Cyberpunkbros, we've fucking won. Another KINO cyberpunk game made by /ouranon/.https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/gutshot-cyberpunk-mercenary-95k-words/173736
>>3855914>actually fucking made itI kneel, cyberGOD
>>3855914They will never let him succeed. It's a game with a set gender of a male and without gay sex. That's enough to land on their shit list but after they learn he came from /vrpg/ they will ban him on some lousy excuse. Better to start learning twine cybermencanon.
>>3855928I think if they're gonna let the dude that writes exclusively FeMCs being raped by their dads/uncles/abusive spouses smut on dashingdon 2.0 then anon will be fine
Just don't make a trooncord.
>>3855939First, it's a woman. Second, it's portrayed as toxic masculinity and an ah woe is the MC, even though it's very obviously a fetish thing. And the author is not a channer but a tumblrina.
>>3855928Even if he doesn’t make a Discord, I bet CoG will still come up with new rules to ban him if he gets mass-reported by the usual suspects.
>>3855941>channer but a tumblrinatwo sides of the same terminally online coin
Easiest and the most impossible (for some) way to blend in is writing any gay romance. Can be yuri, can be yaoi, whatever. But it being there is all it takes to blend in. Or no romance at all.
>>3855957>write a game>make all ROs bisexual>but make the straight romances have more contentProblem coggies?
>>3855980If there's no homophobia, same-gender romances can be written exactly the same. Wayhaven makes its bucks because it lets you customise LIs as men and women, and it does bare minimum in that regard. FH doesn't even compare specifically because the only customisable LIs are Ortega and Mortum, and it's the second most popular one.
>>3855990making the romances the exact same is cringe, ideally each RO has their own orientation (straight gay bi whatever) there are a handful of them, that one wip about being a spess merchant or military dude (other routes aren't made yet) had the right idea. yaoi, yuri and straight stuff all have nuances that can be explored.
>>3855928ummm, chud the the reason why fiesta clash was permanently blocked or locked out of CoG was because of cultivator-anon's annoying fanbase and how annoying/racist and transphobic they were being inside and outside discord, and his unwillingness to moderate his discord, not because the lack of same-sex relationships in the game (PoMA is still really popular despite niki writing OUT gay romances!)that's why it got the axe lmao, can't believe you idiots are still trying to change the narrative after all this time, you lost, apple-sama and bryce won, get over it
>>3856015You are aware that no one believes a single word you spout and this nonsense won't become truth no matter how many times you repeat it, right? In fact, everyone here actively hates you and wishes death on you.
>>3856017please stop replying to him
>>3855914But anooon, why should I play it over the superior Cyberpunkdreams?
Chapter 7,8 + cut content before the month is over. Trust the plan.
>>3856017hey so why is PoMA still around despite niki writing OUT gay romances and ONLY allows straight romances in his game?almost as if...... fiesta clash was banned from the site for a totally different reason!! ;)
Does aura clash have any mortal limit interactions? I know the dragon stuff has a bunch but what if you decide to be a TRUE self-made man?
>>3855914Graphics look like shit.
>>3855914>start the cybermerc game>decide to play full "OPERATOR" Corpgrunt, no quirky behavior, no joking every five seconds, just a cold corporate merc with high dex and strength to shoot people with>Get to my team>One of the members is literally exactly that Cool, now I gotta start from the beginning and think of something else entirely
>>3856029Only one I know of is when you let yourself get possessed by that wind spirit in the dragon trial, doing that on mortal removes the limit effectively bumping your difficulty down to normal.
>>3855928I would bet they already know he's from here. If he survives or not will be decided by the amount of dirt they can find and the overall popularity of the demo. I don't think they want another CA-type ban spree.
>>3855914A new god appears>>3856029It should, someone else brought it up a month or so ago but I was busy porting. It's on the cut content list. Adding difficult checks for it would be fine, or additional challenges.>>38560237 is just about done but untested. I've finished all of Nanhou but Leona's quest. I guarantee there are gamebreaking bugs, will be able to test it more in a couple weeks.>>3855928Eh, I'd publish him if they do, but I don't think they would. He dindu nuffin.>>3856053I had the same fate with Kingmaker. Made a blue dragon eldritch scion trying to bang the half-elf. I then play the game and meet her boyfriend, the blue dragon eldritch scion. It's a surreal kind of feel.
>>3856061>OctaviafagHow can someone able to write such a good game has such garbage fucking taste. I mean holy shit. You genuinely could not have chosen a worst girl.
>>3856064I hadn't gotten to know her yet. When it comes to Owlcat I've finally learned nogirl bestgirl.
>>3856065Octavia is literally the cuckold gay polycule option. She's the worst option of all. Followed by the paladin lady who's really just an annoying hoe.If you want the least worst girl, go for the tiefling. Or Nyrissa.
>>3856069Oh don't get me wrong, I know by now. Wrath was the same, all bad options. Rogue Trader was the same, all bad options. In the end I just hang out with Argenta and we shoot the heresy out of general populations.
