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The walkthrough is alright, even though it doesn't say what the other choices do, but I'd much rather have a walkthrough mod that shows you what the choices do, are there any plans for such a mod?
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I'll take "Stupid excuses" for a hundred please, Alex.
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It's the end of the month again, so it's time for a monthly update! As I mentioned in the last update, I have some big changes going on! New home, new job and all that stuff. The promised 0.4 release will hopefully happen very soon, but as a final insult my computer's data hard disk died or was damaged during the move and I'm currently slowly restoring everything important from backups. Most of the data should be safe in source control and backups, so hopefully nothing too major is missing. I even had FedEx send me a hard disk restore from Backblaze, where I have most of the 3d-related data as my internet connection is way too slow to download terabytes of data at the moment. It looks like most of the stuff is OK, except for some older 3d-scenes that are probably gone forever. Fortunately, that doesn't matter unless I want to do a lot of re-renders as the final .jpg files are safe.
New update in a few days once I have managed to wrestle everything in order!
And as always, I'm not going to take any Patreon payments until 0.4 is out (I'll temporarily suspend my Patreon at the end of each month until then).
The rest of the post is mostly copy and paste from my previous updates for those who are new or want to be reminded of what will be coming next. See you in the next post, thanks for your support and patience!
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So, TL;DR:
* Next release 0.4 will have Alice's full storyline.
* Some new tech in 0.4: interactive 3D and pre-rendered movies, at least a few of each. When I get the pipeline (and my skills) working smoothly, next releases should have more.
* After 0.4 I will try out a bit faster release schedule with partial updates instead of releasing large, complete routes that take ages to finish. We'll see how it goes.
* Steam release at some point after 0.4 is out. Steam has been pretty random with adult games, so who knows what can happen.
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I can barely put into words how amusing I find it that my favorite girl had an ending in the initial release years ago, and there are people still waiting for theirs, haha
Damn, this is fucking funny hahaha
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It's the end of the month again, so it's time for a monthly update! As I mentioned in the last update, I have some big changes going on! New home, new job and all that stuff. The promised 0.4 release will hopefully happen very soon, but as a final insult my computer's data hard disk died or was damaged during the move and I'm currently slowly restoring everything important from backups. Most of the data should be safe in source control and backups, so hopefully nothing too major is missing. I even had FedEx send me a hard disk restore from Backblaze, where I have most of the 3d-related data as my internet connection is way too slow to download terabytes of data at the moment. It looks like most of the stuff is OK, except for some older 3d-scenes that are probably gone forever. Fortunately, that doesn't matter unless I want to do a lot of re-renders as the final .jpg files are safe.
New update in a few days once I have managed to wrestle everything in order!
And as always, I'm not going to take any Patreon payments until 0.4 is out (I'll temporarily suspend my Patreon at the end of each month until then).
The rest of the post is mostly copy and paste from my previous updates for those who are new or want to be reminded of what will be coming next. See you in the next post, thanks for your support and patience!
--
So, TL;DR:
* Next release 0.4 will have Alice's full storyline.
* Some new tech in 0.4: interactive 3D and pre-rendered movies, at least a few of each. When I get the pipeline (and my skills) working smoothly, next releases should have more.
* After 0.4 I will try out a bit faster release schedule with partial updates instead of releasing large, complete routes that take ages to finish. We'll see how it goes.
* Steam release at some point after 0.4 is out. Steam has been pretty random with adult games, so who knows what can happen.
more excuses than an average cyberpunk fan
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It's the end of the month again, so it's time for a monthly update! As I mentioned in the last update, I have some big changes going on! New home, new job and all that stuff. The promised 0.4 release will hopefully happen very soon, but as a final insult my computer's data hard disk died or was damaged during the move and I'm currently slowly restoring everything important from backups. Most of the data should be safe in source control and backups, so hopefully nothing too major is missing. I even had FedEx send me a hard disk restore from Backblaze, where I have most of the 3d-related data as my internet connection is way too slow to download terabytes of data at the moment. It looks like most of the stuff is OK, except for some older 3d-scenes that are probably gone forever. Fortunately, that doesn't matter unless I want to do a lot of re-renders as the final .jpg files are safe.
New update in a few days once I have managed to wrestle everything in order!
And as always, I'm not going to take any Patreon payments until 0.4 is out (I'll temporarily suspend my Patreon at the end of each month until then).
The rest of the post is mostly copy and paste from my previous updates for those who are new or want to be reminded of what will be coming next. See you in the next post, thanks for your support and patience!
