Category: Trials in Tainted Space

Trials in Tainted Staves

New weekend, new patch!

This chunky lil guy comes with a lot of changes resulting from climbing around the inside of the codebase like a monkey on a jungle gym. My personal high points were massively improving deep freeze procs, discovering 20+ misconfigured damage flags on various encounters and items throughout the game, dumping a fat sack of new Adjatha art in, and getting to add a lovely bit of lore to the description for one of the new staff items I added.

I’d like to extend a fond “Thank You” to everyone who posted feedback in the Kineticist feedback thread to help me file down the biggest rough spots.

Hotfix #1:

  • Fixed staves crashing for kineticists when swung. This one was due to me incorrectly trying to add damage to “kinetic” instead of “kinetic.damageValue” because apparently any time I touch damage values, there’s a 50% chance I mess it up the first time. (It’s me, Fen!)
  • Fix PsiNoiseGenerator not being collectible because the collection function wasn’t properly committed. It was in a file I had a half-written, WIP scene in that masked it when I was doing the commit, causing me to miss pushing that essential bit of code. (Goddamnit, Fen!)
  • Fixed tripped enemies targeting themselves while tripped. The combatAI function got some dyslexic arguments slipped into it.

Changelog 0.9.068:

  • [BACKER] Additional slavesuit anal scenes (Will & Leek)

  • [PUBLIC] Femmitch (Wifely & lowercase_donkey)

  • New bust by Jacques00: Slamwulfe.

  • New busts by Adjatha:  Eloise, Neil, Selene, Warboy’s Bike and the Warboy.

  • New common items: Staves! You can pick up a Quarterstaff at Carl’s on Mhen’ga, a “Steelestaff” from Anno on Tarkus (or in your hold if you’ve recruited the alabaster assistant), or a Shieldwall Staff from Emmy on Myrellion. They’re all tagged as psionically attuned – which will grant kineticists a little extra kinetic damage when striking with them. I’m not done yet either – expect more staves and some rare ones to slip in soon. -Fenoxo

  • New rare item: Psinoise Generator. This rare accessory can be found in Zheng Shi’s mines by kineticists. When equipped, it should increased energy recovery by 25%. This was actually in the last patch but unobtainable due to non-final, buggy coding. (Fenoxo)
  • Adjusted the dom siegewulfe collaring lead-up scenes to give hints as to the requirements required for the scene happen and added further details about them to the quest log. (Jacques00)

  • Adjusted isHuman tests to better incorporate the reworked racial scoring system and its primary/secondary scoring to determine humanity-factor. (Jacques00)

  • Adjusted Deep Freeze shatters to trigger with non-melee tagged crushing attacks. (Fenoxo)

  • Adjusted Terran Treats so that certain bodypart flags can be cleared even if you already have the human type-version of a bodypart those flags apply to. (lowercase_donkey)

  • Adjusted changeEnergy() to more accurately display energy change. (Fenoxo)

  • Fixed a crash with the Forgehound’s combat interception. (Gedan)

  • Fixed a few more potential operation errors with the data menu after loading a save on a slower/touch device. (Gedan)

  • Fixed a few potential pathways where some menu buttons might leak over into the game menu. (Gedan)

  • Fixed combat not being properly completed after the Hyrax Raider BDP scene. (Jacques00)

  • Fixed some missing instances of fluid-ingestion and taint in scenes that mention these things are happening. (Jacques00)

  • Fixed instances of Damage Flags not being properly configured on some combat enemies, or more accurately, not being properly configured on their equipment damage values. (Fenoxo)

  • Fixed the new Tripped/Get Up mechanics to apply to hostile NPCs as well as friendlies. (Fenoxo)

  • Fixed a handful of abilities requesting target selection even though they don’t actually require a target. (Fenoxo)

  • Fixed the Siegewolfe renaming button option from its quick little holiday out of the reworked siegewulfe menu. (lowercase_donkey)

  • Fixed the reversed value reporting from some feminization changes. (lowercase_donkey)

  • Fixed some typos in Gianna bust names, effectively disabling them from being used. (lowercase_donkey)

  • Fixed some issues with parser tags and support functions used by frostwyrm content. (lowercase_donkey)

  • Fixed some issues in Overqueen content relating to how it was attempting to use changeEnergy() previous. (Leek)

  • Fixed typos. (Jacques00, lowercase_donkey, Fenoxo)


