Pardon if this message is riddled with more than usual small smattering of typos, but I just came off the back of a pretty huge two-plus hour meeting with the TiTS staff. We covered a LOT. So much that I’m probably not going to be able to touch on it all here. It’s that big – pretty much two full monitors worth of notes big. As a result, we’ve identified a lot of places we want to make improvement in the game flow and feel – especially the early game. I won’t bore you with all the minute details, but as an example: we’re going to shift the game start to the Mhenga landing pad (post-tutorial) and improving the credit acquisition methodology once you’re there.
Other changes could be more significant, like potentially having a reusable tent you can grab for resting and leveling in the wild, or reworking how sexiness is stated out and applied so that wearing slutty undies and clothes makes you a lusty glass cannon while dressing in granny panties and trash armor makes your blood harder to boil, so to speak. Additionally, the way sexiness is assigned to undies and items will be reworked to be level independent. Aliss’s vast selection will be able to stand up to the latest from Myrellion, Zheng Shi, or Dhaal. These may sound like dramatic changes, but rest assured that we’re not gonna lump up a ton of disparate and far reaching things at once.
But while we are talking about tease – it too will be getting touched and improved. The skill ratings for the various kinds of teases will be removed and tied into libido instead. Hate that? Do you play an asexual mistress of the tease? We’re looking at having the “Ice Cold” perk potentially invert how libido is applied for those who want to be the temptress who never gives it away.
And the biggest and perhaps smallest change at the same time: after a lot of back and forth, we’re going to remove the 33 lust threshold for sex scenes in TiTS. In CoC, it served a useful risk/reward role in pushing you into dicier combat situations that could corrupt you if you lost. In TiTS, the game is more about exploration and adventure, and it winds up getting in the way more than anything else, especially when you manage to crush a boss fight only to discover you can’t access their fun scenes because your character isn’t quite horny enough.
And because my brain was burned when posted this, a late-edited addendum: We also talked about the oncoming end of flash. Geddy has some plans to make us browser-play compliant that she’s going to get cranking on before we hit that end of life deadline. She even mentioned streaming a ton to do it. Fingers crossed!
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removal of minimum lust scenes
me, who uses perks and/or resting to cycle my lust so I can see scenes: Woooooooo
I always used the Savicite Panties you get from Mitzi. They give you exactly 33 minimum lust, and can be taken off if you need to.
The problem with that (and we discussed it at length) is that you’re making combat harder on yourself just to remove an obnoxious impediment to the game’s core function (reading sex scenes).
So what’s the gameplan regarding scenes gatelocked behind…exceptional randiness?
To better explain my question, let’s look at Quinn as a case in point. If you make peace with the Zil, you only unlock sex scenes with Quinn’s handmaidens (Fetch and Carry) if Captain Steele tries to lay with her again before she has fully recovered from your last romp (within 3 or 24 hours, depending on what scene you chose). That kinda loses something if Steele can immediately ask for another round as a rule rather than an exception.
Now in this particular case, I do see a fairly obvious potential workaround in that Quinn starts abstaining after a certain point of her pregnancy. This presents an opportunity to shift her handmaidens’ introduction from a “you’re too randy for me” role to a “it’s not safe, so these two will tend to you instead of me” role. With that being said, I mention them more to illustrate the libido-lock mechanic than to single them out as my main concern.
The main question I’m getting at is what the general plan is for scenes build around Steele being unusually hot to trot? Should we expect them to be heat/rut locked now, have their restrictions removed entirely, predicated on a new/extant trait…?
Probably have their restrictions removed, or perhaps gated behind Libido instead of Lust. Libido’s what I’ve always used for that anyway.
this sounds like alot of solid quality of life changes. Cant wait to see what else you guys have coming up as well.
This sounds like very good progress. Can’t wait to get the public patch soon.
Im all for mhenga becoming the new start point.
being on tavros really gave you alot of stuff you could do without having started combat or moved anything along the story.
what i really hope is that this means that mhenga will get way more content because quite honestly i really like the planet and yet feel it has vastly less content then the others even though its suppose to be the first one.
for example the codex entry about the tentacle girls talks alot about lore for them like a village and a queen and thats something i wouldve love to see get done and expanded on.
Unfortunately the tentacle girls you’re talking about (the Vanae) will likely never be expanded on, since they were written by someone who went out of their way to sever all ties to TiTS and their old writing, and who’s projects are apparently infamously difficult to continue for other writers.
The Vanae wouldn’t be too hard as they’re really just a blank slate (aside from being non-natives). However who would want to write them when they can do their own?
