Shady Deals v0.3.0: Crime in Focus

Public; Big Shot; Hustler;

v0.3.0 is all about a new recurring mechanic and reworking all the naughty events to support it properly. I’m also still cleaning up leftover junk that was left hanging out in placeholder-ish state - low-quality media, weird formatting, clunky UI... you name it.

You can check out screenshots of the new UI and read some of my thoughts about new features in sneak peek.

Pre-v0.3.0 saves might be buggy, though I tried to avoid that. Also, you won’t have item descriptions for the new stuff — but that’s whatever.

Changelog:

Raw Format and Tags system

• Raw Format: A new website accessible through your PC dedicated to homemade adult videos. Every 3 days, 3 new trending tags are shuffled. If you have a required reputation, you can change a chosen trend to another random one twice per trend cycle;

• Tags: There are 27 tags distributed across various naughty events in the game. You can score big by aligning your videos with current trends, and they also serve as a hint system for unlocking naughty content. Each tag provides advice on how to obtain it;

• Video Uploading: You can upload one video per day, but you won't receive all the profit instantly. Instead, you'll earn a daily share of revenue until your video loses its novelty. Novelty decreases randomly every day. Only one active video can be monetized at a time. Your camera, charm, the number of tags, and your partner's stats all affect the profit;

• Partner's Stats: All partners in scenes now have a charm stat that impacts the profit of your videos. Some of these stats are static, like with named characters, while most are random, depending on the location where you're recording;

• Cameras: 5 types of cameras for stealth recording. 3 of them are available in the mall, and 2 can be found at the hacker’s den. The most expensive and advanced camera is locked behind reputation. You’ll record any event that happens while you have a camera in your inventory. You can tell if you're recording by looking at the top-left corner of the screen - there'll be a red flashing button with the word "REC" on it. You can check the tags on your video in your Log or on your PC;

• Changes to naughty events: for balance sake, all events now has at least 3 tags;

  Significant Changes Made to:

  • Burglar;

  • Changing Rooms: Both events now have different starting scenes with unique tags;

  • Angry Customer in Your Nightclub;

  • Both Variations of Frame Gig;

  Expanded "Endings":

  • Filmmaker in Harbor;

  • Duo in Suburbs;

  • Random NPC in Brothel;

  And, of course, you can get a lot of tags during your fun time with random NPCs at home depending on their character.

New item: Gold bar:

• A rare curiosity that can be obtained either with a high chance from the infallible Cash on the Wheels heist, a low chance from safes during burglaries, or from the new stranger event;

• New merchant: Gold Digger. You can meet her in your nightclub once it has at least some popularity. She’ll offer to buy your gold bars for a significant amount of dirty cash - or trade it for access to two new tabs on the black market: Arms Market and High-Volume Black Market;

• Both new tabs are highly randomized - you won’t get to choose exactly what you’re buying, but it’s a way to get shipments without fiddling with crafting, and to score some guns without paying an absurd markup;

Two new strangers:

• A rich guy who believes his champion is unbeatable at the gym.

• A girl who makes a living running sketchy schemes in a downtown nightclub.

Both of these new strangers will only react to a main character with high enough stylishness. You’ll get a wardrobe notification once you hit the required threshold.

And yeah, I know it’s kinda annoying that you can’t get enough stylishness and sluttiness to unlock both types of encounters just yet - but I’m planning to add T3 clothes in v0.4, most likely.

UI updates:

• New UI for the PC and its contents;

• New UI for Stats Menu;

Misc and small changes:

• Rebalanced Rent:

  • Flat now requires $80/day;

  • Basement extension costs $200/day;

  • Basement extension 2 adds an additional $300/day;

  • Prefab garage costs $75/day;

  • Additional garages are $175/day;

There are currently too many ways to make money, and I haven't added enough ways to spend it yet, so here we are...

• You can't use 'Enjoy the atmosphere' in your club if it has less than 15 popularity. There’s no atmosphere with that low pop!

• Replaced low-quality media with better ones in all finishers;

• Replaced low-quality media in most indoor actions, except for the ones that are highly specific;

This was an issue because I originally searched for GIFs, and, well... most of them were pretty BAD. I realized that midway through gathering media, but I was a bit lazy to replace them before the release. Not all the junky videos were removed in v0.3, but at least most of them. Also, I pushed these changes with media to v0.2.4, because I'm feeling embarrassed by leaving it as it is for public release. Previous iteration of media was really THAT poor.

• Also, the media in many events has been slightly expanded, though I don't keep track of the added media. I'm doing it on the whim.

In the pipe:

• Web version soon™;

In this update, I finally wrapped up a lot of annoying stuff. But yeah, there’s still some junk left in the game:

• Bad formatting – I fix it as soon as I spot it, but it's easy to miss something that only shows up under specific conditions.

• A few trashy media pieces – though I’ve cleaned up most of the media stuff in v0.3.

• Unremarkable UI and questionable UX – I’ll keep spending a good chunk of time making the interface at least okayish with every update.

But hey, all of that is the kind of stuff that’ll keep getting addressed anyway.

What about next update... The main feature will be a brand new player-owned establishment with its own gimmick and a mini-game. This place will rely on the female side of your gang as the main workforce, and it’s going to come with a new tag.

Till the next sneak peek!