Jormungandr V.2-RPG Maker MV (Chapter 2 1/23/24)

[RandomInjury]

Are you using normal attacks to build up your TP?

That's the main reason why there's so many enemies. Even with the digestion making it a two-turn move and vore (generally) debuffing attack stats, in my Skinwalkerx1000 there isn't anything close to a move this busted that can be used by so many characters.

With that being said, I'm patching the game to give most of the non-vore skills beyond normal attacks to give a TP gain. The newest build will be up when the file on itch reads Jormugandr V.2.2. When more advanced vore moves inevitably take more than 25 TP to pull, it will be a necessity.

Yes I am using normal attacks to build them, but there are a few problems with that. The odds of hitting are kind of low, I'd say I miss with like a third of all attacks, which results in no TP gain, and just a turn where I take a face full of damage instead.

Then you don't exactly have damage resistance when Full, so that's another round of attacks to take.

And enemies are really tanky in this game, through just attacks kills one person takes like 3 turns, and almost every enemy has multi target attacks.

So every combat you will take a lot of damage, and unlike Raine, no one else heals from Vore, so you need to spend a lot of resources after the fight licking your wounds. (Also Rain In general OP, most health of Any NPC as well as the most Defence, and she heals off Vore. Girl leaves every combat either having taken 0 damage from that defence, or having taken like 200 damage an heald it all away, where the others took thousands)

And that's interesting, I didn't realize the later vore moves were going to require different levels of TP, I figured they'd all be about the same, since it's described like a Rock Paper Scissors system at the stat. I figured the only challenge was guessing the right vore move to use?

Will there be a punishment for guessing the Vore more wrong, greater than just you didn't succeed? Like will you get eaten instead or something, and you have to free the character? That would really give some use to that Aloe I keep getting out of Chests.

[Asterisk74]

Are you using normal attacks to build up your TP?

That's the main reason why there's so many enemies. Even with the digestion making it a two-turn move and vore (generally) debuffing attack stats, in my Skinwalkerx1000 there isn't anything close to a move this busted that can be used by so many characters.

With that being said, I'm patching the game to give most of the non-vore skills beyond normal attacks to give a TP gain. The newest build will be up when the file on itch reads Jormugandr V.2.2. When more advanced vore moves inevitably take more than 25 TP to pull, it will be a necessity.

Yes I am using normal attacks to build them, but there are a few problems with that. The odds of hitting are kind of low, I'd say I miss with like a third of all attacks, which results in no TP gain, and just a turn where I take a face full of damage instead.

Then you don't exactly have damage resistance when Full, so that's another round of attacks to take.

And enemies are really tanky in this game, through just attacks kills one person takes like 3 turns, and almost every enemy has multi target attacks.

So every combat you will take a lot of damage, and unlike Raine, no one else heals from Vore, so you need to spend a lot of resources after the fight licking your wounds. (Also Rain In general OP, most health of Any NPC as well as the most Defence, and she heals off Vore. Girl leaves every combat either having taken 0 damage from that defence, or having taken like 200 damage an heald it all away, where the others took thousands)

And that's interesting, I didn't realize the later vore moves were going to require different levels of TP, I figured they'd all be about the same, since it's described like a Rock Paper Scissors system at the stat. I figured the only challenge was guessing the right vore move to use?

Will there be a punishment for guessing the Vore more wrong, greater than just you didn't succeed? Like will you get eaten instead or something, and you have to free the character? That would really give some use to that Aloe I keep getting out of Chests.

Other than a wasted turn, no. The game is rather pred-centric, partly for personal preference and partly because I still can't make anything that intuitive in combat for player prey. It'll still happen but enemy characters that can eat the party members are rather rare.

[RandomInjury]

Other than a wasted turn, no. The game is rather pred-centric, partly for personal preference and partly because I still can't make anything that intuitive in combat for player prey. It'll still happen but enemy characters that can eat the party members are rather rare.

That's a shame. I do like enemies who can turn our own methods against us, and greater punishment for guessing wrong would make combat feel more dramatic. Plus we do need a greater reason for aloe to be in the game. That or remove it, because why even have it if it's functionally useless?

[player1]

Other than a wasted turn, no. The game is rather pred-centric, partly for personal preference and partly because I still can't make anything that intuitive in combat for player prey. It'll still happen but enemy characters that can eat the party members are rather rare.

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Interesting. Considering the current events does that means that the taboo will stand strong or will our protagonists have to eat more and more monsters? Because if hell breaks loose that would make the taboo's strength wane, especially if human scarcity worsen.

[Asterisk74]

Other than a wasted turn, no. The game is rather pred-centric, partly for personal preference and partly because I still can't make anything that intuitive in combat for player prey. It'll still happen but enemy characters that can eat the party members are rather rare.

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Interesting. Considering the current events does that means that the taboo will stand strong or will our protagonists have to eat more and more monsters? Because if hell breaks loose that would make the taboo's strength wane, especially if human scarcity worsen.

Spoiler: show

Oh that taboo is crumbling into dust, but the main characters might hold onto that philosophy longer than you may think. The main issue they're going to have is you're seeing already that certain factions that oppose them don't abide by it.

