Hey there!
Just wanted to say that this has been an amazing game so far. The characters, setting, and plot have all been great. I was excited to see the management screen towards the end of the main quest in 0.2. I'm glad this is more involved than simply a mere visual novel with actual gameplay elements and a battle system to it.
I can't wait for version 0.3.
What effect does the cursed flame amulet give for journey mode? It has a blank description.
Also, there's a bit of an oversight with discarding spells. When you don't have enough mana to use a spell, you no longer have the option to discard it. This is especially bad when you're using the arcana medallion. The entire point of this equipment is to discard spells to return mana, but you cannot discard anything because you cannot afford anything.
The new journey mode is much harder and tedious than it was previously. From reading your comments, I understand you wanted to vary gameplay so that players aren't just gunning for one specific skill. Though I think you may have over tuned it in the other direction to where it's more difficult to go straight for the boss in a dungeon. If the answer instead is to fight every monster and go to every location on the map to prepare for the stage boss, you also need to consider the time investment in order to do so.
Just something to keep in mind. I know this is still a demo, so I expect the combat to have a lot of tweaking in the future. As it is now, I don't particularly enjoy the journey system and will hesitate to do a new game plus after I've already defeated most of the bosses before the combat update. Don't feel discouraged by this comment though. I still love everything else about this game (besides the resource grinding).
I noticed that you added personality bars to the characters, which I assume will change based on decisions the player makes throughout the game. I loaded up a previous save and each character is aligned in the center of their bars. Do I need to start a new game in order to see how my choices affect the characters?
Hi there. Great game btw, just had a question that I didn't feel like creating a whole new topic for.
How exactly do you start dating Julianna? I met her during the orientation week and allowed her to sit with me in the atrium, but that was the only interaction we had, besides during the drill. I saw as of v0.3.4 that you're supposed to commit to a relationship during orientation week.
Good update as always. The new journey mode was a great addition.
One gripe I have right now is that the game resets all your progress with each update or that saves aren't compatible with older versions. At what point will we be able to just pick up where we left off in our last save to see current content immediately?
I'd like to report an error with v.0.1.9.
When pressing Q to cancel a multi-hit attack in combat, there is an error. Pressing rollback will take you to the world map screen prior to dungeon, pressing ignore will skip the character's turn entirely.
Pressing E will work as intended, you just can't cancel it with Q.
Would also like to report a bug with Megumin meditating during combat. She'll take -100 dodge chance, but no mana gain.
Hi there!
I've only been playing a few hours and I've been loving the game so far. I just have one question and you don't have to answer it if it happens to be a spoiler. (Spoiler warning for anyone else reading this):
Is Bront the Goddess? I noticed that they both have white hair, purple eyes, and pale skin.
I'm not trying to argue with you, but I do want to bring attention to one thing.
If we follow the logic that even the main character himself stated as well as tang wei, these stones should make him even stronger. By now, in the story, he's found 2 stones, so absorbing the second one should at least put him at peak houtain. I'm simply pointing out the plot holes I'm seeing,
This is assuming two things:
1. That qi stones are all made equal. We don't really know this; the second qi stone may have just been less potent than the first.
2. That going from middle-Houtian to peak-Houtian takes the same amount of effort as going from mortal to middle-Houtian. It most likely isn't.
Take Tang Ruo for example. They enter early-Houtian a few days (or weeks) after entering the sect. Then they enter middle-Houtian right before the expo. This was over the course of several months. Now a 2.5-year time-skip happens, and they've only reached late-Houtian.
We know Tang Ruo never stopped training. So that could only mean the time, training, and power necessary to ascend to the next stage will take longer every "level up," so to speak.
That's it. Personally, it makes sense to me. Though, you likely know more about cultivation stories than me, and so if that runs contradictory to other xianxia tales, then that's fair criticism. Have a good day.
I think you're being unreasonably impatient when you expect them to just jump to the next major power stage in matter of weeks, as if it didn't take other people decades if not more. That'd be just silly level of player's ego stroking.
It seems to be a common sentiment for fans to question why we aren't instantly bulldozing everyone and leaving our competition in the dust. It isn't enough that we're within the top 2 of our generation, we also have to be able to beat everyone and everything without breaking a sweat. Not only that, but we also have to completely overtake Tang Ruo who's been training far longer, with better teachers, countless priceless artifacts, and has been juicing since they were a kid.
Personally, I like that not everyone can just be steamrolled. It enriches the world, provides stakes, and gives a sense of accomplishment whenever we actually fight and beat someone strong, like in the latest Boosty update.
Perhaps I came across as argumentative in my first response, and it seemed like I was jumping to the defense of the work like some rabid follower. Apologies, that was not my intention.
I interpreted your criticisms as less constructive as some of your grievances seemed to overlook some of the smaller details or events within the story that I felt would have addressed them otherwise. Of course, that isn't for me to presume.
