Beta testing information

That's what I was hoping.

Super Truther

Will ep 8 release at midnight?

Chris

It's not decided yet. I will start working on the Steam version immediately after the Patreon version has been released, but it will require testing and additional code so I can't set a date for it yet.

DrPinkCake

Being A DIK v0.7.2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50332886 All links are in your welcome message.

DrPinkCake

how long after the Patreon release will Season 2 be available on Steam?

Gustavo del Pino

You have to be at least a $5 sub, then it's the pinned post at the top. Well worth it! I would estimate there is over 60 hours of content in one playthrough if you actually read the story. There's honestly much more because replays are actually a thing in this game because there are so many paths and your choices have consequences.

Dave Davidson

I’m confused how do I download the game from here .-.

Ray

Patreon and Steam saves aren't compatible. If you download the Patreon version, you have to start over. You still have some time before the release to do this, which means that you can start playing episode 8 from those new saves when it drops.

DrPinkCake

Several options will cause confusion. I'm trying to limit the confusion, even though it at the same time also limits possibilities.

DrPinkCake

I am not complaining, I am just stating facts. But good point on splitting the file to multiple zips. I would prefer that. But since Doc is the only person working on the game, it might be too much to ask him to provide the option to either download entire file or multiple zips.

tinyrock12

Hey doc, if i download this update from steam is the old save i can use it?

Ryo Akashi

yh, but you still need to use up 40gb of space for a game that consists of slides. Fortnite requires less space than this game.

Darkus

back in my day, we had download managers. This was popular when everyone had dial-up. I don't know if they still exist, but that would be what he would want. that being said, I think tinyrock12 is marvelling about the size of a AVN. Comparing the size to AAA games, thusly calling Being A DIK great quality. Then again, I could be wrong.

Jamison

Yes, I've thought about this, but decided against it, since I've gotten too many questions regarding "how do I unzip". I fear that splitting the zip into smaller volumes will clog my inbox with even more "I can't unzip". One big volume is what I will be going for.

DrPinkCake

i don't know if tinyrock12 is complaining about the game size itself, or if when downloading the game the download may fail, if its the former, well it is a detailed game and a great game, up-to you if you want it or not. You can't expect a B.M.W. to be the size and power of a two stroke motor or a Rocket Ship to be the size of a Bi-Plane. if it's the later, well my best advise to DrPinkCake is to have update's if possible, but also to have the downloads zipped, but split into maybe 5 gb or 10 gb parts so people can get it in a couple of downloads and recombine when unzipping, zip, rar whatever he thinks is best.

SHREDDER1876

Oh I didn't realize it was updated, the last walkthrough I downloaded ends at episode 6. Thanks!

Dave Davidson

https://www.patreon.com/posts/32341060

DrPinkCake

Keep up the good work! Can't wait!

Doom Marine

You won´t download 40GB, only 20, but you need 40GB space on disc so you could unpack the zip file

tracnik

You get to download it when you pledge 15$ tier I believe.

tracnik

warzone was 200GB

Cracor Benasouki

The last time I needed 40GB to download a game was FFX remaster on PS3. This game in terms of size is equivalent to a ff franchise. Let that sink in.

tinyrock12

Where??

Thomas

You know, there´s an Official Walkthrough document, which describes in details how to get all scenes, collectibles etc?

tracnik

I'm missing 3 scenes in episode 7. I have Josy episode 7 unlocked, then 3 locked scenes then another Josy scene. I'm guessing they're probably Bella or Cathy or Jade. can someone give me an idea what path I need to take? I've honestly played this game like 15 times and cant believe I still have locked scenes.

Dave Davidson

This will be the most exciting episode yet!!!

Kyle Whaley

soooooo excited. It's been a questionable year. But this November will be sick playing this game. AND I get to watch spider-man no way home in December.

Darkus

Endwalker drops 23rd, there is still a chance this drops before, this is only the 2nd time I've been here waiting for a new episode, I'm more hyped for this than Endwalker!

Jamikari

Thanks for the in depth update. Looking forward to what is to come. Cheers!

Oracle

Every november greedy cum fat cats try to convince you to stop nutting in an attempt to pump the value of cum, a classic pump & dump scheme. No longer, I say.

KcPiglet

Just got dont with my first playthrough last night, second everything you said. Characters were phenominal, story had legitimately shocking twists and turns, I got pushed out of my comfortzone in good ways, and the imagines were impressively hot - 10/10

Boomski

I never understood how the no nut thing ever became a thing. When you get to my age, you realize you only get so many nuts, and wasting them by skipping November seems insane.

