Jojocite (Patreon tip jar) has been doing some designwork establishing a uniform “look” for each of the megacorps. She’s killing it!
Good news, friendos! First off, we had a two hour meeting last night to hammer on some of the details for the next story planet. While we aren’t 100% locked in on things yet, the broad strokes are down, and another meeting is scheduled to polish it up next week. Since Adjatha birthed most of the ideas, I’ve tagged him as the project lead for this one, much as Savin was for Uveto. The core ideas, plot hooks, and potential locations/events he presented to us were next fucking level, IMO. (Seriously, 9+ page document ready to go at meeting time. Bravo!)
Without giving too much away, the planet will be a tidally-locked cyberpunk dystopia with tech largely on-par with the rest of the UGC (aside from lacking warp gate tech). It’s going to be a fun ride.
Speaking of rides, I’ve decided to give Lighterfluid a lift onto the payable part of the team. He’s slogged through some really, really difficult projects with aplomb (and for free), and it’s time he started getting compensated for some of that. Rat’s Raiders likely wouldn’t have made it into the game without his tireless efforts. Both the rodent-eared thieves and Bianca were tremendous projects with a lot going on under the hood, yet here we are with both!
Oh, and I’m trying to teach William how to get at the code directly so he can directly fix typos or make small adjustments as he likes. I really appreciate how determined he’s been to chase quality in his projects lately, even if it meant I spent three or four hours paging through Bianca and making tiny adjustments for him, but Will can handle those soon ™.
What does all this mean? Hopefully it means I’ll be free to do more of my own writing and projects. Aside from having a metric fuckton of characters I’ve written that I want to give crew expansions too (Emmy, Gianna, Kiro, etc), there’s a number of other events I’d still like to pursue (Myrellion peace accord, maybe)…
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A peace accord? ? oof yes
Now, would it be asking too much to get the chance to seduce Anzhela onto our crew? lol.
Briha, Anzhela, Lys and Liliana are best grils, we must save, protecc and waifu the hell out of them.
I want Aurora the cute bat girl. I love cute bats, shame we can’t lewd her.
Pedo.
Anzhela, while fantastic, is a JimT creation, meaning the answer is “lol fukken likely.”
Same with Briha and Lys, too.
It is theoretically possible though, right? I mean, I don’t think I heard anything saying that JimT forbid anyone from writing content for any of his characters, or did I just miss something?
Theoretically you can. Pretty much everyone’s who’s tried has failed.
I think that has more to do with the it being novice writers tackling the project. You know damn well that you or I could bang one out if we were so inclined.
Unfortunately, Savin and I are both overloaded with waifus.
Hence “theoretically,” yes :p
A cyberpunk dystopia sounds interesting.
Maybe call the planet Sprawl or Tekwal?
How about Omicron? Lol.
The real Nomad Soul was the Super Best Friends we lost along the way.
RIP………
I gotta say, it makes me happy someone got the reference, lol.
This comment hurts more than it should.
We have planet names from the original fundraiser that must all be used up before we start inventing our own!
So, if we get Gianna, do we also get her ship?
She has a ship?
It’s mentioned when you talk to her.
Do you get Kiro’s one?
Let’s just own a whole fleet of ships. Duct tape all the airlocks together and make one super ship.
Bah, we just need some kind of Normandy SR2- sized ship to fit in every possible crew member plus having one good ship gun if you can’t escape. Cuz she’s a fast, more stealth ship than a battle cruiser.
You do realize Olympia is sidewinder exclusive right
Then we need some kind of “Sidewinder 2.0” with more than enough space i’d say. That’s just a wish of a waifu collector ofc, so i guess i’ll have to use clowncar for all times
Nah, we just need a ship big enough to dock the Sidewinder internally.
Y’know, coming back to this post, it suddenly occurs to me that if we could dock the Sidewinder or another ship inside a larger ship, then it’d be cool if we could drop it in combat to act like an attack drone. Imagine dumping the SW out the hangar to have Olympia make strafing runs against your opponents.
Nice. Looking forward to it.
Looks like some people are ready for Cyberpunk 2077 ;3
In heard that they won’t have genders in that game
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Congratulations to Lighterfluid! dude deserves it.
Thanks!
do you ever plan to do a water planet with sexy fish people.
We don’t design planets until we get to them. So who knows!
Finally some solid hinting at what to expect. Don’t want to criticize *BUT* It would help with your marketing to people who are as of yet undecided to pledge to patreon what you’re promising in the near future as you have now. *whew* (but more often) for more than a year I’ve felt like I was left in the dark in terms of direction. (I understand you don’t want to spoil too much or furry gods forbid (promise) too much). I haven’t seen how things would improve with implementation and content on your patreon page. (like it seems to be trendy on all those other pages) hope this didn’t sound like a rant. I’m actually extremely excited for the future if you deliver even half as much as you’re hinting.
I can’t speak for the directions of staff, but I am still working on Zheng Shi. Lots of content yet planned for it, including several large expansions.
And I’m looking forward to it!
Me too
Lighterfluid also coded Kimber, who had more hoops to jump through than I thought she would. Good to see him officially on the team. 😀
Looking forward to hearing more about the new planet, both because I dig cyberpunk and because I want to see if I can rework a semi-abandoned project into working for the new place.
