General Update #33

Hey there agents!

We hope you had fun with the early access version of Silent Echo 0.2.4. The team is already at work on the next major update, version 0.3.0.

Today we'll give you some insights on this update and our overall plans for Chapter 3.

The road ahead

In order to keep a pace of regular releases but still retain the quality you've come to expect from our releases, we're currently planning to split Chapter 3 into five updates.

Our objective with the first one is to complete the initial work needed when starting a new chapter and implement the first wing out of three. In addition, our objective is to add the first path for Ava's second evolution, and Emilia's first corruption threshold event.

New chapters are always a bit heavy on code so our scope is intentionally small at the moment. However if it turns out we have some spare time, then we'll look into implementing more stuff.

Ava's evolution

As most of you know, our initial plan was to add Ava's second evolution to Chapter 2 and we moved that to Chapter 3 instead to reduce the amount of things you had to keep track of in Chapter 2, as there already was Victoria and Sylvia to consider in that chapter.

We've reassessed what we want to do with Ava's evolutions and we chose to keep the original concept of giving two evolution paths to choose from.

The first evolution path is known as Apex and it focuses on enhancing Ava's combat capabilities and power. The second path is named Succubus, and as it implies, its focused on Ava being tuned even further for pleasure and intimate activities instead of direct combat.

In next week's update, we'll unveil the first artworks of her Apex evolution and we're really looking forward to sharing that with you!

Emilia

With 0.2.4, we've added a couple of new small talk scenes to all characters. Emilia in particular shed some light on how her initial infection came to be. With 0.3.0, we'll be going forward by introducing the first of Emilia's corruption threshold events.

Besides providing access to new events with Emilia, this new corruption level will also enhance Emilia's combat capabilities as just like Ava she somewhat fell behind compared to the newer companions like Sylvia, Victoria or even Lina's evolutions.

We are currently in the process of completing the artworks for this as just like for Ava it requires creating new variations of all existing artworks and events featuring her.

Final Word

We'll soon setup a poll to choose Silent Echo's next exclusive outfit. The customisation poll is also still running and based on its results we'll see which of these can be implemented into the game.

In parallel, we're making some progress on Starwatch and completed some new artworks for it. We've fixed all of the bugs we've discovered following the code update and currently porting a last batch of changes we developed for Silent Echo 0.3.0 that reduces data usage by a nice amount.

In addition after some internal discussion we are also curious if we should align Starwatch's storytelling format on Silent Echo's as this format is the one we would like to use for all future projects. We'll make a poll to gather your feedback on this before we start doing anything.

Have fun!