Weekly News #178

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So, another week and a half has passed since the last full update, along with the weekly news. During this time, we've done a lot of work, but we haven't introduced new mechanics and systems, focusing instead on refining the old ones. This update brought a huge number of much-needed improvements and refinements to the game. Or, rather, it will simply improve your gaming experience as a player. But first things first.

First, randomized NPCs. It's immediately noticeable that we've brought back the "Sunbathing Together" button.

However, that's not the most important thing. The key here is the process itself – as many know, there's a scene of a girl sunbathing, for which this interaction was written. However, it doesn't fully convey the scene itself. This is where a new feature comes in: your character can ask a girl to sunbathe without a swimsuit. A 2,000-word interaction was written specifically for this purpose, and all of this was done to make the player more interested in learning the game and the overall gameplay.

Another recently added interaction is training the NPC. In addition to the scene itself now supporting a huge number of new emotions, it now includes various states: legs spread/closed, arm changes, and so on. The interaction itself that opens this scene also has various events. For example, the NPC might fall asleep during the training or start masturbating – it all depends on randomness and its impact statistics.

Some may also remember that we recently added a girl-on-girl sex scene, but it was difficult to see outside of the female player character's playthrough. We've fixed this by adding a new interaction with NPCs. Specifically, "Have Sex with Another Girl," where your chosen one will have sex with another girl, similar to group sex. It's not FFM, but we'll add that someday.

In addition, we've restored the blink animation for randomized NPC sprites. The same applies to about 10 scenes with randomized NPCs, in which the girls now blink. These scenes also now feature different swimsuits (not just 6, as before, but all 19), piercings, and many other necessary scene improvements. In this case, in the form of refinements.

Another refinement is gifting. Specifically, you can gift absolutely everything from an NPC's inventory. Even the funniest and most counterintuitive things will create more amusing gameplay situations and provide fodder for exploring this mechanic on a larger scale.

The final and most minor improvement is female NPC swimsuits. They can now contain 300 or more different shades, increasing the number of different swimsuits (or so) that girls can wear on beaches and pools.

Also, something that hasn't been added, but is in active development, is a new scene with randomized female NPCs. Their massage, which could eventually develop into something more interesting. You can see the developments below: https://x.com/kaitosi11/status/2011673676052156589

Secondly, the plot. We won't waste time here and will simply show a new, finished re-drawing of the scene with Yuki Oota:

Third, system changes. One thing to note right away is that a new "Upgrade Apartment" button has been added to your apartment location, along with a corresponding interface. There, you can purchase upgrades that can improve your character's sleep and sleep efficiency. You can see the interface below:

And finally, another interface, the latest one, in the form of a "Cinema" in the "Buy Ticket" interaction: it features more essential information about films, the interface itself looks consistent with the overall style, and is generally a pleasant remake of what it was. You can see it below:

Last, but certainly not least, are the new perks available for purchase for the Occultism Club, as well as the overall appearance of this small interface, which has been reorganized to sort all of these perks on the screen. The results can be seen below:

Among other things, this also includes various performance improvements due to code refactoring, stability improvements due to bug fixes, and much more that we haven't mentioned or simply forgot to mention. The update turned out to be interesting, in part due to its content, but mostly due to the fact that everything has been improved. The full list of changes can be seen below:

New content:

The "Sunbathing Together" button has been reinstated for female RNPC. Among other things, it has been updated with various scenarios: for example, your character can now ask the RNPC to sunbathe completely barefoot on the beach, which can lead to various outcomes depending on the current situation between you.

For the scene with the female RNPC, which is currently being trained, various new improvements have been added, including multiple leg positions (including spread), various emotions, and visible underwear. While this scene is being displayed, various scenarios have also been added: the girl can sleep or masturbate while your character watches her.

A new "Have Sex with Another Girl" button has been added for female RNPC. This button is a request for girl-on-girl intercourse at your character's request, and the corresponding scene will be displayed.

