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Path of martial arts: leaked sneak peaks, and discussing thread

God

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What's different for female players for them to be angry? I thought your gender only matters in terms of romance options and doesn't change anything else?
Just not enough content, even last update was mostly Ai/Mei content. He even says he wouldn’t play if you aren’t on their route. There were so many updates last year that was mostly “Ai focused update”, Mei focused update. They get screwed, it wouldn’t be a problem if romances weren’t only straight, which sucks because wasn’t his fault.
 
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Just not enough content, even last update was mostly Ai/Mei content. He even says he wouldn’t play if you aren’t on their route. There were so many updates last year that was mostly “Ai focused update”, Mei focused update. They get screwed, it wouldn’t be a problem if romances weren’t only straight, which sucks because wasn’t his fault.
I mean it's still a problem cuz what if I don't want to romance these people? Why am I forced to do it in higher difficulties?

I don't know I think's cheeks personally. Unless the other ROs get comparable benefits which we know they won't.

Im waiting for him to bring perks back, i hate
the mechanic changes from this last update,
Ur lowkey insane for that. Current perk progression is goated and I hope it stays this way.
 

Waoman21

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What's different for female players for them to be angry? I thought your gender only matters in terms of romance options and doesn't change anything else?
I guess for some, romance is an essential part of the story—at least for me, it is. And in PoMA, it’s even more important considering that a portion of the content is tied to a route with a RO.

Even being able to get pills to manage the devil inside you seems to depend on Mei's route for now. And considering that all this content is tied to a male MC, I can understand why some people might not like the story if they play with a female MC.

Of course, not everyone has to engage in romance if they don’t want to, but with a male MC, you have the option to avoid it if you choose. However, with a female MC, you don’t have that option.
 
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God

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I mean it's still a problem cuz what if I don't want to romance these people? Why am I forced to do it in higher difficulties?

I don't know I think's cheeks personally. Unless the other ROs get comparable benefits which we know they won't.


Ur lowkey insane for that. Current perk progression is goated and I hope it stays this way.
I agree I don’t romance either so waiting for Caihong content which I doubt will be anytime soon. She’s too powerful and would solve some of MC problems easily. My surprise honestly is Ruo since they are obviously authors favorite and hardly have content, guess Niki trying to keep Ruo mystery up.
 

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I mean it's still a problem cuz what if I don't want to romance these people? Why am I forced to do it in higher difficulties?

I don't know I think's cheeks personally. Unless the other ROs get comparable benefits which we know they won't.


Ur lowkey insane for that. Current perk progression is goated and I hope it stays this way.
Dao perks are fine but i refuse to let go of the physical ones, combat mechanics also irk me, being forced to buy a useless eyes of lightning tattoo to do something that was already granted sucks ***.
 

justindeed

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Dao perks are fine but i refuse to let go of the physical ones, combat mechanics also irk me, being forced to buy a useless eyes of lightning tattoo to do something that was already granted sucks ***.
Nahhh I am not spending 3.5k xp to get perks again bruh. That was fricked up.

I feel you on the combat menu tho, I hope they change that. But perks nahh
 

Arlonb

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Dao perks are fine but i refuse to let go of the physical ones, combat mechanics also irk me, being forced to buy a useless eyes of lightning tattoo to do something that was already granted sucks ***.
Same here. In the case of Dao it's cool and makes sense, but for stats in my opinion the old system was better. The benefits of the new perk system are that you don't spend extra XP and you can have more than one perk per attribute (if you don't evolve them too much), but the old one simply worked better for this type of game (my pure opinion). As for the "new combat menu", it's horrible, the old one was so much better.
 

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So... What do you people expect from the next update? To be honest, I'd like Nicky to take a break from story progression. Focus on smaller things, you know? Like correcting some errors in the writing and coding, finally giving some content to the "activities" as well as to the "visit someone", finishing the "characters menu", adding a "perks menu", etc...

