[Mod]Resistance Revamped (No Longer Needed)

[McLurkington]

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Resistance Revamped (No Longer Needed)

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As of v.0.24 this mod is being rolled into the main game, and should not be added as a mod.
I'm going to leave this up for now, just for people on an older version of the game. 

Resistance Revamped (NO LONGER NEEDED)

I've been wanting to dig into the mechanics of the Resistance pill for a while. I think the basic idea is incredibly fun, but the specifics of how it was implemented generally feel too punishing and restrictive, without enough added excitement to make it all feel worth it. A lot of the time the Resistance pill, at least the way it is currently designed, just starts to feel like a soft bad end/game over if you aren't careful. 

After trying a couple other resistance related modlets and tweaks, I finally decided to just bite the bullet and take a couple days to see what I could throw together.

Resistance Revamped makes the following changes:

1.) If you hold out until you are "safe" to orgasm, you won't have to worry about the duration of the pill you are on being extended. (Thanks to DatDude's Resistance modlet for this idea.)

2.) The first time each day you have an "unsafe" orgasm, instead of gaining a side effect, your pill timer will be extended by one day. The first unsafe orgasm each day is the only time that your pill timer will be increased. This means that at worst you'll be keeping the remaining duration of the pill you're on from decreasing, but you'll never be gaining more time than that on top. No more feeling like you're caught in an endless cycle of orgasms that push the duration out further and further. If you make it through a day without orgasming (or only have a "safe" orgasm), you'll always make some meaningful progress toward being done.

3.) I've removed or toned down the really frustratingly punishing side effects that could make being on Resistance particularly un-fun. No more flat stat penalties that you have no way to avoid, no more global XP penalties that just slow the game down, no more infinitely scaling arousal gain that hits you every time time advances. In their place, I've added a whole lot of new potential side effects that are more fun, interesting, and enjoyable, with specific limits on how far they can scale. There's still some fun tension and risk to it all, but if you accidentally get pregnant on a Resistance, you aren't just going to wind up fucked into absolute mush by all the penalties that pile up over time.

So what are the new, potential effects of cumming while you're on Resistance?
💖 Increased Arousal. When you would otherwise have gained some arousal, you will sometimes gain a bit more than normal. (Instead of a constant build every time you do anything that causes time to pass, which is how the base game version of the resistance arousal effect works.) This resistance effect also starts out relatively small, and caps out at a reasonable breaking point. You'll definitely feel the effects if you've been hit with this one a few times, but it won't make the game unplayable.

 

🥵 Heightened Pleasure. A bit like the new Increased Arousal effect, this resistance effect causes you to sometimes gain more pleasure than you would have otherwise.

 

🍼 Frustrated Fertility. Causes your hormones to ramp up, increasing your pregnancy chance slightly when it has been more than a day or so since you had an orgasm. If you get this effect twice, your fertility will keep increasing over time. And if you get it a third time, your arousal will start increasing unexpectedly on days when you are particularly fertile.

 

💦 Ready and Wet. You always feel a little wet, and gain lubrication much more easily than normal.

 

🧠 Scattered Thoughts. Toned down version of the base game's Intellect penalty. If you have this side effect and go to sleep with high arousal too often, you'll start taking a penalty to your Intellect whenever you're highly aroused, but the rest of the time you'll be fine. As long as you can get at least three restful, low-arousal nights of sleep a week, you can avoid the penalties.

 

🍀 Flustered Feelings. Toned down version of the base game's Charm penalty. If you have this side effect and go to sleep with high arousal too often, you'll start taking a penalty to your Charm whenever you're highly aroused, but the rest of the time you'll be fine. As long as you can get at least three restful, low-arousal nights of sleep a week, you can avoid the penalties.

 

💪 Dizzying Desires. Toned down version of the base game's Fitness penalty. If you have this side effect and go to sleep with high arousal too often, you'll start taking a penalty to your Fitness whenever you're highly aroused, but the rest of the time you'll be fine. As long as you can get at least three restful, low-arousal nights of sleep a week, you can avoid the penalties.

 

💃 Aching for Attention. This resistance effect will cause you to temporarily gain the Exhibitionist side effect, with all that entails. It won't last forever, but it will last a while (roughly two weeks).

😩 Weakened Willpower. This resistance effect will cause you to temporarily gain the People Pleaser side effect. This one lasts a bit more than a week (10 days), then fades away.

😍 Submissive Impulses (rare). This resistance effect will cause you to temporarily gain the Submissive Pleasure side effect, which could be pretty perilous in combination with Resistance, for what I hope are obvious reasons. This effect has fairly low odds of coming up, and lasts roughly 7 days.

🤰 Spontaneous Ovulations (rare). This resistance effect will cause you to temporarily gain the Breeder side effect, which in turns means you're at risk of being stuck on your Resistance for months. Thankfully, this one also has relatively slim odds compared to the some of the other side effects, and it only lasts 5 days.

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And that's pretty much it, at least for now! I may or may not add a few other resistance effects in the near future. (There's a "Beer Goggles" type of effect I wanted to include, which made everyone seem more and more attractive the longer you go without an orgasm, but it touched so many passages that I wouldn't have time to test it properly, at least not this weekend.) Hopefully, with a wider variety of potential complications, and none of the overly punishing quirks, Resistance should be a lot more fun to actually play through.

 

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• Submitter
  McLurkington
• Submitted
  07/19/25
• Category
  Gameplay Changes & Events
• Requirements

 

[Dom17171]

Thank you so much for this. For the longest times I've avoided the resistance pill like the plague, even letting Bruce hit me with a Breeder over a resistance, since one failed skill check can mean a soft lock spiral. I can't wait to use this version!

[AurelieCatena]

Sounds very interesting! I might start a new game just to play with this.