Imperial Bureaucracy Hero v0.2.9alpha1 is available.
ALPHA WARNINGS:
I clicked through it to make sure there's no crashes, but plenty of grammar errors probably remain. I'll be full playing it this weekend to weed out all those errors and then pushing alpha2.
Some stories are missing some Minor Facet dialogue.
the 5th and final Train Event with the lyn Lennis overseer is not complete! Everything else is.
Placeholder music is used in alpha1. This will be changed prior to release
Some sound effects are missing, but others are present. Another thing to clean up.
As there are facet exclusive h-scenes, I have enabled all facets/facet switching from the option in your Crescyt housing cell.
Should be fully functional for saves.
v0.2.9 ALPHA 1 DEVLOG:
Meant to be v0.2.82 but grew into a full update over the course of some bad health IRL. Goddamn that sucked.
The M4SRN is now fully feature-complete as I intended it, right before v0.3!
Two events in the Crescyt Railstation. Both can be started right away once you get access to the station, though one can be delayed and will pop up later after the first time you ride the rails.
Five events when riding the train you can access by clicking "Talk to your seatmate". This can only be done once per train ride, though you can just hop off in Javureck or the Tisrec and immediately get back on the train to reset it.
Intended to be played gradually as you criss-cross the rails, especially during v0.3's story
Rail events work like a card deck, randomly choosing on the 5 then taking it out of the pool. No repeats, guaranteed to get all 5 after 5 tries. Then it starts repeating generic stuff.
More events can and will be added later, and this serves as the foundation for similar systems on ships, in bars, etc moving forward.
Finally got enough NSFW built up that I feel comfortable making facet-specific h-scenes, a good suggestion from maroder on the Discord all the way last year. Your feedback and suggestions really mean a lot to me - they're good ideas! More often than not.
https://pixeldrain.com/u/sfSEgtCi
Download size: 297MB
Size on disk: 357 MB
CHANGELOG
Two New Short Stories
"ONE PILGRIM AND A SMALL PROBLEM" in the Supraterminal Suprême Railstation, Tradeward, High Crescyt
"AN UNPLEASANT DIVERSION" in the Supraterminal Suprême Railstation, Tradeward, High Crescyt
Five New Rail Events
I haven't come up with fun little names for them yet.
Approx 30min of content (might be a gross underestimation?)
4 h-scenes
1 h-scene for all facets
1 Rapport exclusive h-scene
1 Apparatchik exclusive h-scene
1 Panoply exclusive h-scene
NOTES
Thank you all very much for your patience with this. I'm getting back into my groove.