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

[God]

I’m so cooked tbh, I like roleplaying my MC a certain way. He’s someone who just wants freedom from being told what to do, so he did not side with either side, missed that power up, hopped off Mei route when she tied me up, was never gonna work out for my MC with how she Acts. More of a Neutral person leaning devious, so MG was perfect master. Think I had 2/3 devil breakouts. Told Yue Fang idk if I want to break it yet, and sadly don’t trust him. What I’m saying is my MC is getting 0 power ups unless I switch up my playing style and don’t feel like it. Console will do the trick just sucks. Hopefully Niki not forgetting about the Neutral players.

 

[O1O]

so we know male Wu Heir players will want a cultivator RO

Well! I don't

You can even make Ruo strictly a dude again and I wouldn't care less about it.

Damn! While you're at it make Ai or the tigress a dude too

I just want Caihong that's all

 

[O1O]

character customization and the branches that come from it is not one of them.

 

[Benu]

I’m so cooked tbh, I like roleplaying my MC a certain way. He’s someone who just wants freedom from being told what to do, so he did not side with either side, missed that power up, hopped off Mei route when she tied me up, was never gonna work out for my MC with how she Acts. More of a Neutral person leaning devious, so MG was perfect master. Think I had 2/3 devil breakouts. Told Yue Fang idk if I want to break it yet, and sadly don’t trust him. What I’m saying is my MC is getting 0 power ups unless I switch up my playing style and don’t feel like it. Console will do the trick just sucks. Hopefully Niki not forgetting about the Neutral players.

Same struggle, the max i see us getting is more tw memories here and there.

 

[O1O]

I’m so cooked tbh, I like roleplaying my MC a certain way. He’s someone who just wants freedom from being told what to do, so he did not side with either side, missed that power up, hopped off Mei route when she tied me up, was never gonna work out for my MC with how she Acts. More of a Neutral person leaning devious, so MG was perfect master. Think I had 2/3 devil breakouts. Told Yue Fang idk if I want to break it yet, and sadly don’t trust him. What I’m saying is my MC is getting 0 power ups unless I switch up my playing style and don’t feel like it. Console will do the trick just sucks. Hopefully Niki not forgetting about the Neutral players.

Yeah...we neutral players are screwed my brother

 

[God]

Yeah...we neutral players are screwed my brother

Don’t worry remember Poma has great character customization??? And branching even though the ideal playthrough would be a Rogue Mei Romancer MC.

 

[Benu]

I know. Fortunately, this time Nicky didn't make the mistake of promising something incredible only to deliver almost nothing in the future. In my eyes, him adding a "minor" is a sign of progress.

Dont underestimate the ability of nicky to make you feel like the weakest cultivator the world has ever seen.

Praying for you guys to receive decent upgrade because i know im not getting one.

 

[Benu]

Well! I don't

You can even make Ruo strictly a dude again and I wouldn't care less about it.

Damn! While you're at it make Ai or the tigress a dude too

I just want Caihong that's all

Non ironically male tigress was a thing and got absolutely thrown into the trash, just like tigress and every other romance who is not mei.

 

[Vitalik]

I’m so cooked tbh, I like roleplaying my MC a certain way. He’s someone who just wants freedom from being told what to do, so he did not side with either side, missed that power up, hopped off Mei route when she tied me up, was never gonna work out for my MC with how she Acts. More of a Neutral person leaning devious, so MG was perfect master. Think I had 2/3 devil breakouts. Told Yue Fang idk if I want to break it yet, and sadly don’t trust him. What I’m saying is my MC is getting 0 power ups unless I switch up my playing style and don’t feel like it. Console will do the trick just sucks. Hopefully Niki not forgetting about the Neutral players.

>there is no character customization that comes with added branches
>talks about his specific way of roleplaying Wu Heir
What do you want from me, man

 

[justindeed]

Well! I don't

You can even make Ruo strictly a dude again and I wouldn't care less about it.

Damn! While you're at it make Ai or the tigress a dude too

I just want Caihong that's all

All I hope for atp is that niki doesn't leave a vacuum removing Caihong. Like at least replace her with another character, even if its one of the flings like Shu or Su De. Cuz ngl I don't really vibe with the other female ros much.

 

[yourstalkeroutside]

There is a lot of stuff that was handled poorly in Poma, but character customization and the branches that come from it is not one of them.

