Hey guys, check out today’s CoC2 patch one post down. I also wanted to take a minute to talk since I haven’t updated the blog in a hot minute. There’s a lot of stuff lining up to come down the pipe for Kiro’s recruitment quest, and I’ve finally gotten to the point where I can start laying pieces into code. I’ll have a patch tomorrow with a cheat code to test one of the encounters if all goes well.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s still lots more to write – but I appear to have gotten over my writer’s block hump to where I can reliably churn out words again. Yay!

Expect one or two public patches likely followed by rapid-fire backer stuff as I chew through the ~150 pages of stuff that’s been backlogged thus far. Then smaller breaks that drip feed Kiro’s actual recruited content. (And there’s more stuff backed up in the codepipe too. Patience!)

Hey guys, just wanted to touch base. I’m still working on the boss fight for Kiro’s recruitment quest. I won’t spoiler her here (I’ve done in plenty in the Tainted Space discord channel already). Her bad end is ready, and I just finished the fourth victory scene for defeating her. Still remaining are her actual combat routines, and then I get to dive into the actual texts for rescuing Kiro from her clutches.

I’d also like to add some kind of erotic puzzle segment at some point. I’ll let you know if I can figure one out. (Beyond the lovely one Wsan already compiled.)

Lighterfluid’s been working on coding B’s Eitan, the War Alpha from the invasion of Korg’ii Hold. I’ll probably have to add a cheat code for insta-recruiting him down the road since he’s ~120 pages of content to gate behind one victory path from one side quest deep in the bowels of a frozen hellhole.

I want to start chunking things into code next week, which means you all can hopefully expect an opportunity to test some WIP builds.

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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)…