What are you talking about? You can avoid anything and everything in the game provided you made the right choices. If you didn't cozy too much with Seymour earlier in the game (I like working with him), you can basically tell him to fuck off later when he tries to blackmail Lena.
Yeah, you can avoid everything except the blackmail scene... Of course, if you avoid Seymour you can obviously tell him to fuck off but the scene it's unavoidable which is the point I'm referring. It's like if the Minerva first scene on Ian side were unavoidable regardless of your actions with her (which it's not the case).
And blyzer is the type of dude who thinks that know everything about everyone and it's just the opposite.
Obviously some situations in the game are always going to be unavoidable considering they are very important for the story Eva wants to tell however consequences of those situations solely depends or will on the choices you make, I don't see where the problem is?
The Seymour situation is a fixed point in time and plot. In any narrative with a choice of actions, there are such main points that cannot be avoided - they are the "skeleton" of the plot. For example, an event occurs in the plot, and based on this event, you make a choice. What is the problem?
But doesn't feel the same way about men doing the same thing. Good observation.
We've had this conversation and y'all are just cluttering up the feed making it harder to find relevant news and actually discussion of character and plot.
The one thing that confuses me here is that both Ian's and Lena's parts are often dependent on each other's decisions, depending on your chosen path. Seems like Eva will have to do a little more work this way to bring a playable Ian update to life that either doesn't depend on Lena's choices in this update or auto-generates her choices based on the user's choices from previous chapters. In either scenario, she might have to retcon the code a bit once Lena's half is added, scrapping a bit of work to make an Ian-only update possible. Plus extra testing for each split Ian/Lena release. It's hard to estimate how much extra work that'll be exactly, though.Посмотреть вложение 1961510
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Hi guys,
After my week off I've kept working at chapter 10 and I'm almost done with Ian's part. All that's left is to finish a couple scenes and revise everything, adding and correcting when needed. The art's all drawn and I've been editing the colored versions, producing some of the final illustrations.
As I keep trying to push the pace, manage all the aspects of the project and the business and keep the final quality to the standard you're used to, I struggle between taking my time and rushing, and as you know, I always feel like I'm lagging behind. My goal is to provide the best game I can, but also to keep you entertained with content, and I hate feeling I'm taking too long.
Some of you suggested in the past that I could release the chapters in two separate blocks, since Ian and Lena have parallel story lines. It's not the way I envisioned it, but you guys deserve some content and I've decided that's the way I'll do it for Chapter 10. This way you'll be able to play Ian's part of the chapter during August, and I can also share with you the results of all the work that we've been doing during these past weeks.
I'll finish writing everything this week and keep working on finalizing the art, then all that's left would be to playtest and iron out all the bugs. Hopefully you can enjoy all the new scenes and story developments, and Lena's part should be coming shortly after.
Thanks again for your support and I hope you'll enjoy what's coming
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Facepalm was just for calling someone a boomer. That was pure, unadulterated cringe. Sorry, man. Wasn't otherwise totally disagreeing with your post, except for the "whiners" and "crying" bit. Technically, I'd put the complaints about delays more in the simple "bitching" category. It's a little lighter on the hostility.
I'm with you on Lena's content frequently being an unfun slog, but I don't see how splitting it off into its own update will ameliorate that in the slightest. Sure, this update won't face that problem, but the next update in 4+ months will have nothing but that. I think I'd rather keep the halves together in a (hopefully) cohesive whole, even if it takes longer. Guess we'll see how it works in practice.
I don't see how this can be a one time occurrence. The whole problem is that Eva is struggling with writer's block. I had hoped the Remaster would alleviate those problems (by pruning problematic paths and streamlining the others), but it seems pretty clear that did not happen. I think Eva has some ideas of where she wants things to end up in the long run, but she doesn't know how to get there; every time she tries a step forward, she's swamped by all the ways that step propels other characters in directions she didn't intend.
I assume if she were to do this, she might design it that way. But it seems like it would limit flexibility from a storytelling standpoint, plus give one MC lopsided power in making game-changing decisions vs the other MC, at least for that chapter. If she does go this route for future chapters, I'd speculate she may alternate the lead MC for each chapter to even that out a bit. Might feel a bit jostling though, as that wasn't the structure in previous chapters, where both characters' decisions often affected each other within the same episode.
There wasn't a single rule dictating logic behind POV switches, it's decided by the plotlines featured in each chapter. Only Chapters 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 have multiple switches. Chapters 1, 5, 6, and 9 have entire Ian's POV followed by Lena's POV until the end of the chapter. You can even count Chapter 2 as a linear Ian-to-Lena switch because the last Ian's POV part had nothing to do with Lena's decisions (aside from a couple of lines here and there referencing how their date went) and is mostly about meeting with Alison and Cherry. As a rule, it's very rare when Ian has to deal with Lena's decisions in the same chapter. Most often Ian starts the actual choices that impact the chapter, and then Lena reacts to them. Ian mostly reacts to Lena's choices that come from previous chapters.
I don't really see how releasing Ian's part first is supposed to go in the way of fluidity. We have to remember that Chapters come in stages: Alpha > Beta > Final. There's no point in polishing Ian's part alone to its Final stage, it only has to be playable enough so it doesn't have game-breaking bugs. So, Eva can release Ian's Alpha part, and then immediately continue working on Lena's part, releasing the full Chapter 10 Alpha with both parts present and necessary changes implemented to Ian's part, and then polish the entire chapter in the Beta and Final releases like always. It's just one extra release to compensate for increased development time. You can think of Ian's part as a pre-Alpha teaser of Chapter 10. Back in the day, Eva used to share early pre-Alpha builds of GGGB updates with top-tier patrons.
