VoidBound: Henosis Patch Imminent[Gameplay Animations]

"Animate it, till you make it! Seriously... do it until it works eventually."

*Insert cool salutation here*,

With the quality control testing well into its third day, we're pleased to share that the amount of bug reports have slowed down to a trickle, with the majority of them being grammatical or at the very worst, inaccessible/area denial type issues.

This has given us hope that we've found and ironed out most, if not all, "game breaking" wrinkles and we're on track with the initial plan of a perspective release for our Adherent+ patrons within the next 24 hours or so.

In the mean time however, let us walk you through the patch with a short presentation on what you can expect from it, both content and Live2D wise.

CONTENT:

The central addition to the story comes in the form of multiple quests. Some important to the lore and some intended more as side content to break the monotony and interact with the world around Caly in general. To list a few, 

• Numerous Radiant Quests 
• Several Minor Quests
• Brand new 3 stage dungeon

• Character development events revolving around Haar and Vas.

• 3 new bosses and 4 new normal enemies.
• The metropolis Henosis, consisting of 6 districts and 40+ indoor maps.
• Various new mini H scenes that are attached to radiant quests and NPCs.

Apart from that, the combat system has been re-balanced once again with enemies given some fine tuning in the form of minor buffs and nerfs to be less "grindy" and more strategical.

ANIMATIONS:

When we announced our intention to bring animations to Voidbound, we remotely did not anticipate the fan response to the idea to be so overwhelmingly positive. Well, we heard you loud and clear and slowly started integrating them into the game proper via open world assets:

This also extends to sprites and full sprite animations, including 155 unique animations alone for events, gameplay, and character sheets! 

Additionally,  8 new plugins were written to provide improved Quality Of Life changes, some of them being:

• New camera movement
• MultiBGS,
• 3D positioning SFX, 
• Extension of the combat system,
• Event labels
• Live2D support

Speaking of Live2D, the naughty element has also started getting the animation treatment and slowly but surely making its way into the game from this patch onward. For now, it's a Handjob scene with 6 stages and 9 expressions as we want to run stress tests beforehand with multiple hardware to evaluate RPGM engine's capability handling heavy renders like these.

We wish we could showcase a sample but we all know the deal with Patreon. Instead, all we'll say is that if Caly ponders about reading something "interesting", it'd be a good idea to let her. *wink wink* 

On that pleasantly cryptic note, we must quickly bid you well, because we must prepare for tomorrow! Till the next time folks o/

Kind Regards,

Cursed-Atelier Team