Played the new boosty update. Will there be a way to later reconciliate with Mei Mei or maybe add a third option to stay friends if you kill the bh?
Choices right now are to either get into a "partnership" or become enemies. I'm fine with the former, but the latter is the only choice for female MCs though.
Mainly, because it didn't do anything. There was a maybe 1-2 interactions where it did play a role and I aimed to simplify the game with the rework. I may return it in the future though, once the story is complete and I'll have time to add details like that
When I download poma-public and try to play it in my browser and translate with Google translate, this happens. (I don't speak English so I'm using Google translate to write this)
And when I try to undo the translation and go back to English to press "Next", the same notification appears.
Oh yeah, I'm aware of this. No idea why it happens (probably something to do with the javascript changes I made to the save system), but you can use any other browser and it'd be fine. I tested with edge/its native translator and firefox, there was no problem
Try refreshing/seeing if the error still persists (you may have caught me uploading bug-fixes). If yes, can you tell me how this happened (which choices you picked) and whether you loaded a save sometime before the crash popped up?
Yes, yes, and yes. I have a save game a bit before this happened, I remember playing through the game and dropping a save a few screens before this. I was in the danger zone expedition, I killed a fellow disciple, the leader of the first tribe I can chose to assault, who was drunk af, called Fu Bing
I then had a poetry fight with Le Xiwen I won, then the guy's sis (I think) Fu Lanfen showed up and karmic stomped my ass to -10k
Then she said
Which I'm not sure I get, since her bro was called Fu Bing a bit earlier, or maybe I'm just mixing up another character (these xianxia names man). Also what does "I'm afraid I can't let him his die" really mean? Prolly some typo or something
Anyways, right after that I try to kill the rest of the gathered disciples like on the screenshot way above, and it triggers that error, which funnily enough also bricks the buttons, so I reload the page, load an earlier save, and go with some other option.
Thanks! I'll check it out. 1) Yes, 'Xiao' is a term used for a younger sibling/kid. She's calling Fu Bing = Xiao Bing (replacing the surname with the endearment). There are also a few others that you'll see in the game: repeating the name twice (Da = Da Da) and adding 'er to the name.
Will stat maximums be readjusted for MCs with a dragon tattoo? Dragon tattoo increases max stats by 20, but we are still capped at 1,000. Is this intentional so that we don't breach into early xiantian stats?
talent_chr is basically an empty variable placed in order to pass quicktest (a tool to proofread bugs), which ignores conditional statements and will show an error otherwise. Actual code for increasing attributes/spending exp looks like this
Since I don't know how to upload file on phone so I just gonna google lens the entire text here it might not work cuz my phone can't copy and paste pop-up the message pic above
Saves broke =( This happens due to me bugfixing things constantly. I am trying to make them more permanent, but so far no luck. The only advice I have for now is have more save filed ;(
Try uploading a safe save now, it should, probably, maybe, work.
Though keep in mind you’ll have to set variables limit_X (str, agi, con etc) to 500 or you’ll get an error when opening stat page/raising attributes (this will only happen with these saves, not in the future lol).
On premium/boosty version. Getting an error that prevents me from raising attributes.
sect_meditation line 128: can't divide by zero
Edit: Never mind, fixed it by raising the attribute limits to 500. That being said, the dragon tattoo you get from the panda is now worthless as I cannot surpass 1,000 in any stat, when the game previously allows 520.
My game breaks before the fight with the disciples and tattooed warriors giving the error: "expo_final_1 line 426: sbr doesn't contain label add_injury"
Have tried reloading and doing things a little differently but I can't seem to get around that error on that choice.
The other options advance the story but do not appeal to me =(
Cool. Not possible for my character in that play-through to not fail the stat check beforehand as I went on normal difficulty and wanted to try playing as a character that wasn’t absolutely maxed out on everything.
I just left a save there and restarted the game to try choosing some different options. Selected stronger starting options and it’s interesting how much it affects how the beginning plays out.
