Notice about Solace Lovense Toy (Patreon)

It is very frustrating to have to let everyone know about this, but I need to share my experience with programming the new Solace toy that Lovense has released.

Lovense wanted me to advertise it alongside Fairy FINDR. I told them I would not suggest anything to anyone without testing it myself, so they sent me the toy early and also let me know they devs of the toy had tested it with my games.

When it arrived I was instantly disappointed. None of the patterns I've made previously seemed to match with the toy pumping at all. I spend a lot of time making the patterns match with my games, because if they don't follow what's happening in the game, why even have it Bluetooth connected? You could just use any toy and play along that way.

The story went from 'The devs have tested your games with it' to 'you'll need to make patterns for the Solace'. Which is fine, it just meant i needed to find some time to go back and re-do everything for each game just for this new toy.

But when I finally did get the time to give it a go, I came across a big issue. It seems that the toy doesn't really have any controllable speed timing. There's about 4 speeds and that's it. The other toys you can control in milliseconds. This makes it impossible to sync the Solace with any of my games, because the pumping actions will never match up to the animation.

So yeah. The Solace won't work with my games, and if it's a hardware issue like the dev team said, there will be no future update that will fix it.

The toy technically does connect and pump, but there's no way for me to control the speed enough to make it match the actions in any of my games properly.

Aside from the Solace, all the other toys should work as far as I know (I don't have them all, but I have a fair few, and have not heard issues with the other toys)

I take pride in the games that I make, and it's disappointing to me that they let me and you down with this one. I originally added lovense compatibility because I thought it would be a little fun thing to add. I don't want to feel like they are dictating what posts I make on here or on my discord. I don't want to make the functionality with my games a bigger deal than it already is. I'll likely cut back on mentioning lovense in general, i'll keep adding support for it in future games but I don't want to mention it much anymore.