They should. That's why I told you to read over the discussion of those 6 posts, earlier. The smart people about the saves were discussing how that works.
The next update is the tech update -- no one knows what to expect with old saves and the tech update. You can make that decision after the tech update when it comes out... maybe in 2024.
Have you even tried to open your saves from v0.20.14 yet to see if they work - because until then, this is all theoretical. There will be a splash screen warning about opening previous saves - but that is a standard "cover your ass" message.
You could have attempted to open the save and played all the new content since that save (which is about 10-14 new scenes - that's it. The pre-tech updates don't add storyline work). You've been asking questions for 6 hours instead of just taking action. There is like 20 minutes of scenes, at most, in v0.20.15 and v.20.16.
The next update is the tech update -- no one knows what to expect with old saves and the tech update. You can make that decision after the tech update when it comes out... maybe in 2024.
Have you even tried to open your saves from v0.20.14 yet to see if they work - because until then, this is all theoretical. There will be a splash screen warning about opening previous saves - but that is a standard "cover your ass" message.
You could have attempted to open the save and played all the new content since that save (which is about 10-14 new scenes - that's it. The pre-tech updates don't add storyline work). You've been asking questions for 6 hours instead of just taking action. There is like 20 minutes of scenes, at most, in v0.20.15 and v.20.16.
You know, there are places to look this information up if you aren't sure rather than relying on the unreliable memory of others in this thread. For example, the Cookie Jar page on the wiki mentions Maria, as well. I just looked it up myself, doing the work you could have done.
Stil996 has the answer to your question here about the mods:
Google "What is OP":
In this case it means ORIGINAL POST. The first post of the thread and the abbreviation has been in use across the internet since at least the early 2000's.
Judith is going to be the last girl who's going to get a full storyline and sex scenes similarly to Eve and Roxxy. Call me crazy but I think that once the tech update drops, the rest of the updates will follow quickly for the rest of the characters.
I could be completely wrong here but he's barely done any of the work for the next update based on stream logs and status updates. The argument being that he has to wait on everyone else to finish . It's the good ol' "leave my homework till the night before and submit it late" trick except that he doesn't suffer any consequences and actually gets paid more for doing that.
The rig system is supposed to make posing much easier though, so you may be right in the end. We'll have to wait and see.
There is far more than 4 months of work for voicing this game. There is a lot of dialogue in this game and (good) voice acting takes times and then coded to trigger on the lines. Even if every actor recorded only one character and they all recorded on their own equipment during the same time, you're looking at thousands of sound cues that need discussed with the talent, directed, recorded, edited, some re-recorded. That would take months, alone, to record. Then his single coder would have to go through and update the code to lay in the sound files. And before you say "he could hire another coder"-- note that he hasn't done so for the tech update, only one coder.