RPGM Abandoned Katalist [v0.097.6] [Tearycian]

[jaggedlunch]

The positive: It shows Teary is still alive.
The negative: It shows Teary is still alive and not posting the update.

Not a good look either way.

Right now all the supporters are mostly just hoping teary has decided to rework the whole game as he was going to after this release that should be out rather than release the changelog/ version .98 . The changelog for that update he released in November in the discord after he apologized for not believing how bad he fumbled the fact that he said he was going to release it in like August or something. Mind you the first teaser for this update was in like February.

Now it does seem like a sizeable update but supposedly it was even more broken than most the rest of the game and would require him to rework code/ game as he was intending for version 1.0 after .98. Now that .98 has been delayed for 4-5 months after changelog came out everyone is just hoping he launches it included in the rework with everything fixed. I think I also saw an argument over how he should do chastity system for cho in rework to prevent more reworks/ problems when he is at it, but i don't think anyone but one dude said that so who knows.

Basically hopefully at this point if an update does come out it's the rework or all the supporters will be pissed once they finish gooning, but honestly teary probably won't care as this is a passion project. He has also declared he won't be saying shit until update is ready this time as he keeps jamming his foot in his mouth after sharing leaks that get everyone worked up and then not dropping update. All accumulating with an entire changelog with like three bosses saying tommorow followed by nothing over the span of a year i guess it seems now if you count first teaser in feb 2024.

Anyway that's the inside story that's been going off more or less. thought I'd share since it seemed like you may have been unaware based on that reply. might help others as well.

discord Other than arguing that amoral quest sucks because it only shows feet and other nonsensical arguments in the discord and also spam pinging teary who by now has turned off notifications. No offense discord but we know it to be true. At least teary hasn't started sending pictures of pickaxe emoji yet nothing else much is going on.

In tearys defense everyone that canceled overseer because he jerked us around get free copy of update when it drops. I'll prob just renew overseer to reward him for a job getting done tbh but yeah so he's not entirely heartless. Also apparently he is a college student and it's a passion project so what do you really expect. Off the top of my head it's one of the best solo projects objectively speaking even more so in the femdom genre. So yeah.

 

[Gosh i love dominic]

Right now all the supporters are mostly just hoping teary has decided to rework the whole game as he was going to after this release that should be out rather than release the changelog/ version .98 . The changelog for that update he released in November in the discord after he apologized for not believing how bad he fumbled the fact that he said he was going to release it in like August or something. Mind you the first teaser for this update was in like February.

Now it does seem like a sizeable update but supposedly it was even more broken than most the rest of the game and would require him to rework code/ game as he was intending for version 1.0 after .98. Now that .98 has been delayed for 4-5 months after changelog came out everyone is just hoping he launches it included in the rework with everything fixed. I think I also saw an argument over how he should do chastity system for cho in rework to prevent more reworks/ problems when he is at it, but i don't think anyone but one dude said that so who knows.

Basically hopefully at this point if an update does come out it's the rework or all the supporters will be pissed once they finish gooning, but honestly teary probably won't care as this is a passion project. He has also declared he won't be saying shit until update is ready this time as he keeps jamming his foot in his mouth after sharing leaks that get everyone worked up and then not dropping update. All accumulating with an entire changelog with like three bosses saying tommorow followed by nothing over the span of a year i guess it seems now if you count first teaser in feb 2024.

Anyway that's the inside story that's been going off more or less. thought I'd share since it seemed like you may have been unaware based on that reply. might help others as well.

discord Other than arguing that amoral quest sucks because it only shows feet and other nonsensical arguments in the discord and also spam pinging teary who by now has turned off notifications. No offense discord but we know it to be true. At least teary hasn't started sending pictures of pickaxe emoji yet nothing else much is going on.

In tearys defense everyone that canceled overseer because he jerked us around get free copy of update when it drops. I'll prob just renew overseer to reward him for a job getting done tbh but yeah so he's not entirely heartless. Also apparently he is a college student and it's a passion project so what do you really expect. Off the top of my head it's one of the best solo projects objectively speaking even more so in the femdom genre. So yeah.

Thanks for the update, but if he is going to do the rework, he needs to be more clear, not with us (We filthy pirates), but with the patreons, who still have good faith with him, if he states "If we have *Insert money necesary to hire a programmer*, i'm going to hire a programmer to help rework the game, so it doesn't take a 1 millon years and i don't have to do it again" the patreons might help him with that and can start some real work on .1 update.

What i'm trying to say it's that all this radio silence doesn't help anyone and only complicates the problem.

