Another week in the bug mines, chasing ghosts of stupid things that don’t make sense until I have a eureka moment of stringing along like 17 degrees of absurdity to produce some form of answer for what might be going on.

Fen has been spending a lot of time reviewing the work donkey has been doing on the Twilit TF item. I don’t know what state it’s currently in, but the two have been chopping the finer points of all of the mechanics that need to go on behind the scenes to make a TF work properly. I THINK it may be done right now, but I am in no presence of mind to try and exhaustively review TF code to checkbox it off and add it to the build until everybody is back from the weekend so we can go over it and give it the green light.

My brain is utter mush – I had the fun and enviable task of having to view five hundred pages of title deeds, property searches and purchase contracts this week and I’m only halfway through….

Back 2 da mines.

0.9.070 Hotfixes: Fen Monkeyin’ Around Edition:

• The button to levitate should no longer be overwritten by other special attack buttons.
• Fixed Debris Field having an incorrect tooltip.
• Fixed Acid Cloud’s tooltip listing an incorrect damage type.
• New Item: Sizzlepod Staff, a level 3 rare staff that deals corrosive damage and can be found in the deepest forests of Mhen’ga.
• Improved text field input limitations for things like names and email addresses.
• Fiddled with some kineticist damage calculations in an eternal quest for big round numbers that probably don’t change anything for you but give me more chances to accidentally introduce an error into the code…
• “canFly” and “isFlying” are now tracked independently. Previously nearly everything flying-related was derived from the “canFly” check.
• The levitation perk now makes “canFly” true, which should allow for all the flight-based transit events in the game world to work seamlessly with it.
• “canFly” no longer matters for most combat events – isFlying is far more important.
• Creatures that are flying are now immune to most traditional trip attacks. Sweeping the legs doesn’t do much to a flappin’ bird! Not all attacks that respect this have special text to notify you that it’s working, but it should be.
• Added a “hasTripImmunity” function under the hood, and having the “Planted” feat or being tripped already both set it to true, as well as flying or the generic “trip immune” status many NPCs have. This should simplify checking if a creature can be tripped down to one value to check.
  • I touched a lot of combat encounters wiring this up, so I may have introduced a fat-finger bug somewhere along the line.
• Added an argument to “hasTripImmunity” to ignore the flight-based immunity for flight-countering trip effects like the kineticist has.
• The jetpack accessory and flight-capable wings now allow you to “lift off” in combat. The “lift off” option shares a button with levitate ability and its ilk, and I tried to be intelligent about how they all nest together so that natural wings don’t prevent you from using your levitate ability (since that grants +10 evasion and is the “better” choice) – but the wing option will appear when your energy is too low. I also made them respect flight-disabling effects like the web status.

0.9.070 Changelog:

• [WHOOPS] Some wires were crossed, and an incomplete feature was accidentally included in the patchnotes. Amber’s cure quest is not yet ready. -Fen
  • Amber’s cure quest; simply talk to her about a cure whilst aboard your ship to get started. (Skom, AveryBirb and MoonKitten & DrunkZombie)
• PUBLIC: Spacewizards. Sorry, I mean kineticists can now be created in the public build. (Fen, Fen, Fen, and some guy called Fen. Savin, whoever that guy is, also too)
• Fixed Syri’s coat bust appearing when it should/shouldn’t be doing. (Jacques00)
• Added orgasm calls to a soaked raskvel scene where they were previously missing. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed Syne showing the wrong bust in a scene. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed further potential crashing issues around the keybind implementation for hitting Accept and Cancel buttons on the UI, no matter where they appear. (Gedan)
• Fixed more improper uses of inventory handling interfaces caused by Telekinetic Warrior – these were much easier to find and eradicate with proper error messages! (Gedan)
• Fixed how the players last location is stored when boarding the Great Majin so that we can more safely return the player when they leave. (Gedan)
• Fixed some unparsed content in some Anyxine content. (Gedan)
• Fixed some potential crashes caused by new parser tags dealing with cock size parsing. (Gedan)
• Fixed some potential crashes with the keyboard navigation controls for the inventory, where it was possible for them to execute mid-transition to another UI layout and then immediately blow up. (Gedan)
• Fixed a stack state creation issue during the Ara diplomacy mission. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential crash on some platforms returning weird and improper messages when the OS rejects a users request to fullscreen the page content. (Gedan)
• Fixed a further potential crash on some platforms where not only do they not return messages when emitting an exception, they don’t provide the stack either. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential crash caused by using the Undo system immediately after fighting the Overqueen during First 14. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential crash after ship combat against a Cyberpunk K7. (Gedan)
• Fixed a crash when changing cocksocks. (Gedan)
• Fixed a crash with the Ziltrap Vines when the player uses a deployable turret, and also possibly fixed some other issues with their AI not properly processing allied creature states. (Gedan)
• Fixed a crash with remove junk attempting to loot invalid piercings. (Gedan)
• Fixed a bunch more typos. (Jacques00)

Still been continuing to chop through Sentry issues that have been lingering; the pile isn’t getting larger, it’s mostly just the same things that have been wrong for a couple of weeks still happening – so it’s only a matter of time before I’ve managed to smash through all of them. Feelin’ good, just gotta keep at the grind to get everything silky smoove!

