Well that sounds like a 
Iâll check it out!
I believe thatâs called being a sadist. I hate it, but respect it. The internal struggle of knowing I canât get everything I want in one play through, versus the knowledge it will make a better game is real.
Also, will having been any teachers pet in the previous games affect this game?
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I have a new question. Getting good grades in CCH was integral to getting better stats. Will our previous GPA in CCH1 and CCH2 have any lasting effects in CCH3?
Probably not, grades in CCH1 and 2 was for better gears which will help success some situation which was burned at the end.
As @Kasami_Gi said, the main reward for good grades was the equipment, and thatâs all destroyed, so I donât see grades from the first semester as being relevant anymore.
But I will likely keep brainstorming variables I want to carry over, and Iâll add those to the demoâs player creation scene, so when something pops up there, you know itâs relevant moving forward (although I do have the âdream powerâ listed there, and Iâm not sure that will pop up, so it might be superfluous)
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I like the âDream Powerâ choice even if itâs just ânothingâ, itâs pretty much what you would do if youâre ânormalâ in a city full of Powered, start dreaming about it.
Anyway, can you please let out some of the âuseless choicesâ, some of it i like very much cuz itâs very related but most are just annoying, the choices where itâs âtell, not showâ like âwhat do you think of itâ, itâs literally ask my thoughts, does it really matter what i think? Shouldnât it be what i do affect about what i think? Now, donât start putting reactions after the âwhat you thinkâ choices (like adding emotion and reactions from other, it wonât change) or making me choose side, itâs not âhard choicesâ which you are trying to make, itâs frustrating :((
Like you shouldnât be making player choose the âyou canât do all of theseâ choices, like making me choose who to save or which team will i help, i know i cannot save everyone nor make everyone happy, but you donât have to make it worse, it should be âshould i do thisâ and âcan i do itâ choices, it would make us player more satisfied with our action and make us feel weâre actually accomplished something, i know it would make it less interesting but atleast it wonât leave us a guilty and dissatisfied feeling knowing that I could have done something.
In a fight, donât put two people at risk and make me choose who to save, also, donât make the situation where one by one, they start struggles and i help each one (know what Iâm talking about?), Itâs extremely boring, (i donât actually have any ideas about how to make a good scene where you can help everyone without it seem lame, this is the best i got: instead of making âsoloâ situations (âa grenade fly toward himâ and it make you choose how to react), make some domino effect (i donât know how to describe it, Iâm still in school and this probably sound like rambling); or in some scene, player can choose to use their Power for more positives effects (like Zip!, there is a âPowerâ stat for a reason right? But donât make it exactly like Zip!, where it solve everything).
I donât really got any good ideas, this is probably sound like just another one of my gibberish nonsense, i know Iâm asking a lot, Iâm just run out of actual good COG and HG books to read, I tried many of them and none could be perfect (which is exactly what life is about butâŚ), Iâm looking for letting out my frustrations. I not really a perfectionist since Iâm here just looking at stuff and judge them but have no idea how to do it.
Anyway, thanks for reading, if you are. Hopefully, you will understand whatever the hell i just rambling about. Again, Iâm asking a lot which i know itâs never easy to write a story, not talking about making a game along with it. JustâŚhelp me understand.
Also, can you make the chatting scene a bit more âhave a pointâ? Like you put all these characters like weâre old pals and i canât interact with them or learn about them. After the party, Rain or Quicky will complain about your team and you couldnât speak up cuz theyâre right? Theyâre right yes, but why canât i reason with them? They talking like my team donât deserve the attention cuz of how âtoxicâ (is that a word for it?) we are, they give goods reason yes, i agree even but, Tress acting leadering, Crook and DG being rude, Stoic barely look at anyone and how are Mob/Synergy and Wombat play along.
Here is my reason that i canât say, Tress acting âqueenlyâ cuz thatâs what a leader supposed to do! She supposed to show confident and commanding if she want keeping anyone in line; Crook, DG and Stoic are being THEMSELF, why could they judge them, just because youâre in a popular team that mean you have to be perfect? And they acting like theyâre the only one got nicknamed by DG; how Synergy, Wombat (and You but they donât mention since you have no power so that make sense Iâm guessing) dealing with this? THEY DONâT! The only way anyone can get along is for you to make room for them, not expecting theyâll behave when you do. Synergy and Wombat never have to dealing with it cuz they know, they understand, thatâs why weâre a team!
I understand you add Quicky, a glory seeker, well, some one gotta be. But PLEASE, if he get in trouble cuz of his own arrogant and ego, and heâs not going to realize it, heâs going to be more dangerous to the team.
Also, can you make the fighting scene clearer? I barely catch anything with the fight with Manipulator and feel like youâre holding back too much, the Hedonist isnât there, so she could have take us out one by one easily (despite she playing with her food), i feel like youâre just forcing her to lose.
Thanks for reading, hopefully (again) you can catch what Iâm saying under all of those gibberish :]
@Kasami_Gi, my goodness that is quite a list! All I can say is, stay tuned! I donât really accept âwish lists,â Iâm more just asking for suggestions and feedback for actionable tweaks. Like when someone suggested that I move the Ouch modifier to after the SF mission, thatâs an example of what Iâm looking for.
