v0.3.14 Major Steam Content Update, Halloween Bonus Items, and Bug Fixes
Hey Everyone!
We're here at last with a Major Content Update for Steam ahead of the Christmas Update which will mark the last major update on Steam for 2021 (we have a tonne of content planned for 2022). Those of you that follow our Discord news will already be aware that one of our team was injured in a violent attack that put us behind for a month or so, they've now recovered and the spade with which they were attacked has been immortalised in-game.
The bulk of this update is fleshing out the art, world, and systems to enable the next phase of the main story. This does mean that there isn't any new major quest content in this update, though some such as Milk & Honey have a few alternative options along the way.
Halloween Content
- Accursed Tales Sit beside the campfire to discover a further secret of the kingdom's past. Use your newfound knowledge to search for the other Halloween content or perhaps avoid the dangers altogether...
- New 'Cursed Felian' Playable Race Stride across the sands of Sabu in a body that has almost totally succumbed to the Curse of Kethra.
- Member of Pure Essence Equip yourself with a manhood forged from the souls of those poor unfortunates that fell to the God Queen's Curse.
Character Customisation
We have undertaken a visual overhaul of our player models, with both Felians and Draconids sporting all-new models. Our beautiful cat-girls now look far less like teddybears than they previously did.
You can now pick your starting sex and ethnicity from the very start of the game, with new forms, skins, and details unlocking as you discover them in the world. You can shape your body, from breast size to bodyfat and other options besides. This does mean that unfortunately most clothing is not compatible with the new system and will not be usable yet in-game, this will be updated and the clothing will added back with a BONUS update to Steam, in addition to the usual release schedule.
The available species are currently limited to Humans (Male, Female, Futa), Draconids (Female, Futa), Felians (Female, Futa), and Cursed Felians (Female, Futa). Due to incompatibility with the new customisation system the Demi-Humans (human/anthro hybrids) have been temporarily removed but will be added back in a subsequent patch.
The next major update at Christmas will bring Canines to the world of Carnal Instinct, with Jackals making their first appearance (without a mask at least).
[Work in Progress - Female Jackal Sculpt]
Combat Upgrades
You can now face your foes with daggers, longswords, spears, and a spade. Combat has receieved countless upgrades including soft-lock, assassinations and much much more. Be warned, a bug with enemy awareness has been fixed so they can now attack you from behind!
More Goo-d Stuff
Carnal Instinct isn't just about the gameplay, you also need to be able to unwind. To this end there's a new scene that seems particularly appropriate to the Halloween timing of the update; the Primal Goo Girl encounter. If you've previously discovered the goo tentacles but not found a use for them (other than the obvious) then you're now in luck. By taking the captured goo to a particularly disreputable slave trader you're able to have it combine with her... before "combining" with you.
Camp & Crafting System
The Player Camp has finally arrived, enabling you to now begin customising your new home. For now this is limited to a small range of building and decorative options but the available upgrades will expand over time.
The Camp also opens up the possibilites of crafting, both weapons and consumables. Many ingredients can now be discovered in the world, either from merchants or the bodies of fallen foes. These items combine at the Weaponsmith and Alchemist to enable the creation of very valuable items including powerful weapons.
Prison Break
You arrive at your camp, animal skulls and metal ingots in hand, but where is the Weaponsmith to craft your mighty spear? Well he's locked up in a cage somewhere. One of the new features we've added is Caged Prisoner Encounters. For now these are just used to recruit the two tradespeople for the camp, but as we move forward they'll play into quests both big and small.
Enriched & Expanded World
A large amount of our world was essentially placeholder - we're a 5-person team and there's just too much for us to handle in one go. That said we've radically overhauled and improved the map, both in terms of visual quality and also believability. There's now a better flow to many areas of the map, as well as additional places to find loot and encounter enemies.
Improved Animation
We're now making use of Performance Capture in our sex scenes and other content, with numerous examples already implemented in this build of the game we're using this technology to greatly increase the fidelity we're able to achieve in cutscenes.
Game Difficulty & Content Preferences
You can now select your preferred game difficulty and sex content preferences in the menu. Thi allows you to disable Male/Male, Female/Female, or any other content combination (the NPCs will still be in the world but you won't be able to engage with them sexually).
