I remember the transition being a bit jarring imo. One day he's calling everyone Mistress this and Mistress that (even Junko), the next day he's on a first name basis and behaving like he has always been pals with them.
Also is the dialogue with Alessandra different for SS and promoted K5? I can no longer recall that
I will apologize in advance for the stupidity of my update this week in that I went WAY overboard with the sub poll. I spent this week with Anais quite a bit about a lot of stuff and we ended up working on the sub poll together. We had so much fun doing it (my happiest time working on KG were Episode 5 and parts of Episode 6 when she was helping me a lot) and the combination of nostalgia and fun just carried over to a little extra work as I honestly was just enjoying hanging out with her in this specific context/workflow. We've always clicked better out of the office as I tend to have to be a bit more professional/formal and so does she but here...way more friend/peer relationship versus subordinate/boss. So I really enjoyed it.
Long story short, here is the update for the week.
1) Game Renders:
60 renders --> now just over 1,200 renders after 12 weeks so basically maintaining 100 per week ok. I didn't do as many game renders because of the sub poll which is very typical and especially this week as we did too many (sorry!) but overall, did way more than 100 renders for everything. The first five sample images are from this part of the work this week. The 60 renders were all on the sub path as that's what I am working on for likely the next 2-3 weeks or so give or take maybe one scene on dom side. (dom is a bit ahead overall right now in story renders)
Added about 10 more animations overall. I think I formally have about 21 right now but I usually don't track this too hard until I'm getting closer to the update itself being ready. (always last as most know to place in the game and usually not in the Test Version)
I did 72 sub poll renders (yeah...) so technically did 132 renders overall.
2) Sub Poll
I had already done 18 prior renders, and added another 72 (I know!) and some are still rendering because I have a few that are "screens" in a theatre and you kind of have to render the "screens" first and then place them in another render in the actual theatre room. So it's a bit more work. The entire set is going to be 92 renders in three locations 13 in spot 1, 34 in spot 2, and 44 in spot 3. I know this is overkill and I apologize but I really just had a lot of nostalgia and good vibes working with Anais like the old days so we just did a bit more this time. I admit this wasn't the best game week for work so I'll try and do more when free time gets better.
The images after the first five are samples from two of the three locations. (spots 2 and 3)
I should be able to release all images within the next day or two -- just one last big set rendering. I'm not sure if I can even do that many images in a post (92) so I may do a zip file or multiple posts worst case. I only know Patreon has a 25 option limit on polls but no clue on images so I'll find out soon enough!
3) RTX 5090
So just recently I was given the impression from two big game devs that 50 series cards were a long way away for Daz Studio support but now they just released an Alpha build that DOES support these cards. It will still take a bit of time to get it nice and ready for public release, but this changes my plans to get a second RTX 4090 system. Now I think I will wait a bit and just go with my original plan to get a nice RTX 5090 system when Daz is workable with it. I am most worried about my current plugins and other little programs that may lose support with a huge change in their code, etc. But we'll see. I'll figure it out and still have a 3090 here for emergency backup rendering. (I still have it rigged to an old AMD 5950x system)
4) Dom Poll
The poll looks like the office won! I'm looking forward to working on this set after the sub one is done! I will NOT go overboard this time even if Anais tries, heh. But I'll still try and make it a a very good set and longer than my planned 25ish as now it would seem pathetic in comparison. (But to be fair, the sub poll has some fluff shots meaning I could have skipped some to just go all out only kink content, it's a little more like game renders to me, flowing...)
5) Time to relax tonight!
I've promised her as a favor to try a game she loves right now and she's coming over to make sure I do that lol. So I'll take a little mental break tonight before sleeping and then kind of focus back on the grind again. I slept in really late this morning (I almost always wake up between 9-10am most days by habit so afternoon is late for me heh) and loved it so have a bit more energy right now!
Please have a great week all and I hope you enjoy the set coming soon, and I'm looking forward to the dom one too!
For Dom Yes, For Sub… not to sure of an extent because it hasn’t started… although Kiyomi is meeting sub kane (on the orders of Cole) will be an interesting development and ofc there’s Alessandra’s angle… with how she wants us to rat out any developments of what the Dekocks are doing and ofc we’ve seen previews of her/and her faction with Liam… love the conflicting interests and the choices that’ll be difficult to be made..
oh and there’s different leaders for the Revolutions WS C…
For sub it’s -
Leader: Alessandra Karlsson, Cynthia DeKock, Dominique Karlsson, or OliviaKarlsson (greatly depends on choices)
and Dom-
Leader: Alessandra Karlsson, Kane DeKock, Olivia Karlsson, or Angelica (varies based on morality for all couples/solo possibilities - so Kane solo or female solo or couple works together jointly)
Would think whichever leader you want it’ll matter if Liam Survives or not
"Hey, Kane thanks for joining the good guys... as a gesture of good faith, we're going to show you... this empty chair."
"By the way, this empty chair represents what we're going to do to Seth if you even think about betraying us."
I find perfectly reasonable them having an "insurance" with Seth. I mean, what do they know about you? To Yvette and Astrid, Kane seems a nice guy, but do you really would trust him blindly in their position?
Yeah, me neither.