[TiTS] The Big Bug Haul & Unbalanced Psychosis

Gedan: I got lost deep in the mines digging in to some more of the UI state errors; many of these now are split between ‘Oopsy Woopsy, forgot to update this bit of the code to handle the new way things work’, and not being defensive enough about the realities of software running on real devices. A lot of the crashes don’t really make sense easily at first glance, and it takes a while to figure out what the real cause is – and a lot of them have been things like ‘User clicks button, game takes a bit to do a thing, long enough that user can click something else that I never expected them to be able to click, causing the second thing to overwrite part of the first thing and put things in a weird state.’ Part of why I wanted to move to this way of doing things is because it made it much easier to have a hard-error when things like this happened, closer to the point they were actually caused, making it much simpler to figure out what, exactly, was going wrong. At any rate, another batch of them I hope have been slayed, clearing the brush for the next endless set of buggles to stick they heads above the parapet ready for the chop.

Fenoxo: I need help! We didn’t get to test the Kineticist class as hard as I would have liked, particularly on the high end. To address that, I’m unlocking it this patch, but player beware! There may be crashes. There may be broken abilities. There may be a crushing lack of psi-impacting accessories to equip! The high level abilities might be too weak. The mid-level abilities might be to strong. Please only roll a kineticist if you’re okay with all of that and have the time to provide me with some feedback on them. I intend to work on hotfixing some adjustments for them on Sunday or Monday.

 

0.9.067 Hotfix #2:

  • Foes do not always get up from trip immediately – the chance now scales with their intelligence and increases every round.
  • Telekinetic Warrior attacks now count as “Crushing” damage.
  • Improved damage scaling on most higher level kineticist abilities:
    • Concussive Augmentation will scaling 50%->75%
    • Goethermal Spike will scaling 50->75% for thermal and kinetic portions.
    • Acid Cloud will scaling 100->125%
    • Mind Crush scaling 100->150%
    • Psychic Slam scaling 50->75%
    • Gravity Crush scaling 100->250%
  • Psychogenic Vim: Improved tooltip, removed activation cost
  • Vitality Siphon: Improved tooltip, removed 1/combat restriction.
  • Vortex Brand: +5% more damage boost. Fixed miss chance modification on psi attacks.
  • Debris Field: Added damage component, added bonus damage to flyers.
  • Fixed Entropy Waves’ tooltip.
  • Fixed some typos.

0.9.067 Hotfix #1:

  • Fixed issues with New Game not properly initializing some UI elements, leading to a crash.
  • Fixed the panic/fullscreen buttons being present when they shouldn’t be.
  • Fixed Korgonne females crashing when being encountered for fightin’

