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I feel I’d have liked Val a lot more in a standalone game. I appreciate the narrative they were trying to tell with Val, but having them appear in a sequel and being told, “Hey this person is Important to you!!” was very frustrating when I’d already built important relationships in the first game, which were now being ignored so that the game could shove me at Val.

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Just beggining the play, and I wonder what this genre-savy, and Narrative weight do/represent, and why they are oposed to mother relationship?

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Genre Savvy is how in tune you are with your house’s method of doing things. For example, if you’re a genre savvy horror student, you are one that uses fear as their greatest weapon.

Narrative weight represents how important of a character you are in the overall story of the Grand Academy that year. A character of higher narrative weight often has things simply happen for them because they are just that important, whereas a lower weight means that the character has to work harder to achieve similar goals.

They aren’t opposed to the relationship with the mother, but if you are pursuing your mother (or one of the other professors) for tenure, doing so can come at the cost of narrative weight because you are making choices that sometimes debase yourself. It’s still possible to have high narrative weight and tenure track at the same time, but it’s not easy and very unlikely in a first play through.

For now, just play how you want

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Thanks. I also wonder how to achieve being dropout in previous game. Any ideas?

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@Darthsoup You basically have to have not really achieved anything. If you have a low relationship with Maedryn (and she didn’t defeat Cerebrist), you didn’t get the Macroworld internship, you’re not 100% monster, your social standing is too low to become an RA and your grades and school standing are too low to become a TA. In that case, you don’t get any of those endings and drop out instead.

I’m not certain, but I think the school has to have not been destroyed by the heroes too?

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Does anyone know if the update actually fixed any bugs? It seems to have added more for me.

In a recent playthrough, my teacher, professor Ulik, was awarded tenure, but subsequent scenes claimed she wasn’t. I also noticed some of the Consult DarkBoard scenes are now missing–one earlier in the game where you recieve emails from your elective teachers, and the final one where DarkBoard encourages you to assimilate into them.

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I also had an issue recently where upon switching houses from horror to scifi, my genre savvy was still coded towards horror so any tech oriented choices would lower the stat

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I still don’t know how to become RA and TA at the same time. It’s possible, it’s an achievement, but even if I get both my grades and social standing to 90, but I don’t get RA no matter what!

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@Matt10

I’m not positive on this, but I think you have to become RA and not TA at the end of the first game, and then take an offer to become TA as well in the second one–if your grades aren’t high enough, you should still be able to be TA for Fen/Ulik while secretly sabotaging them for the other one.

To become RA in the first game, you need to have a social capital of 60+ but a school standing of less than 65, and grades less than 75 (which I think is a C/D??). I believe having high enough school standing/grades to be a TA locks you out of also being an RA at that point. And don’t be a monster–they have to lurk in the dungeon instead of being an assisstant of any kind.

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That’s very helpful! Thank you! I’m just not sure what you mean by sabotaging Ulik/Fen. Is that a requirement for something?

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In the first game, I chose to embrace no genre. This isn’t reflected here. It’s as if I chose SF

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Because SF is the default genre if you chose none.

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Oh! I understood things differently, I thought you just get a dorm in SF, but you’re not actually part of the genre and then in the sequel this is in some way acknowledged

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I also think I’ve just noticed a sort of bug. So, in the first game, I became the water monster(y’know, tentacles and stuff), but I also helped the heroes destroy the school. Now, when I try to create my pet, I don’t have the option to let my monster status influence what’ll come out of the egg, like I did when I was a dragon like monster and got the salamandest. I also didn’t get the “Denizen of the deep” achievement, which I should’ve