UPDATE: Got a few solid fixes to handle some issues that have come up as part of the new storage limits, shoving them out of the door earlier than otherwise so we can see if there’s another layer of problems hiding below the immediate ones! Update should allow more flexibility with ship storage limits when moving items around, and this should hopefully provide (the start) of a full fix for weird UI display loops doing weird things.

I’m still bouncing back and forth between being ill and not quite so bad, but I spent most of the week digging into deeply annoying bugs that have been lingering for a couple of weeks, on top of piles of things that recent reworks have caused. I’ve barely been able to keep up with the report volume for the last couple of weeks as it is, but this past week has been especially bad so I’ve put everybody on notice – no more reworks until the bug backlog is looking much, much healthier. There’s a couple of important things that need to get fixed, and I want to be able to focus on them rather than worrying about treading water with a couple of bigly fucko bugs being introduced because I blinked and didn’t meticulously review every line of every pull request.

DZ and Jacques have jumped in pretty hard to start chopping back some of the more volumous reports, and it’s given me an opportunity to fish out some rather annoying fuckos that took a while to root around and find the true cause of. Leek also came in clutch with dropping the system required for us to support animations; namely, a system to support video embeds just like our existing image embedding scheme. There’ll likely be some more work put towards this to further tune it, but for now there’s a handful of scenes that we have animations for that are finally wired up!

Back 2 da mines.

0.9.050:

• Added a cheat to enable “infinite” storage for location and ship storage inventories. (Gedan)
• Added a lot more polish to the entire video/animation system, including: Scaling, Autoplay configuration, Image viewer support, Playback controls. (Jacques)
• Fixed UI state changes between different displays by using a fully detailed stack of displays and associated settings required to return to them. This has nessecitated removing a lot of special casing from the old way state transitions were handled, and some of it may still remain which is likely to cause issues. (Gedan)
• Fixed potential softlocks with the new ship storage inventory limits by allowing more flexibility when the ship storage is overloaded; you can now accept trades whilst ship storage is overfull to allow you to move items bit by bit rather than needing to complete a singular trade that would leave both your personal inventory and ship inventory at or under their respective limits. (Jacques)
• Fixed Leyak not being considered unique in combat. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed the formatting for nursery computer list output to better match list formatting used elsewhere in the game. (Jacques)
• Fixed some issues with the Big Green Potion, including relaxing the skin color checks slightly. (Jacques)
• Fixed Hrad race score labelling. (Jacques)
• Fixed clarity on the level up screen. (Jacques)
• Fixed the trade summary screen with ship inventory not displaying the correct slot counts that are actually in-use. (Gedan)

0.9.049:

