Course of Temptation April Update Early Access (v0.4.26)

Early access to the April update is here! We dabbled in a few different areas of the game here, adding some polish to encounters (you can now ask for specific things to happen, and end an encounter early), new starting outfits including free starting swimwear, and new events and new reactivity on campus and in town.

I want to spend the first bit of next week adding a couple smaller things I didn't quite have time for before today's deadline. But by the end of the week, I hope to be back on 0.5! As you may know, monthly updates and major roadmap updates (which take more than a month) are developed in parallel, and the major update that's been cooking is beginning to near its end!

But for now, I hope you enjoy early access to the April update. Public release will be in one week! Please find your link to early access just below these release notes. And as always, thank you for your support!

Release notes

• The gender of professors is now indicated during character generation (contributed by drakon)

• Phone UI revised (contributed by drakon)

• More information about who you’re making a bet with in the Arcade (contributed by FastKoolUnwind)

• Your phone reminders now include your current dare from the roommate’s partner (contributed by FastKoolUnwind)

• UI pass on the People dialog and left panel (contributed by drakon)

• A new laundry room scene

• A bit more reactivity to being “messy” in some places

• Tattoos can now have a (generally minor) effect on perceived style

• You can now get the quad party invite event on campus, outside of your residence hall, to reduce the chances it’ll fire late

• New sex act targeting butt-havers for those with a butt-fetishizing inclination and high Disinhibition

• New world generation option: Traditional Sports Team Genders. You can uncheck this if you dislike the game’s tendency to create all-male football teams and all-female cheerleading teams

• You now always learn the names of your teammates in pre-practice socializing

• You can now pet the campus cats as well as dogs people are walking in town

• Somewhat reduced days/shifts worked requirement for QuickieBurger promotions

• UI pass on world generation options screen (contributed by drakon)

• You can now directly ask for certain things to happen in encounters and NPCs will generally comply, depending on personality

• You can now choose a favorite style during character generation to have a different outfit at game start

• Every new character will now start with basic swimwear

• Added a little yoga exercise event set to the gym

• Thrift shop UI updated to be consistent with the new shop UI from the March update (contributed by drakon)

• Added some of your clothing suggestions

• You can now stow your bike outside your residence hall if you’d prefer to walk (but you don’t need to lock it up, it’s just an option)

• Your homework grade now partly depends on passing a skillcheck relevant to the class (generally fairly easy, but this helps set the stage for one day advancing in year and taking harder classes)

• Fixed a bug that’s been in since release(!) making homework significantly easier than intended

• Added a couple dominant actions to certain positions for encounters (contributed by Falc)

• Added some more opportunities for rumors about you to spread both on campus and in town

• Added some more events for high reputations of various types

• The streaming platforms now offer a little bit of merch. You might even get some comments!

• Added a couple new decision points to esports game events

• Added a new recurring practice event for successful esports teams

• Added a couple minor “distractions” during swim meets

• A brand new dare from the roommate’s partner! (contributed by Meat Glacier)

• You can now choose to abort any ongoing encounter. Note that, naturally, this tends to make partners unhappy!

• Changes to your cash balance in the current passage are now shown in the left panel

• NPC attraction can no longer be completely disabled by the turnon/turnoff system, instead at worst just making them more difficult to pursue — this should keep things more consistent (for example, solving the fluctuation in the number of football players you need to pursue)

• That one laundry event revised again, giving you even more control over the outcome

• Fixed an issue that was making it difficult to recognize the bus tour NPCs later in the game

• Many small fixes and tweaks

Download or play here!