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...my specs are probably pathetic, tbph, but it does run *most* itch games without this issue. ...usually the framerate is just ass.

uhhh HP notebook, amd radeon r4 graphics, 4gb ram ("3.45 usable" wevertf that means), 64bit OS. ...I do badly need a new computer but I'm unhirable 'XD anyway hopefully some of those words are the useful ones

lmao

I started poking around in the game's data folder (for god knows what reason bc I do not know what I'm doing and def could've hard-crashed my computer), made a new folder and moved the two biggest "shared assets" files into it (the two biggest files are like an entire gigabyte put together), and ran the game as if this stupid idea would magically pay off.

(first coupla times I did this it just gave me a white screen, but alt-f4 closed it with no fuss so I was feeling cocky)

ig those are where all the textures are cuz the office loaded in quick as you please with no textures 'XD had to quit immediately and put everything back where it was. I for sure couldn't make a first-person game, even just noclipping (funnily enough) freaks me out too much

okay, suddenly realized that that hourglass is just there as you're walking around the office forever. a bit unnerving. pausing the game also pauses the hourglass, which is even weirder.

cubicle computer menu seems to work, at least, altho I didn't really mess with it. don't remember enough to be sure whether its UI has changed.

finally got to the elevator and tried loading into a level.

I clicked the button to start the level at 12:03.

at 12:10, I gave up and hit Alt-F4. (and then a couple minutes later hit ctrl-alt-del, and was still staring at a frozen loading screen for a few minutes after that, but thankfully this isn't the third itch.io game to make me resort to holding down the power button)

load times didn't get better. they got worse. (also NEW bugs showed up)

on v0.8p. Computer still freezes after a couple minutes in the Loading screen, but I think the freeze might be shorter than before, at least for the office. (it probably doesn't help that the game's filesize is enormous, maybe there are files that could/should be compressed and aren't? it starts up quickly enough, and I don't remember the framerate being much of an issue. why does it take so long to load? I'm on Low graphics)

btw the office is the farthest I've gotten so far in this version because clicking on any npc halts the game. it's not frozen, but there's a rotating hourglass in the corner and I can't do anything but zoom and lean. I can't even get to a menu with Escape.

spoiler for final chase:

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yay, butt stuff for Sybil! uh, bugs btw:

- the self-blowjob trap shrinks Sybil's dick right before it would go in her mouth; bit weird, that animation worked better than you'd expect before IMO, idk why it does that now. It doesn't look like the other dick-stealer trap does it.

- the first-person camera:
-- goes straight through RubiA's midsection during the "reverse blowjob" animation (unless you're looking straight up).
-- still goes directly through the pink fuckbot's face during that animation (always did tbh).
-- is actually *really good* in the new reverse anal scene, no notes there, thank you! 'XD

- switching to 3rd-person camera and back to 1st-person during, I think, both the "stunned" scenes (titjob and anal) moves the 1st-person camera to be facing Sybil and staring right into her neckhole. I think the default camera position for the titjob has been tweaked so it's a bit better than before, but this still happens and is kinda terrifying.

- Sybil's shadow on the Exit door (and probably other surfaces) is headless in first-person, altho tbf idk how easy it is to tell a lightsource "just pretend it's there okay." IMO, the shadow doesn't add much anyway.

- sybil's cum changes color to white upon sticking to RubiA (if customized).

- the little tank at the top of the first cum depot fills with white stuff, but the rest all fill with dark gray stuff. would suggest setting all of them to sybil's cum color if reasonable, or at least all the same color. granted, this is a minor thing that I just noticed.

- the new (I think?) draw distance is pretty noticeable in some of the sectors with long straightaways; some kind of slight fog effect or fade-in/lighting thing might make it look a bit better? idk (if it was meant to help with framerate issues, tbph I'm not sure how much it did help. ...I forget if there was a button to show framerate)

Hot damn! I'll be picking it up as soon as I have, uh, more than zero dollars in the bank 'XD

Full version is on Steam now, right? Is there a set date for when full release will be on Itch?