Using a Controller to Play Carnal Instinct
We don't yet support controllers (support for this is in development) however if you are going to use a controller we highly recommend using a steam input profile to do so. You can access this setting here:
Plans & Future Development
Our previous roadmap has now been revised based upon several votes put to the community. The updated roadmap is available here. Please be aware that the months represent when said content will go to playtest, not be condition that is ready to ship. As usual major updates will drop at least once every three months, with regular additional bugfix updates and other content drops throughout the year.
Thank You
From all of us at Team Carnal Instinct, thank you for your support, there's more to come.
Team Carnal Instinct
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Full Changelog
Full v0.3.14 Changelog
ADDED
- Added Customisation System & UI (Chest Size, Bodyfat, Ethnicity, Bodyshape, & others).
- Added Draconid Skins "Primeval Scales", "Ocean Scales", "Misty Mountain Scales", "Salamander Scales"
- Added Draconid Horn Variants "Infernal Horns", "Dunewalker Horns", "Hilldrake Horns"
- Added Human Hair Variants (numerous)
- Added Sex Scene - "Stocks Male"
- Added Sex Scene - "Stocks Female"
- Added Sex Scene - "Primal Tentacles"
- Added Various Crafting Items
- Added Camp System
- Added Camp Item - "Sturdy Shelter"
- Added Camp Item - "Escaped Slave's Shelter"
- Added Camp Item - "Nomad's Pavillion"
- Added Camp Item - "Desperate Followers"
- Added Camp Item - "Nomadic Followers"
- Added Camp Item - "White Marble Obelisk"
- Added Camp Item - "Dark Sandstone Obelisk"
- Added Camp Item - "Red Marble Obelisk"
- Added Camp Item - "Pale Sandstone Obelisk"
- Added Camp Item - "Sleeping Roll"
- Added Camp Item - "Simple Mattress"
- Added "Empty" player camp blockout
- Added Camp System - "Player Stash"
- Added Camp System - "Player Bed"
- Added Camp System - "Weaponsmith"
- Added Camp System - "Alchemist"
- Added Crafting System for Weapons & Potions
- Added Total 30 new Weapons
- Added Item - "Bronze Longsword"
- Added Item - "Bronze Daggers"
- Added Item - "Spade of Deicide"
- Added Item - "Member of Pure Essence"
- Added Item - "Cursed Felian Form"
- Added Items - "Damascus Khopesh", "Damascus Daggers", "Damascus Spear", "Damascus Sword"
- Added Items - "Refined Damascus Khopesh", "Refined Damascus Daggers", "Refined Damascus Spear", "Refined Damascus Sword"
- Added Items - "Ornate Damascus Khopesh", "Ornate Damascus Daggers", "Ornate Damascus Spear", "Ornate Damascus Sword"
- Added Items - "Damascus Ingot", "Damascus Fragments"
- Added Items - "Bone Khopesh", "Bone Daggers", "Bone Spear", "Bone Sword"
- Added Items - "Refined Bronze Khopesh", "Ornate Bronze Khopesh"
- Added Items - "Iron Khopesh", "Refined Iron Khopesh", "Ornate Iron Khopesh"
- Added Items - "Refined Bronze Daggers", "Ornate Bronze Daggers"
- Added Items - "Iron Daggers", "Refined Iron Daggers", "Ornate Iron Daggers"
- Added Items - "Refined Bronze Spear", "Ornate Bronze Spear"
- Added Items - "Iron Spear", "Refined Iron Spear", "Ornate Iron Spear"
- Added Items - "Refined Bronze Sword", "Ornate Bronze Sword"
- Added Items - "Iron Sword", "Refined Iron Sword", "Ornate Iron Sword"
- Added Items - "Bronze Ingots", "Iron Ingots", "Bronze Fragments", "Iron Fragments"
- Added Items - "Beast Claw", "Beast Heart", "Beast Entrails", "Beast Pelt"
- Added Items - "Reptile Pelt", "Reptile Scraps", "Reptile Skull"
- Added New Exotic NPC (Primal Goo Girl)
- Added Enemy - "Anubite Jailer"
- Added Enemy - "Bloodseeker Jailer"
- Added Enemy - Hippopotamus
- Added New Enemy - Hidden Curse One
- Added New Enemy - Tomb Robber
- Added New Enemy - "Desert Cat"
- Added New Beast of Sobek (Crocodile Enemy AI) animations and visuals
- Added Enemy Levels - Color coded based on your level
- Added new player capture to the Inventory Screen
- Added Human Male Locomotion Animations
- Added Human Male SFX
- Added various objects to the map including new water materials
- Added new foot IK for enemies
- Added new SFX for new weapons
- Added VO for NPC - "Tuvan"
- Added VO for NPC - "Esi"
- Added VO for NPC - "Anubite Guard" (Hscene)
- Added improvements to the save game system
- Added the ability to slightly pan the player camera (Use Alt + Scroll Wheel)
- Added new cloth materials
- Added various drops to NPCs
- Added the ability to set your camp as your home so you will respawn there after death
- Added new respawn cinematics for upcoming systems
- Added Alchemist voice acting
