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Okay, seriously, do you even test before putting out releases? Every single update has major gamebreaking bugs. I mean, I realize I've helped you find the solution to bugs before (despite having less programming experience than you...) but it feels like you aren't even locating them despite them being extremely simple to detect just by attempting to play the game normally.

That fixed it. What seems to have happened is that the old version somehow didn't get deleted when the new version was installed, and running the installer manually actually did that check and deleted it.

Do you know why auto-updating to this version doesn't seem to work? I can see that an update is available in the app, but it fails every time.

I see. Really odd though that romancing Snake unlocks more Gravel content when Snake is clearly monogamous, which is the entire reason I didn't want to romance him. I just didn't realize that not romancing him would suddenly make him despise me and never interact with me again. Though for some reason Snake still doesn't seem to mind casual sex in the MC's bed regardless of who else I'm in a relationship with. Honestly I kinda feel most of the Snake scenes, relationship-focused or not, don't make a lot of sense and should probably be rewritten.

Okay, I guess they do. They... definitely do not use it. Ever. I wasn't even aware of it, and it's not linked anywhere that I know of. Hell, the dev may not even be aware it still exists.

They don't have a subscribestar page. I think you are confused about something, but I'm not sure what's confusing you...

??? Your comment makes absolutely no sense. There is a one hundred percent chance of a paid version being removed from itch.io but you're concerned about the paid version being on Patreon and not on itch.io?

The most updated version is on Patreon. The lowest tier is $1.50/month and does provide early access to updates. This page has the most updated free version.

I see... Well, I don't particularly want to redo the Dozer route immediately after just playing it. Maybe I'll do the Chester route first so I also get that Best Ending and unlock the poly.

That probably depends on your OS and how you installed it. But if you installed it on Windows through the itch.io client, just right click on Launch, select 'Open folder in explorer', then double click on the folder called savedata.

Do the extra scenes trigger if I load a save from any time before that scene after getting Best Ending, or would I need to restart from the beginning?

Pretty terrible walkthrough considering I also got Dozer's best ending with several radically different choices.

Dozer has a poly route? I've done Dozer's route already and didn't get that option. No matter how many times I try to say I'm completely fine with it, both Dozer and the MC seem locked to being very, very monogamous on Dozer's route, even though I know that isn't true from playing Dwayne's route.

I think I'm confused what getting the Best Ending actually does? Apparently it provides extra scenes, but would that mean I would need to replay that route to see them? There's also the implication that it might affect other routes besides that one -- so the order in which I play the routes first time might affect those routes? So far I have two Best Endings, but I'm really not sure whether the first affected the other routes I played or not.

Huh. I'm actually still confused. I know that I can no longer fund Snake in my current playthrough, so I would have to restart regardless. However, that city at the north of the map you mentioned --  that city is being rebuilt. As far as I was aware, the completion of that city hasn't been developed yet. Is it actually possible? Snake did ask me for funds, but that was in the *southern* city, not the northern city.

Ah, okay. I know how I missed that then, and I'd need to restart with different choices. I probably will restart at some point anyway, after more of these storylines are completed, so that I can do things in the proper order rather than starting tons of quests that aren't finished yet. But that will probably be  a while.

Volga. The only character you play as.

The latter two are relatively new, so it's entirely possible the flags weren't set properly. However, there was one instance for me in which a kink being disabled seemed to mean I see it once then decide whether I want to see it again. Which is a really, really weird way to handle disabling kinks, but that seemed to be how it works. Just to confirm you didn't actually enable it rather than disabling it though (because the menu isn't entirely clear which is which), disabled has the circle on the right side of a red bar, and enabled has the circle on the left side of a green bar.

I didn't get this error, but apparently other people who did get it fixed it by going to the mirror in their room.

Gravel moves to new location? Is there something specific that triggers this, or some prerequisite?

The MC is male and all of the romanceable options are male. The MC canonically has had sex with women in the past, but that doesn't happen during the game.

Looking at benchmarks, it appears that while the GTX 950 is not too much worse than the GTX 1070 at 2D tasks, it's actually a lot worse at 3D tasks. So that might be why I have an issue with 3D but absolutely no problems with 2D.

