Virtual Succubus 0.37 Patch Notes - Devotion & Consequences

Hello!

There are two main segments to this update!

The first is the rework to Favor and the addition of Devotion. Favor, when it was added last year, was intended to primarily be a little bonus system that allowed you to feel more rewarded for your sessions, without encouraging you to optimize it too much.

Over the last year of feedback, the general consensus has been that Favor is earned too easily, and eventually not spent enough. I did not want to simply reduce favor gains or encourage optimization in a way that isn’t befitting of this game, so instead I decided to focus this rework on minor bonuses and flavor through Favor Ranks that earn you various privileges with your Succubus.

These favor ranks are obtained by hitting various favor thresholds that were set based on a feedback request to get a general gauge of where each kind of player currently sits.

A secondary new addition to this system is the Devotion system, which is a requirement to earn favor past a certain rank. Devotion requires you to participate in the game’s various systems to prove your, well, devotion to your Succubus and earn the right to more favor. It’s a system designed to be entirely optional while incentivizing you to experiment with more of what the game has to offer.

The second part of this update started out as entirely different plans that were completely sidetracked by those plans’ needs. A common issue the game’s design space has always encountered is the lack of, and inconsistency of high-impact rewards, punishments, and overall events.

With the new Consequences system, my aim was to standardize these outcomes to make them easier to develop, while making them far easier to integrate into systems like Spin the Wheel and now Deals, which are new periodically offered prompts giving you two different consequences simultaneously. It’s your choice to accept both or pass on the deal.  This is a very large shake-up to the core of the game on both the metagame front with favor/devotion, and the in-game flow with the addition of consequences.

Current 0.36 Patch Notes:

Features

Favor Ranks

Added 7 favor ranks displayed on the main menu.

Each favor rank requires different amounts of Favor and Devotion(see below) to qualify to earn further favor. The degradation kink can now also interact with the naming of favor ranks.

Reduced favor gains across the board to compensate for the Devotion bonus (see below)

Each favor rank can grant you privileges with your succubus such as:

• Unlock new favor requests.
• Increase her Generosity (lowers cost of begging/mercy, increases chance of free favor reward, increases likelihood of rewards, increases likelihood of stripping.
• Increase her Leniency (Increased chance to successfully beg and ask for mercy, increased chance to forgive your dedication missteps)
• The Favorite rank includes a Favorite Session count to keep track of your score. (Note: Earn an exclusive discord role by reaching 30 sessions and DMing us with a screenshot!)

Devotion

Devotion is a new system designed to encourage engaging with the various systems the game has to offer to prove yourself to your succubus.

This system is designed to be 100% optional, and will not significantly impact your gameplay if you choose to ignore it.

Devotion now grants you a 10% favor gain bonus for every 100 devotion. This bonus is shown on the favor & devotion menu.

Note: The highest favor rank can be achieved without enabling all related options.

Devotion is gained by:

• Playing often (bonus up to 124h since last session)
• All collaring options
• Chastity
• Scheduling/Appointments
• Various post-Oops options.
• Her Choice Endings for both Reward and Punishments
• Daily Training
• Having 5+ Toys & Kinks
• Having 3+ Habits, Commandments, Player Accesories, Player Outfits, Positions

Consequences

Consequences are a new core system built to create a future-proofed back end to provide more impactful outcomes to various events in the game like Spin The Wheel and now Deals. More systems are planned to support consequences, and consequences were designed to be easy to expand upon.

The current potential consequences in the game include:

Neutral:

• Edging
• Edge Ladder (a new system of edging giving you increasing timers for each edge)
• Long Edge
• Heavy Positioning
• Extend Session (for timed sessions)
• Instant Ruin (and continue)
• End Session (A curse or a blessing…)
• Mischievous Mood
• Outfit Change
• Kinky
• Random Status

Reward:

• Breast Expand (for those with breast expansion on)
• Thirsty
• Lewd Outfit
• Naked
• Latex
• Favorite Outfit
• Strip
• Low Difficulty
• Forgiveness (forgives all dedication losses)
• Add Favor
• Reduce Chastity (for those in chastity sentences)
• Lift Fog (when fog is on)

Punishment:

