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>What's VA11 HALL-A?
A cyberpunk visual novel game where you are a bartender, slinging drinks to waifus.
OST: https://garoad.bandcamp.com/album/va-11-hall-a-second-round
Official site: http://waifubartending.com/
Official Devblog: http://blog.waifubartending.com/
Official Discord: https://discord.gg/AjMvbyS
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/447530/
Prototype: https://kiririn51.itch.io/va11proto
Prologue: https://boards.fireden.net/vg/thread/146744797/#146824204
Demo: https://kiririn51.itch.io/valhalla-bar
Betty a cute!
What's your opening song?
The one you have on first space of jukebox?
The one that always plays first when you begin your shift?
The one that comes to mind when you hear "Time to mix drinks and change lives."?
For me, it's Out of Order. Comfy, upbeat, with a wicked sense of safety.
>>146977556
Welcome to Valhalla
Jazzy and it sounds great coming back from break.
>Anna will never be fully explained
>Betty and Deal don't even have problems to expand on
>devs will be kill by Maduro's roving death squads before they finish any more content
>>146978309
Thank god
It's not Friday yet.Why can't it be Friday yet?
>>146978309
We know enough about Anna. Really all that's left is to figure out how she's doing what she's doing.
>>146978595
BLICK
WINKEL
9TH FOR STREAMING CHEN
>>146977556
Welcome to VA-11 Hall-A
It feels perfect, it has a nice drum intro that then leads a chill track.
Maybe it was created for that purpose with a name like that.
>>146978309
Anna is fully explained. She just feels useless to the overall whole. There's no pay off for her being there at all.
>>146979481
Maybe it's the way I played but I didn't get more than "maybe it's a ghost made of nanomachines"
like why is she there
why does she bother Jill, and only at the bar
can she get drunk
>>146979297
bkub edits are always good
>>146977556
I really like starting with Snowfall. Maybe because of the time of year the story is set in.
There is nothing left to talk about, it was a fun general while it lasted but it's pretty much dead now.
You can play the game as much as you'd like but we can only talk about the same things over and over again. Bring the general back when there is DLC
>>146979689
this
>>146979689
Yeah! Fuck you /ksg/!
Oh wait
>>146979689
>yet /ksg/ remains
post the pastebin! arrgghhh
I want to be friends with *Kira* Miki and play in concert with her!
>>146979621
I like to think it's maybe because Jill has early stage nanomachine rejection of the brain and this is what happens to your senses as you start to degrade. She starts talking to herself and hallucinating.
We must remake /dangeru/ as a Cyberpunk General once Mankind Divided is out. I am actually surprised there aren't more cyberpunk games coming out at all times.
Cyberpunk 2077 when?
>>146980967
that'd be pretty good. Depressing though
>>146981014
Don't rush it, CDPR is good at making games because they take their time.
>>146980967
Naw, if that was the case, she would have felt the side effects a lot earlier in her life. She's 27, her ex was feeling the effects of the nanomachine rejection already when she was a teen, and that was also a localized organ version of the disease.
>didn't include guide and FAQ in OP
terrible
Wasn't stella a diabetic in the Prologue?
>>146981981
nah, probably just tired. A diabetic passing out due to low blood sugar isn't solved as easily as "give her some water and send her to drink something sugary"
>>146979689
You're welcome in /indie/
I want to PET that cat.
>>146977163
Discuss
>>146982537
meme/10
>>146982537
White Knight one down, blonde and long haired blue one up.
>>146980967
Where exactly is this version of Kira Miki from? I'm about to play the Prologue. Is it from there?
>>146982619
this
>>146982537
>strem-chen above Best Lesbian
>>146982537
>Alma and Betty this low
Ridiculous.
>>146979654
Suggest me shit to do /dangeru/
>Sei talking about aiming for the arms and legs with firearms as self defense.
>>146982740
Rejected design.
>>146983421
Sei killing herself !
>>146983603
Welcome to western Europe.
