#BONUS POINTS IF THE SOME OF THE ALTERS ARE ALSO IN THE QPR

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just a warning incase someone decides to read all the tags i put there's a LOT

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Ask Answers: May 15th Part 2

And here’s the next part of the long answer set of the day!

When will OL: N&F take place? Beginnings and Always took place during summer breaks, will now and forever take place during a fall break or will the characters be going to school at the time of the events we play through? 

It takes place over all of the fall season, so school will be happening in OL2. Some events do take place in school, though many times events only start after school is already out for the day, haha.

Hey!! I have kind of a weird question?? I’m sorry if it’s been answered before and I just haven’t seen it but is OL 2 taking place during the same years as OL 1? I’m just curious, thank you for such amazing games!!! 

It’s a similar time frame, but not 100% exactly same.

Do you have any idea when the demo for now and forever will be available? 

Hopefully this fall! But that’s not a guarantee.

Okay the crime show in Step 2: Growing up. Long blonde hair, police station, crime series? Was it The Closer? Because I’m the same age as MC and Cove and my mom was constantly watching that when I was 13. 😂 

Haha, yeah! The Closer and, to a lesser degree, Medium were the kind of shows I was referencing there. My mom also used to watch those back in the day.

Hey um this might be an odd question but if the setting of OL: N&F is  fall/autumn, what country or city will it take because my mind tells me it is either Poland or Canada. Also I can't wait for the game I am hyped 

It’s set in the USA again. We’d like to be able to have cameos and that’s easiest to do if the OL games take place in the same country.

Is it possible for the PC of OL to have non-seriously dated other people in the in between years even if they’ve had a consistent crush on Cove? 

You can causally date Baxter in Step 3 if you get his DLC and then ultimately choose Cove in Step 4. If you mean off-screen people, it doesn’t really come up, but you can certainly headcanon that. The game never says Cove is the only partner you’ve ever had.

Is there going to be a Kickstarter for Now and Forever as well? For like voiced names and stuff again? Didn’t find B&A until after it was released and I’d really love the opportunity to hear my name in the game 🥺 

Yeah, we are gonna have a Kickstarter with getting a voiced name as a reward! Though, it will be more expensive than it was for OL1. I feel bad to raise the price but we realized too late the first time around that it was being super undersold for the amount of work it took, aha.

Do you know how much the remaining DLC for OL will cost? (Step 4, Derek, Baxter) 

Step 4: Free

Wedding DLC: $2.99USD

Derek DLC: $4.99USD

 Baxter DLC: $4.99USD

Has an artist for the new position been picked yet?! I'm super excited for the new game! 

We did fill that spot. Thank you so much for taking the time to apply!

hmmm what would it take to get each of the XOXO jerk squad to feel the need to hug you? 

They’d have to first like you a fair amount, otherwise the most you’d get is maybe a pat on the shoulder. If they were attached, they might hug you if you broke down crying or if you gave them super good news.

Unless it’s Shiloh, of course. If you want a hug you only have to ask!

May i ask how the Derek DLC will work? I believe that there aren’t any memories in step 4 and doesnt derek’s dlc take place during that step? So will the dlc add memories? Thank you! 

Derek’s DLC will add five Moments to Step 2 (a new page will appear on that screen if you get the DLC). Then in Step 4 you’ll have to choose between playing the default epilogue or going through the Derek romance story.

Is the pc version on itch,io different from the steam version? Like an offline one or something? 

Steam has achievements, but that’s about it. Both can be played offline, if you prefer.

I've been wondering this for awhile, what determines if cove winds up with a ponytail in step 3? I've done multiple runs with different MCs with varying hairstyles. Or does it have to do with a particular moment in step 2? 

I’m afraid I can’t say exact choices that determine things. But generally it’s preference based options in the Step before that decide those things.

Any Floret Bond updates? 

No, the artist had to leave the project and it’s been on-hold. I’m not sure if I want to try working just with what we have or replacing it all entirely. The design is a bit too specific for us to easily find someone who could mimic it. Hopefully we’ll work things out later, though.

In step 3 is Cove's plan always to stay in sunset bird? 