0.9.067 Changelog:

  • [Backers] The Kineticist class can now be created! This psionic character class allows you to start with psionic aptitude and the ability to skewer your foes with pure force, leech away their heat to restore your energy, and more!
    • The kineticist should focus on willpower & intelligence when leveling up. Willpower drives the damage scaling & saving throw difficulty levels, and intelligence powers your to-hit rolls with abilities that can miss.
    • Kineticists should not partake in bimbo content if they wish to be viable – for now. An event to allow low will and/or intelligence kineticists to apply themselves in other ways will be deployed in a future patch.
    • I recommend stocking a weapon with the crushing flag to take advantage of any “Deep Freeze” procs you manage. We need to add some lovely staves with which to break the ice in the future.
    • [Tiny Savin Edit]: There’s a forum thread for feedback on the class! Let us know what you think!
  • [Backer] Slavesuit anal scenes.
  • [Public] Bimbo Siegwulfe content.
  • The “Sundered” condition will now expire if created with a limited duration. (Fenoxo)
  • Added and adjusted a great many map icons on and around Tavros station. (lowercase_donkey & Jacques00)
  • Added some additional utility to functions governing combat attack output, allowing us to group the results of certain things together in a more logical manner, no matter where and when we calculate the various components that constitute an attack and its resolution. (Gedan)
  • Adjusted the Nuki score required to be afflicted by Cum Cascade without explicitly having the relevant perk, as the old trigger number was set based on old racial scoring values and not the newer, higher potential score. (Gedan)
  • Adjusted some Rad penalties applied during puzzle failure on Phaedra. (Gedan)
  • Adjusted the log event when Blue Balls gets removed; if the player also has Nuki Nuts, there’s a very high chance that both Blue Balls and Nuki Nuts event will fire simultaneously, and they both effectively do the same thing. Blue Balls will still be cleared, but Nuki Nuts will be the only event that makes it to the event log to cut down on spammy events. (Gedan)
  • Adjusted Lorelei’s menu to remove allusions that there would be future collar control of the PCs collar here, as it was sketched out long before we settled on having this functionality present as part of the Codex instead. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed a great many combat-process interruptions that provided additional options to the player mid-fight. (Gedan)
  • Fixed a handful of card-position and formatting errors with various combat attacks. (Gedan)
  • Fixed a few oversights with modified combat card output handling that should better handle certain formatting tasks. (Gedan)
  • Fixed parser overrides for combat card formatting calls. (Gedan)
  • Fixed errant UI state pushes caused by combat interruptions. (Gedan)
  • Fixed a potential state corruption issue during save loading by injecting a dialog overlay earlier in the process to block additional inputs during asyncronous data loading. (Gedan)
  • Fixed some missing vendor icons, and others that should have been hidden at various times. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed “Roshan Blue” not being applied to certain XP sources. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed some room linkages that would be better served as locks instead of one-way paths. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed Kanes story process not properly masking out stories that the player has already been told until all stories have been presented. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed a crash with setStatusIconShade(). (Jacques00)
  • Fixed various submenus from the masturbate menu from causing UI state stack corruption. (Gedan)
  • Fixed some potential UI state stack corruption from occuring during the ship purchase/trade flow. (Gedan)
  • Fixed some potential UI State stack corruption whilst closing shops. (Gedan)
  • Fixed a potential instant crash under some browsers failing to handle autoplaying media when the dev aid vaporwave mode had been enabled (by removing the vaporwave mode as it was mostly intended as a proof of concept of how best to include animated content). (Gedan)
  • Fixed the spawn rate of Nyrea Betas not being adjusted after certain outcomes with the queen. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed potential navigation issues through various menus with Carrie scenes. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed missing Haley nursery content. (DrunkZombie)
  • Fixed a Po bad end crash. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed inconsistencies around all of the rooms on the Tavros ResDeck. (lowercase_donkey & Jacques00)
  • Fixed crashes with the teleport cheat (mainly by removing the Skip To option as it didn’t make any sense for it to be in the Cheat menu considering what it does differently versus Move To) (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed and adjusted many details relating to SSTDs. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed Reaha’s bust configuration so certain states are less likely to overwrite other, more pressing states from being displayed. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed Mhorgen being encounterable in the bar before completing the Dhaal dungeon. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed Ardia’s give-item menu not always returning to the correct parent menu. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed possible errors with the rotate minigame when displaying the tutorial helper trying to reference certain specific cells in the play area. (Gedan)
  • Fixed some scrolling issues when text changes. (Jacques00)
  • Fixed some event log issues with mimbranes causing spamming or invalid log entries. (Gedan)
  • Fixed Synes menu not backing out to the corrent parent version if not immediately accepting the proffered task. (Gedan)
  • Fixed the PC getting statistically buttstuffed during a Syne scene where the PC is stuffing Synes butt. (Gedan)
  • Fixed a vew status effects that should have been hidden from not being hidden. (Gedan)
  • Fixed the crash handler from skipping version update check cooldowns to determine if a new version was available to prompt for an update on the crash screen, unless at least some time had passed. (Gedan)
  • Fixed a crash with Resin Aroma. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed a bunch of output formatting for Resin Aroma. (Gedan)
  • Fixed the Reload Game button when the game crashes under electron, so it should now properly actually reload the game. (Gedan)
  • Fixed Mitch using the incorrect busts during some scenes. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed an inverted test for Air Tight during the Zaika Hazard Troopers aphro-gas attack. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed a bunch of calls using penisRouter that may have been causing issues. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed an oversight in the button gating for some Olympia scenes. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed a great many typos. (lowercase_donkey & Jaques00)

[TiTS] Towering Taur Time

Sylvie (Preg), Jacques00

Sylvie (Preg), Jacques00

Smooshed my face into Sentry one more time and stumbled over a few more UI state things that dragged me kicking and screaming to various things that we never got around to fixing up post-AS3, so I chopped into them and figured out a few more crashes and brought back some features we’ve had disabled for a while. The Aliss stuff, now that I’ve figured out a good pattern for how to handle it, will have to be applied to a few other vendors we have around the game that do sorta similar things; I think Busky on New Texas is another candidate for this kinda treatment, but I haven’t looked yet – gotta get da patch out and crack into the rest after.