• BACKER: The firepup has a new scene that requires a set of GravCuffs. (William & Leek)
• PUBLIC: A Cyber Punk-modded Clydesdale K7 I’ve been calling the Cyberdale. Guess what? It uses the holographic duplicate system! She’ll surrender if you pop her mirrored images and drop her shields, but you can always ignore them to take out her armor. Comes with two new victory sex scenes! (This encounter requires Zheng Shi’s coordinates to be unlocked in order to occur.) (Fenoxo)
• Added support for video embeds. (Leek)
• Added a bunch of animations that we’ve collected over the years to a variety of scenes, namely Maja, Bianca.
• Added support for in-game emails to support embedded images. (Leek)
• Added better visibility to stat totals in the level up screen. (Fenoxo)
• Rebalanced resolve so that it no longer boosts max willpower. (Fenoxo)
• Rebalanced the counter rate of the Kashima event. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed nursery computer ‘undefined character’ crash. (Jacques)
• Fixed additional buttons in Ilaria menus. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed Kaede sex menu buttons missing. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed custom bet issues with blackjack. (Jacques)
• Fixed a few blackjack hand vs house winning issues. (Jacques)
• Fixed a handful of issues with text input elements and when they are displayed and removed. (Jacques)
• Fixed the win/loss count for blackjack hands and enhanced legibility of values. (Jacques)
• Fixed tease combat crash. (Jacques)
• Fixed “Lust Staggered” crash. (Jacques)
• Fixed outfit visibility checks. (Jacques)
• Fixed “isAndroidBrowser” crash. (Jacques)
• Fixed RatsRaiders crash. (Gedan)
• Fixed a crash that can sometimes happen when loading a game relating to achievement historical tracking. (Gedan)
• Fixed a bunch of missing Sera busts. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a few crashes in some Punk SpecOps scenes. (Gedan & lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed incorrect handling of permanent flying status for a handful of enemy types. (Gedan)
• Fixed removeStatusByRef ship crashes. (Gedan)
• Fixed Zaika Ganger menu buttons not properly clearing. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed the Clear button not being very… clear on the custom bust image editor. (Jacques)
• Fixed a Tarratch Slaver buttfuck scene crash. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed a broken room in the myrellion caves that blew up the autopathing system. (Gedan)
• Fixed ship storage limits not being properly applied. (Gedan)
• Fixed Sturm and Drang using a base ranged attack implementation instead of a base melee attack implementation. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed the bonus from Boundless Reserves. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed the “Nake” player gender issue. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed some issues with the combat tease menu button generation system. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a potential crash relating to “childNodes” that can happen when mashing a keybind to open an inventory display and a key that would navigate the inventory at the same time. (Gedan)
• Fixed completing malai quest not unlocking the additional scenes as expected. (Gedan)
• Fixed Sera’s Sterilix option being available too early. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed porn studio name brands on Reaha, Sera and Mitzi. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed Jasvalla not handling neuter players by disabling encounters with Jasvalla while a neuter*. This will be rectified better when we have opportunity to rework the scenes to better handle this eventuality. (DrunkZombie)
• Fix for a rare Nuka crash that happens if a previous encounter was not cleaned up properly (isTainted is not a function). (lowercase donkey)
• Fixed a bunch of typos and italics bleeds all over the place. (Jacques, lowercase_donkey & DrunkZombie)

I’ve been in and out of hospital a bunch over the last couple weeks and it’s thrown me off track a bit – nothing super serious but enough to need to make me drag my ass there. Sure do love sitting my ass in waiting rooms for a couple of hours at a time, twiddling my thumbs!!! Everybody else has been hard at the grindstone in my absence though, so there’s plenty of fixes to go around.

What little time I’ve had to focus has been rifling through annoying bugs and reports for shitty handling of things on different platforms. A lot of these turn into “No Good Answers” problems, so morph into a challenge of thinking up some bullshit to work around the issue and make things at least usable. Big shout out to Android browsers here for doing weird shit with overlapping elements throwing off our positional calculations for the page.

Fen has been fishing through combat code and rebalancing things as part of laying down code for new perks and levels, fixing up annoying little issues that have cropped up over time with how we’ve ended up implementing a lot of combat attacks in practice. Point of fact, that’s what most of us have kind of been doing this week; rifling through combat stuff and cleaning up lots of little bits and pieces here and there that have stacked up over time.

Back to da mines!

0.9.048:

• Walking around on New Texas should no longer crash due to a misconfigured feature flag on the newer cow-girl encounter.

0.9.047:

