To make it clear:
0.27 will have a new Client that will work without Internet Connection.
- As I Understand he worries about Piracy, cause this Client will come for all $5+ at the same time.
"0.27 won't be just about bug fixes, though. Lisa will get new late night events, Kira will get new events in the living room, Ann will get new events in the bathroom, there will be new yoga events, etc. You'll see the full change log on release day.
In the past, we said how we've been working on a fundamentally new client. We're aiming to release it for 0.27. It's quite different from the current one, but first let's talk a bit of history.
Over three years ago we started working on the Big Brother. Originally the game had a simple unity client with no online features. in 0.4 we added Patreon authorization and while the players still had to download major updates manually, the game started to automatically download minor patches that didn't have any images. And when we started working on Glamour, from the very beginning, the client-server system was the very foundation of the game.
An online connection lets players update the game automatically without manually downloading anything, and authorized users have cloud saves so they can play on PC or Android without losing their progress. Unfortunately it also has a big downside. Ping. People who live far away from the server suffer from lag, sometimes there are problems on the server side, and some people don't have the access to the internet 100% of the time. We have an offline version, but it has over a month delay from the online version.
So we've decided to try an make an offline client that would fix these problems without removing the online functionality.
Here's how it's going to work:
- You download a new client. It's a complete version of the game, full functionality, images, sounds, code and logic, all of it.
- You start the game and it checks for updates. If there are any, there's an option to update the client. Once you click on it, you'll have to authorize on Patreon and the game automatically downloads the update.
- If there are no new updates or you want to play the old version, you can just press "play". You won't need the internet connection, there will be no lag, and it will work even faster than our current offline Unity client."
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- Higher ranked Patreons will get other rewards currently not defined (it was mentioned some extra pics in Szenes)
Also with 0.27 will be a mayor update of the Max Route (see other Post for more)