Hello! Wanted to ask something. I really enjoy your game and I found romance with Tigress to be just amazing. But when I tried to star Ruo romance I found that there is much less content with his romance in the Demo so far. Like during the “training arc” there was almost no event scenes with him, unlike with other RO.
Is it supposed to be like that and he will get more of “romance” but just in the future chapters, or I am missing something/doing something wrong, and need to follow specific steps to get his romance scenes?
Tigress is pretty much the only romance option that you can go anywhere with right now. At most, you can just flirt with the other cast members and spend time with them, but it's nothing so developed as Tigress' romance.
In some of my saves, the game returns to the beginning, in others an error appears. I tried to restart the game and I get this message after talking to the owner of the cheapest inn (the same thing happens to me in another save)
Fixed the error, was changing some stuff and accidentally broke it lol.
About the saves... it may break if you save at the state page or if you enter stat page, leave it and save then without advancing to a new page/making a choice. I'm working on locking the save function during these times, but for now there is nothing I can do =(
Hii! I've encountered a bug in the new version where when you attempt to save (while playing in browser) and then load back to said save, the game immediately freezes. After refreshing the website, the game resets, your save is still there, however the same bug happens when trying to load again. It seems to do the same when downloading it, however when you download it, the game will not acknowledge your save and will not load it.
Did you save during stat page / after you opened stat page and haven't clicked 'next page' or made a choice?
Sadly due to how stat page works in CS, saves tend to break if you do so. I'm working on trying to prevent you from saving during these moments, but it'll take me some time
I saved during a choice, so thats probably why. I tried again after restarting the game and the same issue still occured. Thank you for the reply!! ^^ also I'm not sure if this only happens for mobile as that's what I'm using.
A great start to something that could (have) be(en) terribly ambitious. The sheer amount of world building done to create a background of characters, places, factions, artifacts and relations which never appear but are mentioned in passing, is enormous. Unfortunately, it also suffers from some serious flaws:
Given CoG's bizarre obsession with not wanting to make ChoiceScript user-friendly, a back-button and the ability to export saves were always pretty much out of the question.
<SPOILERS>
The game isn't consistent about whether Tigress is from the East or from the West.
If you hope that Tigress is okay after getting injured during the Outer Disciple tournament, the game says you can challenge Long Wyoung. But if you then go to the Arena Administrative Building, it says you can only issue ranked challenges, not personal ones.
The game tells you the Ro Hui/Hyi is the "Mistress/Little Demon Queen", but then doesn't give you any options acknowledging this (You can only either go along with them apparently without recognizing them, or you can express disinterest in the disciples' lives without recognizing them).
</SPOILERS>
"There is no right and wrong. Justice is upheld by man, and fairness is a made-up concept for the weak to soothe their aches."
Ooh yikes. Methinks somebody's been hitting the Nietzsche, Foucault and Le Guin a bit too hard. Quick repeat after me:
The Dao that can be spoken of, is not The Eternal Dao. The Name that can be spoken of, is not The Eternal Name.
I'm pretty sure the match with Long Chen's brother just hasn't been implemented yet. Not exactly a flaw.
When does the game tell you that Ro Hyi is the Little Demon Queen? MC is only suspicious about their mask in their initial meeting but realizes something was truly wrong when they encounter the pile of corpses in the cave and sees Ro Hyi among the list of dead disciples. I might be misremembering this detail though, perhaps the game did namedrop her true identity.
If the game tells you that you can now challenge Long Wyoung, while you can't actually do so in the current build, then I would call that a (small) flaw in the current build, since that line could have just been commented out until it gets updated.
If you pass a check (INT iirc, but I'm not clicking through the whole game to make sure :p) with the correct degree of success, when she tries to convince MC to follow her to the cave, then MC lists several similarities between Ro Huy/Hyi and the "Mistress/Little Demon Queen" (e.g. androgynous, wears mask to hide deformed face, etc.). So that comparison strongly suggests to me that MC recognizes her suspects her identity.
