dealer. But it still counts!
I guess the guy who said Wang took most of ideas from Gundam had a point
>>3216304Who's the Char, then?
>>3216382Make a roulette and write the names Cazarosta, MC, Wulfram, Reyes, Castermaine, Lefebvre and Palliser on it. Then spin it
>>3216158Physical Enhancement chads will be immortalized in the memory of all mankind. When the word gigachad gets in the dictionary, a picture of us will be right next to it.
>>3216304I mean, the comparison was made by Wang himself.I wonder if that makes Miguel literally Hitler.
>>3216384>no Chadburtonngmi
>>3216397Nothing before I was born or after I die matters. Living as long as possible is my only goal.
>>3216609>Nothing before I was born or after I die mattersChange your smoke detector's battery
>>3214713I've always said that Wang sucked at writing characters. His other games like CoH are even worse in that regard. It doesn't help that a lot of the relationship building scenes are mutually exclusive with choices with more tangible benefits like overseeing the development of your troops. It's entirely feasible you might never talk to most of the cast outside of their introduction.I also don't get why the estate and Aetoria routes are mutually exclusive. In both you spend months and months doing fuck all in between scenes.
>>3216693>In both you spend months and months doing fuck all in between sceneswell, you are a baneblood
>>3216695But I want to do nothing at home not in A*toria. Even Wulfram goes home when nothing's going on in the assembly. Why can't we?
>>3216693Well i can't say i disagree with the character side being a bit weak, but i feel like the big exception to this is the Wulframite Circle.I don't know how, but Wang managed to make the wulframite cast complete and utter kino. Well, Crittenden i don't know a lot about, but Wulfram, Castermaine and Emile are just complete gold. The worst part about the game is that you don't benefit all that much from being in the Rendower club as a Wulframite, because the Wulfram crew is just the best part of lords by a long shot.They feel like actual characters i look forward ot seeing more. You feel like you truly are part of the group, instead of being one lackey amongst many as you are in the royalists.
>>3216719There arguably isn't a need to develop the royalist side as much because basically everyone you know up to that point is a royalist.As for Crittenden, iirc his loyalty to Wulfram is less idealistic and more that he owes a shit ton to Wulfram for dealing with some riots in his fiefdom. Wang mentioned one of his goals was to own Leaniscourt and become the unofficial Duke of the Salt Coast so you can imagine how he feels about the fact you were basically gifted it.
>>3216724>There arguably isn't a need to develop the royalist side as much because basically everyone you know up to that point is a royalist.Except, of course, the people you're literally following as a royalist, the first of whom you met like once for a very short while, the second of which you didn't even hear about until now. Given how Royalist is the normie route, you'd think that Isobel would get development, but no. Even then though, Wulfram and the crew just feel more interesting and *alive* - i really hope we'll be able to keep that feeling during the civil war instead of immediately switching into some manner of backstabbing politics game. >Wang mentioned one of his goals was to own Leaniscourt and become the unofficial Duke of the Salt Coast so you can imagine how he feels about the fact you were basically gifted it.Does he even need it? Once his territory gets a canal that allows for transport between the western and eastern coast of Tierra Leoniscourt will be basically obsolete anyway.
>>3216724Crittenden feels indebted to Wulfram because of the riots and because he is afraid that the Army will take funding from the navy
>>3216693Well, I wouldn't exactly say that the character writing itself is the problem - characters like Hunter or Elson or even your sergeants are rather nicely written for what little screen time they have. The problem is that there's so little of it I get that this isn't a character-driven series, but you'd expect you'd get to speak more with the characters serving with you or living in the same city and hanging around the same social circles. Cazarosta is one of your oldest acquaintances, the one you have the most personal history with and is one of the characters with most screen time in the series, but even then you talk with him like half a dozen times and spend 95% of the war away from each other.
