nyqz

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Mar 17, 2018
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So, uh... I've decided to plot KoD developement speed sometime ago, and here it is.

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Some notes. My starting date (X axis) is Noxian Nights 1.2 release, or 28.09.16, even though they've revealed some concept arts much earlier. I'm counting scenes as defined by the game's gallery, even though some scenes are just variants, and some are highly unique. CG's are counted by raw image count in the scene folder. The intro removed in 0.4 is counted as 1 scene. We don't know exactly when Sierra left, so I'm just marking the date of Hrein's announcement.

Surprisingly, it shows that development pace hasn't slowed down significantly until 0.9, believe it or not. 0.9 was the worst update, with little content, and the longest wait by far. 167 days!
Interesting. 0.9 does have a very large quantity of art that is unused or barely used, with all the molestation mini cg and the new assets for the human settlements.
 

MarshmallowCasserole

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Jun 7, 2018
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Yeah, they've added a lot of other stuff like new BGs and character sprites (although, those are somewhat generic TBH, not all of them even have unique hairdos) and the groping system should be probably counted as a scene (not sure how much CG). That does make 0.9 look a little better.

But that also confirms that they don't have a good plan for the story, sadly. They should've foreseen the problem with creating a big story hub. Instead it's obvious that they've finished 0.8 and then realized that the next update is really heavy on non-erotic content.

Really hope they get it right in the end.

Oh, and another thing. It takes them ~110 days per update most of the time (0.9 not included). This almost guarantees no updates in 2019, and late (read: 31st) Jan 2020 as the earliest reasonable date.
 

souldead341

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Oct 16, 2017
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Wonder if we’ll get an update before 2020..
If they were serious about updates speeding up, there should be one in December (90ish days, compared to the 120ish from before). If they don't keep to the faster updates, you're looking at the end of January or later.
 

Dragon139

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Apr 17, 2018
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If they were serious about updates speeding up, there should be one in December (90ish days, compared to the 120ish from before). If they don't keep to the faster updates, you're looking at the end of January or later.
They still haven't released their post update bonus scene pack yet.
 

Anmitsu

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Jul 28, 2017
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Hmm so yeah I didn't say anything about the new update yet because after checking it out I kinda lost interest for so long that only now I decided to visit the thread again. After nearly 2 months... I think this alone says a lot already...

So this version was supposed to lay foundations for the future ones and while I don't know whether or not it properly did I can already say that it just bored me the fuck out. I hope it was worth it for the (far :KEK:) future. We've visited 2 (?) new locations that just happen to look exactly the same and got to see few new <imo not promising> characters. So we've yet a few more pointless, uninteresting, redundant characters that we could go without but they've wasted time on creating and introducing them anyway. Except the Katarina wannabe one to this I'm looking forward to. With the new locations and characters; few seemingly pointless quests were added as well throughout which I was just spamming "skip", "skip", "skip", "skip", "skip", "skip" until they weren't done without reading the dialogues so yeah; I didn't find them interesting enough to actually bother myself with reading. Once again the main story is left intact and we've got something of this, something of that, here and there but nothing that would feel meaningful enough to fill in the gap especially considering how long we had to wait for this version. This game manages to go in any and in every direction without actually going anywhere.
Impressive; that's indeed impressive but I don't think that's quite the point. At least it shouldn't have been.

The scenes for me were mainly meh, hehe "mainly", can I even say that with the total of 3 scenes? LUL
The worst one was the "ritual" thing and as I've seen a lot of stuff in porn that I now wish I didn't ever see without blinking an eye; this scene somehow still managed to disgust me. Actually after two months of the version 9.0 being out I checked out this scene only now because I didn't unlock it in my playthrough and after finishing the game I was so disappointed and discouraged that I didn't even want to see the last scane. Can you imagine? It was absolutely unthinkable before.
Scene with Sabia drinking orc nut I don't consider good or bad just neutral I'd say.
The last one with minotaur action was great though. Especially the submissive variant.
Actually that's the only positive thing I can see in this update maybe adding Katarina wannabe too if it'll be done right.

