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)

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)