It’s been a while since we’ve had a patch, and I want to apologize for that. We’ve all been pulled our seperate ways over the last few weeks with a variety of fun (read: not fun) and entertaining (read: actually really annoying) things that just happened to line up all at once. I won’t speak for anybody else, but I’ve just been having my bathroom completely renovated and replaced, and it took the better part of two weeks to get ‘er done. Kind of hard to work on the big titty game when there’s somebody walking past my workspace every few minutes.

It has at least given me an opportunity to dig into some back-of-the-house cleanup things that I’ve been meaning to get around to for a few months now, nothing that will majorly impact any of you, but it was stuff that was going to have to get done eventually one way or the other, so it’s not like I’ve been idle. Minor build process tweaks, some updating and cleanup of things on the webserver, things like that.

Now that I’m fairly confident the imagepack installer is relatively well-travelled, we’re going to bump up the backer pack downloader to also grab the highest resolution version of things. I want to see how this settles down, make sure the server doesn’t burst into flames, and then we’re probably also going to enable the imagepack installer in the public download builds as well, but only up to the half-res images.

0.9.091, builds #4687 and up hotfix:

• Fixed an issue with bust string generation on New Texas with Ogram and Amma. (Jacques00)
• Fixed incorrect feature flagging note- Reaha’s Amazon expansion actually wasn’t intended to be public (and was not flagged to be public), I copied the wrong line from the patchnotes for what I was making public, so…
• Fixed Amazon Reaha expansion so that it actually is public. (Gedan)
• PUBLIC: Shierra can now be facefucked. Written by Savin, coded by Leek. (This is what I was originally making public…)

