VN Ren'Py Completed Battle of the Bulges [v1.0] [EpicLust]

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EddyAdams95

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Oct 23, 2017
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Has anyone figured out how to fuck Teagan on day 5 ? When I show up to work to deliver Teagan's groceries on day 5 Francine tells me she gave my job to Jose. Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening or know of a shortcut to Teagan's house I can use without going to work ?
 
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It's a one week contest between you and Jose...what you want to do a year's work in one day??
Why limit the game to one week? All im saying is the game is kinda popular, has a decent following, no reason he couldnt just as easily made it a month long competition or better yet why even have a time limit at all? Putting time restrictions in video games is one of the WORST things a dev can do, if you dont believe me go ask any gamer alive.

Theres nothing to be gained from limiting gameplay to X number of days, BB/SummertimeSaga/Chloe18/MilfyCity/etc I can go on, all show how a game can be good if you make an interesting and evolving story, you act as if making the game have no day system would mean more work? No. All it means is the Dev is free to design the game at his own pace and bring out content until he see's fit to end the game.
 
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MrJay

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Yeah and the dev goes out his way to try to stop cheating smh.
Yeah these two reasons are why I'm slowly losing interest in this title. Wasting time to create anti-cheat measures in a PORN game is just absolute proof that EpicLust doesn't have their priorities straight. Look at successful titles like Harem Hotel and Mythic Manor where cheating works just fine and the titles are still among the best. Or look at Man of the House and Something Unlimited where cheating is kind of ENCOURAGED by coding cheat functions into their own games because the developers knows this makes the games better for more people (as evidenced by these titles being in the top).

So I have to play multiple playthroughs just to get all the scenes, I can't cheat to get around it if I want to AND I have to restart my progress every so often because EpicLust forgets to define his variables now and then. Why should I bother when there are better games out there that doesn't feel like a complete chore to play?

EpicLust has so much potential if they'd just get over their own imagined self-importance and realize that letting people cheat in your porn game is objectively a good thing. By disallowing it they're just hurting themselves, their potential costumers AND making themselves look clueless.
 

sjackson3939

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Dec 23, 2017
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Why limit the game to one week? All im saying is the game is kinda popular, has a decent following, no reason he couldnt just as easily made it a month long competition or better yet why even have a time limit at all? Putting time restrictions in video games is one of the WORST things a dev can do, if you dont believe me go ask any gamer alive.

Theres nothing to be gained from limiting gameplay to X number of days, BB/SummertimeSaga/Chloe18/MilfyCity/etc I can go on, all show how a game can be good if you make an interesting and evolving story, you act as if making the game have no day system would mean more work? No. All it means is the Dev is free to design the game at his own pace and bring out content until he see's fit to end the game.
so you seem to be new to the game but how it works is on the various days the opponent randomly gains points three times a day. If you add more days that is just more chances for the competitor to win girls and prevent you from ever actually winning the game. Since you don't seem to care about the game challenges itself, Tim has added a gallery that allows you to see all scenes(not set for v.05 yet) and you don't need the competitive aspect you seem to hate. If you wish to have longer days feel free to edit the script yourself, Tim has not hidden anything.
 

sjackson3939

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Dec 23, 2017
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Yeah these two reasons are why I'm slowly losing interest in this title. Wasting time to create anti-cheat measures in a PORN game is just absolute proof that EpicLust doesn't have their priorities straight. Look at successful titles like Harem Hotel and Mythic Manor where cheating works just fine and the titles are still among the best. Or look at Man of the House and Something Unlimited where cheating is kind of ENCOURAGED by coding cheat functions into their own games because the developers knows this makes the games better for more people (as evidenced by these titles being in the top).

So I have to play multiple playthroughs just to get all the scenes, I can't cheat to get around it if I want to AND I have to restart my progress every so often because EpicLust forgets to define his variables now and then. Why should I bother when there are better games out there that doesn't feel like a complete chore to play?

EpicLust has so much potential if they'd just get over their own imagined self-importance and realize that letting people cheat in your porn game is objectively a good thing. By disallowing it they're just hurting themselves, their potential costumers AND making themselves look clueless.
you seem to be bad at cheating all Tim has done has made it so the variable checks cant be messed with because giving your self unlimited strength makes no sense. What it sounds like is you need the console command of hour-= which changes the hours allowing you to see all the scenes you can within reason. There is a gallery function that gives you access to all scenes, which scenes do you believe you cannot access? Tim gave you the scripts to do whatever you want to do, you can get rid of any time/strength/variable check you want. He isn't against cheating, I suppose he is just against you expecting him to do the cheating for you.
 
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so you seem to be new to the game but how it works is on the various days the opponent randomly gains points three times a day. If you add more days that is just more chances for the competitor to win girls and prevent you from ever actually winning the game. Since you don't seem to care about the game challenges itself, Tim has added a gallery that allows you to see all scenes(not set for v.05 yet) and you don't need the competitive aspect you seem to hate. If you wish to have longer days feel free to edit the script yourself, Tim has not hidden anything.
So you seem to perceive I have an issue with the game itself which I dont. My original comment pertained to the day system in place that has the developer releasing content in the form of new days rather than what I was talking about making the game open ended and releasing content as he saw fit.

