My only concern with this is a year ago we were right in the middle of a 'hiatus' as they were rebuilding their engine from the ground up to handle the Mermaid update and to make future updates easier to implement.
And so here we are, getting close to a year since the update that was supposed to make subsequent updates easier to implement, without an update.
Yes, I still watch the Patreon feed. Yes, I still watch the Steam updates. Yes, they are still working on an update. But i've been burned by Good Games Done Slow before, and I can't help but be a little concerned that the update after all this time might be underwhelming. I'm letting them cook, I just worry they fell asleep on the stove.
I wasn't aware that they'd already taken time out to do a rewrite, and my build was really old, was expecting them to have fixed some of the bugs that I'd seen in my extremely casual glance at this the other day, like you tell the tiger one to put on her jacket, and the game puts on jacket
and shirt, but doesn't tick the shirt option. There's
loads of state logic bugs like that.
Trying out the new one, the first thought I have is "Wow, I hate this new day/night cycle; more unskippable crap!", since it happens constantly. I bought some upgrades, and every upgrade refreshes the scene, meaning I have to reopen the laptop... I'd say that I don't understand how this shit gets past any sort of QA, but I already know how; they're reloading the scene because that's the easiest way to not fuck up the logic/have to animate the UI.
Does this upgrade unlock more upgrades? Does the scene change because you bought it (dumbbells)? Don't think about it! Just reload the scene!
No. Stack up the state changes, process them when I close the laptop. Refresh the laptop's browser if you want to be lazy/certain.
Also... Is the elf supposed to be naked in the mermaid scene? Did the game commit her
state of undress to the save..? Why..? And why wouldn't you sanitise that on loading the scene, if that's a thing that you're storing..?
Just took a look on YouTube, no, that's not how it should have been. Was
really sure, but wanted to confirm.
Literally all I've done is buy the upgrades I didn't have (everything that wasn't dumbbell/grips), and I've already encountered the
exact shit I was expecting them to have put in effort to fix.
If this is their easier development version...
Edit:
This UI is just generally buggy too, either it's offset (that offset got more pronounced as I fucked with it), doesn't register clicks (clicking "yes" on check message doesn't work until you swipe to "no"), acts in unexpected ways.. (clicking the +/- in the sex scene and sliding the mouse at all fully maximises it in that direction)
And it skips her ending dialogue every time, went from 35% completion to 100%, lol.
I've dicked around with this for like, 5-10 mins. Basic bugs, still unfixed.