>>146983603
That's how Venezuelans think things work in real countries.
where I live that'd be one hell of a liability. If it's bad enough that you have to use your concealed weapon you are shooting to kill
>>146983421
Gil looking like a badass noir protagonist only to have some of the cast in the background calling him a fuckboy
>>146983603
I think that was more in line with the in-world shit. Like the corporations will sue you into oblivion if a civilian goes lethal force or whatever.
>>146983421
Jill giving Dorothy a piggyback ride, but Jill looks drained while Dorothy thinks she's flying.
Fore is on the foreground looking at them and being all
>...
>>146983421
something with this
>>146984092
If cops can get away with it these days a dystopian cyberpunk world can.
Also it's the kind of fluffyheaded mindset a sweet girl like sei would have, unless she was a properly trained knight.
IRL cops aim for center mass because hitting limbs is incredibly difficult, especially considering most gunfights happen at long ranges.
>>146984092
>>146983603
I want to unironically educate people in this thread about the problem with shooting to disable.
Believe it or not this isn't because of the evil police or the corrupt government and law system which writes into law only that you can kill someone in self defense. The reason people shoot to kill is because at every court of law in a crime ridden citizen you will have parasite lawyers prowling the grounds to provide easy legal support to all manner of dindus on the basis it is an easy win - then they will take ridiculous cuts from the uneducated dindus - 60-80% in fees and do it all again.
The problem is a problem with how people profiteer on the legal system that set the precedent in how self defense is now kill to protect. This is why the 'evil' police now always shoot to kill in cases where use of deadly force is authoritized.
tl;dr greedy lawyers profiteering from caught criminals resulted in self defence being either kill or be sued, the same with police.
>>146984285
Make it Alma.
>No, I'm not really 40. How do you do fellow delinquents?
>>146981285
I don't think we were told that it always, absolutely effects people in early age.
It could be akin to autoimmune disorders which usually appear most commonly between 18 and 30.
I like it as an explanation though. It would be fitting for the bleakness of the world.
Dorothy is cute!
>>146985556
dorothy a meme
>>146985391
Also want to add it kind of explains why only she can see the nano ghost. She doesn't have artifical eyes that can be hacked and only she can see these things making them some kind of personal hallucination, since the wayward bots or signals would be detectable in some manner surely.
>>146983603
I'm not sure about Venezuela, but here in Colombia, if you kill a person in self-defense, nothing happens.
I think it stops being self-defense after 3 shots iirc.
>>146983421
Fore sleeping on Stella's head.
I'M GOING TO MARRY STELLA!
>>146985824
no!
>>146984023
>>146984118
>>146984285
>>146985713
I got preoccupied with this and now I'm too lazy to do anything elseTomorrow perhaps
>>146985975
fat shit never post here again
>>146985824
Sorry, m8. Virgilio's already tapping that.
>>146985894
YES!
Would Cat or Jill be better in bed?
>>146986193
Smelly Sex!
>>146985057
What anon is trying to say is
>if you shoot to wound, you leave the potential for doubt as to whether or not you were in mortal danger. This weakens your case for self-defense, and opposing lawyers will use your mercy against you
>if you shoot to kill, that demonstrates that you were fear for your life, and that strengthens a case for self-defense.
Police officers shoot to stop threats and minimize risks to the public. Center mass increases the chance of a disabling hit, and it lowers the chance of a bullet passing through the target and striking a bystander.
Thinking about buying this, is the game infected with memes or sjw bullshit or whatever?
>>146986349
Yes and no.
>>146986349
Both
>>146986409
Maybe
>>146986349
It has some SJW shit, some memes, some /pol/, some /v/, some /tv/, some /jp/, some /a/.
>>146986349
it depends on if you're the type to want to see SJW bullshit everywhere. If you want to find it, you can dig until you find some, real or imagined
>>146986349
It's got memes but it's not annoying about it like some games (Borderlands), half the cast or more is implied gay but the game takes place in a future where you can have sex with whatever so it's not really sjw pandering shoved in as much as it is appropriate to the game world
>>146986738
It's kind of annoying about it.