Something I'd really like would be the creation of a real ranking for the PHs, like, it's said that only the Top 10 get a ranking, but somehow we know that Liu Mogui is in the top 17. We can only speculate the minimum to get into the Top 10 thanks to the fact that Long Chen's Rating has been revealed, 1297.
So as far as mechanics, the incomplete ones would be Arena, visit someone, activities, local gossips. Arena i guess will we added as the game gets updated. Imo Activities are fine as money making stuff but i wouldnt be against more. There are like only 6-7 gossip events in total, i'd like more internal, external and outside the sect lore. Idk the purpose of Visit someone section. Is it to spend time with RO's or NPC's? Theres already a lot of content missing for RO's except Ai and Mei. Idk if Niki can find time for that. Some routes are missing in game so that needs working.

Its best if Niki takes a break and works on minor stuff as you said. Second stage of the tourney is over and theres 2 more left. Do some minor stuff, add small events or if he can add RO events, and after thats done go to the 3v3 tourney stage with a fresh mind. Its only going to get tough to write scenes from now on especially fights. We barely had real team fights in game with characters and MC actually displaying some kind of teamwork. So that might be new for Niki to write if he plans on teamwork being there at all in the 3v3s.

And the character menu, man It irked me that i couldnt check about characters from other sects. It would show character glossary is unlocked but theres nothing in there. Perks menu would be nice. Or even a changelog kinda menu where you can see how your characters progress, Increase in attributes, new perks and talents shown in chronological order with our stage. But i think itd be a lot of work.

Yeah top 10 rankings along with the approximate rating of like some threshold places, like ranking 10, 5 and 1 should always show their rating. I know its a lot of work to keep changing the rating as the other characters might fight in the arena too so best make it a approximate rating. On top of that, itd be nice to show the rankings of side characters or some imp characters we meet along the way, No need to add rankings after top 10 except for those characters like Liu Mogui. Adding MC's ranking would be too much work but us having rating and the top 10's rating not specified gives us no leeway to compare our position with them. Niki has a lot of stuff to tune in regards to Arena thats for sure.
 

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I feel like he’d save most of this for when it’s complete going and refining everything. I do want him to switch character focus for a while, I have a friend who just gotten into IFs and I recommended Poma and she hates it. Female players really do get screwed and I had a whole rant about it but decided not to act on it because this is my favorite Wip. I do think we’ll be taking a break on the tournament and focusing on other things for now.
I have never seen any Female players for POMA. Are there actually women who enjoy POMA? I though women would rather read character focused stories with more emphasis on romance. My own real life friends would watch or read action stories but are not excited by them as say a romance story with drama or something,
 

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I have never seen any Female players for POMA. Are there actually women who enjoy POMA? I though women would rather read character focused stories with more emphasis on romance. My own real life friends would watch or read action stories but are not excited by them as say a romance story with drama or something,
eh idk if it’s still the same but IF used to be majority women demographic, they should still be the majority but probably closer. they want to play poma but it is pushed more towards males, same for aura clash. that’s why in most games there’s more genderlocked male ROs when they’re not choosable. Most are male players because it’s skewed towards males. It’s not like Poma is some complex game there’s a story mode for a reason.
 

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Yeah top 10 rankings along with the approximate rating of like some threshold places, like ranking 10, 5 and 1 should always show their rating. I know its a lot of work to keep changing the rating as the other characters might fight in the arena too so best make it a approximate rating. On top of that, itd be nice to show the rankings of side characters or some imp characters we meet along the way, No need to add rankings after top 10 except for those characters like Liu Mogui. Adding MC's ranking would be too much work but us having rating and the top 10's rating not specified gives us no leeway to compare our position with them. Niki has a lot of stuff to tune in regards to Arena thats for sure.
I don’t think the arena will receive much more work in that regard. After all, I highly doubt the MC could ever reach the top 10. I’ve always seen the arena more as a place to gain some EXP and gold rather than a serious ranking challenge. Plus, the MC seems to be advancing to Qi Condensation soon, and the arena is only for Houtians. So I don’t think the arena was designed for the MC to climb into the top 10 in this game.
 