>>3856072The arue romance in wrath is the best you're gonna get.>inb4 but she's literally a succubusShe gets a new soul and a new body, that's about as close to a Virgin as you're gonna get in Pathfinder. It's not owlcat, that setting is so gay they literally removed all mentions of slavery and made the "Old fashioned family deity" into a progressive fag who thinks childless gay orgies are just as wholesome and valid as an actual couple.But yeah just go for the tiefling girl
>>3856074>She gets a new soul and a new bodyThe Hoe of Theseus
Im writing a shortstory where unemployed tech workers coders make an Assassination Market using blackchain and people place bets as to when Trump will get assassinated for being a ped0>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalshi>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_marketspoiler alert sicko wicked monsters tend to live long and prosper
>>3856072>wrathI went for daeran. wenduag is great for evil runs though, she's basically starscream. also RT has cassia who has courtship kino and the dlc goth assassin chick built to be a waifu, and also a brown gyspy slut because owlcat has a mandate on having sluts in their game or something
>>3856069>think anon is talking about seelah>about to type up that seelah isn't even a romance>realize he's talking about valerie lol
>>3856061What got you into the cultivation subgenre anon? I like your writing a lot and I wonder what you have read or what your favorite is, also weighted clothes in tiger trial done yet?
>>3856072Wenduag has a great character arc if you can get past her "prickly" exterior. She's legit a worm if you don't change her class setup tho
hello hello. cybermerc anon here.thank you all for the support and kind works. makes me feel nice in my insides.admittedly i feel like i bit off more than i can chew with the upcoming content. its not that i dont know what i want to write, its just that i chose to make it more complex mechanics wise than a first time cog author should probably do. but its alright, ill write and ill learn and eventually master it.>>3856053one of the things i was really trying to focus on while writing was player interactivity and reaction with the world. you could be the cold OPERATOR type or the quirky chungus type and itd feel less like you were copying someone and more of adjacently doing your own thing, so you could bounce off each others personalities. ill keep that in mind writing the newer stuff.
>>3855990There's no such thing as homo phobia.There's homo annoyance, homo miss me with your political bullshit, and homo please stop turning every game into fucking reddit rainbow camp.>>3856069>>3856072I hit that delicious Nyrissa salad with the force of 1000 tsundere inspired suns in my win playthrough, enjoying the pitter patter of little bandit king cacti in the afterword.Valerie is an obnoxious Karen, no one has that kind of time for you to make up your frigid mind bitch.The tiefling was a hot fling who is cool with sharing with her sister which seems a little fucked up but I'm not keeping that in my life.I felt like the actual cure to Octavia because she's fun and my green skin fetish extends far enough to double stuffing her with Reggie and high fiving Reggiebro over the effiel tower and such which would mitigate his asshole behavior since MC can kill any party member 1000 times over. Is that being a cuck or is Reginald the cuck? I don't care, I'm just intensely bi sometimes for the right couple dynamic which are usually women and too feminine guys. But I never did it because Nyrissia was good for my win.Wenduag is too fun, but too evil, regret settles in too much when she kills one of my soldiers in the bar. That's cucking to evil and I'm rarely an evil MC so she usually gets dismissed/killed.Camellia is an unhinged psycho and I have had enough of that IRL.>>3856074>let's erase The Odin Patriarch Old One EyeThey fucked up Erastil huh? Figures, leftists fuck up everything.Not having slavery is just more of their substituting compelling literature for propaganda. A drum too old for me to bang anymore.Arue is so overpowered and so developer wish submissive fulfillment insert it works against her even though the ascended demon concept is interesting, you barely see her acting like a demon unless you convert her back over the latter half of the game. She could have been written more like Wendaug at first,
>>3856072Agree Argenta is the best but of course devs cuck you with her being unromanceable.I do like the painting mutant girl though, although I haven't played far enough into RT to know if there is some reason I should not. She painted a fucked up picasso nude of me from the bath which was touching. I had a girlfriend write a poem about me one time so that probably has sway upon my mind.
on the topic of RT I liked that you could get argenta and idira to reconcile if you brought them on each others act 2 quests and then brought them into act 3 together. I stumbled onto it when I first played because my party was pretty static with my character, abelard, idira, argenta cassia and whoever's companion quest we where doing at that time, and I liked to play as the good guy so I went iconoclast and promised to help idira to find some way other than drugs and alcohol to deal with her shitty schizo void voices also theodora was totally planning to turn her into a daemonhost I think its neat that the party dynamics are able to shift and that two characters that where constantly bickering in the beginning can find some common ground and eventually be on better terms once they understand each other better and time has passed, and honestly I'd be fine if the opposite where to happen in a game where two characters with a history or initially get along start to sour on eachother throughout a game, I think party dynamics can be really interesting and I'd like to see it explored more in rpgs in general, cyoa crpg whatever.
>>3856072>Navigating through Owlcat WaidfusWe all know that feel
Next 2 World of Darkness games have been announcedHunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters - 13 Nov, 2025https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3F2OideLps>Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters is an interactive novel by Paul Wang, set in the World of Darkness, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night - 2026https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzPrYl8MIME>Hunter: The Reckoning – Day for Night is an interactive novel by Josh Labelle set in the World of Darkness. It's entirely text-based, 450,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
>>3856203>Welcome to the Downtown Eastside, a place Vancouver has tried its best to forget. Sandwiched between the steel and glass towers of the financial district and the gentrified tourist playground of the new harbor, the human detritus of the city keeps getting squeezed into a smaller and smaller box. Dispossessed, trampled, ignored…It will only take the right spark to set the fury ablaze.>Down on your luck, you’ve found yourself in a homeless encampment here. When a vampire masquerading as a cop attacks you, the misery of Downtown Eastside takes on a whole new dimension. Suddenly, you have a place to direct your rage: the world of shadow that preys upon the misery of your new neighbors.>But this first glimpse is just that: a first glimpse. A gash in the fabric of reality as you knew it. Soon, you find yourself torn between the street gangs of the Downtown Eastside, RMCP special ops, a coterie of Thin Blooded vampires, multiple secret hunter societies, and the Chinese Triads. The shadow world just goes deeper and deeper, and it seems like someone is ready and willing to betray you at every turn. Of course, each of them has something to offer you: a home, a job, a career? Money, glory, vengeance, or immortality?>Despite these temptations, you are not alone. In the short time that you’ve been here, you’ve met the fiercest defenders of humanity: your neighbors. You did not expect to find the camaraderie of the Downtown Eastside to be so strong, but now that you’re here, you can't imagine anything else. Together, can you and your new friends stand against the darkness? When the time comes, will you sacrifice yourself for your community, or will you choose to become one more bloodsucking predator of the night?>Hunted, broke, and homeless, your nights seem numbered. They have everything. You only have your guts, your wits, and a stubborn refusal to die.
