Oh wow, I’m surprised and impressed just how many people chose Corra initially. Was there any particular reason that made her stick out over the others in your opinion?
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Can you tell us more about the medals (like the bronze leaf), or has those kit been fully thought out yet
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I plan on adding in a proper achievement/medal system, and the bronze leaf is one of the obtainable medals.
This is a list of currently planned medals (though these are subject to change and I may add more):
- Bronze Leaf: Awarded for significant strategic/operational achievements
- Silver Leaf: Awarded for exemplary action in the heat of battle
- Gold Leaf: Awarded for outstanding action in battle, yielding significant/influential results (such as capturing an enemy officer for interrogation).
- Red Finch: Given to those injured in battle
- Medal of Honor: Awarded for service
There are some other planned ones I won’t say due to spoilers, since they are tied to story related stuff.
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Well for me there was a couple things that stood out and partially from a perspective thing I guess lol
I tend to play female MCs when given the opportunity in games at least for a first major play through.
In regards to corra herself being the only female in the group thus far other than potentially MC that alone helps her standing out. Another reason is the quiet nature that she is portrayed as it appeals to me on a whole in a way that differs from the appeal victor portrayed both of them valid but after the intial fighting for my MC at least its that quietness of corra that helps keep grounded and a quiet steadying presence needed in this early phase.
Lol hope it helps kinda felt like a ramble and not sure i expressed the thoughts in my head right.
As too whom is next well that’s easily going to be Freddie.
For the other two we just dont have anything that can latch onto at the moment other than the unknown of them so in regards to those two my suggestion would be to give them something if possible early on that we as players can say okay I want to learn more.
Other wise they might end up being in the bottom of the barrel in being chosen which feels like could be a missed opportunity exspecially when they are portrayed as standing out amongst our tent group at the start compared to the nameless soldiers.
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Thank you. This definitely helps. I’ll explore ways to help the others stand out a bit more, as most of the info you could learn about them would only be gained from interacting with them to begin with, but I really should work on giving them more personality.
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Oh no rush to fix at the moment but I noticed something just slightly off when our father is giving us the letter and the like in the paragraph where he talks about how war has changed from when he went there is the line where you have “ it into “ im reasonably certain it should be “ into it “ just needs to be flipped to be correct.
Much appreciated, just fixed. Won’t be up until next update, but it has been changed.
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Well for me there are two reasons;
He small frame and her agility makes a great asset to the environment we are right now.
And Secondly, well… I am straight 
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Fair enough, just keep in mind that there is no romance in this book.
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Oh I was wondering something how likely is it will our MCs see there freinds from school again? Kinda curious if they will be put into the grinder so to speak with us.
You’ll just have to wait and see how it all plays out haha. I dont want to spoil what may or may not happen.
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Will the MC rise in ranks as well?
That is planned, yes. The MC will reach certain points where they are able to rank up.
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I have ended up having a couple more questions come to mind feel free to anwser as you want or not based off being to spoilery or not lol
1st up I know you’ve said romance isn’t apart of the game which is perfectly fine but got to thinking in such a environment as the MC and there fellow soldiers find themselves in and mixed gender units taboot. What is the likely hood of physical intimacy being portrayed in the story or being in the background in some way? Or in another front what is havans government/military views on such things?
2nd ive started to branch out to seeing how things differ with whom choose to hang around with and whom to take with you. So far im enjoying what ive seen only have the non sapper brother person to hang/take with.
In regards to that mission we do i got to thinking about the various outcomes that are possible with it and what potential ones might come from it or future missions. Death and wounding is a given considering the setting but I have gotten curious as to the likely hood of MC being captured at some point? Based on certain situations and what that might mean for the story and MC is such was to happen. So guess that followup question is would such a thing be like a ending point or have you considered it as a posible branching point for a narrative story telling for a MC who escapes or is exchanged?
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To answer the first question: Intimacy between soldiers is prohibited per government and military regulations, but of course**,** it does happen. My primary reason for not including romance, as I mentioned briefly before, is simply that it’s just not the story I’m trying to tell. I have immense respect for those who choose to write it into their stories, and I have nothing against it, but this story is meant to tell the realities and hardships of war, and struggles with the changes in oneself as they progress through it, changing fundamentally as a person. There will be depictions of romantic/sexual content (though not explicit), as that is just reality. Ignoring it would be dishonest to the story. I’m brainstorming a lot and am on the fence about whether or not I will include such content for the MC to be able to interact with (such as a trip to the red light district or whatnot), but currently have no plans for any such content.
2nd: I’ll try to stay brief as not to spoil, but I do have several major endings/branches planned. I won’t disclose the exact count yet as it is not final, nor the contents of each ending, but I am certainly exploring ideas that touch on many concepts/scenarios, the one you mentioned included.
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Nice to see the logistics of the war as well a view of the bigger picture to see what’s going on. Also liked the small mission with one of our comrades despite how suicidal it is since no one has been able to do it thanks to the intense fighting keeping our side away
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This is an absolutely superb first effort. I was riveted by the battle scenes in particular and the world you’ve built is very engaging. The scene with the king was far more moving than I’d expected.
My only critique is the in-trench companions feel a touch flat atm. I am confident they’ll be fleshed out more given time, but I wasn’t quite as attached to Corra as I was to Victor.
Also, being able to pick the sapper / engineer subclass is very cool but it doesn’t seem to affect anything yet. I would not call this a critique, cause it’s just as likely I’m missing reactivity you’ve added, but I wanted to note it.
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As of this morning wanted to let you know ive played through all four companions as freind and taken to the listening post and enjoyed the differences even if choose the same choices for some of them. And thus far havent found any bugs within them looking forward to seeing what you give us next.
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I’m happy to hear it! Now that you’ve had a chance to experience all the companions’ story for this chapter, do you have one that you particularly enjoyed over the others?
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Hmm its kinda hard for me to give just one lol its basically dependant kn what kind of mindset I want to have for my MCs. While there are some similarities between them yet as I’ve stated before ive enjoyed corra for the whole quiet support particularly for my sniper run.
Yet out of the other three whats stand out for me is the freind interaction with the twins inparticular the conversation about the boat and sailing that future goal and how despite everything those guys are perpetually optimistic despite the situation. Yet it was really nice learning about all four of thems home lives before the war and its going to be real sad if something happens to any one of them.
If I had to make another suggestion it would perhaps be at some point out characters get a chance to expand the interactions with them all so no one gets left behind and we can build trust with the core group.
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