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Okay, Iâm diving into writing this weekend and I hope to update the link again in the next 10-14 days. Itâs a nervous time for everyone, and I realize most people arenât focused on game updates at a time like this, but speaking only for myself, I need a shred of normalcy these days, so Iâll keep writing and updating as much as I can.
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Also, I have announced the results of the Diabolical Dozen contest. Two members of our community placed in the top three. Congrats to @Nocturnal_Stillness for 2nd place and @hustlertwo for 3rd place.
And congrats to Alexander Reader for 1st place. I already know how Iâll incorporate the villain Auger into the story.
I had really wanted votes to determine the winner, but it was obvious to me that the voting results were all over the place (almost every finalist pointed this out to me), so I just made the decisions myself.
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Congratulations to the winner and @hustlertwo
Thank you for the competition Eric. Sorry it went crazy towards the end.
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Thanks, Eric! And congrats to @Nocturnal_Stillness and the appropriately-named Mr. Reader. Writing the entry was a lot of fun, to be sure.
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Here is a question @Eric_Moser at the start of CCH1 who would you say is the strongest hero and strongest villain?
Mega Cat!
Edit: unless it is the day where Birthday Boy can use his power, then maybe he will be the strongest.
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If Mega Cat is truly as strong as everyone says, he probably is the strongest hero.
Strongest villain would probably be Blue Morpho, I think. In the D12 (heh) files, it mentioned that they ever learned to control their power properly, grade 10 on the Zenith scale wouldnât come close to describing how powerful they would be.
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Then the question remain. Why are these individuals so powerful? Whatâs make them different from thousand others? It couldnât be just âpracticeâ since it could get one so far to their limit (i know practice make differents, huge differents even but in this case, it cannot be).
I thought about that because theyâre the first children generation after the Zeanith Shield come down but after many more thoughts, i just canât think itâll be the reason (can it?).
Then, what make them different? OR, if theyâre not, then can we, anyone with Power, soon or later, can reach their level or maybe surpass them even?
Our main character Power is Nullify (sorry if i type it wrong), meaning they can take away others Power temporary. Like Downfall showed, students powers could do much more. So the obvious conclusion is that, with enough training, practice and experience, you can take away others powers as long as you like, PERMANENTLY wouldnât sound crazy either.
BUT, new power isnât what make one individual powerful, (like a soldier good with every single type of gun doesnât make them dangerous, so they would not be able to win against a master of one weapon), like Supercat have almost every basic power there is, but that doesnât make him overpowered, it make him unpredictable, so the âlevel of powerâ still determined on how and what can you do with the power you already have.
My point is, our character just have one set of power (the boosted strength, speed and thinking are just side effects), but with just this one power already make you a force to be reckon with :)) Also, What else can you do with it? Take others power, sure but how did you take it? Where did it go? (Back to the Zone where it came from obviously). This wonât be in the game but Iâll say what i think anyway, could our character go as far and basically BE Downfall and some how harvest the power you cut from the Zone and use it yourself? SO MANY POSSIBILITIES, and not just you, other heroes and villain as well! But Iâll cut my gibberish right there, if youâre still reading to this point, you have my thanks, and give me your opinions :)))
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Well, according the what everyone has read, I would think most readers would assume: MegaCat, Blue Morpho, Downfall, Booksmart, maybe Black Bullet, maybe Lady Ash, although weâve seen few, if any, real feats, from most of them. But again, until we start seeing feats, no one really knows. MegaCatâs Zenith Rankings could be out of date or just plain flawed.
As far as feats go, Manipulator has the most âscreen time.â Weâve seen her kill Origami, whup the MCâs ass in CCH1, then kill Hedonist (in some playthroughs), then whup the whole Speck student bodyâs asses for most of the fight. How would she have done against the Big Three of the Dozen in a fair fight? Who knows? She was already whupped when they showed up. Maybe there will be a rematch in Part 3?
And weâll be seeing Downfall in glorious combat in the next update, which I am having a blast planning and writing.
And @Beaterxys, thank you, and you too! If we are smart and patient, we can get past this.
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@Kasami_Gi is saying what is exactly on my mind, power nullification only is simply too low level and simple to make the MC more of a threat, most especially the Dr Stench part. I think most players would agree with me that that with how powerful weâve seen that most of the heroes and villains are, Dr Stenchâs suit does not seem like a âthreatâ to most of them even the speck kids. The MC needs something with enough power and also potential and I also support @Kasami_Gi that it would be good if we are able to play Downfall but power nullification style.
I am going to say this once again:
Stating your opinion is fine, as long as you present actionable feedback with that opinion.
Saying: âDr. Stenchâs suit does not seem like a âthreatââ is opinion.
Actionable feedback would explain why you think it isnât a threat and then make suggestions on improving the suit, within the current story.
Asking the author to rewrite the MC in your vision is non-actionable feedback. Often this type of feedback does more harm than good.
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