A completely new interface has been added to the "Buy Ticket" interaction in the "Cinema" location. It features more essential information about movies, the interface itself looks consistent with the overall style, and is generally a pleasant remake of its predecessor.

Kissing, caressing, and sunbathing scenes for female NPCs have been improved: they now support more emotes, some interesting new animations, eye types, and much more. Furthermore, all of this happens randomly, creating a unique experience each time you play it.

A new apartment upgrade button has been added to your apartment location, along with a corresponding interface. There, you can purchase several upgrades that can improve your character's sleep and sleep efficiency.

A variety of perks have been added for purchase to the Occult Club, and the overall appearance of this small interface has been updated to sort all of these perks on the screen.

Female NPCs can now wear swimsuits in different colors: approximately 300 shades are available for each swimsuit, creating a unique look on beaches and in scenes.

Now NPCs can gift absolutely everything that's visible in your inventory, and this will even make sense – you can get rid of unnecessary items and increase your relationship with them if they actually need a particular item.

The Occultism Club management interface has been significantly refactored, making it more performant, less prone to exceptions and freezes, and generally more modular, making it easier to add content to it in the future and across all Occultism Club management systems.

Piercings have been added to the "Hold Hands" interaction scene with a female NPC when the other player character is male. All available piercings in the editor are now displayed correctly on the girl, taking into account her emotions and the overall scene position at the time of display. Among other things, it now displays 13 other swimsuits from the game if the girl's sprite was originally wearing a swimsuit.

In the hugging scene with a female NPC, when the other character is male, 13 other swimsuits from the game are now displayed if the girl's sprite was originally wearing a swimsuit, rather than just six. Furthermore, all piercings available in the editor are now displayed on the girl correctly, taking into account the emotions and the overall position of the scene at the time of display.

In the breast groping scene with a female NPC, when the other character is male, 13 other swimsuits from the game are now displayed if the girl's sprite was originally wearing a swimsuit, rather than just six.

Piercings have been added to the "Stroke Her" and "Look At Her" interaction scenes with female NPCs when the other character is male. All piercings available in the editor are now displayed correctly, taking into account the character's emotions and the overall scene position at the time of display. Furthermore, in this scene, the female NPC now blinks animatedly, rather than simply looking at your character.

The female NPC's masturbation scene now displays swimsuits from the game if the girl's sprite was previously wearing a swimsuit. This applies to all 19 swimsuit types, not just a portion of it.

Piercings have been added to the 18+ character interaction scene "Masturbate Me" with a female NPC when the other character is male. All piercings available in the editor are now displayed correctly, taking into account the character's emotions and the overall scene position at the time of display.

Thirteen other swimsuits from the game have been added to the scene with a randomized female NPC that opens when attempting to interact with her in the "Women's Restroom" sublocation.

Piercings have been added to the "Kiss" interaction scene with a female NPC when the other character is male. All piercings available in the editor are now displayed correctly, taking into account the character's emotions and the overall scene position at the time of the interaction. Furthermore, in this scene, the female NPC now blinks animatedly, rather than simply looking at your character.

Piercings have been added to the 18+ character scene with a female NPC in the "69" position when the other character is male. All piercings available in the editor are now displayed correctly, taking into account the character's emotions and the overall scene position at the time of the interaction.

Piercings have been added to the "Kiss" interaction scene with a female NPC, where the other character is also a girl. Both girls now display all available piercings in the editor, taking into account the emotions and overall scene position at the time of display. Additionally, in this scene, the female NPC now blinks as an animation, rather than simply looking at your character.

In the sunbathing scene, where the main character was a female NPC, 13 other swimsuits from the game have been added for display. Furthermore, this scene now displays 13 other swimsuits from the game if the girl's sprite was initially wearing a swimsuit.

A blinking animation for a randomized female NPC has been added to the 18+ character scene for the "Doggy Style" position.

A blinking animation for a randomized female NPC has been added to the "Pet" interaction scene.

A blink animation for a randomized female NPC has been added to the "Sunbathing" interaction scene.

