I’m back out of the other-project mines now, but this week has mostly been a wash for me. I got tagged in to handle some annoying little bugs that are still being fished out of the UI menu generation change a few weeks back, but I think we’re finally at the point all of those might be squared away properly now. The rate of new stuff getting broken definitely feels like it’s slowed, so my next couple of weeks now that I’m back TiTSin full-time is gonna be about smashing through the backlog of forum reports and chopping through as many things as I can before swinging into a lot of little QoL things that I’ve got sat on my list.

Fen has been hard at work battering on his dungeon goos and getting to grips with working in the depths of the ported code to make a crazy, over-the-top eldritch abomination of code, befitting their status as gooey monsters I guess!

Sophora should have been made public this week, but I feel like we’ve only just with this patch got her properly squared away so we’re gonna give backers another week with her being exclusive, so we’re gonna stick a pin in the content rollout pipeline until next week and just release a big bugfix rollup update.

0.9.021 Changelog:

• Added some more of the completed card assets. (Jacques)
• Staggered has been buffed to a 20% stat reduction, up from 10%. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed crashes relating to the Combat UI and non-standard exits from the combat process. (Gedan)
• Fixed a few more items that didn’t return to the inventory after consumption. (Gedan)
• Fixed Skin Clears bad end process. (Gedan)
• Fixed a bunch of items that trigger masturbation scenes not properly generating menus. (Gedan)
• Fixed Grenade crashes. (Leek)
• Fixed cancelling the image upload process for avatars. (Leek)
• Made the Android app package use Fullscreen an added a dedicated close button to the main menu. (Leek, Jacques, Gedan)
• Clarified the equip button tooltips. (Leek)
• Fixed a fated name. (lowercase_donkey)
• Usual assortment of bust tweaking. (lowercase_donkey)
• SlutRay now does 5 psionic damage instead of 4 tease damage. Advanced SlutRay now does psionic damage. The Heavy SlutRay now does 9 psionic damage instead of 8 tease damage. (Fenoxo)
• Sophora has had a great many more fixes, balance changes and tweaks. (Leek)
• SynthSheath should now have proper sales limits from Shekka. (Gedan)
• Tweaked the damage output for smuggler grenades. (Gedan)
• Tweaked part of rescuring Kiro to ensure the final scene in the chain cannot be overwritten by another event happening. (Gedan)
• Renvara should no longer freeze the game. (Fenoxo)
• There is now an option to disable the “Hologram” effect used in various places of the UI (Jacques)
• Fixed the “Shopkeeper is null” error when sometimes using the drop interface. (Gedan)
• Fixed a softlock on Poe A. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed cocksocks not allowing target selection. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a couple of unparsed variants in FarrowQuest. (lowercase_donkey)

Last couple weeks have been a little off kilter for the release times now; I’ve taken a while off to work on another project that is coming up for a big patch, so I’ve not had my eyeballs fully on keeping up with TiTS things. I’ve been getting my fingers involved whenever somebody has specifically directed me to something that needed my attention, but my day-to-day has been elsewhere for the most part, and it’s only today as part of our weekly meeting that I realized we were going to be coming up on 2 weeks without a patch – time to change that!

Everybody has been cleaning up a lot of the things left hanging after my big chopping into the UI component flow to resolve button generation issues. A huge amount of things having shifted in meaning subtly over the course of the port has piled up a lot of simple to fix but hard to head-off mistakes that are now being resolved as part of it. Generally, just a lot of cleaning up all over the place I guess, so it makes sense to not let this stuff sit unreleased for too much longer, especially considering I haven’t been committing too much stuff to subtle break different stuff in the background.

Fen is still deep in the mines working away on the dungeon encounters, and he’s having a grand old time trying to maintain his sanity whilst twisting the combat system into making goo dopplegangers work that can take on the appearance and some of the combat capabilities of the things they are duplicating. It sounds like he’s through the rougest parts of making that work, but I do not envy the man for deciding to make it happen.

0.9.020 Changelog:

• Backer: Two new extra scenes; Olympia Facesmothering and Kui-Rodenian Porno. (William & Leek)
• Public: The LoveStarz expansion is now public.
• Public: The Anyxine Worship & Assfuck scenes are also now publically accessible. (William & Leek)
• There are handful of new items available from Xanthe, Busky and Inessa, and a few that are tied to certain holiday events. (??? & Leek)
• More items that were causing menu generation issues have been fixed. (Basically everybody)
• The way ship events are triggered has been juggled a little further to make more sense with the new ships-have-actual-interiors paradigm we now have. (lowercase_donkey)
• Attacks that hit multiple enemies but didn’t primarily target the first enemy in the list should no longer hit the attacker. (Gedan)
• The usual assortment of typo fixes and bust tweaking. (lowercase_donkey)
• Attempted to catch issues with calcSalePrice vanishing when using the Drop Item UI component. (Gedan)
• A great many tweaks once more to Sophora. (Many fingies in this pie, but mostly Fen & Leek)
• Paige has had more work done to ensure scenes work properly with the modernized versions of our genitalia selection menus. (lowercase_donkey)

 

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Some of this stuff already got hotfixed last night but I’m just gonna throw it down into a version bumping changelog here.

