The update – she cums!

…is it too late to rebrand after the javascrypt conversion?

Gedan gave me a poke this morning to indicate that another big ol’ batch of bug fixes was ready, so lets get right into the meat and potatoes of it.

0.9.053:

• [CRITICAL ALERT]: It has been discovered that saves made in this patch will not load. We will deploy an update ASAP to resolve this. We recommend holding off on this patch for the time being.
• [New Public Content] Penny Pirate Suck! It’s now possible to have the Cyberpunk Cheetah Pirate suck off your loyal futanari cumslut (or bimbo) fox, written by Fenoxo, coded by Fenoxo, Fenoxo’d by Fenoxo.
• [New Backer Content] It is now possible to take Anyxine on a date.
• [Now Public] Anno can introduce you to a trio of kitty cats when boarding your ship at Tavros station once you have met Urbolg, adding a new repeatable fap scene. (William & Leek)
• [Big Fix] Several Perks that were intended to make permanent adjustments to the players resistance stats (Tough, Tough 2, Helldiver, etc) were not actually applying the modifications due to Javascript being Javascript. 0/10 coding language, do not pass go, do not collect 200 bikini babes (or bros). This should be fixed now, with old saves being properly upgraded to have the correct values applied. (Gedan)
  • Also Helldiver’s perk text has been updated to correctly state “burning” damage instead of “thermal”. Note the old text may be stored on old saves. (Fenoxo)
• [Semi-Big Fix] Order of post-combat events should be corrected so that the screen properly clears and doesn’t append your victory (or defeat) text directly onto the enemy appearance text.
• The Tainted Rusher’s encounters now require you to experience the previous planet’s encounter before running into them on the next planet – this should address inconsistencies in the events where scenes would act like you recognized before you even met them, and guarantee proper continuity of their content. (Jacques00)
• Shower jerkoff options have been further unfuckulated. (Gedan)
• You can no longer use the Prostitute Pro to commit fraud on Breedwell. (DrunkZombie)
  • To prevent an infinite money exploit, Steeles can no longer use Breedwell Pods with an implanted Prostitute Pro.
• If the player is flying, they will no longer pancake on the overpass during Feruze’s fight, and will instead zip out of the way. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed incorrectly gendering enemies who cannot reach you while you are flying. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed Bianca’s icon appearing on Myrellion even during her off hours. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed the Easter Zaika’s bust being broken, and numerous typos. (lowercase_donkey)
• Somebody did a find & replace across the codebase to remove “public” from the code – something that would frequently appear before function definitions in flash but doesn’t need to be there nowadays. It ate a lot mentions of republics, etc in the Codex articles. This has been corrected. (lowercase_donkey)
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  SteeleTech turrets may not be the best turrets, but they’re efficient, durable, and highly-repairable with minimal power tools.

  Work on fixing hard crashes related to custom busts & image gallery code. (Gedan & Jacques00)

• Taking the Tainted Rusher’s virginity is now tracked. (Jacques00)
• Tainted Rusher combat texts should support non-PC targets. (Jacques00)
• Made some under the hood changes to how Tainted Rusher bust displays are called to support future art. (Jacques00)
• The weapon output for ship combat has been converted to a proper table layout. (Jacques00)
• Adjusted appearanceWornCollar() in appearance to only show on the player character’s appearance output. (Jacques00)
• Fixes for temporary color values in game. (Jacques00)
• All [pc.Name] parser calls should be changed to [pc.name]. This will not force uppercase on name output for those who want to have a lowercase name. Personally I (Fen) had done this intentionally because I figured a fair number of players might just type in a name without worrying about proper casing, but I suppose some players also want to be able to further dehumanize their characters. (Jacques00)
• lowercase_donkey did a lot of find & replacing of formatting things for eslint.
• Reviewed and updated all race() checks and simplify to raceShort() (or isAusar(), isCat() or isDog()), where appropriate. (Jacques00)
  • Adjusted some race outputs. * The “horse” and “demon” races should now be “equine-morph” and “demon-morph”, respectively.
  • The “amazon” “race” output should slightly vary based on gender.
  • Race output override moved down slightly to better accommodate any prefix/suffix changes.
  • The stripped-down version of myr races (red, gold, orange) should now be “myrmydion”, so it’ll be easier to find all variants of the race with raceShort, and the specific race with a race().indexOf().
  • Many instances of Terran have been replaced with human.
• Re-added in cowScore() for checks that only want the cow score value without the added bovine score. (Jacques00)
• Updates to the quest log. (Jacques00 & lowercase_donkey)
• Some accessories incorrectly gained boot icons. This has been rectified. (Jacques00)
• Numerous other smaller fixes, tweaks, changes, and find-and-replaces. (THE TEAM <3)

Phaedra’s locals can be quite friendly!

