Dev Notes
We’re hard at work on our final Act - but here’s a big, big monthly update to enjoy in the interim.
Kudos to our coders and playtesters for having produced our first major update ever that hasn’t required frantic patching.
Emery Aylar, the voice of Sabetha and Rain, has taken over our X and Bluesky accounts. Give them a peep for previews, memes, and other assorted delights. We now also have an Instagram account, for those of you who are into that sort of thing.
Our musician Exo Spectra is working on a huge soundtrack expansion, in time for Act VII - the first taste of which is in this build.
MVP of this build is Ratatooey, who has quickly established themselves as our new primary scene artist; this update is chock-full of their gorgeous work. Honourable mentions to GreyScale for his vast overhaul of our foley and nonverbal VA, to HereToHelp for his work on our file footprint and our future modding compatibility, and to Tosk for working under absolutely insane time pressure to get this build out on time.
Act V-VI Features
Art: Art for Darja & Naho’s “Puppy’s Playtime” scene (4 images, collab with Takoshi and Amon Ra).
Art: Finalised art for Marie-Anne’s “Free Cowgirl” scene (5 images, collab with Ratatooey and Amon Ra).
Voice: Inej’s variant lines regarding pregnancy, if broken (Gruella, edited by The Bread Reactor).
Voice: Inej’s variant lines during her private chat, if broken (Gruella, edited by The Bread Reactor).
Voice: Naho’s thoughts on Adeline and Naho, as a pet (Marina Montague, edited by Cython).
Voice: Naho’s performance of tricks, as a pet (Marina Montague, edited by Cython).
Voice: Naho’s response to being denied nettle, as a pet (Marina Montague, edited by Cython).
Voice: Naho’s “Bent And Begging” scene (Marina Montague, edited by Cython).
Gallery: Darja & Naho’s “Puppy’s Playtime” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
Cheeve: A secret achievement has been added.
Act I-IV Features
Scene: A dream about your daughter, and the mother that does not remember her (collab with Deoz and DoItToJulia).
Scene: A followup to Maëlys’s mercenary fate (two variants, collab with Demi Goggles and DoItToJulia).
Dynamic: A dream about Mina (collab with Deoz and DoItToJulia).
Art: Art for Issa’s “Excited In Your Sleep” scene (7 images, collab with Ratatooey and Amon Ra).
Art: Finalised art for Inej’s “Downward-Facing Cat” scene (four variants, 16 images, collab with Ratatooey and Amon Ra).
Art: Finalised art for Marie-Anne’s “Down On The Farm” scene (7 images, collab with Anon and Amon Ra).
Art: Retouched background art for the royal bedchamber.
Art: Retouched background art for rich bedrooms.
Art: Retouched background art for the palace balcony (three variants).
Voice: Mina’s “Liquid Assets” scene (Marina Montague, edited by Cython).
Voice: Mina’s part in her dream with Darja (Marina Montague, edited by Cython).
Voice: Naho’s “Remade To Order” warlock fate scene (Marina Montague, edited by Cython).
Voice: Assorted missing voice lines for the dragon (GreyScale, edited by Mokkel).
Music: A new “Severance” suite for Maëlys (five tracks, Exo Spectra).
Gallery: Inej’s “Downward-Facing Cat” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
Gallery: Issa’s “Excited In Your Sleep” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
Cheeve: The “Wandering Mind” and “Chicken And Egg” achievements have been added (Tosk).
UI: An on-screen rollback button appears when the game is played on touch devices.
Modding: An image override feature has been added. Instructions are in the image_overrides/ folder (HereToHelp and Katzenwiese).
Enhancements
All images have been converted to WEBP format, considerably reducing our storage footprint (HereToHelp).
The file structure of our code has been reorganised. This should not break any saves, but it will break any mods.
Leaving the courtyard in Chanwe’s convent will not prevent you from returning later on.
Declining to give Heloïse a proper room in Act III will not prevent you from revisiting her cell.
Cooch’s “Night Visit” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “Seconds” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “Operation: Donkey Balls” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “We’re Just Animals” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “Wine & Revelry” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “Operation: Sexy Rescue” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “A Big Mouthful” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “Breaking A Sweat” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “Thirsty For You” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “A Pint In The Tavern” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “Top Her Up” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “Put A Cork In It” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “Grand Opening” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “Doing Shots” kobold fate scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch’s “Hair Of The Dog” wolfman fate scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Cooch and Naho’s “Dogfight” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Heloise’s “Absorption” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Heloise’s “Repletion” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Heloise’s “Memories” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Heloise’s “Bonding” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Heloise’s “Weakness” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Heloise’s “Divinity Waning” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Heloise’s “Descent” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Heloise’s “Nadir” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Heloise’s “Lovers In The Park” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Heloise’s “Depreciation” kobold fate scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Heloise and Zizeryx’s “Sacrifice” infernal fate scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Heloise and Maëlys’s “Daughters Of The Goddess” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Visiting doubtful Maëlys will not automatically lead to sex.