???? I play female Wu heir and just by doing so I'm missing 98% of the content that exists. Character customization and the branches that come from it is POMA's weakness. A major weakness to boot.

 

[God]

>there is no character customization that comes with added branches
>talks about his specific way of roleplaying Wu Heir
What do you want from me, man

I’ll answer you one time only, because if I wanted to have a biased conversation I would go to discord echo chamber, that’s like me going to a specific subreddit to argue against it just not going to work. You have your high obviously biased opinion on Poma which is fair. Like I seen with your rebuttals against @justindeed you’re being obvious obtuse to what we are trying to explain. Me playing a way is branching? There’s 3 branches like I’ve said every time. There’s no major branching you tried to downplay AC to boost up a non existent branching. So tell me which branching us neutrals got???? Where’s these variables we got actually go ask the “big man” himself that question for me while you’re at it.

 

[Vitalik]

???? I play female Wu heir and just by doing so I'm missing 98% of the content that exists. Character customization and the branches that come from it is POMA's weakness. A major weakness to boot.

The only content that you would be missing in the RO stuff, which everyone circumvent via console

I’ll answer you one time only, because if I wanted to have a biased conversation I would go to discord echo chamber, that’s like me going to a specific subreddit to argue against it just not going to work. You have your high obviously biased opinion on Poma which is fair. Like I seen with your rebuttals against @justindeed you’re being obvious obtuse to what we are trying to explain. Me playing a way is branching? There’s 3 branches like I’ve said every time. There’s no major branching you tried to downplay AC to boost up a non existent branching. So tell me which branching us neutrals got???? Where’s these variables we got actually go ask the “big man” himself that question for me while you’re at it.

It's very funny of you to mention "echo chambers" while we are here, a thread where the same 5 people do nothing but circlejerk the same 3 conversations about fraudulent MC for the past 100 pages.
And for christ sake, I said at the very beginning that I shared the same frustrations with the story, I brought up multiple things that were handled poorly, and I didn't even start talking about "gameplay" loop and how no one plans to fix it at this point, so stop trying to build me as some sort of yes-man with obscured vision of the game - I know what I like about it and what I dislike about it.
There is nothing I can say about the neutral branches of the game - there is simply no content for it due to the fact niki decided to went all-in on the main plot, letting that stuff "for later". But, please stop downplaying the 800k words worth of content with "3 branches", even the ****ing Mo Long mission and how you handle it opens and closes multiple ways for roleplaying your character, you choosing to be neutral and ignoring everything doesn't change that.
Also, I was not the guy who brought up AC - you did. and I was not downplaying it, I said it in the post that the **** I said has the merit as the **** you said, just making up lies for the sake of the argument, I have nothing against the game itself, but if you just gonna ignore the points I am making then what are we even doing here?

 

[God]

The only content that you would be missing in the RO stuff, which everyone circumvent via console

It's very funny of you to mention "echo chambers" while we are here, a thread where the same 5 people do nothing but circlejerk the same 3 conversations about fraudulent MC for the past 100 pages.
And for christ sake, I said at the very beginning that I shared the same frustrations with the story, I brought up multiple things that were handled poorly, and I didn't even start talking about "gameplay" loop and how no one plans to fix it at this point, so stop trying to build me as some sort of yes-man with obscured vision of the game - I know what I like about it and what I dislike about it.
There is nothing I can say about the neutral branches of the game - there is simply no content for it due to the fact niki decided to went all-in on the main plot, letting that stuff "for later". But, please stop downplaying the 800k words worth of content with "3 branches", even the ****ing Mo Long mission and how you handle it opens and closes multiple ways for roleplaying your character, you choosing to be neutral and ignoring everything doesn't change that.
Also, I was not the guy who brought up AC - you did. and I was not downplaying it, I said it in the post that the **** I said has the merit as the **** you said, just making up lies for the sake of the argument, I have nothing against the game itself, but if you just gonna ignore the points I am making then what are we even doing here?