A blink animation for a randomized female NPC has been added to the shower scene.

A blink animation for a randomized female NPC has been added to the girl scene at the academy.

A minor refactoring of the systems responsible for increasing the RNPC influence statistic has been performed: the interaction with all these functions has been improved, which will reduce the number of unnecessary lines of code when using all of these features.

Fixed bugs:

Fixed a bug where, when unlocking and purchasing perks through the diary interface, the game would display an old and outdated interface instead of the new one.

Fixed a bug where the game could throw exceptions when attempting to access the interaction menu with a randomized NPC when the game language was initially Russian and then changed to English/Chinese.

Fixed some typos in the interface text when playing in English at certain rare points in gameplay.

Fixed a bug where, after opening the operations interface from the "Hospital" location, the game would no longer allow you to open this interface the second/third time, or any other time—only the first time.

Fixed a bug where the scene in which a female NPC sunbathing on the beach could have some issues, causing the girl to appear naked, even if there was no reason for it.

Fixed a bug where, when using the "Daily Schedule" interface and closing it, the interface itself would close without opening the main interface.

Fixed a bug where, in the "Stroke" interaction scene, the eyelid color of a female RNPC could differ from her actual eyelid color and overall skin tone.

Fixed a bug where a girl could refuse sexual contact with your character, despite the fact that by all standards she should have accepted your offer.

Fixed a bug where girls in swimsuits would have sleeves attached to their swimsuits, causing the sprite to appear incorrect.

Fixed a bug where girls in swimsuits could have tights/stockings and other leg accessories attached, which simply looked odd compared to their actual appearance.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to open the interaction interface with randomized NPCs at the very beginning of gameplay.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to display HP values in the combat interface for your character and NPCs as a fractional value instead of an integer.

Fixed a bug that prevented NPCs and their appearances from being cached, and instead constantly rebuilt their sprites, causing severe frame rate issues.

Fixed a bug that prevented NPCs from blinking - instead of any animations, the NPC itself would simply stand still without any animations.

Fixed a bug where, during the RNPC's breathing animation, her hands would sometimes misalign with the actual body pixels.

Fixed a bug where, in the sunbathing scene of a female RNPC/your character, if she is female, her swimsuit and size would incorrectly adjust to her body.

Fixed an issue where, in the shower scene with a female RNPC, the girl's sprite would sometimes have pubic hair higher in layers than her arms, causing her hair to appear to hang in the air.

Fixed a bug where, during a kissing scene with your character, a female RNPC would have her eyelids disappear when her eyes were closed.

Fixed a bug where, in the scene involving groping a randomized female NPC's breasts, the wrong eye whites could be selected for the female NPC's sprite, causing some graphical glitches.

Fixed an issue where the blinking animation in the 18+ Missionary scene could malfunction - it simply wouldn't work at all.

Fixed a bug where talking to NPCs during classes at the Academy didn't increase your relationship/love score, and it didn't change anything - it just wasted energy and time, despite the narration stating otherwise.

Fixed an issue where, in the "What to do during class" interface, the game could display your character's "Attention" level as a fractional value instead of an integer, causing the number to extend beyond the interface.

Fixed an issue where the "Cache NPC Data" button would also highlight the "Power Saving Mode" button in the game's performance settings.

Fixed a bug where, when agreeing to group sex with a randomized NPC, the game incorrectly calculated the relationship between the two NPCs, causing a woman to refuse even if she had a good relationship.

Fixed an issue where, in a girl-on-girl sex scene, the background could appear as a simple white canvas, rather than the location background (in any case, your character's apartment).

Fixed a bug where the "Let's Sunbathe" interaction with a female NPC simply did not grant the required number of relationship points and did not change the NPC's attitude toward your character.

Fixed a bug where blood could appear on the genitals of virgin NPCs, even if there was no actual penetration.

Fixed a bug where the mouth of a male NPC your character interacts with could simply disappear without any apparent reason.

Fixed a bug that could cause an exception to occur during the event where an NPC visits your character, as well as during certain scenes with MILFs.