>>146986349
You're going to see what you want to see, really. Most of the memes are confined to the 4chan analogue, with the occasional line from a character.
The only one I can remember off the top of my head was that one guy who does the ISHYGDDT or whatever.
>>146987094
>You're going to see what you want to see, really.
Get a load of this guy.
>>146987094
There's shiggy diggy, a bunch of /jp/ references with streaming chan, nobody expects the dorothyquisition, and a few other instances. But most of it is confined to downtime.
>>146986349
It's a 4chan game. Of course it's meme central.
>>146986065
When is this getting localized in japanese so we can actually get decent porn?
>>146981014
Didn't there used to be a /cyg/? I haven't seen one in a while.
>>146987571
It died, obviously
>>146986349
It's actually pandering to everyone, which is surprising.
What board other than /u/ and /an/ would describe Jill?
>>146986349
I don't really see the "sjw bullshit" in this game, aside from the gay relationships. Don't some of the customers and AE articles bash them?
>>146987847
/r9k/
>>146985975
Keep up the bkub.
>you'll never have customers come from across the city just to talk to you
>your boss will never care for you like Dana does
>you'll never find peace and contentment from impulse purchases like cutesy posters and fake plants
>you'll never wake up next to a cute android who just wants to know that you're happy
>you'll never be able to talk about that TV show you really liked as a kid without people laughing at you
>you'll never come to terms with that one mistake you made so many years ago
Not being Jill is suffering.
Dev thread.
>>146989867
no pls
>>146982537
>Dissing Betty
>>146989858
I'm a barista at a cozy restaurant who's boss is like a parent to me.
The regulars can be quite interesting but we don't have a bar for constant conversation. My coworkers are all incredibly interesting though.
also the Midwest is incredibly boring.
I feel like I'm halfway there.
>>146989858
Thinking of Jill but being unable to date her is worse.
>>146990496
What if she laughed at your dick?
>>146990974
She would only do that out of embarrassment.
>>146983603
I took that as Sei being a by-the-book type. Like there's some law that says something like that and that like many laws means jack shit on a court or real life.
>>146990974
that would make her like every other woman whose seen my dick I suppose
>>146990974
slap her with my dick
>>146990974
What if she does that ventriloquist shit with your dick?
the fuck is a seventeen?
>>146991809
this might as well go in the OP next time
>>146990974
Then I'd have to ask her for a Big Bad Touch ;^)
>>146991809
Something that will send you to jail if you fuck it.
>>146991881
there's no next time, we'll have to migrate to /ksg/
>>146991809
WHAT DOES IT MEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAN
>>146992574
>tfw my birthday is 23 as fuck
I want to marry Anna!
>>146992827
I'm going to marry Jill. We should go on a double date.
>>146992827
I want to fuck gaby!
>>146992827
I want to marijuana!
>>146992975
No, I'M going to marry Jill!
>>146993536
is this actually from the game or is an edit?
Can't get Every Night is Day out of my head.
>>146993754
After you buy the shoulder massager, click on Jill.
>>146993754
She's just massaging her shoulders anon.
I think I only have 2 days left before the game's finished...
I'm sad, I don't want it to end :(
>>146993892
pfffhahaha holy shit
>>146993536
>After Dana compliments Jill's hoodie, she starts wearing it all the time.
>>146993983
Holy shit so that's the full pic
I want it
>>146993983
gil is a lucky man all things considered
>>146994173
that would make a mean background
Friendly reminder that Jill's hovercraft eats lots of eels. Or maybe it's full of eels?
Or at least that's what I think it translates to. I took German in high school, so I really don't know. Speaking of which, in chapter 1 Jill doesn't know what German is when talking with Donovan. What's up with that?
>>146994348
kek
>>146982537
Change Sei for Anna and we are good.