Also, I guess it'd be a bit late to get a second voice actor, but is there any chance of Sybil having a different voice for Male option? Could always just pitch shift the existing lines and see how that sounds ig

...oh. ._. they will? uh, cool, thanks. (easy to forget that devs on Itch games usually read comments, and sometimes respond to them)(mostly I wish the load times were better but ig that's gotta be one of the harder things to mess with)

Be careful what you wish for. Some developers on this site make Android versions of their games but don't make controls that work on a smartphone. You need a special keyboard that can connect to an Android, and you can't play them otherwise.

(0.7.1 from pateron)
- Probably known about already, but the first-person titjob animation has a hard time not looking down Sybil's neckhole. Would prolly be improved by Sybil's model being moved backward a little. Been this way since at least 0.5.
- The way the 3rd-person camera for the anal animation is anchored makes it a bit awkward to see much IMO.
- Love the self-suck animation; it's also a bit awkward in first-person, but less than I'd expect.
- ...Dang, I wish my crappy laptop could play this above 5 or 7 FPS. 'XD The load time is surprisingly good for the framerate being like that. IDK, is there some kind of culling or something that could be done to make it easier to run that isn't already being done? If the game is trying to keep the entire map rendered at all times, that could be something.

- also laptop thing makes it a pain to do basic inventory and upgrade stuff, especially now that you have to connect it to the company wifi first, and wait for it to load each page, and deal with it not even having tabs, and remember what the vaguely-named websites do. No me gusta, not really worth "immersion," especially with design choices to actively make it more annoying to use.
-- also also, text in laptop too small and scrollbar too skinny

also there's a buzzing noise in first chase level; not sure whether it's there on purpose and supposed to sound like halogen lights, but it was pretty annoying. kinda sounded more like a glitched sound effect, like when computer freezes while playing audio. turning sfx volume down to half made it more bearable without keeping me from hearing other sfx

imo (v0.7F):

- the bear traps are too hard. I don't have the positions of the individual WASD keys memorized, I think of them as arrow keys; showing pictures of arrows would be easier, but just making it a left-right spam would be better still.

- part of the premise of the Backrooms is that you noclip into them; have you considered having the game start a level by literally having you noclip and fall through the floor/walk through a wall into the level? (granted, the need for a loading screen makes it awkward, but you could have us fall through the elevator floor, do the loading screen, then fall through the level's ceiling)

- why don't the sex animations have cumshots? if they do, the game goes straight to the loading screen instead of playing them (even tho there is a sound effect)

- I like having advanced options for levels, but maybe the menu should show the basic difficulty levels first? would probably be a better introduction for new players

- I would've expected a game about the backrooms to have procedurally-generated levels, but tbf I guess making a game do that is more work than I think, especially for a PWYW game

not sure if this is the one you mean, but there's one for spraying Darling (the vendor) as she's leaning through her window to grab a filled lube bottle.

took me ages to understand the hint for it too, I hadn't put it together that by Darling, they meant her, and by "in her stand," they meant the blackboard thingy she comes out of

you have to buy the horny level upgrades thru the laptop to get different scenes.

v0.7F bugs:
- the opening cutscene (green-haired girl pointing) did this weird frame-flickering thing where it was trying to show a still frame looking down at her from above and look at her doing the pointing animation at the same time. Pretty sure if I had epilepsy, it would've fucked me right up. Pretty sure I had Vsync on. Haven't seen it happen elsewhere, but have only played a couple levels of this update.

- in tutorial, the horny spray doesn't show up in the player's hand; instead, when switched to, a floating can of it appears in the first room.

- game freezes for at least 3-5ish minutes while loading levels (eventually the bgm/sfx for the level shows up, then eventually game actually loads; I have no idea if monster is wandering during this time, I hope not). not sure to what extent that's just cuz my machine is old, but is a thing. it did this in v0.7P update too, but I could swear the freeze was somewhat shorter before.

gonna be honest, I am ASTONISHED if anybody actually both has one of those bougie-ass android peripherals and chooses to play itchio porn games with them, on their android, of their own free will.

I mean, I'll play a porn game on my phone, but hell if I'm rigging an entire keyboard or controller up to it in order to do so. I doubt this kind of "port" does anything but annoy people who are trying to search for games by device.

