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Chapter 4 complete.

  • Gibmaker
  • 06/23/2012 07:05 AM
  • 13130 views
I did not eat properly today. It was the impatient rage phase of game design. But well, ch 4 is complete?

( ̄ー ̄) http://rpgmaker.net/games/1378/downloads/3254/

It is time for another vacation from this project I think.

Remember, if you want you can now IMPORT YOUR SAVE FILE FROM CHAPTER 3, but there are a few notes:

- Due to a bug in an earlier version of the game, several of the "basic" psi talents that should have been released to training computers very early on never were. (Such as Cryokinesis, the basic offensive psi talent.) These will be automatically added to training computers if you import a game from v1.0.5.

- There have also been numerous other logs and ebooks added to previous chapters, which are also added to the log automatically when you import a game. FREE LOGS. WOW

- I modified combat so that enemies now die instantly when they take lethal damage, instead of waiting until the end of the current turn. This has thrown combat-end event triggers into turmoil. I feel I need to re-test the entire first three chapters again to make sure stuff isn't all screwed up, but I just don't have the stamina for this right now. So if anyone is starting from the beginning, or has a game saved well before the end of chapter 3, I'd be quite interested in your experience.

- I had all kinds of other important notes to say but I forget.

- Oh god it's 3 am.

- Did I mention I didn't eat properly today?

- Oh yeah. In a future version of the game I will add small animations that indicate any current statuses that characters and enemies have. This will make it more obvious that the "Parasitic Synthesis" skill is actually doing something. It "weakens" the target so that every attack done on them will get +7 damage.

- I think something is wrong with Elumir's auto-level-up since when he joins you he seems to have twice as much experience as your other characters. I also suspect that experience is getting dished out far too generously and I may have to scale it back. ಠ_ಠ

- I'm also starting to discover a flaw in this game's design, which is this: as your party grows and you increase each party member's pool of action points, it can start to take an entire minute to dispatch all your party's actions while the enemies all sit there and just take it. GONE IS THE BRISK BACK-AND-FORTH OF THAT FIRST BATTLE IN THE WASHROOM. I dunno.

THEN I HAVE TO SHIP COUNTER-PORTAL

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Aye, over a dozen fights in the last half hour and no more of those issues.. so I'd say it was definitely fixed. I do agree with kumada on the "last resort" tactic of being able to negate combat damage if you heal in that round, it's come in handy a lot of times in the =<1.0.5 releases :D

I'm really glad I started over, to be perfectly honest, it's nice seeing all new maps and audiologs =)
author=sabin1981
I'm really glad I started over, to be perfectly honest, it's nice seeing all new maps and audiologs =)


Don't say this :< my MC is too much of a killing machine for me to give her up.

As for last-minute revival, it seems sort of asymmetrical but I agree with kumada and sabin. It seems to add tension even though it's giving you more of a chance to survive.
Oops... encountered a fatal error during the first fight with a maintenance bot;



Progressing through the game is slow going at the moment since I'm juggling a bunch of other life stuff too, but I'm getting there.

~edit~

Okay, I've done that fight five times now, trying different tactics each time, it doesn't matter; as soon as you make your first attack - the game crashes with ^^ that error.
Gibmaker
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author=sabin1981
Oops... encountered a fatal error during the first fight with a maintenance bot;



Progressing through the game is slow going at the moment since I'm juggling a bunch of other life stuff too, but I'm getting there.

~edit~

Okay, I've done that fight five times now, trying different tactics each time, it doesn't matter; as soon as you make your first attack - the game crashes with ^^ that error.
Well, I went and fixed that one and re-uploaded. :O I JUST CAN'T STAND BY WITH GAME-CRASHING BUGS IN EXISTENCE

Didn't remember to fix the weird combat-state thing with the first zombie before compiling&uploading, but oh well. That one isn't as critical.
Hahaha, you're on fire lately! ^_^ Thanks again sir =)
man so this is pretty lame but i cant decryo that one guy

been trying for hour reading logs&etc can i get a hint
Gibmaker
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author=sixe
man so this is pretty lame but i cant decryo that one guy

been trying for hour reading logs&etc can i get a hint
You must use the mind-reading psi skill on him.
So is this game feature-ready now, or what?
Gibmaker
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author=kentona
So is this game feature-ready now, or what?
Well, no. :\ Given that it may still crash at times and it's not finished. It probably does not have to be 100% finished to be featured, but does it only get one chance?
I hate that cryo puzzle. I hate it with a vengeance. I hate it. Do you know how many possible combinations there are in a 5-digit code!?