>>146994348
It's a tsundere thing, boss!
Can't believe she knows about these things, calls her little sister imouto and doesn't know about kotatsu.
>>146994348
Yup, I knew it, boss was the one who said that, now stop calling me fuckboy, you mongrels
>>146994669
Dana and Jill a cute!
A CUTE!
>>146994479
German has been replaced by Arabic at that point.
>>146994479
It's full of eels.
>>146982537
Dana needs to to go up a tier
Dorothy needs to go down a tier
Anna needs to go down a tier.
Better needs to go at least two tiers up
The YIIK cosplayers should just be 'in a garbage can that's on fire' tier
Other than that, I agree.
>>146991809
Ingredients must add up to 17. Sugar Rush + 14 Karmo will make him happy.
>>146995214
>>146994479
french here, >>146995312 is right
>>146993983
What is that? Artbook? Physical edition?
>>146993983
what a weird thumb you have, hauntingly distracting
Ded devs
>Gaby's first visit approaches
>get nervous as hell
>>146996828
That's what they get for being born in South America. Fucking losers.
>>146997238
Dev here. no dlc for you
>>146997340
Dev here, please send instant ramen
>>146997568
Dev here
Half life 3 is canceled
>>146997185
gaby a cute
>>146997568
Sure, I have plenty of shrimp ramen for you
>>146997753
That was unnecessary. I like shrimp ramen.
>>146997340
So there will be DLC then? Cool I need more comfy bar tending.
What was the point of Anna? To just add a spooky factor?
>>146994053
we all were anon.
Ded anons
>>147000786
let it go, before the game overstays it's welcome
:^)
>>147000932
This
We don't want to become a /ksg/
It was fun while it lasted.
>>147003189
Goodbey:^)
>>147003090
what does /ksg/ even talk about at this point?
>>147003090
>>147000932
That's a bit sad.
What is so unappealing about cyberpunk to the general population? Why is it so underproduced? Is it because it's anti-corporation, anti-government surveillance etc? Honestly what is it with cyberpunk always being underground and short lived.
Maybe it's better that way.
>The cyberpunk comeback of 2011-2012 won't happen again for atleast 10 more years.
>>147003525
Blade Runner 2 and the western Ghost in the Shell will murder cyberpunk in the mainstream for another 10 years
If you guys want to discuss the game but can't keep a thread going, why don't we just have an IRC?
>>147003525
Cyberpunk 2077 might breathe some new life into the genre, at least more than an indie VN would.
>>147004034
Suckyban need to start up an IRC or a forum or something to let the community build and congregate.
Can someone email them a suggestion to set something like that up? I'll do it in the morning if you guys don't.
>>147003189
Don't worry, VA-11 HALL-A will live on through dank memes and a god-tier OST.
>>147004449
They already have a discord but it's rife with redditors and shit.
>>147004535
>>147004691
>Discord.
Fuck that. I can already hear the meme-ing and the grating monotone drone of 19-24 year old somethings establishing a drama ridden 'gamer' clique. IRC like one of the above anons said would probably be more in my taste.
>>147005435
So someone should just make #WaifuBartendering on rizon or something. I don't know how to set up a channel.
I don't really get that everyone keeps calling Jill flat. She's not even that flat.
whats irc
>>146993983
Why did they change Sei's legs?
I think I'll leave while I still have good memories of this general. Please don't ruin it, and remember to always listen to the best song.
>>147006407
it's been real.
Until the DLC, I'lllook at fan art on tumblr and reddit
Purity?
#vallhalla on rizon
>>147007690
Seriously why does Jill own a slut shirt?And why isn't she wearing her cucumber shirt
>>147006702
I was hoping to get all the fan art here.
>>147007690
this is the content i crave
>>147003525
Real life is so uncannily similar to it yet well enough divided in its differences to a point where it makes the suspension of disbelief harder to believe that such a world could exist.
It's more of a fad setting of the past than it is something visibly possible in the near future.
