Lab Rats

[Cormick]

Stumbled on this a couple of days ago, honestly surprised it doesn't have a thread here because it is pretty great.

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4548070

To a certain extent the game is your standard fare mind-control fantasy(here, through chemically engineered serums) fiction where you as the main character get the chance to get down and dirty with mom, little sister, college classmate, college lab director and lab coworker during 120 days of summer holidays. Luckily, they're all pretty hot

Pretty vanilla in terms of content, Male/Female, Male/Female/Female and obviously incest. Has some very nice graphics and quite good writing. Also, the game is not retardedly easy (which is awesome) so you'll have to consider your options and do a bit of resource/stat management if you want that harem ending.

Probably the first time I seriously considered supporting a Patreon instead of just going for the free public builds (yeah I know, I suck)

 

[Tinman]

Looks like version .51 is available to the public in 2 days. Might as well wait to test it out.

 

[Regardie]

version 0.51 is out. It's a fun game by a single creator. I have cleaned up the grammar and corrected spelling mistakes and put my files up in the comments section of the release post. I have not seen a reply from Vren since the game went live so I don't know what he thinks about my work, but he has said in the past that he is keeping all assets open for anyone to mod as long as they continue to be free.

 

[Miscellaneous Forum Viewer]

It's a very good game. I don't like that you turn Lily and Stephanie into sluts, but you can avoid looking at those implied gangbangs if you don't flirt with Stephanie or Search Lily's computer. But other than that, I'm quite fond of it.

I'd offer the guy my support but I have nothing tangible to give.

 

[Tinman]

Played through a few times over the past couple days and got everyone except the mother fully influenced. Came close my first playthrough, but stopped around the 90s when I ran out of content for her and didn't know it had to be over 100. I did have a lot of fun playing this and enjoyed the look of the characters, which is quite important with 3D. This feels like a very complete game with only a couple areas where missing content is noticeable. That said, there are some flaws.

Most notably, there is no indication of how high influence needs to get for a particular ending. Using a blue serum you can have sex with any character, and threesomes where available, once their influence is over 60. That means you could easily see all content for a character well before reaching the 100 influence needed to see their ending. It's also extremely repetitive. Even using the skip feature as much as possible it takes close to an hour to play through all 125 days.

The balancing between influence and resistance gains seem to be way off. The in-game text suggests that it's repeating actions that increases resistance, when in reality it's just repeated exposure to the serums. This is a big deal when resistance can jump 30 or more points from a single act and you're not checking resistances on a first playthrough. Purple and red serums also don't seem to do as one would expect based on in-game text. One would expect purple serums to have a lower impact on both influence and resistance and red serums to do the opposite. Instead, they only seem to affect what choices you can make with purple rolling you back one (blue can get them naked but purple only gets them topless) and red bumping you up one (you can get them naked with blue or you can get a handjob with red) while seeming to have the same or very similar impacts on influence and resistance.

Lastly, here's some tips for those that haven't played yet. No guarantee it'll get you all the girls, as I have yet to succeed at that.

Be sure you search Stephanie's desk a couple of times when given the opportunity. You'll find the door code and be able to create 5 blue serums at a time morning and night. Use the info button at the top right to check resistance after each serum use. Sex scenes that aren't serum induced seem to lower resistance faster. I haven't been able to pinpoint how much exactly as my attempts to test didn't show an immediate change, but girls you have these interactions with do drop faster. Here's a general list of them that I'm aware of

Spoiler: No serum required

Mom

• Watching movies with her and Lily after a certain point of influence will result in both getting topless or naked without the serum when their influence is high enough
• On Monday, if you're giving her part of your pay, she'll offer to do things for money.
• May walk in while you're watching porn
• Randomly chooses to sleep in your bed

Lily

• Aforementioned movie watching
• Any time she is in her room and not about to go on a date will offer some sex scene as her influence grows
• Also might walk in while you're watching porn
• Randomly chooses to sleep in your bed

Alexia

• Seems to happen randomly while napping under the tree on campus or taking the bus home at night.

Stephanie

• As her influence grows she'll show up naked or masturbating in the lab during weekday mornings
• Random encounter while napping under tree on campus

Nora

• Might be in lab weekday nights and will occasionally be naked or interested in sex, also has lesbian scenes with Stephanie if her influence is also high enough

 

[Miscellaneous Forum Viewer]

You can go into the script file with notepad and change some things to make it easier on ya if ya need to. Simply changing how much resistance falls over time can have a significant impact on progression.

