Weekly News #175

Version 0.972a is already available for download for subscribers of the Super Best Friend tier ($25). To view the post with this version, follow this link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/released-0-972a-145109294

So, it's been a week and a half since the last full version was released. During this time, we've worked extensively on the content, fixed numerous bugs, and refactored many aspects of the code. But first things first:

First, randomized NPCs. And... We have something to show you – a new 18+ character scene is currently in development. You can view it here: https://x.com/kaitosi11/status/1996531150924439837. It will be integrated into the game soon, and it will trigger when your female character is bathing, or when a male character observes this scene in any way, be it in the locker room or elsewhere.

We've also worked on the internals of the NPC system. Each NPC now has a specific list of friends after generation. They interact with each other, communicate, and interact—all of this takes precedence over the somewhat random interactions between NPCs. NPCs essentially form groups, move around locations, and influence each other to a slightly greater degree than before. Furthermore, this system change has improved game performance—the activity distribution system itself, which was the heaviest system in the game overall, has been redesigned.

Piercing. Male NPCs had it, but for a long time, female NPCs didn't. We've changed this: you can now have piercings when playing as a female character, or you can choose to have them during character generation. You can see some of them below:

Also, a minor change and improvement to the game is the refinement of scenes. Now, the scene where you hold hands with a female RNPC displays 20 newly added clothing sets, and the group sex scene displays 50 hairstyles, while previously only 15 were displayed.

Secondly, the story. Here, we can present a visual highlight – a new scene that was recently redesigned. Soon, we'll be completely finished with Yuki Oota and moving on to other story characters, but in the meantime, you can see what we've done: https://x.com/kaitosi11/status/1996797798986273200.

Furthermore, we've almost finished one of the storylines involving Yuki Oota, and it will soon be integrated into the game, where you can continue the game's story.

Thirdly, there are systemic changes. Here we can talk about a new feature called the sleep system. We've already updated it, adding an interface and allowing players to nap and rest for a certain amount of time. Now, time is updated so that it scrolls forward every millisecond rather than instantly. It smoothly changes, altering the time of day and, at the same time, more accurately simulating the game world. During this sleep, events can occur that literally wake your character up, which generally improves the overall gameplay experience. You can see what it looks like below:

In addition, we've updated the rather important and recently poorly performing gallery interface. Due to the huge number of changes to the story scenes, we redesigned the system from scratch and also updated the interface itself: the buttons are now divided into specific, more convenient categories, the interface itself better matches the overall style of the game, has a more convenient layout for photos (given that they no longer have any background), and all scenes are now presented as a scrollbar, not just a list of pages.

Also, when you click the "Change Background" button on your computer, an interface opens with all available computer backgrounds. A simple and minor change, but a welcome one:

And the most minor of all, we added a button to disable filters in the game settings. This was done because users could experience some issues with them, such as poor performance and excessive skin and hair tones, while others might prefer them because they make the image more realistic. Now we've given users the ability to decide how their game should look:

Fourth, bug fixes and code refactoring. A lot of work has been done here to make the game more stable, and you can see the results by downloading the new version of the game:

New content:

Your character's sleep system has been completely overhauled. It's now not just a simple interface with options for a full night's sleep, a nap, and a short rest, but also a loading system: time no longer skips instantly, but every millisecond. It smoothly changes and alters the time of day, while also more accurately simulating the game world. During this sleep, events can occur that literally wake your character up, which generally improves the overall gameplay experience.

Piercings, available for display on sprites, have been added to the RNP editor for randomized female NPCs. You can equip approximately 14 piercings simultaneously on your female character or any character you create.

The gallery interface on your character's computer has been completely redesigned: the buttons are now divided into specific, more user-friendly categories, the interface itself better matches the overall style of the game, has a more convenient layout for photos (given that they no longer have any backgrounds), and all scenes are now displayed as a scrollbar rather than a simple list of pages.

The "Change Wallpaper" button on your character's computer now displays a separate interface showing all the backgrounds available to the player as a scrollbar. This allows the player to select the desired background for their PC without repeatedly clicking the same button until they find the desired background.

In the game settings, under the graphics settings category, a button is now available to disable filters that could irritate players by changing the skin/hair color of NPCs depending on the time of day.

A new system has been added for NPCs: the Friends system. Randomized NPCs now have a set of friends with whom they always interact and whom they often follow. In essence, NPCs are formed into groups, move through locations with them, and influence each other to a slightly greater extent than before. Among other things, the system change has improved game performance—the activity distribution system itself, which was the heaviest system in the game overall, has been redesigned.

In the "Holding Hands" interaction scene, 20 sets of clothing are now displayed on female NPCs, which were previously not displayed properly.

In the group sex scene (FFM) with randomized female NPCs, the girl now displays 50 new hairstyles, which previously displayed the default ones.

The overall game size has been reduced by 50 megabytes by compressing existing in-game files, which were full-size PNG files, into JPG format.

A minor refactoring of the systems responsible for NPC movement across city locations was performed. This resulted in minor improvements in game performance and stability, making the movements more logical and using more input data.

A minor refactoring of the distribution of NPC activity among each other was performed. This system became more stable, slightly improving game performance, and the activities themselves now take into account more input factors.

A refactoring of the systems responsible for determining who is currently in a location was performed. This resulted in minor improvements in game performance and stability, and the system itself now takes into account "recently added" characters, which was not the case previously.

A refactoring of the systems responsible for displaying randomized NPC sprites on the screen was performed. This improved the caching system for NPC appearances for subsequent display on the screen, improving game stability, performance, and overall system performance.

