Post by BiggieCheese77 in Tales From The Unending Void comments

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Just Finished Season 1, love it, just have a couple of questions.

1. There are several instances where you're presented with a “yes” or “no” but actually it's either “yes” or “says no, but immediately gets forced to say yes anyway”. Is this something that you plan to look at in the future? Or are you completely focused on season 2? Also, it would be great to have more choice over who is in your crew. As the numbers pile up, there are some who don't really contribute anything and who you may not be interested in, so it would be great to have more choice over them.

2. I own season 1 on steam, how would that work if i download the season 2 episodes on here? And how would it work if I then buy season 2 on steam when it releases? Do the versions detect each other? And what’s the difference between steam and here?

Sorry for the long questions and thank you in advance.

Perverteer2 years ago

Glad to hear you liked it!

As for the Yes/No questions, I'm curious if you have some examples? Generally, most of the choices you make are tracked and could have an impact on how certain characters behave later on in the game. The choices you've made in Season 1 will carry over to Season 2 (and 3) and will likely play a role in the ongoing narrative. As for the crew selection, it's mostly a matter of efficiency over customization. Each different crew roster would mean a different story branch, so it would complicate development exponentially. My previous game (Sisterly Lust), had optional pregnancies and a customizable harem for the main characters (TFTUV will have this as well). Creating the different render variants for all those different pregnancy/harem configurations was an ordeal on its own.

That said, the core crew will not grow in numbers beyond Season 1. Also, if you don't want a romance or don't want to interact with certain characters, your dialogue choices will reduce their appearances to only the necessary story beats to advance the plot.

Season 1 automatically creates a special save game near the end. Season 2 allows you to continue with that saved game, in which case the choices you've made in the previous season will carry over. When Season 2 releases on Steam (or here), this will also be the way to continue your game. The main difference with the Steam release is that it has Steam achievements (itch.io version also has achievements, but they're local to the game) and cloud saves. Other than that the versions are identical.

BiggieCheese772 years ago (3 edits)

First of all, thank you for such a fast and in depth response, great to see a developer that's so active with its player base.

I have 2 examples for the yes/no questions. Both in episode 3.

[some spoilers for anyone else reading]

1. When Ziv offers you the contract for the pickup mission, you get a yes or no choice. I picked no because it seemed fishy and the other option was going to pay more (i didn't realise at the time that you could do both). Thyia then convinces you to do it anyway and that's basically it. If that's how the story goes then that's fine, I just personally found it weird that the choice was given when there wasn't really one there.

2. Celine tells you that there's a ship floating around and wants to bring it in. Again, i said no cause it seemed very risky, but she does it anyway.

There's also the choice of letting Thyia join your crew, though I obviously realise now that it was much needed for the story (and I would have said yes anyway). As I say, if this is all necessary for the plot then I understand, but I'm wondering why the choice is given in the first place.

Good to know there won't be any new characters joining the crew, that was mostly why I asked the question. Obviously I wouldn't expect there to be the option to remove every character, that wouldn't make sense for most of them and even if it did it would leave about a million different branches for you to write.

I suppose I mainly asked because of Ziv and Raene. I don't dislike them or anything, I just noticed that from episode 5 onwards, they don't really do anything if you're not in a relationship with either of them and having them with you seems like a big risk. You already have 2 factions chasing you down so adding another just adds to the danger for the other characters.

Again, if they are necessary for something later in the plot then that's cool, I just really like having options in games like this.

There's a conversation with Ziv where you agree that you won't be friends, and Ziv seems to indicate that she and Raene might leave, so i just wondered if there will be an opportunity for that. I do realise this might already be an option in season 2, (Haven't played it yet as i wanted to ask about the different versions before downloading it).

Another thing I thought was strange (though maybe a bug) is Ziv said she was unhappy with the way I treated Raene. I don't think I was ever unkind to her, hence why this might be a bug. (I may have quick saved and reloaded the options when I was talking to her, to see both choices if I wasn't sure what MC would say, so perhaps the game thinks I picked a bad option.)

Also the game seems to think i had sex with Thyia when i first met her, again i think it was an issue with quick loading back to the option not to do so.

Just to quickly clarify about the game versions, does that mean that season 2 on itch.io will detect my steam saves? Or do i need to do another playthrough on the itch.io version of season 1?

Sorry that this was so long, and thank you again in advance.

Perverteer2 years ago (1 edit)

Yeah, those choices mainly there to establish some of the morality of the main character, in order for the crew to respond to those choices. Refusing Thyia and Ziv for example will make it harder for Lilly to like you and get into a romantic relationship with you. The same goes for Ziv, if you're dismissive of Raene certain dialogue options and romance paths aren't available, because Ziv doesn't like you enough.

As for the instances where a character mentions something that didn't happen, those are likely bugs. Loading should reset the game state completely, it shouldn't retain any choices you've previously made using another saved game. So if you have any saved games of those situations, I'd very much like to check them out and fix any potential errors.

Both the itch.io and Steam version of the game use the same location for saves, so they should get picked up. The saved games are likely located here on Windows: Users\*name*\AppData\Roaming\RenPy\

BiggieCheese772 years ago(+1)

Ah that makes sense.

Season 2 has found my steam saves fortunately.

Really looking forward to future episodes!

Thanks for your help!