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)

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)