November 10 2023 : finishing up the update
November 10 2024 : finishing up a useless cutscene
Can't deny it, that is depressing lol
I have a suspicion that the threesome with Josy and Maya in latex might be a short scene. It does look atypical and, judging by the context, it takes place in the interval between the main acts of the episode.
I can imagine MC stopping by to visit them before the Christmas party, and that's the reason for the casual sex. I really don't remember DPC spoiling an important and big threesome scene like that back in the middle of development, whereas he could have made that preview final. I'm probably wrong, but I have a suspicion that this scene will be disappointingly short. I might suggest that Maya won't be involved at all and just hold Josy, lol.
Also, I have a strong feeling that DPC wants to rehabilitate for the last episode, which had little adult content. Basically there were only three good and great scenes in ep10, which were Bella, Nora, and Nicole. I bet that for example the scene with Sage or the scene with Quinn should have been bigger, but he probably counted the rendering time of the animations and decided to remove a few animations to save time. Or he dropped the full Lily scene and replaced it with a blowjob.
So I hope he do not pulls this stunt in the same episode trying to make a release this year. He could just freak out and remove 30% or 40% of the content of the scenes, he'll stack up and release these scenes. I'm willing to wait a few months but get exactly the big scenes like the scene with Bella from last episode.
While I do agree that EP 10 was weak lewd wise, I don't think the threesome will be a short scene.
Mostly because it appear to be a scene which had quite the build up towards it with the whole dare game and possibly Josy's hobby searching.
Also, and thats's mainly the fan in me speaking, but I feel that scene will be one of DPC's best from the looks alone.
Besides that I have reason to believe the threesome its the scene that DPC has been working on the last few reports, the one with quite a lot of animations because he tends to share previews of what he is working at the moment.
So yeah, if that's a short scene like you are saying I'm going to be devasted but I don't think that will happen.
It will be at least a medium size scene and most likely a huge one like the J/M threesome in EP 9, AKA best scene of the game so far.
Maybe it will lose it's throne...
About removing certain parts of the game, that's will never happen and it's a useless discusion, this is DPC game and as long as he has that many patreons it won't change.
So much kink shaming today lol
That post is not of use to fully compare if development is going slower or not, because we don't know exact numbers of hours spent on development during "dev had regular job" phase.
We can assume "working full time on game" phase as 8 hours per day, 5 days a week, we can deduct holidays and other non working days etc.
But let's count just days, for example
Episode 2, 3 & 4 had 6454 renders and 310 animations - done in 340 days at spare time speed.
Episode 11 - 7000 renders and 380 animations - 338 days and counting at full time speed.
While the static numbers do match up roughly the animations do not since their duration is quite different, the 3 early episodes you mentioned had a total time of around 16:30 minutes, meanwhile EP 9 and 10 had 25+ mins each as you can see in the post I linked.
So the amount of content is still quite bigger on the newer episodes.
And before you say that there that most of the animations are useless crap, they actually aren't.
EP 10 non lewd animations had a total duration of around 130s at most. And yes that includes the barbecue intro, the zoey run and the car animation.
So most of the animations are for lewd stuff.
Now sure, if he haven't started render the animations in 60fps the update would come out sooner, no discussion there it was a stupid decision then and it's even worse now that all animations are going to have an increased framerate and take even longer to render.
Maybe no, but maybe this chair in MC's room there for a reason
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Geralt, I just want you to know, if you happen to be right it's going to be so hilarous to me that I will barely be able to pay attetion to the scene itself lol.
I really can not unsee it now
I don't think there's anyone right now who seriously thinks this episode will come out this year. November 15th the final preview came out, we're two months behind at best. DPС is probably hoping deep down that it will make it this year, but that's impossible.
Unless he's going to release the game without animations like Iсstor did back in the day.
He can say it will take 3 months to render animations and release a version without animations, then 3 months later a version with animations. He'll keep his fans loyal and probably be able to reduce the pressure. I'm willing to bet he's seriously considering it. Either he'll do a poll and the majority will vote that they're willing to wait.
In fact, right now the main hope of many( including myself) is that it will be February. March is probably more realistic, but damn March looks too depressing. The worst part is that he seems to have lost control of the development. I'm willing to bet ep12 might not come out until late 2026. We'll be at a point where it will take almost two years to develop one ep.
While that could be a way to make sure the EP drops this year I believe DPC would never do it. Mostly because he sees every EP as a complete package and a bit of ego as well;
Honestly I would also prefer to wait more and get the full product too because if the update was incomplete it would lose some of the magic in my opinion.
I'm sure DPC will say in a future report how the scope of the episode is so big and awesome that it will be worth the 1+ year wait time and that most of his patreons won't be bothered at all.
So he has even less reasons to do something like that.
What?
I know, I know, there are games for that, but if DPC were to touch it, AND NO, NOT THAT, that would truly be heaven on Earth.
It would sure be something, the reactions from the players alone would be wild lol.
What's DCP's income from Patreon/sales? Enough to make a living from?
We cant know for sure, buts its somewhere between 30 to 88K dollars a month before any kind of Patreon cut and taxes he has tp pay.
Plus he made a shit ton of money in Steam as well selling the first 2 season there. Which now that I think about its probably an incentive for him to finish Season 3 sooner rather than later since that means another payout for him
So yeah, he is living very well at the moment and has been that way for a few years already.
