Sneak Peeks, Overhauls, New Assets.

Heyo everyone!~ I've got some sweet stuff to show, and talk about. This week the team got together and assembled our "Beta Break" list. This is the first pass we've done where we are going to be addressing everything we aren't happy with. Bugs, Art, Animation, features, models, the whole works. While we get going on that, several more assets from the final batch of docs are coming in. I will have no shortage of things to do in the coming months ahaha. So let's get into exactly what's transpired this week.

To start, we started the beta break list off running. We have plans to re-render several of the Hscenes to bring art consistency which was lacking. Let's take a look at what these changes look like:

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In these 2 scenes we have revamped backgrounds, made rendering feathered, and added more visible breasts for both. The main objective with these re-renders is consistency. Some Hscenes already have this style, so they will likely remain untouched, but there will be a lot of Hscenes to be re-rendered in this manner.

Next up was knocking some bugs off the list. I won't go into too much detail on that, but I made a good dent in them

With all cylinders firing, we've already received the next batch of SFX. This will cover several sounds ranging from Zol'gan2, Finale, Finale2, Neos2, and Titas2.

We've receive the majority of the new VA work.

We've received the new batch of UI. I'll showcase some of the plans.

NOTE: This is not yet implemented, they are just the example images.

As you can see above. The UI in Hscenes are going to be touched up too. The objective for this is to keep buttons simple, small, and be significantly less intrusive on the animation.

There are several other UI components/menus to be changed, but I'm just showing off a few.

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Next up are some fun images. As you may have seen at the top, there's an image with a slightly different style. If you all remember Samga's recent cross-over with Spiral Clicker, I've decided to commission, and get the artist, Chien on board for a few pieces in Starbreed. These images will be involved in the "Social Media" section of the ending.

Choosing the Brothel Ending: Siren makes this post if she joins you.

Siren working in the brothel.

In the scenario that Nika does NOT remain with Aether after the ending. (Affinity too low, or royalty ending)

She returns to Neos and dances for Pom.

And there's one more to show from AbsurdRes. This one is from choosing the Brothel route, and Lana joins the player.

Lana working in the brothel.

That pretty much sums up what this week has been. There's been a lot going on.

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Next week could go many directions ahah. I'm thinking I will jump onto implementing the UI though. It has the greatest potential for time consumption, so getting it out of the way earlier rather than later would be ideal.

Alright! I'll catch you all next week with a break down! Thanks again everyone! I'll catch you then!

-Regulus.