Yeah. He is never ready at 18-years-old to make a big life change.

I love your content! If it's alright to ask, you answered in a previous ask about how Jeremy was too particular with what he likes his types to be romanceable with just any MC and it's sort of got me wondering.. What /are/ his types and/or preferences and such? Sorry if it's a lot! 

Jeremy likes stubborn jerks and will not date someone who’s sweet or even generally a decent person, haha.

uh, excuse me if you said this somewhere before, but how will step 4 be actually? Will it he like an actual step and have moments and dlc and all? Or will it be more like a long epilogue of some sort?

Will the step 4, the wedding and extra routes dlcs be paid too? Im just confused, sorry if im asking too much

Step 4 is only an epilogue, so it’s just a long series of scenes one after the other rather than a collection of Moments you can choose from.

The Step 4 epilogue is free, the wedding DLC, Derek DLC, and Baxter DLC cost money.

i’m not sure how much of the wedding dlc you have planned already, or if this would be to spoilery, but what kind of wedding traditions will be included? i keep thinking about how flustered cove would get over a garter toss & was wondering if we’d see a scene like that haha. obviously no worries if it’s not included, i’ll enjoy literally anything cove related 

I don’t know for sure yet, haha. Right now we’re focused on the parts before the big day. We’ll see how many scene alterations we can include for the wedding itself later on.

Hello! Firstly, thank you for creating such an amazing game like OL, and I couldn’t be more excited for OL2! Out of curiosity, are you looking for any writers to come on for OL2 or are you all pretty much set in that department? Just thought I’d shoot my shot haha but I’m still excited regardless ^^! 

We will be hiring writers for OL2 later this year! Thank you for the interest.

Will we be blessed with a spin-off Yandere Cove, like XOXO Blood Droplets? 

Sadly, no. It’s a shame but there’s not enough time to keep making OL1 bonus/spin-off content.

How is Q pronounced?

I’m afraid Q’s full name hasn’t been publicly announced yet so I can’t answer here (Q and T are the first letters of the names for the new LIs in Our Life: Now & Forever).

Question; is the steam version getting a Mac update?  I purchased the dlc there thinking it had Mac support without realizing it and just wondered if I’d need to refund it to purchase on itch.io 😭 

I’m really sorry, you will need to get a refund from Steam. We do hope to have it there for Steam eventually, but have no idea of when it’ll happen. Apple requires special notarization to be an officially accepted app for their devices. We don’t have that. Steam requires having that, Itch will let you release it as an non-notarized third party app. That’s why Itch is the only place that has the Mac version right now.

would you mind posting outfit sheets for Cove in every step? it would make things a lot easier for us artists. it would save a lot of time spent looking for references 

I think we did do the earlier steps when they were finished way back in 2019 (this game took a long time to make, aha), but we can probably repost them sometime!

In our life n&f, will we be able to get into qprs/will there be more options in regards to having deep platonic relationships with the love interests? Because as an aroace individual, it would be great if there could also be emphasis on platonic love so that it's more aspec inclusive. 

It’s a little hard to say at this point. There may not be things like a wedding DLC for OL2 and so the relationship for platonic and romantic feelings might not go as far as it did in the first game. We’ll kind of have to see how much we can do based on timeframe/budget constraints that will only be set near the end of the year. But we will be keeping things like that in mind at least.

hi! i really really like your game and im absolutely in love with it! i cant wait to try your other games like xoxo droplet and future OL NF :))

during the step 3 erands moment i got curious, which fudge flavor is his favorite? it seems like he likes all of them, but which 4 do you think he would like best?

also i noticed that in some playthroughs cove would let me give him a piggy back ride, and in some he wouldn't, how come?

how does your choices affect cove's interests or looks? i replayed the game without changing any choices but i got cove to look different, is it just random?

thank you!

Cove’s favorite flavors are ones with nuts and that are fruity! But he appreciates them all. Whether or not you can give him a piggyback ride depends on if your MC is fit/large enough to hold a muscular 6-foot-tall beach boy, haha.

