Progress 10.10.2025
Hello all!
Friday... It is amusing, I told a month or two ago that this update would take longer than normal. During 0.50.0 I was panicking because it wasn't planned to take so long. Now? I'm calm. I knew from the start it would take longer than usual, simply because set building will take a lot of time. If I had to guess, about 1/3 of the time I've been doing set building. But overall, I'm happy with how it is going. I have four scenes left to render. "Problem" is that one of them is a long scene with fighting. I'm around 350 renders, which is roughly where I should be overall.
As for writing? If I can keep up with the "writing schedule" (have I mentioned building sets is annoying because it eats time?) I should be able to finish up the first update by Monday. Not sure if I have the buffer I want, but we'll see... I'll probably take a day or two writing break after 0.51.0 is done and then move to the epilogue.
And then, the final preview of the update 0.51.0 rest... rest would spoil a lot of things. But that being said, things aren't looking good at the temple of Yuina.
And then something else... This is again me seeing can I do something. Will it unfold like this? No. I wanted to see do I have an environment for it, then how... flexible the environment is. Then it just goes from there into something else partially. Although there are few props I need to find for the future, that is a good thing from this. And it also amuses me, when I create the characters there is a spreadsheet full of things. I think the current relating to Shattered Seals characters is somewhere in column BD. And rows? I stopped counting after 1000. It is a huge file, and it holds every character and lots of details from them, and most of it is randomly created. Except for the weapons for Alexander, although the sword was supposed to be a kukri, but didn't have a prop for that. The revolver... I don't know why that became his "signature" weapon. It was just was his I never really considered anything else when I originally created Mr. Ward. Although I would like a different model, .44 will do as the .357 model is... unwieldy, unfortunately. Eh, I'll live. Anyway, I'll take a short break and start rendering the fight scene. You all have a great weekend.
Comments (16)
where can i download the game?
Sorry for the late reply, I was sleeping, time zones and all that. The current version for your tier is available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/140078954
The Tribulations of a Mage0.50 update only is missing sex scenes. Only if persistent.skipSS == True it goes on! Hope you can address the issue. THX
I went through all the files, all of them are correct on my end. Also there is the patch available, might sort any issues out, parring use of WT mod, then it might need updating.
If I remember guns are usless against the supernatural. Has Alexander done something magical to his gun to make it work against monsters? After all he never used the sword.
Nope, bullets are too small to do anything generally speaking. Decapitation is needed for supernatural beings. But to note: most "threats" commonly are human, like in that image (potentially) and since you can't expose your abilities in public what else do you have? But that being said, guns aren't necessarily useless against them, it just depends who you are facing. Vampires? You can slow them down (and potentially kill, depending on the ammo and gun) hollow points do a lot of damage, and healing isn't instant. The bladed weapon is "sure way", and it is sort of relic from the era when firearms that could do enough harm were rare, unwieldy and/or (mostly) single shot. Won't do much good if you face five vampires and you have only one bullet. That the effective range would be close to melee anyway. Silver and werewolfs are a bad combination though regardless what is used to deploy the silver.
There a canon ending in Sorcerer? Or are you planing something diferent.
Yes, it's the "Sorcerer lord", but I think you are asking more about the allies. Similar to TRS2 there will be opportunity to customize the game more indepth. And even on the "canon route", I'll ask two question (I think it was two) regarding the potential allies and go from there. A bit more writing but I have a plan for it anyway.
Oh My... Well the 44Mag is hefty and not exactly fast on target acquisition.. Chiappa arms has some revolvers where the barrel is fitted to the lower chamber of the cylinder, allowing more -straight line recoils and much faster target acquisition. .357 is about max for the Chiappa., but it does look INTIMIDATING. Alexander would probably think about legal liability for secondary penetration (where the target has the bullet pass through and injure someone else). Those hand cannons are infamous for overpenetration except for targets like Bear. Believe me when I say the only way I would shoot a bear with a hand cannon is down a tree trunk. There are loads known as Glaser safety slugs which will make a mess of the first human hit and not penetrate to the second one, but they are rather inhumane. They were formulated for sky marshals where penetration of the fuselage would be bad news for the aircraft.
Yes, well, it isn't like he has to worry about the recoil as is because of "magic". And in his case it is about the psychological effect, which granted might not work with people who have seen what guns do, but for those who haven't? Well TV and movies have filled peoples head with all kinds of misinformation regarding them. Granted, Alexanders calm demeanor when facing danger probably would cause pause outside of maniacs. That and decapitation was the way to kill most of the "supernatural" enemies (such as vampires), so while most would use a bladed weapon, I reckon that hollow point .44 in the head would just do the trick anyway... But ultimately, it is about what models are available and what "fits" to the character. In the cabin scene when Miyuki appeared Alexander was supposed to reload the revolver while sitting on the chair, but that models cylinder didn't open (and was slightly annoying to use with the skills I had back then). And there are only a "handful" of models that functions as should.
It reminds me of Indiana Jones where the big bad guy shows up, instead of fighting him with the whip, he just pulls out his gun and shoots him. (Harrison Ford had a bad case of hemorrhoids at the time, and couldn't comfortably do the originally scripted fight scene)
That's exactly what it was in my mind as well. Just a simple correction: Ford had dysentery, not hemorrhoids.
The first render looks like a trap, but that's just my PTSD kicking in. Then there's our lovely Demon coming in to surprise the bad guy's. Like Dirty Harry you could have given him a .44 auto-mag like he had in the last few movies in the series. Thank You.
Unfortunately, there is as far as I know one really old auto-mag model existing and on the main characters I would like them to be... hmm how to say it. Functional? Having separate magazine (both filled and empty), slides, triggers, hammers (if any) moving and so on if possible. For others it doesn't matter as I don't need to show them reloading possibly, and unfortunately, a lot of them are just props, they look nice but they don't... function. Which is fine if you don't need to show any of that...
Thank You Tal :)))
'44-Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world'. 🤣 Clint Eastwo-Ahem-Alexander needs his trusty hand cannon! 😁