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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)

Hey all, another week has come and gone, and another TiTS patch has come due. This time we have juicy new backer-only content in the form of the Soaked Raskvel! Can Captain Steele survive the depredations of another horny alien? Will she manage to make it back to the ship unspoiled, or stagger back every bit as dripping and satisfied as the raskvel she just met?

Her (or his!) fate is in your hands~!

Of course, the public crowd gets a treat too – the GravCuffs scene for the firepup (Corana Lord Flamer), and a nuki’-load worth of improvements to various systems across the breadth of the game: new item icons, better handling of hyper-sized menus, micro-minimap mode, and general stability improvements, to list a few. A more comprehensive breakdown in the notes below, if you fancy a glance into the mind of resident code-dragon extraordinaire, Gedan.

If that’s not enough, how about a preview of things to come? I’m going to drop another patch (hopefully by Monday, against the wishes of my betters), that will expand the explorable area of Phaedra II with the first real chunks of its permanent rooms, leading up to a plot-NPC and micro-dungeon Savin has had on the back-burner for a while. I just have a tricky status effect problem to figure out, some repeatable sex scenes to wire up, and a few hours of testing & cleanup to do on it for next week.

0.9.057:

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  Proper art for the Soaked Raskvel is on the way, but for now, you’ll have to use your imagination and this low-rez preview of her sex-scene bust, as sketched by Adjatha.

  BACKER: A Soaked Up Raskvel is now encounterable on Tarkus in the Rust Plains and Rust Ridges biomes – at level 8 or above. (Altair Hayes & Leek)

• PUBLIC: The firepup has a new scene that requires a set of GravCuffs. (William & Leek)
• Added multi-page button chunking to a few more menus spread around the game. (Jacques & lowercase_donkey)
• Added item icons for bikini-type items. (Jacques)
• Added another minimap mode for a micro-display of the map, exposed under Controls in the options menu. This moves the minimap to the area that the bust is nominally displayed on the sidebar, whilst the bust display is rolled out to its larger format. (Jacques)
• Added the Classy flag to a few more clothing items, where it makes sense for the item to be such. (Jacques)
• Added number formatting to the Reproduction stats display. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed vendors who previously bought Gadget items should now also purchase Salvage items, after some old Gadget items were converted to Salvage. (Jacques)
• Fixed the kitty trio credit cost being applied on the first encounter with them. (Gedan)
• Fixed hasFangs error and expanded the list of face types that count as having fangs. (Jacques)
• Fixed a few issues around button paging generation systems. (Jacques)
• Fixed some implementation issues around Paige’s scene mesh so that they better cooperate with how the genitalRouter methods pass arguments around behind the scenes. Similar tweaks have been made to a few other characters scenes (Kiro, Pexiga and Ramis the main other offenders), but Paige stands out as having the most potential scenes impacted by the issue by a long way. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed an issue with a Penny scene where automatic genital selection can fail and present an invalid index to a following scene. (Gedan)
• Fixed a common issue with failing to close italics tags after a double-quote that follows a parenthesis. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed some backend issues relating to item icons used by the inventory system to make them apply more correctly and automatically. (Jacques & lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a variety of issues relating to the SVG Mannequin, which should fix some focus loss issues and reduce the volume of re-renders that needed to happen in the past of the whole UI, as well as helping clean up some value-stability issues that were occasionally impacting players. (Jacques & Gedan)
• Fixed a few armor and clothing items that had an inconsistent typing. (Jacques)
• Fixed removeVaginaLocked() issue. (Jacques)
• Fixed inconsistent colour data and presentation used across a lot of items behind the scenes, moving these items to using a shared “library” of color information and ordering. (lowercase_donkey & Jacques)
• Fixed more potential issues with the modal button debounce method, replacing it with a means of only allowing a single activation of each button per render of the UI. (Gedan)
• Fixed possible rendering issues and offsets with busts displayed in combat. (Jacques)
• Fixed bust image offsets not being properly applied to the image gallery preview images. (Jacques)
• Fixed a bunch of typos. (The Usual Suspects)