As you've made clear, we all have our own opinions and I, like you, just want this story to prosper.
I can try to address most of your issues or complaints about the narrative:
1. "Another thing is that the prince/princess is always being worshipped by everyone, yet the protag, who is supposed to have this ultra divine blood, is, from a narrative perspective, sort of put into the second-place category."
The imperial heir essentially is the leading figure in MC's generation. They have access to numerous priceless artifacts, fortune, martial arts and skills, as well as incredibly strong mentors, such as their grandfather, the current emperor and strongest martial artist in the world. Also, their aunt, the Sword Mistress, whom by Tang Ruo's account is the best sword wielder in the world. Tang Ruo is expected to become the next martial sovereign on reputation alone. Not to mention the 97% blood purity. Tang Ruo has a massive head start compared to MC, which is shown and explained when they first fight.
Meanwhile MC is the heir to a dying clan that's been having a talent drought for centuries, at least, which was only briefly broken by their father. It's even stated by the library that if nothing is done, then the Wu clan may just die off in the next hundred years. The only things going for the MC are the inherited clan martial skills and perfect blood purity. Compared to Tang Ruo, they're severely lacking in resources and experience. A mere difference of 3% blood purity isn't enough for the MC to overtake the prince/princess is a matter of months or even a few years. So, from a narrative perspective, it makes sense that Tang Ruo is going to be the more focused disciple in the martial world, for now at least.
That being said, the MC absolutely takes Ws and are a force to be reckoned with in their own right. As far as the point you are currently at, you can: beat Tang Ruo in the tournament, beat an early-Houtian for your first arena match, beat a bandit gang lead by another early-Houtian martial artist, and beat the son of the DQ who has the ability to transform, albeit partially, into Asura (most powerful transformation in the verse btw).
Also, the only things Tang Ruo has done since entering the sect was enter early-Houtian off screen, showcase their eyes of perfect replication, and then beat up Jing Guo's brother in the arena, who initially was 2 stages higher than them. It's impressive and it overshadows MC's feats by a considerable margin, but you have to remember that they have ridiculously powerful martial arts and in-born talents that the MC doesn't get due to their differences in family.
2. "Like, if Ruo is beating people in the Arena, we should be beating people in the Arena."
We do. In fact, as of current build, we have two arena fights. We haven't done an arena marathon like Tang Ruo did right before the expo, but we still get to showcase our abilities and prove ourselves to the masses.
3. Ruo copied two of our abilities with their magic eye hacks, then has not shown to use them again (on-screen at least). Besides, MC will eventually gain access to new abilities and resources that exponentially increases their power (some available in current build, in fact). Tigress gets a master before you, yes, but you eventually are recruited by an elder of the sect (again, available in current build). The protagonist is strong, it's just that the MC is constantly going up against top tiers and higher stage practitioners that you may feel otherwise.
4. "it's turned into a slog where the story doesn't make us feel like we're progressing at all - that we are always behind in a world where people are far more powerful than us, despite us apparently being born with enormous potential."
I mean, not really. MC and Tang Ruo are the top 2 of their generation, far above the likes of Ai, Tigress, and Jing Guo. MC is pretty much going against the top brass and trivializing everyone at or beneath their martial level. Literally, the only people that give the MC trouble are the ones who are at the top of peak-Houtian and above. Which makes sense, because there is absolutely no reason for MC to start clowning on people decades their senior or characters so high above their weight class.
As far as Tang Ruo goes, they do get humbled. It actually happens not that long after you left off in fact. They're still considerably stronger than you (at the point you left off), but MC quickly grows stronger, and you'll learn why.
I 100% current build.
1. You can't do anything there right now.
2. No, letting Velvetia possess you doesn't do anything right now.
3. The most impact I've seen with the fox shrine is having speed drastically increased. There is a bar with the body influence levels, if you max it, it increases the speed characters have when they are possessed by the same spirit.
Take Galiene for example. Base Galiene has a speed of 129 at 90, but possessed Galiene has a max speed of 221 with a full bar.
Take note that you do not have to battle to increase the body influence levels. You can just fast forward time to increase it.
Hope that answers your questions.
2 bugs:
1. If you max level Faylen when she's possessed by Cindy, release her, then possess her as Celica, her level goes down when Cindy re-possesses her. I've seen her level get reduced from 90 to 72. This bug has been present at least for the last two updates. If you want to see proof, scroll down and you'll see a previous comment that I've made concerning this about 2 days ago. (You'll also notice the increasing speed I was talking about, ignore that. The speed increase is actually a result of increasing a spirit's body influence. Speed does have a limit.)
2. If you have Faylen wearing her lingerie set as Cindy, when she masturbates in battle, she will change into her normal attire.
