If you're a qualified gentleman, you can't possibly not have heard of Fallen Doll: Operation Lovecraft.
More people in domestic player circles call her "Fallen Doll: Eros Action", although I have to complain that this translation is completely wrong, but it does not prevent the name from directly showing the charm of the game.
If you are a classmate who often reads ranger articles, you must be familiar with the various poses of "Fallen Doll" in the article "The Disappointed LSP and the Doll Who Stopped Degenerate" half a year ago, and here I will not expand what he is and what the specific gameplay is.
Looking back, when Fallen Dolls first announced the launch of a free demo to play, the game was really out of the loop.
Especially in the same period, it happened to happen that the various commotion operations of Matousha's R18 masterpiece "Subverse" overturned, and the bad reviews were overwhelming.
Under the background of peers, it seems that the performance of "Fallen Doll" is particularly excellent.
Whether it's modeling textures, skeletal action, physics, or character design, Fallen Dolls is a top-notch title in every way.
It can be said that Project Helius, the production team of "Fallen Dolls", has a mastery of the Unreal Engine 4 engine. The carcass of the female character is baked under the soft light, showing a real soft texture, and the plump form is about to come out.
What's even more remarkable is that in the early beta phase, the game has already launched a complete simplified Chinese. No matter how you look at it, "Fallen Dolls" at that time was a work of conscience in the small butter industry.
But the game has only been popular with DEMO for a few months, and soon there are several screenshots of comments on Discord on the post bar, and claim that the production team has "run away".
"The final game is likely to be SFW (as opposed to NSFW) and have a separate store page, with little to no pornography in the game. And this decision was not negotiated with the crowdfunding site"
To put it simply, on the one hand, the developer uses butter as a gimmick to attract players to crowdfund, and on the other hand, it receives external investment in August ~ September of the previous year, and the final completed game may only have a small amount of color content that has nothing to do with the plot.
Good little butter is not GHS, I actually want to make a game, it really cools the hearts of the majority of gentlemen.
Looking back now, the gentlemen's requirements are really not high. According to the previous level of DEMO development, despite the excellent quality of the erotic scenes and broadcasts, the game does have a lot of problems.
After the release of the beta version, on the one hand, people found that the game had almost no other content except for the broadcast, and there was a general lag phenomenon in the online mode; In addition, it has been found that the game will take up obviously abnormal video memory when running, and it is suspected that Fallen Dolls is mining with the player's graphics card.
It took more than two years to make an optimization problem with many problems, no actual game content, only an animation player with bright modeling.
But this has satisfied the gentlemen, which can be seen from the fact that the game can be popular.
Even more worrisome are the rumors of their runaway.
After all, this production team is familiar with the operation of skipping tickets and running away. Before the "Operation Lovecraft", "Fallen Doll" also had a prequel to the prequel. For some reason, Project Helius announced that it had stopped development after updating the original game to version 1.3 and moved to its current project.
Later, a volunteer who was in charge of the project's translation complained on the Steam forum, which expanded the existing trust problem.
"The project started in 2017, and the biggest problem in the development process was that the development team "bulldozed and redone" the game many times, and made the game into an online multiplayer game despite fan objections, which from my point of view may be a scam."
And the subsequent development is indeed like the player's revelation, on the crowdfunding website Patreon, except for the last "change log" every three forks, that is, every New Year festival and fans to say Happy New Year, in addition, there is no substantive information.
To this day, Project Helius is still charging players for subscriptions, and its promise to provide subscribers with at least one monthly update has long ceased to be fulfilled more than half a year after the crowdsale began.
But just this past March 1st, the official who had been playing dead for more than half a year suddenly released "closed beta phase 2 is coming soon" on Patreon.
"It's been a long journey"
In the announcement, the production team stated that they "rebuilding the entire project for better performance was not an easy option and required a lot of work to be redone from scratch." And said they were able to hear fans questioning, "We hear and understand your anxieties and concerns";
And its long list of changelogs looks like that.
But after reading this announcement, don't be too happy too early. Although they vowed in the announcement that "this version will be launched in about 48 hours," there was clearly room for convenient bounces in later narratives, "there is still the possibility of a delay of hours to a day, which may require some extra time to synchronize and is beyond our control." ”
But to be honest, it's hard not to look forward to this exciting news, just like the LSPs of "Fallen Dolls" Tieba have once again gathered here, waiting for the first news.
However, it is regrettable that these eagerly awaited netizens waited from March 1st to 4th, which has already exceeded 48 hours, and has not waited for any update of the game.
Yes, as expected. "Fallen Doll" bounced again.
Netizens who are unwilling to lose Niuzi go to find explanations, and the reasons they get are strange.
At the beginning, it was said that "it cannot be updated due to special reasons", and there is no explanation for what this "special reason" is; Later, he dumped the pot to G fat, saying that it was a problem with the steam review mechanism; And what is even more enduring, some players even got a message from the production team that "the author accidentally fainted and was sent to the hospital for treatment", so that everyone should not wait, hurry up and wash and sleep.
Want to update? Wait until someone comes out of the hospital
Now the players are dumbfounded, they have never seen such a bounced ticket.
However, waiting alone is not a way, players with hands-on ability went to the steamdb website to pick up the game background information. At present, you can indeed see a patch that has been uploaded (build ID), which is the update that was emailed 4 days ago, build (build, build), but the updated patch is currently locked; The following public is the current version that sponsors can play on Steam after they get the key.
Judging from the patch heat map, the "Fallen Doll" production team did upload a total of four patches on the 23rd and 27th, but set non-public permissions, so it was impossible to judge the file size and content. Only in the public patch can you see the detailed change file information and size.
That is, even if there is a patch upload, as a player, you don't know what the situation is. It may be that Project Helius really found out in conscience, remembering that the hole he dug had not been filled; Or just uploaded an empty package folder, which is still a vain operation... But in any case, players haven't seen any updates to the game.
From crowdfunding updates, bouncing tickets to collecting money, to re-announcing renewals and bouncing tickets again, this is a process of repeated torture. The players who broke the defense in the sticker bar followed the example of the big wrongdoers of "Mirror 2" next door and changed into clown avatars.
And there will be no shortage of Internet fun people in any situation:
But even if the old buddies in the post bar are bitter and happy, using ridiculous sentences to hide the anger in their hearts, as if this is just a trivial thing in life, they can still occasionally feel the sourness of being disappointed.
But by the afternoon of the 5th, things seemed to have really reversed. Tieba old buddy found that on steam, the test server of "Fallen Doll" updated about 10 G of content, but due to the bad server, the online mode of the game could not enter, and the offline mode was nothing new, even if you barely squeezed in and saw the content first was a "research pass".
But in any case, the gentlemen who have been disappointed for a long time have finally waited for a glimmer of hope, and even if it may be a delay, they are willing to wait.