WIP: Fallen Hero 2: Retribution - updated 27 april 2019 (pre-adult version)

Also since I noticed talk of a few bugs i may wait a little bit for the update to get a hot fix or two.
Looking forward to being bombasticly taking everything that isn’t nailed down though :slight_smile:

Also ima have to try and figure out how to romance Argent since I tried only once and nothing came of it, I suppose though the update may have fixed that.

What are you referring to? I’m scared I may have missed something.

If you work with Argent to get the regeneration device you can unmask yourself to kiss her if your romancing her so far and show her your tattoos. She’ll also tell you her real name.

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What choices do you make to work with her? I’ve romanced her and have a good, respectable relationship for both the MC and villain.

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I swear In the first game, in the beginning when your that silver woman(forgot her name/couldn’t care less about her) it says his powers are flight, strength, and invulnerability… so you shouldn’t be able to break his bones. Anyway torturing him is the only thing that will bring me peace in life, if he lives I will fail my life’s true purpose; killing herald slowly and painfully. MWA-HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

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Strength and invulnerability is Argent you goose.

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I swear on the devils soul that’s what it claimed his powers were.

I could reply it… but that’s a waste of my time so you do it.

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Go to the auction as the villain, when you get there don’t sneak in or attack right away, walk right inside. Browse the items on display you’ll then see Oryx and notice how familiar she is. Go straight up and talk to her then choose to work with her to get the device. Then follow her and choose I just wanna talk. You’ll get the scene where you agree to borrow and assemble the device and give it to her when your done using it. You can choose to unmask and kiss her, but not show your tattoos. If you show her your tattoos first you can unmask and kiss her too as well.

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Holy shit!!! holy shit!!! THAT UPDATE… talk about escalation aaaAHAHHHH

first of all this ascii art is amazing: ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

And damnnnn Sidestep revealing themself to Argent!!!

I think there might be a bug somewhere though - I’m currently on the anarchist path hitting the auction. When I go quietly and just shut down the dampeners, I just go straight for Mortum’s gun with no mention of the prototype. But when I chose to shut down the whole security system, it looks like the prototype is suddenly mentioned out of nowhere and leads to the encounter with Argent?

The page that seems to break continuity starts with the following passage:
The nanovores work fast, devouring the floor and the ground beneath with as much speed as you’re able to coax out of them. You can’t trust the chaos to cover you for long, though it’s doing an admirable job so far.

Oh fuck, that reveal about the puppet and shroud was unexpected

My brain is tired, so it will be a few days before I get to fixing the issues you have found.

Thank you so much! A lot of them I suspected connected awkwardly, but it had just grown too big to see clearly where the issues were.

Thank you so much.

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Hi Malin,

Made an account after following your updates, just wanted to say Fallen Hero is the most promising text game I’ve played since Cataphrak’s Infinity Saga games. Massive fan.

And yes, it was the Argent romance that lured me out! Absolutely love the interplay of violence and lust that goes on between a suitable MC and Argent, I do hope we see more of that! Argent ripping off the armour and having her way with the MC, now there’s a fantasy.

At least that’s how I’m seeing it, it does beg the question as to how you’ll have Argent’s feelings play out. I wonder if she kisses the MC in that moment because of the thrill of risk/danger, recognition of someone as good as if not better than her at fighting, or maybe she believes there is something for a kindred spirit underneath the MC’s armour. I do hope there’s an element of the latter, the secrets you can share with her seem so fitting given the circumstances. Well, that and her playful marking

Your emphasis on the dynamics of the relationships and emotions flying between the leading characters is what lends this game its hypnotic quality. That and it’s probably the only game that allows you to commit absolute atrocities, as a villain appropriately does!

While I am intrigued as to how you’re all tying it up, not least in this latest example of Argent and the MC being a reflection of each other, in both their capacity for utter savagery in battle and a ferocious desire to erase the past. I implore you to not fall back on an inevitable team up against the bigger bad type of villain like the Farm.

That the MC has held center stage as a true threat up until now has made your writing uniquely absorbing, and I cannot wait to see what triumphs, miseries and/or horrors you allow us to inflict on ourselves or the Rangers come the end!

Also…Herald is a well-written character, I hope the tryhards above aren’t causing any upset on that front. Keep going!

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Hey, I said before and I’ll say it again: I don’t hate Herald… I just think he’s really punchable.

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Found a bug. I’m gonna detail my specific choices, since the first time I played, I did a different path and things went well without this bug appearing.

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These were my choices:
Attack the casino --> scanned the minds of key employees --> security guard will turn off dampeners --> The front door --> spread panic --> With the two mods any option will do --> Finally, here when I choose either the first option (attack) or the second one (follow) I get this:
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and then it takes me back to the two mods, after which, once I deal with them, my MC gets the regeneration machine and slips away through the tunnels.

EDIT: This seems to also happen if you go in normally as Villain and decide to start the attack early to get Mortum’s device.

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On another note, if unmasking myself to Argent felt this good. Then I cannot wait to see how revealing myself to Ortega is gonna feel. I’m hyped af. 'Twas the best thing ever.

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Ok despite what I said I did play it, romanced Argent and did as many different looting runs as possible on the casino and I like the variations, and the romance is quite cute with Argent if feeling a bit out of place and too soon at the beginning.

And despite the variations between the casino looting runs it seems that all the choices tend to give the same general results and different paths divurged into one.
This I imagine will be changed however.
Very nice update tho :slight_smile:

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…Okay…
… It seems that me and my no-risk MC missed the whole action… I went in, focused on the mission, talked to no one, and got out without a hitch. The same thing happened to me in the first book, where I completely avoided the fight with Argent in the sewers, and then again when I went to the auction in my puppet body. Maybe I’m too boring for this game…

There is this one part that felt a little repetitive: After I first chose to sneak in quietly ("#I will quietly break in during the auction.") I got a similar choice a few pages later, when I pick my exact method (“Quietly, I want to sneak in.”).

Now it feels like the game was actually asking me if I really want to miss all the dramatic parts…

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Hey, Malin.

I still haven’t gotten around to the MC auction, but I as I was going through the Ortega scene in Hoots I noticed that I got the same dialogue wether my relationship with Ortega was “it’s complicated” or “open attraction”.
The screenshots bellow are from the run where the relationship with Ortega was set as open attraction.

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Now I’m going to go back to enjoying the update! Really excited about that action scene!

That’s why I always play a daring and arrogant mc, more chances to situations to go horribly wrong, but also more fun and exciting. Like picking a fight with a Re-gene, not the smartest thing to do, but hey I win.

I get the bug in the audition too, when crashing the place, the mc stole the prototype instead of the good doctor’s gun.

Regarding Herald, my mc’s behavior seens to be “punching with one hand, helping with the other”, I broke his leg and now I’m giving helpful advice in his training.

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Excuse me. I’d like to ask a few questions, please answer if you have the…answer.

1.How do I get my MC to go for the regeneration machine?
2.How do I get Angi- I mean Argent to have her way with our MC?
3.How do I get Eiden to predict the future when he goes to get the doctor’s item or when he’s eating with Ortega?

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