Fen has been hard at work roping together all of the bits needed for the new class, and it’s coming along by leaps and bounds. The half-complete version that we’ve had chance to play so far is shaping up really well, so a release shouldn’t be too far away.

Back 2 da mines.

0.9.066 Changelog:

  • BACKER: Anyxine standing bone scene, available once you’ve been on a date with the self-same bone-haver. (Savin & Gedan)
  • BACKER: Mome codex entry – Some background about the Tove homeworld. (Frogapus & Leek)
  • BACKER: Paragon Hazard Armor – A new powerarmor source, dropped by Hazard Troopers and available to purchase from Rivet (Leek)
  • BACKER: Mia – A bar encounter on Mhen’ga, bump into another traveller who took a shine to the Vanae… (SheepPun & Leek)
  • PUBLIC: Eloise, located in the Crash Landing on Dhaal. Why not wander over and see what she’s about? Written by Magenta Needle and coded by Leek.
  • PUBLIC: New Penny Scene/Event: Roleplay! Written by William and coded by Leek, this event lets you request Penny jump you for some cop-on-PC roleplay sucky-fucky!
  • Added an additional validation step when loading creatures, allowing for the game to ensure certain datastructures are present that may have been removed via save editing, which would ultimately crash the game without thier presence. (Gedan)
  • Added additional bust art for Sylvie and Siegwulfe. (Jacques)
  • Adjusted the presence of the fullscreen overlay shortcut for various subdisplays. (Jacques)
  • Fixed display issues with double goo busts. (Jacques)
  • Fixed a reversed virginity check, some unparsed output, missing text clears and a crash in mitch scenes. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed unparsed tags in some rats raiders content. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed an incorrectly implemented test for a lumi defeat scene. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed incorrect parser tags in some malai content. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed an incorrectly configured button not properly continuing to the next scene in a cherry’s wall scene, and a similar case in some Paige content. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed the rest and masturbate menus not properly navigating the UI state stack system. (Gedan)
  • Fixed the error handling around the media play calls used to play animated busts/CGs, so that this should no longer trigger a crash under certain browsers where playback is disallowed. (Gedan)
  • Fixed and reimplemented the “Try On” options for Aliss’ store, returning all of them to existence under the Inspect menu. Additionally, the Buy button that is surfaced as part of this will push the item in question into the shopping cart and return to the Shop interface rather than immediately completing a transaction, as well as fixing UI state stack navigation for the Try On scenes, as well as the event triggered via Aliss’ lust. (Gedan)
  • Fixed a handful of pathways where a flag related the farrowquest could potentially be unset or invalid, safely reconfiguring it toward an expected value rather than crashing. (Gedan)
  • Fixed the teleport cheat not triggering a UI state stack navigation to occur, leaving additional states in the stack. (Gedan)
  • Fixed potential crash issues with hasCockType() when it is called with potentially invalid index values. Some of these tweaks have been applied to a handful of other cock-based functions to handle a similar gap in the usual logic we used in the past to ensure these were executed safely. (Gedan)
  • Fixed some old AS3-era UI calls that still existed in the combat code that were no longer nessecery, and were potentially injecting additional states into the UI state stack that didn’t need to exist. (Gedan)
  • Fixed a few potential crashes when leaving the Options menu via certain toggles that would immediately close the display through a non-standard pathway. (Jacques)

[TiTS] Bejazzle that Vagazzle

Selene (Adjatha)

Selene (Adjatha)

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)

[TiTS] In Soviet Tarkus, Siegwulfe Rides You

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

Siegwulfe Bimbo Milkies (Jacques00)

Siegwulfe Bimbo Milkies (Jacques00)

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)

TiTS Hotifixin’

HOTFIXESSSSSSSSSS (Backer note: direct download links should automatically update to this once it is ready):

  • Penny’s sex menu should no longer blow up.
  • Penny’s old roleplay scene should be back in it’s old place again and available in public once again. We apologize for the inconvenience.
  • Penny’s new roleplay scene should be available on her base crew menu only, now labelled “Surprise Roleplay”. This works doubly well since her crew sex menu was running out of button space, AND the scene was written from the perspective of being an “out of nowhere” request and not something following the normal sex-approach lead-up.
  • An optimization to the parser was exploding some of the Dhaal dungeon parsers, hard breaking that content. This should be fixed.

