I really like this game, but I think it's a little too unforgiving of errors. Missed beats should hurt your score, sure; but it's too easy to lose your rhythm, miss a few beats and then totally fail the scene.
I beat Cathy's scene on Normal with 4 stars on the first try, then failed Zoe's scene 4 times in a row because it's so unforgiving of misses. Then I did Zoe on Virgin (a bit condescending, that; why not "Easy"?) and immediately succeeded with 4 stars.
I think it shouldn't make you fail unless you were going to not even get a 1 star score. At the very least, it should forgive a few missed beats and give you clear warning that you're about to lose if you don't shape up.
Update: I've now beaten all three scenes on at least Normal, and two of them on Expert, with at least 4 stars. To go from failing to that is pretty jarring. I think there needs to be more space between failing and winning with flying colors---there should be ways to just do kind of mediocre.
But, again, let me say that this game is amazing, and despite being very incomplete, probably the best rhythm-sex game I've ever played.
Tbf they added stuff to make harder levels easier to pass with items in the shop. Plus if you fail that just means you need to improve and you only lose if you complete fail a note aka hitting the wrong key or just not pressing it at all 4 times in a row without items. The timing is very forgiving too as i'm sure you noticed. Theres 4 degrees of hitting a note that doesnt impact you negetavily, Perfect, great, nice and meh. Considering all that i dont think the game is unfair if you fail cuz of hitting the wrong key or not pressing anything. (I'm not saying you're bad i'm just saying in my opinion the game is already fair enough and doesnt need to be any easier)
I'm not really asking for an overall decrease in difficulty, but rather a smoother transition between failure and success. I was eventually able to win all the levels. But I jumped directly from failing outright to getting 4 stars, and that's what felt weird. I actually think it might make sense to make it harder overall; but something feels wrong about just a slight difference in timing for half a dozen notes being the difference between failure and near-total success.
I think it might be the fact that Beat Banger focuses so heavily on successive notes---it's missing several in a row that makes you fail. I think I would prefer if it were a larger absolute number of missed notes, like "you can't miss more than 50" rather than "you can't miss more than 5 in a row".
To see what I mean, compare SpunkStock. Unless you specifically get the Doom modifier or several stacked Whip modifiers, you can miss several notes in a row without failing. You won't get the coveted SS or even S ratings, but you can still make it through the scene.
Overall I like Beat Banger better than SpunkStock; I particularly love that the beats you trigger are actually thrusts in the sex scene. But the difficulty curve in SpunkStock feels smoother, without the jarring leap from "you suck" to "you're amazing".
A different way to make successive notes important would be for the "Combo" count to actually do something, which as far as I can tell it does not. Some sort of bonus score multiplier you get at certain levels of combo (or even literally just +1% score for each beat per combo, so a 127 combo is +127% points) would provide incentive to never miss a beat without making you suddenly fail because there's one fast section of a song you're bad at.
This looks lovely. Reminds me I have to buy it one day. Just shying away a bit from the prize, so I will either wait for a sale or go for it when I have a bit more money in the pocket.
Either way, this looks like some fun and unique gameplay and I respect that creativity. =3
Im from Germany and i cant get this game on steam. I also cant buy it here, beacuse i dont have credit or debit, Is there some other payment option or anywhere else where i can buy this?
Das Problem kenne ich selber zu gut. Für diesen Zweck habe ich mir mal eine pre paid Kreditkarte angelegt. Gibt/Gab es z.B. bei der Santarda Group ohne laufende Kosten. Muss halt wie klassische Handykarten mit Geld aufgeladen werden, was für Gelegenheitsnutzer aber ideal ist (weil sicher. Kann höchstens das Geld weggehen, was man drauflädt). Es dauert ein paar Wochen, bis so eine Karte da und nutzbar ist, ist die Zeit aber wert, sobald man sie hat.
Mit etwas Glück gibt es bei deiner aktuellen Bank auch die Möglichkeit, eine kostenlose VISA/MasterCard dazuzubekommen.
Womit ich persönlich schlechte Erfahrungen gemacht habe, ist die Landesbank Berlin (sehr unprofessioneller Support; Zumindest in meinem Fall). Generell vor Abschluss aber immer genau in dem von der Bank bereitgestellten PDF-Wälzer nachlesen, was die Konditionen sind.
