The Thousand Of Us (WIP)(Updated 11/25/24)

That is exactly what I said if gaia refused she should not be there to save Eve from us.

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:sweat_smile:Iā€™m not gonna act like itā€™s not been waaayyy more than a week. (Iā€™m sorry :man_bowing:)

Iā€™ve been working on the free roam for Divine Arsenal and God Mode alongside the Eldritch route on God Mode. Iā€™m still not done with some scenes in the god mode update, but Iā€™ve reached a good enough content level on the Divine Arsenal route free roam, so I decided to upload it first while I continue the work on God mode.

Public Update: All formerly Patreon Exclusive content (Complete Density Control and Enhanced intellect routes. Edith and Scott sidestory.), and Divine Arsenal route.

Important hint: I highly advice you acquire both the Monkey kingā€™s crown and Hermes Sandals for the highest chances of survival especially when heading out to forage. To acquire the crown, choose to use your first chance of Traverse to meet with Ruyi Jingu Bang. This is important because unlike Hermes sandals you canā€™t ever acquire the Monkeyā€™s king crown again if you miss the interaction with Ruyi Jingu Bang on your first traverse.

Other key updates: Iā€™ve succeeded in making the divine arsenal barrage random. So whenever you choose to just rain down random weapons on a person or creature itā€™s actually random. But be careful so things donā€™t get explosive or worse. Iā€™ve also done a lot of other code work and minor tweaks across the game, including the death scene for Necromancy and Pocket Dimension routes.

Thereā€™s still so much left I havenā€™t implemented, from scenes, to other random encounters off camp, to character visits and interactions. But I just wanted to post this update with all Iā€™ve done so far so you guys get a feel of what Iā€™m heading for. Sorry if the Blackstone scenario ends up feeling rushed. I had a lot of other ideas to bounce off there but it was all going to take too much time. You can use the scene mostly for the massive experience points boost you get if you get things right and survive.

Also, the other routes would be much faster to complete than divine arsenal was. Divine arsenal takes so much time to write and code because of the sheer amount of variables the weapons you may and may not already own in the divine arsenal present.

Again, thank you all for all the support, advice, suggestions, and patience you all give. Starting this out I wasnā€™t expecting more than 15 people to read or even support it. But seeing this little community growing new reader at a time across platforms is just, unbelievable to me. Thank you all.

One last thing. A lot of things on this update and past updates came from all the suggestions and advice Iā€™ve been getting from you all. So please remember to always hit me up if you ever have a suggestion. Your suggestions are always appreciated. Also, a big thanks to my friend @Frankex_2272 . Your reviews and suggestions shape a huge chunk of this. And let me not forget @G_Kagara, and all the others always giving helpful insight. Itā€™s all always noted down. Thanks.

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And by the way good to see you again I hope you are at good health

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Ohh is the rewrite done now??? Gonna check out when I am home.

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Need to try the other path I did before.

I tried the God mode. Itā€™s ok. I guess. Honest review of it so far. I did not feel like it was me in control. Few choices made didnā€™t feel right to narrative itself given.

Already friendly and kind. Didnā€™t kill. Narratively felt off. Like the choice of being a psychopath or not has the same outcome. The girl showing up to chat about godhood egos. Weird gal. When choices came up, I kept to same ideas of being friendly. Her comment was off. The whole scene was divorced from previous actions.

I think it makes more sense, if I did make certain choices not aligned to background choices. I was confused to be agreeable when choices aligned to past. ā€œIā€™m not my original self? How?ā€ I was friendly and not killing. I am still friendly and not killing.

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It is always a pleasure to contribute to the creation of a well-plotted story. :blush:

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Noā€¦ I mean when the deal was presented by the reaper to gaia, eve was already deadā€¦ Without accepting the deal, eve wouldnā€™t reincarnated (i think she wouldnā€™t, thus eve shouldnā€™t exist in our time line) and continue to be gaiaā€™s friend

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Hey, I made a note of things when @Ominking1 brought it all up.

