General Update #42

Hey there everyone!

Today we have some news to share with you about the next Silent Echo update, but also about our plans for summer in general.

Deep Vault

The deep vault has grown significantly in complexity and amount of content compared to our initial plans. This is in part why we are beyond our traditional schedule as we chose to take more time to polish things up instead of cutting it short.

In total, you're looking at 21 new rooms to explore, 6 new encounter types, 3 new enemy types, 2 new achievements (and one returning), one new squad member, one new primary weapon and two new companion skins.

This is a lot of stuff, more than we usually do for a single patch, with more than 30k words of content already implemented. I'm personally very satisfied with how the deep vault plays out and I'm looking forward to your reactions and feedback about it.

What isn't making it into 0.3.2

The deep vault has pretty much consumed the entirety of our dev time for this patch, but in addition to it we've already managed to implement one new threesome sex scene for female MC, and the new guardian encounter with its combat and four sex scenes.

Our plan was to complete the artifact wing with this update, but you can already tell there is no way this is feasible anymore.

What we're looking into instead is to complete the artifact wing in 0.3.3, which will also serve as a patch to fill the existing areas of Chapter 3 with additional content such as Ava's Succubus evolution, new companion reactions and small talk, and the flooded labs.

Early Access

In regards to early access, we're looking to put the patch in early access this weekend regardless of what happens in order to not go too off the rails from the usual schedule.

We'll do our best to have as much as possible done by the time early access is released, however I expect it will be slightly incomplete as we'll use the that additional week to polish things up, add the new patron exclusive outfit, fix bugs and potentially alter some scenes.

Summer

Summer wouldn't be summer without some holidays. Team members will take some time off here and there in July to get a good breath of fresh air and return with new ideas and renewed strength.

In addition to this, we intend to ship Starwatch Academy 0.4.0 in August as mentioned a while back in Update #40, and finally get it out of dev hell. This means we'll slow down development on Silent Echo in July as we focus on Starwatch instead and finally get that in your hands.

If you've never played Starwatch until now, this update will be a good opportunity for you to try it out, with Act 2 featuring ground and space combat, expeditions, exploration and exotic waifus to have fun with ;)

That's it for this week!
Have fun!