Halforums Academy 2 Story Commentary Thread

GasBandit

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Well, maybe have a few highlights and a very quick run through of the day, but then spend a little time on the relationship status, location of items, etc.
I may try to redo the day and, knowing that those events are coming, see if I can be in the right place to witness them this time.

I kinda had something like that happen once before - Gusto's day actually crashed midmorning on my first try, so I had to do it over again, but in both playthroughs, Rendar and Raven tried to bump uglies in the courtyard.
 

GasBandit

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Alright, I replayed the day, and am somewhat more satisfied with the results.

Overall though I'm not sure I'm liking some of the differences between AA1 and AA2. Aside from what else has already been discussed (character models, simplified character generation, etc), everything feels a lot more... random. The character simulations don't seem as strong, and interactions are starting to get repetitive already on only the first day. I had interaction values set at 3x baseline because that was necessary in AA1, but now I'm wondering if that isn't too high for AA2, it feels like relationships are forming and breaking, whipsawing back and forth in the space of a single day. One day somebody's name is mud, the next your friends are telling you to be nice to them. One day a couple seem absolutely over the moon, the next day they're cooling off rapidly and maybe breaking up. Well, we'll see how this all works out I suppose. It'll take me a day or two to edit this footage, probably. I'm guessing sunday night for the upload.

If I'd had my druthers, I think I'd have rather done HFA2 in AA1 again... if not for that pesky self-hate bug.
 

GasBandit

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Day 4 is 25% (Morning narrations done)

Erm...

Not to alarm anybody or anything...

But it might be a good idea to start looking for transfer students.
 

GasBandit

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How is babby formed? How girl get pragnent?
There's actually a complex system that determines it. Every two weeks (starting on day 1), every female character is assigned a number of "Risky," "Low Risk," and "Safe" days. The 2 week cycle will always have 4 high risk and 4 low risk days separated by at least one safe day, and all the other days in the schedule aside from those will be safe as well. The character currently controlled by the hand of fate (whose day it is as protagonist) cannot become pregnant on that day. An "NPC" female will become pregnant if she has unprotected vaginal sex between 5 and 10 times during risky periods depending on the risk severity of the days it happens and the circumstances of the sex. There ARE condoms available. On high risk days, girls with morality level 3 or higher will either (1) refuse sex outright if they're not particularly intimate with their partner or (2) insist on condom useage if their intimacy level is high. Girls with morality level 2 or 1 will still engage in unprotected sex, but will warn the boy to "finish outside" (which doesn't guarantee that he will - but if he does it doesn't count toward pregnancy). On "low risk" days, girls with 3 or higher morality and low intimacy with their partner will still refuse sex, however they will respond the same as low morality girls if intimacy level is high ("it's dangerous today, be careful," etc) with no insistence on condom useage.

Girls with the "Driven" personality will insist on condom useage the first time they have sex regardless of all other factors.

If a girl becomes pregnant, she confronts the father, and the two are removed from the game. If the confronted father is currently controlled by the hand of fate... the game is over.[DOUBLEPOST=1416117566,1416117120][/DOUBLEPOST]
Looks like we're gonna need this:

petra-pregnancy.png

HAR

(Just kidding)
 
There's actually a complex system that determines it. Every two weeks (starting on day 1), every female character is assigned a number of "Risky," "Low Risk," and "Safe" days. The 2 week cycle will always have 4 high risk and 4 low risk days separated by at least one safe day, and all the other days in the schedule aside from those will be safe as well. The character currently controlled by the hand of fate (whose day it is as protagonist) cannot become pregnant on that day. An "NPC" female will become pregnant if she has unprotected vaginal sex between 5 and 10 times during risky periods depending on the risk severity of the days it happens and the circumstances of the sex. There ARE condoms available. On high risk days, girls with morality level 3 or higher will either (1) refuse sex outright if they're not particularly intimate with their partner or (2) insist on condom useage if their intimacy level is high. Girls with morality level 2 or 1 will still engage in unprotected sex, but will warn the boy to "finish outside" (which doesn't guarantee that he will - but if he does it doesn't count toward pregnancy). On "low risk" days, girls with 3 or higher morality and low intimacy with their partner will still refuse sex, however they will respond the same as low morality girls if intimacy level is high ("it's dangerous today, be careful," etc) with no insistence on condom useage.
You make it sound almost like there's one of those "donation drive" thermometers on every female character, and if it just happens to hit the "goal achieved" level within a certain amount of time...then the magic happens.

--Patrick
 

GasBandit

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You make it sound almost like there's one of those "donation drive" thermometers on every female character, and if it just happens to hit the "goal achieved" level within a certain amount of time...then the magic happens.

--Patrick
As I understand it, yes. It could take as many as ten "deposits" but it could take as few as 5. You get the first 4 for free, after that it's a roll of the dice. It also resets the counter each week.
 

GasBandit

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Day 4 is 50% done (Narrations done through the lunch-to-gym period).

I'm not sure I'm going to be finished by tonight. Might be monday or tuesday at this rate.
 
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GasBandit

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Heh, next day starts recycling music. I'm really running out, and this bad boy was EIGHTEEN MINUTES this time. Jeesh.
 

GasBandit

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Well isn't that just ducky. The upload was at 87%, and my cable modem conked out. It's still out, I am entering this in Tapatalk.
 
Huh. Weird to see my character spreading rumors, and also interesting that he and Raven were spending so much of the afternoon together.

At least he didn't mention any 2D waifus this time.
 
As proven in my day and Ash's day, we are at opposite ends of the social spectrum and spend no time associating with one another. :D

Someone confessed their love to me though! I wonder if that's the Raven holdover from yesterday, or something new!?

Dirona/Gusto is my OTP. Don't tell me you don't see it. ;)
 
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