New week, new TiTS patch! This time I don’t have a bunch of juicy stuff from the JS port to spice up the post with, but it’s still coming together. Geddy has been busy tangling with the deployment and loading systems such that I couldn’t even putter around in the dev version of it at meeting time. The progress from the rest of the coding team was similarly low-vis though significant. It’s something of a change-up to be the one who did things that are more visible this week – namely coding some lovely content Savin left me on the backlog!

0.8.157 Changelog:

• Ardia will now request a better jumpsuit a week or so after recruiting her, and you can give her a SteeleTech jumpsuit to fill that need. Along with the Jumpsuit, she gets a new scene (if she’s dommy enough), and a lot of busts to go with it – 16 different variants to handle things like domminess, ‘nuki nuts, penis type, and the always classic nudity.
• If you stole the Sidewinder, defeated Teyaal during your return trips to Zheng Shi, and saved her during the final confrontation, you can now encounter her along with her daughter on the recreation deck. This tidy little content bundle offers a smidgen of familial exposition as well as an opportunity to nip back to Teyaal’s office for an in-person check-up with the good doctor. (So what if her doctorate is in engineering?) I just hope to wake up with some Sela scenes to slide in there as well, to provide a nice little capstone for that event.
• Teyaal can now impregnate the PC using the Gryvain Pregnancy type that was added with FIRST-14.
• New Ardia art for getting missionary from her, drawn by Rama.
• New art for losing to Gryvain Techie in FIRST-14 and having your face sat upon. Again, drawn by Rama.
• Other new busts: Geoff, Daerworm, Daer Wormlings, and the Pumpking

Savin has been working on more main plot stuff for Dhaal in the meantime, and Will assures me that a metric fuckload of writing has gone into a project code-named “Evilbun.” I could tell you more, but then I’d have to jill you.

The porting process for TiTS is still ongoing, and of course part of the reason that it is taking as long as it is is because we are rebuilding so many systems from scratch to be more robust or graphically prettified – like the mail system which looks pretty nice now – or perks displays, or any number of other subsystems. They’re all coming together great!

For instance, the per-NPC bust-selection system is significantly enhanced and should handle multi-NPC bust displays more gracefully. See the clip from Leek below:

Leveling up, status display, the PC bust display, etc should all be wrapping up now, though I can’t grab a screenshot of the level-up screen since the current WIP build crashed when I tried to bring it up. We are going to have a lot of bugs to shake off still, but I’m hearing good things about Gedan working out the final build process for sharing it with you guys.

There’s not that many more checkboxes to tick off!

Happy Spooktober everyone! The ever-lovely B wrote up a sweet Halloween scene for roleplaying with Lorelei, and I got it added to the game post-haste for you to enjoy… on top of the piles of bugs we’ve gotten sorted out in the meantime. I’m happy to say that I’m back to keeping up with the bugs for the most part, and I have two to three projects ready to get slung into code for a backer patch soon ™.

On the Javascript front – I’ll probably share more information about that tomorrow, after getting briefed on it at this afternoon’s team meeting.

Since this is a public patch you can grab the image-embedded version of the game from mega.nz if you want, though you need a stand-alone flash player capable of opening .swfs. This version of the game has images embedded in select scenes and allows you to zoom the character busts for a better view.

0.8.156 Changelog:

• Lorelei has a new Halloween event, accessible in her quarters, and it comes with a lovely new bust (pictured at right!) The full resolution version is available for the Patreon & SubscriberStar folks!
• I whipped up eight new Halloween items that should be on the rare drop table, some decorative, some with high stats. As I’m writing this, it occurs to me that I should have gated the items I stated at level 10 to only drop from higher level encounters, so for now, I guess you can be an overpowered lowbie if you get a lucky drop!
• Helm of Terror added (Accessory, +evasion/def)
• Reaper’s Cloak added (Accessory, +crit)
• Jack-o-lantern Dress added (evasion armor)
• Light Harness added (+shield and evasion armor)
• Pumpkin Bra added.
• Pumpkin Bulge Briefs added.
• Skeleton Hands Bra added.
• Spiderweb Panties added.
• The “Maid Uniform” has had its stats improved to better corrospond to the level it is available at. It is no longer identical in stats to the lower level “Maid Outfit”.
• the “hasSkirt” check was updated count both kinds of maid outfit as having skirts.
• Syri can no longer start her Christmas event if you aren’t yet fuckbuddies with her.
• If you somehow get off Mhen’ga with captive Lah in your inventory, you should no longer be prevented from using the fly menu. This should enable you to go back and turn him in properly. We still have not identified how a player managed to get off Mhen’ga with Lah in their inventory, but we’ll fix that when we figure out how…
• A previous patch accidentally made Kaede’s first encounters inaccessible. This should be resolved.
• V-Ko’s vaccination option should no longer be blocked for wealthy PCs.
• Gianna’s liprating was actually set incorrectly, preventing her lips from reaching the proper minimum size.
• Doctor Po’s bust should be working this time. I swear!
• Various typos and small bug fixes unworthy of their own line in the patch notes.