Cove’s appearance does depend on choices and it’s generally tied to choices that are preference based rather than emotion/action based, such as which key chain you pick in Step 1.

Is it possible for cove to reject MC's proposal at the end of step 3? 

Nope. He’ll always accept.

hi! i was wondering how heavily the side characters will be featured in the our life wedding dlc? obviously it'll be cove & mc focused, but i was thinking it'd be sweet if we could take lizzie dress / suit shopping or dance with cliff at the wedding or something. 

The side characters are there about as often as they are in normal events. So, it’s clearly focused on Cove but he’s not the only person you have any meaningful moments with.

When will responses be sent out to applicants? 

I’m afraid we don’t send responses out to all applications, only ones we’re interested in offering the position to. Not everyone likes rejection emails and the amount of applications is too high to contact them all to say we’re not hiring them. We post updates on the job page when a position has news. Right now we’ve filled every role that was open.

Is there also going to be the option to keep your relationships with the love interests platonic in Our Life: Now and Forever? That's something I really appreciate in Our Life: Beginnings and Always

Yeah! OL will never force you to end up in a romantic relationship with someone.

I was wondering, in the Step 3 Happiness moment, what are the different fishes Cove can compare MC to? I got "you'd be a paradise fish, because being with you is paradise," but my friend got "you'd be an angelfish." Are there more variations? 

He says paradise fish if you’re a couple, angelfish if he’s just crushing, and then a royal dottyback/queenfish/emperor tetra (based on your gender) if he likes the MC platonicly.

Hello! So, in one of the Step 3 DLCs, Cove's arm was gone. I think it was to show him putting his arm behind his back. But if that wasn't the case, did it get yeeted? 

Thanks for letting us know. That was an error we tried to fix a little while back. When did you make the save file you were playing? If it was older that might be why it happened. Or maybe the error wasn’t fully fixed after all.

Asking for your opinion, but do you think Cove would at all be into ABBA? Because all I could imagine during the car trip in step 3 was him and the MC belting to Mamma Mia. 

Haha, yeah, there’d definitely be some ABBA songs he was into.

So throughout the game, Cove can develop different interests depending on the player’s choices; does this mean that he can have different careers in Step 4? Or his is line of work in adulthood never mentioned at all? 

He can have different career paths in Step 4!

Hi!! I'm so so sorry if this has been asked before but I just acquired knowledge about the so famous nsfw dlc for OL and nearly chocked on my bubblegum 💀💀💀 So, my real inquiry is if that specific moment will have any kind of impact at some point of the fourth step OR if it will just be treated as a side-story-ish ���what if” scenario.Also, is there any chance there'll be something similar for Step 4? Haha jk,,, unless 😳Questions apart let me thank you profoundly for making the best visual novel I've ever played 😭 Really really looking forward the epilogue and OL2 💕 Have a nice day 

It’s just a bonus side story that’s fully separate from the main game.

It would be nice to have one for Step 4 too, but I sadly don’t see us having time to actually do it. I don’t know, if people are still asking for more OL1 content several months from now it might be doable and worth doing.

I'd just like to ask, when is Baxter's birthday :0 -- I'm really curious esp with their zodiac signs so ;w; 

I don’t know, haha. Maybe I’ll come up with one someday.

Please help!! I bought the Step 3 DLC but I still have no idea how to get to where you can propose to Cove - any tips? 

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How do I get the option to propose to Cove at the end of the game?

You can click HERE for a discussion on that.

I love that Miranda and Terry are getting together! I'm curious if you have canon sexualities for them? Also just wanted to say how much I love OL and how much joy it brings me everytime I play it <3 

Terry likes ladies and Miranda likes dudes!

ngl Step 4 Terry's design reads like y'all see trans guys as their assigned gender more than you see them as men to me (a trans guy)... like maybe if he isn't heavily dysphoric, I could see it, but everything you've said about him doesn't line up with that. Even then, immediate warning bells go off in my head looking at him. I wouldn't have touched the game if I saw him ahead of time.