 

[Dragon]

I played this a while back, this current version seems a little harder than the older versions where you could only do scenes once.

You can go into the script file with notepad and change some things to make it easier on ya if ya need to. Simply changing how much resistance falls over time can have a significant impact on progression.

Wait, Exactly which files do I need to open to reach that script?

 

[Tinman]

I played this a while back, this current version seems a little harder than the older versions where you could only do scenes once.


Wait, Exactly which files do I need to open to reach that script?

Go into the game folder and use Notepad to open the script file (RPY), from there I used ctrl+F to search for "resistance". You're looking for these lines, just add zeroes after the -1 to lower resistance by 100 each day.

    $ noraO.change_resist(-1) ##Lower resistances by one each day.
    $ stephO.change_resist(-1)
    $ momO.change_resist(-1)
    $ sisO.change_resist(-1)
    $ alexO.change_resist(-1)

 

[Dragon]

Go into the game folder and use Notepad to open the script file (RPY), from there I used ctrl+F to search for "resistance". You're looking for these lines, just add zeroes after the -1 to lower resistance by 100 each day.

    $ noraO.change_resist(-1) ##Lower resistances by one each day.
    $ stephO.change_resist(-1)
    $ momO.change_resist(-1)
    $ sisO.change_resist(-1)
    $ alexO.change_resist(-1)

ok I'm going to try this, thanks.

 

[Regardie]

Version 0.6.1 is out. I have spent some time with the Ren'Py files and cleaned up the grammar and spelling. I also fixed a couple bits of text that were not correct based on the surrounding text.

I found a few spots where the wrong variables were incremented and fixed them as well. Nora in the lab giving a blowjob swallows but didn't have an increment for that so I added that. Lab brothel ending has you finishing in Steph's mouth to keep their makeup clean but Nora got the status change, I fixed that as well.

Attached is my corrected game files: endings, hub_scenes, intro_scenes, major_scenes, minor_scenes, and script. Save your rpy versions in your game folder somewhere else if you have a concern about using these files. After doing that copy my files into your game folder, replacing the originals. The next time you launch the game it should generate new rpyc files for you.

I am going to try to get Vren to look at this thread so he knows there is discussion going on about the game.

 

[Tinman]

Thanks for the update. Looking at the changelog it seems that the new endings for having multiple girls over 100 influence is the biggest difference. While that is significant, the game already felt so complete at .51 I think I'll wait a little longer to redownload. Maybe .71 when the HUB feature is fully implemented or 1.0 when it really is finished. As much as I loved how complete the game felt with the last version it ruins replayability from one version to the next that I'm used to from games like TLS that add content with each update. Still, if anyone hasn't played this I would strongly recommend it. Especially since it looks like the latest version does a better job telegraphing influence and resistance gains, along with improving influence drops from non-serum scenes.

 

[Sapphire]

I have an interesting question since you went thru the code. I played the new version (without your fixes) and I don't think I ever get the "bump into sister" middle of the night scene. I still get the one with the mother but I played thru almost the entire summer vacation and went to be early literally every night and never get that scene. ive gotten the serum mom scene and both mom and sister coming to sleep with me scenes, but no serum nighttime scene for the sister.

 

[Regardie]

I have an interesting question since you went thru the code. I played the new version (without your fixes) and I don't think I ever get the "bump into sister" middle of the night scene. I still get the one with the mother but I played thru almost the entire summer vacation and went to be early literally every night and never get that scene. ive gotten the serum mom scene and both mom and sister coming to sleep with me scenes, but no serum nighttime scene for the sister.

I could find nothing in the code that would have prevented the nighttime scene with sis from occurring. It is a simple "coin flip" trigger, random integer from 0-1, and then another to decide night encounter or come sleep with you. If sis came to sleep with you then everything is working and your pass defied the odds a little.

 

[Sapphire]

I could find nothing in the code that would have prevented the nighttime scene with sis from occurring. It is a simple "coin flip" trigger, random integer from 0-1, and then another to decide night encounter or come sleep with you. If sis came to sleep with you then everything is working and your pass defied the odds a little.

Okay just wanted to make sure it was just a rare probability thing and not a bug.

 

[Regardie]

I have more fixes for the files in the game folder. More typos and grammar as I am playtesting, plus some bug fixes that were identified on the patreon site. I do not have a fix for the repeating ending day issue. There are a few ways to solve that and I am leaving it to Vren.

I did do some moving around of the characters in a couple places. I made Lily centered in her nighttime encounter fuck. I also spent some time with Alex at the lab.