 

[jaggedlunch]

Thanks for the update, but if he is going to do the rework, he needs to be more clear, not with us (We filthy pirates), but with the patreons, who still have good faith with him, if he states "If we have *Insert money necesary to hire a programmer*, i'm going to hire a programmer to help rework the game, so it doesn't take a 1 millon years and i don't have to do it again" the patreons might help him with that and can start some real work on .1 update.

What i'm trying to say it's that all this radio silence doesn't help anyone and only complicates the problem.

I dont disagree about him not being communicative and it leading to people being more angry than they really should be. Its a problem but unfortunately thats just how teary is. patreons have tried changing him he wont. hes socially akward or something and usually only communicates when hes had alcohol to have courage to chat i think is what the discord says. last communication was "im not going to communicate until update as it hasnt been working." basically so yeah. that was like november i wanna say. Again though plenty of former patreons feel that way as well most have stopped supporting.

he only gets like 1k atm and i bet most of those bought for a year. discord people say you would think he would talk with us as money dries up but again it appears to be a passion project for him and not in anyway something he cares about the money for really. mostly seems to view the money as a side benefit for making a passion project. If he was doing this as a buisness and for profit i would agree he should definitely be following your advice unfortunately if its a passion project and he has other priorities it becomes a grey area. He also wont ever hire anyone else. this project is his baby of sorts and he wants no one else in it i believe has been expressed. But yeah in most companies communication is the basic of basics. if you make an action update the notes etc, but its funny usually the tech people tend to be the worst at that. Most game dev companies have even made a role for the person who is supposed to
be noting everything instead of having the devs do it themselves usually. seems a reoccurring thing to be honest that tech and IT people just dont communicate or put notes if they absolutely do not have to.


I think as a whole it seems like the patreons would actually rather .1 update as at this point if that doesnt happen its like wtf have you been doing for four months. either he lied about being near done on previous changelog in november or he really just fucked around for four months. so if they get a full rework at this point say august or october even if it were 2026 theyd be less mad i think than a broken janky .98 that still doesnt work four months down the road. most of them that care have canceled and will likely resume on a reasonable update anyway tbh.

 

[Gosh i love dominic]

I dont disagree about him not being communicative and it leading to people being more angry than they really should be. Its a problem but unfortunately thats just how teary is. patreons have tried changing him he wont. hes socially akward or something and usually only communicates when hes had alcohol to have courage to chat i think is what the discord says. last communication was "im not going to communicate until update as it hasnt been working." basically so yeah. that was like november i wanna say. Again though plenty of former patreons feel that way as well most have stopped supporting.

he only gets like 1k atm and i bet most of those bought for a year. discord people say you would think he would talk with us as money dries up but again it appears to be a passion project for him and not in anyway something he cares about the money for really. mostly seems to view the money as a side benefit for making a passion project. If he was doing this as a buisness and for profit i would agree he should definitely be following your advice unfortunately if its a passion project and he has other priorities it becomes a grey area. He also wont ever hire anyone else. this project is his baby of sorts and he wants no one else in it i believe has been expressed. But yeah in most companies communication is the basic of basics. if you make an action update the notes etc, but its funny usually the tech people tend to be the worst at that. Most game dev companies have even made a role for the person who is supposed to
be noting everything instead of having the devs do it themselves usually. seems a reoccurring thing to be honest that tech and IT people just dont communicate or put notes if they absolutely do not have to.


I think as a whole it seems like the patreons would actually rather .1 update as at this point if that doesnt happen its like wtf have you been doing for four months. either he lied about being near done on previous changelog in november or he really just fucked around for four months. so if they get a full rework at this point say august or october even if it were 2026 theyd be less mad i think than a broken janky .98 that still doesnt work four months down the road. most of them that care have canceled and will likely resume on a reasonable update anyway tbh.

Yeah, I just think that the game is cancelled, there wasn't REAL evidence that .98 even existed, just a few teasers that he might have done in a couple of hours.
What i'm seeing is that not all people are angry, just dissapointed in the wasted pontential, just like a Modern AAA game, good idea, but it was meant to be more

 

[jaggedlunch]

Yeah, I just think that the game is cancelled, there wasn't REAL evidence that .98 even existed, just a few teasers that he might have done in a couple of hours.
What i'm seeing is that not all people are angry, just dissapointed in the wasted pontential, just like a Modern AAA game, good idea, but it was meant to be more

i mean there were pictures and bro uploaded an entire ass changelog and said it should be good tomorrow but then said oh wait i fucked the whole game these two bugs are game breaking and i dont know how to fix them without whole code redo sort of thing was assumed. There are also a lot of pics leaked in discord so idk. hes done some work how much prob less than he implied tbh but probably not fuck all. the changelog was too detailed id say to be an entire fake. So hes def got some work doubt he canceled it. Honestly at least modern aaa hits the deadline with a minimum viable product. if he had made buggy release 4 months ago would it have been broken sure, but people would not have been as mad. No. now its like he prob has to have a whole rework on release to not make people mad as four months means you should be doing more than a bug fix.