I’m sorry you aren’t comfortable with the way the design looks. The situation with Terry is that he’s now open about who he is, but the body he was born with is still physically the same. He only came out recently as an adult and hasn’t gone through any treatments/procedures yet (his chest is flatter because he wears a binder). However, even though his body hasn’t transitioned at the point Step 4 happens, no one treats him as anything other than the guy he is. Having a trans character who’s identity is supported/respected from the start is what we’re going for in this case. But what we’re doing with Terry isn’t the only trans content we’ve ever had/ever will have in the future.

how would baxter react to bae pyoun and vice versa? and can you please detailly explain both love interests personalities from our life 2: now and forever? i was just curious, sorry for dumb question!! 

I imagine it’d be pretty opposite experiences, haha. Bae would initially think Baxter is pushy and thoughtless, but would quickly realize, oh, he’s instead a soft, considerate boy. Very cute. Baxter would first be struck with the impression that Bae is charming and gentlemanly, but then would realize that, no, he’s a sarcastic asshole. And I’m afraid we can’t reveal the personalities for the next game yet.

Sorry if you've already answered this, but I have a question about the patreon exclusive moment you're working on. I was wondering if it's mainly going to be CGs or if it's mostly character sprites + backgrounds with some CGs.

Either way, thank you for doing the Lord's work and not only making Cove, but making this bonus moment as well 😌😌😌

It’s mostly sprites/backgrounds with two CGs!

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Playstation fans might love the idea of a European breakaway but football fans would hate it

You are a slimeball who lost his own values ​​for the money, just like Alan others. Your job is to defend the common train that you use. People look through it. No, little brain, my work is journalism. It was when I started as a teenager at Hayters Sports Agency in 1982 and that's it now. So my career – I was promoted from publishing to paperwork in 1983 – dates from before the Premier League came in almost a decade. I was in a national newspaper in 1985, the year of the disaster at the Heysel Stadium, a time when English football, no jus train at all, had no friend in the world. And many of my biggest career prospects come from writing about subjects other than football; columns at the front of newspapers, for example, and wider sports. So journalism is what I do for money, and if football ends tomorrow, it would still be. The expansion and success of the game is a happy coincidence, not something that I feel I have to defend or protect. I am against many of the breaks with tradition, from separate leagues, against European elites and senseless altered comics and my values ​​have not changed since I started. I even took the time to answer idiots like yourself, to misuse and hide in the anonymity behind egoistic aliases on the internet, to place their dribble. Oh yeah. This column will not exist forever, so I will do what I always do from here. Put some good music to amuse myself and try to speak to the intelligent in the room. Give it to 13.05; Let it build and everything will fall into place.

Scudamore, a little return.

Scudamore must call Sir Alex Ferguson and then thank him, and then give his bonus to a charity. Then he would have to call the various presidents Manchester United never compromised to negotiate our own TV deal and to thank them. And yet on the leaving party of Scudamore the video of thanks came from Ferguson and David Gill, which would suggest that they had a better idea of ​​his contribution than You, Lewis. Yes, Manchester United would have done a great deal of damage by breaking it down and only doing it on TV rights. But who do you think they will convince? Who explained the virtue of a competitive competition – both financially and ethically – instead of what could have been developed throughout Europe? Who saved the peace between the elite of the Premier League and the rest? Who has allowed the elite to expand so that now every season six clubs and stakes can set their sights on the Champions League? Manchester United did not act out of charity, especially since the acquisition by Glazer.

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So many northern teams – Sunderland, Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion, Middlesbrough , Bolton and Coventry, just to name a few – are trading in the lower division. Within ten years the Premier League will consist of southern teams and Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool. Money has killed our beloved game. Englandisbest, Birmingham.

Huh? There is every chance that at least two, and maybe more, of the teams you mention will return to the Premier League next season. And what about teams from the south who have been killed, such as Charlton, QPR, Portsmouth, Ipswich and Reading? There is no north-south gap caused by finances, only the usual cyclical success and the failure of football clubs. Sunderland will be back one day, just as a club like Fulham will inevitably fall (and then return). Half of the professional league clubs have now experienced the Premier League and the idea that the top division will one day be three northern clubs and 17 from the south is frankly ridiculous. London may have a marginal advantage in foreign recruitment, because it is the capital and easier to sell as a basis for players and coaches from abroad. That also has its flaws, because a player – or even a manager – may put the location at risk for the wrong reasons.

