ToonNik’s rendering of Chibi Mirrin approves of this patch.
So this patch adds in a new mechanic and subsystem that’s been nothing but an idea for… a really long time at this point. Talking with the CoC2 team and writers just reminded me that I should really get on making it a reality…. Thus, please make a warm welcome for the addition of “Taint.”
0.7.153 Changelog:
- Follower Shekka can now Buy, Sell, Fix Emitters, and buy Tarkus junk once more.
- Follower Shekka now has a new item in her inventory. Enjoy!
- With the addition of Taint, the libido-reducing “Chill Pill” item has been made active in the game again. It is available from Dr. Lash and a number of vending machines.
- A new hidden statistic has been added to the game: “Taint.”
- Taint is gained by using illegal, unsafe drugs/chemicals or being transformed by eating alien foods.
- Taint is functionally a minimum libido score.
- Going 72 hours without a taint-increasing event causes your taint to drop by 1 point.
- If you hit 100 Taint, you gain the “Corrupted” perk, doubling your maximum libido and forever locking your taint at 100. This will never be curable.
- Alerts for crossing thresholds of Taint have been added.
- A Codex entry has been added for Taint in the medical section.
- The introduction now makes mention of Taint in the passage about your immune booster system.
- Most illegal drugs and alien-food-based transformation items now have warnings in their tooltips about taint.
- [To-Do] Adding taint gains from PoE A events, Badger’s Transformation scene, and maybe some of the gloryholes or whoring, if appropriate.
- [To-Do] Adjust Penny’s talks to mention her transformation giving her a high amount of taint (and thus explaining her very, very high libido).
- [To-Do] Overlay indicators for minimum libido and lust onto their respective bars. This one probably won’t happen till after ship code gets done.
Why does genetic damage result in nymphomania instead of horrible cancer (at least in the short term…)? Because the Trials in Tainted Space universe is wayyy better than the real one.
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“Because the Trials in Tainted Space universe is wayyy better than the real one.”
Well, we knew that. 😛 The new mechanic sounds interesting, should be fun. Looking forward to testing it later.
maybe add a blurb somewhere in game about how “we made a retrovirus that overrides instances of cancer with new dna. as a side effect the new dna makes the person more perverted *insert technobabble filler*”.
Nano machines my good sir, nano machines.
Steele’s nano machines are experimental tech and not very widespread.
Iirc most nanosurgoens are one use only and extremely specialized, whereas Steele’s are able to learn and dynamically react to new threats.
ah the taint, the spot between your butthole and your junk
would that make the sequel Trials in Grundled Space?
They need to add an enemy named “the grundled”
In case anyone wondered what it said on the Mirrin Fan art;
“Dragon Age Super Juice”
Is that dzuragon? I could have sworn ‘do’ would be the proper spelling of it.
It is. The proper way to write it would be ドラゴン
It kind of hurt to read a little, no offense to the artist, though.
It should have been ドラゴン・スーパー・ジュース
As it is, it says Jyuragono Spah Juss.
Artist tried to write Japanese when he doesn’t know Japanese, and used a roumaji converter. A predictable failure. Though one that could have been avoided had he known that Japanese roumaji input is designed around the kana groupings, rather than actual pronunciation.
The incorrect spelling makes it seem even more real. As if this drug is a Korean knock off being made in a back alley sweatshop.
…. Well that works for me and I am no longer mad about the Zuragon’o/ヅラゴンオ. lol
Great job on this guys, I think the inclusion of the Taint on the characters in this game will be a very valuable addition; it only makes sense for booty-altering alien food to have a possible effect on your Taint. Let’s just hope the system turns out well and doesn’t end up the butt of any jokes.
“If you hit 100 Taint, you gain the “Corrupted” perk, doubling your maximum libido and forever locking your taint at 100. This will never be curable.”
While this is a decent trade-off, at higher levels of taint you basically cannot fight enemies that deal lust damage at all, since you’ll be defeat by a single lust attack by then. It needs to come in small increments rather than so backloaded.
Libido does not make you take more lust damage. It makes it increase more from time passage, however.
Will there be any benefits to going full taint like some slaanesh psionic powers or upgraded versions of lust raising attacks and perk attacks?