• BACKER: Anno can introduce you to a trio of kitty cats when boarding your ship at Tavros station once you have met Urbolg, adding a new repeatable fap scene. (William & Leek)
• PUBLIC: There’s a new extrameet scene variant for some Kaede and Anno funtimes. (Savin & Gedan)
• PUBLIC: Bizzy has a couple of extra scenes, one some solo action and a few involving Reaha. (Nonesuch & Leek)
• Added additional clarity when taking actions via the inventory. (Jacques)
• Added an icon for skintight/underlayer armor. (Jacques)
• Added scanlines behind big item images. (Jacques)
• Rebalanced how blindMiss was implemented, effectively removing it as a seperate step in the combat calculation flow, thus allowing blind status effects to more consistently be applied. (Fenoxo)
• Rebalanced how status effects are processed for combat, aligning the processing step with how general status effects are handled and also hopefully scraping a bit more performance out of combat processing at the same time. This process also likely fixed some lingering/hidden issues with some combat effect processing that have gone unreported, but it has also probably introduced entirely new fun bugs as well! Whee! (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed verbiage and application of gas grenade damage when used against the player. (lowercase_donkey & Fenoxo)
• Fixed GaloMax softlock. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed an errant unimplemented text variant in a Sophora scene. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a lot of errant variable shadowing issues behind the scenes. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed many typos throughout the Hyrax content (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed typo in Twist the Knifes perk description. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed a variety of issues relating to the additional buttons displayed on the main menu for fullscreen & panic mode. (Jacques)
• Fixed some layout issues relating to Android browser page rendering by forcibly moving the entire game UI out from under being overlapped by the address bar. Fullscreen mode is the intended means to work around the remaining layout issues whilst we investigate the true causes of a few other overlapped-by-system-component issues. (Jacques & Gedan)
• Fixed a variety of issues with Zaalts attack implementations. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed how damage stacking works with Power Strike. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed errant text formatting issues with Low Blow. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed a variety of typos throughout the spreadsheet panic screen. (Jacques)
• Fixed NPC auto-orgasms from being tracked before the player has met the NPC in question. (Jacques)
• Fixed a variety of lingering issues with the Grey Goo armor. Subscenes and features that were disabled as part of the port have been re-enabled, removing the Undroppable and Unsellable flags – if she is discarded, she can be reacquired on Myrellion via a random bar event or via Anno’s store. (Jacques)
• Fixed typo in icon selection for acessory items. (Jacques)
• Fixed some layout issues with the Achievement and Credit display screens. (Jacques)
• Fixed crashes with the Tarratch Slaves. (Lighterflud)
• Fixed potential Flash-to-JS imported save issues with broken ship weapon configurations. Ships with broken weapons should fix themselves. (Gedan)
• Fixed crashes with the Akkadi Security Robots and the Target Link ability. (Gedan)
• Fixed crashes with the Zaika Hazard Trooper. (Gedan)
• Fixed text generation issues with the Zaika Hazard Troopers shield-break state. (Gedan)
• Fixed issues with Bess/Ben’s title selection menu. (Gedan)
• Fixed Extrameet codex entries being missing. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed typos with the Easter Jumper. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed missing virginity counts. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed Kattom being able to show up on Phaedra. (Gedan)
• Fixed inconsistencies with the implementation of Vaulting Strike. The cooldown should now be appropriately tracked as a combat effect, as well as have a one-round cooldown, as indicated by the perk text. (Gedan)
• Fixed some border display issues with the control overlay button graphics. (Jacques)
• Fixed a typo in a flag tracking some Vanae content. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a typo in a flag tracking some Shou content. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed the ordering of Vaulting Strike and Sturm und Drang so that the perks better fit the columns they are presented in the level up screen as part of. (Gedan)
• Fixed typos in many places. (DrunkZombie, lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a flipped Lust/HP victory variant descriptor with the Tarratch Slavers. (Gedan)

Another weird week for me. I cranked a lot of hours out over the last couple of weekends to slam time into improving the state of mobile device input, testing shit on actual devices – which is timeconsuming as fuck when it goes smoothly, and an outright pain in the ass when things aren’t going according to plan. I’ve been paying for it this week though. Started off slow, and then by the time I got up to speed and ready to get my fingers into a handful of the outstanding issues we still had with the control overlay… Jacques had already beat me to it, so I’ve just resigned myself to dealing with back-of-house shit and talking through bugs when people were asking me stuff.

Leek has been in da mines and chopping through more Phaedra stand-up content though, and Fen has started working through the first blob of stuff to properly flesh Phaedra out, starting with a bunch of effort to ship mechanics, fixing a few oversights and expanding the rudimentary stuff we had in a few places, getting it ready for more elaborate things to come.