Smugglers fly now.

They fly now.

(And the CoC2 folks pushed a big update with a dungeon or something!)

Fen here with an overdue update to give you the level 12 unlocks your hearts have been desiring. I’d like to give a big thanks to Savin for doing the hard work of getting some initial ability ideas down on a page and helping me refine them into their current form. We’ve already started work concepting for level 13 as well. Keep your eyes peeled for more news on that in the weeks to come – as well as me personally digging into the current Phaedra content to polish and balance around the new player abilities.

0.9.046:

• New Busts: Nuka, Glowing Nuka, Medibot, Warboy, and Glowing Warboy. (Drawn by Adjatha, added to game by Leek)
• [Currently Backer-only] Added scene for Naomi, a cowgirl on New Texas that got stood-up and is looking for revenge. Available to bipedal Steeles with a cock. Will trigger randomly along the main street between the hours of 1800 and 2400 with a 1 week cooldown. (Written by Damie, coded by DrunkZombie)
• Maximum level has been increased to 12.
• [Level 11] New Smuggler Perk: Die Another Day. When HP drops below 50%, recover 25% of your maximum HP and energy. And drop a flash grenade, because YOU AIN’T DYIN’ YET!
• [Level 11] New Smuggler Chosen Ability: Twist the Knife. Your Sneak Attacks and Aimed Shots apply a bleed effect on your target for 50% of the damage. The bleed effect can stack, but it only lasts for one proc.
• [Level 11] New Smuggler Chosen Ability: Booster Pack. Gain the “Flying” effect for four rounds, and the ability to trigger your Aimed Shot or Sneak Attack ability against enemies who are not flying (while you are). Feruze should’ve been a Smuggler.
• [Level 11] New Mercenary Perk: Helldiver. +10% thermal resistance jumping feet-first into danger!
• [Level 11] New Mercenary Chosen Ability: Vaulting Strike. Grants the ability to make a high damage melee attack that does +50% bonus damage to flying or tripped targets. Hmmm what else can I call +50% damage? Minicrits? MINICRITS BAYBEEE.
• [Level 11] New Mercenary Chosen Ability: Sturm & Drang. Grants the ability to make one melee strike that procs a volley of ranged attacks like ‘Rapid Fire’ ability with enhanced accuracy and critical chance (+25%).
• [Level 11] New Tech Specialist Perk: Perpetual Energy. Gain 1 energy each time damage is done to your shield.
• [Level 11] New Tech Specialist Chosen Ability: Overclock. Give yourself the Haste condition for four turns, increasing your evasion by 5% and granting an extra attack for melee and ranged attacks. For when you absolutely gotta go fast.
• [WARNING: ERROR PRONE] [Level 11] New Tech Specialist Chosen Ability: Deployable Turret. Slap a deployable turret onto the battlefield with a decent-sized laser cannon. Many older AI routines aren’t tuned for the possibility of a PC who adds an ally onto the field. That means they may attack the turret and display text that reads like they’re striking you. There is also a chance that it could introduce bugs into more script-heavy combat encounters like Feruze’s Taxi battle encounter. I will be working on clearing up as many issues as I can over the weekend, but just be aware of the instability this choice might introduce (for now).
• [Level 12] New Perk: Boundless Reserves. Your energy maximum is increased to 150.
• [Level 12] New Chosen Ability: Specialized Combatant. The flurry attack granted by Second Shot or Second Attack is upgraded to a full accuracy attack.
• [Level 12] New Chosen Ability: Second Striker. Allows you to become comfortable making bonus flurry attacks with melee AND ranged attacks.
• Bleed damage now bypasses shields.
• Bleed now deals damage on the last turn of the effect (to enable the “Twist the Knife” ability for Smugglers).
• The “Haste” effect is now shaded as STATUS_GOOD.
• The “Flying” status can now be assigned with a duration, using its v1 value.
• Some holiday tweaks and adjustments. (Not Holiday the character, sorry b-baka)
• Tweaks and adjustments to the Player Character paperdoll display in the corner.
• Added Achievements for Dhaal’s probe events. (Gedan)
• Fix loading screen sometimes going past 100% (Lowercase_Donkey)
• Fixes for Dreghan Catch scenes which sometimes confused ass and vagina, leading to some errors. (Lowercase_Donkey)
• Fix for Tarkus sexbots using a vagina’s index to look up a cock, which might or might not exist. (Lowercase_Donkey)
• Tweak nursery buttons for specific children to remove blanks spots. (Lowercase_Donkey)
• Clean up and organize old code. (Lowercase_Donkey)
• Numerous smaller fixes (and larger fixes that seem small on the surface) courtesy of Gedan, Jacques00, DrunkZombie, Lowercase_Donkey, etc.