Fixed bugs:

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to create a random NPC in the RNPC editor at certain rare points in gameplay.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to crash when attempting to create a new save through the corresponding load/save menu.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to load the appearance of a randomized NPC at certain rare points in gameplay.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to use certain items of a certain type through your character's inventory.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to create a ROM cache from RAM at certain rare points in gameplay.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to crash during a 60-minute time skip at certain rare points in gameplay when the game was heavily loaded with calculations.

Fixed a bug where the game could throw exceptions when opening the journal interface, which displayed story-type hints about what to do next.

Fixed a bug that caused the game to throw exceptions when attempting to load a location at certain rare points in gameplay when the location was overloaded with NPCs.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to load the appearance of a randomized NPC at certain rare points in gameplay.

Fixed an issue that could cause storyline hints to be completely incorrect and not reflect the actual conditions for triggering a particular event.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to overwrite a save at certain rare points in gameplay.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to create a note on a save at rare points when the save itself was corrupted.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to create rules for a randomized male NPC.

Fixed a bug where, after issuing any rules to a randomized NPC, the game could throw exceptions when interacting with that NPC through the interaction menu.

Fixed an issue where some accessories on NPCs could appear incorrectly or not appear at all.

Fixed a bug where the game could throw exceptions at rare points during gameplay when the player had certain items in their inventory and NPC events occurred that required having that item (knives, bats, sodas, etc.).

Fixed a bug where the game could experience performance issues when attempting to use items from your character's inventory.

Fixed a bug where, after a certain period of time, your email and login information after subscribing to Patreon might not be added to the database, preventing access to in-game privileges. Everything now functions as expected.

Fixed a bug that prevented Frankfurt servers from being accessible, making it impossible to connect to the game from certain regions to receive privileges such as modifications (likes/dislikes/downloads, etc.).

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to hide some recently added content for new game versions without any apparent reason.

Fixed a bug that prevented all hairstyles for female NPCs from being available in the RNPC editor; instead of 65, only 45 were available.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to highlight other buttons in the RNPC editor for females when hovering over the "Piercing" button.

Fixed a bug where, after opening all scenes with story NPCs using a special cheat in the developer menu, the game would provide incorrect paths to these files, preventing them from appearing in the gallery.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to calculate the activity type of a randomized NPC in rare gameplay moments and due to data initialization errors.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw an exception if a randomized NPC had a group activity type and had an unloaded NPC as a "partner" for the action.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw unexplained exceptions without any apparent reason after interacting with a randomized NPC.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to transfer a group interaction that required both NPCs.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to save a randomized NPC through the NPC editor; clicking the corresponding button would trigger the exception.

Fixed a bug where changing a swimsuit for a female NPC in the NPC editor could visually change the swimsuits of all NPCs, rather than just the NPC you selected.

Fixed a bug where, when editing a female NPC in the NPC editor, the game would only show one tattoo, instead of all tattoos—the tattoo on her left arm.

Fixed a bug where the female NPC sprite in the NPC editor could have some issues displaying tattoos—they simply wouldn't adjust to her arm position.

Fixed a bug where, when playing in English, during the event where you meet someone at the academy gate, and that someone is a woman, the game would address her as a man.

Fixed a bug where the game could throw exceptions when attempting to initialize character data from ROM to RAM in rare cases where the data itself was required before loading.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when trying to calculate what bra a female MILF NPC was currently wearing.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to create shadows for scenes with randomized NPCs due to data initialization errors.

Fixed a bug that could cause randomized female NPCs to have missing noses in some rare gameplay cases.

Fixed a bug that could prevent the game from opening the new class time interface at the academy when clicking the "Wait for class" button.

Fixed a bug where, after talking to an NPC during class, the background of that NPC could become stuck on the screen, with no option to hide or manipulate it.

Fixed a bug where randomized female NPCs would be missing body parts when their sprite was displayed as a standard thumbnail in certain interfaces.

Fixed a bug where offering a randomized NPC a drink at your house could cause the game to throw an exception.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to create a base for the main interface type.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to create filters for generating RNPC through the corresponding menu at rare points in gameplay.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when purchasing items from the online store via your character's computer in their room.

Fixed an issue that could cause the game to display incorrect prices for items from the online store, resulting in one price being displayed but actually being different.

Fixed an issue that could cause the game to lag when opening the phone interface via the corresponding button on the main interface on low-end Android devices.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when using the daily routine distribution interface in the character schedule.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to use certain location interactions in the park.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions in certain rare gameplay situations after interacting with a randomized male NPC and selecting an 18+ character interaction with them.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when changing your character's gender through the character editor in certain rare gameplay situations.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to create an autosave in certain rare gameplay situations, which could cause certain issues with further play.

Fixed an issue that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to cook food through the cooking interface in certain rare gameplay situations.

Fixed an issue that could cause the game to lag when using the cooking interface and the cooking process in general.

Fixed an issue that could cause the game to lag if the player enabled certain performance settings and played with them for a long time, leading to more memory leaks.

Fixed an issue that could cause the game to incorrectly account for your character's Authority and NPCs' Fear attributes: tattoos and piercings incorrectly affected these values.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions if your character had sex with randomized female NPCs while being male.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw exceptions when attempting to use the hotel interface when the user's energy and hunger levels were at the minimum possible.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to throw an exception when playing on an Android device and opening the settings menu in some rare gameplay situations where special settings only available on Android devices were accessed.

Fixed a bug that could cause exceptions in some rare gameplay situations where the player moved from location to location.

Fixed a bug that could cause the game to display incorrect relationship points for various interactions with randomized NPCs.

Fixed a bug that could cause issues with the display of certain sprite details.

As you can see, quite a bit of work has been done. New content has been created, existing content has been improved, and overall, necessary work has been done to fix bugs and exceptions that could significantly hinder the game after optimization work. The next weekly news will be on December 15th, and by the new year, we'll be releasing a new full version!