Point three: Raheem Sterling.

In the period of, about, 1939-1945, there was a very influential politician on the territory of Germany, who was also a product of his time. Before anyone ridicules me, calls me insensitive or throws a PC wordcloud – I said verbiage, I meant refuse – to me, I do not compare the actions of Sterling with those of that politician. I only point out that you can make excuses throughout history for many awful things, just by saying that they are a product of a certain time. Most players do not do what Sterling does every day and certainly not so often. He should be ashamed. I know he will not be, but that is not surprising. And you have to stop justifying and making excuses for him.

Unbelievably, this was in response to a column that said that Sterling's decision not to clean up about his journey in the Champions League – what resulted in a ridiculous penalty award against Shakhtar Donetsk – makes him a product of his team; a time in which professionals are conditioned to take advantage in all possible ways. Suddenly I defend Adolf Hitler. Look, Hitler was not a product of his time. There are certain economic, historical and geopolitical conditions that contributed to his rise, but he was essentially a mass-murdering psychopath, with manic Jew-hatred and what he believed to be impure races and specimens. Sterling was a man who stumbled across the football field and in a fraction of a second weakness broke out of a bad referee. He is not a Hitler. He is not Mussolini. He is not even Boris Johnson.

] Martin Samuel can tell the difference between the old Division One and the Premier League to explain? Note: there is no other difference than governance and better marketing. And yet we are bombarded with statistics about records in the Premier League. There is no difference between winning Liverpool Division One in 1990 and Manchester United winning the Premier League in 1994. They played many of the same teams and the same number of games. Manchester City was praised for being the first club to reach 100 points, which is only relevant to the final tables since 1981 when three points for wins came in. Perhaps a journalist is willing to look back at the records to see if a club would have gained 100 points with three points for a win. Just a thought. Or you could do it yourself. It is searching for two seconds on the internet. What am I, your researcher? I mean it, how lazy do you have to be? You could not even bother to check when three points came in for a win, so you got it four years wrong (I corrected you 1985 to 1981). And the level of Manchester City's performance was fairly broad in May, but here it is again anyway. Most points under two to win in the old Division One was Liverpool with 68 in 1978-79. Manchester City got 100 points last season under the three-point system. Liverpool won 30 games and drew eight, however, were still a deficit of the century with 98 points, even under the new system. Never forget that they played 42 games that year. Their total under three points for a victory would then be 2.33 points per match, in contrast to City 2.63. So City was the best champion, and the best Division One champions would have been second with 11-12 points.

Regarding the difference between the two divisions, I have often written about the false notion that football started in 1992, not least when Jamie Vardy came closer to a consecutive scorecard against. held by Ruud van Nistelrooy. Yet Van Nistelrooy was only a Premier League record. The real was held by Jimmy Dunne, of Sheffield United, and dated from 1931-32. I devoted a whole column to him and the fact that we have a tendency to ignore performance that took place for our modern television time. Having said this, the Premier League has existed long enough, and football is different enough to manage individual columns in the record books – or at least distinctions. On Saturday, West Ham became the first team to give four or more goals to the same team, Manchester City, in four consecutive home games (three in the league, one in the FA Cup), as City itself went up heavily to Wolves in four games between 1957 and 1960. However, football was higher then scoring and three of those games were won with a margin of one or two goals. So the performance of West Ham is considerably worse, because the Premier League is different in some ways.

Did not go to America to report do the Chicago Cubs that won the World Series? The concept without a degradation franchise may not be the failure you think. There is a blueprint to make it a success.

Yes, but it is not our blueprint. I have reported on American sports, with its franchise system, and seen how it works, but what is accepted here is an abomination to us.

I suspect that most fans under 25 are fond of the idea of ​​a European Super League. Attitudes change and this idea will become more and more acceptable. Rock, Northampton. Fans under 25 who actually go will not; and they are the football needs of fans.