The save function in this is very temperamental, as others have said when you go to the info screen for Characters the Save data gets stuck inside that menu regardless of if you saved in that menu or not. Meaning whenever you load the game you will load in that menu and never be able to get out of it, essentially breaking the game.
This has happened multiple times to me now and it's very aggravating. I can't keep restarting the game all over again just because the save system is broken so I'll just wait until the game is much further along that it currently is in development in the hopes it gets fixed x-x
Or you can just try to be careful of when you save and try not to use the character menu alot🤷🏽♂️cause i doubt its gonna get fixed any time soon since its a problem that happens on other games to
I dunno if the comment is meant to be rude or not but it's coming across that way.
I was already being careful, as I said it's happened multiple times across 4 different restarts. It doesn't matter how long I wait between changing screens the saves will break no matter what. I could've saved over 5+ mins ago and it will still do it.
If it's a problem with the program itself and will never be fixed, fine. I'll just wait until the game if finished so it's stable, it's what I was going to do anyway if the issue persisted in future versions.
Is there a way to export save data? Also when i load, it went to relationship menu, tried to return to game, still in menu section. Cannot resume the story
← Return to game
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Is there a way to beat the demon queen in the quest to escort Tang Huo's daughter or do you have to do something else to avoid the quest entirely?
The quest is unavoidable. If you killed the demon queen's son, it's basically submit or die.
Played the new boosty update. Will there be a way to later reconciliate with Mei Mei or maybe add a third option to stay friends if you kill the bh?
Choices right now are to either get into a "partnership" or become enemies. I'm fine with the former, but the latter is the only choice for female MCs though.
so is there still no porn in this or
no porn
Was there a reason for getting rid of the prestige stat?
Mainly, because it didn't do anything. There was a maybe 1-2 interactions where it did play a role and I aimed to simplify the game with the rework. I may return it in the future though, once the story is complete and I'll have time to add details like that
When I download poma-public and try to play it in my browser and translate with Google translate, this happens. (I don't speak English so I'm using Google translate to write this)
And when I try to undo the translation and go back to English to press "Next", the same notification appears.
Oh yeah, I'm aware of this. No idea why it happens (probably something to do with the javascript changes I made to the save system), but you can use any other browser and it'd be fine. I tested with edge/its native translator and firefox, there was no problem
Senior was able to break reality with a simple thought. Truly profound martial provess, this junior seeks guidance in the way of the dao from senior
Fun game btw, looking forward to it
Try refreshing/seeing if the error still persists (you may have caught me uploading bug-fixes). If yes, can you tell me how this happened (which choices you picked) and whether you loaded a save sometime before the crash popped up?
Yes, yes, and yes. I have a save game a bit before this happened, I remember playing through the game and dropping a save a few screens before this. I was in the danger zone expedition, I killed a fellow disciple, the leader of the first tribe I can chose to assault, who was drunk af, called Fu Bing
I then had a poetry fight with Le Xiwen I won, then the guy's sis (I think) Fu Lanfen showed up and karmic stomped my ass to -10k
Then she said
Which I'm not sure I get, since her bro was called Fu Bing a bit earlier, or maybe I'm just mixing up another character (these xianxia names man). Also what does "I'm afraid I can't let him his die" really mean? Prolly some typo or something
Anyways, right after that I try to kill the rest of the gathered disciples like on the screenshot way above, and it triggers that error, which funnily enough also bricks the buttons, so I reload the page, load an earlier save, and go with some other option.
Thanks! I'll check it out.
1) Yes, 'Xiao' is a term used for a younger sibling/kid. She's calling Fu Bing = Xiao Bing (replacing the surname with the endearment). There are also a few others that you'll see in the game: repeating the name twice (Da = Da Da) and adding 'er to the name.
2) It's a typo, will fix
Will stat maximums be readjusted for MCs with a dragon tattoo? Dragon tattoo increases max stats by 20, but we are still capped at 1,000. Is this intentional so that we don't breach into early xiantian stats?
