[RELEASE][FEEDBACK]HERO CORRUPTION V0.95c

[spaisin]

Ok, I .. couldn't resist. Couple more tries, with the plan to just ignore the time to complete the castle.

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First run

"Potions"
I got blues on day 1 and 2 (as in, almost useless)
Then by day 15 I had found a total of two more, and I had 2 reds and 5 purples in backback waiting for a chance to be used.
Hadn't fought basically anything - bar a few Monas - for the latter week. Just trying to fish for something to cure some addictions. No real luck

Poor score, went looong to see the castle.

Chloe ... Well, my preparation sorta failed. Made a plan, went for Kira, but of course I had to change my mind at the selection - to test out killing Kira this time. I figured I'd visit the church to buy out the high tit addiction I had saved for her to clear. How do I always manage to come up with the exact combination that just doesn't work in this patch? No buying out addictions anymore

The Chloe fight looked interesting, but the addiction was a bit much.. didn't help I ended up noobing it, testing buttons. Well, one..mmore...try


The Second run
"What is this run?" went thru my head a couple times. I had one or two blue pots in my backpack for most of it.. got the sword recipe out of Mia on first try, had the exact mats in pocket. Talisman at Laura, no amazons anywhere, easy peasy. Mona for quest XP, fairies for XP. Had an open castle at noon on d14. Two full skill trees (attack + lust), a green pot in pocket, eyepatch. Might not be perfect, but here goes.

Guess what got me?
...
The Stun mechanic, at Abby & Gabby ... kinda my bad, but I figured a stunning hit after the "has a plan" part would've been enough. It wasn't, figures. She'll have to be able to move to fail at the planned attack I suppose... shucks. Lesson learned, keep hitting until she tells me not to


Couple bugs from those runs:

1) Got to a time "Day 18 25:00 hours", after drinking pots in batches at camp. Seems like pots advance time again, only sometimes though. (Also repeated in the later run before D15)

2) I was doing 26 damage with mittens and attack of 1. Once I got a dagger, I swapped and the situation normalized. Tested mittens after, they went back to normal as well. Somehow I got ghost-equipped with some +15 weapon - similar to the Holy Talisman issue, I suppose. No clue of the trigger, it was pre-dagger, but I may have seen and/or obtained the old talisman by then (nothing better to do when the other maps are blocked by bosses, might as well go ghost hunting... )

3) Sometimes, stunning Kira breaks her images, only visions are seen (even when the damage lands on her)

4) <Restrained> remained after Alice's pussy addiction loss (at 140 addiction, so it was pretty quick...).

[clshngnr]

Ok, so just finished my longest run on this version to date. Also was my first game crash, I think I was on around day 60. I was trying to complete the codex, i.e. have beaten all girls 5 times each. I have looked through other replies and the creator's notes about the additions and the only new addition I have not come across yet is Chloe.

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I can't get past Gabby and Abby, but was able to several times in a previous version, I'm pretty sure I'm doing the same thing that I was doing so it seems there was a change to make them harder (pun intended?). Can anyone enlighten me as to what I might be doing wrong? First run through I had too much addictions, but thought my lust capacity and weapons would be enough to breeze through. Next run I stacked a bunch of green potions and this just delayed the inevitable and I walked away from the castle with a creampie addiction of like 200 or something ridiculous so my run was pretty much dead.

Other than this I have to reinforce what I said in a previous post, that I think the new additions are really good and had fun exploring them.

Anyways.. Gonna try another run and see if I can figure it out myself, but if someone has a tip or something that may not be immediately obvious I'd appreciate it.

[spaisin]

Quoting a spoiler looks odd, so, this sentence. No, that' doesn't alleviate the issue any. Anyway

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Next run I stacked a bunch of green potions and this just delayed the inevitable and I walked away from the castle with a creampie addiction of like 200 or something ridiculous so my run was pretty much dead.

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That sounds like you have to have the fight under control and for long periods of time at that. Are you not focusing the healer down first? She doesn't seem able to heal herself normally - it's still a long fight, but the only heals you would normally see are during each "interrupt."

[grelgen]

Sadly, I couldn't find this one

The old talisman seemed to auto-equip a Holy Necklace; only noted it as Kira's visions didn't seem to care about the bra I was supposed to be wearing.

you have 3 spots in the code that are:
"if": {
"condition": "acess = \"HolyNecklace\"",

they probably need to be changed to "=="

edit: After starting a tease of my own, I can see now that pointing at the javascript is not gonna help you find it

page BattleSandyandWendySeduce:
if stage == 5
then
if enemyhp <= 50
then
if acess == "Condom"
else
if acess = "HolyNecklace"

page BattleHannah-2
if blowjob >= 35
then
choice
Fuck Hannah's mouth
if acess == "eyepatch"
else
if acess = "HolyNecklace"

page BattleJuliaEnemySeduce
if stage == 2
then
if lust >= mlust*0.5
then
if acess == "Gloves"
else
if acess = "HolyNecklace"


Hope that helps

[Thamrill]

Finally got around to try this out. Gonna post my comments later
Found a typo:

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During a walk in garden I got the following phrase:

"You can swear you've seen this she before"

[clshngnr]

Quoting a spoiler looks odd, so, this sentence. No, that' doesn't alleviate the issue any. Anyway

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That sounds like you have to have the fight under control and for long periods of time at that. Are you not focusing the healer down first? She doesn't seem able to heal herself normally - it's still a long fight, but the only heals you would normally see are during each "interrupt."