My GPU is actually older than that -- it's GTX 950. But at the start of the VN version, it does say that the 3D version should be fine for any mid-range computer. GTX 950 is above the mid range, and it's the lowest tier component I have. I'm not sure why the settings wouldn't adjust until you actually get in the game; however, the menu is not even slightly graphically complex.

I will note that the GTX 1070 has 8GB of VRAM, which is far higher than the GTX 950's 2 GB of VRAM. Most gaming GPUs today do have at least 8 GB of VRAM, so perhaps that's the important factor in determining whether it's "moderately new" enough, and not the actual age in years or performance tier.

I'm not sure what you mean by "moderately new." Almost everything in my computer is from the last couple of years, except my GPU, which I figured would be fine because it's technically in the "high end" charts (albeit in the bottom third). But this *instantly* spikes my GPU temp to 80 C (idles at 38 C and most games run at 48-50 C) and my GPU usage to 99%, on Low settings. That's just in the menu. I didn't even bother to try actually playing it.

I guess I will just go back to the VN edition.

I haven't found a way either, and figured it's probably not implemented yet.

Even worse, the best part wasn't even made by a human.

Ah, yeah, it's possible to miss that option if you aren't in the habit of spending time reviewing menus and settings. I actually already knew about it because I played this a looong time ago when there was not much content, dropped it, then reinstalled fairly recently.

Oh, I see. Then, I guess I was just confused because the voice is suggesting something that isn't possible yet, which leads me to try it and fail every time. But, it did get me to try choices I otherwise wouldn't pick, which it sounds like might have been your goal anyway.

Normally when someone uses tools to simplify the programming for story-based games, it's because said person isn't a programmer but understands the core concepts of storywriting. You don't know how to write a coherent story. This plot is full of holes. I tried your previous game too. It's even less coherent. I can't tell where you think your skillset lies, but it's not in writing, and certainly not in programming if you're using GDevelop. The art seems fine, and it's not attributed to anyone else -- are you perhaps an artist? If you did create the art for these games and don't consider yourself an artist, I might suggest that's a better path for you.

It may just be because it's early stages, but I'm not sure I understand the genre or goal of this game. At the moment, it appears to be in the bad end simulator genre, but I get the impression that's not the final intent. The voice in the white does tell us we're now able to progress further after going down all three paths, but it doesn't seem like that's the case -- did I do something wrong, or is it just not implemented yet?

Hm... I play on PC, but my understanding is that the Android version is always the same as the public PC version. The version number is lower because there were fewer Android updates (since it came out after the PC version). The Patreon version is just not available on Android at all.

Ah, I did wonder about that. People were talking about rejecting others as if that's a thing that you can do. I've never been able to, so I wasn't sure what they were talking about, but I have very much negative respect -- one of the first things I did was lock it from increasing. So I was wondering if that was a factor.

EDIT: Oh, that was actually you who was talking about that before.

Hm. I tried it, and I'm still not getting an option to work for Isandro at all. I understand that this new scene is Patreon only, but is the entire Isandro job Patreon only, despite being unlocked in a chapter that is available publicly?

The only lizard dude in a cell I'm aware of is Cicero, and AFAIK your choices of what to do with Bradley and Rylan don't affect your ability to release Cicero at all. (Also, you can "side" either with or against Bradley and Rylan completely independently, so you're not really taking sides.) You just have to go back to the pirate base after leaving.

I don't think there is a dating route selection. You can choose to date people or not (if they have dates available; most haven't been implemented yet), and choosing to date someone doesn't seem to affect your ability to date others.

Ah, okay. I almost never press the Talk button, so I probably missed it. Honestly didn't realize Talk ever did anything besides additional lore.

Is this the same quest as "Protect the Church"?

Maybe the dev should... say that then, instead of something else entirely?

Whatever though, I don't care. I've given up on this game and this developer. They do not understand game design at all.

That would mean it is bugged, because it doesn't change, ever.

The other ways are not more lucrative, though. They're horrifically difficult.

Also, if the goal of the game is for you to play it and no one else, don't fucking publish it.

Okay. So based on the things that do and don't cause mental loss, apparently the MC always, regardless of player choice, hates the following things:

1. Not being in control

2. Public exposure

3. Sex

It's extremely weird to me given the choices that are available that they wouldn't impact these personality constants whatsoever, so I'm wondering if this isn't actually a bug?