>>3216719>CrittendenHe's a career naval officer ever since he was a boy and the biggest living Navy icon. Nicknamed "Lord Top Gallant". The details of his feats weren't shared, but IIRC he was around all the way back during King Alaric's War. Rumoured to have a tattoo on his back that's simply a list of every single officer that died under his command. Doesn't get vertigo. Feels like the Crown is neglecting the Navy in favour of the Army. The legal heir of the Cazarostas due to his mother being a one. His earldom is one of the two main claimants for the title of the Salt Coast leader, the other one being Leoniscourt. Had coal riots in his city during the Wars that had almost gotten really ugly, was bailed out by the Young Wulfram. Squeamish about bloodshed: expects that everyone will simply give up without much of a fight when they see the advantage Wulfram's position in the endgame, wastes a ton of time there trying to negotiate the surrender of the Exchange instead of simply killing his countrymen, is in awe when you do a succesful negotiation. Idealist/Cynic leanings are ambiguous, he expresses some idealistic sentiments and the "Gallant" nickname that as well, but given he apparently has ambitions of becoming the Salt Coast hegemon with getting Leoniscourt, so that might be a facade.
>>3216759I wonder if we'll see more of him in Wars. I mean, the Royalist navy is pretty garbage, so if the Wulframites aren't given the stupid ball they'd probably blow the southern navy to pieces at the first change they got, but with the total lack of artillery we have, Coastal Bombardment capability would be pretty good for the Wulframites, not to mention the whole mess that is gonna be taking over Leoniscourt.
>>3216767He probably will. The highlanders will need to pass through his fiefdom to link up with royalists
>>3216730>Once his territory gets a canal that allows for transport between the western and eastern coast of Tierra Leoniscourt will be basically obsolete anyway.The Salt Coast is extremely reliant on trade with Takara and according to Wang all of the trade routes of that part of the Infinite Sea have you pass by Leoniscourt. The ones with Takara, Butea and Callindria most certainly do. I guess they could circle around to go through the canal, but they seem to be unlikely to do that, given that the Havenport-Warburton route goes unused.
Dragoonkeks...
>>3216838*hits pipe*
>>3216838cut out her collarbone.
>>3216838Cut out her family name.
>>3216838Damn shame she fell in the fire place, that burn scar on her collar will be a detriment to her prospects, I'll have to pull some strings to bring suitors about.
>>3216838Vile. Disgusting. I didn't raise her to be some prancing frilly LANCER. She'll take up the carbine and saber, and wear modest clothing, and like it.
Bros my flight home got delayed twice, that's 2 entire hours of development we could have had. It's objectively Jet Blue's fault that I haven't posted my WIP>t. Cultivator-anon
>>3216904>he isn't writing on toilet paper scrollsngmi
>>3216904Should of just told the Pilot you were Cultivator Anon, they would of understood.
>>3216904What did you think of that other Anons WIP?
>>3216838HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
>>3216964Unsupervised or was there another? I've been in vacation Hell visiting the in-laws for 9 days, if fantasy-copper dropped a WIP I'll be ecstatic. Unsupervised I'm waiting for release since that anon has gone pro with the company. If you mean Path of Martial Arts then NickyDicky is a scholar and a gentleman and we cannot live under the same sky so I must break him upon the anvil used to forge my tale.
>>3217077Nah I was talkin about Unsupervised, who knows when fantasy copper will drop. Will probably come completely out of the blue when it does.
>>3216838>daughterMy MC would never have a daughter.
>>3217105The Saints won't give you a choice.
>>3217110Then he'll die without a heir, better than a daughter.
>>3217112If you don't procreate, your character adopts an orphaned girl.The Saints always find a way.
>>3217117Why would you adopt a girl and not a boy?
>>3217117No he won't, my character is an asshole who shoots orphans for fun.
Why do these threads all turn into Infinity series talk? Is that really the best one of the lot?
>>3217206It apparently catres to a niche popular here
>>3216838Disown her, and adopt a distant relative assuming I have no other children. Better my line die, than her kind propagate
>>3217206No, it's just military autism and deciding the fate of the country that appeals to a niche. You can draw a Venn diagram of Infinityfags and people playing Paradox games and it'll probably be a circle.