TiTS 0.9.045 Changelog:

• BACKER: Started implementing the parts of the proper Phaedra landing events. (Fenoxo)
• BACKER: Shalin & Hyrax can now be encountered on Phaedra. (Nonesuch & Leek)
• PUBLIC: Anno’s off-screen encounter with a Thraggen now has an actual scene rather than being behind closed doors (Professor Poprocks & lighterfluid)
• PUBLIC: Tarratch Slavers are now roaming Mhen’ga for the public builds. (Nonesuch & lighterfluid)
• Added greater awareness of combat state to enemy ship AI, allowing them to better select which weapons to use. (Fenoxo)
• Added additional settings to the control overlay, allowing it to be moved, resized and to change its appearance for better accessibility. (Jacques)
• Added some additional breast shapes to the mannequin bust to aid with size transitions. (Jacques)
• Added some sorting to option entries in the options menus. (Jacques)
• Fixed the position-targetting code used for status effect tooltips to work better in multi-enemy fights by disambiguating the targeted elements id. (Jacques)
• Fixed some ship combat-only status effects not being cleared when combat ends. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed a crash during character creation relating to the new control overlay. (Jacques)
• Fixed a handful of instances where the control overlay remains present when movement is otherwise not available. (Jacques)
• Fixed forcibly opening the large mapview not always properly minimizing the big bust display, leading to a failure to display the larger minimap. (Jacques)
• Fixed a handful of older checks for a variety of “aphrodisiac tongue” that were hard-wired to search for specific sub-triggers, rather than using a now more encompassing check. (Jacques)
• Fixed the layout of the status effect display which should help when many effects are being displayed. (Jacques)
• Fixed animation toggles for various UI components not respecting the configured option. (Jacques)
• Fixed “Unknown Artist” from appearing in the artist priority list. (Jacques)
• Fixed a few issues with image paths in the image manifest. (Jacques)
• Fixed appearance display for multi-cocked characters. (Jacques)
• Fixed ship missile bays using awkward phrasing for attacking. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed combat text vanishing when fighting NymFoe, when the “Bouncy!” effect blocks a basic attack. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Quinns pregnancy bust display. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed an issue with the multi-stage combat Feruze uses when the player is using a weapon that has the BYPASS_SHIELD damage flag, end-running around how the triggers operate to move the staged fight along. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed some Sela busts being missing. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Ilaria never displaying her preg bust. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a handful of issues with the myr deserter. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a reversed check with the Zheng Shi elevator block. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed a scene gating issue with Sophora that could result in crashes. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed the mannequin bust containing some duplicate path data. (Jacques)
• Fixed hiding the control overlay not always hiding both the D-Pad and the in/out buttons. (Jacques)

UPDATE: Turns out I didn’t actually set the feature flag to enable the control overlay in release builds. Oops!

Jacques and I spent a lot of time prototyping and refining a better means of handling input on smaller touch-screen devices over the last 2 weeks; it’s why we didn’t patch last week. I’ve poured all my energy into cooking up potentials and testing them on actual devices to get incrementally closer to a better solution than we had, and Jacques has been an absolute monster for cleaning up my prototype efforts and turning them into something that doesn’t make me want to scoop my eyeballs out.

We ultimately landed on two potentials; an overlay of “fake” buttons that looks a bit like a traditional game controller D-Pad, and something much more abstract that would just sit over top of the big rolled out version of the map. They both have their upsides and downsides, and ultimately we’ve put all our energy into the control overlay as our primary option.

Essentially, the sidebar is simply too small to work on touch-screen devices with smaller resolutions, so after a bunch of back and forth and testing, we’ve implemented a slightly different layout for the sidebar that is only active on small touch-screen devices. Right now, this is any device that reports it is an iPhone or Android device, and has a screen resolution below 400 pixels in either direction. This seemed to be a decent tipping point between the devices I had to hand, where I had no problems using the new UI on a mid-size Android tablet, but struggled a lot on a small iPhone SE 2nd Gen. As part of making the layout different to have larger buttons, we had to cut the smaller minimap in this mode entirely, which means the only option on smaller screen devices is going to be the big, rolled out minimap going forward.