Okay so I did some testing to make sure its not just a one off fat-finger on my part. The 42nd note on the easy mode for Gale is bugged. It will count as perfect/hit, then immediately "miss". It's not that big of an issue since I got the 3 banners for the hard mode, but its still annoying from a completion standpoint lol.
Is anyone else having the problem where the application isn't opening? I was using the macos download and every time I tried opening up the actual Beatbanger app, the finder thing would just say "The application 'beatbanger' can't be opened."
Yes, I went to the discord and was directed to this video I believe, which solved the issue for me, though it's been quite some time I can't promise it'll work for you.
Any chance we could get configuration to have the controller or keyboard inputs as arrows? I'd be so much less likely to confuse the buttons that way on a controller, and it would also mean that I don't have to reach up across my keyboard.
Is anyone else having an issue joining the discord? Every time I try to join it tells me "unable to accept invite" I'd like to join so I can download mods. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you!
Their invite link hasn't worked for at least a year or more, no matter what I do or which device I use I constantly get "the invite link has expired". I don't know whether they don't care or haven't noticed because no matter how many people mention it they never seem to reply to them or visibly fix it
I've tried on my desktop app, desktop browser (Firefox), phone app & phone browser both through links and manually typing it in.
And I don't seem to be having trouble connecting to other channels because I recently joined another game channel. I don't think it's possible I've been banned from the Bunfan channel as I've never been on it, the only other possible thing is that it's not available to me in NZ (highly doubt this but is possible).
All I want is access to the mods. Do you know of another place I can get mods? The github I used to get them from was obliterated for some reason.
I don't know if its just me but I'm having a hard time moding the game, no matter which way I do it. I drag and drop into the mods folder but doesn't work.
probably just you. if you unzipped a mod make sure to get the inner folder out of the unzipped one. then try dropping the inner folder into the mods folder. otherwise it won't work either way. also, if you already did this and it didn't work, make sure you are using a mod for exactly this version of the game. hope that helps :3
Think there is a bug on Zoe's expert level, where her voice lines do not play. Did not have that problem on easy or normal variants. Great game, though. Can't wait for more levels!
Also, seems like it overwrites high scores? I had the yellow "no misses" banner for the normal mode for Zoe, but now it says I am missing it after getting a couple misses which gave me a 4 star on another attempt.
So far, its only been the one level, Zoe's in Act 1. I have been unable to replicate it in Cathy's levels so I am unsure if its only the Normal level for Zoe. Oh well, I don't mind playing more, just figured I'd share what happened.
I got a little bug where it either starts right in the middle of the "song" and once one is finished the others wont play, like the video freezes after one frame leading to a restart
they mean that the only difference that they can think of, is that the itch version is available for german people, whereas the steam version isn't, since steam region blocks all adult only games in germany. to answer your question tho, i don't really know, since i am german. but i do think that they're otherwise pretty identical ^^
Is there anything present in the steam version that's not present in the Itch.io Version? I know mods will be harder to implement (as they require manual downloads and not just hitting a button on steam), but besides that are they just about the same?
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Fuckkkk I wanna play it but I have a chromebook and my version doesn't support Linux
Dowload a thing called wine, it is a layer of translation linux-windows, all godot games works with wine
I really like this game, but I think it's a little too unforgiving of errors. Missed beats should hurt your score, sure; but it's too easy to lose your rhythm, miss a few beats and then totally fail the scene.
I beat Cathy's scene on Normal with 4 stars on the first try, then failed Zoe's scene 4 times in a row because it's so unforgiving of misses. Then I did Zoe on Virgin (a bit condescending, that; why not "Easy"?) and immediately succeeded with 4 stars.
I think it shouldn't make you fail unless you were going to not even get a 1 star score. At the very least, it should forgive a few missed beats and give you clear warning that you're about to lose if you don't shape up.
Update: I've now beaten all three scenes on at least Normal, and two of them on Expert, with at least 4 stars. To go from failing to that is pretty jarring. I think there needs to be more space between failing and winning with flying colors---there should be ways to just do kind of mediocre.
But, again, let me say that this game is amazing, and despite being very incomplete, probably the best rhythm-sex game I've ever played.
