They told some update progress ago that possible release will be between later september/early october.
I dont mind non-POV shots they can be great in fact, but as long as it's cleverly done like avoiding showing the MC's face or head. I feel like showing the face of the MC is immersion breaking for me at least, at least this MC does not look like a total dweeb so that's a plus but either way some shots POV is king and in others 3rd person view can be amazing but i like the games that use clever angles to avoid showing MCs face as much as possible.
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Hello, everyone!
This week we carried on with the edits and render changes we decided on previously. Some dialogue was cut, a few renders removed, and a couple of re-renders added to the queue. There was also some crashing during rendering this week. The source behind these crashes remains to be discovered, but they luckily didn't affect anything except mental stability. Just one of those perks of working with 3D sometimes.
There was a surprising amount of fixes required for the new renders this week. That's something we'll look into in the future as the issues stemmed from the scenes themselves, but for the time being they're easily fixed in the post-processing stage.
Work on animations continued, as well as new renders. We spent some extra time focusing on a few scenes that will likely be the favorites of many in the upcoming update. There are still a couple more improvements we'd like to make on those scenes, but we'll see after we get some impressions from the beta version.
The updated script also meant that we had to rewrite some of the code. A couple of bugs also showed up on Ember after thorough playtesting, but we promptly escorted them out of the game. Ember is essentially done at this point, except for a few missing renders. They are low priority, however.
While editing this week, we were wondering how the players feel about the POV perspective we generally stick to in Summer Heat. We've been more liberal with angles and showing the main character in CH05 because some scenes are very limited by POV.
How do you feel about seeing more of the main character? Is strict POV important to you?
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Completely agree. I love POV VN's and for me that's one of the main reasons this game has been such a blast so far.
Yea as long as he is your normal/decent looking guy with no features sticking out i can live with it, but even then i just wanna see his face as little as possible.
Yes. Because you know , you are a 3rd person, viewing a story, and its not your dick that gets sucked by the girls.
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Yes that's why i named my main character Elon Musk or something and not used my own name. Do i have to explain to you the concept of POV and how these games work? Maybe for you, you like the voyeur fetish and so you approach the game in that sense, but for me and i bet most other people the point is that we INSERT ourselves as the main character.Yes. Because you know , you are a 3rd person, viewing a story, and its not your dick that gets sucked by the girls.
POV is good if it's part of it and not the only angle.
I'm not here to judge, but it's actually exactly like that. You play a game, make choice that lead to the best outcome, and role back if you messed up, and then watch as the girl suck a dick that is not yours.
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Maybe for you but not for me. The dick is not literally yours because the dick isn't real, none of this is real we all know that we dont need elementary level takes to explain it to us. The point is we INSERT ourselves in this imaginary world where we put our name as the MC and not some random dude and we imagine us in that role as we play the game. I have no interest to play as some dude named John Smith and watch him fuck girls, in that case they might as well remove choices and just create a Visual novel that just shows you every choice that leads to every sex scene, you dont even need to control anything.I'm not here to judge, but it's actually exactly like that. You play a game, make choice that lead to the best outcome, and role back if you messed up, and then watch as the girl suck a dick that is not yours.
And thats their right, the game does not have just POV angle, nor is anyone saying they JUST want POV angles. What i think most people dont want is to see the MCs face, again because most people insert themselves in the game and that tends to be immersion breaking, especially when the MC ends up looking like some scrawny dweeb or Arnold Schwarzenegger with a tan.
And i am fine with that.that's why they asked in the first place, we will know the result next week hopefully
For certain scenes such as kissing, maybe they will cut off the top of Mc's head. They've produced some of the the most realistic looking and eye catching results so far in first person view & I kind of dig Mc as this mystery man all of whom girls crush on.
Pretty much this, so far they have done a stellar job of picking when to show a POV scene and when to show a non-POV scene, so i trust their judgement on it completely. And yea mixing it up seems to work best so far.