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Yeah I've been focusing on the healer, I think its Abby, but after a while she becomes out of reach and I can only attack Gabby, who is immediately healed by Abby. This is the point that I've gotten stuck on this version, but somehow not on other versions. I think what happens is Gabby starts riding me which increases creampie addiction and puts Abby out of reach. I've been going with max attack perks and the hammer, which is still giving 28 attack so the max attack rating.

[Slagblah]

Quoting a spoiler looks odd, so, this sentence. No, that' doesn't alleviate the issue any. Anyway

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That sounds like you have to have the fight under control and for long periods of time at that. Are you not focusing the healer down first? She doesn't seem able to heal herself normally - it's still a long fight, but the only heals you would normally see are during each "interrupt."

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Yeah I've been focusing on the healer, I think its Abby, but after a while she becomes out of reach and I can only attack Gabby, who is immediately healed by Abby. This is the point that I've gotten stuck on this version, but somehow not on other versions. I think what happens is Gabby starts riding me which increases creampie addiction and puts Abby out of reach. I've been going with max attack perks and the hammer, which is still giving 28 attack so the max attack rating.

You got lucky before. This hasn't changed since the previous version.

See viewtopic.php?p=314568#p314568 for the solution.

[Errant_]

Hi dioagoo, big fan of the series since the early versions, finally getting around to giving some feedback. Thanks for all the hard work you've put into it, it's really grown into something great! I have a pretty much "guaranteed win" playstyle at this point (assuming you go beyond the soft time limit) so I think I've gotten to experience around 90+% of what the game has to offer.

- Generally love the addiction system, even if some of the categories/girls are really not my thing, I'm fine with that. From a general combat perspective, this is one of the most well-fleshed out games on the site.

- Great variety and creativity in the random events, though sometimes the odds of getting particular events feel too low relative to how important they are to gameplay (e.g. blue potions).

- The Amazon event seems way too punishing. I've only seen it like twice, but I don't think I've ever escaped after being caught -- maybe I just got caught without damage upgrades each time. But it's very "feel bad" to have a game over that you had 0 chance of stopping (unless I'm missing something about the mechanics of the options you have during that event).

- I like how you're adding new mechanics with the relatively new encounters. Chloe especially was a nice addition.

- There are one or two times where my corruption increased mysteriously with no message. Not sure if this is intentional or not, but there definitely seem to be corruption-increasing things that aren't explicitly called out.

- If you're on the lookout for new addiction, I would kill for some feet-related content in this game . If you don't want to create a dedicated addiction for it, maybe just one-off encounters would work -- or maybe an Other/Misc. addiction which includes several different things.

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Overall a great experience already. If you do want to improve more, I think there are definitely some things you can continue to explore from a game design/balance perspective. This has already improved a lot since the early versions.
One thing to note is that currently, it's not clear what you're aiming for as the "true" game mode / goal for the player: the time-limited days and final score, or full completion of the endgame (Castle). That affects some of my thoughts on balance, but overall:

- There seems to be no reason to prioritize the max HP / lust perks. Maxing attack first, then gold, seems pretty clearly optimal (you could *maybe* argue for gold first, but I don't think so). The fundamental issue you have with lust is that because of the stacking/exponential nature of the addictions, going for a "tanky but low damage per hit" archetype just doesn't work. By maxing damage, you reduce the length of combat and naturally end up being more tanky than you would have been maxing hp/lust. On top of that, limiting your addiction gain by shortening combat is netting you gold value, because you're spending less money lowering your addictions.

- This has definitely improved over time, but HP remains under-used. You only really need to get up to 120 or 140 HP, compared with lust which you want to get much higher. I think it's fine for HP to be used less than lust, but there should be more incentive to gain HP (and/or the downsides of the HP potion should be lowered).

- The defensive items seem a little weak -- it's usually a pretty significant investment of gold value to counter one specific attack type, which only a handful of enemies will use. I've never really felt the need to craft them so far, unless I just happen to have the materials and don't need the money. Compare this with the weapons which are a must-craft ASAP (for the maximizing damage reasons explained above).

- It might be interesting to explore the escape mechanic a bit more: e.g. ways to increase/decrease the escape probability, ways to punish over-using escape, etc. Right now, some encounters are much easier and/or much more rewarding than others (e.g. encounters that raise your addictions less are inherently more valuable), so if you have the patience for it, an escape-heavy strategy is pretty optimal.