Trials in RP Space

Howdie howdie howdie! I hope our patch this week finds you all hale, hearty, and hard-on’d.

Personally I didn’t get a ton of writing or coding this week – but I did break out a potential ability & perk list for a psychic “kineticist” class to be added to the game, from level 2-12. The big focus for me was giving it a unique class identity from the others that really leans into “magic user class” tropes while still holding onto the sci-fantasy, technological bent that the TiTS universe has. To that end, it’s going to be a class that favors more activated abilities than its peers and does not get any of the usual “flurry attack” or “second attack” perks. Instead you might find yourself leaning more into abilities that debuffing the enemy while causing damage, hastening yourself, or even raining down psychic blows on a foe while disarmed. You’ll leach your foes’ body heat, dealing cold damage to restore your own energy. You’ll choose between tanking with constantly regenerating shields or mercenary-tier HP that heals every time you cast a spell.

Focusing on telekinesis was a necessary choice to maintain cohesion of the game world and the existing events and storylines – a Steele that can reach into other’s minds at will and exert his own mental pressure on other NPCs requires a game bespoke tailored to that sort of experience – something we aren’t doing.

I hope the eventual result will satisfy in the crunchy RPG turn-based sense and fun RP sense of being a psychokinetic space-monk killing machine… but first I have a lot of feedback to address from the team after my presentation yesterday, implimentation, and play-testing.

TL;DR: Fen specced out the first draft for psychic class abilities (COMING SOON ™), also we have some new content in this patch below!

0.9.062 Changelog:

  • [Public] The Soaked Raskvel is now available for making moist.
  • [Backers] New NPC: Eloise, located in the Crash Landing on Dhaal. Why not wander over and see what she’s about? Written by Magenta Needle and coded by Leek.
  • [Backers] New Penny Scene/Event: Roleplay! Written by William and coded by Leek, this event lets you request Penny jump you for some cop-on-PC roleplay sucky-fucky!
  • Cleaned up combat’s “sense” menu output to look nicer.
  • Malai’s quest now pays out.
  • A few small fixes for the blackjack minigame.
  • Fixed the “manage collar” screen not clearing the screen.
  • More keybinds for pop-up modal added – now includes the standard gameplay buttons and the zoom toggle buttons (mainly used in the image viewer).
  • Added some clarity on keybind opacity option.
  • Busts associated with ship busts will now have a non-person as their “default” image if they are missing an image in the manifest.
  • Added default logo image and image parsing.
  • Shifted button keybinds for rooms only appear when in navigation mode (MAIN_TEXT, though may change if needs more parameters).
  • Added consistent keybind location for gallery/inventory tab buttons.
  • Fix for Vulriks sometimes doing buttstuff when he’s supposed to do vagina-stuff.
  • Gedan did a lot of monkeying around under the hood and is still doing more monkeying under the hood that is likely to be more documented next patch.
  • Work under the hood was done to support custom ship busts like the custom PC busts.
  • Fixed a Neil combat crash for invalid targets.
  • A possible fix for a nuka psyker crash.
  • The drone no longer prevents fleeing from the nuka psyker.
  • “Suck and Frot” with radglow now requires a penis.
  • Helped the Shalin Shaman find the correct cock – and otherwise improved their ability to select an appropriately sized one.
  • Fix for loading bar visual issue where it appeared to load too much.
  • Fixed a crash in the pumpking during fight initialization.
  • Applied a fix to “hermRouterObj” that should fix a paige sex scene crash and may solve some other crashes elsewhere that we don’t even know about yet!
  • Fixed a crash looting eggs off the Easter Zaika.
  • Fixed a crash attempting to fertilize a cuntsnake.
  • Fixed a rare drop crash.
  • Fixed Sylvanol not being able to find a valid creature.
  • Fixed Foxfire always going Kitsune.
  • Fixed Siegwulfe’s lust not increasing.
  • Fixed a softlock with the Zheng Shi mining bots after getting the RFID tag.
  • Fix for Narc being described as missing pieces of herself that had already been restored.
  • Fix for “still in combat ninny” after fighting the hazard zaika in Dhaal dungeon. There’s a lot of content here, so there may be more branches to fix.
  • Fix for anal content appearing in a Kase+Anno threesome where butts should not be involved but the PC is a buttslut.
  • Use Nykke’s “erect” bust for her anal scene.
  • A lot more work on our appearance tech. Should now work correctly when it’s used in combat for a “closer look” at a target.
  • Fix for areolae description being double printed if the player had dick nipples.
  • Fix missing space in ballsack description
  • Fix for collar descriptions not properly clearing the screen when refreshed.

