Harem c8m4 released Sep 6 2019

[Nyshiv]

If you're talking about the FOUR tentacle beasts that "attack with their tentacles" and you're suggesting that you managed to win that, then I'm outright startled.

If you're talking about the ordinary tentacle beasts that don't have that particular attack and suggesting that their harmless asses somehow managed to give you trouble while the gazers didn't, then "I dunno lol. " Different parties might have different balances or something.

In regards to the scripted battle, no. I've noticed that after you hit them down to a specific amount of HP, it no longer drops, so as to ensure that you CANNOT win the battle. As it stands, I could sit in that battle for several hundred turns provided I used the correct strategy, but no. There's absolutely no way to kill the first tentacle creature, nor is it possible to damage the others after you've damaged them to a point. If you could kill them, albeit, with much difficulty... I would have done it already to save the time and trouble of having to go back to the Fortress.

As for tentacle beasts VS Gazers; Gazers allowed me to run rather frequently, and even when they didn't, i was able to take them out in a few hits.
In opposition to that, the tentacle beasts made it extremely hard to run and their abundance by comparison was insane. Also, the necessity in which they are to be fought; not only just for an H-Scene, but because they need to be killed, otherwise you'll just end up getting stuck in battle after battle with no real substantial gain... not that you really gain much from them anyway. Still, the morale is always nice if you do beat countless hundreds of tentacle beasts.

[Lucky777]

Huh. Yeah, that's definitely a party balance thing, then.

The Gayzers and their status effects were like "NOPE, FUCK YOU" for me, but the tentacle beasts relied on ordinary damage.

On the other hand, there's also no way I could POSSIBLY last against the scripted battle for "hundreds of rounds" or even more than 4, really, without spamming items, so... interesting.

[Seyser Koze]

Just do what I do and crack the game so you can set every enemy to have 10 HP.

[ker]

About the trial - It should be winnable from either plot, but doesn't change the overall course of the game. Your slaves are taken from you at the end (not lost, you will find them again, they're just being assessed for value so you can be taxed. Mostly done to get them out of the way so the 0.6 content would work the way you wanted.) and Terra ends up in the hands of the other camp. 0.6a/b will involve getting her back. You may get a few other back in 0.6 overall, but that isn't fixed yet.

Essentially on the light path you only need to sway 2-3 jurors and almost every slave can do so. On the dark path, you need to sway 5-6 and there are a handful of slaves that cannot. Essentially you have to choose nearly perfectly to win on the dark path, choose horribly or give up to lose on the light path. But there isn't a huge amount of changes either way.

The tentacle battle is scripted, the enemies are immortal. You can drive them down to 0hp but the won't die. Intentional. I suppose if you wanted to you could farm gear to an insane degree and minimize damage enough to have Angelica heal it essentially forever, but you'll never actual win.

Overall difficulty I'm happy with based on the conversations that I see here.

Seyser - You shouldn't have to crack the game. There is an option to turn off random encounters in the beginning which also levels your characters to a sufficient degree to make any required fight simple. But you do lose access to the sidequests then.

[webought]

Ker, pull a One Piece and never stop making updates and continuations to this game, I like it D:<

[phoenyxz]

so in next version we'll, be rescuing terra or getting the money to get back our harem or both in the same?

[Lucky777]

WITH RESPECT TO THE TRIAL

I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT CORSIX' JUSTICE SYSTEM IS OUTRIGHT LAUGHABLE.

THAT IS ALL

On a related note, Dat one guy who talked about the "trust the eyes instead of the words" thing was pretty fucking awesome.

But it's also straight-up hilarious how badly he jumped to the wrong conclusions.

[webought]

shoulda just let the tentacle monsters rape every single one of their asses then they would be begging for our heroic deeds ijs


ingreatful stuck up spicks lol.




but yeah im addicted to this game like crack so dont let it end here or whenever Ralph rescues his kingdom make a sequel or something, im hooked D;


this game , Emmerzail, Despair Labby and Sakyu are some of my absolute favorites on here id hate to see any of the three end really lol

[ker]

Phoe - In 0.6a neither, sorry. It's mostly the build up to recovering Terra.

Lucky - Ya, the Justice system is a far cry from fair. Far more about personal power and favors then nearly anyone caring about what actually happened.

Web - I'm not anywhere near the end of Harem. 2013 would be the earliest possible for the final release so I haven't given any real thought on what to do afterwards. Thanks!

[ker]

0.6a is getting close to testing, and I will need a few testers coming up. If you're interested, check the blog on how to apply.

Figure that testing will start on 7/7 or so. Run a week to a few weeks, depending on how much I screwed up the first time around.

[StarkePT]

Can I apply here? I'm a good tester you know it xD

[zeldafreak1]

0.6a is getting close to testing, and I will need a few testers coming up. If you're interested, check the blog on how to apply.

Figure that testing will start on 7/7 or so. Run a week to a few weeks, depending on how much I screwed up the first time around.

o.o! holy shit.......another update?! so soon? every game i play is getting updated around my birthday. I'm not going anywhere for about a month.

[StarkePT]

So soon? xD

Two months, that's usually what Ker calls for updates, 2/3 months.

[ker]

Starke - Yep, based on what you've already done, you have a testing spot if you want it. But I'd still like an e-mail address for you, it will be required for the invite to the testing SVN. Shoot me a PM.

On the release schedule, you are correct that I would like to do updates every 2/3 months. However, there hasn't been any rhyme or reason to how often I have been able to release. One of the big concepts that I'm working on with 0.6a is to divide up the content into smaller to code chunks that will let me do updates more frequently.

I suppose you could call it episodic, but Harems always been released like that. But the episodes aren't as mind-numbingly lengthy anymore.

[13Lack12ose]

Really do love the game, hoping for more content soon. I think that the ring should be explained more, I mean, how it makes people want to be your slave, maybe put a prequel mini level in there somewhere. But still! Great game.

[BlueBody]

I suppose you could call it episodic, but Harems always been released like that. But the episodes aren't as mind-numbingly lengthy anymore.

To be honest, I wouldn't mind "mind-numbingly lengthy" at all. U c wat i did thar?

[webought]

I suppose you could call it episodic, but Harems always been released like that. But the episodes aren't as mind-numbingly lengthy anymore.

To be honest, I wouldn't mind "mind-numbingly lengthy" at all. U c wat i did thar?

[ker]

Cute But I was referring to the creation process, not consumption

[BlueBody]

Cute But I was referring to the creation process, not consumption

Oof, I see. Then I agree with your release schedule; anything that eases the making process for you is good for the final product!

[killzone1012]

when will we see a update?? just wondering