- I like that you're exploring the potential to have high corruption as a viable build. I don't think it's quite there yet (though keeping the talisman does allow you to temporarily push damage before going a castle run), but would love to see this explored more.

This is already a really long post so I'll leave it at that for now, but happy to share more thoughts if you'd like feedback on anything in particular. Thanks again for your continued development on this!

[VincentSagitta]

1) The cleansing fountain lacks a 95% chance of having a water nymph giving you a sneaky handjob for +10 HJ-addiction. I mean it's about the only positive event left in the game ..

Good suggestion!
I've also been surprised that when I rest in the cabin in the woods (2nd zone), whoever lives there never comes home!

[fkfk]

Always a great game that's a pleasure to play!
The thing is, when you figure out how to survive you are only left with too much choice in order to decide who you wanna lose to!

Just a (minor) bug report.

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I got caged by the nuns at the church ( ), and managed to survive. Still, the "caged" status remained all throughout the rest of the game.
Dunno if it could help, but the more details the better: I remember also I had more than 100 gold, so I paid the debt right away.

[clshngnr]

Ok, so since my last post I have played through and conquered the castle at least 2 times, and have some more feedback.

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If you choose to defeat Kira, the game becomes insanely easy IMO. By the time I get to that point I've already maxed my attack and have crafted a hammer so infinitely boosting my attack by 2 overnight essentially activated juggernaut mode. This also means that I don't pay any more attention to keeping corruption down, and don't bother strategically drinking potions, I just drink whatever I come across. I literally ran through the castle like it was nothing the past two times when defeating Kira instead of sparing her, with attack of 60+ both times. Also I thought Chloe was a bit easy both times, and would like to see her get a buff. Also would like to see more characters like Chloe, meaning the same battle system of lust instead of HP.

[grelgen]

Ok, so since my last post I have played through and conquered the castle at least 2 times, and have some more feedback.

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If you choose to defeat Kira, the game becomes insanely easy IMO. By the time I get to that point I've already maxed my attack and have crafted a hammer so infinitely boosting my attack by 2 overnight essentially activated juggernaut mode. This also means that I don't pay any more attention to keeping corruption down, and don't bother strategically drinking potions, I just drink whatever I come across. I literally ran through the castle like it was nothing the past two times when defeating Kira instead of sparing her, with attack of 60+ both times. Also I thought Chloe was a bit easy both times, and would like to see her get a buff. Also would like to see more characters like Chloe, meaning the same battle system of lust instead of HP.

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If your corruption and addictions are super high due to just chugging potions all the time, how does Chloe not just instantly win with sexy combat?

[diogaoo]

Hey everyone!

Thanks for all the feedback you guys provided, I've tried to fix all known bugs reported recently, if I missed any, please let me know.

As always, all suggestions are very punctual and welcome, I agree with most of what was said in these previous posts and I appreciate the praise and criticism, both are very important for the development of the project.

The beginning of 2022 will be marked by the release of version v1.0 here on Milovana and version v1.05 on Patreon. With the arrival of the new year, new possibilities for the development of Hero Corruption emerge, I hope I can keep counting with everyone's support in this new stage.

Finally, I wish you all a happy new year, may this year bring the best of you and all those around you.

See you all again soon.
Cheers!

[clshngnr]

Ok, so since my last post I have played through and conquered the castle at least 2 times, and have some more feedback.

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If you choose to defeat Kira, the game becomes insanely easy IMO. By the time I get to that point I've already maxed my attack and have crafted a hammer so infinitely boosting my attack by 2 overnight essentially activated juggernaut mode. This also means that I don't pay any more attention to keeping corruption down, and don't bother strategically drinking potions, I just drink whatever I come across. I literally ran through the castle like it was nothing the past two times when defeating Kira instead of sparing her, with attack of 60+ both times. Also I thought Chloe was a bit easy both times, and would like to see her get a buff. Also would like to see more characters like Chloe, meaning the same battle system of lust instead of HP.

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If your corruption and addictions are super high due to just chugging potions all the time, how does Chloe not just instantly win with sexy combat?

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Since I had been drinking so many purples my lust capacity was ridiculously high. Along with all the reds and purples I got a ton of blues as well and that basically removed most of my addictions before heading to the castle. I don't remember exactly but I think that big breast, anal, and handjob were the highest with anal being at around 10 but my corruption was still at around 20+ tho. For fun the second time around I waited when fighting Chloe so I could cycle through her 3 different attack styles.

[Bee4]

Forgive me if I’m too impatient but has the save feature been released yet?

It really needs a save feature as the game has crashed on maybe the 15th day or so repeatedly. I use an iPhone 8 and the DuckDuckGo browser, I also tried safari but sometimes the buttons are hidden in safari. The screen isn’t proportioned right.

What browsers and computers do you guys use?

How many hours do you spend on each playthrough?