0.9.091 Changelog:

• BACKERS: A new scene for the cheetah pirate has been added, available once they are throbbed up. (William & Fenoxo)
• BACKERS: Gabilani pirate loss available after the first loss as long as the player has a dongle, written by William and coded by Fenoxo.
• PUBLIC: Eloise got a Doll play expansion. Written by Magenta Needle, coded by Leek.
• PUBLIC: Reaha’s Amazon expansion has been added. To engage it, Reaha must be crew, cured, and you must meet a Milodan futazon on Uveto. Written by Couch, coded by Leek.
• Added position memory to the inventory and shop interfaces, allowing the game to remember which item was highlighted before the interface is hidden, making using the interface feel much nicer. (Jacques00)
• Added keybinds to a variety of buttons around the game, further increasing our keyboard coverage. (Jacques00)
• Added x4 images to the imagepack download process. We want to see how this goes for people, but we may need to make an option for only grabbing the x2 and optionally further upgrading to x4. (Gedan)
• Added approximately 400 descriptive strings to the gallery database. These are not yet visible, but there are approximately another 400 to go to provide complete coverage. These strings are intended to give a hint as to where to unlock a particular character, and then act as a more detailed reminder or cheat to go and find them again without needing to look it up outside of the game. (Gedan)
• Added some data warnings to the save system when using save slots, notifying you that this data can be lost at any time thanks to the vagaries of browsers doing what browsers will. (Jacques00)
• Added sorting to the players inventory interface, allowing items to be rearranged in various ways. (Jacques00)
• Added keybind navigation to the Status Effect and Perk lists under Appearance. (Jacques00)
• Add an automatic sorting to the gallery which prioritizes Bust first, then CG, then Video for a character. More sorting rules may be added later, if needed. (Jacques00)
• Added cover indicators for the Rogue Bot fight. (Jacques00)
• Added an item’s icon and rarity color in the corner to better distinguish the item’s type. (Jacques00)
• Added the long descriptions we have to the Image Gallery image viewer, the same as when they are being displayed elsewhere in gameplay. (Jacques00)
• Added some utility functions for us to animate portions of text. (Jacques00)
• Added cycling busts in the bust window if there is more than one bust being displayed (Jacques00)
• Added media embedding to the e-mail body. (Jacques00)
• Adjusted how Grapple and Stun are applied and they should now have some kind of shared lockout, making it impossible for the player to be back-to-back stunned and grappled. (Jacques00)
• Adjusted interactions with Siegwulfe to return to the inventory display if that’s where the interaction started. (Jacques00)
• Adjusted buttons in the combat menu. SThe Specials menu has been split into Special Attacks (moved to left side with other attacks) and Special Abilities (same button location), Sense button to center, above Closer Look. Special menus should now support multipage buttons, in case the lists ever get any longer. Attack button tooltips will now show weapon names for clarity. (Jacques00)
• Fixed eyecount being missing from eye descriptions. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a text parsing issue with inspection strings. (Jacques00)
• Fixed issue with the Frostbane Bikini. (Jacques00)
• Fixed issues with removing Reaha from your crew. Booting crew-Reaha on New Texas will no longer send her to the Shadow Realm and she can now be reclaimed after 12 hours from the boot. She will appear in the Milking Stalls (far back, east stall). Non-Nice characters can choose to not reclaim her (and try again in another hour).(Jacques00)
• Fixed some issues with debts owed to Lane (Jacques00)
• Fixed some issues with negative money values. (Jacques00)
• Fixed some issues when attempting to recruit Syri. (Jacques00)
• Fixed some issues with the Syri gaming event and supporting her not being properly tracked. (Jacques00)
• Fixed issues when Eitan is your selected sleep-with partner. (Jacques00)
• Fixed issues with the shop interface in various Sera states. (Jacques00)
• Fixed issues with encountering Nimue. (Jacques00)
• Fixed issues with Syri appearing with an incorrect bust selection. (Jacques00)