>>147007918
Because FUTURE
there are little to no sexual mores anymore, just don't fuck anything illegal and everyone's OK with that
>>147007918
She's very, VERY sexually frustrated
>>146983603
>aiming for the arms and legs with firearms as self defense.
Just how badly have things gone to shit on the Venezuelan street level that this is an actual viable tactic?
>>147008426
They don't get guns in Venezuela, silly. That's why it's a peaceful nonviolent utopia
>>146980967
is that tv display in the back in the game either? I don't remember seeing it
>>147007918
I would totally buy one.I've thought about getting one custom made
>>147008552
Cute, but why duff beer tho? kinda ruins it
>>147007690
Is this supposed to be her standing in front of JC Elton's? Why is she barefoot?
>>147009638
she is a smelly slut
guys please, what does the fat fuck mean by purity
>>147010813
I don't think it even matters
So, guys
SCANLINES OR NO SCANLINES?
>>147010989
scanlines
>>147010813
It's the Zen drink, with 4 of each ingredient.
>>147010989
scan lines on for playing
scan lines off for sprites
All fan art should have scanlines and scanlineless versions
Do you not get the ending achieves on your first run? I fucked up and got the "bad" end, but didn't actually get the achieve.Or is there something worse than cuddling with titty monster
>>147011632
are you on 1.1.0.3? they keep fucking up achievements
>>147011632
achievements work for me on windows, but not on linux. platform might be a factor.
>check for save files to see if achievements issue is old save files or platform
>find save files
>record of waifu wars[1].txt
I hope I laughed at the right reference. I would feel retarded laughing at the wrong joke.
>>147010989
No scanlines for me. I'll turn em on for new game plus though.
this game has cute waifus, enjoying it so far
too many dude patrons tho
So how many of these generals going to be made?
I like playing, and I like talking about it.
>>147013789
we ded anon
>>147012980
What are your waifu preferences?
>0
>>147013789
Yet /ksg/ still exists
>>147013789
I kind of hope there are more but at the same time until there is more stuff to discuss I dunno what we would even talk about anymore except for the same old "what does 17 mean?"
Have some music I guess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpDvtIt6Lsc
>>147014194
I have some questions. Most of them probably have answers that I forgot/missed. Or they don't have definite answers, I guess.
>>147013789
Just make an IRC channel.
I haven't finished the game yet butwhy must Jill suffer so much
>>147014493
because she has fantastic friends.
The best friends.
They may be oddballs but jill has great friends.
>tfw we haven't even had 10 threads yet and the general is dying
truly this is suffering, do we go out like /xbcg/ or continue like /ksg/ has?
>>147014632
/ksg/
>>147014493
At least she has support from her friends and a cute cat. Plus comfy af apartment.
>>147014632
/ksg/
>>147014632
>suffering
By all means it's just a flavour of the month game, it doesn't need a continuously ongoing general. Somebody can create an IRC or a discord or whatever if they really want to keep talking about the game.
I love the game but there's only so much you can talk about and I'd rather it not become like /ksg/ or /usg/ which are riddled with cancer.
>we never got VA-11 HALL-A porn
why is fate so cruel
>>147013954
Do you really want to be like them?
>>147014974
Commission those artists then son
Alright then. If this is the last, or close to last, I'll dump some questions with varying degrees of stupidity.
>Who the Fuck is Anna?
>What does Gil do on the weekends? What's his whole deal anyway?
>Who is Alice Rabbit?
>Is the Virgillo the one on the opinions column for the Augmented Eye? Donovan said the guy looked like a fat baby with a small face and said somewhat similar names on day 2
>What happened to Sven?
>How did Dana Lose her arm?
>How do lillim get loner hair if it it burned off?
>Did the Harbingers cause the commotion at the bank? Or was it the Crimson and Cobalt people the detective mentioned. Are they connected?
>Does Ingram know anything about the Super Sonic Drones?