HBI

well after playing through the whole game (7episodes) in the last few days I could not do anything else than to go huge dik. It was a really great experience. And at first I was not even sure but these characters get so well fleshed out and even the people you do not expect to like become special. This wasrly an experience Great work man

Oliver Segelhorst

So wait. You're telling me I got both Endwalker AND possibly Episode 8 to look forward to??? Christmas came early! (and so did I!)

Beast of Bray

This is the best adult game I've ever played . thank you ;)

Nice Guy

why don't you make the game?

Darkus

did you read anything?

Venom_526#1050

Hey my birthday is on the 29th , so can you release it then?

Alexander Luis

Me too. Patience is a small price to pay for a masterpiece.

M-RayMaker

I wish we had a dislike option...

Jamison

Is it done yet?

ET

Quality over quantity. I recently dropped a handful of patron support i no longer wanted to support so I already planned on upgrade my support to you.

Joshua Dershem

it's not healthy for you, join club grow-a-stache instead!

Lectiuss

Appreciate all the efforts on beta testing.. quality takes time !

@Maverick

Active.

DrPinkCake

No news for Steam release at the moment. But it requires plenty of extra work so it won't be at the same time as Patreon.

DrPinkCake

In theory yes. But keep it until you see it's working and if any save doesn't load in the new version, you can go back to the previous version, load it, and then save at another spot to fix it.

DrPinkCake

it may sound daft but im craving that intro music already.. and adding my out of tune Whooooaaaaa's in time to the music lol

Crowangel Gaming

Just like AIFlover said, you´re in for a treat, lots of fun ahead of you ;)

tracnik

you should try and wait till you get the new update and then get rid of the old update.

rogghuggcogg

lol should have upped my pledge sooner

Jordan Trizisky

Quick question when we download the full game and delete the old version of the game, will our save files be fine when loading it up from the appdata/renpy/beingadik folder? Sorry about asking I've just had issues in the past with other games where save files would be messed up when loading up from the appdata folder.

brian2001

Wow, you just HAD to release in no nut November didn't you? This is gonna be a tough month. (Fuck I'm excited)

Nathan Smith

Weird, I've never seen any bugs. And you shouldn't support 32 bit OS's at all. Anyone still using that is over 20 years behind current technology and shouldn't be spending their money on video games if that is their situation.

Dave Davidson

I guess I'll still wait for Steam release, very close now

Oleg Daev

Will Steam season 2 be launched along with the November Patreon subscribers release? Or will it be pushed back into December or possibly even later. Even though I intend on buying it on Steam I'm not opposed to increasing my monthly pledge to ensure I'm able to download and play the much anticipated episode 8as close to if not the day it becomes available. I just pledged $15 a month on the 1st...wish I knew that on the second it would be paywalled in the $25 pledge for the month of November (tentative)

NSFWpro

Ohhhh I can't wait. No rush though. I'm more than willing to be patient to see this come out in a good state. Just gonna have to clear out a good amount of space on my drives if I wanna be able to fit this AND BF2042 😅

Gn753

Major DIK gets new releases 3 days after early release.

Luke Mofford

Keep up the great Work!

Joseph

I thought the Major Dik tier would be enough to get the season 8 update o.0 . . . I doubled my pledge can I still have it on release?

Jordan Trizisky

Can't rush perfection guys.

Jordan Trizisky

40gb as big as some major AAA games I love it

Jayden

Will the november release be for people that have pledged 25$ in total or just active 25$ pledge members?

countedbagz

My bad...and still envious, I am way too impatient to wait for a whole season. You will have a blast, I can promise you that.

Flover

Let me walk back my statement. I played the 1st season and loved it I haven't played a single episode of season 2 and yes I know there's another season coming I'll treat that the same and wait for the release on steam.

Jerico Robinson

Dude, I'm envious....You do know this isn't the last episode? There is at least another season coming.

Flover

I'm just waiting for the steam release. I haven't played a single release yet so I can play it all at once.

Jerico Robinson

It's gonna be like Christmas, minus the whole family coming.

Chris

Maybe, but it's not a guarantee. What I would do is to try loading your save in v0.8.0, if it doesn't work go back to your old version and save at another spot and then try again until it works. Ends of episodes are often safe spots to save and continue.

DrPinkCake

You take your time. I really admire your approach to patrons and the quality of your product. This is the best VN ever created

Slaanesh

I am hyped

RiffRaff

Awesome work! Can't wait to play this new chapter. Congrats on an awesome job!

Sebastian Carneiro

Wow, kudos, can hardly wait!

What about us slow/patient/busy gamers? I haven't played through Episode 5 but have my game updated to Episode 7. If we save at any point with Episode 7 installed, will our saves work after the full install?