I totally agree that the last thing football needs is a European competition, but the argument has to be to consider all sides. You're right when you say that the big clubs need the Premier League, but the blow is that the Premier League also needs the big clubs. You only have to look at the difference in viewing figures for Sky and BT if they have one of the big clubs and if they have two teams from the lower regions. All you have to do is watch the sports pages of a newspaper, including the Daily Mail, to see who gets the most coverage. It is not only about the appeal of a European League, but also about what happens to the Premier League when it is deterred from its biggest names. In an ideal world, the profession would remain high, because it would be even more competitive, but realistically, at least in the short term, the presence of the big clubs and the big names plus the newness of the competition would make a European League an attractive package. . to TV companies.

But it is short-lived, as you say. And then Juventus discovers that they are a mid-table club in the new setup and are Arsenal relegation candidates – except relegation will not exist, so they just play a terribly boring season – and the competition flops and the TV companies lose interest. Yes, the Premier League needs its name titles – but it is a symbiotic relationship and must be treated as such.

Martin sounds a bit like Juncker who warns Great Britain against the Brexit. I would say that it is only a matter of time before some European Super League replaces the current Champions League. The financial rewards are also great and tempting for the European elite, especially because they have the constant uncertainty that they have to end up in qualified positions. And as far as the artificiality is concerned, the Premier League could not be more artificial, with most of the big clubs that are not owned, run, managed, coached or played by anyone. Billiam Shears, Bury.

Yes, and Juncker was completely wrong with the mess that was Brexit, was not it? I can understand how annoying it would be for the biggest clubs to go through the bad things, which are actually worthy of qualifying for the alleged elite competition, but for the other it is precisely the definition of artificiality in sport. In contrast to the idea that foreign investments, property or talent are wrong, which sounds rather petty and insular. Like Brexit.

The panicky words of a West Ham fan. If the big six were to go, they would bring TV money and sponsorship. The big companies do not pay millions for the smaller local support from clubs like West Ham, Everton or Southampton. They pay for the global audience of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea. You know how it works, Martin: the paper you work for produces ten times more stories for those clubs than the others, because they are the ones who get the readers. All the best players will also want to play in the Super League, so expect a lot of version characters making it harder to hold players. Some clubs will be fine, but the smaller yo-yo clubs will not like it when things like parachute pay. Panicked West Ham fan? On the contrary, I wrote a column in which I invoked the bluff of every club that threatened an escape. Notice how quickly they all deteriorated when they saw the public response, and especially that of their own fans? They could not run away from the smell quickly enough. Please, go. I pull up an armchair and turn off the popcorn. Weasels in a bag, after two years. Guaranteed.

Think of Kerry Packer? They said it would never work. The changed cricket forever. Wiganer 65, Wigan.

Really, because I could swear that I will report this summer from The Ashes, and not from a Packer-inspired circus. I have better conditions for the players. That is hardly the problem in football, right?

In Nigeria we have about 200 million people who want to pay premium prices to see big clubs play in South Africa, let alone in the neighborhood, It's a problem. Do you not get the most out of your income from TV nowadays? The International Champions Cup flops because clubs bring reserve players, but stadiums will be full as the best to see. Given the decision to view my team against Cardiff and Huddersfield as opposed to Real Madrid and Juventus every week, what would I prefer? Even you know the answer to that Martin, so you can write all the impurities you want, but the Super League will be a great success. I think your real anger is that small clubs like West Ham can not get in. Emmanuelgold, Nigeria

So Nigeria has 200 million who want to watch football? So why is every half-valued Nigerian player in Europe? Why is your competition not flooded with money as a result of this passion? There is a difference between turning a button on a television or buying a knock-off shirt for which the club does not receive money and installs the hard yards. If English clubs would leave English football, they would be rejected by their core support, which has already shrunk within a few months. If those clubs were eliminated from UEFA, if their players were excluded by FIFA, they would go to a shell. Keep on turning on these televisions, but the heart of the game is in place and will always stay that way. Is there no Nigerian team that you should name yours instead? In this way, the best African players can actually stay in Africa. Until next time. This has nothing to do with anything. It is simply beautiful, and you simply can not be wondrous enough in the world.

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