• Fixed spelling inconsistents for Bridget vs Briget (Jacques00)
• Fixed some issues with the ship inspection interface. (Jacques00)
• Fixed issues with codex entry arrangement and tooltips. (Jacques00)
• Fixed issues with certain grapples and various escape bonus perks. (Jacques00)
• Fixed some inconsistent combat output and formatting. (Jacques00)
• Fixed some opportunities for the game to hang whilst loading a save with certain character states. (Jacques00)
• Fixed some issues with various outfit items. (Jacques00)
• Fixed missing rarity and sexiness values for a handful of items from the new item packs. (Jacques00)
• Fixed some keybinds previous displaying the wrong key on various buttons. (Jacques00)
• Fixed tooltips not being cleared under some circumstances. (Jacques00)
• Fixed keyboard controls for modal overlays. (Jacques00)
• Fixed a visual glitch when switching between Art Gallery and Save menu screens. (Jacques00)
• Fixed some inconsistent option card formatting. (Jacques00)
• Fixed an issue with Mitch bust selections. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed inconsistent spellings with Hyraxi. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed weapons tagged with CHANCE_APPLY_FREEZE from testing burning resistances instead of freezing resistances. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed how some keybinds are executed to prevent random crashes in some instances. (Jacques00)
• Fixed issues with implant quantity values sometimes making them vanish when installed. (Jacques00)
• Fixed some text formatting issues for lists in the item card and inspect interfaces. (Jacques00)
• Fixed Nudity Score clarity issues. (Jacques00)
• Fixed unclear button names when displaying colours from certain items. (Jacques00)
• Fixed various issues with the Shalin Shaman. (Jacques00)
• Fixed a variety of gallery immages that really didn’t need to be shown, hiding them from the gallery but allowing them to be shown in the places they are intended to show up. The majority of these will be close-in cropped versions of larger images, used for multi-foe combat busts. (Jacques00)
• Fixed and review entries in the image manifest. We’ve collected a lot of cruft over the years, and with the Gallery now is a fantastic time for us to straighten things out as data that didn’t used to matter now drives the gallery systems. (Jacques00)
• Fixed poetential issues with certain combat effects over time. (Jacques00)
• Fixed issues with Bizzy+Mitzi pussyhypno scenes. (Jacques00)
• Fixed the ability to ask Eitan to sleep with you aboard your ship before you recruit him as crew. (Jacques00)
• Fixed an inconsistency with the Hyrax Bike Raider’s shock collar duration. (Jacques00)
• Fixed how percentage valus are formatted so they display better. (Jacques00)
• Fixed issues with the Shalin Shaman using Take Flight. (Jacques00)
• Fixed various bust logic errors with a handful of characters. (Jacques00)
• Fixed missing warnings leading into a potential bad-end. (Jacques00)
• Fixed some incorrect uses of isSillyModeEnabled (Jacques00)
• Fixed a path reference used in placeholder CG image assets so that they will work under electron properly (relative vs absolute path specification for uris) (Gedan)

Lotta work going on in the background right now, a lot of hands in many places prepping big content drops. The train dungeon implementation is coming along as remaining content documents get dropped in my lap, it’s gonna be a few more weeks before it’s all handed over to us with the original submission deadline for all the components being the end of November, and then I have Jolly Fun Good Times cooking up and implementing the combat for all of the enemies in there.

I’m finally shoving the species-preference selection out of the door. I was dragging my feet on doing this because it doesn’t yet always fully account for various special overloads that the current system can generate; all that shows up in the menus are the root species type names, and none of the extra fluff that has built up over time. I kept meaning to spend a couple of hours getting into it but there is a million other things to get done that has kept pulling me away from dedicating the time it needs to doing the needful. Instead, I’m trusting that there will be a great many reports coming our way that something isn’t available or doesn’t quite work, and that’ll put the fire under me to fix it up bit by bit.