>Do the Drones have anything to do with the Bank?
>Was Taylor a boy or girl?
Other things that I haven't written down yet because I'm still on play through #2
>>147008426
Pretty fucking bad... a dozen eggs costs $150 and they have rolling blackouts daily.
I hope the devs make enough money to leave that hellhole forever. They made like $150k in revenue from steam alone so far.
>>147015582
I feel kinda bad for them. $150k is not a lot when you think about the fact that there are two of them plus whatever they pay Garoad.
>>147015582
Think of all the eggs they can buy!!
How do I getthe other endings, i got bad end i think cause i was short 500 fuckin dollars rrreeeee
Post music that would fit in game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O7VTw1E3b4
>>147015934
If you can pay rent you get good end + some character specific ones depending on what you did.
It saddens me that this game seems to have had somewhat low sales so far, considering the time
it took to make and the developers' own living conditions.
>>147015581
there aren't real answers to a lot of your questions. The story is about a bartender and her clients. The stuff with the bank and politics is beyond them.
Other stuff, like Dana's arm and Gil's past are jokes left up to the player's imagination.
The rest is in different discussions or in observing shit as it happens, like Alma probably being Alice_Rabbit
>>147016102
is what they've had so far considered "somewhat low"? They seem pretty successful to me.
>>147015725
You realize the average monthly income in their country is around $180, right?
>>147016252
I mean they can have a pretty good quality of life for vuvuzela, but if they wanna GTFO $150k is like nothing
>>147016102
The real thing to be concerned about is whether our money is even doing them any good.
There's some kind of wacky monopoly money situation down there, isn't there? Can they even take in foreign money?
>>147015725
They also have to pay their publishers too.
$150k is just from steam, can't find numbers for GOG and itch.io. but they are probably similar.
>>147016410
I'd expect it's more than enough. Although I have to admit I have no idea what things are actually like in that area. I'd be interested to read any insights you have on that topic.
What would actually be the combined cost of, like, LEAVING Vuvuzela, permanently?
>>147016617
Steam is supposed to take around 30%, then whatever their publisher gets for shilling YIIK, and then taxes.
I'd be surprised if they see more than 50% of their revenue, most likely less.
>>147016836
I factored in steam's cut already... Steam Spy is reporting ~15k copies sold
15000*14.99*0.7 = $157k
GOG also takes 30%. itch.io only takes 10% so buy the game from there if you can.
>>147016701
http://abcnews.go.com/International/venezuelas-economic-crisis-requires-foreign-intervention-expert/story?id=40017947
>>147016827
the real problem is getting a visa. they tried to show up at PAX last year but their visa apps got denied because their gov't doesn't want people fleeing the country.
ded anons
I want to be double dommed by Boss and Jill!
>>147018763
I want Jill to impregnate Alma.
damn we need to pitch in to get these two out of vuvuzela
>>147018763
F U C K B O Y
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>>147018970
>implying their company and all net profits won't be nationalized by Maduro & co
>>147018763
Do you think Jill's actually an S?
I could see her going either way.
>>147018763
I want to service becky, be there for her, and do any lewd thing she could possibly think of. I want to drink her biodegradable coolant she leaks. I want her to be using my tongue as a washcloth after work. I want to cuddle her and protect her, being fully intimate with her, hacking her software and changing roles every once and a while
I want to touch Miki's mikis
Just let this thread die until the DLC releases
>>147019071
I think it says Sukeban LLC in some of the files, so perhaps they were smart enough to establish a company outside vuvuzela to keep their government's hands away from their money. Or maybe they actually have a competent publisher who did it for them.
ERP when?
>>147019242
probably. She has a perfectionist stint. People like that enjoy escaping from it for a time.
>>147019469
i'd love to read logs, I suck at writing
>>147019469
let us die already
>>147020007
I'm already dead inside.
>>147020007
no pls
>>147020007
No rest.
You chose this fate.
Kira.
>>147020258
MIKI
