Any ETA on when that update may roll out?
I have no issue being patient if there isn’t a current ETA. The story and development really has my attention.
HTML Invasive Species 2: The Hive [v0.2.9.4] [ArmyofRobots]
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I have no issue being patient if there isn’t a current ETA. The story and development really has my attention.
We're hoping to have something by first week of July. When we lost one of our developers a few months back it really slowed down our process as none of us are "full time" working on this, we all do bits here and there on the side. But we're definitely getting close to getting a major release out the door.
Best path? Generally the sneakiest, less direct approach results in the least amount of suspicion points; try to get the stat upgrades before you get too far down the story as your stats determine some events. We're working on a journal with more plot hints, but it's still a ways away.
As you may have noticed, we're delayed again; the full bulk of what we want to have finished in this release is proving to be more work than anticipated, but we're still chipping away. We've kicked around the idea of adding some polls here for people to vote on things/people/options to include into the game as a lot of the mechanics reach proper maturity for expansion. We'll see what we can come up with (Suggestions welcome)
Personally, I think you should be focusing more on the basics instead of trying to keep adding new features. The writing of the sex scenes in IS I was really top notch incredible and I've noticed it seems to have slipped in quality in IS II despite adding pictures and more background fluff. I'm good with even non-pic random tentacle encounters if the writing of the scene is there.
Progress updates are always appreciated, but the quality of writing and game dynamics take time which is no issue. Do yalls thing with continuing to build quality work. If y’all can roll out small game updates that aren’t a distraction that’s always appreciated, but otherwise we can be patient. It’s not like we are paying anyone of y’all for this.
Yeah; we were hoping to have this update out a while back and we've run into a lot of hurdles; the good news is this coming update (assuming we get it working) covers a number of things we wanted, vast updates of content in some areas, fixes a number of things, etc. For example the Random-repeatable events/encounters have more than doubled. We have high hopes; we're just struggling to make the time to get things finished. Losing one of our devs set us back far more than we expected and we're paying the price for that.
Slow, but moving towards a release; we broke some things with the new player object model and we're still running that down. We will have a release out before this month ends; more specific than that is hard to say as it depends on everyone on the team getting their parts finished and combined without things exploding.
We'll do an updated guide after the next release as a number of things will be different. Apologies for the delay.
We're hoping to have the next version out by the end of next weekend with a release candidate on Friday (week from today) for internal testing.
Update should include:
- Kim arc conclusion
- Set up for Chapter 3 (No tech level 3 or level 3 techs yet)
- Taking random girl encounters from 3 to 7
- 2 New characters added and complete from encounter to capture and cave scenes
- Some fixes and image replacements
- Combat-ish content (one fight, mostly to see if players like the direction and then to expand on the mechanics if they do)
Update should include:
- Kim arc conclusion
- Set up for Chapter 3 (No tech level 3 or level 3 techs yet)
- Taking random girl encounters from 3 to 7
- 2 New characters added and complete from encounter to capture and cave scenes
- Some fixes and image replacements
- Combat-ish content (one fight, mostly to see if players like the direction and then to expand on the mechanics if they do)
Still a lot to go and our timetable is slipping slightly. Our first build today was super buggy, so it's being looked at by the Dev to see what's wrong. We're also waiting on a bit of content to be finished for Random girl 7 and one of the new characters.
Difficult to say; we have one character's content left to do and one random's. The story part is nearly done; we're still getting some crashes and other bugs in the "Tech 2" portion of the game that we're trying to track down. We might release without some content and release that in another couple of weeks as a ".1" update to that version, but we certainly cannot release it with the current game bugs.
Don't know if this is allready noticed or addressed, but if you check Olivias Girl Data once it will open every time again if you try the return button.
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Oops; that's a new one, I'll pass it on to our dev so it can be addressed with the bugs from our last internal build. Thanks for spotting it!
We're definitely trying; as was mentioned we unfortunately lost one of our devs right before some major work and it has taken *FAR* longer than planned to get this next update done.