- Added Content Warnings settings which will allow players to enable/disable scenes with their preferences, this will be expanded in the near future
- Added mouse sensitivity option and invert Y Axis
- Added visuals when obtaining items
- Added combat softlock for players who prefer not to hard target
- Added combat hard lock (Default: 'Tab' to lock a target)
- Added hard lock target switching to cycle through potential targets (Default: 'Q' while locked on)
- Added the ability to zoom in/out the player camera (Default: 'Scroll Wheel')
- Added Person(s) In Distress location - "Weaponsmith"
- Added Person(s) In Distress location - "Alchemist"
- Added Ahmes into the Player Camp - Ready for future content, replay scenes available
- Added dialogue for sending the Weaponsmith & Alchemist to the Player Camp after rescuing
- Added Anubite Guards (These are friendly until attacked, future content will include imprisonment of the player)
- Added post-defeat option for Inquisitor of Bast [Primal Kill]
- Added post-defeat option for Inquisitor of Bast [Kill]
- Added post-defeat option for Inquisitor of Bast [Enslave]
- Added key re-binding for "Lock On", "Cycle Target", "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out"
- Added new quiver visuals
- Added sound dampening to the player when crouched
- Added new sound perception to enemies - you can now sneak up on them from behind
- Added death animations to the player, you no longer ragdoll
- Added low health warning - visuals and SFX
- Added a tiny health regen for players when out of combat for a decent chunk of time
- Added new ambient music tracks
- Added new overhauled Felian body with works with the new Character Customization system
- Added new Cursed One SFX
- Added new foliage
- Added new areas to the map
- Added new game difficulty options to the main menu for those players who wish to have an easier time with the combat, or want to make it more difficult, this will scale the damage taken in combat
- Added new voice acting for the Weaponsmith and the weaponsmith is now male
- Added multiple new areas to the map
FIXED
- Fixed a bug with the cosmetic system not applying when saving/loading without opening the inventory
- Fixed various problems with roaming NPC's which caused them to occasionally spike
- Fixed a problem with consumable jars not disappearing
- Fixed collision issues throughout the world
- Fixed multiple game thread problems improving performance
- Fixed a bug with cock tints
- Fixed underwater foliage not spawning
- Fixed a bug allowing players to sell items intended to be un-sellable
- Fixed multiple spelling errors within the game
- Fixed issue with the world map flickering popups occasionally
- Fixed a bug where rolling into water could cause you to not register as swimming
- Fixed a bug where the Void Spirit's hscene would appear before she has been spawned
- Fixed an issue with swapping to human male form
- Fixed issue with the vendor allowing the player to run around during conversation
- Fixed "With Bells On" choice being available from Nepthys without finishing the quest
- Fixed an issue with various materials
- Fixed a bug where the Tomb of Q'Tesh was flooded
- Fixed an issue where you could just have balls with no cock
- Fixed an issue with destroyed interactables not being handled properly on save/load
- Fixed Cosmetic Duplicated Issue
- Fixed issue with Missionary Scene dialog that explains cock requirements
- Fixed issue with Void Spirit and Khaba dialog that could result in crashes for some users and some save games
- Fixed interactables and saves that could affect some users
- Fixed isues with the bed which caused it to be non-interactable
- Fixed a bug with Archers accelerating too quickly
- Fixed issue with the feline NPC's not walking correctly
- Fixed a bug with the Deset Cat AI from fleeing too much
- Fixed bug with the Inquisitor of Bast & Tomb Gaurdian being affected by enemy levels
- Fixed a bug with female unarmed combat using incorrect SFX
- Fixed a bug with the Cursed One's which caused them to not be a quick on their feet as intended
- Fixed a bug with the player locomotion lunging the player forward, turning and runing is now smoother
- Fixed a collision issue with certain tree's
- Fixed a collision issue with cages
- Fixed issue with the inventory character not having physics
- Fixed a bug with softlock triggering when not in combat
- Fixed an issue causing the combat music to persist after leaving combat
- Fixed enemy sight radius to be slightly larger, but on a lower peripheral
- Fixed a bug where you could backstab Anubite Guards