• Punishment Status
• Furious
• Modesty (a new outfit that shows very little)
• High Difficulty
• Sadistic
• Short Fuse
• Add Chastity (for those with chastity on)
• Remove Favor
• Findom
• Denial (guaranteed on ending, if any denial is active)
• CEI (guaranteed on ending, if any CEI is active)
• Ruthless
• Merciless
• Strict
• Fog (darkens vision)
• All Status (applies all statuses available at once in random sequence)
• Edge Count Reset (during edge count sessions)
• Zero Tolerance (no tolerance for dedication losses)
• Breast Shrink (for those with breast expansion on)

Fog, Add Chastity, Denial and CEI (and now reset edge count) are part of a harsher consequence group that won't appear as often and are incompatible with themselves for wheel punishment purposes (for example, no Fog Fog Fog possibilities)

Deals

A new event occurring periodically offering you two potential consequences at once. It’s your choice if you want to accept it or decline it!

Spin The Wheel Rework

Now provides 3 different consequences. Taunting changes the outcomes, but adds one punishment slice.

Spin the wheel is now also a potential random punishment that gives 3 punishment consequences. This is only allowed to happen periodically.

Content

• Added a new hairstyle "Braid Bows"

Balance

• You can now beg to extend sessions even when you've failed to meet the dedication threshold.
• Removed Amusement as a stat.
• Mercy & Beg Interactions now cost favor.
• Amusement loss stake is now favor loss stake (-FavorRank*200)
• Bad Day sessions now set the favor cost of Beg and Mercy to 0.
• High expectations intro prompt removed as it related to amusement.
• Removed the minimum timer on stripping.
• Reduced overall chance that a reward is stripping (to compensate for the favor rank bonus)

Polish & Misc

• Added a new in-game UI element to track favor changes
• Added favor costs to Beg and Mercy buttons
• Renamed Oversized Toy training to Insertion Training to communicate the intent.
• Allowing your succubus to choose the time limit now guarantees you get the preferred time limit bonus.
• The wheel now has numbers to indicate where a consequence is located on the wheel.
• When disliking an outfit, you now have a few seconds to beg to ask for a new outfit.
• Changed the windows fullscreen mode to Windowed Fullscreen
• Moved her preference time limit to the time limit selection screen.
• Pet Noise status no longer allows gags.
• New UI element to track favor and devotion on the main menu.
• Added a check to prevent Energy Drain in chastity and Edge Counting session in Chastity if no touching chance > 0%
• Added a check to skip the positioning event if punishment positions is on and her mood is good.
• Taskmaster mode now skips the intro entirely.
• Spin the Wheel consequences no longer immediately fade out upon clicking the spin button.
• Smothering scenes & worship scenes can no longer have eye contact edging tasks.

Bugfixes

• Training can no longer be started if not enough options are selected.
• Some fixes to Findom tribute request timers.
• Fix to timer text sometimes overlapping.
• Fixed the menu labels for toy variants showing the internal name instead.
• Fixed the ''Devious'' text bug
• Fixed the text special mood status indicators not showing.
• Fixed button keybind labels not appearing.
• Fixed edging existing in anal training even if turned off.
• Various fixes for vagina tasks
• Made some changes to try to fix the bug where the wheel spin audio keeps playing.
• Fixed the degradation training checkbox not displaying correctly.
• Rewrote the positioning code to allow incompatibilities to actually work.
• Fixed a bug causing Oops Chastity Punishment to also turn on Chastity
• The christmas outfit is no longer considered lewd.
• Fixed an empty task bug.
• Training can no longer be started with only the plug training enabled
• Fixed some position incompatibilities.
• Fixed nipple clamp incompatibilities not working.
• Fixed a rare case where punishment positions wouldn't work properly with heavy positioning
• Fixed the intro asking you to edge during nonsexual taskmaster sessions
• A new attempt to fix the metronome bug.
• Fixed christmas outfit showing up in the base pool of outfits.
• Fixed a bug with masochist mode punishments.
• Non-sexual taskmaster should no longer have an extra random event at the end.
• Fixed a visual % bug in events chance menu
• A variety of further fixes to positioning logic.
• Fixed a button bug when begging for session extensions.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing windowed fullscreen from working correctly.
• Fix for some statuses being considered active when they weren't.
• Some edging incompatibility fixes.