Trails in Phaedra Space

HOTFIX UPDATE: If you can read this, I’ve just finished shoving out a hotfix that should handle the majority of common crashes hitting people in the appearance screen, on Uveto, and a few other combat issues.

Hello! I hope this week finds you all well. This week we pushed hard in the content mines to dig into some of the submission backlog, so backers have a nice chunk of new content to look forward to. Of course, we haven’t forgotten about everyone else – Phaedra’s base content is now enabled for public, even though it’s still very “in-development.” Nobody’s here to listen to me prattle on though, so lets get to those juicy, content-impregnated patch notes.

Hotfix 0.9.062, builds #3601 and up Changelog:

  • Adjusted scrollbar styling. (Jacques)
  • Adjusted a bunch of internal logging to use the proper categorized logging system, so that it can emit (hopefully) useful information into the action crumbs displayed during a crash. (Gedan)
  • Fixed crash relating to metallic color name keys in appearance. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed crash when recieving various non-targetted damage. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed missing author data and a typo in Selene content. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed Olympia/Bubblebuddy interaction. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed Olympia tailcock buttons and some text in assocated scenes. (lowercase_donkey)

0.9.062 Changelog:

  • [Backers] 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…
  • [Backers] 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.
  • [Backers] New “Wall” character in Cherry’s Taphall: the Bull. Written by Reathe and Magenta Needle, coded by Leek.
  • Coming soon to Hyrax warboys near you: bikes!
    (WIP Art by Adjatha)

    [Public] Come land on Phaedra II! Four new-to-public encounters available! See the scenic incomplete room descriptions. Enjoy the friendly plant life! See the psykers! And watch out for motorcycling Hyrax and stampeding bird-taurs!

  • [New Busts] Soaked Raskvel, Ancient Warbot, Syne, 17, Emese
  • Several keybinds have been reworked or improved by Jacques00, both in function and display.
  • Author, busts and showName are now tracked in the UI history stack so they can be recalled after a UI state is recalled. (Jacques00)
  • Have consistent-sized scrollbars, where applicable. (Jacques00)
  • New panic mode calculator. Office better look out, we’re about to become the top fap/office-work app on the market! (Jacques00)
  • Geddy dug around under the hood dealing with things like debounce handling to improve mobile play – and is also chasing down some small bugs buried reeeeaaaaal deep in the engine.
  • Fixed logic to set the variable correctly to use the correct egg laying scene for the current stage. It was always using the first stages scene due to incorrect logic. (DrunkZombie)
  • Fixes to Haley Preg Preg interactions are no longer available before she sends the first email for subsequent pregnancies.
    • Fixed dialogue text in “Check on her” scene to display correct pregnancy time remaining.
  • Add a feature where tooltips can be closed by tapping on them if the blur function doesn’t catch it first. (Jacques00)
    • This should allow players who mis-touched or don’t want tooltips blocking their text to remove it from view. Tapping the respective button again should redisplay the tooltip as normal.
  • Text fix for first encounter with liferoot mistakenly behaving as though you had met before. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Code missing text for when the Hyrax Raider has their bike destroyed. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Code missing button text for the same raider’s smut options. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Shalin Shaman text fix, do not show text for dart’s effect if the dart missed. Fix capitalization of their name in combat. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Hyrax raider fixes: they can no longer Lust Boost multiple times in a single fight, can now be defeated via lust. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix ‘Breastplay’ option for nuka psycher not triggering player orgasm/lust reset. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix for player not taking environmental damage on Uveto. We were silently failing out of our damage system if no creature had responsibility for causing it. Possibly this fix will expose other issues, please report if you get odd crashes about `attacker` missing. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix odd issues with Rodenian Mechanic and their button, may have been causing softlocks. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Crystal Goo resistances were not calculated correctly, (their resistance to freezing damage may have been being overwritten.) (lowercase_donkey)
  • Small fix for Cherry where Cherry’s internal cum counter was not updating correctly. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Several codex fixes where buttons inside the appearance screen were not properly writing content to a place players could read it (Gender Selection, Silicon/Wing preference, etc). (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix for Emese Pet Play bugs: first a crash, then an error printed in text caused by a bad test that let players into a scene that did not meet the qualifications. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix for vampiric effects on weapons not working. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix for Azariah crash relating to dick selection (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix for Kaede Ilaria date which was giving you 100000 credits for buying a sin-a-bun (The actual issue was a capitalization mistake when we were looking up the price, and the cash give away fallback was a very old fashioned way of alerting folks to an issue, according to an old note.) Modernized this section of code so similar things don’t happen again.  (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix bust for Phaedra’s Liferoot. There is no “nude” art variant, liferoot is always nude. But if it DID wear pants, what would they look like? (lowercase_donkey)
  • Small whitespace fix for robotic enemies in combat. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix double spacing in victory text and improve formatting. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix spacing issue in Edan scene, many spelling fixes. (lowercase_donkey)

