Another quick, off-cycle update to clean up some more things; last week I shoved out a replaced system to handle keeping track of how and when the UI changes between different display layouts. In the past we only had the possibility to track a single previous layout and some minor additional data with it (generally main text and buttons) – it was basically a bit of a hackjob that I cobbled together when getting the initial port work together enough to start seeing the game work, but over time as we’ve made the UI more complicated, it became clear the limitations were becoming ever more problematic to work around. We had to build more and more special cased code to handle exactly what we wanted to happen in certain circumstances and it was just generally a goddamn mess. I took it as far as I could, but it was clear we’d be chasing issues with it basically forever.

I had an idea of a better way to approach it that would allow us to strip out most if not all of the special casing; now we only need maybe one or two special cases in strategic places (essentially only for the main menu, to deal with when a gamestate is or isn’t available and what should happen in that case) but I kept putting it off, hoping One Last Set Of Bandaids would cover everything; and without fail, more shit would crop up that would need another set of bullshit to get working. The downside being, now I gotta fish out all of the special casing that had built up over time and strip a bunch of that shit out so we can just rely on the state stack instead. With as many submenus and sub-submenus we have, it turns out there was a lot more of this garbage that needed to get thrown out that I expected, but I think most of it should be out on its ass now. At least it’s given me an opportunity to carefully comb over all of the little bandaids we’ve stacked up over time, which has let me find a few sneaky bugs that existed under the old system that’ll finally be getting fixed to boot.

0.9.052, builds 3334 and up:

• Added busts for ST Turrets, Divrani Cultist, Shalin Shaman and Cheetah Pirate. (Adjatha & Fenoxo)
• Fixed some more of the submenu loops under appearance. (Gedan)
• Fixed a react error in the lightsout minigame. (Gedan)

0.9.052:

• Added special support to the Accept/Cancel keybinds to also apply to the “Your inventory is full” modal. (Gedan)
• Added inline image support to the codex and added some new art assets to squeeze into the codex. (Jacques)
• Rebalanced the level 2 tainted rusher encounter. (Fenoxo)
• Rebalanced available hours for the Pumpking encouter. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed appearance screen submenus softlocking into loops. (Gedan)
• Fixed a potential issue with the level up screen that could in rare instances result in a softlocked menu. (Gedan)
• Fixed the image scaling option not properly applying. (Jacques)
• Fixed the data menu sometimes not initiating in the correct mode layout. (Gedan)
• Fixed a menu to options to menu loop using the escape keybind. (Gedan)
• Fixed an issue with the mail and mail setup system that could result in loops and weirdness when backing out of the mails. (Gedan)
• Fixed a button configuration error in a shower masturbate menu. (Gedan)
• Fixed autopathing always disabling after navigating a single room. (Gedan)
• Fixed Johr and the Pumpkings attack text appending to the players attack text. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed the room configuration around the Pumpking encounter. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed the room configuration around Kally’s house. (Fenoxo)

Swinging in with some fixes for the UI state system that got swapped out over the weekend – I left a couple of dumbs scattered around, as is the style, and they needed to get cleaned up. That was part of the plan I guess about doing a sneaky extra update over the weekend, with a push to clean up whatever cropped up during the regular patch time. There’s still a couple of weird issues around, but I don’t think they’re caused by the new state system, they’ve been kicking around for a while and simply exacerbated by the new changes rather than being caused by them, and I’ll be continuing to look into them and get them fixed as soon as I can figure out the causes.

Tired, so keepin in short. Back 2 da mines…

0.9.051:

• BACKER: There is now a tainted rusher that you can encounter on a variety of planets as a random combat event. (Fr0sty & Leek)
• PUBLIC: Added scene for Naomi, a cowgirl on New Texas that got stood-up and is looking for revenge. Available to bipedal Steeles with a cock. Will trigger randomly along the main street between the hours of 1800 and 2400 with a 1 week cooldown. (Written by Damie, coded by DrunkZombie)
• Added cheats to reset Delilah and Akane content. (Jacques)
• Added an extra option to TapTooltip mode; you can now choose to have buttons generate a filler tooltip (thus always requiring two taps to activate buttons), or only require two taps on buttons that have actual tooltips (and buttons without tooltips will activate on the first tap). (Gedan)
• Fixed the control overlay not quite working with the new UI state stack. (Jacques)
• Fixed mail buttons, enabling and disabling them respective to the currently viewed folder. (Jacques)
• Fixed some lingering remnants of the old UI state system. (Gedan)
• Fixed the data menu state code to align more with how all other UI states are transitioned in and out. (Gedan)
• Fixed a crash backing up from the data menu when on the main menu without a gamestate active. (Gedan)
• Fixed the findLast crashes under android. (Gedan)
• Fixed a ton of potential null/undefined checks inherited from AS3 era code. (Jacques)
• Fixed the experimental undo system not cooperating with the new UI state stack system. (Gedan)
• Fixed Bizzy busts going missing when she wears a collar outside the matching body type in the art. (Jacques)
• Fixed Sera busts showing a dongle when clothed. (Jacques)
• Fixed some missing descriptions in the image manifest. (Jacques)
• Fixed some scroll height issues in the codex when the control overlay is enabled. (Jacques)
• Fixed a crash with Black Void grunts. (Jacques)
• Fixed a variety of issues and oversights with the porting of Mimbranes, re-enabling some combat and time-passage events. (Jacques)
• Fixed Sturm and Drang using an incorrect accuracy value. (Jacques)
• Fixed the placement of some tease buttons in the combat menu. (Jacques)
• Fixed Jasvalla becoming inactive when levelling past her existing level ranges. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed some inactive content that was waiting for Gianna crew to happen in some Bess scenes. (lowercase_donkey)
• Fixed potential issues with the way saving is blocked, unifying access to the variable that controls it. (Gedan)
• Fixed some issues with Leithan and Raskvel body part type instances. (Jacques)
• Fixed Galomax consumption softlocks. (Gedan)
• Fixed a crash in Riyaquest relating to the Security Droids blowing up (in this case, literally). (Gedan)
• Fixed typos in many places. (Jacques, lowercase_donkey, Gedan)

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)