Third Act Beta! - SOTW 0.8.38

[fabulaparva]

Couple of "quick" comments I was too tired to type here yesterday.

+You can still get

Spoiler:

Nutty Nut's treasure map for free.

I went in with 0 gold and came out happy. Sending you a save.

+Autoleveling to 14 doesn't work on Vaelis. Unfortunately, I only have one save with high-enough version and with characters under level 14 to test that, and that save is from my "experiments" so it also has the effed-up Rowinda (level 5.. because I didn't meet her at the market). Anyways, Riley, Krimm, Shea and Althea get leveled up, (Chalassa and Jariel are already on level 14) and Vaelis is left on level 12. Is this because he's really a god and won't need leveling? (And Rowinda stays on level 5, but yeah, she's probably bugged anyway...) Sending you a save.

+New increased difficulty made Pride of Lukoss quest fun! :D
+However, the Full Heal for NM-mode during Merrow's Men-quest is still completely unneeded. I'd still suggest just remove the heal option at the green arrow from NM (and maybe from HARD, too) as a simple solution. Another option would be to leave it there and make 2-3 of the encounters have more than 3 critters to smash on NM/HARD. Then again, since it's the first quest of the Season, the difficulty doesn't need to be totally bonkers so maybe just deny us HARD/NM-players the extra heal?

+AltheaxJariel CG unlocked. I had an interesting reaction to the dialogue leading to this. sorta.

Spoiler:

Can I whack him? Kick him a bit? Lol, what a jerk. Grrr, nevermind him...but Althea..... I actually expected her to just hit it a quit it after what he said in the scene prior to the CG-one, but...can I whack Althea? Shit, I'll ask Vaelis to jump in and whack them both.

EDIT: Okayyyyyyyyyyy..... I tested the whole scene leading to the CG with "Suggestive content -off" and when the CG rolls in... where those shirts came from? In a pool? While first talking to the other one multiple times with no shirt on and the other wearing a bikini, now all of the sudden, for kissing, they dress up? In a pool??? Sersiouly, these elves are kinky. Shirts???? Did I mention that they are in a pool yet? What has been seen cannot be unseen I hath been disturbed.

[Taleweaver]

BTW almost not commented on dialogue etc for act 3. Rowinda was very entertaining. The volcano obsession was the bread and butter of it, but when she got all angry wondering what she had to do to get famous for being crazy it cracked me up.

Thanks! I did my best ^_^

[Franka]

Also, I think you need to take a look at "submerged" on that dang Kraken. It seems to reduce physical damage by 95% or so, definitely more than the tooltip says.

No the code says 75%, but that is added to the defense value probably so is even more

Well, my 5 physical attacker team got a little tired of fighting the kraken.

- I take 15 attacks for ~4 damage each, Tentacle does something or other with no noticeable effect, 2 turns left of submerged, 200 HP left...

Remember to bring more mages next time... ugh...

[jack1974]

Still, my ranger (and soon Riley) is 17 now, a level I could previously just barely get with the final quest exp for act 2, but I haven't even started the Liberty Challenges yet. Maybe I should just come up with ways for you to nerf this 'cause I bet you will :D

Honestly I don't want to nerf this. I mean I think that's a part of the fun of the RPG, try a lot of crazy strategies/skills/combo/etc and maybe find one that gives crazy results. Something you can make a video and show off. And I don't think is my job to cut "that fun", because I think you had fun with it There could be other strategies too. Also as I said in the other thread, I want to see what happens in act3, since in act2 enemies energy regain is quite limited...

Fabula: yes will check those bugs. For the Merrow's quest, I totally forgot, I wanted to do that change but then was lost in some obscure place of my brain I am very tired this week so expect this to happen more often than usual!

As for the CG, there's a perfectly rational explanation! in the censored version they lose passion and are in less of a hurry, so they dress up and kiss on the border of the pool!
...okay maybe will change the background too so it makes more sense!

BTW almost not commented on dialogue etc for act 3. Rowinda was very entertaining. The volcano obsession was the bread and butter of it, but when she got all angry wondering what she had to do to get famous for being crazy it cracked me up.

Thanks! I did my best ^_^

Small fun backstage news: initially Taleweaver made Rowinda playing as crazy only in Dingirra, and the act3 scenes were "normal". Can you imagine Rowinda talking as a normal person? So I immediately emailed him telling him "what? Rowinda must still be crazy for the rest of the story!!!" and that was the outcome. Probably one of the best decision I made

Remember to bring more mages next time... ugh...

Haha yes, that's one fight that is quite hard to win without mages

[Franka]

Help, there's a unicorn stalking me!

Spoiler:

I think you forgot to clear something after Rowinda's personal quest.

[jack1974]

Ahah yes forgot to clear the backrow!

[jack1974]

Managed to do a new update now, should fix most of the bugs people found so far. Achievements are still frakked though, need more time to test them properly!

[fabulaparva]

Unlocked all the 4 romance CGs. I think I'll shut up about the clothes in the "prude"-version after this. I mean, from my point of view, the suggestive content is in the dialogue as much as or even more than it is in the CGs. I think the idea of changing the background for them is good, though, at least it'll make the pics more logical in themselves. Not sure how the transition from the pool to them will work, but I guess we'll see.
I'd suggest putting the clothed version of RileyxShea into the bedroom BG,

Spoiler:

since, well, "bedtime stories" + he surely loves to talk a whole lotta about sharing sheets

but that's only to make wearing clothes appear more sensible, it doesn't really make it any less suggestive, now does it?
The in me was actually expecting the "censored" version of them being exactly the same as the "uncensored one" except that when you'd hit H to remove the textbox, Morran's pants would cover the lower part.

When it comes to Krimm,

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Does she really wrestle him down in the pool?? Well, that's poor Shea subdued and submerged, alright! Poor bastard must've almost drowned...

Also managed to trigger the jealously scene Krimm vs Riley. Oh dear god. Gotta try to find Jariel vs Chas-scene later, if there is one.....

I gots my initial thoughts on all the romances up to Act 3, but I guess I should wait until Act 4 is done before going deeper into those as stuff might still happen to make me change my mind.

On an unrelated note:

Spoiler:

Please don't tell me that the comment in Vaelis' sidequest about Shagala trying to be a fortuneteller is some type foreshadowing for events in Act 4!!!

[jack1974]

Cool, well I think in any case should be better to do another thread about the romances. I should probably also do a poll for the "best romance" (which is of course subjective) like I did for my other games. There are still things to happen, and probably the final ending CGs could change your opinion on each romance.

Spoiler:

Act4 can be very tough depending on some choices you'll make there, one of which will almost destroy completely your hometown! but you can still have a happy ending

[Franka]

I've been grinding for 5 days out of the 26 I have left over, and my peeps are already lv22. I'll let you know where I end up after another 20 days of doing the grind.

Caveat: Grinding on Easy, because I don't have patience for longer fights.