[Help thread] - Himiko Yumeno not progressing in friendship in Free Time.

[shin]

I sent the following e-mail to Spike Chunsoft, so i'll just paste it here in case anyone knows of a solution or identified something that i'm doing wrong.

"Hello! I really, really love this game so far. However, I cannot seem to go past the third friendship fragment for Himiko. I give her her favorite gifts, and nothing happens. What I am doing is going to Chapter 2’s free time mode through the title screen, boosting friendship levels with x character, and then saving, then rinsing and repeating. Everyone else is fine, but for some reason, Himiko won’t progress past level 3 of friendship. Is this supposed to happen, or am I doing something wrong? Thank you in advanced."

As usual, please do not post any spoilers.

[Mois]

There's a cap to how much you can progress with certain people, it's not a bug, it shouldn't be under Technical Support, it's a bloody feature.

What a waste of time for people and Spike for reading this.

[shin]

Originally posted by Mois:

There's a cap to how much you can progress with certain people, it's not a bug, it shouldn't be under Technical Support, it's a bloody feature.

What a waste of time for people and Spike for reading this.

I was not aware of this and this was not stated anywhere, and there was no cap with any other student except her, so it is reasonable that I thought it was a bug. There is no need to be so rude.

Does the cap end once the next chapter starts?

[MkayShock Madness]

You played further now, right?
Can you tell me if the cap ends in the next chapter?

[bobbananaville]

Originally posted by Mois:

There's a cap to how much you can progress with certain people, it's not a bug, it shouldn't be under Technical Support, it's a bloody feature.

What a waste of time for people and Spike for reading this.

I actually do think this is a sort of bug. Not a technical bug, but it's a problem in communication - the game's terrible at telling you important information like "YOOO YOU WON'T PROGRESS ANYMORE IN THIS RELATIONSHIP" or "YOOO YOU NEED TO CLICK THIS THING THAT'S INCREDIBLY EASY TO MISS TO PROCEED".

The story's great, the trial gameplay's great, but everything outside of that? Spike Chunsoft is terrible at giving players relevant information.

If nothing else, people complaining about this tells Spike that they need to be more clear in future games/updates. So it's not a waste of time.

[Radio Freeman Guy man]

Finish Chapter 3. That's the least I can say.

[drizzl]

I gave himiko her favorite gifts before level 1 and she didnt level up until chapter 3, so i dunno what happened there.

[xlightthefuse]

Yeah, I feel like you can't level her up until after chapter 3 so try it then!

[baka.cdaz]

You can fully make friend with her after 3rd Chapter.

[Red]

Sometimes it will not let you progress further with certain characters becuase of events that happen in the game or devlopment that said character recives (like in Himiko's case) . The reason that there is a cap with some characters is so characters seem consistent in their personailties and that the player doesn't get spoiled.

[Battler Ushiromiya]

This isn't a new feature. You can't progress with certain people until certain parts of the story. This was true in one, this was true in 2, and this is true now/

[Sunwave]

For example, you can only get Angie's 2nd FTE in the 3rd timeslot. If you try to do it before the piano room is open, it doesn't progress either. There are more of these things in the game. And similar things in previous games too, IIRC.

[Battler Ushiromiya]

Originally posted by Sunwave:

For example, you can only get Angie's 2nd FTE in the 3rd timeslot. If you try to do it before the piano room is open, it doesn't progress either. There are more of these things in the game. And similar things in previous games too, IIRC.

Yeah. Like you can't hang out with Nagito after chapter 1 if you didn't already hang out with him, you can't hang out with Byakuya in chapter 2, Kirigiri in chapter 5, etc.