I still really wish the initial character creation was framed as a sequence of traits and mods that Steele picked for themselves as they grew up / once they came of age rather then having their sexual characteristics be custom designed by their dad…
Whilst I agree, some of the stuff, like the genome argument like ‘hung’ and ‘ice cold’ would make less sense for at least how it’s been explained.
I wonder what direction content adding in TiTS will go beyond Dhaal. A lot of Chekhov’s Guns were never fired, so here’s to hoping at least that will change this year.
Probably not. Most of those guns are mine (yeehaw) but I’m gonna be spending most of this year filling in missing content that’s piled up due to my illnesses over the last few years. 🙁
Just don’t get sick, ez
Cool, gl guys.
This sounds great. However, what is the possibility of companions having a more central battle integration? Maybe bringing one or two companions, much like a party in COC2, which also may have additional scenes depending on battles consequences? In addition, maybe having a group only quest/explorations?
Honestly, making the combat a bit closer to CoC2 wouldn’t be a bad thing. CoC2 super fun to just get into brawls in.
You’ll never be able to bring crewmen exploring with you (Fen hates party combat, alas!), but there will doubtless be more sequences like Kara and Anno’s quests where you have friends with you in confined, specifically-tailored spaces for them.
Hm. These are some interesting changes. The minimum lust removal sounds neat but sounds like a lot of changes are gonna be needed, like perks that raise lust and items like Savicite piercings/cockring and how useful would they be aside from roleplay.
I dont quite follow the tease change but I suppose just have to wait and see. Otherwise hope the work goes well for y’all.
After the removal of minimum Lust requirements, will perks like Treated Readiness or Amazonian Needs and items like the Savicite Panties or Savicite Cockring be purely detrimental?
That’s what I’m worried about
I share your concern.
Seconded.
Maybe change or add them to increase libido (or max libido cap?), to help with tease attacks in the new system?
A lot of perks and items are slated for reworks, don’t worry.
These definitely sound like a lot of big, but necessary changes. I always felt that ending the tutorial on Mhen’ga would lead to a smoother transition, and removing the minimum lust requirement definitely sounds like an improvement. Hopefully perks and items that increase minimum lust can be reworked so they’re still potentially attractive options, or at least be accounted for in a way that’ll keep them manageable.
I think reworking sexiness is a great decision, I felt like I was forced into wearing that new underwear just because it receives a bigger bonus. I wish there was more clothing/underwear with special effects like how gabilani’s panties increased in sexiness in tandem with your ass size.
Meh, doesn’t sounds that big of a deal to me. Could be worse i guess.
If it makes the game better, then why not.
Reworking Tease is understandable, but I still hope you implement Will’s very good Oral Teases
Also, an absolutely wonderful feature to consider would be the ability to slap the Hardlight Upgrade Unit on non-hardlight undies to give them basic level strap-on abilities
RIP Treated Readiness, you’ve served me well for years.
Turn in your bubble buddy, you’re off the case.
What ever it is we support it
I’ve noticed that more recently added enemies have tended to give the option for sex without the lust threshold, so that’s not a super surprising change. I like it, as I tended to use Breeder’s Bliss/Red Myr Venom to keep my lust high enough to access sex scenes without having to sit around and accumulate lust damage
enter randomness:
I love TiTs and CoC and hope is never goes away. You have so much imagination and know how to put out the perfect content for each game. I know (us) fans can get aggressive for updates etc but keep doing an awesome job at what you do and take your time, cause if you just rush you will eventually get burnt out and run out of ideas. So please if you gotta take a break in the future just let us know, your true fans will understand, just don’t disappear and not let us know.
Keep on with your awesomeness
/randomness off
I always used the save editor to set my minimum lust to 33 so the removal is very welcome.
I like the idea of adding a perk for asexuals. Can’t wait to see how it pans out.
Is there plans to expand Uveto’s racetrack? There seems to be a trove of possibilities with potential Taur NPC’s using Steele as their underbelly Jockey. Anyway, love the steady updates!
This all sounds like good stuff. I especially like the removal of min lust requirements, so I won’t have to mark my stuff as available regardless of lust. 😛 I know it’s probably a long shot, but since you’re reworking items re: sexiness, let me know if I need to do any redesigning for the gabilani panties from Kimber’s quest.
on the topic of reworking early game stuff, a long time wish of mine is the game getting a consistency pass on talk scenes with early npcs – specifically the removal of the “back” or “next” button for npcs like vahn, ceria, and burt to bring it in line with the more common method of graying out the currently selected menu option
Question regarding the upcoming end of flash and your intent to make TITS “browser play compliant”, will saves from the flash versions transfer to the new models or will we be forced to start over from scratch?