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Hell-Strain

An erotic survival-horror RPG! · By Finchy

Some Questions/Suggestions

A topic by FrottageF created 89 days ago Views: 232 Replies: 4
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First off, the game is really great so far and any complaints I have are purely nitpicking.

I've seen you talk about it in another thread, but I also think waiting around for Stamina to regenerate feels bad.  I do think having a cost for sneaking is good though, so I figured I'd throw out a suggestion. First, you are always at Max Stamina after a fight. Next, instand of losing Stamina while sneaking, if you are/start sneaking when you hit the yellow color indicator, your next combat with that zone always starts you off at 25% Stamina. That way, there's a real consequence of trying to avoid multiple encounters; you just get a tougher one. EDIT: Maybe that skill that improves Stamina regeneration increases your Stamina cap from sneaking, to 40% or something.

Would you consider capping the amount of experience you get from each enemy? (Maybe Trash Fox only gives 100xp in totality) Might be a good way to keep player builds from just getting every node from grinding and makes build variety more meaningful and feel less soupy. Would also help judging how powerful you make future encounters if you know that the player will be "about this strong."

I'm not sure if there is plans for a dominate kink to mirror the submissive one, as it seems a little hard to implement given how the game and its lore functions, but I have an idea. Maybe after previously losing to some enemies via ejaculation, there opens up options to do give the player a more dominant role, giving the player the option to go right into sex and end the encounter early with only one ejaculation. Obviously trying not to get into non-consensual stuff and break Itch io guidelines, as it be very much "Yes, I want you to take charge." But I can see why THIS might not fit in the games themes.

Even if nothing here is changed I do still you're really cooking with this. Thank you.

While it doesn't function exactly as you described, enemies like the trash panda that are temptation based already do let the player take charge. Their sex scenes function slightly differently since instead of trying to break out of an enemy grab, you have to resist the urge to fuck them enough to be able to step away.

I missed that! Thank you.

Developer

Appreciate the feedback!

Yeah, the stealth stamina cost is a bit of a sticking point for a lot of people, so I'm definitely trying to figure out how best to adjust it. My original intention was to make it risky/costly to do, so you don't just use it all the time, but it's a bit annoying to use optimally.

As WhiteWhale said, there is light dominant player stuff in already, but the game is aimed at a submissive MC audience, so I'd like to stick with that for the majority of the game.

Cheers!

I guess I missed the light dominant stuff that is in the game. I shouldn't have assumed there wasn't any before double checking.

I'm definitely interested to see how you shake up the stamina. I do like that intention of it being risk/reward so I'm interested in seeing what else you could do with it.

Thank you for the responses!