But yes, I imagine eventually that eating other monsters will be a thing they have to grapple with.

[player1]

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Oh that taboo is crumbling into dust, but the main characters might hold onto that philosophy longer than you may think. The main issue they're going to have is you're seeing already that certain factions that oppose them don't abide by it.

But yes, I imagine eventually that eating other monsters will be a thing they have to grapple with.

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So then, prey player scenes will be limited to story and or game-over scenes. still seems promising.

[KingoftheBongos]

Glad to see this finally get an update.

Now if only we could get a Skinwalker update sometime soon too lol.

This Chapter was a bit more wild than I was anticipating.

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The whole Royale eating like a thousand people and the damn wall was bonkers. And Geno leaving is a big inflextion point.

[sirjames_mc]

I logged in for the first time in maybe a decade to say I absolutely loved this game and I can't wait for the next installment. I love the frequency of vore, the scale and implied grander scale, I love the player as pred and the alternate moral framework of this world. It's fantastic, I just hope we don't have to wait so long for chapter 3.

[RandomInjury]

Glad to see this finally get an update.

Now if only we could get a Skinwalker update sometime soon too lol.

This Chapter was a bit more wild than I was anticipating.

Spoiler: show

The whole Royale eating like a thousand people and the damn wall was bonkers. And Geno leaving is a big inflextion point.

The Royale bit was great. I was not on board with her until that moment.

[Asterisk74]

I logged in for the first time in maybe a decade to say I absolutely loved this game and I can't wait for the next installment. I love the frequency of vore, the scale and implied grander scale, I love the player as pred and the alternate moral framework of this world. It's fantastic, I just hope we don't have to wait so long for chapter 3.

I'm glad you're liking it, and don't worry, the vore is going to get crazier and wider in scale.

I'm shooting for a Chapter 3 update in the fall. That may seem like a while still but I have to get Chapters 7 and 8 of my other game Skinwalkerx1000 out. The goal is to be done with Skinwalker at around the same time I release the halfway point of this game (Chapter 6), after the next two updates to Skinwalker I will be alternating chapters until the end.

[player1]

I'm shooting for a Chapter 3 update in the fall. That may seem like a while still but I have to get Chapters 7 and 8 of my other game Skinwalkerx1000 out. The goal is to be done with Skinwalker at around the same time I release the halfway point of this game (Chapter 6), after the next two updates to Skinwalker I will be alternating chapters until the end.

Seems reasonable a schedule, looking forward to it since i like both titles

[sqrt1]

I'm really enjoying the story/plot so far. With Geno leaving, and also with how tantalizingly close the two main parties are to intersecting, it's leaving me wanting for the next chapter to come asap! Also curious to who the other undiscovered leviathans are. That being said, I will echo the feedback that the maps are extremely large and filled with a lot of empty space. Navigating through maps, especially with random encounters, feels more like a chore and less like a game. And if a player is looking to get all of those crates, there's even more time spent just trudging through the world.

[sizehunter]

A thought to further drive home how much tougher monsters are compared to humans. A hidden faction of them manages to shrink the party and eat them, only to find that human stomachs are too weak to digest the protagonists.

[Asterisk74]

A thought to further drive home how much tougher monsters are compared to humans. A hidden faction of them manages to shrink the party and eat them, only to find that human stomachs are too weak to digest the protagonists.

Lol, maybe. Probably gonna steer clear of size changing for this one.

But if that do happen, the shrunken monsters would probably just eat the giant humans before anything.

[sizehunter]

A thought to further drive home how much tougher monsters are compared to humans. A hidden faction of them manages to shrink the party and eat them, only to find that human stomachs are too weak to digest the protagonists.

Lol, maybe. Probably gonna steer clear of size changing for this one.

But if that do happen, the shrunken monsters would probably just eat the giant humans before anything.

Fair, though an ambush involving maybe sleep gas or something along those lines could make it possible for giant humans to eat the party. Hell, part of this sequence could have you finding with ones have your members.

[Phorcyz19]

When I beat the timed Royale bit the screen just flashes black over and over and nothing happens

EDIT: It only happens if I'm in the lower area when I hit the number

[Urielzael2]

I know it is silly question but will we get planet vore part somewhere in game? I like that nice touch that pred grow beyond its environment.

[Asterisk74]

When I beat the timed Royale bit the screen just flashes black over and over and nothing happens

EDIT: It only happens if I'm in the lower area when I hit the number

Damn I thought I fixed all the bugs with that event, but more keep popping up. I'll check it out and fix it soon.

I know it is silly question but will we get planet vore part somewhere in game? I like that nice touch that pred grow beyond its environment.

Well, y'know...

[Urielzael2]

Thank you for answer. If I could have small suggestion I'd suggest giving Lydia starting level of 9 as it is bit shame that even with bonus hat carried from earlier journey she can be one-shotted.

[legodass]

Anyone got a save to share? I lost to the "eat 25 people event" and i game overed, and i hadnt saved yet because i didnt know that could happen...

Also are the guards meant to be inhumanly fast? This minigame is straight up unfair.