discussion VN Ren'Py DAZ Midlife Crisis [v0.35.2] [Nefastus/Farwest AVNS]

[VForValhalla]

It hasn't been?

All the claims of abandonment are speculative at best.

Nefastus goes through occasional long periods of silence. He posted in his Discord in early January about still working on this game, and again on unrelated stuff in mid-January. He's definitely gone upwards of five months with total silence before, so this isn't out of the ordinary for him.

Ah that's good to hear. I almost fell into depression

 

[ChaosGardian]

Hope this gets a update soon. Would be nice if the dev did a sign of life post now and then.

 

[Shiva]

It hasn't been?

All the claims of abandonment are speculative at best.

Nefastus goes through occasional long periods of silence. He posted in his Discord in early January about still working on this game, and again on unrelated stuff in mid-January. He's definitely gone upwards of five months with total silence before, so this isn't out of the ordinary for him.

The BIG worry on this is that the longest time of silence was the result of Nef being in the hospital. This time there were personal issues before everything went silent and the long-term fans are holding out hope for an update or even just some good news. By good news I mean that Nef is alive and healthy. Yes, an update would be nice, but even just a sign of life would be good for now.

Just a thought.

 

[RandyBoy]

The wife has a rare realistic MILF body. I prefered the niece with her tan. And the youngest daughter rules.

 

[Adams92]

This game is wonderful!!! he cannot be abandoned like this....

 

[Demiurge299]

I'm perfectly fine if devs go months without updating the game itself, but they really could do with more "hey, yeah sorry about being quiet, I'm still breathing!" posts, especially ones like Nef who have previous health scares or reasons for the community to think "oh man I hope they aren't literally dead". even like 3 months is a lot without so much as a peep from a dev, let alone almost half a year. I do hope he's fine, and I do hope things get going again though.

 

[Beduin123]

Guys, can you give me a bit of encouragement. I keep hearing how good this game is, tried playing it twice but every time the (not-so-pretty to put it politely) models turned me off. Do they improve as the game progresses (as it happens with a lot of games)?

 

[Nastastic]

Guys, can you give me a bit of encouragement. I keep hearing how good this game is, tried playing it twice but every time the (not-so-pretty to put it politely) models turned me off. Do they improve as the game progresses (as it happens with a lot of games)?

Yeah, Nef's Daz-fu definitely improves over the course of the game. It never gets to the level of Such a Sharp Pain or other exemplars of DAZ mastery but later updates still look MUCH better than the early game.

If you're talking about the characters themselves....I'm not sure what to tell you. The appearances of Sandra (the wife) and Christine (the younger daughter) along with to a lesser extent Jennifer (the athletic purple-haired girl) are controversial among the fandom for their looks. They become fantastic characters over the course of time: Sandra becomes an awesome cuckquean and Christine becomes a freak unleashed. And Jennifer becomes extremely devoted to the MC and can do all sorts of nifty athletic sex. Nef mostly writes for the full harem path (he originally planned at least a version where Sandra is antagonistic as well as the main path one in which you seduce her into embracing her cuckquean tendencies and she gets off on you fucking some of the other girls (she doesn't know about the daughters yet as of the latest update but the MC was leading her down that path).
If you don't like some of the other charaters like Sarah (the voluptous redhead), Hailey (the "petite" blonde niece) or Angela (the MC's blonde sister and Hailey's mom) then I don't know what to tell you. They are all hot and all great but their looks are not redesigned or anything so if you don't like their looks now, you won't like them later. Which is different to their character development; they all get a fair amount of that, as well as lots of deep-dicking by the MC.