>>3856203>Hollywood is full of monsters. From the greedy studio heads to the desperate hopefuls out for their big break, nobody gets out without sin. Once, you were one of those hopefuls, barely scraping by trying to make your dreams come true—scrambling to land auditions or hustling to get your screenplay read. >Then a chance encounter with the supernatural showed you that Hollywood is ruled by another kind of monster. You’ve dedicated yourself to hunting down the beasts who stalk the back alleys of Los Angeles, and doing everything in your power to stop the ones who rule the boardrooms.>It’s been a blockbuster summer for the supernatural, full of inexplicable phenomena and monstrous incidents. There are fires in the hills, ghosts in the theaters, and a beast threatening pets in Beverly Hills that is [i]definitely[/i] not a coyote. Could it have something to do with EVRLST, the hottest new self-help and wellness cult run by a washed up ‘80s superstar? Is it true what they say about him never being seen in the daylight and not having aged a day in the last three decades? And what about the woman they call the Baron of Hollywood? What kind of power does she have—and can it possibly compare to the studio execs?>Fortunately, you’re not alone. Others have seen the truth in the shadows, including a retired special-effects wizard, a mortician to the stars, a theater manager, and more. You’ll need all the allies you can get as you drive through the seedy supernatural underbelly of Tinseltown, where chaos reigns, and blood and money flow. There’s no telling who will get top billing, and who will end up slashed on the cutting room floor.>Or will you shirk your hunting duties to pursue your Hollywood dream? Make connections, land jobs on movies, or even make a deal with the devil to get cast in a major blockbuster. Maybe the best way to defeat the bloodsucking monsters is to join them. Or is that Hollywood's biggest lie, the lie you tell yourself?
>>3856204>>3856205>more hunter slopwhy not mage or changeling slop? the former would maybe more popular than hunter or even werewolves wouldn’t it?
>>3856205>Could it have something to do with EVRLST, the hottest new self-help and wellness cult run by a washed up ‘80s superstar? Is it true what they say about him never being seen in the daylight and not having aged a day in the last three decades?
>>3856204>V*ncouver
>wodslop>huntershitOHNONONONONONONONONONONO
>>3855928Not popular enough for now. So still safe.
>>3856211Mage doesn't have 5th edition yet afaik and I doubt they are allowed to make one based on older edition.
>>3855914>see comments in thread>all Slavs and Spicsas expected
>>3856222That's the cog audience baby, 50% dangerhairs and basedboys from California, 50% browns and racists
>>3856061ayo this nigga gonna port chapter 8 on halloween holly molly
>>3856204>>3856205>stoked for Wang's vampire game>instead it's Hunter with some pro-homeless message>by the Grace of God, get a second WoD game announcement>also about being a broke Hunter with a failed careerYou want powers and they won't even let you be batman. Back to replaying Bloodlines I guess.
>>3856251Uhhhh sis, power fantasy is for fascist chuds, no such thing in our games!
>>3856251>>stoked for Wang's vampire gameHeh
>>3856255I' just sick of Dragoonslop
Hollywood one looks interesting, but it's so 2000s from the premise. No reason to set it in V5 and its mass surveillance and SI state if your plot point is about ancient vamps who don't change appearances and identities. Mass surveillance and mass upheaval from old to young is one of the few interesting things in V5, and most barely do anything with it. [s]hunter orwell game when[/s]
>>3856256I don't blame you, either. I was just making a joke.
>>3856257Paradox wants to shill v5 even though it's an inferior product, I have no idea what's going through their heads.
>>3856204>Vancouver>homelessLast time I predicted Wank would excuse diploma mills in his next game. I take that back, it will be about poor dispossessed Indians being ostracized for partaking in food banks.
>>3856260It could have been good if they took a different angle. Corebook hands out mass surveillance outside of third world countries, different hunter cells, some with vamps hunting their own kind, elders wanting to kill themselves and doing so, burned down Chantry and absolute free for all. Next books do nothing with it and try to repeat V20 without any care outside of, maybe, Sabbat, but it gets an incredibly biased perspective and mediocre book. And writers for V5 outside of corebooks, the ones who get all these opportunities, do nothing with them. At this point I'm happy the first Hunter game remembered that you can doxx a vamp.
And Hollywood hunter at least looks interesting because it explicitly states that you can both ignore the Hunter career in favour of Hollywood and suck up to vampires for mortal and immortal glory. Wang's game just says you may end up betraying the community for vampirism. Temptation doesn't work unless you're given choices - otherwise it's the classic 2006 shooter situation where characters praise nonexistant morals of a guy who never had a choice to abandon them.
It will be a power fantasy unless there is an edgelord hobo who always upstages you and always begs a little bit better no matter what you do and every other page there is a scene where the other bums and even the vampires are in awe of his dumpster diving prowess.
>>3856271Kek.
>>3856271can't wait for romance route
>>3856276>crackhead romanceKino...
>>3856277Excited for the AIDS mechanic.