The problem isnt adding more days, the problem is the days being a thing in the first place, I will use "The Tyrant" as an example, the premise of that game is pretty much the exact same as this one, your fighting for the affection of a group of women VS guys that also want to fuck them, how "The Tyrant" differs though is much more suited to players I believe because in that game there is no clock, no time limit, no restrictions, your free to explore every girls content at your leisure and it doesn't impact how the feud between you and your rival is. You want a girl to still like you, you buy them gifts or take them on dates or just keep your relationship with them high.

Battle of the Bulges on the other hand sort of imposes a imaginary clock thats always running which I guess is a theme in its own created by the developer? I dont know only he can say for sure. The point im trying to make is that you dont need to limit your game play in order to keep the game "competitive/challenging", there are ways you can incorporate a fun experience that doesnt feel rushed like this game. Take a look at Player vs Eric in "Big Brother" again another game that has a rival/competitive feel but at the same time allows the player to play at his own pace and explore content how he see's fit.

Thankfully the "Day 1/2/3/4/5/6......" system is dying out in newly created games so atleast devs are learning they dont have to make such linear and hand holding narratives. All that being said I like Battle of the bulges just feels like the game is going to be over way to fast due to it most likely only going to last 7 days....feelsbadman.
 

terroralpha

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it's a lot easier to use the save editor instead of messing with the command terminal. you can edit all the parameters in the rpg save editor in like 15 seconds.
 

MrJay

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you seem to be bad at cheating all Tim has done has made it so the variable checks cant be messed with because giving your self unlimited strength makes no sense. What it sounds like is you need the console command of hour-= which changes the hours allowing you to see all the scenes you can within reason. There is a gallery function that gives you access to all scenes, which scenes do you believe you cannot access? Tim gave you the scripts to do whatever you want to do, you can get rid of any time/strength/variable check you want. He isn't against cheating, I suppose he is just against you expecting him to do the cheating for you.
It's not just the strength one. The guard also throws your out of Audacious HQ if the game thinks you got the Aunts pass through the console AND the game doesn't let you buy a 50 dollar gym membership if it thinks you cheated on money.

That said the first one about strength is just as stupid as well. If the developer was honestly fine with letting players cheat there exists NO reason to check for that at all. 10 strength and 99999 strength shouldn't make a difference. This is how it works in literally every other game like this.

To say "you can cheat but only so much" is basically the same as saying "you can't cheat" because there's no way of knowing what the limits are or what arbitrary lines the dev decides to draw.
 

EpicLust

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Well, that's not cool... I wasn't able to achieve Epiclust with Maria even though I had more than 10 lust points. I saved her daughter on Day 5 as I didn't want to miss out on some great lust points by doing it two days before. There should be a way to trigger the scene regardless of the location. I can deal with the jump in logic :LOL:.

On a side note, for those who are worried about creating perfect runs, don't be. I got 8 girls - should have had 9 - without much effort at all, just some rerolling for bad decisions.
Ah, I'll have to look into it. You obviously can't do the scene at bigdong over again, and her extra scene is at the library, not on the beach. So if you saved Lolly on day5 and reached epiclust, you'll be able to fuck Maria in the library on day6 for sure. You have to assume that despite her horniness to jump your boner, she just can't leave her daughter like that to go and fuck you behind some rocks... ;)
 

SirTwist

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The cheat check can be to help work the story, not bypass it. The strength check is quite important. It is easier, actually, to edit some things, rather than to cheat things in. And it's actually better to work the story, than cheat around parts of it. And there are several things you can miss when you cheat, at least in this game.
 

zahratustra

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May 13, 2018
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"I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

After initialization, but before game start.
File "renpy/common/00voice.rpy", line 360, in voice_interact
if _menu:
NameError: global name '_menu' is not defined

-- Full Traceback "
 

Canto Forte

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You need money and you need free roam ... so figure it out, roll back till you get it ... cause cheat checks will boot you out otherwise.
 

KingsRaiden

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Thankfully the "Day 1/2/3/4/5/6......" system is dying out in newly created games so atleast devs are learning they dont have to make such linear and hand holding narratives. All that being said I like Battle of the bulges just feels like the game is going to be over way to fast due to it most likely only going to last 7 days....feelsbadman.
The narrative *IS* the contest that is 7 days, and that's what makes the game the way it is. Like some of the older porn games, you have a path to follow, meet the girls, and fuck them. Want the others? Play again and find a new path. Honestly this is more refreshing and interesting than the sandbox games where you can wander around and ejaculate all day as you open up new girls all over the place.

I'd rather see a return to replayability and different paths rather than just open up the world and start fucking whatever moves.
 
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