I have remained focused on digging through crashes that we’ve collected through Sentry. The neat part of having such a system ticking over in the background is the ability to see the impact that fixing these crashes is having in terms of total-issues; things are definitely heading in the right direction, and we’re basically down to only having a volume of somewhat rare but annoyingly complicated issues to track down – there’s still quite a few of them, all told, but no massive outliers in terms of tripping people up near constantly. It’s also real handy for figuring out what extra info we need to properly tackle solving a problem, so I’ve been shoving in some extra logging of various variables when certain errors get tripped so that I can hone in on exactly where a problem is coming from in the future.

That said I’ll probably be swinging back to looking at the forum issues again this week now that Sentry is looking much lighter in terms of hard-crashes.

Now I’m fuckin’ exhausted, so I’m gonna go die in bed whilst the builds are cooking. The new versions should be up within half an hour – normally I’d wait to post the patch notes until the builds complete but I ain’t gonna be hanging around for that today!

0.9.065 Changelog:

• BACKER: Mitch can now be given gifts, specifically, the gift of vagizzle and boobona. Or dongles. Up to you! (Wheatly & lowercase_donkey)
• PUBLIC: New “Wall” character in Cherry’s Taphall: the Bull. Written by Reathe and Magenta Needle, coded by Leek.
• PUBLIC: Have you ever wanted to meet up with Mhorgenn again? In a bar? Well now you can, after meeting her on Dhaal she’ll be showing in the crash landing going forward. Written by Sil and coded by Gedan.
• PUBLIC: A new mini-boss encounter is available on Phaedra II, written by Magenta Needle. It features the tag-team of Selene and Neil, a semi-treated Thraggen with his mutant Rahn “slave”. They come with fourish win scenes and another fourish loss scenes AND a bad end. It’s also a pretty challenging fight, so for now they’re confined to one tagged square and respawn after three hours – but once I break the Phaedra encounters in the plains into sub-zones they’ll be part of the random encounters in a sub-area…
• Fixed Siegwulfe being able to offer the collaring process without being in the correct mode, or even a crewmember. (Gedan)
• Fixed (potentially) some issues around animated media being played on some browsers. (Gedan)
• Fixed the potential for tracking functions used by the achievement system to sometimes execute whilst a save is being loaded, resulting in potentially invalid objects being navigated and crashing. (Gedan)
• Fixed sleep is not defined crash on some electron platforms. (Gedan)
• Fixed a few more interface buttons not properly debouncing input actions. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential crash with vaginalPuffiness when given invalid arguments, likely to happen in scenes that use vagRouter where the provided index could be the butt indicator rather than vagina index. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential crash relating to ballFullness calculations with weird body setup combinations. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential crash when navigating internal map data in the teleport cheat UI. (Gedan)
• Fixed Stelle scenes to use correct cock, fix possible collar crash. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a paige function’s arguments. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed vagina description that could dump a long list of descriptions instead of just picking one. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed breast description missing nouns in some cases. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Maja scene that players could enter with an invalid cock. Added a new error message that should help us track down more of these. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed for Dhaal CEO crashes in some cases. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed art used for post combat scenes with the zaika peers, should show pets now. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed the usual spread of typos. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed bust gallery not always respecting a defined artist override when paging through busts. (Jacques)
• Fixed display process used to generate and render shopkeeper interaction blurbs, ensuring it should be stable. (Jacques)
• Fixed calculator rotation shadows. (Jacques)
• Adjusted bubblegum theme colours. (Jacques)
• Added a display option for a grayscale filter overlay. (Jacques)
• Added some explicit crashes around breastRow management in the hopes it will help track down the true source of a (very) rare crash. (Gedan)
• Added some additional logging and errors around some ballFullness math to help track down the true source of a (very) rare crash. (Gedan)

Hotfixed my bumblefuck causing a “Cannot read properties of undefined” error when Experimental Undo was enabled.

Crankin out this weeks patch on schedule for a change. Wow! Everybody has been kinda busy over the last week, but the fixes have been coming regardless; there might be less of them, but it’s because we’ve been spending time trying to crack into bigger and more difficult to solve problems. Sentry has proven real nice for hunting down some troublesome and weird issues and it feels like we’re finally cresting the top of the wave in terms of broken shit still lingering from the porting process.

Same time next week, hopefully!