Gone_Dead

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I don’t think the arena will receive much more work in that regard. After all, I highly doubt the MC could ever reach the top 10. I’ve always seen the arena more as a place to gain some EXP and gold rather than a serious ranking challenge. Plus, the MC seems to be advancing to Qi Condensation soon, and the arena is only for Houtians. So I don’t think the arena was designed for the MC to climb into the top 10 in this game.
True. I totally forgot about that.
 

Kamisama

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If Ai is your lover, someone is trying to provoke and manipulate MC with her. Thats clear. It doesnt happen to her if we dont romance her so im sure she's not the one actually targeted. Xiwen then comes along with his solution which is also suspicious considering Lady Butterfly barely has a century left before she 'disconnects'. She might be desperate af.
It doesn't happen if we don't romance her bc she has no need for power if she isn't being crapped on for being with us.
 

Arlonb

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I don’t think the arena will receive much more work in that regard. After all, I highly doubt the MC could ever reach the top 10. I’ve always seen the arena more as a place to gain some EXP and gold rather than a serious ranking challenge. Plus, the MC seems to be advancing to Qi Condensation soon, and the arena is only for Houtians. So I don’t think the arena was designed for the MC to climb into the top 10 in this game.
Still, it's something that deserves more attention. It's the details that make a game so interesting. Besides, it's a simple job, it can be easily solved with a "Rankings" option, which would show the unchanging top 10, the fixed position of characters like Ai and Tigress, as for the MC's position, it can be determined with "*if (rating = 312) *set rank W, *elseif (rating < 312) and (rating >= X) *set rank Y, etc...".
 
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Kamisama

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Also that rating thing on arena sucks ***, so if i beat up the No.1 i will still have less than half his points? **** makes no sense at all. Anyway, i would love to see that game complete, atleast the first book, but it will probably only happen when i'm already a father leaving my kids at college (i'm in my early twenties) reminds me of infinity saga, the first book (sabres of infinity) was first posted about 10 years ago.
 

Waoman21

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Still, it's something that deserves more attention. It's the details that make a game so interesting. Besides, it's a simple job, it can be easily solved with a "Rankings" option, which would show the unchanging top 10, the fixed position of characters like Ai and Tigress, as for the MC's position, it can be determined with "*if (rating = 312) *set rank W, *elseif (rating < 312) and (rating >= X) *set rank Y, etc...".
Of course, but if you want to add those small details, then giving Ai and Tigress a fixed position in the arena would be counterproductive. If their ranking doesn’t change, it means they either don’t fight in the arena anymore, or other fighters aren’t advancing or dropping in rank, making it just a static number. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if Tigress doesn’t participate in the arena since she fights best when going for the kill. Ai is constantly out on missions, Tang Ruo already has a ranking, and Mei probably never even stepped into the arena. So I guess the ranking system would mostly apply to the MC.

Adding small details is fine and all, but if they aren’t well-executed, they’ll just cause more frustration—just like the game mechanics, which have been changed so many times. Some mechanics improve, while others get worse.
 

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Also that rating thing on arena sucks ***, so if i beat up the No.1 i will still have less than half his points? **** makes no sense at all. Anyway, i would love to see that game complete, atleast the first book, but it will probably only happen when i'm already a father leaving my kids at college (i'm in my early twenties) reminds me of infinity saga, the first book (sabres of infinity) was first posted about 10 years ago.
As long as Niki is committed to complete the story, everything will work out. We will be too busy with life stuff so we wont notice how long it takes for updates to come. Thats also the problem with IF's with so many variables and branches. Takes too much time to complete.
 

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Eh I feel like book 1 will be complete within next two years, based on the % he said the story was at in like august I think. The story I do not see completed for a long time, feels like he will focus on his other game. I can see he’s been slowly getting burned with Poma.
 

Jorgoe

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Also that rating thing on arena sucks ***, so if i beat up the No.1 i will still have less than half his points? **** makes no sense at all. Anyway, i would love to see that game complete, atleast the first book, but it will probably only happen when i'm already a father leaving my kids at college (i'm in my early twenties) reminds me of infinity saga, the first book (sabres of infinity) was first posted about 10 years ago.
For some reason author today are faster than before. Some story with over a million of words get completed in only 1 year.
 
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