>>3217206Ehh, we didn't really have this much Infinity talk in a while.Infinity just has a lot of things going for it in terms of long-term discussion. The military autism, the wordbuilding, the politics, the grand scope. Being an ongoing series helps too, as does Wang drop feeding his plans instead of isolating himself on tumblr/patreon and answering what Cazarosta's farts smell like as 90% of the authors do. Most of the games here don't really have any staying power beyond the most inane stuff like waifufaggotry.
>>3217206I WILL have my anime duel with Caz in Wars
>>3217332But Anon, Caz is the protagonist. The Will of The Saints demand you lose if you fight Caz
>>3217333even still it has to be this way anon, for kino I am willing to die
>>3217333It's okay, the Saints have foreshadowed Caz losing by making him take up smoking.
I'd much rather marry Caz than his sister desu
I'd much rather marry a Butean chimp than the mudwhore desu
>>3217098>Nah I was talkin about UnsupervisedAh okay, nah for that game since he's working directly with CoG I'll wait for the official release to avoid spoilers, he doesn't need my hype to push him to succeed. He's his own man and already made it. What a chad.
Anyone has news about new Fernweh game? Tsundere kino with Reese was quite pleasant, I want it to continue.
Are you guys going to be playing the bread game tomorrow?
>>3219092Is this the game where you're a single parent who tries to open a *magic* bakery? I remember playing some bakery WIP thinking it'd be cool culinarykino but then it turned into garbage.
>>3219155I have no idea, I didn't have any idea it was coming out tomorrow until I checked today.
SeraGODS WON! Bigly!
>>3219324No Yakov, though, so post is invalid.
>>3219324I'm glad my girl Astrid is well loved
>>3219324>the obvious author's favourite winswoooooooooow
>no actual proof of the WiP actually existing>already making CoGgers seetheA dragon among men...
>>3219600post a heart emoji to that message and see what happens.
>discord screenshot>replied tozoomzoomzoom!
>>3215666unholy trips you got there, anon.
>>3219600This is by far my pride and joy so far, thanks for finding it anon I'll post a picture of it in my game's reviews.>t. Cultivator-anon
>>3219600>"no homos or (transphobic slur)"20 bucks says this dude is totally a>"""she"""
>>3219600what server is dis?
Why is there no Carnivore option?
>>3219712Can you make bread purely out of meat?
>>3219702Juan's Infinitycord
>>3219715Fair point, I don't think you can.
Has anybody played Night Market? The premise seemed interesting, but after the intro it started turning into a generic "find your waifu/husbando" game. Is there more depth to it?
>>3219724>that entire pictureIt's like a sonic OC in human form.
>>3219724That typesetting makes me want to kill myself and whoever made this shit
Looks like Exposer is a legitimate form of payment in this universe.
>>3219600Pro tip start including trannies but only as enemy groomers in a side quest
>>3219746Well, to be fair exposure *is* important for small businesses.I mean getting it like that is stupid but it's still something important.
>>3219761I am currently working on a gay clown villain, but my only tranny inclusion will be my critics.
I have played to chapter 2 of The Bread Must Rise demo, it's really not my thing and will just be stopping here rather then finish the demo.
It's bizarre how CoG keeps pushing these nonsensical games. There really isn't an audience for them.The concepts might be "novel" and "quirky," but no one wants to self insert in them. And the mechanics got old like ten years ago.
Keeper Bros, we finally got another update and the WIP now goes up to chapter 9
>>3219848I played until chapter 4 before getting tired and dropping it.>humor and references were good enough to make me smile internally but not enough to make me exhale sharply, doesn't hold a candle to Tally Ho but might be the next best thing>poz comes on a little too strong. Two they/thems and a negro mayor that switches between he and she? Female bouncers? Gender and pronouns being two separate things? Please try to hold back a little>nothing that really motivated me to keep going forward. My parents' "big secret"? Eh. Revenge on whatshisface? Eh. Hanging out with the mistress? Maybe if she had more interactions.
>>3220069Oh boy. More angst
