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Nice, seems like it’s starting to come together!

I have a couple of small suggestions regarding the enhancements “trade”: When buying a new enhancement/transformation will replace an existing one, rather than simply combine (like getting Olg Hide when you already have Scales, for example), it’d be cool to:

1. Indicate that, in the listing of available enhancements you can Gain from an NPC
2. If the swap means that the stat buff gained from the new trait will be offset by what you lose from giving up the other one, show the stats effect in relative terms — either instead of, or in addition to, absolute terms.

(Meaning: if you’re going to give up Scales [+30 Resist] in exchange for Olg Hide [+20 Resist] — I’m making up these buffs, they may be misremembered, but you get the idea — then, instead of just showing Olg Hide as +20 Resist, (also?) show that the NET effect of Gaining it is -10 Resist.)

Same problem, I’m clearly missing something because I have no idea where to get leather and I seem to need it to progress any further.

Also, where to find Flydicks to fight.

LOL. And someone downvoted you for answering the question ­— not for asking it, mind you (apparently that was fine) — but for posting the answer, so that other people wouldn’t have to wonder the same thing.

…The Itch community is weird.

Just a suggestion, you might want to mention that the platform is Windows-only (AFAICT). There’s no OS information whatsoever here on the project page, that I can see.

Download just started no problem for me (Windows/Linux version), if there was a problem it was apparently temporary.

I’m not the author, but the impression that I get is this:

Such an option may have been short-term feasible 2 years ago, when this request was originally posted (and when the art overhaul had just happened, so the game was largely unchanged otherwise).

But at this point, with two years’ worth of story changes now separating the current releases from the version(s) with the original artwork, this is probably no longer possible because the old art doesn’t follow the current story. IOW, there are (newer) scenes where no pre-v10.0 art was ever produced, so it would be impossible to “opt-in” to displaying that content in the old style. Simply because it never existed in the old style.

That’s why wolfstar’s committed to keeping version 9.9 available, so that people can still play the old game with the old-style art if they wish… But it also necessarily (IIUC) means sticking with the old game (plot, story), as it existed right before the art overhaul.

Correct, on all platforms the saves are stored in a common location (on Linux it’s $HOME/.renpy/, on macOS I assume it’s something like $HOME/Library/RenPy/), so you can just extract and launch the new version instead of the previous one. It’ll pick the saves up automatically.

A couple of “upgrade”-related questions:

• I have saves from version 0.3.8, are they compatible with 2.3.1 or will I break things trying to migrate them to the new version?
• It looks like the 2.3.1 PC zip file already has a /game/saves/ directory, populated with several auto-*-LT1.save files? What are those about, and should I overwrite them with my older-version save files of the same name, or keep the newer (universally somewhat larger, AFAICT) files from the 2.3.1 zip, when names conflict between the two save directories?