0.9.064 Changelog:

• BACKERS: Siegwulfe has had an expansion for her dom/bimbo path, adding a new repeatable scene as well as a collaring event (for the PC), and an option to ride back to your ship underslung. (Azthra & Gedan)
• PUBLIC: Emese, the cat mommy (written by Doots), can be found on Uveto’s main street. (Doots & Leek)
• PUBLIC: Sisterly Ruuing by William: With both Anno and Syri as crew members, and after both have acquired their maid costumes, players with a penis can trigger a new random event by simply boarding their ship in which the two Dornas tempt you with the prospect of domming them both in bed. Which of the two siblings gets to be first? (William & Leek)
• PUBLIC: New encounter on Phaedra: the Kihan Armature. It happens in a specific location on the way northwards in the east half of the map. This peaceful encounter will give you a little lore and set you up for the next piece of content…
• Fixed a parser crash with Dhaal dungeon parser tags.
• Fixed Penny’s sexmenu blowing up.
• Fixed Penny’s old roleplay scene going mia.
• Fixed Penny’s new roleplay scene clashing with the old scene button, and is listed as “Surprise Roleplay”.
• Fixed a crash with flash goggles. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed the unintended availability of hardlight usage for a Dez anal scene that resulted in a crash. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a bunch of bugs around Synvanol that could erroneously drop important arguments. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a rarely encountered crash with nukaPsykers. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a few unparsed tags and variants in Neil scenes, Tarratch Slaver scenes and Codex entries. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a bug allowing for the purchase more GaloMax than intended from Sera. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed inconsistencies with cowScore() checks. (Jacques)
• Fixed some Shalin Shaman scene openers not properly presenting genitalia selection options to the player, potentially allowing selection of a dongue that is not too large for the scenes to continue. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed the event queue from being erroneously serialized when saving game-state. (Gedan)
• Fixed some instances of amazonian race overriding other race checks for the purposes of scene variations. (Jacques)
• Fixed Frostwyrm scenes not properly identifying the players race. (Jacques)
• Fixed a title naming bug with Bess allowing multiple titles to be stacked up inappropriately. (Jacques)
• Fixed some Eloise bugs. (Jacques)

HOTFIX UPDATE: Pushed out some fixes to handle lots of little crashbugs that cropped up in this weeks build. It’s using the same version number so that people accessing backer builds from links on Patreon/Sponsus should just be able to hit those links again and get updated builds without needing Fen around to posts new links on those sites! By the time you can see this message, those links should provide you with hotfix build #3552 or higher.

Lotsa fixes in the codemines this week. Fenoxo has been deep in working through polishing up the latest and greatest phaedra stuff, but he’s off on a trip to see family over the weekend – I’m getting the patch out and ready for him to swing by later and sprinkle a little extra detail in the post and make the requisite supporter-site posts to make sure people have access.

I’ve been smashing my face into testing some more annoying error reports to try and replicate things; there’s been a few little things I’ve tossed in the bucket to clean minor things up but I’ve been struggling to duplicate some things that we’ve had reported. Never underestimate how useful it is when reporting an issue on the forums to also include a copy of your save; not only does it save us a lot of time recreating the correct flag state to have access to whatever content is being problematic, it ensures everything is in a similar state and lets us dig out what the true cause is rather than having to make educated guesses sometimes!

Until next week!

Hotfixed 0.9.061, builds #3552 and up changelog:

• Added an option to enable the legacy sidebar layout. (Jacques)
• Adjusted size of status effect icons for control overlay and legacy UI layouts for better readability. (Jacques)
• Adjusted the Myr Venom disabled button tooltip after defeating the Kui-Tan miniboss as part of Malai Quest to better communicate what you need to be able to use it. (Gedan)
• Fixed an unparsed variable branch in Siegewulfe content. (Jacques)
• Fixed a leaky italic tag in Tainter Rusher content. (Jacques)
• Fixed Dr. Badger lab access being available too early. (Jacques)
• Fixed a button layout issue with the Treatment cheat options. (Jacques)
• Fixed “invalid attempt to iterate non-iterable instance” crashes relating to mimbranes in combat. (Gedan)
• Fixed a sidebar crash issue. (Jacques)
• Fixed a lot of other potential leaky and otherwise broken or incorrectly nested italics tags across all game content. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed crash whilst exploring the ZS mines level. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed spacing bug in foot descriptions. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Warbot softlock after victory. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a bunch of inconsistencies spread all across the UI implementation style. (Jacques)
• Fixed missing lift icons on the Great Majin map. (Jacques)
• Fixed player bust from unexpectedly appearing in the codex if navigating from there. (Jacques)
• Fixed ramis fuck sequencing not properly updating the response value to generate the proper buttons. (Gedan)
• Fixed paige sleepwith crash. (Gedan)
• Fixed Feruze taxi fight crash. (Gedan)

