I've been enjoying the new update so far. I'm doing a clean run while I wait to see if any updates for some of my favourite mods come out, and to refresh myself on what the base game looks like.
I'm really liking the extra interactions with Alexia. It's making home feel more lived in, which is great. Now we need Frank to get that treatment (even if it's a little less), and a built in ability to waste the evening at home (a "Stay In" option, instead of something specific like the watching a movie or playing video games via the Mind Games mod) for more opportunities to trigger those events.
I haven't gotten to the car thing, though. I probably won't until someone mods in a way to force the MC into it (blackmail/coercion/rape are always my preference for these sorts of things). I mean, an easy option would be for someone to tell an MC with People Pleaser going to sign up for it, right?
While it is still the generally solid game it's always been, and the writing is still great and very hot, I do have some disappointments I'd like to mention:
Bruce in the bar still treats the MC like they're meeting for the first time in every interaction. I would be shocked to learn that improving this part of the game isn't on the agenda, as it's so obvious and it's been a while, but it's getting more and more glaring with every update. I know that in order to fully address it it'd probably require an update all of it own, but it's getting to a level of weird that I think it should be sooner rather than later. There could be some stuff I haven't had trigger, but even his greetings should change depending on whether or not you've done the SWP party and how that all went, not to mention if you've been his resistance sex toy, or triggered the stripper scene.
I really like the addition of being able to tell people you've been spiked and you're not interested. I don't like how it behaves the same way at the office both before and after the SWP party. I know that if your masculinity drops enough you can't use that excuse (and what you're wearing can have an effect), but I feel like other people should care less about it based on your rep, and even more so after the SWP party. They think you're full of shit about "not swinging that way", at the very least. Some of the nicer guys might still say "That sucks that you got spiked, but c'mon, we all know you're a slut when you're a girl, so how about it?" or something. Maybe the game should also track your rep at the bar and club?
On that note, it's still generally weird to me that the office doesn't get a boost to aggressive approaches after the SWP party. There's so much in that party about how your co-workers will never see you the same, your reputation is ruined, stuff like that. It's the sort of event that feels to me like it should alter the gameplay afterwards, at least in the office (and maybe with Bruce in the bar!), and it doesn't really, only fast tracking your sex rep, that's all. If you don't want to deal with those consequences, well, take that demotion (which I still think shouldn't even be an option if you have "non-consent: enabled" in the settings).
Crap. There was at least one more, a smaller thing that seemed very strange to me, but I can't recall what it was now. I really need to write things down.
Oh well, still loving the game! I hope at least some of this was useful feedback.