Tbf they added stuff to make harder levels easier to pass with items in the shop. Plus if you fail that just means you need to improve and you only lose if you complete fail a note aka hitting the wrong key or just not pressing it at all 4 times in a row without items. The timing is very forgiving too as i'm sure you noticed. Theres 4 degrees of hitting a note that doesnt impact you negetavily, Perfect, great, nice and meh. Considering all that i dont think the game is unfair if you fail cuz of hitting the wrong key or not pressing anything. (I'm not saying you're bad i'm just saying in my opinion the game is already fair enough and doesnt need to be any easier)
I'm not really asking for an overall decrease in difficulty, but rather a smoother transition between failure and success. I was eventually able to win all the levels. But I jumped directly from failing outright to getting 4 stars, and that's what felt weird. I actually think it might make sense to make it harder overall; but something feels wrong about just a slight difference in timing for half a dozen notes being the difference between failure and near-total success.
I think it might be the fact that Beat Banger focuses so heavily on successive notes---it's missing several in a row that makes you fail. I think I would prefer if it were a larger absolute number of missed notes, like "you can't miss more than 50" rather than "you can't miss more than 5 in a row".
To see what I mean, compare SpunkStock. Unless you specifically get the Doom modifier or several stacked Whip modifiers, you can miss several notes in a row without failing. You won't get the coveted SS or even S ratings, but you can still make it through the scene.
Overall I like Beat Banger better than SpunkStock; I particularly love that the beats you trigger are actually thrusts in the sex scene. But the difficulty curve in SpunkStock feels smoother, without the jarring leap from "you suck" to "you're amazing".
A different way to make successive notes important would be for the "Combo" count to actually do something, which as far as I can tell it does not. Some sort of bonus score multiplier you get at certain levels of combo (or even literally just +1% score for each beat per combo, so a 127 combo is +127% points) would provide incentive to never miss a beat without making you suddenly fail because there's one fast section of a song you're bad at.
Whenever you buy a game that isn't fully done, do you just get the current versions, or do you get the future updates to?
You get permanent access to all updates, as long as they're posted on the same Itch.io page.
Thanks. 👍
i want free one
Yeah, a free demo would be nice.
Is this coming to android?
This looks lovely. Reminds me I have to buy it one day. Just shying away a bit from the prize, so I will either wait for a sale or go for it when I have a bit more money in the pocket.
Either way, this looks like some fun and unique gameplay and I respect that creativity. =3
Is there any way to buy this without a credit card? And no steam aswell.
you could always find the creator on the street and just hand them the cash, seems like a lot of work tho imo
I typed /handsfree on a main menu to do autoplay, but nothing happened. What should I exactly do to set auotplay?
I had to unlock hands-free autoplay by winning that scene at that difficulty first.
Im from Germany and i cant get this game on steam. I also cant buy it here, beacuse i dont have credit or debit, Is there some other payment option or anywhere else where i can buy this?
You can usually buy bundles via PayPal
There are no Bundles with this gaame tho.
When i press buy there istn't a paypal option so i have the same problem
Das Problem kenne ich selber zu gut. Für diesen Zweck habe ich mir mal eine pre paid Kreditkarte angelegt. Gibt/Gab es z.B. bei der Santarda Group ohne laufende Kosten. Muss halt wie klassische Handykarten mit Geld aufgeladen werden, was für Gelegenheitsnutzer aber ideal ist (weil sicher. Kann höchstens das Geld weggehen, was man drauflädt). Es dauert ein paar Wochen, bis so eine Karte da und nutzbar ist, ist die Zeit aber wert, sobald man sie hat.
Mit etwas Glück gibt es bei deiner aktuellen Bank auch die Möglichkeit, eine kostenlose VISA/MasterCard dazuzubekommen.
Womit ich persönlich schlechte Erfahrungen gemacht habe, ist die Landesbank Berlin (sehr unprofessioneller Support; Zumindest in meinem Fall). Generell vor Abschluss aber immer genau in dem von der Bank bereitgestellten PDF-Wälzer nachlesen, was die Konditionen sind.
idk why i cant join the discord
T.TLinks to join can expire, so that ancient ones malcontents spread around aren't active forever.
I think.
thanks
anyone can tell how to unlock the last two pictures in the gallery please??
The 3 levels whit Gale in perfect, buy all in the shop.
when i download it it tells me the compressed zip folder is invalid anyone else
I'm also having a similar issue
i had the same, but it opens fine in winrar
Okay so I did some testing to make sure its not just a one off fat-finger on my part. The 42nd note on the easy mode for Gale is bugged. It will count as perfect/hit, then immediately "miss". It's not that big of an issue since I got the 3 banners for the hard mode, but its still annoying from a completion standpoint lol.