>>3856277i remember v threads where everyone wanted to fuck a menhera, so shouldn't it be methhead romance?
>>3855928 "Our guy" otherwise known as dividom otherwise known as AAO is an Infinitycord regular of many years. If apple didn't bat an eye at him advertising his WiP on here a few hours from sharing it on there, nobody else will give a shit.
HOLY MOTHER OF THEORY
cringekino alert
>>3856011>wip about being a spess merchant or military dudeIs it dead? If not what's it called? Could go for something Traveller-esque.>>3856072>Wrath was the same, all bad options.You clearly don't know about best girl, Daeran.>>3856086Based.>>3856204>>3856205I guess Glenkildove is going to hold on to the title of Cog Hunter Kino.
>>3856294I burst into laughter when that scene appeared. A fucking vampire asking you for preferred pronouns seconds before feasting on you. Who is he, Rudi?
>>3856271The game literally opens with a cooler hobo saving you from a leech armed with nothing but a crowbar while you get instantly folded like a bitch.
>>3856281can't the trooncorders just leave>>3856294that's not a bum's internal monologue, it should be "he looks like a faggot" instead of that entire paragraph genuinely low empathy writing
>>3856297He attempts to Dominate you right after, so probably his Clan Bane has him feed solely on jailbait boymodders or something.
>>3856301It's good that Ventrue didn't live long enough to see that disgrace.
>simular products: wayhaven chronicles b3They didn't even provide an actual demo.
>>3856300You're not playing a proper bum, you're some teen runaway or something.
>>3856304Is the uberbum who rescues you a romance option, then?
>Quebe*ois character is literally named Fleur-de-LysMY FUARKING HERO does it again
>>3856305Yes.So is the police rape metaphor, apparently.
>226 mbI still remember the times when these games weighted less than ten.
... twenty bucks isn't a big enough sum for a bum?
why does this reek of wang arguing in forum politics thread
>>38563117 floppies for a text game?
>>3856310how'd you access the code? i've been trying to for a while now but can't get it.
and here's our cazarosta, a girl this time, so could be catarina.
>>3856315Vancouver is expensive, man.
>>3856321>can only afford one pack of sigsWhat a dystopia.
>have to ask literally every single question to progress Wang, what happened? He didn't do that in Mecha Ace.
>>3856319Opening app.asar with 7zip. You need the Asar7z plugin though.
let us all applaud wang for somehow regressing to era 4 marvel dialogue writing and twine-tier mc
but at least MC can optionally be a tomboy or a femboy
>>3856268Juding from the demo thus far, you can tell the Wang-mandated party to fuck off and bum on your own.
The hunters are fucking redditors. Can't make this shit up.
>>3856332I mean, yeah, but they appear not long after with no hard feelings and food. My MC did just that and now she has most of interlude options centered around the party. Fleur one feels so Wang it hurts.
>>3855914Where's the video game? It's only text.While we are at cyberpunk, are there ttrpg or vidya with a class or job system that's 'cyberpunk'?
I have a sense of deja-vu. This woman is somehow even more unbearable than rivalled Caz. I suppose it's because Caz doesn't steal from dumpsters.
i am going to strangle you with my bare hands
>>3856327He's making it cringekino on purpose.
>>3856343I wish it was any sort of kino. It's just cringe.
>>3856342Shitsco Elysium reference out of nowhere is worse desu
>>3856347I'd say poggers is worse, though. West treating east like an exotic commodity that only is interesting when it suffers is usual enough.
>>3856342>>3856341>>3856337>>3856327>>3856320>>3856316ngl, feels pretty soulless. Also reeks of current year ttrpg's inspired by podcasts.I didn't get that vibe from Glenkildove or Nightroads. Both were very competent and at least seemed to take themselves seriously as works of fiction and immersive escapism.
>>3856350I'm surprised as well. Wang can get obnoxious at times with his potshots, but it never reached that level before.
>>3856345It is. There'll never be a better representation of V5 and V5 players than this.
God forbid a woman who got her neck ripped open by a vamp would want to know anything about her attacker.
twine trenches appear. friend group deliberately endangering MCs life for the sake of literally whos and no chance to push back.
>In one scene old man complains that Wil can't dumpster dive because it looks like Jangles doesn't provide for his hobo special ops>5 minutes later I learn I have to feed the whole group and myself tooWang you fucktard, decide which it is.
Somehow the drunk ex-hunter mess who explicitly says he doesn't trust you is the only tolerable one.
The only decent character in this group as of now is Wil. I suppose Wang didn't want to shove more reddit memes inside of his dialogue and didn't want to talk about humanitarian effort either.
>>3856350Nah man both of those had that corpo artifice feel as well. Wang's just dialling it up to eleven. To the point it's genuinely starting to feel like he scammed CoG into covering his living expenses for a shitpost.>inb4 the Gramsci quote was actually about the state of WoD
So now it's clear that Wang can't write anything besides historical fiction. Thanks for the preview, won't buy the game.
and he's also also a native. despite him being quite whiny, he's still my pick.>>3856362he wrote not-gundam decently enough. i blame him cocooning himself into his forum reservation.
>>3856364>"You're a fucking mess!"...said the hobolmfao
>>3856365We were kicked out of the house, apparently. And the native guy is part of... Mounties specops group..?
>>3856361I feel like he was given a set of checkboxes and wrote the game around them.
Wang, a man who spends quite a lot of time talking about orientalism and effects of magical minorities, writes the most stereotypical asian mentor for the most stereotypical yankee MC.>>3856368Aren't both of the women white? The only minorities so far are Zheng and Wil. MC isn't. They give off the worst kind of american feel.