Iā€™m implementing it as someone suggested. If youā€™re about to play past a section that is affected by a particular side story that you havenā€™t played, youā€™ll get a prompt, and if you choose to not play the side story then the default outcome would be established.

Also, Iā€™m establishing the effect from Elaraā€™s side story in the next update. Things are the way they are in the game now because I havenā€™t marked the effect of the side story yet.

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After receiving some DMs, I decided to clear three things up.

Firstly, you can beat Logan even if you fall for his blatant provocation and agree to his challenge. As long as you have Hermes Sandals, Logan is basically small fry.

Secondly, certain things/events would only trigger while doing an activity at a certain time of day. Like walking in the morning vs night.

Lastly, the current demo with the free roam does have an ending. You just have to choose to explore after having already gone on your first exploration with Olivia and Dexter. The event triggers when you choose to explore again after day 6.

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Yep looks like that was me.

You sell yourself short. Itā€™s fantastic story. It would gain attention and love.

Iā€™m hype for god mod update when youā€™re ready.

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How far does god mode go?

Bug Fixes:

Thanks to @Frankex_2272 alerting me to a bug making the game end when its not supposed to. I found a whole slew of bugs making the update almost unplayable to its full extent, especially that one where you keep repeating the first exploration mission.

Iā€™ve patched it all up, and also made it so you can see some of your important base stats like hunger directly on the main checkpoint screen so you donā€™t always have to check stats.

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:sweat_smile:Oh, that was you? Well, thanks a lot for the suggestion. It gave me the idea on how to deal with side story effects on the main story.

:smile:Honestly, justā€¦ thanks a lotā€¦ Really :sob:

Iā€™ll have the God mode update out as soon as possible.

Oh, God mode hasnā€™t gotten an update, so it still ends the same place as the last update after Vengalā€™s fight

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Well, I was worried about how thatā€™s working in the game, so I made this suggestion to clarify the side stories impacts. Because I myself donā€™t want to suddenly move from story to a side story that isnā€™t even relevant for that time so My game pace wouldnā€™t get disrupted, and how could I know when to play which one? So thats why I got the Idea.

No really, this is a good game. A little too big for you but with high potential if you donā€™t give up. So this is outside energy push for you :partying_face::muscle::heart_hands:

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Great update, as always. I really love how everything is shaping up. I just have one little nitpick. The hunger and thirst meters seem to go up waaaaay too fast. Having a godlike character spontaneously drop dead because he hasnā€™t eaten in the past ten hours feels very extreme. I imagine itā€™ll just get more frustrating when the game is finished and you canā€™t reload a past save, losing an entire gameā€™s worth of progress to intermittent fasting or taking a nap without having a full meal first. Still love the update, and everything else feels great, but this one thing just feels a bit annoying in its current form. Keep up the great work!

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How do you get the Hermesā€™ Sandals?

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Ah, Iā€™m already working on this problem. :sweat_smile:Mostly cause I experienced this one for myself.
:sob:I deadass died at least nine times yesterday just trying to test run the game because of the ridiculous hunger and thirst system. It got to a point I almost started pulling out my hair in frustration because I wrote special code for me to skip through scenes while testing the game, but every time I skip through a scene I end up just dying of either hunger or thirst or both if Iā€™m particularly unlucky during that playthrough.

I immediately got to work trying to reduce the count they increase by. Itā€™s take some time but Iā€™ll correct this glaring problem soon.

Use Traverse when you go into the divine treasury and choose to look for a treasure.

What you find comes at random, but you can always just abuse the save system to get something extremely good, or something you specifically want.

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Hey, a new release just came out. After getting Hermesā€™ sandals in my third activity of the day, I wanted to go get food, I faced my first creature with exclibur and it only gave me 0.4 experience points.

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The God MC making everybody work together
Or they will get the belt
grandpa-belt

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Work together against the being that will kill all!

I gotta ask him a question. Whats the point of gaining more power when you already have it all? Unless there is someone bigger than you that you need to defeat? Because it seems you already do everything and control everything. No one is more capable. Unless again, someone else stands above yourself?

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