I'm so happy that the game is finally available outside of Steam! Hope the tip I left on top is enough! :D
Is anyone else having the problem where the application isn't opening? I was using the macos download and every time I tried opening up the actual Beatbanger app, the finder thing would just say "The application 'beatbanger' can't be opened."
Mine also said it was damaged and can't be opened on mac
Did you ever figure it out? mine says the same and I feel I may have wasted 10$
Yes, I went to the discord and was directed to this video I believe, which solved the issue for me, though it's been quite some time I can't promise it'll work for you.
When for android?
when do you think the next release will be?
Right now https://bunfan.itch.io/beat-banger/devlog/536450/version-2892
I can only pay with paypal
me too
Any chance we could get configuration to have the controller or keyboard inputs as arrows? I'd be so much less likely to confuse the buttons that way on a controller, and it would also mean that I don't have to reach up across my keyboard.
Is anyone else having an issue joining the discord? Every time I try to join it tells me "unable to accept invite" I'd like to join so I can download mods. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you!
Their invite link hasn't worked for at least a year or more, no matter what I do or which device I use I constantly get "the invite link has expired". I don't know whether they don't care or haven't noticed because no matter how many people mention it they never seem to reply to them or visibly fix it
https://discord.gg/bunfan works just not for everyone for some reason, maybe try a private tab?
Nope, that doesn't work.
I've tried on my desktop app, desktop browser (Firefox), phone app & phone browser both through links and manually typing it in.
And I don't seem to be having trouble connecting to other channels because I recently joined another game channel. I don't think it's possible I've been banned from the Bunfan channel as I've never been on it, the only other possible thing is that it's not available to me in NZ (highly doubt this but is possible).
All I want is access to the mods. Do you know of another place I can get mods? The github I used to get them from was obliterated for some reason.
is there a widescreen option?
Is it possible to port bb on android?
Is this version the same as the Steam Version, both are v2.88?
Yes, this is just an alternate release path for people who don't want to get it on the Steam platform and have a porn game in their notifications
it says i need to pay to download the game how can git it free ?
That is often how products work.
I don't know if its just me but I'm having a hard time moding the game, no matter which way I do it. I drag and drop into the mods folder but doesn't work.
probably just you. if you unzipped a mod make sure to get the inner folder out of the unzipped one. then try dropping the inner folder into the mods folder. otherwise it won't work either way. also, if you already did this and it didn't work, make sure you are using a mod for exactly this version of the game.
hope that helps :3
Think there is a bug on Zoe's expert level, where her voice lines do not play. Did not have that problem on easy or normal variants. Great game, though. Can't wait for more levels!
Also, seems like it overwrites high scores? I had the yellow "no misses" banner for the normal mode for Zoe, but now it says I am missing it after getting a couple misses which gave me a 4 star on another attempt.
So far, its only been the one level, Zoe's in Act 1. I have been unable to replicate it in Cathy's levels so I am unsure if its only the Normal level for Zoe. Oh well, I don't mind playing more, just figured I'd share what happened.
this game is so fucken hard , or im just too stupid to play a simple game , can you add easy mode
Honestly surprised there's not a workshop on the steam hub
PLS MAKE AN ANDROID VERSION
I got a little bug where it either starts right in the middle of the "song" and once one is finished the others wont play, like the video freezes after one frame leading to a restart
Fixed it with a FPS limit! (And a restart)
Can't wait for a mod to replace the dude with a human
Are there any differences between steam and Ich.io versions?
the IO version is avaliable for us germans
what?
Literally doesn't matter to you, they just felt the need to inform you that they're German and porn games are banned on Steam over here
they mean that the only difference that they can think of, is that the itch version is available for german people, whereas the steam version isn't, since steam region blocks all adult only games in germany.
to answer your question tho, i don't really know, since i am german. but i do think that they're otherwise pretty identical ^^
good
Is there any way to turn on the modifiers with devmode? I pressed F2 and tried hero but it didn't activate anything.
Is there anything present in the steam version that's not present in the Itch.io Version? I know mods will be harder to implement (as they require manual downloads and not just hitting a button on steam), but besides that are they just about the same?
Will updates be free is purchased?
All future updates are free :D
I like how description says it’s FREE DEMO but it’s actually 9.99… xD
What are the differences between this and Steam version?
This one isn't blocked in Germany
Best purchase of the year.
ALREADY GOT IT ON STEAM
Pog game local cat too hot