- Fixed a bug where the credits wouldn't scroll after a certain amount of time
- Fixed a bug where enemies wern't always updating their maximum speed after leaving combat
- Fixed hitbox issues with certain attacks from Cursed Ones
- Fixed a bug where the void spirit wouldn't spawn due to the new map changes
- Fixed a bug causing Damascus Ingots to have no value
- Fixed multiple collision issues with rocks and cliffs
- Fixed a mjaor issue with combat which prevented movement in some circumstances
- Fixed a major issue with the save/loading of the new Customization system
- Fixed a major issue with the customization vessels respawning after being destroyed if the game was saved after a certain amount of time
- Fixed an issue where a number of voice lines could be heard even if the voice section of the menu was turned all the way down
- Fixed issues with the Customization system related to cocks
- Fixed issues with the new Customization vessels not working in the map
- Fixed a bug where you could sell quest items to vendors by dragging the items
- Fixed Sabuthi Male in the Character Customization system so it had the correct icon
- Fixed a bug with enemies respawning too quickly, they should now be dead much longer
- Fixed an issue where cursed ones what hid underground respawned above ground
- Fixed an issue with the Customization system where some choices did not load the defaults and therefore males did not have cocks in some cicumstances
- Fixed an issue where the WIP bestary menu can be opened on the controller
- Fixed an issue where some outfits could be found but not equipped to prevent issues
- Fixed issues with the Save Game system for Jars that were destroyed but were not handled properly on load
- Fixed multiple sound files not being included in volume sliders
- Fixed multiple issues with the game world
CHANGED
- Changed the Merchant UI
- Changed textures on multiple objects for better performance
- Changed underwater post-processing
- Changed enviromental visuals including changes to our SSGI and new foliage
- Changed the combat movement speed
- Changed item stats to include stamina cost per attack
- Changed Merchant Lines to go along with fix to Merchant interaction which allowed movement during access
- Changed saving system to prevent auto-save from saving during Dialog
- Changed Crafting list recipes for Bronze Khopesh
- Changed the body system in the back end that should resolve some bugs that affect some users and provides a framework for the new body system
- Changed Crafting lst Recipes for Iron Longsword
- Changed damage calculations to prevent you from being healed by blocking attacks in some situations
- Changed Footsteps of the Dragon wall button to avoid issues which some players were experiencing and changed interaction text to Push
- Optimization pass of Map assets to increase performance
- Changed Anubite AI into subclass "Anubite Warrior" (Uses Sword & Shield)
- Changed Anubite AI into subclass "Anubite Brute" (Uses Longsword)
- Changed Anubite AI into subclass "Anubite Soldier" (Uses Spears)
- Changed Anubite AI into subclass "Anubite Cutthroat" (Uses Daggers)
- Changed the Enemy Crocodile name to "Beast of Sobek"
- Changed the cinematics during "Milk & Honey"
- Changed the locomotion animations for spears
- Changed the attack animations for swords
- Changed default player camera zoom level
- Changed the lighting levels inside dungeons to be slightly brighter
- Changed the invisible walls to include a red warning zone
- Changed the items stocked by Kali
- Changed the SFX levels of the Skeleton Enemies
- Changed the player's default walk speed slightly
- Changed the player's camera position when crouched
- Changed all footstep SFX
- Changed all archery SFX
- Changed multiple SFX for foley sounds around the world
- Changed SFX for NPC actions
- Changed Anubite Guards to watch the player when close by
- Changed Shield Enemies to have more armor
- Changed SFX for UI including dialogue
- Changed SFX levels across the board for better balancing
- Changed dropped bags, they will now destroy automaticlaly after 5 minutes of being on the floor
- Changed the name of the Equine cock in the new customization menu to horse cock
- Changed the Q'Tesh Jar and other quest items as quest items to prevent accidental selling
- Changed the desert cat SFX reducing the volume
- Changed new game to include the character customization screen
- Improved dialog with Older Scenes to make it clear that Horse cocks do not work with them
- Removed Brasskey and added Old Key to fix save/load issues with Milk and Honey
- Updated the roadmap & news post on the main menu