0.9.061 Changelog:

• BACKER: The ancient warbot is be encounterable on Phaedra. The encounter rate is tied to your reputation with the local Kihan faction, that is adjusted by your reactions during your first landing and Syne’s quest (so far). This is a non-smut battle with salvage drops for cash, one of which only drops on the first encounter and can be shown to Anno or Olympia.
• PUBLIC: Anyxine’s date is now available for public consumption.
• Lots more backend code cleanup and unification has been happening across a great many areas of the game and content. This is mostly a slow grind of cleaning up linting warnings which are proving useful to find areas of code that might be problematic.(lowercase_donkey)
• Lots of duplicate implementations and mirrored functions have been cleaned up. (lowercase_donkey)
• Added new tile formatting for irradated rooms. (Jacques)
• Added some enhanced movement systems for ships to speed up leaving and entering ships the player owns. (Jacques)
• Added an option to automatically roll out the bust to the large view if the minimap is already rolled out but navigation is currently disabled, allowing the two to switch places with each other somewhat automatically. (Jacques)
• Added contectual icon changes to the in and out navigation buttons for if and when their target rooms are locked. (Jacques)
• Added extra options to the teleport cheat to allow quick travel to various areas of the players ship from anywhere else. (Jacques)
• Fixed potential disparities between gates in Narc content with her observations. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix bugged sandworm rate on Tarkus again. Sandworms now have one entry on the encounter table at normal, and 2x for high.  It seemed too high in the past so we nerfed the rate. However, this was because of a lurking bug where normal and high rates were both calculated as high. Compared to older patches this is both a buff and a nerf, meaning a 2x rate for high players and normal players unchanged. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed an issue with Quickdraw closing an interface earlier than it should have when switching weapons. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix for code being printed in Anno thraggen, kihan armature scenes, and some ZS descriptions.  (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed some issues with bodypart descriptions, removed “and” from cock descript outputs, typo in ball counts. (Jacques)
• Fixed bust for the Moodast Gruss, and tweaked a lot of the image offsets and positions for ship busts. (Jacques)
• Fixed missing shower clean to a Naomi scene. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed hasSnakeByte property not found crash in Verusha content. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix for “the wall” where femboi anal option’s availability was reversed. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed DeployableTurret not having a proper description and improve its various names and components for improved use in combat. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed issues with shield damage text. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed typo with the “Cushioned” status effect. (Jacques)
• Fixed cropping issues with the Warbot and Hyrax busts. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed shock collar status effect. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed missing colour for the liferoot pollen effect. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed and cleaned up a lot of things with the hyrax raider, improving the bikes reactions in combat, combat attacks not handling the presence of NPC allies well consistently, tuned the damage, gave status effects save chances, applied cooldowns and improved AI. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed issues with lust resistance output in combat. (Jacques)
• Fixed some ship stats and display issues. (Jacques)
• Fixed a softlock when using Soak. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed “sceneSeen” undefined crash with Mitch. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed pudding panic encounters on the rust coast. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix for Kiro’s talk buttons not being grayed out correctly where they have been recently chosen. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fix crash for cumflation where the player was pregnant and could not truly be cumflated. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Leyak’s appearing gendered in some scenes. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed attack text issues with the tainted rusher. (lowercase_donkey)
• Dr Badger’s lab (not the shop, the inner room) is in the basement according to the writes, but our map tech had it floating in the sky as though its head was empty… thoughtless… Not a care in the world. Buried it back underground. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed “o[(0, A.TN)(…)] is not a constructor”. (lowercase_donkey)
• The usual assortment of typos have been eradicated. (lowercase_donkey, Jacques)
• Fix for Extrameet on planets with no content. (lowercase_donkey)
• Some tweaks to old icewyrm scenes with B’s help due to player feedback. (lowercase_donkey)
• We often use curly quotes for dialog in the game. Some of these curled the wrong way, now they don’t. This is very serious; the world must know. (lowercase_donkey)