>wil came back to save mcWil is the only character worth a damn in this book. American native men are hot, and metises are even hotter.
>>3856358holy shit he said the thing!
And I have found no demo for Hollywood one yet. It'd have to try its hardest to beat this one in shittiness, though. How is the only tolerable character an old alcoholic metis who also comes to save you from a vampire attack?
>>3856370>Aren't both of the women white?Fleur was described as pale and in the same line Mandy was described as dark. Take it as you will.
In Lords getting the best possible result rewards you with a literal NAFO reference.He can't break that cringe record no matter how hard he tries.
>it doesn't even seem like there is XP to bump up attributesTruly, this game is not a power fantasy. Also, the lack of skill is a baffling choice. I really doubt that it will be better than Glenkildove, or even equal.
>>3856362More like he can't write modern settings because his only interaction with one is through internet.
>>3856404Kek, I hope he sees this thread.
>the obnoxious frenchwoman is his trans repI just can't
>>3856404I'd say the problem is both how unrealistic and how... unsincere everything feels. The only somewhat earnest scenes are the card game with Zheng and drinking with Wil. Everyone else is snark, memes, morality lectures, snark, snark, shitty references, snark, snark, shitty references, let's add an option to ask Fleur about her name for the third time...
>>3856410>tfw the first preset female name is lily
>>3856410Sacrebleu.........
>>3856394Koste es, Was es Wolle has nothing to do with NAFO althoughbeitfully
>>3856398He's gone on record he likes to have as little personal stats as possible and that inventory and party system was enough feature bloat on its own.
>>3856203Gonna be real, I don't care about Hunter, Mage or Changeling in WoD
>>3856417>he cares about Werewolf
Speaking of woofs, have they still not released the polyamory dlc?
>>3856412Rod will salvage the game with his unabashed edgelordship trust
>>3856421He isn't even the vamp who attacks MC again. Did Wang decide to make him another Hawkins?
>>3856418way more than the other 3 yes
>>3856420Poly support was part of a patch back in April.
>>3856416Then maybe he shouldn't write for WoD, which assumes you have a number of attributes and stats.
>>3856422There's a variable that tracks if he remembers you and he has his own set of trust, familiarity and romance stats, so...He might be also be a Thin Blood.
>>3856426Does it include social skill setup moment? He treated my character perfectly fine until he decided to drain her and said she had nothing to fear just because I've decided to make my character focused on social skills.
>>3856425None of the WoD games had the Skills implemented as they are in tabletop, sweaty.
>>3856428He has a memory variant for each successful skill, yeah. Being most butthurt by Physical with a -10 malus to trust.
>your hunter gang are bunch of hobos scrounging around for food and rent>your vampire enemies are thinbood bottomfeederWang is dangerously based for mocking whoever's still willingly consuming WoDslop.
>>3856379His player is the only one that's trying to play a character. Mandy's a broad not even trying to roleplay and Fleur's is a tryhard redditor invariably ending up with just a more obnoxious version of her IRL self.
>>3856429There are differences between taking some creative changes to adapt a system to a medium it was not designed for, and gutting 90% of it while still pretending you use it.For fucks sake, it looks like Wang's WoD slop is mechanically even simpler than Infinity.
>>3856296its starways saga
>>3856333I miss hunter-net.org...
>>3856473>taking some creative changesYeah, like Parliament of Knives having no Abilities. Or whatever Redemption was even trying to do.>still pretending you use itI dunno where you're reading that it's even trying to represent tabletop rules because it says just>An interactive novel set in the World of Darkness extended universe.and nothing more.>it looks like Wang's WoD slop is mechanically even simpler than Infinity.Try actually looking at how the game works before running to cry about it.muh bloatware shitstem getting disrespected is the least of the game's issues.
>>3856491>Yeah, like Parliament of Knives having no Abilities.How about you be a bit less disingenuous and compare it to Glenkildove, the next Hunter game closest to it. It had its own faults which I made fun of but I could at least say that the author respected the system well enough to try.>I dunno where you're readingIt's implied by simply being part of WoD.>Try actually looking at how the game works before running to cry about it.I didn't look into the code but I played the demo and it felt painfully simplistic. Infinity at least offers partial successes, combined checks and more.>muh bloatware shitstem getting disrespected is the least of the game's issues.But it is one of the issues and I see no reason to let it slide.
>>3856370I have a sneaking suspicion that Zheng is a bit more...complex based on what I can guess from the code.
>>3856504Let me guess, he's a secret vampire and a liar? He seemed really mad at MC cheating in the card game yet seemed to appreciate she was willing to struggle even in no-win state.
>>3856491>defending dumb crapAwful. Night Road actually tried to stick to the system and that's why it's the only WoD IF anyone talks about
KeeperGODS, it's alive.https://www.tumblr.com/keeperofthesunandmoon/796803659863326720/the-next-update-will-be-october-25?source=share
>>3856497>How about you be a bit less disingenuous and compare it to Glenkildove, the next Hunter game closest to itThe only one being disingenuous is here is you by moving goalposts from muh system™ (Storyteller) to muh splatbooks now. >It's implied by simply being part of WoD.Did you throw a fit over there not being a roll to hit, roll to damage, roll to dodge and roll to soak when someone fough in the WoD novels?>I didn't look into the code but I played the demo and it felt painfully simplistic. Infinity at least offers partial successes, combined checks and more.There are combined checks and partial successes here as well. Okay, I'll do you a favour and list a few features that I can see from the code>Willpower and a Health stat that's actually relevant>Edges inventory system with Money being tied into it>Multiple relationship stats for factions>Food management that can incur penalties>Trust stat actually locking you out of some opportunities to gain more personal rel stats>Desperation unlocking more options and allowing you to pass a check in lieu of Attributes if high enough>Drive, which gives you bonuses and maluses depending on whether you're playing by or against yours >Creed, "specialization as a hunter", yet to be introduced in the demo.
