What are your gripes/criticism of TiTs?

MarcoPolo121

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Or how the "Dawnsword" from CoC2 is clearly a cutrate Lightsaber whose associated quest is full of Star Wars jokes?

It's pretty clear the writers don't look down on homaging or ripping off existing work to anyone who's been paying attention.
 

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But Lorelei isn't a bat, and her name isn't rouge. The love stars aren't named bubbles, buttercup and blossom. I also know the Ruskaval (might be misspelled) are a reference to the Lombax of Ratchet & Clank, but they aren't named Lombaxes. Their designs have callbacks to to what they are referencing, but Carmelita is literally a pallet swap from the waist up. I don't mind obvious references, but copying the exact name of the inspiration and making the model look this close is just...a bit too far IMO.
 
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Because I'm thinking about it, I'm going to offer my advice on how to fix this issue as easily and unobtrusively as possible. I am not asking for an overhaul, and I don't want people thinking that references are the issue. I think it's a simple 2 step fix.

1. Change the names. Carmelita can be Carmen if you really need to keep it close, and if the Coopers are referenced you can even just use "Sylvester, Benjamin, and Mickey." You could just not play it this close either, Lorelei sounds nothing like Rouge, but if you want to keep it close even a small change goes a long way.

2. Change the design a little more. It doesn't need to be drastic, but color swaps aren't quite enough. Maybe her ponytail is shorter, or maybe she has two instead of one. Her necklace was originally a reference to her occupation, so perhaps you swap the star with the peacekeeper logo. I get Carmelita wasn't a complex design to begin with, and making her a taur helps keep her from feeling like a carbon copy, but their are other subtle ways to make it less distracting.
 

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Ja, I think it would be better if the turret was itself buffed or made customisable, i.e. you could swap its weapons to suit the enemy you were facing, kinda like the Engineer in TF2.
 

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Maybe have the turret require Steele to aquire replacement parts to build another - e.g. Steele has to defeat N enemies to build a turret. Thus, the player can still spam turrets in a hard battle, but will then use up Steele's store of parts and won't be able to spam them again until a few battles have been won.
 

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This is more of a pedantic nitpick about the world/lore than a complaint about the game itself, but why are Leithans compared to lizards so often? As far as I can tell, they have almost nothing in common with lizards besides being vaguely reptilian. They're a lot more similar to dinosaurs than to lizards: They have erect, digitigrade legs with 3 toes (plus a 4th smaller toe) each. Because of the comparison, I had a very different image in my head of what they actually look like for a while before I went and looked at art showing their lower body.
 

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This is more of a pedantic nitpick about the world/lore than a complaint about the game itself, but why are Leithans compared to lizards so often? As far as I can tell, they have almost nothing in common with lizards besides being vaguely reptilian. They're a lot more similar to dinosaurs than to lizards: They have erect, digitigrade legs with 3 toes (plus a 4th smaller toe) each. Because of the comparison, I had a very different image in my head of what they actually look like for a while before I went and looked at art showing their lower body.
This was mainly because in early TiTS development, a lot of the interchangeable body parts were using the established CoC as a template. If memory serves right, when conceptualizing the new sci-fi races for TiTS, the humans, ausar and kaithrit had clear base counterparts in CoC (human, dog-boy/girl, cat-boy/girl, respectively). I think using CoC's lizan race was the next base used (mainly lizard parts), but there was a desire to make it more alien, so insect chitin and a tauric body-plan was mixed in.

As the game developed, with species names and descriptions becoming more defined, newer, more specific body part types were added (like leithan parts... and eventually a dinosaur type used for penis shape) and then the kui-tan and gryvain were added as starters. I think vanae was going to be a starter race at one point, but it was never followed through, probably for story reasons. And then after some time, suula was added as a starter.

Eventually, visual aid and limited access to the codex will be added to the beginning of character creation to help with clarity, especially for newer players, but for now it's still a work-in-progress.
 

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A Short Pregnancy Mode for just the NPCs would be nice, since their pregnancies often last months and there's no other way to speed it up.
 

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A Short Pregnancy Mode for just the NPCs would be nice, since their pregnancies often last months and there's no other way to speed it up.
It would be nice if NPC pregnancies used Steele's Virility Speed Modifier, rather than completely ignoring it. Then using Fertite+ various other mods would speed up NPC pregnancies up to 5x or so.
 

