Hey everyone!
I’d like to share some of the things I’ve been working on recently. This update focuses mainly on stability and on features that should have been added a long time ago, so take a look!
Highlights
Melany Ultimate Ability
New Animations: Melany x Kryth/Artilor (Climax)
Goth skin
Hairstyles: Ponytail & Pigtails
Nipple piercing
Controls for lipsync
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Romance
Added a new climax animation for Melany x Kryth/Artilor, featuring dedicated controls that allow both characters to climax. This replaces the previous 2D X-Ray system.
The climax meter is now always displayed during animation scenes, eliminating the need to switch to a secondary menu.
Added animation camera lock: pressing F during animations in free camera mode now locks the camera, preserving a fixed viewing angle.
Character Creator
Added the Genepunk skin to the in-game store, a biopunk goth rebel outfit set including boots, thigh-highs, pants, and a top.
Added new hairstyle system for Melany with individual part customization (scalp, ponytails, bangs, and more), including two new hairstyle models: Ponytail and Pigtails.
Added a new customization category: Navel Piercing, featuring three new models available in the store.
Added a metallic slider for item and character customization.
Gameplay
Added “Forced Evolution Ultimate”. It lasts for 6s with three stages: Ascend (Melany evolves with wings and an organic arm weapon), Fly & Shoot (fires 3 AoE explosions in bursts), Descend (slams down at cursor location dealing AoE).
Added hit processing rules for enemies to control damage from abilities. Bosses and certain enemies now take reduced damage from ultimates, with specific multipliers applied based on attack type (e.g., Melany's rockets or Descend slam). Damage scaling may also vary by game mode.
Added Gravity Zones that pull Melany downward during her ultimate flight, so players have to dash through obstacles instead of freely flying.
Added timescale management for gameplay, cutscenes, dialogues, animations, debugging and more, allowing each to be paused or sped up separately.
Press ESC to pause the game.
Added new emotes: Bend Over (Touch Toes), Warm Up and Cold.
Miscellaneous
Updated Melany’s model and added 17 facial expressions. Those will be used during dialogues with voice acting and during animations.
Added support for selling item collections (e.g., skins) for in-game currency instead of unlocking them via click.
The splash screen displays all rewards for the Genehunter, Bioweapon and Immunity tiers.
Added a rewards system that permanently unlocks certain tier rewards for supporters even after a one-time pledge.
Expanded Stash Inventory: +500 slots for supporters.
Optimized save system to reduce disk usage. Inventory data is now saved in a single location instead of per checkpoint (potentially cutting total campaign save size from ~240MB to ~5MB if all checkpoints and slots are used when the game is fully released).
Optimized Animator Any State transitions for animation scenes and emotes, improving overall performance, because the Animator is not checking every frame if a specific animation scene or emote is playing.
Audio
Added new firing sounds for Melany’s combat rifle.
Audio system updated to allow independent control of background music and sound effects, enabling background audio to pause while SFX continue (used in the pause menu).
UI
Improved the abilities UI and cooldowns.
Improved the navigation in the Emotes UI.
Improved Patch Notes UI.
Improved the customization UI headers and prepared them for localization.
Fixes
Fixed and issue where you have unsaved changes message was fired when the pause UI was opened for a first time, now its fixed.
Fixed a bug where onomatopoeia (comic-style SFX) did not display correctly in animation scenes.
Fixed a bug where characters were not properly grounded during animation scenes.