About Pre-Alpha v | 0.1 + Hot Fix v | 0.1.0.5

Hey there! Years of silence have come to an end and I'm ready to share what I've been working on these months.

First, let's talk about the key changes in Pre-Alpha 0.1

Updates

• Allied bots, acting as slaves, who can be useful for resource gathering or defending your hideout. The way to activate a slave is as follows: on the map, you can encounter lost souls from time to time, and you need to return their head, creating a slave tag from it. Afterward, you'll be able to issue commands to them.

Demo video

• New anomaly "Ghost Train." Occasionally, at midnight, a train arrives on the map, bringing lost souls. Currently, this is random, but I'm considering making it arrive on specific days, like every 5 days, and bringing lost souls and possibly new resources with parasites. Let me know what you think about this.

Demo video

• Level Editor - now you can place new objects on the map, thereby enhancing it with new details. If this mode becomes popular, I'll add more objects and features in the future, including scripts, parasite spawns, and more. Share your screenshots, and the best works will be added to the main game.

Demo video

• The improved fence placement system is back. Now, the system calculates the number of logs in the fence and combines them during construction. These groups are then archived into instances, making this system more efficient. As a result, you can build fences using individual logs, rather than whole, as before.

Demo video

• The electricity system has been completely overhauled. Generators now produce a specific amount of electricity. So, when connecting any electrical structure, the supply will deplete. Eventually, you'll need to build additional generators to power your shelter.

Demo video

• Updated map
• Now physics will be turned off forcibly and not when falling asleep as before. (This will allow you to more accurately save the position of objects and optimize some scenarios)
• Arrows now stick into trees and will retain their position when loading into a level in the same place.
• The torch can now be picked up from the ground if there is no space in your inventory.
• Hints if you are spotted by an enemy
• New portable resource (slave)
• New items (blacksmith's bellows, men's slave clothes, vibrator)
• More intuitive cable pulling (later adding a hint to which building the cable can be attached to)
• New water for mountain rivers and waterfalls
• Many systems have been rewritten for possible replication
• New optimization system for AI C++

Changes

• Reduced HP for rabbit
• Interact Key Hints
• Additional checks in different places to prevent bugs
• Now to build a blacksmith you need 2 slaves
• Changed grass material, grass now casts soft shadows
• Changed the color scheme of the vegetation, making it more autumnal
• Fixed errors in French localization
• All caves except the starting one have been sent for reconstruction (Will be available again in the next updates)

Bugs fix

• Resources may have been removed during transport
• During the parasite's spawn, the helmet could fly off on its own and remain there forever
• It was impossible to add resources to some buildings due to which they could not be built
• After reboot, the burning fire could not be put out
• Very often, items fell through the landscape when they were thrown out of inventory.
• Geiger counter did not respond to anomalies
• Falling tree only deals damage to the player
• Sometimes items dropped in the wrong location after being thrown out of inventory
• The sound of breaking stone did not fade away at a distance
• It was possible to lift portable resources while in a backpack pose
• With certain actions, sometimes it was possible to start climbing into the cave from the other end
• With certain actions, it was sometimes possible to interrupt the animation of leaving the cave, causing the game to think that you were still in the cave
• The rabbit carcass caused damage to the character if you tried to dismember it
• Blocking continued to work even if stamina ended
• Fixed interaction problem with cave exit/cars

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This completes the updates. Now let's talk about experiments, one of which is already available in this update.

Multiplayer - In a short time, I managed to replicate some systems, including:

• Full mobility
• Interaction with inventory
• Changing clothes
• Item trading
• Cheat menu
• Interaction with backpack, watch and notepad
• Food consumption and item use
• Combat and blocking mode
• Entire user interface
• Various animations, such as breathing and footsteps
• Tree cutting
• Resource collection and transportation
• Damage reception
• Bleeding

Demo video

Overall, could have continued working on this in the same spirit. However, I encountered an optimization problem.

Currently, it's the bottleneck that needs to be eliminated first to continue working on further replication. The primary step is rewriting complex logic in C++, and much of it has already been rewritten. Once this phase is completed, I will focus on further profiling and hopefully get back to working on the multiplayer in the near future.
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New character customization system - this is probably one of the most important changes coming soon. To achieve this, I had to completely replace the character's skeleton, his mesh, and abandon some previous developments. But in the end, I think it was worth it.

• New skeleton
• New highly detailed mesh with honest genitals
• 15 hairstyles (If my memory serves me)
• 7 types of eyebrows (If my memory serves me)
• Lingerie set
• A lot of morphs (sorry, I don’t want to count the exact number)
• Unhappy animation
• New map for character customization
• New UI for character customization

Demo video

What else needs to be added:

• It is necessary to completely replace the skin material, add the ability to customize cosmetics, and add scars - tattoos.
• Replace all existing clothing with new ones and add clothing damage masks.
• Also have to modernize the clothing tearing system itself, taking into account future changes that I want to implement. Namely, the support of all clothes for jiggle the butt and possibly the hips.
• A new breast physics and the influence of clothing on various parts of the body.
• Fake simulation of the character's muscles to avoid mesh deformation in places where the joints flex.

A demo version of character customization will be available already in pre-Alpha 0.1

Where you can just get acquainted with this update, without the opportunity to play for this character in the future. You can enter the demo level using the cheat console. Press (Enter)
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NSFW Content - About a year ago, I experimented with this, but I was always hindered by the lack of well-modeled genitals on the character model. At this point, that inhibiting factor is gone, and I'm open to experimenting in this direction.

Demo video

Therefore, I am launching a new funding goal of $1000 per month, after reaching this goal, I will begin to actively introduce NSFW content into the game.

So if you are truly interested in this, please consider contributing to this goal. Thank you.

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And finally, important news for all interested and current patrons: Pre-Alpha 0.1 will be the last, subsequent updates with a new character customization system, possible NSFW content and other changes will already be an alpha version available at the "The Seed of Parasite" level. Please take this point into account. (If plans change before Alpha releases, I'll let you know)

This is the end of the news, Thank you very much for waiting and for your support. Peace to you. ❤

Pre-Alpha Hot Fix v. | 0.1.0.5

• If you had a torch with a melee weapon in your hands, when putting away and taking out the weapon, the game continued to think that you only had a torch in your hands
• It was impossible to build custom structures
• Some blueprint functions were translated into C++ (for the sake of optimization)
• The character is now looking at the camera
• The character now only covers his naked body parts when the camera is looking from the front
• Fixed crash 0x00000000000000008
• Expanded graphics settings (you can now turn Lumen on or off, change the shader version, the global illumination setting has returned and a couple more settings)
•  Added vulkan support
• Added facial animations for parasites
• Preparations have been completed for the transition to the new version of the engine 5.3.2
• Pollen is no longer an indicator of radiation zones
• The male runner's voice did not play when taking damage
• The map has been changed and some improvements have been added
• If you turned away and turned around, the parasites could have fallen underground at that moment
• Sometimes a rag doll was processed incorrectly by parasites (the pose could freeze in the air)
• Significantly increased FPS stability when there are a lot of bots in the game
• Various changes to optimize rendering