Back 2 da mines.

0.9.069 (nice) Changelog:

• PUBLIC: Hazard Armor, Mome Codex, Anyxine Standing Bone and Mia.
• BACKER: Elcine is available at Shineglass Station on Phaedra. (Savin & Leek)
• BACKER: Additional punishment scenes for Cherry’s Wall are now available. (Redknight910 & Leek)
• Added Phaedra, Jasvalla, Sophora and Ardia encounter details to the quest log. (Jacques00)
• Added Dzan addicition details to the quest log. (Jacques00)
• Fixed a crash with staff weapons. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a softlock in Ramis content. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed gravity rush persisting between fights. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a reversed Luca check that blocked her sub-switch option. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed how the status effect that controls Capraphorm is created and updated. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a temporary value set during trade that was breaking Undo state creation. (Gedan)
• Fixed some crashes with certain Zaika combat encounters. (Gedan)
• Fixed Telekenetic Warrior eating melee weapons when the player had no equipped ranged weapon. (Gedan)
• Fixed a few more unessencery calls forcing the combat UI to be shown, this time in the mock-combat interface. (Gedan)
• Fixed some crashes with the duel with Riya in some Nastizia content. (Gedan)
• Fixed Ecstasy Enlargers expiry proc, allowing it to work properly with how time passage is actually implemented. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed the cooldown handling for the Thirsting status effect. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed some error handling code to better handle certain mobile browsers not passing along an error object when an error happens. (Gedan)
• Fixed some crashes with a handful of room configurations that were still referencing rooms that either didn’t exist, or have been moved in the new map structure. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential crash in some keybind-implementation code for finding “Accept” buttons, anywhere on the UI, and executing them. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential crash with code that handles player children states and unique Zil children. (Gedan)
• Fixed a crash with a sexdoll in Kiroquest and a Sophora defeat scene where a scene may be entered without passing along the appropriate selected vagina index of the player to use. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential crash with the Gallery and Trade back buttons being double-activated. (Gedan)
• Fixed a crash in some Paige content where the action history wasn’t being passed along properly. (Gedan)
• Fixed some class combat perks being able to activate whilst in Ship combat, causing a crash when they try to apply an attack that doesn’t work against Ship objects. (Gedan)

Gedan: I got lost deep in the mines digging in to some more of the UI state errors; many of these now are split between ‘Oopsy Woopsy, forgot to update this bit of the code to handle the new way things work’, and not being defensive enough about the realities of software running on real devices. A lot of the crashes don’t really make sense easily at first glance, and it takes a while to figure out what the real cause is – and a lot of them have been things like ‘User clicks button, game takes a bit to do a thing, long enough that user can click something else that I never expected them to be able to click, causing the second thing to overwrite part of the first thing and put things in a weird state.’ Part of why I wanted to move to this way of doing things is because it made it much easier to have a hard-error when things like this happened, closer to the point they were actually caused, making it much simpler to figure out what, exactly, was going wrong. At any rate, another batch of them I hope have been slayed, clearing the brush for the next endless set of buggles to stick they heads above the parapet ready for the chop.

Fenoxo: I need help! We didn’t get to test the Kineticist class as hard as I would have liked, particularly on the high end. To address that, I’m unlocking it this patch, but player beware! There may be crashes. There may be broken abilities. There may be a crushing lack of psi-impacting accessories to equip! The high level abilities might be too weak. The mid-level abilities might be to strong. Please only roll a kineticist if you’re okay with all of that and have the time to provide me with some feedback on them. I intend to work on hotfixing some adjustments for them on Sunday or Monday.

 

0.9.067 Hotfix #2:

• Foes do not always get up from trip immediately – the chance now scales with their intelligence and increases every round.
• Telekinetic Warrior attacks now count as “Crushing” damage.
• Improved damage scaling on most higher level kineticist abilities:
  • Concussive Augmentation will scaling 50%->75%
  • Goethermal Spike will scaling 50->75% for thermal and kinetic portions.
  • Acid Cloud will scaling 100->125%
  • Mind Crush scaling 100->150%
  • Psychic Slam scaling 50->75%
  • Gravity Crush scaling 100->250%
• Psychogenic Vim: Improved tooltip, removed activation cost
• Vitality Siphon: Improved tooltip, removed 1/combat restriction.
• Vortex Brand: +5% more damage boost. Fixed miss chance modification on psi attacks.
• Debris Field: Added damage component, added bonus damage to flyers.
• Fixed Entropy Waves’ tooltip.
• Fixed some typos.