>>3856506No. It's just that he off-handedly mentions he's from Shandong and one of the game's factions is coincidentally named Taishanhui.
>>3856517You're delusional if you think Night Road became popular because of its mechanics. It shares the common falling of Marquis's game design of having several dozen stats yet the feel of every run ending up the exact same.
How the mighty have fallen. These threads were built on Wang's Infinity autism and now they meme on him.
>>3856573>now they meme on himHe deserves it desu. Nobody could shit on his infinity games since they're genuinely good, but this wodslop is an obvious cashgrab.
>>3856573No one cared about Kendrickstone even then.
>>3856582It barely got any mention but for the same reason it was barely criticized. Now it's a conga line of mockery.
>>3856587That's what happens when you cocoon yourself in your own reservation and let others influence you and your writing too much. I don't think authors should interact with people at all on their writing accs, to be honest. Never turns out worthwhile, be you Styg or Wang.
After looking at the stats page code, the madman literally spoils the entire game there. >Apparently, the [i]Taishanhui[/i] haven't been entirely truthful about their origins. Zheng says that rather than being the ancient mystical brotherhood that they claim to be, the organisation was actually founded by Zhang Zongchang, a famously eccentric Chinese warlord in the 1920s - probably as a joke. However, their modern members still take their supposed mission very seriously, even if they don't know just how ignoble their beginnings were.
>Exclusive gentlemen's club by day, and hunters of the supernatural by night, the Knights of Saint George waged war against spirits, vampires, and werewolves with money, firepower, and the unshakeable imperial belief that God, deep down inside, was an Englishman.VGH...
>>3856573>now they meme on himeveryone gets memed on here. I love zaper and I meme on him for living in slums and getting stabbed by a crackhead
>>3856549neat, hope it makes my dumbass decisions can blow up in my face (I compelled astrid lol)
>>3856588>implying his fans actually influence anythingThe only documented impact they had is him adding "I have a plan of my own" in Sabres, Saboteur path in Lords and continuously shadow-fighting min-maxers with his game design after exposure to their meta-gaming.
>>3856595>the unshakeable imperial belief that God, deep down inside, was an EnglishmanFine, Wang, I'll play it afterall.
>Needless to say, FIRSTLIGHT could be just the kind of help you need, assuming you can get their attention - and assuming you can trust them. Maybe, they can bring the firepower you need to tip the scales, but trusting the kinds of people behind Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay and Residential Schools and MKUltra to have your best interests at heart?At least one can trust Wang to highlight the SI supposedly still being the IRL glowniggers.
Full cover. If that's a k-pop boy, Wang has low standards.
>>3856611It's his self-insert brutalizing minorities.
>>3856612The guy looks completely done with him. And also looks like Jared Leto.
>>3856612>implying he would self-insert as a Singaporean nepobaby shitbloodIf anyone is his self-insert, it's the dad-hating Young Master alienated both from his own and the country he lives in alike.
>>3856595>God>"was"Lefties cannot envision someone with faith. Wang, if you're reading this, change "was" to "is".
>>3856616>christcuck on 4chanbehead all normies
>>3856616>Christchad on 4chanHail, brother!
>>3856616It's worded like that because it's followed by>However, as the decades passed, the empire fell, and the city expanded around them, the Knights of Saint George lost some of their crusading zeal. Although the traditions were kept and the children took up the rituals of the parents, the Order became less and less committed to the idea of going out to make war against the night, and more and more committed to staying in with a glass of good port, complaining about kids these days, and spinning yards about what once was.>Except some of the kids these days were listening. Now, a new generation of members have taken up the silver signet rings of the Order, ones far more proactive and forward-thinking than their parents and grandparents. For the first time in almost a century, the Knights of Saint George ride out into the night, looking for an enemy to hunt.
>>3856616It's worded like that because they've since learned that God, deep down inside, was an American.
I think Christianity being an offshoot of judaism is funny
If you need something to worship, do something less known and less annoying. Even a scandi neopagan isn't as annoying as an american twice a heretic. They aren't even real christians.
>>3856629>talking about british men of faith>bring up Americans for no reason.Cringe
>>3856635Canada is just hipster America tbqh
Nicky is taking so fucking long bros is sky pride worth reading?
i havent played any cog game since 2 years agowhats worth playing
>>3856708Nothin'
>>3856477> starways sagaThanks, friend!>>3856398I legitimately liked Glenkildove.>>3856595>>3856625>and the unshakeable imperial belief that God, deep down inside, was an Englishman.Fucking based.Is there much content about this in the game?
So after reading through the thread, all I’m hearing and seeing is that Wang’s new WoD slop is worth gettingthat and other WIPs should hold me off until zapper finishes Wake of the Wyrm
>>3856626>wasupdate your game wang
>>3856724>So after reading through the thread, all I’m hearing and seeing is that Wang’s new WoD slop is worth getting>average CoGer reading comprehension
>>3856724It's slop sis
>>3856729Yeah it’s kinoYour personal distaste doesn’t factor into my opinion>>3856742It’s kino
>>3856605>shadow-fighting min-maxersAnd did so in the most idiotic way. The biggest balance issue is that one out of the three core stats is useless. He made that even worse. Instead he lowered everyone's stats in an attempt to normalize them around some mediocrity. Of course it only affected non-minmaxers. This is not even midwittery, this is genuinely low iq design. Why is anyone surprised at this hackslop?