[TiTS] I’m gonna go out to run

Gedupdate

Art by: ototatx (via Discord!)

HOTFIX UPDATE: Pushed out some fixes to handle lots of little crashbugs that cropped up in this weeks build. It’s using the same version number so that people accessing backer builds from links on Patreon/Sponsus should just be able to hit those links again and get updated builds without needing Fen around to posts new links on those sites! By the time you can see this message, those links should provide you with hotfix build #3552 or higher.

Lotsa fixes in the codemines this week. Fenoxo has been deep in working through polishing up the latest and greatest phaedra stuff, but he’s off on a trip to see family over the weekend – I’m getting the patch out and ready for him to swing by later and sprinkle a little extra detail in the post and make the requisite supporter-site posts to make sure people have access.

I’ve been smashing my face into testing some more annoying error reports to try and replicate things; there’s been a few little things I’ve tossed in the bucket to clean minor things up but I’ve been struggling to duplicate some things that we’ve had reported. Never underestimate how useful it is when reporting an issue on the forums to also include a copy of your save; not only does it save us a lot of time recreating the correct flag state to have access to whatever content is being problematic, it ensures everything is in a similar state and lets us dig out what the true cause is rather than having to make educated guesses sometimes!

Until next week!

Hotfixed 0.9.061, builds #3552 and up changelog:

  • Added an option to enable the legacy sidebar layout. (Jacques)
  • Adjusted size of status effect icons for control overlay and legacy UI layouts for better readability. (Jacques)
  • Adjusted the Myr Venom disabled button tooltip after defeating the Kui-Tan miniboss as part of Malai Quest to better communicate what you need to be able to use it. (Gedan)
  • Fixed an unparsed variable branch in Siegewulfe content. (Jacques)
  • Fixed a leaky italic tag in Tainter Rusher content. (Jacques)
  • Fixed Dr. Badger lab access being available too early. (Jacques)
  • Fixed a button layout issue with the Treatment cheat options. (Jacques)
  • Fixed “invalid attempt to iterate non-iterable instance” crashes relating to mimbranes in combat. (Gedan)
  • Fixed a sidebar crash issue. (Jacques)
  • Fixed a lot of other potential leaky and otherwise broken or incorrectly nested italics tags across all game content. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed crash whilst exploring the ZS mines level. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed spacing bug in foot descriptions. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed Warbot softlock after victory. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed a bunch of inconsistencies spread all across the UI implementation style. (Jacques)
  • Fixed missing lift icons on the Great Majin map. (Jacques)
  • Fixed player bust from unexpectedly appearing in the codex if navigating from there. (Jacques)
  • Fixed ramis fuck sequencing not properly updating the response value to generate the proper buttons. (Gedan)
  • Fixed paige sleepwith crash. (Gedan)
  • Fixed Feruze taxi fight crash. (Gedan)

