Saturday, August 4, 2012

Harem 0.6a.3 release (consider it a beta)

Figured out why there was an issue with the crash in combat.  Essentially the enemy health bars script requires a new game, otherwise it crashes old saves.  For the time it will be removed.  When my ruby wizard gets back I'll have him take a look at it, but for now it has to remain out.

Fixed a handful of other bugs as well.  Hopefully this will be the last of the 0.6a releases and I can happily go into a coma for a period.  Consider this a beta release.

Fixes
-Combat interpreter error.  The script worked fine when I took it out, but now it seems to crash the game.  Pulling it back out until later at the earliest.
-Fixed a final freeze in the corsix tunnels.  One event was hiding behind the other and escaped me in 0.6a.2
-Sarah's corsix event completeable
-Angelica's event in Corsix completeable if you didn't have her speak to Edrin in Western Corsix
-Can no longer go walking on the train tracks (which is a bad idea btw)
-Hopefully made it completely impossible to enter the tram without either Donnie or Tomas in the party, as well as Jessica and Angelica.   Will require a save from before the tram yards.
-The step counter script error still remains, so avoid pressing f12 which is what seems to cause it.

I'm going to hold off releasing this on the forums until I get some feedback here saying that it actually works, so please comment if you get through the game successfully.

http://www.filefactory.com/file/k8oiceeatgl
http://shareupload.com/wfh42gzwgqzu/Harem_0.6a.3.exe.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/30037370/Harem_0.6a.3.exe.html
http://bitshare.com/files/cg3utwi7/Harem-0.6a.3.exe.html

22 comments:

  1. here I think I found an ez solution to your step counter issue, it is done w/ an event I have made it into a project to make it easy to see how I did it. http://www.mediafire.com/?zu3cwzf0ikcls69

    Event Page 1
    http://i.imgur.com/sHewk.png

    Event Page 2
    http://i.imgur.com/OreAP.png

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    1. Remove the text from event page 2 on the conditional branch.

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    2. Thanks. I'll take a look at it when I start up on 0.6b. A bit burned out atm so I'm content with the warning

      'If you press f12 the game will blow up. Don't press f12.'

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  2. it works perfectly except for one minor bug:
    -For some reason the healthbar of the enemy stops displaying.

    Other than that it worked perfect on the light path

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    1. Please read the entire post.
      "Figured out why there was an issue with the crash in combat. Essentially the enemy health bars script requires a new game, otherwise it crashes old saves. For the time it will be removed. When my ruby wizard gets back I'll have him take a look at it, but for now it has to remain out."

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    2. Oh you are right, sorry

      Amazing work you guys are doing by the way one of the best rpg games i have ever played. Keep up the good work

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  3. Used a save from previous version of the game (Entered Corsix for the first time). Ran through the trial content (lost) and got on the train. Brief chat with single npc then npc walked off. Now trapped in first area of the train, no npc's to talk to. One door unable to open the other told can't go in that direction.

    Bug or am I have I missed something?

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    1. Can you upload that save so I can track it down? That's proving to be one insanely resilient bug if it's still around.

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  4. I just finished playing through the new content on the dark path and all I can say is amazing job as usual. Not only is this the hottest but it is also one of the best RPG games I have ever played period. The fact that you do this all in your spare time is incredible and does not go unappreciated. From all of us fans, I would just like to thank you and your team for all of your hard work and dedication.
    As always, I am eager to see what you have in store for us next.
    All the best.

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  5. Of the four urls in the post only one is a hyperlink and it is to the old version

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  6. the house of the leader of the orc's village have the same frozen problem. after clear that village. i re-visit after few hr in that house and get the frozen bug. my game froze.

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    1. There shouldn't be any reason to re-enter the house after it's been cleared. I'll try to have a correct that in the next version, but for now I'm just going to put that in the 'known' bugs list as I don't think that it justifies a new release.

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  7. Please, Please, PLEASE make these releases possible through torrent. The downloading sites do not work for me, they inevitably stop with 'download interupted' messages. As a possible suggestion for a torrent hosting site, I can easily suggest:

    http://sukebei.nyaa.eu/

    or

    http://deadfrog.fapis.com/index.html

    So PLEASE release this game as a torrent. Oh & before I forget, I LOVE THIS GAME. It is perhaps THE BEST hypnotic/mind control game I have ever played.

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    1. Is there any site that consistently works for you?

      I do make some small income from the downloads from those sites and would prefer not to create too many alternatives to them.

      And I'll have a mediafire link up within a few days. Same as 0.5 you'll get it through e-mail (not functioning yet)

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  8. Great game, still enjoying it. A few comments, though

    - The encounter rate on the plains is very high indeed. I had no trouble killing them, but it got a bit grind-y after a while.
    - This is really a niggle, but it bothers the hell out of me. You use "would of", "could of" and "should of" where it should be "would have", "could have" and "should have". It really disrupts the immersion for me.

    Keep up the good work, and enjoy your break!

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    1. -Wanted it to feel like you were being actively hunted. I probably won't have encounter rates that high again, but I probably won't live up to that.
      -That's a regional thing. In the midwest those are pretty much interchangeable and it's just the way that I speak. My editor keeps an eye out for them, but he's still trying to catch up.

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  9. I'm on the plains after the tram, can't find where to progress. There is a burning village that is visible from a long way and a lot of places that I get told not to explore. I've probably missed something obvious :)

    Great game overall, could do with fewer, harder and better rewarded fights.

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  10. hey man got a bug i just got into that city after the mines trying to get my guy freed the bug is i cant use the left arrow button and if im not holding on to onw of the arrow keys i keep going to the right till i hit a wal so yeah im buggered tryed loading a old save the some thing anyway great game so far cant wait to see want u do with it one thing is it going to be in fullscreen at some point?

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  11. Pressing too fast in cg mode will make the dialog disappear and need to go back to the main title to get i work again.
    Its not much of a big deal though, just telling you.

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