Nope. I'll fix it in a minute, 1000 is the absolute limit, which is supposed to be very, very end-game and will cost much more to reach
There's a coding error when selecting the good-looking trait in the beginning. It's not enabling the "talent_chr" variable when it normally should.
its coded as 'beautiful'
No, the "beautiful" variable is enabled. It's not enabling the "talent_chr" variable that allows half the exp required to increase charisma.
talent_chr is basically an empty variable placed in order to pass quicktest (a tool to proofread bugs), which ignores conditional statements and will show an error otherwise. Actual code for increasing attributes/spending exp looks like this
Oh, that's good to know. I was stat editing it on anyways.
I believe this only happens in mobile since i played in the PC just fine
Maybe an old save issue. Does it persist with new ones?
Yep it still persist on mobile, you can save the game but can't load them.
Can you send me your save file? Either upload the file somewhere and link it or just copy text and paste it here
Since I don't know how to upload file on phone so I just gonna google lens the entire text here it might not work cuz my phone can't copy and paste pop-up the message pic above
{"version": "UNKNOWN","stats":{"choice_title":"PathOfMartialArts","testing":false"version_number":"12","implicit_control_flow":true,"cslib_ret":"0","difficulty":"1","statcheck":true,"stat_check_crit":false,"defeatscene":"","additional_damage":"0","bleeding":"0","fight_difficulty":"0","infusion":"0","r_v":"0","enemy_str":"0","enemy_agi":"0","enemy_con":"0","enemyvit":"0","enemy_per":"0","enemy_realm":"Early","aura_disabled":false,"finished_character_creation":true,"met_character":"0","date":"0","prologue_rooms":"","prologue_lost_xiaochun":false,"prologue_won_tigress":false,"prologue_hurt_xiaochun":false,"prologue_reached_houtian':false,"restaurant_percentage":"0","restaurant_alcohol":"1","restaurant_popularity":"50","restaurant_active":"0","restaurant_name""Guo'sRestaurant","restaurantbudget":"0","restaurant_cut":"0","kinghill_betwinner":"none","kinghill_arrested":false,"rock_gambled":false,"arena_ranking":"10001","arena_yunge":"tooearly","employing_gang":false,"super_apple":false,"killed_mo_long":false,"fought_with_mg":false,"working_for_he":false,"wu_destroyed":false,"boasted_about_killing_ml":false,"alchemy_pavilion_locked":false,"expo_fought_Ic":false,"expo_date":"0","expo_leader_name":"","expo_rushingbull":true,"expo_xiwen":"","expo_disciples":false,"expo_lanfen":false,"expo_twins":"none","expo_lushu_promise":false,"expo_hyi_damage":"nothing"."expo_final":"fight","expo_yuanfang":false,"expo_bull":"none","wrote_letter":false,"expo_army":"20","goshan_dead":false,years_passed":"0","opinion_ruo":"50","opinion_guo":"50","opinion_tigress":"50","opinion_mei":"50",opinion_ai":"50","opinion_fubing":"50","opinion_lc":"50","opinion_caihong":"50""opinion_xiwen":"50","met_chao":false,"met_tao":false,"met_ruo":false,"met_guo":false,"met_mei":false,"met_xiwen":false,"met_tigress":false,"met_caihong":false,"met_ai":false,"met_jun":false,"metfang":false,"caihong_status":"N
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https://www.file.io/
upload the .txt and send the link =)
where can i download the new premium version?
https://nickydicky.itch.io/poma-premium
but you'll need to sub on boosty to get the password
i don't see any download links 😥
Ah, what do you mean?
Is it normal if my save doesn't work? I left a save on a "safe save" page yet it always goes back to the beginning when I load
Yeah my save files also don't work, doesn't matter if I download and upload them, after a few hours since I close the game they just stop working.
Saves broke =(
This happens due to me bugfixing things constantly. I am trying to make them more permanent, but so far no luck. The only advice I have for now is have more save filed ;(
Try uploading a safe save now, it should, probably, maybe, work.