0.9.061 Changelog:

  • BACKER: The ancient warbot is be encounterable on Phaedra. The encounter rate is tied to your reputation with the local Kihan faction, that is adjusted by your reactions during your first landing and Syne’s quest (so far). This is a non-smut battle with salvage drops for cash, one of which only drops on the first encounter and can be shown to Anno or Olympia.
  • PUBLIC: Anyxine’s date is now available for public consumption.
  • Lots more backend code cleanup and unification has been happening across a great many areas of the game and content. This is mostly a slow grind of cleaning up linting warnings which are proving useful to find areas of code that might be problematic.(lowercase_donkey)
  • Lots of duplicate implementations and mirrored functions have been cleaned up. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Added new tile formatting for irradated rooms. (Jacques)
  • Added some enhanced movement systems for ships to speed up leaving and entering ships the player owns. (Jacques)
  • Added an option to automatically roll out the bust to the large view if the minimap is already rolled out but navigation is currently disabled, allowing the two to switch places with each other somewhat automatically. (Jacques)
  • Added contectual icon changes to the in and out navigation buttons for if and when their target rooms are locked. (Jacques)
  • Added extra options to the teleport cheat to allow quick travel to various areas of the players ship from anywhere else. (Jacques)
  • Fixed potential disparities between gates in Narc content with her observations. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix bugged sandworm rate on Tarkus again. Sandworms now have one entry on the encounter table at normal, and 2x for high.  It seemed too high in the past so we nerfed the rate. However, this was because of a lurking bug where normal and high rates were both calculated as high. Compared to older patches this is both a buff and a nerf, meaning a 2x rate for high players and normal players unchanged. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed an issue with Quickdraw closing an interface earlier than it should have when switching weapons. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix for code being printed in Anno thraggen, kihan armature scenes, and some ZS descriptions.  (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed some issues with bodypart descriptions, removed “and” from cock descript outputs, typo in ball counts. (Jacques)
  • Fixed bust for the Moodast Gruss, and tweaked a lot of the image offsets and positions for ship busts. (Jacques)
  • Fixed missing shower clean to a Naomi scene. (DrunkZombie)
  • Fixed hasSnakeByte property not found crash in Verusha content. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix for “the wall” where femboi anal option’s availability was reversed. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed DeployableTurret not having a proper description and improve its various names and components for improved use in combat. (Fenoxo)
  • Fixed issues with shield damage text. (Fenoxo)
  • Fixed typo with the “Cushioned” status effect. (Jacques)
  • Fixed cropping issues with the Warbot and Hyrax busts. (Fenoxo)
  • Fixed shock collar status effect. (Fenoxo)
  • Fixed missing colour for the liferoot pollen effect. (Fenoxo)
  • Fixed and cleaned up a lot of things with the hyrax raider, improving the bikes reactions in combat, combat attacks not handling the presence of NPC allies well consistently, tuned the damage, gave status effects save chances, applied cooldowns and improved AI. (Fenoxo)
  • Fixed issues with lust resistance output in combat. (Jacques)
  • Fixed some ship stats and display issues. (Jacques)
  • Fixed a softlock when using Soak. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed “sceneSeen” undefined crash with Mitch. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed pudding panic encounters on the rust coast. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix for Kiro’s talk buttons not being grayed out correctly where they have been recently chosen. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fix crash for cumflation where the player was pregnant and could not truly be cumflated. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed Leyak’s appearing gendered in some scenes. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed attack text issues with the tainted rusher. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Dr Badger’s lab (not the shop, the inner room) is in the basement according to the writes, but our map tech had it floating in the sky as though its head was empty… thoughtless… Not a care in the world. Buried it back underground. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed “o[(0, A.TN)(…)] is not a constructor”. (lowercase_donkey)
  • The usual assortment of typos have been eradicated. (lowercase_donkey, Jacques)
  • Fix for Extrameet on planets with no content. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Some tweaks to old icewyrm scenes with B’s help due to player feedback. (lowercase_donkey)
  • We often use curly quotes for dialog in the game. Some of these curled the wrong way, now they don’t. This is very serious; the world must know. (lowercase_donkey)

Fixing Duck-Ups

A couple big snags were included in the last patch, so we’ve smoothed them out and rushed this into your hands pronto.

0.9.060 Changelog:

  • Ship equipment shops should function again. (Gedan)
  • The content pipe has been unkinked, and the Syri/Anno Ruu event and Emese should now be properly included in the backer version. (Fen)
  • Kattom won’t shop in the crashed ship anymore. (Fen)
  • Micromap should now be accessible for players with busts turned off. (Jacques00)
  • Add some semi-transparent color coding to map tiles of irradiated areas. (Jacques00)

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