--
So, TL;DR:
* Next release 0.4 will have Alice's full storyline.
* Some new tech in 0.4: interactive 3D and pre-rendered movies, at least a few of each. When I get the pipeline (and my skills) working smoothly, next releases should have more.
* After 0.4 I will try out a bit faster release schedule with partial updates instead of releasing large, complete routes that take ages to finish. We'll see how it goes.
* Steam release at some point after 0.4 is out. Steam has been pretty random with adult games, so who knows what can happen.
Why make such an extensive lie, just tell people it's not ready. It's not like he is scamming and taking people pateron money. He has paused the payments so why go to such hassle to justify the delays.
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It's the end of the month again, so it's time for a monthly update! As I mentioned in the last update, I have some big changes going on! New home, new job and all that stuff. The promised 0.4 release will hopefully happen very soon, but as a final insult my computer's data hard disk died or was damaged during the move and I'm currently slowly restoring everything important from backups. Most of the data should be safe in source control and backups, so hopefully nothing too major is missing. I even had FedEx send me a hard disk restore from Backblaze, where I have most of the 3d-related data as my internet connection is way too slow to download terabytes of data at the moment. It looks like most of the stuff is OK, except for some older 3d-scenes that are probably gone forever. Fortunately, that doesn't matter unless I want to do a lot of re-renders as the final .jpg files are safe.
New update in a few days once I have managed to wrestle everything in order!
And as always, I'm not going to take any Patreon payments until 0.4 is out (I'll temporarily suspend my Patreon at the end of each month until then).
The rest of the post is mostly copy and paste from my previous updates for those who are new or want to be reminded of what will be coming next. See you in the next post, thanks for your support and patience!
--
So, TL;DR:
* Next release 0.4 will have Alice's full storyline.
* Some new tech in 0.4: interactive 3D and pre-rendered movies, at least a few of each. When I get the pipeline (and my skills) working smoothly, next releases should have more.
* After 0.4 I will try out a bit faster release schedule with partial updates instead of releasing large, complete routes that take ages to finish. We'll see how it goes.
* Steam release at some point after 0.4 is out. Steam has been pretty random with adult games, so who knows what can happen.
Be truthful one lie only leads to another.
Also no matter how much you sugarcoat it with one false reason or another people know something is fishy.
It's like no matter how Jada saying "it is an entaglement" when everyone know she cheated on her husband with her sons friend.
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Its a mix match of conflicting information to be honest, he says he has everything backed up online (backblaze cloud services) yet the older "3d" stuff is somehow still only on the drive? Why did he not back that up long ago if its older with all the other "terabytes" of data. All this says to me is that later on he will claim that he wont be able to do to do other paths due to some of the files went missing.
However to be real here why mention any of this at all? There is no reason to even let us know about any drive issues. " New update in a few days once I have managed to wrestle everything in order! " They already said in previous posts that 4.0 was finished months ago so why not upload and release it?
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Why spend so much time bitching about what is and what isn't happening, just shut up and wait, no one is losing money because of the delays, so there's no reason to complain about anything.
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Because all I see are impatient people complaining for no reason.
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So just let it be then, all you end up doing is complaining about the complainers and becoming exactly what you end up being mad about in the first place.
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People aren't even mad, they're just disappointed that this guy just keeps piling excuses onto excuses. Its been 3 years since this guy has released an actual game update. Not a progress update. An actual playable update.
There are games with slow updates, there are developers with bad luck and then there's this game. There's only so many times we can listen to "Oh yeah, the update is almost done. But XYZ happened, so it'll be next month." If you think people can wait 3 years of that, well, congratulations, you're the world's newest saint.
The rest of us? We're just tired of it.
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So would you prefer it if the developer didn't say anything? At least this developer is giving us reasons, whether it's the truth or not, I know plenty of developers who just disappear and don't say anything, only to be confused that people lost interest and moved on when they finally post a new update.
I actually prefer to hear something from the developer than nothing at all.
Exactly, I don't know why he feels he need to make all this things up. He ain't taking patreon money just be straight with his support base.
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"Why yes, teacher, I did have my essay written and ready for class. Unfortunately, as I was excitedly running to class with my essay in hand, all typed and formatted and ready for you, I tripped. Yes, I tripped and my essay, which was all ready for you, fell out of my hand and into a giant paper shredder that was in the hall."
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August 30th 2019: script for Alice's story is currently about 75% done and I should be able to finish the first draft during September. The 0.4 release target could be around November/December.