And so here we are; after nearly 2 months we're still waiting for that bonus pack to be released.
Sure as hell doesn't get your hopes up for things getting better.
 

Cormac

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May 18, 2017
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So, more 3 or 4 months to the next update and more 2 or 3 scenes. I wish if they would do someday an update with at least 6 scenes, or 10
 

purplepower

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Feb 9, 2018
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Curious if would of been easier for them to work another parody porn game rather than making an OC. A parody already has underlying backstory and characterization which makes it easier to work with.
 

Viressa

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May 24, 2018
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Curious if would of been easier for them to work another parody porn game rather than making an OC. A parody already has underlying backstory and characterization which makes it easier to work with.
Noxian Nights had so little to do with LoL that it basically only used the names and character designs. I don't think the fact that these are original characters is the problem. The problem is they have to do backgrounds and game mechanics and stuff all from scratch, and they won't stop expanding the scope of the game with new characters and locations.
 

psycohunter96

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Aug 19, 2017
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i dont know what the patreon update says but in discord they say the pack variants are over... I think its safe to say "WE IN THE ENDGAME NOW BOYS"
 

psycohunter96

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Aug 19, 2017
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I hope that mean they just try to focus on main game
I hope so too friend but I kind of have lost faith in them...
could you be more specific please? :)
I dont know much in general i got the assumption that they will stop the rewards from discord messages. I am saying we in the endgame because i think it became a shitshow and i wonder if the people that payed for the reward tier will get something and not get scammed even more!
 

MarshmallowCasserole

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I dont know much in general i got the assumption that they will stop the rewards from discord messages. I am saying we in the endgame because i think it became a shitshow and i wonder if the people that payed for the reward tier will get something and not get scammed even more!
That does not make much sense to me. They are having problems in the story department, not art. Cancelling bonus art may be indeed an attempt to focus on the game.
 

psycohunter96

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That does not make much sense to me. They are having problems in the story department, not art. Cancelling bonus art may be indeed an attempt to focus on the game.
i mean i agree with you i hope so too but it took them 1 and a half months to come to that conclusion with no communication?? Anyway i hope someone posts the update cause i am curious on what they have to say
 

TommQ

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Dec 28, 2017
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Update Post
Hey everyone. There will be news regarding the future of art/variant pack rewards at the bottom of this post. That said, art/variant packs will be out within a few days for those that are on the respective reward tiers.

For things coming in 0.10 that have been completed so far:
- Follow up for drinking with Neve in the bar.
- We get to see a snippet into what Lynn is planning, and her interactions with Andian.
- Ornshakar ritual lead-in (for the patron pic scene).
- Maply finally gets to look after her best friend full time.
- Quest with Kia, Bris and the tentacle monster. Includes a few additional dom options for those pursuing a dominant Sabia. (And to help balance out the sub and dom content).

Things that we still want to include for 0.10:
- Adding more interactions to the Whitecrest villages, and Amelia.
- Kira/Bandit camp - plans to include a quest relating to another bandit camp (this one is much more prepared, and more more proficient than Sabia's last run-in with an opposing bandit camp).
- The captains each have a lead in and quest for Sabia. With the adjustments to the combat system, we are planning to have a unique fight with unique mechanics for each path that reflects the theme of each quest. Nds is working on the fights.

Variant Packs future:
We've found internally that the variant packs are bottleneck for us. With so many layers for scenes, going back and familiarizing once again with them requires a fair bit of time. We feel that this is time better spent on working on entirely new content and being able to focus entirely on the next patch, instead of rehashing already completed scenes. To this end we will be retiring the Variant Packs as a reward. We want to offer a replacement for this and have some ideas. For those on the $25+ tiers that this affects, we will release an additional post detailing more information and some ideas we have when we release the the 0.9 art/variant packs.

Thank you for your support guys.
 
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