Lucky Paradox 0.7 - Beta 1

OK, thanks, Stawer for your extensive reply. I am sorry if I did come off as Being a DIK (oops, sorry, wrong Visual Novel,) but I will address the points in order the best way I can and hope we can set a truce. 1. OK, maybe the choices I made for Sasha in 0,63 were different as for the Enhanced edition which is why I have been getting different dialogue, but as I always choose the most favoured option and never the non-favourable one then I do not know. I guess, without going through 0.63 again (or loading my saves,) I can't tell. Again, maybe another brain freeze. 2. To say Sasha's story has no changes in the enhanced version compared to 0.63 (the first version I played,) must be a brain freeze on my part as I cannot remember at all an option for Sasha being spanked in that version. But I do remember the foot job. Maybe I will re-load 0.63 and have a look. 3. Just for a bit of fun I played some of the enhanced version with my old 0.63 saves and I did not see any issues, but, again, that maybe because I did not go through enough of the game before re-starting from scratch. 4. Sorry, but to say the best of the story is what comes from now, is not really true. The only changes I can see are more eye-candy (which is nice, don't get me wrong, but does not really enhance the gameplay,) a new character with about 10 lines of dialogue, and that seems about it to me. Again, unless I am doing something wrong. The problems with the enhanced version for me are, not being able to unlock Maxy/Mary, not being able to help Clara, not even being able to buy Maxy her guitar. All the other characters are maxed out with, "Waiting for further updates." So ,I do not know what I have done wrong. Again, and I am really sorry, but I never had any issues with that in 0.63. It just worked. 5. The translation errors were a little annoying and yes, I do understand, writing a novel in two languages at the same time is very difficult, so I am sorry about that. But, at least Google Translate was able to help me through that! 6. Yes, again, that was a bit harsh, sorry about that, but, as I said in number 5, Google Translate was my friend! I hope my reply does not meet with too much hostility. As I have said before, I really do like the game and it's a shame about the problems but I do now understand that you are doing everything you can to fix them and I really glad about that. I still need a text box for my eyes, but, as I have mentioned before, if that is not something you want to do as a general thing, I can always add one myself. Anyway, this is getting far to long so I will end it just to say, I wish I hadn't played 0.63 first, for the simple reason that that was a really well polished version that was over 99.9% accurate. But, I guess that's the way it panned out.

Stephen Theyer

I was reading your first comment just now and I'm going to respond to a few things, because you are taking them totally out of context. 1. Sasha's story has absolutely no changes, not even a single line of her story has been changed, if the MC is reacting with more hostility towards her, it depends on some choices you made during the game, the game is not linear. The changes were only aesthetic to improve images and animations. 2. There are no new sex scenes in the Enhanced Edition with Sasha. There is a very extensive changelog with all the changes made in detail. 3. The savegames are incompatible because the game was remastered at the code level, not only graphically. Also a new interface was designed from scratch, with many details and functions to facilitate the understanding of the game. 4. To say that I got bored developing the game seems unfair to me. I even think that the best of the story and the game is what comes from now, since the base of the Enhances Edition is quite solid in all aspects. 5. The translation was the error commented in yesterday's report, that was something fortuitous and fixed. Even so I'm one of the few, very few devs that make a game in two languages in parallel without fan translations, but even so it's always easier to focus on the negative and the errors. 6. Say it was rushed also seems unfair to me. In the discord community anyone can see the amount of hours I spend testing each update for hours and days before a release. But I can understand that you have that impression because of the translation problem that occurred. Well, I hope I have solved your doubts. I hope I didn't sound rude when I answered, I just try to be transparent in everything I do so that there are no misunderstandings.

Stawer

Thanks, just add dark text box option and I and my 50 year old eyes will be happy. That is why I NEVER trust anything in the cloud. You cannot beat physical backups on your own hardware. Just imagine if the internet went down for a few hours, or died during uploads. As I mentioned before I have 10 SSD's with backups of backups of backups. I would never trust the cloud storage, especially with something as vital as this.

Stephen Theyer

Fixed beta links uploaded and now it is possible to change the text size. I hope that helps you :)

Stawer

This is a problem that has only happened in the Beta. In the Enhanced Edition there are NO problems with the texts, but this week there was a data corruption in the cloud backup and therefore, the compilation came out with errors. I've been working for a few days to fix this problem and as soon as everything is fixed, the hotfix will be uploaded today

Stawer

Yes, I get that, but, sorry it still feels rushed compared to 0.63. The main part I had to translate myself was when you were talking to Yui about how you got to Argleton. here were about 6 translations needed there. OK, I get it, it is a free game (as I was told off by a mate of mine when I showed him my comments,) and maybe I am being too harsh, but I don't think I am. Well I hope I am not, anyway. | would hate him to lose players for things that could of been easily picked up. (0.63 :-p) I am still trying to get Maxy/Mary to work! Maybe buying the guitar will help? Thanks for the reply. PS, actually the old saves did work on the new version, but gave slightly odd results! I know, I should leave the code alone, but I am addicted to the Ren'Py editor! sorry. But I definitely need the dark textbox. My 50 year old eyes struggle with no text box. Which is why I had to change it in the first place.

