I didn't know there was more than one guy, curious.
Stopping these burger bandits sounds like more work then I thought. Think I'll chill at the strip club and keep an eye on the strippers. Make sure no one grabs any of them while you guys jump in the Millermobile and go check out all the Hooters.
Those players then could easily wait, skip some updates and come back later, but i think is more funny to them pressure the devs to change the way they develop the game
Wasn't really pressure. They made the decision to ask their patreons whether they were happy with the development cycle of quick but short updates or whether they wanted longer episodes with a longer development time and their patreons voted for the latter.
I really doubt they would have bothered to ask if they didn't get complaints about the size of the updates before then.
to be honest basically the same amount of content in the same amount of time. 3 short update with 600 render in six month is the same as one big updatet with 1800 render six month.
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But that's exactly my point: don't like the small updates? then wait six months and play in a row the three updates devs releases during that time. Prefer play updates more regularly and don't care about the size? Here it is a new update every 2 months. Win-win situation to everybody, even for the devs that get more exposure and doesn't have to deal with the crap of "update is taking to much time, game is dead!", unless the same people so patient to wait 8 months for a big update doesn't have the self-control to skip a small update when devs release it.to be honest basically the same amount of content in the same amount of time. 3 short update with 600 render in six month is the same as one big updatet with 1800 render six month.
maybe the difference is that with short 600 render, you feel more if an episode is lacking or nothing really happened.
600 is very very small, and you always feel it ended right before it's started to be good. That's why people prefer one big complete updates then 3 little one.
Yeah, but I don't think the judgment of the game would be more favorable.
. But They admit they need to find a balance, I think a 1200 Render is usually decent for a game like Summer heat..
Looks like I get to do the honours this week... Sorry, Paynne .
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CH05 Status Update #31
Hello, everyone!
This week we've been working on coding, minor sets, scripting, assets and breast textures. Much of this week's work was spent on the technical side, or "under the hood", so to speak. Many renders also finished this week as the scenes were simpler and lighter, and thus faster to render. The remaining scenes are also light, and as far as the rendering department is concerned, it should be smooth sailing.
Ms. Hill's scene is now under work. After that, there are still scenes with Eve, Bree and Mia. We've worked on these scenes a bit before, but there's still some work remaining before they'll be considered complete.
We'd also like to address some topics that have been cropping up over the last couple of weeks.
Ember
We noticed a small concern regarding Ember—specifically, concerns that it may take away from the normal game development. This is not a cause to worry. The content on Ember is very straightforward and relies mostly on scripting and coding, which is not done by the rendering department.
Renders are what takes time to create, so Ember content is relatively quick because it is mostly text. That was the goal of the app from the beginning: fun and easy extra content to go along with the main game.
Development time of CH05
It's been an eternity since the last update, does this mean Summer Heat is dead?
The answer is a firm no. We've mentioned in previous status updates that CH05 is a bigger update. It's double the renders and content of CH04, and bigger than the first three chapters of Summer Heat combined. This isn't a pattern we intend to keep doing, but something we wanted to do for this update specifically.
In an alternate universe, there could've been three 600-render updates since the release of CH04. Frequent updates like the first three chapters may sound great on paper, but many players weren't happy with the short playtimes. We will continue searching for that perfect wait-to-playtime ratio, and there's clearly a lot to improve on.
In conclusion: the development time for this update has been longer, but there is also a significantly larger amount of content to go with it. We hope you'll let us know how you feel about it after it's all said and done, we always appreciate your feedback. Until then, please leave the worrying to us!
Other news
This months's special render poll has ended and the winner is Mia.
Cheers,
Robison & Npx
I think they just need more power, like another PC with an RTX4090 on board, to speed up the rendering process. But there are still many questions here: how well they can work with a 3D editor to pose renders, how good they are in to code. It also depends on skills, and if one developer can pose for 150-200 renders per week, then many cannot. Manual posing in DAZ is hellYeah, but I don't think the judgment of the game would be more favorable.
think of this way.
Imagen if DPC back in the days, during episode 4, would have been like:
"ok here is the Derek path, you can play it until the beginning of the tennis date with Jill. and then 3 month later, here is the Bella path,. you can play it until the Jill tennis date. another 3 mount here is the Same with Sage path.
and another 3 month later, here is the continuation of the story from the Jill tenis date till the end of the episode. "
yeah we might have 4 update in a year, but we would be in any better position, or more forward in the story? . I think not, I doubt this would be more favorable by the audience.
Yes, Since then he went in the opposite side of the scale, but that is irrelevant.
and It's likely that most of the complaint is also always in this pirate forum anyway
But the trick with Summer heat is that lots of Render just goes to the Facial expression of the characters, which is very immers and good, but a same time its not really making the episode longer, regardless.
really? I think its quite the opposite, alot of games now favor the 9-12 months update windows. With only 10 mins more of playtime
Maybe if you're the type who doesn't bother reading and clicks through all of the dialogue.
Exactly. I said something along these lines some weeks ago.
From what I understand, the first three chapters took 2 to 3 months to make and then the 4th chapter was twice their size and took a little over 4 months to make. So it makes sense that if the 5th chapter is twice the size of chapter 4 then it should take 8 months to finish. So I think this time frame does match up if chapter 5 is truly twice the size of chapter four.