 

[TheNumber7]

Just finished the fourth mines and got to the Walter scene, does anyone know how to fix this?

Missing image error. Your game is trying to load an image file that doesn't exist on your PC, in this case WIA_1.rpgmvp. Just go to your installation's images folder (Katalist v0.097.6 Windows\www\img\pictures), select one of the existing .rpgmvp images in the folder, copy and paste, then rename the copy to the file name the game is searching for. You'll have to make like 5 or 6 new images but the file names you'll want are:
WIA_1
WIA_2
WIA_3
WIA_4
WIA_5
WIA_6

Alternatively if you trust zip files from strangers on piracy sites I put the ones I have in a folder below that you can just extract to the pictures folder instead of doing the copy paste rename file BS. All 6 files are just copies of WI A 1.rpgmvp so the cutscene looks a bit weird but it should run.

 

[DiddleKidPlusDiddler]

[...] Its a problem but unfortunately thats just how teary is. patreons have tried changing him he wont. hes socially akward or something and usually only communicates when hes had alcohol to have courage to chat i think is what the discord says. [...]

 

[Fistom]

The fact that the game is abandoned and still in discussion gives hope that some day the game might be updated.

 

[Anonymous1298]

Anybody Here Know Where's All Of The "Key Fragment" Located On Lunia/Enna Mansion ?
I've Been Searching For 4th Key Fragment And Can't Find It Anywhere :/

 

[EugoIce]

When was the game abandoned? No way... This really broke my heart... Forgive me for not checking f95 often, what happened? Can anyone fill me in?

 

[DiddleKidPlusDiddler]

When was the game abandoned? No way... This really broke my heart... Forgive me for not checking f95 often, what happened? Can anyone fill me in?

Not officially confirmed. Afaik, the last thing teary said (publicly on discord) was he's going to stop communicating until a release.

 

[Maxbrown05255]

Man there are very few good games like this and I was into the story and now its abandoned is sad man even ANLIS has no updates man I think they have some real problems and can't make the game either way it would be better if they could say something about it more.

 

[HackScore877]

Guys even though i am not in the discord. I still believe that the developer wouldn't just drop such a successful game. I mean now that AI is a thing that basically everyone uses i think its just a matter of time before we see the update. (Hopefully, in the near future he might actually integrate AI in the game... just imagine the immersion.)

 

[pineapple-ann]

Guys even though i am not in the discord. I still believe that the developer wouldn't just drop such a successful game. I mean now that AI is a thing that basically everyone uses i think its just a matter of time before we see the update. (Hopefully, in the near future he might actually integrate AI in the game... just imagine the immersion.)

The ai gets uncomfortable and stops playing along mid scene and you have to silently close the game in shame

 

[HackScore877]

You are right about that but there are ways to work around it. It's just a matter of figuring out a way to keep only the relevant information. Then its also a good idea to have somewhat pre-made prompts so the AI is still following the script. You can have premade answers but the AI is just adapting the details according to the decisions you have taken so far. All in all its not impossible, just quite frustrating. That said, it is still the best option for immediate improvement. And yet, i still think the game, as it is right now, is still unalienably well made while also simple enough and not too grindy (gameplay-wise dont know much about codding).

 

[jaggedlunch]

When was the game abandoned? No way... This really broke my heart... Forgive me for not checking f95 often, what happened? Can anyone fill me in?

if a game doesn't update in a certain amount of time it gets tagged abandoned. dev just hasn't updated but is still making game. he has updated wiki reccently for new characters not even in game.

 

[JakeMSG]

if a game doesn't update in a certain amount of time it gets tagged abandoned. dev just hasn't updated but is still making game. he has updated wiki reccently for new characters not even in game.

Ye, but at the same time, it's safest to treat the game as "Abandoned" (aka. play other games in the meanwhile) until the situation changes.

No point holding your breath this long

 

[Xbob1]

You know what, gonna play the game. Haven't touched it in over a year now but its clear waiting for a update ain't worth so lets give it another shot.

 

[Maxbrown05255]

Guys you can play games like smash boy or super punch boy and any other games made by the creator all of them are good. And wait till we get some news about Katalist.

 

[Jujumatsu]

Why you abandoned your project? What happened?