Because we all can see MC is a fraud lol. Oh so is Neutral not a main branch??? Niki attempts to branch, but he’s not good at it. It literally has 3 branches lmao that’s the main thing??? I’m not downplaying anything. Mo Long is a branch I guess? You kill him and your clan gets destroyed or he shows up one time later??( btw did the dq route go anywhere yet)???. There’s 3 branches no? There’s 3 Dao paths right? There’s a Tang route, Rogue route, or Neutral route is that not 3 branches??? So do you know how a good author would’ve solved this branching? Each route would’ve gotten a different power up. But only rogue route did. It’s not even presented as the main route in game either. I’m not even talking about lore either that’s good to have behind and makes sense you’ll get more on rogue route. Why are you acting like it’s some complex branching lmao, it’s basic favoritism branching I’ll say. I’m not downplaying anything funny you say 800k I’ll say AC has about 800k worth of content too and feels more complete way more branching and as you said the “flavor text” I’ll take that in Poma I wish it existed has our goal even been brought up again. Btw you’re wrong we complain about other things again I have more don’t make me get into game mechanics. It’s not always an echo chamber there’s another person from Poma discord who comes into here to defend it every now and then. Why even add option if you’re leaving main plot stuff for later??? Just make it a Wip like other things lol. Hey other neutrals apparently we are not main content??? Can console change people who aren’t interested in Mei to get romance content? Are is this another case of all other romances being non main romance and Niki going back to fixing it after he finishes his precious Mei content? I have other complaints too

 

[Waoman21]

Caihong is the only reason I have a male Wu heir save. At this rate, the only person you could romance would be Mei

In fact, the only reason I still play POMA is precisely because Mei is the main RO, but if one day she gets the same treatment as Ai, that will probably be the day I stop playing. So I guess I’ve been lucky so far.

 

[Vitalik]

Oh so is Neutral not a main branch???

no, choosing not to align with neither the Empire or the Rouges is a branch, you choosing to skip all the other content isn't
>"I’m not downplaying anything. Mo Long is a branch I guess? You kill him and your clan gets destroyed or he shows up one time later??"
You can simply ignore the mission; you can kill him and face consequences from DQ with the added new path towards gaining Yang Bohai as your master, you can spare him and meet him later choosing to either save him or ignore him, or you can spare him, meet him while being a disciple of Yang Bohai who tells you to kill him and steal his part of Heavenly Asura technique

>"( btw did the dq route go anywhere yet)???"
You would know if you played the game now, would you?

>"There’s 3 branches no? There’s 3 Dao paths right? There’s a Tang route, Rogue route, or Neutral route is that not 3 branches???"
Congrats on knowing how to count to 3, yes that's indeed the 3 main branches!

>"So do you know how a good author would’ve solved this branching? Each route would’ve gotten a different power up. But only rogue route did. It’s not even presented as the main route in game either. I’m not even talking about lore either that’s good to have behind and makes sense you’ll get more on rogue route."
You do know that the game is still in the works, right? Just checking in.

>"I’m not downplaying anything funny you say 800k I’ll say AC has about 800k worth of content too and feels more complete way more branching and as you said the “flavor text” I’ll take that in Poma I wish it existed has our goal even been brought up again."
I don't think I used "flavour text" anyway but sure. Should I bring up other games, too? Fallen Hero has lots of that flavour text if you haven't played it.
I think you went on a bit of a tantrum at the end there so I'm just gonna stop at this point. Feel free to post more of your complaints though

 

[Arlonb]

In fact, the only reason I still play POMA is precisely because Mei is the main RO, but if one day she gets the same treatment as Ai, that will probably be the day I stop playing. So I guess I’ve been lucky so far.

 

[Waoman21]

no, choosing not to align with neither the Empire or the Rouges is a branch, you choosing to skip all the other content isn't
>"I’m not downplaying anything. Mo Long is a branch I guess? You kill him and your clan gets destroyed or he shows up one time later??"
You can simply ignore the mission; you can kill him and face consequences from DQ with the added new path towards gaining Yang Bohai as your master, you can spare him and meet him later choosing to either save him or ignore him, or you can spare him, meet him while being a disciple of Yang Bohai who tells you to kill him and steal his part of Heavenly Asura technique

>"( btw did the dq route go anywhere yet)???"
You would know if you played the game now, would you?

>"There’s 3 branches no? There’s 3 Dao paths right? There’s a Tang route, Rogue route, or Neutral route is that not 3 branches???"
Congrats on knowing how to count to 3, yes that's indeed the 3 main branches!

>"So do you know how a good author would’ve solved this branching? Each route would’ve gotten a different power up. But only rogue route did. It’s not even presented as the main route in game either. I’m not even talking about lore either that’s good to have behind and makes sense you’ll get more on rogue route."
You do know that the game is still in the works, right? Just checking in.