First, I made the background the lab instead of the quad. Then I moved her to the center for some of her scenes. Now I need some opinions. The blowjob in the lab I moved her back to the right when choices were displayed in the center, the fuck in the lab I left her in the center with the choices over her. It is a few extra steps to do the move back and forth, is it worth it?

 

[Regardie]

I have finished what I can on v0.6.1. Is it complete? I am fairly confident that I have still missed some things but I think it is cleaner than the original files.

There are lots of grammar and spelling fixes and some bug fixes. Now I need to wait to see if Vren will look at it and use any of my work. This was a big change under the hood and it took some time for me to break apart my file to match the new file structures Vren implemented. But now that is done and it should make things easier going forward, even if my changes don't get rolled into the game.

For the curious, you can use a tool like WinMerge to compare the original files with my files and it will highlight all the changes I made to the originals.

As always, save the originals in another directory and extract my files into the "game" directory and RenPy will take care of the rest.

Edit: I heard from Vren at Legend of Krystal forums where he started a thread about the game and I have been posting these files as well. Vren is interested in rolling some of them into the game for v0.7.0 so we will see how that goes.

 

[Sapphire]

There is a new version out. I wish this thread stayed up to date.

 

[Cormick]

Well it stays updated in the sense that the link in the OP leads straight to the Patreon where the current version's download link is available. I'm not sure what want, other than that

(Thanks for the heads up though)

 

[Sapphire]

Well it stays updated in the sense that the link in the OP leads straight to the Patreon where the current version's download link is available. I'm not sure what want, other than that

(Thanks for the heads up though)

I just normally follow threads like this for updates on non-finished games and then go to the patreon or w/e when there's an update. But if there's no post I don't know there is an update. I only went to the patreon alone this time because when I first looked for this thread I couldn't find it.

 

[Tinman]

I just normally follow threads like this for updates on non-finished games and then go to the patreon or w/e when there's an update. But if there's no post I don't know there is an update. I only went to the patreon alone this time because when I first looked for this thread I couldn't find it.

That's usually when the game's creator makes the thread. Sometimes they stop posting too, like with Summertime Saga or Adventure High, but mostly the people making the game give update alerts in their threads. This was just shared by a fan that has to check for updates like the rest of us rather than knowing the moment they're out.

 

[Cormick]

That's usually when the game's creator makes the thread. Sometimes they stop posting too, like with Summertime Saga or Adventure High, but mostly the people making the game give update alerts in their threads. This was just shared by a fan that has to check for updates like the rest of us rather than knowing the moment they're out.

Exactly

 

[Sapphire]

That's usually when the game's creator makes the thread. Sometimes they stop posting too, like with Summertime Saga or Adventure High, but mostly the people making the game give update alerts in their threads. This was just shared by a fan that has to check for updates like the rest of us rather than knowing the moment they're out.

Yeah I know I was just hoping someone else was following this closely enough to give those sorts up updates.

 

[Tinman]

Version .8.1 was released publicly around the end of June.

 

[Tinman]

Version .9.1 was released publicly a couple of days ago and looks to add quite a few scenes. Oddly, instead of the next version being 1.0 it's going to be .10 but it still might be the "end" version of the game since Vren is already starting on Lab Rats 2 between patreon and public releases.

 

[Blight]

I'm playing the latest version 0.12.1 I think and everything is coming up funky in notepade

 

[Hoboy]

I'm playing the latest version 0.12.1 I think and everything is coming up funky in notepade

I'm trying to understand this comment. By notepad(e) do you mean trying to edit the script file? It can be done in any text editor (like notepad), but the more powerful the text editor the better? I'm on a Mac and use Text Wrangler, but on a PC I use the newer Notepad+...

 

[Blight]

Sorry just using standard notepad. I tried in other text editors and wasnt able to edit anything. Found a patreon for a save game editor but only does partial

 

[Tinman]

I'm playing the latest version 0.12.1 I think and everything is coming up funky in notepade

Are you looking at the RPY version of the script file in the game folder?

 

[Blight]

Are you looking at the RPY version of the script file in the game folder?

Im trying to edit the save or the mail files nothi will edit in a word or text ediyor for me

 

[Tinman]

Lab Rats 1.0 is out as of November 27th. This is the final version of the game (not including bugfixes) and marks the point where the sequel, Lab Rats 2, is now the primary focus of Vren's time. And could someone help Blight, I went way past my game coding knowledge just changing resistance losses.