Gwon wants to say hello!

We got a short, stacked hotfix coming in piping hot, for those who liked last night’s patch but had some bugs or thought that there weren’t enough goblins in it!

Shortstack Hotfix (0.9.031 hotfix #2795+):

• The Brightwater testing content received a number of fixes, from fixing a “loop” possibility in the dungeon’s scene routing to ensuring that the bar encounter with Harru is actually in the correct menu. (lowercase_donkey)
• Gwon, the owner of Gabmart Threadz on Dhaal got a small expansion written by Adjatha that gives her a whole mess of new interactions and fun. (lowercase_donkey)
• That’s all folks!

Gooooo people… goo people… slop like goo and suck like people…

Fen here, touching base to give a better appraisal of my activities. It’s been a busy month! I finally got fiber installed to my house, which means I can hopefully stream once more! No matter how much of my furgold I shoveled into my cable ISP’s furnace, I could never get consistent enough upstream bandwidth to reliably broadcast a video feed of any kind, leading to a gradual, frustration-based cessation. (Even with gigabit cable service!)

Now I’m getting ~700Mb/s upstream on my desktop in my office. 60 fps 1080p streams, here I cuuuum~!  I only had to call after missed appointments twice, and deal with a web interface that kept reporting my install date as Christmas of 2021 – you know, average ISP stuff. And it costs half as much as my old cable ‘net! Calling to tell Mediacom to fuck allllll the way off is going to be borderline orgasmic. Somebody’s gonna have to get me a mop.

As previously reported by Gedan, I’ve been working on combat routines for Dhaal’s final dungeon. The current project is a horde of morphic goo creatures that shapeshift into a variety of different existing NPCs. I’m not actually attempting to copy combat routines from those creatures, but I am accurately pulling their appearance data onto the shapeshifter and using that to drive a variety of a tease attacks based on gender and sexual equipment. Pulling that data wasn’t that hard – but I also had to figure out a way to have the goos accurately store their combat designation (Goopleganger A/B/C/D) away while shapeshifted – and re-assign it after slopping back into a blobby foe.

On top of that, I’m attempting to avoid repetitious combat text since this is a party-type combat where you will be battling 3-4 of these goopers at a time. To do that, I broke their attacks into three types: slappy, fem-teasy, and masc-teasy. The attacks are tracked in sequence. Each time a goopleganger uses one of those abilities, the game goes through the entire horde and updates the tracking data so that the next blob-chungus will know to use the next tease or slap down the list. That fight is finally getting close to ready for implementation, after which I’ll jump on the final version of the final boss fight for that dungeon. Fortunately, more HP-driven battles tend to be quicker to do, since I don’t have to conceive of horny texts for attacks.

Oh, and we’ve been slipping out some hotfixes for the last release.

Hotfixes:

• Dropping an item should no longer crash the game. (Thanks, Geddy!)
• Renvra pregnancy no longer eats all the movement buttons at a certain stage. (Thanks DrunkZombie for helping me track this one down!)
• Added a toggle for the animation of scanlines in the player character outline. (Thanks, Jacques00!)
• Art for the Diamond suit of playing cards should be added, completing the set. (Thanks, Jacques00!)
• Fixed a softlock on Poe A (Thanks, lowercase donkey!)
• Cocksocks should now allow you to select the penis you wish to wear one on. (Thanks, donkey!)
• Lots of textual issues resolved. (Thanks, lowercase donkey!)
• Pregnancy speed should be correctly displayed in the codex. (Thanks, DrunkZombie)