0.9.067 Hotfix #1:

• Fixed issues with New Game not properly initializing some UI elements, leading to a crash.
• Fixed the panic/fullscreen buttons being present when they shouldn’t be.
• Fixed Korgonne females crashing when being encountered for fightin’

0.9.067 Changelog:

• [Backers] The Kineticist class can now be created! This psionic character class allows you to start with psionic aptitude and the ability to skewer your foes with pure force, leech away their heat to restore your energy, and more!
  • The kineticist should focus on willpower & intelligence when leveling up. Willpower drives the damage scaling & saving throw difficulty levels, and intelligence powers your to-hit rolls with abilities that can miss.
  • Kineticists should not partake in bimbo content if they wish to be viable – for now. An event to allow low will and/or intelligence kineticists to apply themselves in other ways will be deployed in a future patch.
  • I recommend stocking a weapon with the crushing flag to take advantage of any “Deep Freeze” procs you manage. We need to add some lovely staves with which to break the ice in the future.
  • [Tiny Savin Edit]: There’s a forum thread for feedback on the class! Let us know what you think!
• [Backer] Slavesuit anal scenes.
• [Public] Bimbo Siegwulfe content.
• The “Sundered” condition will now expire if created with a limited duration. (Fenoxo)
• Added and adjusted a great many map icons on and around Tavros station. (lowercase_donkey & Jacques00)
• Added some additional utility to functions governing combat attack output, allowing us to group the results of certain things together in a more logical manner, no matter where and when we calculate the various components that constitute an attack and its resolution. (Gedan)
• Adjusted the Nuki score required to be afflicted by Cum Cascade without explicitly having the relevant perk, as the old trigger number was set based on old racial scoring values and not the newer, higher potential score. (Gedan)
• Adjusted some Rad penalties applied during puzzle failure on Phaedra. (Gedan)
• Adjusted the log event when Blue Balls gets removed; if the player also has Nuki Nuts, there’s a very high chance that both Blue Balls and Nuki Nuts event will fire simultaneously, and they both effectively do the same thing. Blue Balls will still be cleared, but Nuki Nuts will be the only event that makes it to the event log to cut down on spammy events. (Gedan)
• Adjusted Lorelei’s menu to remove allusions that there would be future collar control of the PCs collar here, as it was sketched out long before we settled on having this functionality present as part of the Codex instead. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a great many combat-process interruptions that provided additional options to the player mid-fight. (Gedan)
• Fixed a handful of card-position and formatting errors with various combat attacks. (Gedan)
• Fixed a few oversights with modified combat card output handling that should better handle certain formatting tasks. (Gedan)
• Fixed parser overrides for combat card formatting calls. (Gedan)
• Fixed errant UI state pushes caused by combat interruptions. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential state corruption issue during save loading by injecting a dialog overlay earlier in the process to block additional inputs during asyncronous data loading. (Gedan)
• Fixed some missing vendor icons, and others that should have been hidden at various times. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed “Roshan Blue” not being applied to certain XP sources. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed some room linkages that would be better served as locks instead of one-way paths. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Kanes story process not properly masking out stories that the player has already been told until all stories have been presented. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a crash with setStatusIconShade(). (Jacques00)
• Fixed various submenus from the masturbate menu from causing UI state stack corruption. (Gedan)
• Fixed some potential UI state stack corruption from occuring during the ship purchase/trade flow. (Gedan)
• Fixed some potential UI State stack corruption whilst closing shops. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential instant crash under some browsers failing to handle autoplaying media when the dev aid vaporwave mode had been enabled (by removing the vaporwave mode as it was mostly intended as a proof of concept of how best to include animated content). (Gedan)
• Fixed the spawn rate of Nyrea Betas not being adjusted after certain outcomes with the queen. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed potential navigation issues through various menus with Carrie scenes. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed missing Haley nursery content. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed a Po bad end crash. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed inconsistencies around all of the rooms on the Tavros ResDeck. (lowercase_donkey & Jacques00)
• Fixed crashes with the teleport cheat (mainly by removing the Skip To option as it didn’t make any sense for it to be in the Cheat menu considering what it does differently versus Move To) (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed and adjusted many details relating to SSTDs. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Reaha’s bust configuration so certain states are less likely to overwrite other, more pressing states from being displayed. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Mhorgen being encounterable in the bar before completing the Dhaal dungeon. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Ardia’s give-item menu not always returning to the correct parent menu. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed possible errors with the rotate minigame when displaying the tutorial helper trying to reference certain specific cells in the play area. (Gedan)
• Fixed some scrolling issues when text changes. (Jacques00)
• Fixed some event log issues with mimbranes causing spamming or invalid log entries. (Gedan)
• Fixed Synes menu not backing out to the corrent parent version if not immediately accepting the proffered task. (Gedan)
• Fixed the PC getting statistically buttstuffed during a Syne scene where the PC is stuffing Synes butt. (Gedan)
• Fixed a vew status effects that should have been hidden from not being hidden. (Gedan)
• Fixed the crash handler from skipping version update check cooldowns to determine if a new version was available to prompt for an update on the crash screen, unless at least some time had passed. (Gedan)
• Fixed a crash with Resin Aroma. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a bunch of output formatting for Resin Aroma. (Gedan)
• Fixed the Reload Game button when the game crashes under electron, so it should now properly actually reload the game. (Gedan)
• Fixed Mitch using the incorrect busts during some scenes. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed an inverted test for Air Tight during the Zaika Hazard Troopers aphro-gas attack. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a bunch of calls using penisRouter that may have been causing issues. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed an oversight in the button gating for some Olympia scenes. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a great many typos. (lowercase_donkey & Jaques00)