Though keep in mind you’ll have to set variables limit_X (str, agi, con etc) to 500 or you’ll get an error when opening stat page/raising attributes (this will only happen with these saves, not in the future lol).
On premium/boosty version. Getting an error that prevents me from raising attributes.
sect_meditation line 128: can't divide by zero
Edit: Never mind, fixed it by raising the attribute limits to 500. That being said, the dragon tattoo you get from the panda is now worthless as I cannot surpass 1,000 in any stat, when the game previously allows 520.
My game breaks before the fight with the disciples and tattooed warriors giving the error: "expo_final_1 line 426: sbr doesn't contain label add_injury"
Have tried reloading and doing things a little differently but I can't seem to get around that error on that choice.
The other options advance the story but do not appeal to me =(
Will be fixed with the next update (pretty soon). For now, you can get around it by not failing the stat check :D
Cool. Not possible for my character in that play-through to not fail the stat check beforehand as I went on normal difficulty and wanted to try playing as a character that wasn’t absolutely maxed out on everything.
I just left a save there and restarted the game to try choosing some different options. Selected stronger starting options and it’s interesting how much it affects how the beginning plays out.
Thanks for your reply.
Loved the update and the new RO, she must've been so loney, my poor heart bleeds for her. Great work Nic
Its a great game but its missing the NSFW i was expecting
Yeah
Hello! Wanted to ask something. I really enjoy your game and I found romance with Tigress to be just amazing. But when I tried to star Ruo romance I found that there is much less content with his romance in the Demo so far. Like during the “training arc” there was almost no event scenes with him, unlike with other RO.
Is it supposed to be like that and he will get more of “romance” but just in the future chapters, or I am missing something/doing something wrong, and need to follow specific steps to get his romance scenes?
Tigress is pretty much the only romance option that you can go anywhere with right now. At most, you can just flirt with the other cast members and spend time with them, but it's nothing so developed as Tigress' romance.
Oh I see, thank you
fixed
I hope can we get more Ai content soon. She gets quite a lot less screentime compared to the other cast members.
What happened to the little kid we save on the mission with Ai? There hasn't been any mention of him in a long time.
He's in the sect. In fact, you may (depending on the route) interact with him in the next premium/in two public updates.
MC gets smashed too easily just saying the wrong thing can get their teeth kicked in npc
Will sex scenes ever be added or just fading to black?
just fade to black
Guess ur just so ahead of the curve even the game don't know
He's fighting a stage above, as a Late-Houtian
Amazing game. It was fun and can't wait for more.
Well aside from the bugs and reducing few free roam places
It was fun as always
CAnt w8 for the next season
Fixed the error, was changing some stuff and accidentally broke it lol.
About the saves... it may break if you save at the state page or if you enter stat page, leave it and save then without advancing to a new page/making a choice. I'm working on locking the save function during these times, but for now there is nothing I can do =(
Hii! I've encountered a bug in the new version where when you attempt to save (while playing in browser) and then load back to said save, the game immediately freezes. After refreshing the website, the game resets, your save is still there, however the same bug happens when trying to load again. It seems to do the same when downloading it, however when you download it, the game will not acknowledge your save and will not load it.
Did you save during stat page / after you opened stat page and haven't clicked 'next page' or made a choice?
Sadly due to how stat page works in CS, saves tend to break if you do so. I'm working on trying to prevent you from saving during these moments, but it'll take me some time
I saved during a choice, so thats probably why. I tried again after restarting the game and the same issue still occured. Thank you for the reply!! ^^ also I'm not sure if this only happens for mobile as that's what I'm using.
Maybe you had random rolls on
Made it available for download =)
Which tattoo do you guys think will have the most impact in future fights?
A great start to something that could (have) be(en) terribly ambitious. The sheer amount of world building done to create a background of characters, places, factions, artifacts and relations which never appear but are mentioned in passing, is enormous. Unfortunately, it also suffers from some serious flaws:
Given CoG's bizarre obsession with not wanting to make ChoiceScript user-friendly, a back-button and the ability to export saves were always pretty much out of the question.