>>3856721>Is there much content about this in the game?Hard to see without seeing the full code, but from what synopsis Wang left in the code, not really. St. George is just one of the three Hunter orgs you can get to help the scoobie gang during the final showdown, and of the three St. George seem to be getting the least other stuff.
>>3856708Professor of Magical Studies is alright if you can endure one chapter of flashbacks.
>>3856763Stat decay is a nothingburger in the grand scheme of things. I'm talking more about shit like him cranking up debt management mid-WiP phase after seeing his players handle it trivially, originally having the Tassenswerd's full reward locked behind a fucking 140 combined check and filling up the game with options you can only pick one or at best a few of for fear of Sabres having a Golden Route ever repeating.
>Wang's changelog is all "uhh I, like, made a PLAN, man..." with the actual writing only starting almost a year inbased ngl
>collect twenty bucks and help some rich twats buy booze>that, according to wang, is enough to rent
>>3856796The communist commune of Vancouver. VGH...
>>3856787Oh dear lord, where can that be found?>>3856796He has to know that's not the case, the dude lives in Rentoid Hell
>>3856796That's enough to rent a single shitty room in the ghetto quarter for a few days or something. A proper housing seems to be an Edge down the line.>>3856799startup.txt The changelog starts in August 2023 but he said he started working on it immediately after lords so it's technically earlier.
>>3856434Go Go Hobo RangersGo Go Hobo RangersGo Go Hobo RangersMighty Morphine Hobo RangersThey've got a shopping cart and some scraps that you've never seen beforeThey've got the ability to scrounge and even up the scoreNo one can ever take them downThe cardboard lies on their sideGo Go Hobo RangersGo Go Hobo RangersGo Go Hobo RangersYou Mighty Morphine Hobo RangersThey fight the thin-blood vamps in the alleyways at nightWith rusty knives and cans, they put up a desperate fightBottom-feeders sucking blood from the poor and the weakBut these hobos won't back down, through the hunger and tweakGo Go Hobo RangersGo Go Hobo RangersGo Go Hobo RangersMighty Morphine Hobo RangersThey've got no rent, no food, just a tent in the parkDodging cops and fangs in the cold and the darkTempted by glory or a hit from the veinBut they stick to their wits, through the needle and painGo Go Hobo RangersGo Go Hobo RangersGo Go Hobo RangersYou Mighty Morphine Hobo RangersFrom Downtown Eastside, where the shadows creep inUniting the gangs and the homeless to winAgainst the bloodsuckers who rule from aboveThese rangers will rise, through the push and the shoveGo Go Hobo RangersGo Go Hobo RangersGo Go Hobo RangersMighty Morphine Hobo Rangers
>>3856842MC with Social can rent out a full flat, though. Only with three money dots, which aren't much and even without assisting Jangles.
>>3856865Have you read how said "flat" is described?>First of all, there's the fact that the whole room—and it is only a single room, as advertised—is maybe the size of a large bathroom in a real apartment, just wide enough to fit a single double-size bed and just long enough to cram a small table, a chair, and some cabinets in too. As for the bathroom itself? Well, you don't have one of those at all: your toilet, shower, and sink are all shared with everyone else on your floor—and judging by the stink you can smell from all the way across the hall, you don't think anyone bothers to clean it.>And all of this isn't counting the mold in the corners, the draft coming from the one single window, the chipped paint, the peeling wallpaper, the cheap laminate floor which creaks every time you step on it, the radiator which the manager straight-up told you doesn't work, or the fact that the only artificial light in the whole setup comes from a single bare lightbulb, hanging from the barely-high-enough ceiling from what you suspect used to be a pull chain from an old-fashioned toilet.And it's even brought up first interlude you only paid for a few days>Then there's the question of rent.>You may have a place to live right now, but that's only going to last for the next few days until you're able to scrape up enough cash to pay for the next week. After the ordeal of getting enough the first time around, you're not looking forward to doing it again, let alone the prospect of repeating the process week after week. But if you want to keep living in a place with a roof, then you're gonna have to put in the work.
>>3856879If you don't have to share the room with 8 indians then by Canuck standards it's almost a palace.
>>3856015Get fucked, creep
>>3856434>>your hunter gang are bunch of hobos scrounging around for food and rentSounds kino but wang will probably fuck it up and not focus on how detached and hunters can become from the rest of humanity with them being figuratively and literally outcasts due to their paranoia and frantic behavior
>>3856947I think Wilson is supposed to represent that, since he outright states he's only with them because he's the one who can actually kill a vampire despite being a dejected depressed alcoholic nihilist. Zheng also advises MC on morality, cooperation and not acting like a vamp.
>>3856947>wang will probably fuck it upHe already did. You are a loser hobo who became a hunter, not a schizo hunter who became a hobo.
>>3856947That's not how Hunters are characterized in v5 man.
>the ackshual big bad is a generic dommy mommy who treats you like a petjesus christ reading the character bios feels Wang was just colouring what was handed to him
>>3856994Wang wrote Catarina, though.
>>3856947>being figuratively and literally outcasts due to their paranoia and frantic behaviorNot in v5. In v5 the government is pro-hunter (Second Inquisition) instead of antihunter, and there's no Messenger spirits to stress their psyche. V5 hunters are just normal powerless dudes fighting on the same side as the feds.
>hobos hobos hobosI'm going to play as a religious ascetic nutjob that sleeps in dumpsters, kills vampires and helps innocent people in his path and you chuds can't stop me.