Select psitool.
Select Parasite Synthesis
Select cryotube
Pick five digits.
Oh he responded to that. One number was correct but in the wrong place.
Select psitool.
Select Parasite Synthesis
Select cryotube
Pick five digits.
Oh he responded to that. One number was correct but in the wrong place.
Select psitool.
Select Parasite Synthesis
Select cryotube
Pick five digits.
He didn't respond to that one.
WHAT THE FLYING FU..........??????????


I think I'll pick this back up tomorrow when my brain doesn't hurt so much :(

~edit~

Ok, so I'm stubborn and refused to give in. I finally found it. Seriously, I hate you for that puzzle :P That was merciless.

~edit~

ARE YOU SERIOUS? Are you freakin' serious??? I break the damned code, head back to Cryo and have to fight a boss... only for this to happen on the 2nd round;



I hadn't saved for a while *and* the sodding code is randomised, just like everything else!!! *froth* That's it, I'm definitely going to bed before the PC goes for a flying lesson... XD
Gibmaker
I hate RPG Maker because of what it has done to me
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Yes I have heard feedback that fools would like an easy way to use talents multiple times without having to select the item over and over. BUT YOU KNOW, IF YOU JUST RELOAD YOUR SAVE IT WILL BE THE SAME CODE. It's only randomized once during world generation.

As for the other thing, I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS CRASHBUG BEFORE. Do you remember exactly what you tried to do when this happened, e.g. what weapon you tried to attack with?
Ahhh, so the code (which I've now forgotten, yay! :D) will be the same? I wasn't aware the random factor only applied at the beginning. Thanks Gibmaker. And yes, I remember exactly what it was; I tried to deploy the Turret I was carrying and as soon as it was put down; bam. Crash.

Also, why are you apologising? lol, it's a WIP! Problems are to be expected =)
author=sabin1981
Ahhh, so the code (which I've now forgotten, yay! :D) will be the same? I wasn't aware the random factor only applied at the beginning. Thanks Gibmaker. And yes, I remember exactly what it was; I tried to deploy the Turret I was carrying and as soon as it was put down; bam. Crash.

Also, why are you apologising? lol, it's a WIP! Problems are to be expected =)


I had exactly the same error one screen after the battle, seems like it happens whilst all that business is going on because I'd used my turret a handful of times before and had no problems.
Moar frothing >:[ I went back, didn't use the turret, beat the boss and carried on. Then I got into a fight with a certain person and, after defeating said person, crash >:[




Just two steps from a bloody save room!! :( Sigh.
Gibmaker
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author=sabin1981
Also, why are you apologising? lol, it's a WIP! Problems are to be expected =)
But I still feel sad.

and I'm flummoxed about this failed to find 5 error! do you remember specifically how it came about? the first time you kill ######### there is a short scene where ######### says "Damn you!" Did this piece of dialog fire before the crash or was it after?
Once you get the fourth party member and head a few "screens" away, you get approached by the Doctor, who accuses Elumir of being a traitor, then she attacks you. You get the option of "appeal" but it doesn't seem to do anything, so I just laid into her with my strongest attacks. When she "dies" - she says "Damn you!" and then the game immediately crashed with the TWO errors I posted above.

Gibmaker
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Ok it probably has to do with an error in the Appeal task. It will be a few days before I can look into it though due to family visitations. Just don't use the Appeal task and you should avoid this bug I hope!
Thanks and no worries, like you said earlier; you've been working your ass off - take a break :D
author=Gibmaker
author=sixe
man so this is pretty lame but i cant decryo that one guy

been trying for hour reading logs&etc can i get a hint
You must use the mind-reading psi skill on him.


oh dang what ha ha ha ha......

i finished chap 4

at one point the game gave me a prompt that said 'uh oh' and crashed. it was right after i destroyed a barricade in r&d. that was pretty weird

game was impossibly difficult for me this chap. i was doing p well until end of 3. idk maybe i just suck

cool chapter though upsettingly short. will wait for next update chin up and good luck
Gibmaker
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author=sixe
at one point the game gave me a prompt that said 'uh oh' and crashed. it was right after i destroyed a barricade in r&d. that was pretty weird
Weird. I guess it must have been with the laser pistol?
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