Romans!
As we stated here before, the release went… bad… there is no other way to phrase it. As someone stated in the reviews.. “a real Roman drama”. Since then however, we hope, feel (and think) there has been a major improvement and wanted to update about that and where we think we are. It’s been less than a week since lunch, which was incredibly hard on us, but we were very busy releasing daily patches (sometimes more!) and fixing/improving as much as we could, based on the very harsh, yet the well-deserved feedback in the reviews and forums.
It’s getting better. We think most people (from what we’ve seen) would agree the game is in a lot better shape now – release crashes are gone, graphics are getting better, quests and the game overall, work without major issues. We still have a lot of work ahead of us, before that game plays as it was intended and fits what was promised. We know this. We really are working non-stop to assure this happens as fast as possible while we try to communicate with you as much as we can. As stated previously: we are reading every comment and we base what we are improving and fixing based on that.
We wanted to thank you for being with us and for so many of you being so understanding about this, for helping us improve, reporting bugs, problems and desires while so many of you were so positive and supporting about the whole thing. We also got whipped a *lot* by our citizens during the past week - but that’s ok - we sure know that slaves just need whipping once in a while, in order to learn. Love and fear need to be balanced. You are all TRUE ROMANS!
Things that we are currently working on, in that order:
- Making sure ALL game quest lines work without any issues (we already fixed most big issues and most quests work fine, but we still have a lot of work).
- A better guiding system for quests (we already added a walkthrough link in the game, which we feel improved this a lot, but we are also working on a big map and a much better quest guidance system).
- Better graphics and animation, mostly for characters (already improved some things like textures, and are working on better animations and new hairs)
- Better optimization (again, we already feel this was improved a lot since the release, but we can make it even better)
- After this, as we mentioned many times, we will also keep adding more content to the game, for a long time.
Things that were fixed/improved already, since release:
- Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor would get stuck at the middle of the screen
- Fixed an issue where you could not talk to Maximus while the tutorial was active.
- Characters should now look better on lower settings. No more orc faces.
- Changed some problematic character textures that caused crashes
- Added icons to minimap for NPC and Locations
- Fixed an issue when undressing slaves lead to the "sky bug"
- Fixed clothes toggle during punishment
- Fixed male animation at pillory
- Fixed female not using strapon when fucking male on pillory
- Fixed a UI widget not pausing the sex scene
- Improved Chinese font
- Minimap will show Locations and points of interest on all maps
- Improved lighting and shadows across different quality settings
- Improved the quality of cum.
- Gender settings won't affect Enu (story character)
- Fixed issues with the main story when return Dimiara to Romius
- Fixed a rare case where Dimiara would disappear from the Aqueduct
- Fixed issues where Rescuing Cleopatra would not activate the correct objective.
- Fixed an issue with the UI localization where some text wasn't being localized in all languages
- Fixed an issue where the slave's worth would not properly be calculated
- Improved main quest handling at Verona.
- Updates to improve archery.
- Fixed an issue with the roadblock guards not speaking.
- Fixed an issue where the player couldn't jump after chasing Maximus.
- Fixed an issue where Romius Treasure dialogue would not load if you failed his Runaway quest
- Character updates
- Improved skin material
- Balanced skin tones
- Improved texture quality
- Fixed missing hermaproditus texture for Olivia
- Fixed some clipping issues on female/hermaproditus
- Improved lighting and day/night cycle
- Nights will not be as dark anymore.
- Improved Cleopatra and Runaway sequence
- Fixed localization on UI elements, also morphs are now localized
- Fixed an issue where Maxed female was recognized as hermaproditus
- Improved the way you interact with the ladder on Verona
- Fixed an issue where Ameer is not displaying his correct dialogue after the Villa.
- You can now headshot target in archery, targets that need 3 hits will be killed with one headshot
- Improved quest handling for Baba Larga
- Fixed an issue where Claudius option for trying again at the statue would not display.
- Fixed problem with the UI not closing when interacting with characters
- Fixed issue were New quest and Update objective would appear on top of each other.
- Improved the reveal Point of Interests (when pressing ALT)
- Quests will appear in Points of Interest alongside objectives
- Decreased size of minimap
- Fixed states of buttons in the settings
- Dialogue lines will be more readable now
- Signs update
- Optimized textures
- Fixed dark areas when having sex at Valerias house