In the interrim between more things to plug into the dungeon I’ve been sketching out something I wanna write that’ll give me an excuse to plough into a bunch of ship combat stuff. I’ve got a bunch of new gadgets racked up for provisional implementation that will add a lot of dynamic options to ship combat encounters and they lean heavily into the idea of vastly increasing damage output as long as the conditions are right – and conversely, providing enemy ships with new and fun ways to clown on you unless you counter them appropriately. The goal is to make ship combat much faster as long as you’re paying attention and have equipped your ship properly for a kind of Rock-Paper-Scissors of doing the right things at the right times. Part of the plan has been rolled out in this patch, but it’s more background stuff – it will have no immediate effect on things, but it will make the coming modifications easier to isolate to only Ship combat and thus leave less opportunity to goof up regular ground combat when the gadgets go in.

And they’ll get delivered by a pair of space dragon pirates making Steele the meat in a scale sandwhich 🙂

Back 2 da mines

0.9.081 Changelog:

• BACKER: “A Dream of Clussy” has been added to the list of dreams. It can trigger after having played at least 3 hands of blackjack. (Fr0sty & Jacques)
• PUBLIC: The hardlight nagasuit was released last week, earlier than we had intended. But now I’m putting it in the patch notes to make it clear that it’s staying public! It’s in the same location as hardlight taursuit, which can be found in the Tarkus wastes after taking the taursuit. (Sil the Dragon Lover & Fenoxo)
• PUBLIC: Remaining halloween content that was backer-only is now public.
• PUBLIC: Treat the Tricks – Halloween event on New Texas that can be randomly encountered. (HatTrick3010 & Leek)
• PUBLIC: Neil & Selene Halloween – A couple of extra scenes available for spookoween! (Magenta Needle & Fenoxo)
• PUBLIC: Flurry is now available on Uveto. To get the ball rolling, you’ll need at least 3 kips with “Frosty” or whatever you have personally named her. You should get an email when taking the Uveto space elevator if conditions are right. (B & Leek)
• PUBLIC: Werewolf Costume, a new costume for Poe A, everybody’s favorite Halloween-themed transformative rave event! (Doots & Leek)
• PUBLIC: New stories from Carol. J have been added as rare loot drops from Phaedra. Lookout for Thotocracy and First Day on the Job! (Carol.J & Fenoxo)
• Added species-preference selection. This is still a work in progress and will likely require further tweaks, but there is now a method to select a preferred species available under the Appearance menus. This will allow you to pick from a list of high-scoring species values that your character exhibits and will override the automatic selection as long as what you’ve picked remains highly ranked. This should allow us to endrun around needing hyper-specific scoring differences between almost identical species, providing flexibility for you to just pick what you prefer as long as you’re close enough. There are probably still some overrides and other weird things that were propping up the fully automatic system that we will need to work around to expose certain things as options to this menu, but I have no doubt we’ll find out about them very soon. (Gedan)
• Added a warning when loading saves made in a newer version of the game in an older version of the game – you can still attempt the load, but it will make it clear that there may be issues ahead, such as missing item classes etc. There’s been a spate recently of attempts to load saves made in versions released in the last few weeks in versions of the game nearly a year old, and it made me realise that we didn’t actually have any kind of warning implemented to cover this eventuality. (Gedan)
• Added the Nova threesomes, Federation Quest and Kaede on Canadia to the encounter log. (Jacques)
• Added Hellhound as a special species variant name. (Jacques)
• Added small increments of Bothrioc addiction to some Bothrioc-involved scenes. (Jacques)
• Added specific handling for Goo Hair to hair descriptions. (Jacques)
• Added implants to the stats and inventory displays. (Jacques)
• Adjusted landing from various forms of flight in combat so it is now a free action. (Jacques)
• Adjusted the mechanics behind Zaika boobgrowth, documenting the exact means that this should function. (Fenoxo)
• Adjusted Cum High to be a cumulative and consistent effect, and is tracked as a progression stat. (Jacques)
• Adjusted how the evasion cap is communicated. (Jacques)
• Adjusted a great many calls throughout combat code that check for specific status effects to use shared implementations of these checks to ensure consistency. (Jacques)
• Adjusted how Ship and Ground combat are implemented to divorce the two implementations into different manager classes, allowing for greater flexibility in the future. (lowercase_donkey)
• Adjusted crewmember sleep with selection to better output the results. (Jacques)
• Adjusted Venus Pot to function as an energy replinishing item. (Jacques)
• Fixed incorrect description of the advanced combat quarters. (Jacques)
• Fixed how soreness reductions are calculated so that it should properly scale with the amount of time rested. (Jacques)
• Fixed inconsistencies with a bunch of combat status effect tooltips. (Jacques)
• Fixed Gryvain species scoring so it should no longer be possible to end up stuck as a half-gryvain. (Jacques)
• Fixed Medical Milkers breaking an internal breast rating value which allowed them to reduce effect breast size. (Jacques)
• Fixed the gravity flux trip effect not applying to flying enemies to remove their flight effect. (Jacques)
• Fixed some inconsistencies with the combat defeat handling rountines designed to determine how a target was defeated. (Jacques)
• Fixed a static NPC icon on the map on Myrellion for Steph Irson. (Jacques)
• Fixed inconsistencies when leaving the Nuka Psyker. (Jacques)
• Fixed resistances disappearing from the codex. (Jacques)
• Fixed a lot of inconsistencies with game stats display. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed the Flash Grenade consumables not being consistent with the Flash Grenade class ability, including special interactions. (Jacques)
• Fixed stagger immunity not working for all enemies that use it. (Jacques)
• Fixed Roz’s attacks not taking flying into consideration. (Jacques)
• Fixed Frostwyrm species scoring not including the tongue. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed an error with an attack used by Kane causing it to not apply the correct damage. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed some specific crotch descriptions including an article incorrect. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Mind Crush stunning robots. (Jacques)
• Fixed the shield defense systems activating prematurely. (Jacques)
• Fixed Airtight not properly functioning against Zaika effects, negating the non-physical parts of tease attacks. (Jacques)
• Fixed the Milk Theif tail-trib scene so that it correctly only works with parasitic-type tail genitals. (Jacques)
• Fixed the field surgeons kit so that it actually works in combat. (Jacques)
• Fixed some combinatorial selection issues with Quinn’s busts. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed some issues with EMP weapons, making them function more consistently against Robots/Cyborgs and enemies with shields. (Jacques)
• Fixed a potential crash with GooArmor cleanup post-combat, when attempting to handle the Reduced Goo effect. (Gedan)
• Fixed some ship stat output inconsistencies. (Jacques)
• Fixed the work in progress train dungeon rooms from appearing in the cheat teleport menu. These rooms are still heavily work in progress, and the content that would drive them doesn’t make it into the game builds so it’s just gonna crash if you do manage to get into them. (Gedan)
• Fixed a huge fat pile of typos, including quotation and spacing consistency issues. (Jacques)