September 29th 2019: script is now ready. Currently, the planned release date is for November/December and the estimate probably gets more accurate as we get closer. (Still no excuses)
October 30th 2019: The progress has been steady and the script is now mostly complete. (Read above where it says script is now ready). Most of the backgrounds and 3D-scenes are also ready, so the most significant work is now done. The target for 0.4 release date is currently December, and the holidays should give me plenty of time to wrap things up. (Read the date again after reading that).
November 29th 2019: The work has now entered the last lap, and I should be soon able to estimate the final release date. (2019 and it has entered its last lap).
The original plan for the release was maybe somewhere in December, but I will be spending a few weeks elsewhere during the winter holidays, so I will have to push the release later to January. (Now the excuses have started since the post above this one says the holidays should give him plenty of time).
December 23rd 2019: The only critical stuff left is mostly scripting, some editing and other polishing. (If its the only stuff left does he add one letter to the scripting per day?).
I'll be back in early January and the final 0.4 release date should be at some point during January/February. After that, I'll experiment with a bit faster release cycle as mentioned in previous updates. (Uh huh)
January 30th 2020: I might be able to squeeze 0.4 release to February, but I'll probably want to polish it more. (By this point he has been using the polishing/editing and making visuals better excuse since November).
February 28th 2020: this month, I mostly spent my time polishing the story, adding scripting and other related stuff. (More polishing. If he spent this much time on polishing the story and polishing/editing visuals to make them better, than this release should be the greatest VN of all time).
the final release in April if everything goes well. (Still giving release dates).
March 30th 2020: The following news is pretty similar to my previous update post. (He wasn't lying. Its damn near a copy/paste update with a couple words changed).
When I had any free time, I mostly spent it polishing the story, adding scripting and other related stuff. (Greatest. VN. Ever.....of all time.)
April 29th 2020: Nothing, just a copy/paste post again with a few words changed. There was nothing new, just him telling us how he was working on a laptop and playing with Blender.
May 30th 2020: I'm finally back at my place and can work remotely from now on. This means I can start focusing my attention on finishing Offcuts 0.4 and Alice's storyline! (Think we can call Guinness world records and tell them we have someone that has the worlds shortest attention span).
June 29th 2020: started fully working on the new content once more. (Read date.)
At this point, most of the content is ready, but some tedious and boring stuff from script tweaking to editing is still left. (Also said in November that it has entered its last lap. 7 months later most of the content is ready. Oh! And more polishing. Now we know why it hasn't been released. He polished it too much and it exploded in his face.)
July 30th 2020: In related news, I'm also changing jobs in real life! (First changing job/moving excuse.)
Rest of the post is just crap thats been said since February.
August 30th 2020: The release target for 0.4 is the week between October 12 and 18. (Now he's getting into making release dates 2 months after the post instead of 1 month after).
Copy/paste in the rest of it. No news.
September 29th 2020: As a quick reminder, a quick technical test release should be out at some point between October 12 and 18. (Now its a quick technical test release but in August it was a release.)
Again, just copy/paste. No news after.
October 30th 2020: The end is near, and new 3D tech stuff promised for 0.4 is pretty much ready. (Another post saying this.)
Anyway, the tech stuff is now mostly done and finished. Unfortunately, it did delay 0.4 more than I would have liked to, but maybe it will prove it's worth in the future. Or maybe I'll just silently drop it, who knows? (Wow, just fucking wow. If anyone wants to know, the first he mentioned of 3D tech stuff was in a post on December 23rd 2019, almost a year. Gotta say though, if it is so important and amazing, why has it been 3 years?)
November 29th 2020: (A tech bugtest update, not much going on in the first half of the post.)
Other than that, tweaking the final script and hunting down issues and typos is always going on. It's something I could do forever, but at some point, I'll just have to put it out. Hopefully soonish. (Looks like he really can do it forever. We'll see if he actually can put it out.)
December 30th 2020: The only real task still left is basically some script editing and other typo/bug hunting. (Another month, another script edit post. I'm starting to think this guy has a severe case of OCD and every single word must be perfect otherwise he throws out the entire script and writes it again.)
Gonna leave my copy/paste right here. Rest of the post is nothing.
January 30th 2021: Unlike the previous monthly updates, this will be a short one as the end and release 0.4 is finally in sight. (Every. Single. Post. Has been saying the release is in sight since November 2019. How fucking delusional can a person be? I'm serious. I've never seen this amount before.)
All content is now more or less ready, the only thing still in progress is editing, scripting and bug/typo hunting. (Its something I can do forever.....he sure is telling the truth this one time.)
February 27th 2021: Amazing, nothing in this post. Just him saying he's grinding out the last of 0.4.