Will it have anyone named Punch Sideiron in it? Lol.
I doubt it, but I’m gonna throw in a fuckton of Transmetropolitan references because I can. 😛
are the zheng shi slave pens getting any content? i wanna run a prison gang and buy ass with cigarettes. also those crew expansions sound tasty
Lighterfluid been on fire as of late too
No.
not even a short scene about breaking out? Maike throws you in there and doors shut but after that you kinda just walk right out
The ‘Free Slaves’ button will stay greyed out forever?
From a twitter comment (not mine): Perhaps an Android playable race would be cool (probably difficult to implement) but like a roboty kinda version of the starting races would be cool! (Maybe like an alternate to Victor having a heir, instead he has one built?)
it would be curious but i cant imagine it would be viable. i mean it would invalidate everything thats currently in the game as far as transformatives. every single one would need an android alternative or a rework to the transformation blurbs to indicate that it isnt an organic reaction.
There is already the “perfect simulant” flag.
“You were created by the scientists at Steele Tech to be the perfect heir, and as such, your maximum capabilities exceed even those of the luckiest terrans. You walk, talk, breathe, and eat, just like any living creature, even simulating DNA to allow you to emulate the effects of transformative items on true organics.”
No idea how you get it or what its about.
Sounds more like some kind of bioroid setup, as well as exclusive patron sort of thingamajig, to me…
Pretty sure it’s attached to one of the “Fated names” or whatever.
Correct
Hi, wanted to ask, what about Ardia crew expansion? Will it be in this year?
Unless I literally actually die, yes.
Please don’t jinx yourself :{
Following video game logic. He says it and you get sick.
More Tessa please
I’ve been playing this game for years now and it makes me happy to see how much it has progressed
“Rat’s Raiders likely wouldn’t have made it into the game without his tireless efforts.”
“Lighterfluid also coded Kimber, who had more hoops to jump through than I thought she would.”
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY LIGHTERFLUID! Thank you for helping delivering these scrumptuous bounties!
Emmy as a crew member?! FUCK YES. ALL THE YES.
I’ll pass.
indeed!
I have always wanted Chaurmine as a crew member, it sucks not having him with you. My favourite character in the game currently.
Gibe de Ems pls b0ss
Someone else mentioned that they’d wanna see a water world which id would love too.
Another thing id love to see is a nocturnal world kinda like Pitch Black
The “night side” of the new planet would have you covered on the latter, assuming Steele now has any reason to wander into such an inhospitable frozen-out wasteland part of the locale…
Possibly, though it would hope for a dark planet not completely frozen since Uveto already fills that niche. im guessing the new planet will take place entirely in the twilight band of the planet
That’d be the default assumption given how planets tidally locked to their stars work (also the whole cyberpunk theme since building cities outside the twilight zone would be plain silly), but who knows with the space-opera rubberband astrophysics at work here…
Well. I s’pose a Venus-style greenhouse planet would be quite dark what with that dumb thicc cloud layer and the only real light source on the surface being all the volcanoes… certainly not frozen, those! :v
Myrellion Peace Accord sounds great!
/burns down all hopes for Escalation quest lines in the background:(( /
Hardly.
Exciting! Can’t wait to see what you all come up with!
I really need to get some cash so i can be a backer again, these updates look great.
More Kiro? Please fuck yes
I am excited about this next planet, I have been itching for some scifi in this sci fi game :V
also more myrellion content? yes please! especially if its about making the planet a safe happy hugs and kisses place.
Great goin’ so far Fen,
am enjoying what you have created for all the peeps!
I’m looking forward to seeing what other devious plots that you’ve planned!
I wonder if there will be special dialog options for tech specialists PCs if it is a cyberpunk planet.
You guys are doing god’s work.
So the next world is gonna be a sci fi world huh?
I AM GOING TO LOVE IT.
Also an enemy idea- a robot that is supposed to collect data on environment or something, but was bugged or reprogrammed to collect data on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
Wouldn’t that just be de facto reprising the Tarkus sexbots…
Could be Hand So’s plans were a bit farther along than we originally thought
That glorified calculator didn’t even have Internets, just sayin’.
Shit, totally forgot about hand so
Are cybernetic limbs going to be a thing? And on that note will implants be a thing?
Theyve been planned for a long time, but like psionics they’ve been sidelined by simpler and higher priority projects. Though with the next planet being cyberpunk themed there’s a good chance they’ll get bumped up the list (speaking as someone completely outside the dev team)
They might impliment those along with psionics in the future
So a little late in the comments I apologize, but more time for Fen means possibly more content centered around addiction i hope. i really love that type of content it probably what always keeps me diving into TiTS actively to pursue new ways and directions that can go.
Hopefully the future looks bright with that now.
When is the Frostwyrm Ichor going to become obtainable?
Whats frostwyrm ichor?
It’s a TF that can turn the user into a Frostwyrm-morph. It’s on record on the wiki, but it’s listed as currently unobtainable.
Someone needs to draw a full body picture of cherry ’cause I wanna see the rest of them legs