Hero or Villain: Genesis (Thread for reporting bugs etc)

[Lucas_Ribeiro1]

finally my SA and me will not fight ^^

[Young_NosaTv]

Is the demo the inventor path?

[adrao]

New version is up (for all threads). Note that I’m running slightly behind schedule on the crafting part, so the playtesting for inventors might be delayed slightly. The game is now almost 299,000 words long, with playthroughs of ~39,000 (so, almost the length of a short novel! Though I guess this is lowered by the computer ending up in too many bad ending by choosing random powers. When I did it only in easy mode this already climbed to ~40,000).

Changes
-During the birthday cake scene it is now possible to get revenge on Richard (thanks for the suggestions about this! Other thoughts on how to embarrass him are welcome…)
-For several professions the MC will have to leave the office for an afternoon just before the masquerade. This is mainly just to add a bit more flavour to the professions (let me know how you feel about this…)
-Continued to improve and debug the “crafting” side-mission. You can now steal things from a shop or warehouse. Also, corrected several bugs and added some explanations on how things worked. Let me know if you have any requests and thoughts about this part.

To do list
-Place all powers chosen in the power choosing page, add possibility to clear and choose again. Add a number of pre-determined super-heroes (wolverine-type, etc)
-billards bar and extra side stories for villains. Possible human genome storyline? (post #431)
-Drag in Mongolia part of the game. Should try to improve things there.
-Add possibility to recruit black cockroach on supervillain path. Also, add possibility to recruit Black Shark and cockroach to fight SA
-Normal hero path Mr. Watson endings.
-Add more weapons to crafting sequence
-Expand beginning of game intro (Grand Canyon, etc)

[adrao]

@Young_NosaTv the demo does include the inventor path, but only up to the cut-off point. I’m still working on more things for this path, but you are welcome to try what is already there…

[adrao]

Too tired to continue to work on the game, so I thought I’d start a poll:

How do you rate the replayability?

• I cannot stop playing it! Keep discovering new things…
• It’s good, better than what I expected.
• It’s ok. Typical for HG/CoG titles.
• Not so good. Becomes boring after the second playthrough.
• It’s completely railroaded. Second replay is already boring.

[Young_NosaTv]

Amazing over 299,000 words ,i mean your not far off . repeatability gonna be iffy depending what each person looking for. This is 1 of 3 wips i have played 5 times . your doing a great job especially working on a genre that is so wide and hard to stand out in

[Young_NosaTv]

Its hard to replay games that you read threw at least 2 twice even if the ending is different. Just need different variables to make the game last and worth it . I know this draining but great success comes from the hardest work . you got this and take some time to yourself and keep your mind fresh just incase you wanna go in different directions

[kingzug]

I for some reason cannot defeat the Steel Argonaut the second time they show up in the story even when I successfully dodge and us the strongest armor I can use or blow multiple holes in the armor (Inventor Powers)

[adrao]

@kingzug, can you let me know more about the exact actions you took? the SA has 160 HP and an armour of 30 at that point in the game, if you are mostly dodging then this won’t cause much damage. It’s a very tough enemy, and I would be expecting many people to fail to beat it (unless playing in super-easy…) But, I think many others can beat her at that point (what strategies are people using for that? I think there are different ones that can be employed…)

[adrao]

Otherwise (for those on private threads), any thoughts on the Mongolian part of the game? Some previous feedback indicated that the game drags a bit over there… any things that you would like to do?

[kingzug]

well I was at the most extreme (very easy mode) armor that could protect against artillery fire and around 70 ish agility and low strength and endurance and I tried a majority of the options and each time the laser rifle toasted my fleshy bits mostly (To my perspective at least) that my armor is doing diddly

EDIT: stasis gun works

[kingzug]

Ok it might just be me cause the armor works all other times

[Dloading]

It would be nice to have an option to make a catch phrase like some heroes “never fear I am here”

[JVM]

The replay ability is amazing not only do you get to create completely new and unique characters each time you can also follow very distinct and different storylines

[adrao]

Ah… low endurance, right? The SA does 60 damage with her laser, and your armour only protects against 40. Hence, you will take 20 damage. It you only have an endurance of 6 you will have 20 HP… if you already lost some, you’re toast! One possibility would have been to raise the protection offered by your armour, through the crafting subroutine.

Other enemies are hitting you for less damage, but the SA is supposed to be one of the stronger ones… and you’re dealing with the upgraded armour. In the first encounter it only does 50 damage with laser (if that is still working), or 30 with her fists.

[adrao]

I’m just about to upload a new version of the game

Changes
-Added more weapons to crafting part. So, crafting sequence is now complete, unless anybody has requests?

To do list
-Place all powers chosen in the power choosing page, add possibility to clear and choose again. Add a number of pre-determined super-heroes (wolverine-type, etc)
-billards bar and extra side stories for villains. Possible human genome storyline? (post #431)
-Drag in Mongolia part of the game. Should try to improve things there.
-Add possibility to recruit black cockroach on supervillain path. Also, add possibility to recruit Black Shark and cockroach to fight SA
-Normal hero path Mr. Watson endings.
-Expand beginning of game intro (Grand Canyon, etc)

Otherwise, I feel like I’m almost at the end of the game. What do people think needs extra work on this game?

• Extra side missions for villains
• Extra side missions for superheroes
• Extra side missions that can be used by both heroes or villains
• Neutral side missions (billiards bar, for example)
• Additional work on the supervillain thread (New York part)
• More content for Mongolia part of the game, before meeting SA.
• No more content is needed. Game is good as it is.
• Other (please comment below)

[Young_NosaTv]

Its coming along

[adrao]

I was just tidying up some stuff for the inventor path through the game, and wrote about the suitcase to put the armour in (as otherwise it would be impossible to take it on a plane).

Anyway, just had to watch this again!

Iron Man: 2 - Iron Man vs Vanko - Suitcase suit Scene - 2010 MOVIE CLIP (4K)

[ollierocket23]

Okayy quick question but regarding the Combat computer and energy sword, it doesn’t seem to add the corresponding attributes to the stats.
I also come with bugs and typos

“Hero points”
Also found this error

I was making improvements to my armor, however, it seems to be that it states that I was improving my weapon instead.

[adrao]

Thanks, just corrected all those, uploading the new version now!