In addition, that's an empty menace. Even if you play the fake revolution path, it's fairly obvious they aren't people capable to order the cold-blooded murder of an innocent.
I find perfectly reasonable them having an "insurance" with Seth. I mean, what do they know about you? To and Astrid, Kane seems a nice guy, but do you really would trust him blindly in their position?
Yeah, me neither.
In addition, that's an empty menace. Even if you play the fake revolution path, it's fairly obvious they aren't people capable to order the cold-blooded murder of an innocent.
I find perfectly reasonable them having an "insurance" with Seth. I mean, what do they know about you? To Yvette and Astrid, Kane seems a nice guy, but do you really would trust him blindly in their position?
Yeah, me neither.
In addition, that's an empty menace. Even if you play the fake revolution path, it's fairly obvious they aren't people capable to order the cold-blooded murder of an innocent.
And there are ways to do what Yvette attempted. But the way she did it only works if you haven’t fucked the person over once already, and all but guaranteed that they view you as the most evil individual to have ever existed.
Kane knows that the KG board was behind the assault on Seth and everything that resulted in Kane ending up in prison and at the Sadism Factory.
Olivia told Kane that the KG board most likely wanted him to punish the one responsible for what had taken place… which would be the KG board members. Yvette is a board member as far as Kane knows, who is now once more threatening Seth.
I can only assume that Yvette is either a double agent who’s trying to sabotage the rebellion while protecting her kids, or she’s so misinformed or out of the loop that she just doesn’t understand what she’s doing.
And there are ways to do wwehat Yvette attempted. But the way she did it only works if you haven’t fucked the person over once already, and all but guaranteed that they views you as the most evil individual to have ever existed.
Kane knows that the KG board was behind the assault on Seth and everything that resulted in Kane ending up in prison and at the Sadism Factory.
Olivia told Kane that the KG board most likely wanted him to punish the one responsible for what had taken place… which would be the KG board members. Yvette is a board member, who is now once more threatening Seth.
I can only assume that Yvette is either a double agent who’s trying to sabotage the rebellion while protecting her kids, or she’s so misinformed or out of the loop that she just doesn’t understand what she’s doing.
"The board" isn't a monolith. Even if they agree that Kane needed to be lured into the program we don't know if Yvette disagreed with the method, agreed, or just wanted it done and didn't care and just voted however Veronica did(this is implied to happen a lot). Alessandra was the one who was personally involved with the operation with Elena acting as the face to bring him in.
And even though the Karlsson Group has never been kind, the context of their nearly doomed world precluded that, from what was stated it only turned as vicious as we know it today after Alexander and Calista had their falling out and a now crazed Alexander raised the next generation of crazed leaders.
Yvette and Calista may very well have acted as a balance to the likes of Alexander and Elena in the old days.
This isn't to say she is kind, just not cruel. At least by the standards of that world. Her threatening Seth is just a plain stupid poorly thought out move on her part. Probably to illustrate that even the reformers are willing to play dirty, but still stupid since Kane is the wild card in all this and she has no idea if he can get to a position to retaliate against her or how else this can blow in her face. Too many unknowns with Kane to deliberately provoke him with his family. Especially a Dom Path one.
"Not understanding what she's doing" is the best description.
But nothing will happen. "Retaliation" isn't really the name of the game and Kane is most likely to over look that. Especially on a revolution path.
And like it was said, it's probably more bark than bite anyway. She's not Juliette after all.
I find perfectly reasonable them having an "insurance" with Seth. I mean, what do they know about you? To Yvette and Astrid, Kane seems a nice guy, but do you really would trust him blindly in their position?
Yeah, me neither.
In addition, that's an empty menace. Even if you play the fake revolution path, it's fairly obvious they aren't people capable to order the cold-blooded murder of an innocent.
Astrid is a flawless idealist and yes, she would probably never order Seth's murder regardless of Dom Kane's behavior, but I wouldn't underestimate Yvette's resolve. Dover rightly pointed out that there's already been precedent with Yvette and here you can die for less.
Ofc, Dom Kane isn't some pathetic servant whose life isn't that important in the eyes of the Karlssons, he's the son of two of the Company's founders, but when it comes to things like regime change, Kane's kinship privileges may not be enough. So I'd be cautious about betraying Yvette if we're on a true revolution route.
Astrid is a flawless idealist and yes, she would probably never order Seth's murder regardless of Dom Kane's behavior, but I wouldn't underestimate Yvette's resolve. Dover rightly pointed out that there's already been precedent with Yvette and here you can die for less.
Ofc, Dom Kane isn't some pathetic servant whose life isn't that important in the eyes of the Karlssons, he's the son of two of the Company's founders, but when it comes to things like regime change, Kane's kinship privileges may not be enough. So I'd be cautious about betraying Yvette if we're on a true revolution route.
Her position isn't strong. If she acts against Seth and Kane does well in the Gambit she's toast. Veronica will not act to favor the revolution over the Gambit, especially for a revolution that she questions the wiseness of pursuing and thus far has ignored. She'll throw them under the bus to keep Kane engaged with the program if he rats out her Mom.
Yvette would be isolated from any other power that could help her and complicit in revolution.