March 30th 2021: Tech demo download. Nothing happening. An episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County is more exciting than this post.
April 29th 2021: All that is left to do now is grinding the final details and edits, boring and slow work for me. Still progressing, no matter how slowly. Better not to promise any explicit release dates for 0.4 yet, but if I had to guess, I would say more than one month, hopefully less than two. (Starting to think if he would not spend months on editing to make it the most perfect thing that has graced this planet it would have been released years ago.)
May 30th 2021: Not much to say at this point, the only thing left is finding enough time for the final polish and release. (Every. Fucking. Month.)
June 29th 2021: I'll have a solid four-week summer vacation in July (starting from 9th), so I should have plenty of time to finally finish release 0.4. I might as well take full advantage of it, so my guesstimate for 0.4 release is when my vacation ends, end of July/start of August. Previous holidays have always given a nice boost to my productivity. (A 0.00001% boost?)
July 30th 2021: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Stencil should run for office. He can make posts that have walls of text but never actually say anything.
August 30th 2021: My vacation ended and the bad thing about trying to have a long vacation is that things can fall apart at work when you are gone. Nothing major, just the usual putting out fires. (Only interesting thing was this excuse.)
September 29th 2021: And at this point, I have so much content ready I could do it for years. So starting from October 1, I'll force myself to start publishing stuff here, hopefully at least a few times a week.
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October 30th 2021: The plan to continually post content didn't last long before it devolved into slow tinkering where I'm just endlessly rotating the 3D models while wasting time. (Wasting time is the most honest he has been in these posts.)
November 29th 2021: There is nothing major left to do anymore. (How many times have I posted this sentence so far?)
I'm probably going to give the script one more read-through and maybe hunt some typos, but that's about it. (Must have decided to scrap the script and redo it. Again. For the 10th time.)
Hopefully, we can start the year with a solid foundation forward and I can start picking up some more speed again after this death march of a release. Let's do our best! (Failed before you even got to the starting line.)
December 30th 2021: Literally nothing. Such a waste.
Pretty sure everyone is aware of the shit since January 2022. Won't post those. Damn, this has made me even more depressed over this shitshow. Just wanted to show some of the shit over the years.
September 29th 2019: script is now ready. Currently, the planned release date is for November/December and the estimate probably gets more accurate as we get closer. (Still no excuses)
October 30th 2019: The progress has been steady and the script is now mostly complete. (Read above where it says script is now ready). Most of the backgrounds and 3D-scenes are also ready, so the most significant work is now done. The target for 0.4 release date is currently December, and the holidays should give me plenty of time to wrap things up. (Read the date again after reading that).
November 29th 2019: The work has now entered the last lap, and I should be soon able to estimate the final release date. (2019 and it has entered its last lap).
The original plan for the release was maybe somewhere in December, but I will be spending a few weeks elsewhere during the winter holidays, so I will have to push the release later to January. (Now the excuses have started since the post above this one says the holidays should give him plenty of time).
December 23rd 2019: The only critical stuff left is mostly scripting, some editing and other polishing. (If its the only stuff left does he add one letter to the scripting per day?).
I'll be back in early January and the final 0.4 release date should be at some point during January/February. After that, I'll experiment with a bit faster release cycle as mentioned in previous updates. (Uh huh)
January 30th 2020: I might be able to squeeze 0.4 release to February, but I'll probably want to polish it more. (By this point he has been using the polishing/editing and making visuals better excuse since November).
February 28th 2020: this month, I mostly spent my time polishing the story, adding scripting and other related stuff. (More polishing. If he spent this much time on polishing the story and polishing/editing visuals to make them better, than this release should be the greatest VN of all time).
the final release in April if everything goes well. (Still giving release dates).
March 30th 2020: The following news is pretty similar to my previous update post. (He wasn't lying. Its damn near a copy/paste update with a couple words changed).
When I had any free time, I mostly spent it polishing the story, adding scripting and other related stuff. (Greatest. VN. Ever.....of all time.)
April 29th 2020: Nothing, just a copy/paste post again with a few words changed. There was nothing new, just him telling us how he was working on a laptop and playing with Blender.
May 30th 2020: I'm finally back at my place and can work remotely from now on. This means I can start focusing my attention on finishing Offcuts 0.4 and Alice's storyline! (Think we can call Guinness world records and tell them we have someone that has the worlds shortest attention span).
June 29th 2020: started fully working on the new content once more. (Read date.)
