Hero or Villain: Genesis (feedback thread: News of what I am working on #2407)

How did you access the list of scenes?

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I have a suggestion, I suggest their should be a mid way point between a villain and a hero so like the character has the option to do both bad and good stuff because one of the options if you choose the villain path is ā€œMy powers let me be free, I do what I want.ā€ That seems a bit like a mid way point in the villain options and it doesn’t let you do anything good out of it

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Oh yeahhh I understand what you are getting at just like in Spiderman 3, when he had venom became a little more evil and eventually decided to become good. Hero and villain logic is weird and mysterious lol

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Yeah a bit like that but I didn’t get the inspiration from that

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I know but it still adds up:)

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Found it by shear luck while searching for other related to the game.

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Just seen that I posted it on wrong group. Oh well.

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@Darthsoup I do take the point that the Lost Heir trilogy can be better in that sense (and I did very much enjoy it, and other games by Lucid! :slight_smile: ) Using fairmath was a design choice, which has its limitations, but does make writing the game easier…

@Elemental glad you liked it! Not sure you are also asking a question?

@TheJake_Kelly3 @Elemental what option do you think should be included? (i.e. what would you have liked to do in which situation?) Essentially, I keep adding stuff to the game based on feedback, so I am happy to add new options for the next update…

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Since we’re talking about ideas for the future update… I would like to suggest a way to train ourselves on the ability.
Using the inventor as example, he can get pretty much anything from the mobile, offensive and defensive category while playing as long as u have enough money and use ur time ā€œinventingā€.
So i would like a way to train let’s say my fire ability to get new way to use my powers or make my current powers more powerful, so i don’t end up with a MC with elemental power, who have to use weapons for max dmg. Cause atm, the best dmg for any char is get high str/agi and get a close/ranged weapon, plus the ability to add dmg on top of it… Like come on i control fire, and i need a gun?.

Just to make clear, u don’t have to add new abilities for this, u just need to make a way for we to learn the abilities after creating the char and to make the abilities we already have, stronger (training).

Ps: i do have suggestion for adding elemental powers if u are interested, i could make a list for each element.

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I would say for two options to be available like ā€œI feel like doing some good todayā€ or ā€œI need to get some moneyā€ that sounds like a neutral option to me, you could do something like the villain path where you choose why you stay useful. example, saying you only do things you see as fun,

Or you could make it so that the Neutral character only does things that pop up in the moment like they are walking home from work and spot someone in need or an opportunity to rob a shop

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@adrao I am just curious if our mc can fight that alien for control of earth and since the mc have intellect can he use it to transform earth into an era of technology

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It’s been a while, and I love your work. So I’m just wondering what you plan to do next and what your upcoming things are.

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Sorry for my silence recently. I’ve been taking some time off from writing, and don’t check the forums as much as I used to do.

Thanks for all the suggestions, I’ll look into them for the next update! :slight_smile:

@Lonehero the WIP I’ve been working on the most during last month or so is a traditional rogue-type gamebook… I was hoping to have a trial version of it ready by the end of December… But stuff happened. Anyway, I’m still hoping to finish that this month or next. Then, I want to spend Feb and March writing Hero or Villain: Armageddon! :wink: I wonder if I’ll manage to finish my dungeon crawler before that, as I’ve noticed my brain recently had started to turn to Armageddon…

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No prob. By the way: I found in the scenes script that we can become mercenaries, but don’t found how. Also, there is a companion named Vincent, who replaces John/Jenny/Carol, but since he appears only when you don’t choose lawyer, journalist, webpage designer, or engineer career (and those are the only ones available to us), I don’t know how to make him appear. Any help?

EDIT: found mercenary. Just ask about miny for Cockroach. But still, how to get Vincent?
Somehow can’t romance dreams with Catalina despite having 82 relationship with her.

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Sorry for the super-late reply… the end of term over here has kept me incredibly busy. Hoping that things will calm down a bit from tomorrow and that I can spend more time on the forums and moving forward some of my WIPs.

Anyway, the variable you found is ā€œMC_is_mercenaryā€ right? Basically, if you ask the police for money when tackling the cockroach (as you said in your answer), then this variable means that the police will keep paying you afterwards (you become a merc in their eyes…). Regarding Vincent, I think I removed him from the game, so you might be just seeing some legacy code…

What do you mean with ā€œcan’t romance dreams with Catalina despite having 82 relationship with her.ā€? (sorry, can you explain better?)

there is also a variable called ā€œformer_hero_turned_villainā€ which I think never appears but gives some extra dialogue options in battle royale,

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Ohhhhhh… really?? Bloody hell… I have just gone through and realized that at no point I gave the option to switch on this variable, though it provides much nuance to the ā€œevilā€ path. But, I was convinced that I had done that… can I confirm that nobody has managed to play a reluctant villain?

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82 on Catalina relationship bar.
When my character tried to alter her dreams (with that bar) in romantic way, she responded
aggressively. Why?

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There is possibly a way of you don’t take over the city, you will be recruited to Avengers

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Does anyone have a idea how to romance captain villardi (police officer), i had like 95 relationship but she still rejected me :frowning:
I just wanna finish this game i spend like 100/200 hours at it and i still havent found it :cry:

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