Smooshed my face into Sentry one more time and stumbled over a few more UI state things that dragged me kicking and screaming to various things that we never got around to fixing up post-AS3, so I chopped into them and figured out a few more crashes and brought back some features we’ve had disabled for a while. The Aliss stuff, now that I’ve figured out a good pattern for how to handle it, will have to be applied to a few other vendors we have around the game that do sorta similar things; I think Busky on New Texas is another candidate for this kinda treatment, but I haven’t looked yet – gotta get da patch out and crack into the rest after.

Fen has been hard at work roping together all of the bits needed for the new class, and it’s coming along by leaps and bounds. The half-complete version that we’ve had chance to play so far is shaping up really well, so a release shouldn’t be too far away.

Back 2 da mines.

0.9.066 Changelog:

• BACKER: Anyxine standing bone scene, available once you’ve been on a date with the self-same bone-haver. (Savin & Gedan)
• BACKER: Mome codex entry – Some background about the Tove homeworld. (Frogapus & Leek)
• BACKER: Paragon Hazard Armor – A new powerarmor source, dropped by Hazard Troopers and available to purchase from Rivet (Leek)
• BACKER: Mia – A bar encounter on Mhen’ga, bump into another traveller who took a shine to the Vanae… (SheepPun & Leek)
• PUBLIC: Eloise, located in the Crash Landing on Dhaal. Why not wander over and see what she’s about? Written by Magenta Needle and coded by Leek.
• PUBLIC: New Penny Scene/Event: Roleplay! Written by William and coded by Leek, this event lets you request Penny jump you for some cop-on-PC roleplay sucky-fucky!
• Added an additional validation step when loading creatures, allowing for the game to ensure certain datastructures are present that may have been removed via save editing, which would ultimately crash the game without thier presence. (Gedan)
• Added additional bust art for Sylvie and Siegwulfe. (Jacques)
• Adjusted the presence of the fullscreen overlay shortcut for various subdisplays. (Jacques)
• Fixed display issues with double goo busts. (Jacques)
• Fixed a reversed virginity check, some unparsed output, missing text clears and a crash in mitch scenes. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed unparsed tags in some rats raiders content. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed an incorrectly implemented test for a lumi defeat scene. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed incorrect parser tags in some malai content. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed an incorrectly configured button not properly continuing to the next scene in a cherry’s wall scene, and a similar case in some Paige content. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed the rest and masturbate menus not properly navigating the UI state stack system. (Gedan)
• Fixed the error handling around the media play calls used to play animated busts/CGs, so that this should no longer trigger a crash under certain browsers where playback is disallowed. (Gedan)
• Fixed and reimplemented the “Try On” options for Aliss’ store, returning all of them to existence under the Inspect menu. Additionally, the Buy button that is surfaced as part of this will push the item in question into the shopping cart and return to the Shop interface rather than immediately completing a transaction, as well as fixing UI state stack navigation for the Try On scenes, as well as the event triggered via Aliss’ lust. (Gedan)
• Fixed a handful of pathways where a flag related the farrowquest could potentially be unset or invalid, safely reconfiguring it toward an expected value rather than crashing. (Gedan)
• Fixed the teleport cheat not triggering a UI state stack navigation to occur, leaving additional states in the stack. (Gedan)
• Fixed potential crash issues with hasCockType() when it is called with potentially invalid index values. Some of these tweaks have been applied to a handful of other cock-based functions to handle a similar gap in the usual logic we used in the past to ensure these were executed safely. (Gedan)
• Fixed some old AS3-era UI calls that still existed in the combat code that were no longer nessecery, and were potentially injecting additional states into the UI state stack that didn’t need to exist. (Gedan)
• Fixed a few potential crashes when leaving the Options menu via certain toggles that would immediately close the display through a non-standard pathway. (Jacques)