<SPOILERS>
The game isn't consistent about whether Tigress is from the East or from the West.
If you hope that Tigress is okay after getting injured during the Outer Disciple tournament, the game says you can challenge Long Wyoung. But if you then go to the Arena Administrative Building, it says you can only issue ranked challenges, not personal ones.
The game tells you the Ro Hui/Hyi is the "Mistress/Little Demon Queen", but then doesn't give you any options acknowledging this (You can only either go along with them apparently without recognizing them, or you can express disinterest in the disciples' lives without recognizing them).
</SPOILERS>
"There is no right and wrong. Justice is upheld by man, and fairness is a made-up concept for the weak to soothe their aches."
Ooh yikes. Methinks somebody's been hitting the Nietzsche, Foucault and Le Guin a bit too hard. Quick repeat after me:
The Dao that can be spoken of, is not The Eternal Dao.
The Name that can be spoken of, is not The Eternal Name.
I'm pretty sure the match with Long Chen's brother just hasn't been implemented yet. Not exactly a flaw.
When does the game tell you that Ro Hyi is the Little Demon Queen? MC is only suspicious about their mask in their initial meeting but realizes something was truly wrong when they encounter the pile of corpses in the cave and sees Ro Hyi among the list of dead disciples. I might be misremembering this detail though, perhaps the game did namedrop her true identity.
If the game tells you that you can now challenge Long Wyoung, while you can't actually do so in the current build, then I would call that a (small) flaw in the current build, since that line could have just been commented out until it gets updated.
If you pass a check (INT iirc, but I'm not clicking through the whole game to make sure :p) with the correct degree of success, when she tries to convince MC to follow her to the cave, then MC lists several similarities between Ro Huy/Hyi and the "Mistress/Little Demon Queen" (e.g. androgynous, wears mask to hide deformed face, etc.). So that comparison strongly suggests to me that MC
recognizes hersuspects her identity.I actually cooked up a feature to export saves now! Very experimental, but it seems to work for now
That's awesome, thank you!
I screamed when I saw this. I haven't played it yet in itch, except for dashingdon... and I'm hella excited to see what this is!!!!!
That was...interesting end...
The save function in this is very temperamental, as others have said when you go to the info screen for Characters the Save data gets stuck inside that menu regardless of if you saved in that menu or not. Meaning whenever you load the game you will load in that menu and never be able to get out of it, essentially breaking the game.
This has happened multiple times to me now and it's very aggravating. I can't keep restarting the game all over again just because the save system is broken so I'll just wait until the game is much further along that it currently is in development in the hopes it gets fixed x-x
Or you can just try to be careful of when you save and try not to use the character menu alot🤷🏽♂️cause i doubt its gonna get fixed any time soon since its a problem that happens on other games to
I dunno if the comment is meant to be rude or not but it's coming across that way.
I was already being careful, as I said it's happened multiple times across 4 different restarts. It doesn't matter how long I wait between changing screens the saves will break no matter what. I could've saved over 5+ mins ago and it will still do it.
If it's a problem with the program itself and will never be fixed, fine. I'll just wait until the game if finished so it's stable, it's what I was going to do anyway if the issue persisted in future versions.
Sorry if i came across that way i was just trying to give a helping hand cause the issue your talking about doesn't happen to me that often.
It only happens to me if I open the menu and save while on the same page.👍🏽
Is there a way to export save data? Also when i load, it went to relationship menu, tried to return to game, still in menu section. Cannot resume the story
Make sure to not enter the menu section whenever saving or else when u load the save it will take u to the menu where you'll be stuck
Am i able to reach middle houtian before I talk to the talking panda?
(spoilers)
If you're on good-to-neutral terms with Mei, she'll give you a certain task where you'll have to kill someone.Agree to help her out with her scheme, and she’ll give you a pill that will let you break through to middle.
Very well written game,i'm eager to see the future of it