Stephen Theyer

It isn’t rushed. Many hours of testing happens. There was an issue with the compilation which is why there are some untranslated parts. Everything is already translated just a rare issue occurred and will be fixed. This is only the first part of 0.7 and a couple more parts are being developed next. This is explained the the most recent progress report. The reason why old saves couldn’t work on the enhanced update because 80% of the code was redone. So too many things was changed that would cause too many issues with the old saves

MasterWizard

Thanks for the advice. Well I have advanced to almost everybody's story now to "Work In Progress," or " "For Future Updates," except for Charlotte which says (after I translated it,) that I had to progress through Yuii's main story,) which, according the game I did when I finished my Ice Cream date with Yui, and Maxi/Mary who are still unavailable ((it says Chat and Practice Unavailable, and the other 2 are locked.) even though I have complete all I can with Sasha ( in all of Sasha's event tabs. it says "Work In Progress.) I wish I hadn't played 0.63 first. I felt that was really well polished, even for a non finished game. Hence, why I Patreoned. To me, 0.65 and 0.7 felt rushed. In fact, if he had called 0. 65 and 0.7, 0.63 and 0.65, and then called the old 0.63 as 0.7 it would of made better sense. I did not understand the purpose of not being able to load in the saves for 0,63 (that to me was a bad move,) Though, if I had played 0.65 first I would definitely not been here on Patreon! It feels to me like he is trying to rush out these updates before testing them properly. There are non- translated bits where there should be, and I had 2 "circular" errors and 2 scripting errors (when the game crashed out and showed the Ren'Py code,) again, not there in 0.63. For me, they are not a problem, I can sort the translations and scripting errors out myself in the coding, but for people that can't then it can be frustrating. Maybe he is getting bored of it now. It is a big project (with over 20 girls, each with their own storyline and more to come?) and I get that. But to rush out un-tested updates is madness.

Stephen Theyer

Not rushed. Just an issue that happened with the compilation. Sorry for the inconvenience

MasterWizard

That will be fixed soon

MasterWizard

Yes, it's still buggy, unfortunately. This new update is more buggy than when I played 0.63. It seems to me like he is trying to rush it through and making a few basic errors.

Stephen Theyer

It's not just text with Yui, it seems just text anywhere can change to Spanish, even in some of the story recaps in the character screen. Very weird

Clara you need to advance sashas story further in order to start her story. Maxy arrives a lot sooner and just need to follow her story events in the social tab to progress her at the pace you like

MasterWizard

OK, I am now on day 76 and I am getting disheartened. When I played on update 0.63. by now I was able to interact with Clara at the Hot Springs, and know about Mary and Maxy and have their whole story down. I was able to shower with Charlotte and Prim, and I was also able to go to the hot baths with Yui, Kaede and Shizuka and have almost completed the training fighting both Kaede and Shizuka. Also, I had a LOT more interaction with Sasha (whose new sex scene I totally HATE by the way, it's nasty, wrong and cruel,) anyway, that's my only hate in the whole game. But, with this second play through I am just going round in circles. OK, there is more eye candy which is nice, and a new location which has about 10 lines of dialogue, but that's about it. Now, I am getting disheartened and a little bored of doing the same things day in day out Also, I do not like that you have made the Main Character so hostile towards Sasha. Is that really necessary? Definitely not if you ask me. If you want him to be hostile against anyone it should only be Felica. I really like(d) this game, hence the Patreon.! But not some of the new "changes." I am, seriously, at the way things are going at the moment, thinking of dumping it and I would hate to do that. Please, Stawer, let me know why the hostility and the slowness of the game progress. Thank you very much.

Stephen Theyer

Some of the text talking to Yui was in Spanish too, btw. When you question her about how she got the sight.

Sharnadale

No problem. I'm sure you'll get it sorted out.

Sharnadale

Mmmm... it seems that there was a problem in the compilation, I will check what happened, sorry :c

Stawer

Hi. I just downloaded this, and the language for Prim and Shizuka's story progression hints aren't in English.

Sharnadale