On an unrelated note, I was today years old when I found out that Poser (a sort of cheap, but not free, predecessor to DAZ Studio...well, cheap in comparison to the costs of professional 3D programs like Maya) still exists (currently on version 12). I thought DAZ Studio's freeness had killed it long ago. Back in the Poser 6/7/8 days when I experimented with 3D rendering, Poser was a far superior product to the buggy and glitchy DAZ Studio of the time (I'm talking about its first releases, or at least its first free releases). /end old man memories

 

[Beduin123]

t never gets to the level of Such a Sharp Pain or other exemplars of DAZ mastery but later updates still look MUCH better than the early game.

No, I don't expect the state-of-art level of SSP. The level of mid-to-later Sisterly Lust is sufficient. That game also started so-so in terms of graphics, but later improved significantly.

If you're talking about the characters themselves....

Both times I didn't get as far as knowing the characters well enough. Just the appearance put me off, I didn't find any of the girls sexy.

On an unrelated note, I was today years old when I found out that Poser

Is there something similar for Linux, do you know? Blender is great, but it is not specialized for human bodies.

 

[Nastastic]

Is there something similar for Linux, do you know? Blender is great, but it is not specialized for human bodies.

I know approximately jack-shit about Linux, sorry.

 

[Beduin123]

I know approximately jack-shit about Linux, sorry.

Found it. It is called MakeHuman

 

[Nicest_Incest]

Sad that this is probably abandoned (last played 10 months ago, the dev ghosted everyone not long after). We didn't even get to see the MC fuck the lolis, or even put a little girl in his little girls like they wanted. Having them go into labor with Sarah at the same time would have been sweet. Maybe properly end an AVN at some point in the 5th year before you die of old age (or whatever happened) and leave it unfinished?

 

[Nicest_Incest]

Ok I give up how do you install incest mod on an android

You don't. Another perk of PC. All AVN .apk's afaik are released prepatched and if they are not you are out of luck.

 

[ObservantShadow]

This game is tagged as abandoned on the Zone

 

[Nicest_Incest]

Guys, can you give me a bit of encouragement. I keep hearing how good this game is, tried playing it twice but every time the (not-so-pretty to put it politely) models turned me off. Do they improve as the game progresses (as it happens with a lot of games)?

I guess you haven't fucked Sarah yet. She's hot (at least by 2018 standards). And yes, not all LI's are goddesses, probably meant to be that way.

 

[Dobermann]

Not trying to be a party proper here... but wasn't this one abandoned? The makers last update on either money grabber platforms was December 2023.

Like the game! I really enjoy the husband/wife dynamic especially with the little one. The slow corruption arc of the wife, amazing.

 

[Tiur]

Not trying to be a party proper here... but wasn't this one abandoned? The makers last update on either money grabber platforms was December 2023.

Like the game! I really enjoy the husband/wife dynamic especially with the little one. The slow corruption arc of the wife, amazing.

It might be, but the flair doesn't go on until the dev confirms it or has been completely non-communicative for a long period of time (which varies from site to site). Nef in particular goes silent for moderately-long periods of time, though this has lasted longer than any previous one, I believe.

 

[Dobermann]

Fingers crossed then!

 

[El Buho]

AAGGG Why are the scenes so FU--ING DARK ???---->

 

[khaelin02]

Quoting this from another post from Zone:

Just to catch you up, and anyone else who may have wandered in late, quick synopsis: Early December, Nef makes his last Patreon post stating the usual "update is almost done, and sorry for not communicating more" and disappearing shortly after.
Around mid December of 2023, Nef began expressing family troubles on the official MLC Discord thread; something about them "taking advantage of him".
Mid January of 2024, he goes silent on Discord, but his Discord status fluctuated from idle to active during that time.
3 months later, still no correspondence on Discord, or the crowd funding sites, and Midlife Crisis is categorized as Abandoned as per the F95zone rules; however, his status is still online via Discord.
In May 2024, the Discord thread descends into silence from fans with the occasional conspiracy theories tossed about. And it appears someone tried calling him (not confirmed - as someone in the general thread said they tried calling him with no answer) via Discord. The next day, he is offline completely; no idle, no active, just gone.