To facilitiate this, we designed the control overlay to sit reasonably well around the active room in the big minimap, and then made a bunch of attempts to make it easy to switch between minimap and bust viewer. As a one-time deal, loading older saves into this version will forcibly flip a bunch of related settings to make the game appear as we have intended this work to present itself with a fresh character; making the big minimap rollout happen by default mostly, and enabling the control overlay option by default when the Small Device test passes. These settings should only flip on older saves, so if you really do not like or need the control overlay, you can turn it off in the control options, and instead use larger buttons in the sidebar for movement.

We think this is the best hybrid between having a consistent UI across all devices, and still being easily usable on devices that were having issues with how small a lot of important controls were. We’re gonna wait for feedback on this before we decide if we should implement any other options like the quadrant-based navigation.

TiTS 0.9.044 Changelog:

• Fixed NOT ACTUALLY SETTING THE FEATURE FLAG for the control overlay, so it’s actually present in release builds. (Gedan, weeping)
• Fixed a room on the top floor of Zheng Shi that linked to The Void. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed lust values not displaying properly via outputDamage(). (Jacques)
• Fixed missing tooltips for a porn button. (Jacques)
• Fixed a possible means of squeezing past SmallDeviceMode with weird userAgents. (Gedan)
• Fixed a variety of UI elements displaying too early when in character creation. (Jacques)
• Fixed Geoff/Arties bust causing crashes. (Gedan & Jacques)
• Fixed another means that the new layout couldn’t force itself into place on devices that require it. (Jacques)

TiTS 0.9.043 Changelog:

• PUBLIC: A new ship item has been added; the Holo Mirror system. For now it’s available from Synphia on Uveto. This once-per combat gadget creates 1-3 holographic duplicates of your vessel to soak up enemy attacks. The number of duplicates is based on your ship’s system’s score, making it basically useless to potentially a life-saver depending on your loadout.. (Fenoxo)
• BACKERS: A Cyber Punk-modded Clydesdale K7 I’ve been calling the Cyberdale. Guess what? It uses the holographic duplicate system! She’ll surrender if you pop her mirrored images and drop her shields, but you can always ignore them to take out her armor. Comes with two new victory sex scenes! (This encounter requires Zheng Shi’s coordinates to be unlocked in order to occur.) (Fenoxo)
• PUBLIC: Added a new extended worship bad end event for Lund, unlocked after you perform the existing worship event at least once (William & Gedan)
• Added an image viewer modal to give a simple popover for viewing images. (Jacques)
• Added the text-embedded percentage bar to the Fall of the Phoenix events. (Jacques)
• Added the ability for the internal race scoring functions to return partial score checks, allowing for scaling tests rather than mutually exclusive independant tests. (Gedan)
• Added a Compare toggle to the ship inspect screen. (Jacques)
• Added better support for multiple busts to the image viewer. (Jacques)
• Added a new option that displays the underlying raw and overlaid modification values for stats in the stat bars. (Jacques)
• Added default shapes for the foreground bust shapes to hand with starting animation transitions in the generated bust viewer. (Jacques)
• Added a button overlay that can overlap portions of the UI to provide a more capable input environment on small touch screen devices. This overlay is positioned and sized to overlap the big, rolled out view of the map. This overlay is only enabled automatically on small touch-screen devices, but can be enabled or disabled manually in the control options. (Jacques & Gedan)
• Added a slightly different secondary layout for the sidebar with slightly larger buttons, organized differently. Unfortunately the small map view had to be sacrficied for us to fit this in. This layout is only intended to be active on small device screens. (Jacques & Gedan)
• Added a subroutine specifically for ship combat AI to use misc. gadgets. Previously there was only offensive and healing gadget routines. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed some images not being hidden with image displays are disabled in options. (Jacques)
• Fixed more nipple length value issues in the appearance screen. (Jacques)
• Fixed some other potential rounding issues with other values in the appearance screen. (Jacques)
• Fixed Decoration type items not being considered as part of the Valuable category. (Jacques)
• Fixed Myr Venom not working on the Kui-Tan boss as part of Malai Quest. (Jacques)
• Fixed Gryvain scoring to remove some issues with mutually exclusive point grants. (Gedan)
• Fixed the Half-race scoring boundaries relating to Gryvain, so new PCs that pick the Gryvain option should always start off as half-gryvain as intended. (Gedan)
• Fixed the isHuman() test to use a comparitive score rather than an arbitrary boundary. (Gedan)
• Fixed a crash in KaraQuest2 when leaving her up on the sniper tower. (Gedan)
• Fixed some crashes with hasSheath(). (Gedan)
• Fixed an incorrect parser tag that was querying the player instead of an enemy jumper. (Gedan)
• Fixed pressAcceptCancel() crashing via unsafely accessing button labels when searching for a potential button to activate. (Gedan)
• Fixed Feline score not querying for the presence of a genital before trying to score its type. (Gedan)
• Fixed Demon score referencing a type that isn’t nominally available as part of Demon TFs, an incorrect leg type/hooves description, and added a tongue type test that is part of the Demon TFs. (Gedan)
• Fixed Kitsune using a capacity test and reorganizined the tail scoring to be based around a scaling test rather than three different tail count tests, not all of which were scorable at the same time thus effectively reducing the “max” score but not properly representing this. (Gedan)
• Fixed Lacquine race scoring for a 2nd breast row, as this was cut early on in the development of the TF even though placeholder code existed for it. (Gedan)
• Fixed isMilkTank() not testing for the Mega Milk perk as it probably should do. (Gedan)
• Fixed some empty strings that may have worked into orgasm records. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Ardia’s bustString generator not representing some certain combinations of factors that don’t exist, allowing them to fall back to a bust that does exist and fits themeatically with a subset of those factors. (Gedan)
• Fixed a broken parser call in radglow content. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed an incorrect gate for a Verusha rut scene. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed Slavebreaker lust attack to actually hit Steele rather than itself. (DrunkZombie)
• Fixed some incorrect tests looking for half-races and morphs because of special cases that don’t have “half-” as the actual prefix or morph as the postfix. (Jacques)
• Fixed pregnancy stats not showing under medical. (Jacques)
• Fixed the inconsistecy in TouchTooltipTouchActivate mode, where it was impossible to know if a button had a tooltip and would immediately activate it. Now, all buttons have a placeholder tooltip when this mode is active, stating that there is no spoon tooltip available, stopping the button from instantly activating. (Gedan)
• Fixed the fact that the center room in the big minimap view wasn’t actually centered. This is actually the most important change in this update. (Gedan)
• Fixed a reversed test for Gel Zon in some stormguard content. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed Urbolgs combat name. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed UI breaking when using overly large font sizes. (Jacques)
• Fixed a bunch of UI elements not properly respecting or ignoring font size settings. (Jacques)
• Fixed the content pane expanding larger than intended. (Jacques)
• Fixed the positioning of the Fullscreen and Panic buttons on the main menu, so that they won’t be overlapped by browser elements on certain devices. (Jacques)
• Fixed some issues with table generation. (Jacques)
• Fixed parser plurality not being wired up properly, allowing the [s] and [p] tags to finally function as intended. (Gedan)
• Fixed CG images being effected by font size settings. (Jacques)
• Fixed a bunch of inconsistencies with image manifest titles. (Jacques)
• Fixed typos, a whole lot, again. (Jacques, Gedan, lowercase_donkey, DrunkZombie)
• Fixed ship combat using the same XP calculations as ground combat. Ship combat no longer automatically rewards normalXP() regardless of what is set in the ship file. If an XP value is set on the ship file (that isn’t 0), it should be respected. Holographic duplicates are worth 1 XP, so they’re not ENTIRELY worthless. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed shield vampire output formatting to be more easily parsed. (Fenoxo)