Game works better for me in Firefox than most in-browser games on here, but the exe completely crashes my computer. :/ 

It's kind of old and can't play a lot of games at higher than like 5 fps, but I don't remember seeing any other game freeze it until I hold the power button down, like this and Breasting the Maze do.

...wait, why is the filesize for "hotfix.apk" so much smaller? should it be that small? (or is the pc version just bigger because it's a pc port of an android game 'XD)

Afraid not, I still get that error. :/ My phone isn't very new, but it's pretty much always able to play games from Itch (altho it ends up crashing on them now and then), and I don't think I've ever seen this particular error before.

Fix for pc version works, at least. Not clear what the statues are for, though, if they do anything; standing near them doesn't seem to do anything. Also I guess "trading akes for lives" just means visiting the girls for healing? Also unclear IMO.

Can't figure out how to turn cheats off. Whether it says "cheats off" or "cheats on - no ending" at the starting menu, there's no way to lose lives (or at least pits and boulders aren't doing it)

My android gets a "Parse error: There was a problem parsing the package" message when I try to open the apk. Tried it twice now. File might be corrupted or something?

...they did do that export. it requires peripherals that very few people have, because rigging up touchscreen controls for a fps that wasn't designed for it would take a bit longer than 5 minutes

that's what people are complaining about

Honestly, unless many people have been chiming in saying they have played it with bougie android peripherals, it seems like too narrow a niche to be worth it. : /

For what it's worth, I have played a couple FPS's made for android with touchscreen controls, so it's not impossible. ...Still prolly not worth the time to try and port an existing game that way, since it'd affect how much of the screen could be visible, but generally speaking, it's a real concept.

NGL, the concept of getting a special keyboard or controller to hook up to an android is bizarre to me. If you have money for silly peripherals, you probably have a decent computer you could hook that shit up to and play games on a proper-sized screen for them.

Does what it do, does it well, doesn't promise anything that it doesn't do. A+

Not every android user has a controller or keyboard that can connect to it, why would you assume that?

...fuck, I've loved porn games before but I don't think I've been hyped for a sequel to one before 'XD

(maybe beat banger 2, but tbph 1 is still perfect and 2 is too hard)

I wonder if there're any hidden uses of the Move action I didn't find, or if that's planned to be used in the sequel (or if it'll just be dropped, I guess for a game jam game you're gonna have early ideas that you just don't end up implementing)

Narrator: They would not, in fact, get that looked at that week.

(the gear does go away if you fullscreen it, at least)

I mean, who hasn't tried to fuck a cup of mountain dew and accidentally drank it instead?

Browser version seems to run fine on Firefox, altho it's a little small. The hitbox for that gear in the lower right is too big, though; there's like one pixel of clickability left for that bottom right inventory slot, and I can't hit the arrow to scroll the inventory at all.

Okay, going fullscreen gets rid of the gear, but still, annoying bug/oversight/??? (why is the box for that icon so big?).

*clicks into game*

no yeah that's definitely randy orton

dude is that randy orton

oh wait no it's the rock who has the one sleeve and the pec stuff

HELL YEAH BOIII

Simply amazing. The mouse-only controls work shockingly well, too.

Just be warned, RubiA can follow you into the hub zone. Make sure you have an idea of how far away she is before doing the door puzzles.

That's a shame, Sybil has a nice ass too, I'm sad to see it go to waste ; ]

the "cancel" button for the sign-in thingy doesn't work in browser unless you full-screen it (using firefox)

they updated it and still didn't put an executable in the thingy

I guess if somebody had renpy and knew how to use it they could make it look like a game? sort of anyway? the script has script in it

there is ONE (1) porn image in the folders, with an image by Anasheya that they prolly don't have permission to have in there

least they didn't crop the watermark off ig

Still dunno what a super slash is (the big "farm" enemy only shows up between specific rounds for some reason, so it could be a drop that I missed), but it turns out Cherry's a bit more doable if you just stay at the bottom of the screen and spam dash when she uses the vertical projectiles. I'd call it a cheese strat, but it feels more like leveling the playing field.
Why are so many porn games so hard?

A SUPER SLASH CAN DO WHAT????? WHAT THE F IS A SUPER SLASH