Quick notes on upcoming patch: With feedback out of #bug-reports, and from our distribution channels, we've revisited the CS script from Prologue to Epilogue in search of bugs, grammatical errors, math/function mistakes, and broken pathing. This included putting the whole script through AI (thanks Alain) which if nothing else has demonstrated that I'm utterly unqualified to ever use a hyphen in a game narrative again.
Needless to say, a number of issues emerged, some cosmetic, and some potentially game-breaking. While any official remaster will also involve removing unused variables, and simplifying the overall codebase, I think we're approaching as close to an error-free (logically) script as we can be. This has involved changes to every chapter since the game's release.
Some changes -
-Sound fixes where background effects were never appropriately terminated by the script
-Unfairly harsh calculation for cheating on Jaye or Mallory at the beginning of Ch9
-Branch to wrong outcome in one Ch7 hallway conversation that could lead to a lewd scene with Mallory after friendzoning her
-Solo path miscalculation in Ch10 for the last scene in some instances (player would likely not have noticed)
-Cases where previous side-girl interaction was incorrectly tracked
-Extra prompts to manually save removed
-Simplified calculations for some branches that were overly detailed
-Added animations to replace dynamic images for Fiona and Rikki lewd scenes in Prologue/Ch1
-Added more conversational nuance with Jaye interactions depending on how MC breaks up with her (Ch7 onward)
-Fixed some functions with incorrect spacing or indentation that could lead to unpredictable results
-Surprisingly long list of spelling/grammatical errors AI found have been corrected
Caveat: While this patch will make future players unable to have an unknown world state entering the epilogue, the sheer number of changes have some likelihood of breaking saves. We'll try to regression test it and ensure we don't, but at the end of the day a bug-free game is more important now that we've finalized the game.
With any luck, 1.10b will be our final update until Kent and I can remaster the content we have in the hopper.