I have remained focused on digging through crashes that we’ve collected through Sentry. The neat part of having such a system ticking over in the background is the ability to see the impact that fixing these crashes is having in terms of total-issues; things are definitely heading in the right direction, and we’re basically down to only having a volume of somewhat rare but annoyingly complicated issues to track down – there’s still quite a few of them, all told, but no massive outliers in terms of tripping people up near constantly. It’s also real handy for figuring out what extra info we need to properly tackle solving a problem, so I’ve been shoving in some extra logging of various variables when certain errors get tripped so that I can hone in on exactly where a problem is coming from in the future.

That said I’ll probably be swinging back to looking at the forum issues again this week now that Sentry is looking much lighter in terms of hard-crashes.

Now I’m fuckin’ exhausted, so I’m gonna go die in bed whilst the builds are cooking. The new versions should be up within half an hour – normally I’d wait to post the patch notes until the builds complete but I ain’t gonna be hanging around for that today!

0.9.065 Changelog:

• BACKER: Mitch can now be given gifts, specifically, the gift of vagizzle and boobona. Or dongles. Up to you! (Wheatly & lowercase_donkey)
• PUBLIC: New “Wall” character in Cherry’s Taphall: the Bull. Written by Reathe and Magenta Needle, coded by Leek.
• PUBLIC: Have you ever wanted to meet up with Mhorgenn again? In a bar? Well now you can, after meeting her on Dhaal she’ll be showing in the crash landing going forward. Written by Sil and coded by Gedan.
• PUBLIC: A new mini-boss encounter is available on Phaedra II, written by Magenta Needle. It features the tag-team of Selene and Neil, a semi-treated Thraggen with his mutant Rahn “slave”. They come with fourish win scenes and another fourish loss scenes AND a bad end. It’s also a pretty challenging fight, so for now they’re confined to one tagged square and respawn after three hours – but once I break the Phaedra encounters in the plains into sub-zones they’ll be part of the random encounters in a sub-area…
• Fixed Siegwulfe being able to offer the collaring process without being in the correct mode, or even a crewmember. (Gedan)
• Fixed (potentially) some issues around animated media being played on some browsers. (Gedan)
• Fixed the potential for tracking functions used by the achievement system to sometimes execute whilst a save is being loaded, resulting in potentially invalid objects being navigated and crashing. (Gedan)
• Fixed sleep is not defined crash on some electron platforms. (Gedan)
• Fixed a few more interface buttons not properly debouncing input actions. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential crash with vaginalPuffiness when given invalid arguments, likely to happen in scenes that use vagRouter where the provided index could be the butt indicator rather than vagina index. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential crash relating to ballFullness calculations with weird body setup combinations. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential crash when navigating internal map data in the teleport cheat UI. (Gedan)
• Fixed Stelle scenes to use correct cock, fix possible collar crash. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a paige function’s arguments. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed vagina description that could dump a long list of descriptions instead of just picking one. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed breast description missing nouns in some cases. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Maja scene that players could enter with an invalid cock. Added a new error message that should help us track down more of these. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed for Dhaal CEO crashes in some cases. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed art used for post combat scenes with the zaika peers, should show pets now. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed the usual spread of typos. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed bust gallery not always respecting a defined artist override when paging through busts. (Jacques)
• Fixed display process used to generate and render shopkeeper interaction blurbs, ensuring it should be stable. (Jacques)
• Fixed calculator rotation shadows. (Jacques)
• Adjusted bubblegum theme colours. (Jacques)
• Added a display option for a grayscale filter overlay. (Jacques)
• Added some explicit crashes around breastRow management in the hopes it will help track down the true source of a (very) rare crash. (Gedan)
• Added some additional logging and errors around some ballFullness math to help track down the true source of a (very) rare crash. (Gedan)

Hotfixed my bumblefuck causing a “Cannot read properties of undefined” error when Experimental Undo was enabled.

Crankin out this weeks patch on schedule for a change. Wow! Everybody has been kinda busy over the last week, but the fixes have been coming regardless; there might be less of them, but it’s because we’ve been spending time trying to crack into bigger and more difficult to solve problems. Sentry has proven real nice for hunting down some troublesome and weird issues and it feels like we’re finally cresting the top of the wave in terms of broken shit still lingering from the porting process.

Same time next week, hopefully!

0.9.064 Changelog:

• BACKERS: Siegwulfe has had an expansion for her dom/bimbo path, adding a new repeatable scene as well as a collaring event (for the PC), and an option to ride back to your ship underslung. (Azthra & Gedan)
• PUBLIC: Emese, the cat mommy (written by Doots), can be found on Uveto’s main street. (Doots & Leek)
• PUBLIC: Sisterly Ruuing by William: With both Anno and Syri as crew members, and after both have acquired their maid costumes, players with a penis can trigger a new random event by simply boarding their ship in which the two Dornas tempt you with the prospect of domming them both in bed. Which of the two siblings gets to be first? (William & Leek)
• PUBLIC: New encounter on Phaedra: the Kihan Armature. It happens in a specific location on the way northwards in the east half of the map. This peaceful encounter will give you a little lore and set you up for the next piece of content…
• Fixed a parser crash with Dhaal dungeon parser tags.
• Fixed Penny’s sexmenu blowing up.
• Fixed Penny’s old roleplay scene going mia.
• Fixed Penny’s new roleplay scene clashing with the old scene button, and is listed as “Surprise Roleplay”.
• Fixed a crash with flash goggles. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed the unintended availability of hardlight usage for a Dez anal scene that resulted in a crash. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a bunch of bugs around Synvanol that could erroneously drop important arguments. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a rarely encountered crash with nukaPsykers. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a few unparsed tags and variants in Neil scenes, Tarratch Slaver scenes and Codex entries. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a bug allowing for the purchase more GaloMax than intended from Sera. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed inconsistencies with cowScore() checks. (Jacques)
• Fixed some Shalin Shaman scene openers not properly presenting genitalia selection options to the player, potentially allowing selection of a dongue that is not too large for the scenes to continue. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed the event queue from being erroneously serialized when saving game-state. (Gedan)
• Fixed some instances of amazonian race overriding other race checks for the purposes of scene variations. (Jacques)
• Fixed Frostwyrm scenes not properly identifying the players race. (Jacques)
• Fixed a title naming bug with Bess allowing multiple titles to be stacked up inappropriately. (Jacques)
• Fixed some Eloise bugs. (Jacques)