At this point, most of the content is ready, but some tedious and boring stuff from script tweaking to editing is still left. (Also said in November that it has entered its last lap. 7 months later most of the content is ready. Oh! And more polishing. Now we know why it hasn't been released. He polished it too much and it exploded in his face.)
July 30th 2020: In related news, I'm also changing jobs in real life! (First changing job/moving excuse.)
Rest of the post is just crap thats been said since February.
August 30th 2020: The release target for 0.4 is the week between October 12 and 18. (Now he's getting into making release dates 2 months after the post instead of 1 month after).
Copy/paste in the rest of it. No news.
September 29th 2020: As a quick reminder, a quick technical test release should be out at some point between October 12 and 18. (Now its a quick technical test release but in August it was a release.)
Again, just copy/paste. No news after.
October 30th 2020: The end is near, and new 3D tech stuff promised for 0.4 is pretty much ready. (Another post saying this.)
Anyway, the tech stuff is now mostly done and finished. Unfortunately, it did delay 0.4 more than I would have liked to, but maybe it will prove it's worth in the future. Or maybe I'll just silently drop it, who knows? (Wow, just fucking wow. If anyone wants to know, the first he mentioned of 3D tech stuff was in a post on December 23rd 2019, almost a year. Gotta say though, if it is so important and amazing, why has it been 3 years?)
November 29th 2020: (A tech bugtest update, not much going on in the first half of the post.)
Other than that, tweaking the final script and hunting down issues and typos is always going on. It's something I could do forever, but at some point, I'll just have to put it out. Hopefully soonish. (Looks like he really can do it forever. We'll see if he actually can put it out.)
December 30th 2020: The only real task still left is basically some script editing and other typo/bug hunting. (Another month, another script edit post. I'm starting to think this guy has a severe case of OCD and every single word must be perfect otherwise he throws out the entire script and writes it again.)
Gonna leave my copy/paste right here. Rest of the post is nothing.
January 30th 2021: Unlike the previous monthly updates, this will be a short one as the end and release 0.4 is finally in sight. (Every. Single. Post. Has been saying the release is in sight since November 2019. How fucking delusional can a person be? I'm serious. I've never seen this amount before.)
All content is now more or less ready, the only thing still in progress is editing, scripting and bug/typo hunting. (Its something I can do forever.....he sure is telling the truth this one time.)
February 27th 2021: Amazing, nothing in this post. Just him saying he's grinding out the last of 0.4.
March 30th 2021: Tech demo download. Nothing happening. An episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County is more exciting than this post.
April 29th 2021: All that is left to do now is grinding the final details and edits, boring and slow work for me. Still progressing, no matter how slowly. Better not to promise any explicit release dates for 0.4 yet, but if I had to guess, I would say more than one month, hopefully less than two. (Starting to think if he would not spend months on editing to make it the most perfect thing that has graced this planet it would have been released years ago.)
May 30th 2021: Not much to say at this point, the only thing left is finding enough time for the final polish and release. (Every. Fucking. Month.)
June 29th 2021: I'll have a solid four-week summer vacation in July (starting from 9th), so I should have plenty of time to finally finish release 0.4. I might as well take full advantage of it, so my guesstimate for 0.4 release is when my vacation ends, end of July/start of August. Previous holidays have always given a nice boost to my productivity. (A 0.00001% boost?)
July 30th 2021: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Stencil should run for office. He can make posts that have walls of text but never actually say anything.
August 30th 2021: My vacation ended and the bad thing about trying to have a long vacation is that things can fall apart at work when you are gone. Nothing major, just the usual putting out fires. (Only interesting thing was this excuse.)
September 29th 2021: And at this point, I have so much content ready I could do it for years. So starting from October 1, I'll force myself to start publishing stuff here, hopefully at least a few times a week.
FacePalmOctober 30th 2021: The plan to continually post content didn't last long before it devolved into slow tinkering where I'm just endlessly rotating the 3D models while wasting time. (Wasting time is the most honest he has been in these posts.)
November 29th 2021: There is nothing major left to do anymore. (How many times have I posted this sentence so far?)
I'm probably going to give the script one more read-through and maybe hunt some typos, but that's about it. (Must have decided to scrap the script and redo it. Again. For the 10th time.)
Hopefully, we can start the year with a solid foundation forward and I can start picking up some more speed again after this death march of a release. Let's do our best! (Failed before you even got to the starting line.)
December 30th 2021: Literally nothing. Such a waste.
Pretty sure everyone is aware of the shit since January 2022. Won't post those. Damn, this has made me even more depressed over this shitshow. Just wanted to show some of the shit over the years.