Most of this is fixing up the runoff from the core element flow I bad-touched in 0.9.017. tl;dr a lot of things had been implemented around a flawed always-call-the-main-game-menu function that was happening as part of element switching, hiding many of these problems. I suspect there are probably more, knowing just how many weird and unique one-off things we’ve had to build up over the years but this should get all of the most common things left over.

TiTS 0.9.018:

• Holiday’s halloween event shouldn’t lose the final scene when returning to the players ship. (Gedan)
• Shop-specific exit code should now be properly called, and should now avoid a handful of vendor-specific softlocks. (Gedan)
• The Omnisuit and Goo Armor should be properly marked as not usable, and instead only exposes equippable and interactable prompts. (Gedan)
• Item usage flow has been tweaked. Consumable items used outside of combat should now by default return to the inventory display after whatever scenes and menus they create are complete, and leaving the inventory display should no longer return to the last item consumption prompt display. (Gedan)
• The shop interface should now display alternate currency types more consistently. (Gedan)
• Some typos and busts fixes. (lowercase_donkey)
• Being moved to Frosty’s cave as part of a scene should no longer get you stuck there. (Gedan)
• Appearance buttons should be better behaved and generate appropriately. (Gedan)
• Fleeing from combat should no longer crash. (Gedan)
• Dropping items should no longer softlock. (Gedan)

A bit more of a gap between updates than I would like, but the last couple weeks have been both extremely long and filled with a lot of difficult challenges to handle. We’ve all mostly been concerned with cleaning things up rather than continuing to ratchet out new content, and I am somewhat loathe to shove a new version out without having something new for people to do with it.

Speaking for myself, I’ve been tied up fishing out annoying bugs that take a couple hours at a time to pin down and ensure get fixed properly rather than trying to paper over. This usually leaves me in a rush come “update time” to just merge something in for content and get a build out of the door, but we’ve had a couple of stumbles now because of that and I’m not gonna do it again. I guess somebody needs to be the final arbiter of quality before pushing the build button, and frankly I’ve been doing a bad job of it. Until my plate is clean of the more time consuming and complex fixes that I need to get done I’m just going to have to be satisfied with letting builds roll out without new content if I haven’t had a chance to properly rifle through the new stuff.

It seems like the Android version went off pretty smooth though. I haven’t seen many, if any complaints about it outside of people that have been holding off playing wondering where things have moved to- special mention for cheats here I guess!

Back 2 da codemines…

TiTS 0.9.017:

• Backer A new Syri scene, a new wallslut scene and a new maid-Anno scene are available. (Will & Leek)
• Public Syri’s couchfuck is now available in public builds. (Savin & Gedan)
• Public “Tail Me More”, a new item available from Jade. Consumable that adds more tails. (??? & Leek)
• Cleaned up a lot of the keybind handling and element switching that drives moving between different UI layouts for Inventory, the Codex etc. This should clean up some of the weird states the UI could get into sometimes, as well as bypassing calls into game logic when returning to the main text display and potentially triggering random events when no time has passed. (Gedan)
• Tons more bust and image tweaks. (lowercase_donkey)
• The bust display should no longer display a copy of the default placeholder bust if one of the requested busts in a multi-bust display call isn’t available. (Leek)
• Cleaned up cached data that leaked into the UI state when using the Inspect option in the inventory, overwriting the defaults in later instances where the defaults were required. (Gedan)
• A Read All button for the codex. (Leek)
• A whole mess of typos, formatting fixes and unhandled text logic has been cleaned up. (Gedan, Leek, lowercase_donkey & Jacques00)
• Fixed the artist priority list in the options menu resetting when reopening the options menu after it has been changed and then losing the setting. (Gedan)
• Implants are now treated as equipment for the purposes of storage systems. (Gedan)
• Fixed Olympia’s cock selection process testing the wrong type flag for human dongs. (Gedan)
• Fix Beatrice scarf not being given to players if they gave her a lot of savicite at once. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed an issue in the Kiro+Paige threesome that could swap the PC and Pagies positions around depending on the order of the prior scenes. (Gedan)
• The Take Advantage perk now actually does what it says it should. (Gedan)
• Fixed specific-item-checking for piercings. Various stat effects due to piercings that were broken should now be functional. (Gedan)
• Fixed Hot Honey Ham breaking from Yammi. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed the “feruzeCuzLead” error. (lowercase_donkey)
• A whole pile of tweaks and fixes for Sophora. More still remains. (Basically everybody)