A quick delay post FAQ (Patreon)

Hey most of you already noticed we again late on our second delivery date... So we are posting asking for a bit more patience on this delay, i will go in a bit more details in form of FAQ

Q: So when is this update pushed to?  A: Probably early-mid November. 

Q: What is left to finish this update? A: Combat modifications essentially

Q: Why will not you publish update in this state? A: Combat is a pretty important part of this update, and releasing this first story chunk with the combat is in its current form will spoil the first impression of this story bit.

Q: How such delays are likely in the future updates? A: Much less likely due current delay was caused by unexpected need to update more foundation code than we expected. All of this foundation code will be reused in the future updates because we took extra time to make them in universal modules, which make future quest scripting MUCH more efficient. Here's the list of all the modules we had to make for this update.

Q: What is the "unexpected code updates"? A: This update having most sophisticated and scripted quest in the game so far made us to realize that the old system wasn't as efficient if we want to make plenty of quests. AI behaviour needed a lift up, since they are now inside a more complex location, so their aggro script now had to include walls and other obstacles so enemies wont try to fight you from other rooms. Not to mention their roaming and infighting behavior. All of this was made into modules, which took extra time from this update, but will save time in the future updates. Here is how those modules look in unity

Q: What are the new major things in this update for the player? A: All the mentioned under the hood work, Line of sight FOW mechanic, new UI, inventory with new items, questlog, codex aka lore encyclopedia(also used for books), collectibles(mini lewd pictures), 4 new enemies, 5locations, 1smut scene with 3 animated CGs, 1temporary playable companion, a big introduction quest with lots of story and dialog, 4new ambience music tracks, lots of SFX added. Thats not counting small misc stuff and bugfixes.

Q: So if current update leftover work is code, then whats rest of team is doing? A: We already started doing content for next update (planned end of December), we will hold a vote over next(3rd out 4 planned) companion soon-ish.

That's all the question i could've think of, feel free to ask in the comments anything else you want clarified. - Arbuz