None planned for the moment.
ok
i knew this part of the game would happen, i mean what part of space would be ‘tainted’
welp… i guess i can’t spam Dracoguard pills & manup pills anymore…
(time to be an asshole) BTW how long before that new scalie TF? it has been quite awhile since it’s been announced…
They said illegal items and native foods, not regular transformatives! …actually, having the ability to turn native foods into formal TFs would be a great gameplay mechanic.
honestly ive wanted the game to have a way to create youre own designer transformatives from the first time i hear about this game. obviously they would be super expensive but youd get exactly what you want from the get go
nice idea there and I like it 😀 though what will be used to lower the taint or so?
Boo!
You made the Trello board private
Booooooo!
There was literally a post about it. They had to, it’s sad, it sucks, they’re considering making a gallery somewhere else.
What happened?
“Sadly, upon further examination of the Bust Trello, we realized that some of the things linked on the Trello were meant to be private for the team (no sneak peeks!) and that people were using it more as a porn repository – something it wasn’t intended to be.”
“So to those who were wondering, no, you guys didn’t do anything wrong. We just don’t want Trello shutting us down because of high bandwidth due in part to wonderful people who couldn’t stop fapping to our delicious delicious arts.”
https://www.fenoxo.com/hiya-peeps/
I didn’t see that in my neetbux offering newsletter. What was the reason?
>Neetbux offering newsletter
Beautiful.
Neetbux Collection Agency Monthly
It essentially boiled down to that it was getting far more traffic than intended, and they didn’t want to get in trouble for crashing the servers, or something to that effect. If you scroll back in the news section you should be able to find it without having to go too far back.
anything with easy access from multiple locations should be fine so why not just github, or cloud storage?
Any possibility for a game settings toggle to turn this “feature” off?
That probably came across as rude and there’s no way I can see to edit these, so, sorry. But this is very “Do not want” D:
I think you’ll find that you won’t even notice it much unless you’re slamming drugs really hard.
the save edit will most likely be able to edit taint, or you could just use it to do the transformative rather then ingame. looks are more flavour text then anything else, but thats just me
Found a bug with fisi, you unlock her sex bet option before going all the way with her normally, and can sex her up. when you go do the normal one afterwards, it says you/her are still virgins. not game breaking or anything
When the game is all about having sex I’d say a bug that protects virginity is pretty game breaking.
Could you hit up the bug report forums with copy/pasted text from the sex bet scene so we can find that in the code real quick and check on it.
I would think that this Taint takes in part of what’s said at the beginning of the game, in the sense of having too much will begin to mess with your DNA and ultimately cause you to no longer be recognized by the DNA scan of the probes. That’s my thoughts on it though, there are more than enough bad ends to keep you from getting to your goal anyway.
Who’s on the CoC2 team anyway? All I know is that Savin’s on it.
Savin, UpcastDrake, DCL, and The Observer
What about the epic dragon? Where be Gedan?
She’s been busy with life and working in the background I believe.
I’m pretty sure my Treated Steele won’t even notice.
I honestly do think taint should increase based of glory holes or any other prostitution. I mean you’re basically hitting secondary rock bottom to this max taint thing. Sucking trouser snakes and munching the carpet for money is a pretty corrupt thing and if you’re doing it all the time, you eventually get use to it and get better at it as time goes on (I wish it would get expanded a bit) but I generally think that a highly esteemed cooperation heir getting down on their knees for money (with the potential of pictures, fame, and blackmail) is taint worthy. But that’s my thought on the matter and it would stop people from abusing whoring out… too much. (Not like I totally spend time on Canadia Station or a certain Brothel on another certain station or anything :3)
Define “too much”, as my Steele also does not totally spend all their time working at Beth’s or anything. :3
I’d say if you spend so much time in there you practically own your own room to sleep and “do business” in… you’re in just a little too long there buddy.
I think it’s more of a genetic error than a “bad reputation” type corruption. That’s the reason eating alien food gives it to you: your immunity boosters can fight it off, but they can be overwhelmed if you take in too much too fast, etc. Same with shady after market drugs, the reason they’re illegal is because they’re not safe and/or have nasty side effects, which can mess up your genetics in a bad way (again, your boosters can help, but even they have limits).
I might be totally wrong, but that’s how I was reading it anyway.