>"I’m not downplaying anything funny you say 800k I’ll say AC has about 800k worth of content too and feels more complete way more branching and as you said the “flavor text” I’ll take that in Poma I wish it existed has our goal even been brought up again."
I don't think I used "flavour text" anyway but sure. Should I bring up other games, too? Fallen Hero has lots of that flavour text if you haven't played it.
I think you went on a bit of a tantrum at the end there so I'm just gonna stop at this point. Feel free to post more of your complaints though

I’m not going to lie, when I read that you said POMA has a ton of branches and AC is linear, I thought you were just trolling, but it seems you actually believe that. Since I see you’re someone who defends their game by making things up, I’ll just say this: the author of POMA has always made it clear that they prefer to go with less customization and stuff like that. That’s the reason why when you don’t choose a master there’s no content, it’s the reason why the MC doesn’t use any weapons, it’s the reason why the “free roam” was also simplified — all to make coding the game easier And also, from the way things are looking, the mission Ma Rin gave us — the one where you become a spy — seems like it will come to nothing, based on the scene where Ma Rin kicks us out.

You can like POMA more than AC, but saying that POMA has a bunch of branches is just making things up.

 

[Kunovic]

Imo POMA branching is fine, it's just too poor in terms of smaller events and interactions compared to Aura Clash. But it still feels empty, because most events will get blocked due to MC choices. Like player can choose only one RO (except flings) and get events only with them. In Aura Clash harem allow to participate in almost all RO event without problem (even without same s*x RO, it still much action). Large part of content simply fall out because of this (it not only about RO, Demon Queen branch is good example). And considering that Nicky clearly favor certain choices (Mei as RO, Yang Bohai as teacher, side with Rogue), everything outside of this feels empty, because of little to no content.

POMA free roam is even more poison for perception, it's like an empty store window and not only gives impression that MC just sit on his *** and do nothing, but also appears too often if you choices different from Nicky favored. Aura Clash more linear, but it done right. AC have no holes in story where nothing happens. Story always moves forward.

Like Anon give us no big choices, for example we will always go to Harehama, but Nicky would offer choice between stop at Harehama or not, but this choice will have no sense because stopping will have ton of content as Nicky favored, unlike other with little to no content.

 

[Arlonb]

Imo POMA branching is fine, it's just too poor in terms of smaller events and interactions compared to Aura Clash. But it still feels empty, because will get most event blocked due to MC choices. Like player can choose only one RO (except flings) and get events only with them. In Aura Clash harem allow to participate in almost all RO event without problem (even without same *** RO, it still much action). Large part of content simply fall out because of this (it not only about RO, Demon Queen branch is good example). And considering that Nicky clearly favor certain choices (Mei as RO, Yang Bohai as teacher, side with Rogue), everything outside of this feels empty, because of little to no content.

POMA free roam is even more poison for perception, it's like an empty store window and not only gives impression that MC just on his *** and do nothing, but also appears too often if you choices different from Nicky favored. Aura Clash more linear, but it done right. AC have no holes in story where nothing happens. Story always moves forward.

Like Anon give us no big choices, for example we will always go to Harehama, but Nicky would offer choice between stop at Harehama or not, but this choice will have no sense because stopping will have ton of content as Nicky favored, unlike other with little to no content.

Cool. You said almost exactly what I planned to write.

In a way, I agree that AC is more linear, I mean, regardless of the route you choose, the Thunderfaller will stop in the same place and with a power that doesn't vary much. No path is really favored, which I think is incredible and that POMA should do the same. As for POMA, it has lots of "paths" and choices, but many of them are just "empty" choices with no real content. As others have said, Nicky "favors" a rebel MC, disciple of Bohai and lover of He Mei, with little or no real content for MC Imperial or Neutral, disciple of Monkey God or Chu Aiguo and lover of Ai (I know there's content for Ai, here I'm referring more to the benefits) or Tigress. It's a bit disappointing really.

The author has the freedom to do what he wants, but he should never create routes that are much more favored than others, this contributes to a poor final work. I'm not saying that an Imperial or Neutral MC should receive the same benefit as the Rebel MC, on the contrary, this would remove the weight from the choices. What I am saying is that MCs on all routes should receive different, but equally powerful, benefits. For example, while the Rebel MC receives Tri Dao, the Imperial MC could train with Ruo or a Xiantian and the Neutral MC would focus on TW memories or finding the (damn) Qi Manuals.