ChickenBall

Hype!!!

You're the man DPC! Thank you for all your hard work. It really shows.

In the spirit of refactoring and migrating to newer Ren'Py, may I request better touch support? Targeting those tiny scrollbars is really a pain in the ass!

Lukáš Sembol

You can turn autosaving off in the next version, but save lag has been reduced with the upgrade.

DrPinkCake

I noticed something like that too when you meet Envy (Nicole) and Sandy at MacAllen's. Sandy doesn't seem to remember you even though she gave MC a lap dance when you and Rusty were talking at the Pink Rose. I just kind of wrote it off as she was really stoned or something.

Thor von Fiddle

Are automatic saves still causing a lag, or has that problem been fixed by upgrading RenPy to the latest version and transfering game to 64-bit?

Lectiuss

Hype! Taking the day off whatever the release date is.

Ty_Rants

This is it people. This is the hardest moment we must overcome to play this masterpiece. Waiting will be painful, but it sure as hell going to be worth it.

Waiter

Oh man, my fingers are itching. Other places too :-)

T'Gran

This is perfect I Just finished unlocking the last scene this instant :D I did note a couple of things that may require fixing in the dialogues. I will try and find them all back but the one that I remember is that when I got the lewd scene with Lilly at the hot party the dialogue was as if we never had sex before even though I already did her at the prep party. (I had something similar with Riona at some point too I think)

Tetsuo over 9000

You do a very great job bro! So many people just can’t wait to play this game! Just good luck in all your beginnings. You awesome bro!

Александр Борисов

Sad that I am not tester ;-;

AxelPixel

Gosh, I need to hurry and complete chapter 7 again for my two alts

Davias

Great work Doc.. Sooo looking forward to EP8

Martyn Romaine

Hopefully this will release this month I can not wait any longer lol

ArchAngel121996

Yes! Most definitely. Any needed bug fixes v0.8.1 etc, would be available as patch. But you will need a full v0.8.0 download.

DrPinkCake

LETS GOOOO!!!! :where_bella: :give_bella: 🙏🥵

Sadie Adler

I know you test the hell out of your game, but there is always the possibility that a bugfix release may be needed. Could that be downloaded as a patch? It would be frustrating to have to download that much twice. I apologize for posing a speculative situation that we all hope will never happen. But my mind works in strange ways at times. I eagerly await this release.

Bruce Vahl

Fucking awesome job, DPC. I can't wait for this kickass episode. You are a master at this.

Jamison

Thank you very much for the information, I'll eagerly await the Steam news then :)

Narg

Holy shit!! lol gotta clean out the old porn from my hard drive!!! lol

Jdog

Can't wait, and yet it will be worth every second. Thanks for the update and all the hard work that goes into this game.

Blacklabyrinth

Thanks for the update DPC I am really looking forward to checking out the newest chapter.

Dacks

No further information on this at the moment. Steam users will be the first ones to know, as stated in the latest Steam news.

DrPinkCake

Will we have a Steam Season 2 release this year, or only next year? Thanks for the amazing job!

Narg

For several reasons, I choose to keep the native Ren'Py compression. I'm sure you could gain a bit by doing other kinds of compression, but I don't want to experiment when the RenPy method has proven successful with most anti-virus programs and less corrupted zip files.

DrPinkCake

Thanks for the quick answer

DogCat

cant waiiiit!!!

DavidT

There will be free alternatives to MEGA, yes. But as the last release proved, this release is anticipated and every host site I use will experience problems with download speed.

DrPinkCake

Wow, that's very detailed. I really like to know all of this. Awesome job, Dr PinkCake, looking forward to it)

The Exception

The hype grows even bigger...

Kurmblog

How is the Ren'py compression? Would it make sense to compress it via conventional means with a 7z file set to maximum instead of trying to further compress the rpa files?

Bluntobject

Whenever you're ready, doc!

Kaiser Carranza

Where will you host the files? Will be able to download it without issues even if don't have premium membership in Mega for instance?

DogCat

You will need the double because after extraction, you will have both the zip file and the extracted folder (19+19.5 GB ~40GB)

DrPinkCake

Thanks for the hard work DPC. This is a meaty update for sure!

Furai

Don't you mean 19 GB when you download it?

Bluntobject

Hyped!

Alexey V

Wow DPC! Exciting!

Chiss

Thank you for removing the splash screen. I was never going to complain about it but it's bugged me for over 2 years now lol.

Flacid Milk

Good stuff doc. Can’t wait for the hilarity to continue

pantsparty

Wow！！！

Kerwin_x

big love DPC ❤️

Connor

I’m so freaking excited to play this episode!!!!

Camron