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I may come off as a broken record, but I don't like how some quests and interactions are gated behind needing to having sex with certain characters. Like the Ghost Deck quest is inaccessible unless you had sex with Anno. Same with unlocking Syri's, Erra's, Paige's, and Kiro's interactions. Even in the tutorial when you want to recruit Celise, you must have sex with her or else she'll be removed from the game. Again, sex should be a choice for the player, not a requirement. Why is it like this?
 
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I may come off as a broken record, but I don't like how some quests and interactions are gated behind needing to having sex with certain characters. Like the Ghost Deck quest is inaccessible unless you had sex with Anno. Same with unlocking Syri's, Erra's, Paige's, and Kiro's interactions. Even in the tutorial when you want to recruit Celise, you must have sex with her or else she'll be removed from the game. Again, sex should be a choice for the player, not a requirement. Why is it like this?
Why does the sex game have sex in it?

on a more serious note, imo if you are required to have sex to progress the tutorial, that should be an indicator for what the game is going to be like; sex is going to be required for some progression. again, in a sex game
 

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It would be nice if NPC pregnancies used Steele's Virility Speed Modifier, rather than completely ignoring it. Then using Fertite+ various other mods would speed up NPC pregnancies up to 5x or so.
Fertite+ does not increase male Speed Modifier. In fact, I don't know of any way to increase it.
Honestly, paternal bonus is currently only used for halving the absurd numbers of the maternity bonuses. Which could be done directly and be a lot more intuitive. (Incubator = 1.5x? 2000% = 10.5x?)

Even in the tutorial when you want to recruit Celise, you must have sex with her or else she'll be removed from the game.
on a more serious note, imo if you are required to have sex to progress the tutorial, that should be an indicator for what the game is going to be like; sex is going to be required for some progression. again, in a sex game
If you skip the tutorial, you can recruit Celeise without having sex with her. And while sex is required for some NPC interactions, I don't think it's ever required for the main quest.
It's entirely reasonable to want to recruit Anno or befriend Syri (and abuse her bookclub) without fucking them first. Or if you like a character, but don't have any sexual attraction to them.
It would be nice if Anno's Test Drive->Petplay counted. Especially since she hates Tarkus, You'd think she'd jump at any chance, sex with Steele or not. It's not like she goes without if you never fuck her again after recruitment.


My latest gripe: Power Armor Weapons double the time to move between squares on the map, unless Steele is wearing Power Armor. This applies whether the weapon is equipped or in the inventory.
40+ Physique, Cybernetic Exoskeleton & Bigger Guns don't count. Hoverboard cancels it out.
Power Armor also slows Steele while in the Inventory, but not while worn. Cybernetic Exoskeleton does whether it's worn or not (this is probably a bug).
This is not documented anywhere I could find.
 
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What I don't like is how some great characters are gated behind male only fking. Especially if they're crew (Ramis) otherwise give us a female only fkable recruitable npc.
 

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Nah I mean I want to sex her as my futa Steele
A character has a firm sexual preference instead of being yet another being that will fuck anything and everyone and the writer sticks with it? Oh the horror. :U
 

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If you're a Tech Specialist you can fix her cock milker. It skips her sex scenes.
1. That only works for Tech Specialists. There are 3 other classes.
2. You need at least 75% Int.
I've suggested letting Anno or Shekka be able to fix it if they're crew. IIRC, letting Tech Specialists skip was declared 'a mistake'.
 

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A character has a firm sexual preference instead of being yet another being that will fuck anything and everyone and the writer sticks with it? Oh the horror. :U
Yes absolutely the horror especially as one is crew. Kinda pointless having her aboard.
 
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Yes absolutely the horror especially as one is crew. Kinda pointless having her aboard.
Because having both a free but also very easy and accessible means to slow train your stats isn't "useful" in this game. :U
It's not like you can't keep going on Tavros benders with her. Not every character is an omnisexual hyperslut nor is it some sudden requirement for them to be when crew.
 

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great characters are gated behind male only fking. Especially if they're crew (Ramis)
FYI, you don't even need to fuck her, you just need to go drinking with her on a bender as a male, she states you two probrably didn't fuck (and indeed the stats also show you remained virgin if you didn't fuck anyone yet) so you don't have to fuck her.
Yes absolutely the horror especially as one is crew. Kinda pointless having her aboard.
Absolutely not, Ramis is a Gun-Crew so she can manage the Missile Bay turrets, arguably the strongest weapon of the entire game, having her rather early on is pretty good once you get the turret, and as other mentioned, she trains stats, actually I am fairly certain she practically raises almost all stats outside of Inteligence.

Additionally she is a real fast method to increase Alchool Tolerance (going on a bender with her for like 4 days straight practically gives you complete tolerance)
 
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