I get your point, but I was pointing more towards a psychological stand point. Brainwashing and training the brain to do something is possible, take a look at an example like muscle memory from gaming. But I get you and that does make sense. Someone gone crazy, could just as easily overwhelm though.
Oooh, Taint looks intresting, and knowing how I play chances are I will end up with 100 taint in time for breakfast. Would be intresting to play a char with 200+ libido…
But I do have to ask, what plans are there to expand on this mechanic, becouse curently it looks a bit bare in overall scope (Although I do understand that its silly to expect it to be in a completed state on the first pass).
space has finally been tainted and the name now makes sense, about damn time XD
My only shtick is I love redemption stories, and would love to have a story quest to cure player taint post corruption. That would make the mechanic far more appealing to me.
Wrong kind of corruption. This corruption is about damaged genes, not about moral issues, hence you can get it by eating alien foods. You might as well ask to “redeem” a damaged leg.
So this wont lead to us following our father’s fate? Just crank up our sex drive?
The nanobots in Steele’s blood were specifically made to prevent them from suffering their father’s fate.
Not entirely~
I actually modified vic’s message about it so he mentions that if you go nuts, you’ll wind up like him eventually.
Putting the Taint in out Tainted Space. I wonder if there will be a namedrop at some point. even if it’s just in silly mode with some 4th wall breaking.
Is Taint what killed Steele’s Dad?
Side-effects of it, yes.
Could be my save, but the motherhusk items does not seem to be working.
Same here, keep getting this report right when I use one:
Flash Player: ActiveX – Windows 10
Flash Version: WIN 29,0,0,113
Game Version: 0.7.153
Error Name: TypeError
Error Mesg: Error #1009
TypeError: Error #1009
at classes.Items.Transformatives::Motherhusk/useFunction()
at classes::TiTS/useItem()
at classes::GUI/PressButton()
at classes::TiTS/pressButton()
at Function/()
at classes::BoundControlMethod/ExecFunc()
at classes::InputManager/ExecuteKeyCode()
at classes::InputManager/KeyHandler()
Or this if I click the button instead of keyboard:
Flash Player: ActiveX – Windows 10
Flash Version: WIN 29,0,0,113
Game Version: 0.7.153
Error Name: TypeError
Error Mesg: Error #1009
TypeError: Error #1009
at classes.Items.Transformatives::Motherhusk/useFunction()
at classes::TiTS/useItem()
at classes::TiTS/buttonClick()
Hopefully fixed for the next release.
not related to anything here really but I can’t remember if azra already got her 3rd adventure done and implemented or not and I’m too lazy to go through the backlog, does anyone know?
Not yet, just the first two.
Hmmm… I hope this doesn’t end up hurting Penny. I actually like her but her use of Throbb could negatively affect her, assuming Dr. Badger’s raygun doesn’t inflict any taint… Hey, just because I it’s a porn game doesn’t mean I can’t think about these things! *huffs*
Seeing Penny have a little content touch up such as the two new scenes a few updates ago and now this little thing with Taint really gets my hopes up for something more. Penny’s a great character both in design and content and I’m always hoping she’ll be revisited some day.
I agree, more Penny content. Her and Kelly should be crew members.
Is there going to be an incentive to stay untainted like there was in CoC? The Beautiful sword was the strongest weapon in the game if you remained pure… Which I did, cause Sparrow is a good boy.
I’d love it if The beautiful sword made a re-appearance in TiTS, maybe the previous owner accidentally used gravity magic and flung himself into space.
When ever you add something like this to the game there should be incentives for either doing it a lot or not at all, middle ground people are just too indecisive and don’t deserve fancy things like that.
That good boy comment has me oddly thinking of Naruto
I wonder why
No idea, it’s been a while since I saw the original Naruto. Maybe because Tobi is a good boy?
Ah, finally, the “Taint” in Trials in Tainted Space” XD Granted up till now the “Taint” referred to something different I suspect, but now the title is now similar to “Corruption” of Champion. I will ramble if I go further but lastly a question; is it possible to see the Raskvel Broodmother after you see her the first time or is she a one-off? Because I would love to be able to “visit” her more often.
(If you hit 100 Taint, you gain the “Corrupted” perk, doubling your maximum libido and forever locking your taint at 100. This will never be curable.)
why was this never in the base game? its so perfect!