Weekly News #73

Version 0.922a is already available for download. To view the post with this version, follow this link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/released-0-922a-57086194  

It was a long time since our last news, but that's okay, because right now we working on major update which includes innovation, that will appeal to many players. You've probably been waiting for a long time, but we didn't have funds to make it before, so we forgot about it for a while. Now the situation has changed, but first things first. To begin with, we should tell you about everything that was done during that entire period of time.

Firstly, we decided to simplify the lives of people who play the game as a visual novel. Of course, they may not be interested in most mechanics, and they can be easily missed, except for one thing - hunger. Although at the moment everything is now much simpler compared to the very first versions, where hunger was just introduced, but it's still not about that... In general, you can now turn off hunger in the settings. Initially, it is always on. However, if the player wants to monitor a smaller number of parameters of his character, he can easily turn it off, and the hunger indicator will always be at the same level - 100 units. In addition to hunger, you can now disable swipe controls in the settings due to some complaints about inconvenience, as well as the ability to disable mini-games. Now it's even easier to customize the game for yourself!

Secondly, freelance work. In the list of changes below, everything is already explained quite clearly, but some details are missing... The most important thing to take from this innovation is that the work is now updated to the current realities of the game. Now not only the level of programming, but also your attributes affect both pumping, order search, and even its execution! Luck has a strong effect, especially on your earnings. With it, you will have a better chance to get a bonus, double and even triple earnings! In addition, the division into levels of orders will slightly increase the relevance of this work... However, you can read more about this already in the list of changes, we should not repeat ourselves and tighten this post.

Third, randomized NPCs... They had a lot of changes and each of them affects only one thing - the interest of the system itself. Before that, pumping relationships with them looked a little dry, as if it was a clicker, and we decided to add some innovations to it... Of course, the first one is the appearance of events right during dialogues. Now you can be invited to take a walk, study, run, and even offer to hug and go for a smoke! The chances of this are quite low, and depend on time and relationships, but such events diversify dialogues. In addition, now, if it's time for lessons or now night, the NPC can try to go home or to class and of course warning you about it. Here you have new choices: firstly, you can ask the NPC for a phone number, secondly, to stay with you, thirdly, in fact, intimidate and force him to stay with you, and fourthly, safely let him go and not interfere with him. This was added not to complicate the pumping process, but on the contrary - with this feature, the phone will be more relevant than ever, and with it you can already invite the NPC to the location, find out its location and do a lot more... Including inviting NPCs to your home.

And here, as it should be at the very end, will be the main part of this WN. Sex with randomized NPCs. A rather problematic feature for this game, which will be added either in the next micro-updates, or already in the next full-fledged update 923. At the moment, there are already some successes in its creation, right now not only a sketch of everything has already been made, but also a line. The whole thing is already being painted, and soon this opportunity will be completed and integrated. To answer the question why it was not done earlier, a few words are enough for this - the amount of work. At the moment, randomized NPCs have 4 breast sizes, 13 varieties of hair with 16 colors for each, 14 eye colors and many other elements. It will be long and tedious to list everything, and even this is not necessary, so you can go on to the completion of the thought itself - all this should be present in the sex scene. In any scene at all. Every hair color and every eye color is a huge amount of work that cannot be done in a short time and without some budgets. Well, since one of the fundamental goals on our Patreon page has been fulfilled, we are obliged to proceed with its implementation. In order not to delay the already tightened WN, we will say only one thing - you can see the scene itself in the news channel in our discord channel. Well, then we will proceed to the list of changes:

— Now, if you communicate with a randomized NPC during school hours, he can interrupt your dialogue and go to class. A lot of branches have been added to the same interaction, and you can either ask him to stay with you and continue to communicate, or ask for a phone number before he leaves, or let him go safely at all. In addition, the same thing was added at night, when the NPC will be going home. 

— Freelance work has been completely redesigned, starting from pumping skills and ending with working with orders. Freelancing can now be three times more efficient with upgraded intelligence, orders are divided into three categories that require different levels of skills: low-paid orders, medium-paid and high-paid. The required amount of work on it, its deadline, salary and much more depend on the choice of the order. You can now refuse the order itself. In addition, when it is handed over, when work on it is completed, there will be more than a dozen outcomes in which you can either be given a surcharge or even cheat on money, so now you should be careful with this type of earnings... 

— Added the ability to disable swipe management on android devices in the game settings menu. 

— Added the ability to disable mini-games in the game settings menu. 

— Added the ability to disable hunger in the game settings menu. 

— Added emotions for randomized NPCs while playing cards with them. In addition, now in the game interface itself, their emotions may differ depending on the results of the game, the nature and level of vulgarity. 

— Now, when communicating with the NPC using the interaction menu, he can offer you a hug / smoke / offer to run /learn with some chance. In addition, new outcomes have been added to these events, depending on the situation. 

— Reduced requirements for relationship points when inviting a randomized NPC to your home. In addition, the requirements for relationship points have also been reduced when calling a randomized NPC, and this, in addition to all parameters, is now affected by its activity at the moment. If he is not busy with anything, he is more likely to respond. 

— Now the GUI in the elections in the events on android is the same as on the PC. 

— Fixed some inaccuracies/errors in the English translation of the game. 

— Fixed a bug where it was impossible to enter the Patreon code on MAC devices. 

— Fixed a bug where neither energy nor satiety was taken away during the time-wasting. 

— Fixed the Russian text in the English translation of the game in some places of the game. 

— Fixed a bug where it was possible to throw a coin into the fountain even in the absence of money. 

— Fixed a bug where a randomized NPC at your party could be undressed using the "Dexterous Hands" perk. 

— Fixed a bug where if you select low or medium height, it was displayed incorrectly in the diary. 

— Fixed a bug where an exception could come out when calling a randomized NPC at night or at low relationships. 

This is where WN ends. Probably, some people expected a little more innovations, but, again, now we are completely focused on the sex scene. As for the vote, I think his screenshots are quite enough for themselves:

As you can see, we are already moving in a given vector. The only question someone may have about the plot, but don't worry, it will be done. Well, and also do not forget that 0.922 a version has been released, for which the list of changes can be noticed a little higher.