Solo interactions with doubtful Maëlys will play her existing suite.
Solo interactions with severed Maëlys will play her new suite.
All interactions with restored Maëlys will play her new suite.
Maëlys’s “This Fixes Everything” scene makes full use of her existing suite, as well as the new one.
Maëlys’s “Hunter Becomes Hunted” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Maëlys’s “Elf Husbandry” kobold fate scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Maëlys’s “Catharsis” infernal fate scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Farm Raid” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Farm Raid II” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Tending” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Serving” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Breeding” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Tending” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Trojan” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Down Boy” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Adoption” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Playtime” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Hungry Like The Wolf” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Cowgirl” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Cowgirl II” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Doggy Style” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Doggy Style II” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Painting Eggs” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Monster Loving Monster” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Buckets Of Love” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Hog Wild” kobold fate scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Human Husbandry” wolfman fate scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Inhuman Husbandry” protean fate scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Nightmare Reunion” infernal fate scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Marie-Anne’s “Shared Passion” warlock fate scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
Backing out of Valzira’s shack will not prevent you from returning later on.
The dragon’s grumbling, rumbling, and grunting sound effects have been applied more consistently.
Several Gallery scenes have been renamed for clarity and thematic consistency.
Act VI punctuation has been standardised.
Game credits have been updated.
Fixes
Giving a save file a blank name will no longer make it impossible to load (Miah and Katzenwiese).
A persistent issue causing autosaves to fail has been fixed (Katzenwiese).
Adeline’s "Emergence" art will disappear at the correct time when nestling against her noncon disabled.
Captives currently with Breaker cannot be gifted to Mother or the Infernals.
If Sun-Chanwe is pregnant, her paizuri scene will show as much.
Chia's state of dress will be properly portrayed when snuggling with her at the end of Act VI.
Cooch will not reminisce about being coochnapped at the docks if that is not how you actually met.
Cooch’s singing skit will play during your first time revisiting her in Act VI.
If Streamer Mode is enabled, Eburon’s mural will not be anatomically accurate.
Hector and Rhyll will not suggest that the war is unfinished if there are no more territories left to conquer.
Heloïse’s “Weakness” gallery scene now includes all the options from the campaign version.
Having no captives at the end of Act III will not prevent you from visiting Maëlys in Act IV.
Talking with knight Maëlys in Act VI no longer reinstantiates her talk menu from Act IV.
Receiving manual service from doubtful Maëlys in Act V or Act VI will play the proper palace theme at the end.
Recent improvements to severed Maëlys’s scenes in Act IV have been duplicated into Act V and Act VI.
Revisiting Malagar after gifting Darja will not double-drop your count of captives.
Malice’s birth scene will no longer show Heloïse giving birth to her if Valzira is her mother.
Marie-Anne’s captive talk menu will no longer close after exploring a single topic.
Marie-Anne's “Down On The Farm” scene shows its missing afterglow art.
If custom names are disabled, Marie-Anne's scenes will not call her Darja when they are replayed via the Gallery.
Renaming or boinking Mina in the palace during Act VI will not timewarp you back to Act V.
Naho’s mercenary fate scene can be seen more than once.
When breaking Naho, she will keep her original name if you leave her renaming prompt blank.
If you take the wildlands in Act III and hand over Naho to her pack, the goop effects will not loop after the scene ends.
The omen’s cloaked main sprite will be properly visible.
The omen’s uncloaked side sprites have a proper silhouette.
Asking Rhyll about his past will not replay the same speech every visit.
Revisiting Rhyll in Act V will not replay your initial meeting.
Conscripting Rhyll’s Hundred Companies as labourers to fix the Realm’s debt will properly affect Prosperity and Morale.
Sabetha’s sprite will properly disappear when you ask to speak with Inej alone.
Sabetha will not remain nude after her “Sister Sandwich” scene in Act VI.
Gifting Sabetha and Inej to Mother correctly raises the proteans’ Power.
Valzira's talk about elven magic will be properly locked off once it has been seen.
Covering Valzira in furs at night will not play the morning send-off.
If you covered Valzira in furs, she will still be under them the next morning.
If you spare Coldreach after attacking it with Žižeryx in Act IV, the territory now properly counts as spared.
The kobold champion now sinks out of view after dying in the assault on Pale Rock.