Fixed a bug where the game could throw an exception when playing the English translation of the game during certain interactions with a randomized female NPC.

Fixed a bug where it was impossible to save using the corresponding buttons in the game. An exception would occur.

Fixed a bug where the game could occasionally get stuck in an infinite loop with no way to exit it and do anything, requiring the game to be closed.

Fixed a bug where the game could throw an exception when checking whether the character is male or female in scenes with NPCs, making the scenes themselves unavailable at certain points in gameplay.

Fixed a bug where multithreaded mode for some systems and game mechanics could completely break the game due to freezes and crashes. This occurred rarely and on certain microprocessors with a certain architecture (workstation, mobile, or MAC devices running M1).

Fixed a fundamental bug that could break absolutely all saves and game sessions without the ability to change anything. This occurred because certain interfaces were saved in the game tray, including those that could completely modify game data that was currently being used by the game's internal systems.

Fixed a bug where certain qualifiers in system functions could work incorrectly.

Fixed a bug where the "Walk with me to..." interaction did not work correctly and the location of a randomized NPC simply did not change properly, causing them to technically be next to your character in one place, but actually be in another.

Fixed a bug where a sprite of the player interacting with the character could appear over the scene during the "Stroke Her" or "Look Her in the Eyes" scenes.

Fixed a bug where female NPCs/your female character would still wear knee-highs or tights when wearing the "Naked" outfit, which was inconsistent with the outfit's name.

Fixed a bug where, using the gaze system available in the NPC interaction interface, it was possible to easily farm high levels of fear from NPCs without any apparent reason.

Fixed a bug where, if your female character had the "Naked" card selected in the corresponding equipped outfit interface, her nipples and some other details, such as tattoos, freckles, etc., would be missing. Fixed a bug where clothing on female character cards had graphical glitches. Certain outfits, such as the nun outfit or the skirt and blouse, had the front of the girl's arms appearing higher in layers than the clothing itself.

Fixed a bug where the front of the arms of female NPCs and/or your female character in certain outfits could appear incorrectly, appearing too small relative to their body and seeming to hang in the air instead of being attached.

Fixed a bug where, after changing clothing to nude or underwear, all cards with available clothing sets would suddenly become naked. This affected both genders.

Fixed a bug where a female NPC's underwear could be hidden if she was wearing short knee-high socks.

Fixed a bug where, when wearing tights, female NPCs' underwear would either be completely hidden or would appear on top of them. This now works properly, and the underwear appears "behind" the tights.

Fixed a bug where, after switching from the nude card to underwear, the underwear could still be hidden in the character's clothing change interface.

Fixed a bug where, when enabling X-ray glasses or during certain events, NPCs' underwear could disappear completely, even after disabling X-ray glasses and skipping those events.

Fixed a bug where a female NPC's modified vulva could be visible through clothing/underwear if she was wearing stockings or similar items.

Fixed a bug where transferring a save from an older version could break the same save on the new version due to the number of exceptions thrown afterwards.

Fixed a bug that caused annoying graphical artifacts in scene 69 of the 18+ character type with a female NPC if she had large feet instead of the standard ones.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw an exception when trying to calculate who was male or female in scenes with randomized NPCs. Although very rare, this could happen, especially if there were errors without exceptions when attempting to initialize the NPC.

Fixed a bug that could cause your character's hands in the "Grope Breasts" scene to not display their true color, but instead display the default color.

Fixed a bug that caused business promotions and upgrades via your player's computer and the "Business" tab to work incorrectly, causing values to become extremely large after just a couple of such actions.

Fixed a bug where a female RNPC might have a short skirt that wasn't due to her vulgarity level, as it should have been, but was simply short for no apparent reason.

As you can see, we've done a tremendous amount of work refining the existing content -larger, richer, and more interesting updates will be coming soon. However, you'll have to wait a bit. For now, we're happy to inform you that the full new version will be released on January 27th. While you wait, you can try out all the above-mentioned new features in version 973b.