>>3857005Wang can stop you since you probably won't be able to do it.
>>3857004As far as I remember, there are also corpo hunters and lesser ideological groups.
>>3857005Holy trooncorder cope.>religious"God was">nutjob not allowed, too ableistic>kills vampires jobs to thin-blood losers>helps innocent peoplenot allowed, too "idealistic"
> New Hunter Game (demo)> It's incredibly boringThe author could have just follow the formulae of Buffy or Supernatural, but no. It's over.
>>3857005>thinking a modern leftist would let you be religious or ascetic
>>3857000Katarina was retarded villain's daughter archetype though
>Wang's game has multiple lines calling you a retard for calling in Hunter allies for the final showdown only to turn coats
>>3857032>you called in HUNTERS?!?!>to HUNT?!?!?!
>>3857032Can't wait to see what clan we'll end up being. Given the sudden rage, could be Bruja. A tendency for chimping out isn't too bad if you get Celerity and Potence as a gift with it.
>>3856990>>3857004>fighting on the same side of the feds(same feds vamps control)>not constantly mentally on the edgecringe
>>3857056>same feds vamps controlreality deviants unironically believe this shit btw
>>3857051The only actual vampire you can side with sounds like a Ventrue, so probably that.
>>3857056>same feds vamps controlThat's been retconned. "The Beckoning" is taking every elder in the world (and they think 150 is elder) and having them answer an irresistable call to go to the middle east where they disappear. The govt is no powers hunters called the Second Inquisition and vampires can't even hold major cities.
>>3857081cringe.... we should have gotten a hunter the vigil game instead
is the new wangslop fun? can you atleast kill some leeches or nah?
>>3857102you can only kill a random hobo nowWang said you can bash in a bloodsucker with a piece of concrete though
Is there content pass the first weight trial in Aura Clash yet? I tried to look for a changelog, but couldn't find shit.
QRD on wang’s new game? Are you a thinblood or a hunter?
>>3857173There's two more trials after that, the Dragon one being really big.
>>3857081The beckoning makes no sense, why would elders heed the call to some random voice in the mid-east? >t-they can’t resist!Is bullshit, you’re telling me that centuries old methuselahs don’t have the fortitude to resist? Fucking hacks…
>>3857208they heard the call of the prophet muhammad, inshallah
>>3857173patronkeiko
>>3857194You're some loser faggot kid, not even a real bum, and you fight loser faggot thinbloods, not even real vampires.
>>3857218BasedWill get it when it comes out
Anon when I use the twine build and I press continue sometimes the screen is just white, I need to refresh the page for it to work.
>>3857230It's like this, you can barely see the writing.
>>3855914>yes>no (leads to same outcome)why even put that medbay option in if you're not gonna let me pick it? I'm bleeding out here.
>>3857208Doylist-wise, it was a way to remove the overwhelming metaplot most people ended up ignoring in their games. It wasn't an elegant or effective way, and they did it better in nWoD, but White Wolf isn't really known for elegant solutions to their problems setting-wise.
>>3857231Shidd, what browser?
>>3857274FirefoxOperaBoth shit the bed.
>>3855914How the fuck do I play these games? Any notable ones? What am I in for?
>>3857288just click on the link
>>3857288Play through the game in the OP. After you are done, come back here or not, whatever you prefer.
Is the author of the OP game lurking here? If you are I think I found an error, I was chatting up the corpo suit chick but then it kicked me out of the conversation and went a different route.
>>3857311>Is the author of the OP game lurking here?He is one of us. Don't hesitate to post here if you want to talk to him.
New Suzerain clone just dropped with a bunch AI assets about how bad AI is.
>>3857314>one of usmakes this thread sound like a collective hivemind lol
>>3857384Bros he's not in the hivemind, kill him.
>>3855914What are the top games listed on that site? Is there no way to list them by some sort of rating?
>>3857472>Is there no way to list them by some sort of rating?You could try that on steam because most of them are listed there as well but realistically speaking, if you are a /vrpg/ regular that means you would hate around 90% of the catalogue.>What are the top games listed on that site?Depends on what you like, really. For capeshit there is Fallen Hero, if you like knights then Lords of Aswick and The Great Tournament are fine. Sabres, Guns and Lords of Infinity is a very popular historical fiction. For cyberpunk there is the game in the OP by one of /ourguys/, another one is making Aura Clash which is cultivation lite. If you like World of Darkness you might check Nightroad and Glenkildove. If you like talking about gay sex then you can simply create an account on the forum and leave this thread.
>>3855951>two sides of the same terminally online coinExcept that one is accepted by reddit and the other isn't, no matter how many of you invade 4chan.
>>3857474(1) I never tried IF games before, except maybe Road Warden if that counts. I think RW mixed IF and table top RPG rather well. I did not get into the story though, anything like it?(2) Are there modern titles that are objectively superior to the old classics like A Mind Forever Voyaging?
>>3857479>A Mind Forever VoyagingDamn, I never even heard of that one. Tally Ho was written by an English professor or so I heard. Maybe that will be up your alley? Ultimately, most of games written in choicescript are from total amateurs and nocoders. You should never expect high value, these are mostly indie games. For the games with an actual budget there is Sorcery and Suzerain.>I think RW mixed IF and table top RPG rather well. Most of the current choicescript games are not very "gamey" and for a good reason. Amateurs are rarely good game designers. Mocking Nikky for the design of PoMA is a tradition here. If you are interested how the older IF games did that, there is Life of a Wizard and Lost Heir trilogy. Aura Clash has good mechanics while not being overly difficult.
