Lab Rats 2 v0.35.0 Release
Added 2020-12-01 11:18:44 +0000 UTCLab Rats 2 v0.35.0 is Live! Get it here!
Edit: PC version is now properly linked. Sorry for the delay, Patreon likes to eat links!
PC: Lab Rats 2 v0.35.0-PC
Mac: Lab Rats 2 v0.35.0-Mac
Android: Lab Rats 2 v0.35.0-Android
Lab Rats 2 v0.35.0 is finished and ready for it's week of bug testing by patrons! This update focused on tidying existing content and fixing many long standing bugs. This update also includes two new random events, as well as a half-dozen new clothing items.
Update 0.35 comes with one of the largest change logs of any Lab Rats version so far. Many events have had new dialogue branches added, mostly after having sex and referencing the results. Random events that had you design an outfit now properly tie into the outfit manager, letting you choose if you want to design an outfit from scratch or select one you already have put together. Any screen that displays a serum design tooltip now lets you click to lock the tooltip in place, allowing you to scroll through complex designs. The list of active serums has also been updated to display serum tooltips, making it much easier to see what is currently affecting a girl. Six new clothing items have been added to the game: two dresses, a shirt, panties, a bra, and a bracelet set. A bunch of default outfits have been added to make use of these clothing items, and they are available to the player to make completely new outfits with as well.
v0.35 includes more than minor tweaks and additions. Two new random events have been added. The first is triggered when an employee is caught not wearing your company mandated uniform. This event is more likely to trigger for characters who have low obedience or who think that their uniform is inappropriate. The second is a new random event that can sometimes be triggered while walking into Jennifer's or Lily's room in the early morning or late at night. It contains over eleven thousand words of dialogue and description spread over many branching options.
I hope you enjoy!
Changelog (v0.34.2 to v0.35.0):
*CHANGES AND ADDITIONS*
- All distributions of Lab Rats now share a .zip file format for storing images.
- Rebecca outfit design event now allows you to select an existing outfit from your library if you want.
- Added support for facial accessories setting a mandatory special modifier.
- Jennifer and Rebecca will now only wear outfits to their weekly euchre games that the other would approve of.
- Added Pinafore clothing item.
- Added Frilly dress clothing item.
- Added Frilly shirt clothing item.
- Added Colourful Bracelets clothing item.
- Added Kitty Panties clothing item.
- Added Kitty Babydoll clothing item.
- Updated piledriver outro to be consistent with comdom useage and more properly tie into personality specific dialogue
- Updated some text to prevent overflow.
- Jennifer's payment offer now triggers on Saturday morning instead of Friday night. Provides more opportunities to make use of serum effects.
- Bedroom walk-in event now leads directly into a conversation instead of kicking you back to the main room menu.
- Detailed person info screen now provides a hoverable and clickable button for active serum effects to show included serum traits.
- Updated serum select screen to leave serum tooltips up, allowing you to scroll through all effects for complex serums.
- Person info ui now only displays the bonus sluttiness due to arousal when arousal is higher than 20 (meaning the sluttiness bonus is at least 5)
- Expanded Rebecca dialogue branches when you have sex after drinking with her.
- "Keep going" option now displays energy and arousal costs for the next round.
- Tweaked Judge Outfit function so girls with an opinion about showing tits or ass judge those outfits more favourably.
- Added support for polcies with on_move functions.
- Updated out of uniform event. Is now a limited time event, chance of triggering based on difference between girl sluttiness and uniform sluttiness.
- Added large night and morning limited time event for Lily and Jennifer.
- Added immaculate conception style dialogue if you somehow manage to get a girl pregnant without actually breaking the appropriate taboo.
- Changed how the bathroom location is defined and when it's background is shown in some events.
- Added simple .zip error handling to avoid most issues while grabbing files.
- Added November patron rewards
- Added multiple outfits using new clothing items.
- Small talk Love gain is now capped at 20.
*BUG FIXES*
- Fixed background buttons still being clickable while the serum select screen was being shown.
- Fixed sexual performance reward giving incorrect results based on outcome.
- Fixed person info ui not being tied properly to screen layers.
- Fixed a set of facial types not being enabled on android and not being used.
- Fixed training seminar event displaying the improvment as if it applied to the current person being talked to.
- Fixed dresses not properly displaying their top or bottom regions being moved when made half-off.
- Fixed other inconsistencies likely related to the above problem where the bottom of a dress was not properly identified as being linked to the top.
- Fixed the temporary happiness modifier to sluttiness not being removed after sex.
- Fixed anchoring code not properly recognising when some clothing can be moved half-off.
- Fixed Summer Dress Clothing item counting as underwear.
- Fixed garter and fishnets clothing item improperly displaying pattern.
- Fixed infractions not properly reporting how many days they were valid for.
- Fixed error when using Obedience to have a girl strip
- Fixed infinite loop when having girls strip during broken AC event.
- Fixed birth control influence on asking for a condom being inverted.
- Fixed incorrect Emily masturbation sluttiness requirement.
- Fixed "begs you to finish" option being infinitly repeatable when you stop having sex early.
Comments
Ah, so interesting thing here: LR2 now ships with a slightly modified version of Ren'py. You can pass a Person object directly to the say statement and it's interpreted as a Character, while allowing you to pull Person related stats/opinions and modify text with them. In the near future this is going to be used to have gag-like items dynamically modify text, or have girls put special emphasis around certain words (hearts around your name, the word "cum" in all caps and vibrating slightly, that sort of thing). If you're using a standalone Ren'py launcher to run LR2 it won't be incorporating those changes though, so it'll get confused when it's passed a Person instead of a Character.
Vren
2020-12-08 08:55:55 +0000 UTCQuick bug report #3: crises.rpy:2027 typo 'gropu' - $ the_gropu.draw_group(emotion = "angry") + $ the_group.draw_group(emotion = "angry")
0.5joker
2020-12-06 17:49:20 +0000 UTCI'm also not seeing the missing layer images. Where is the max_tries=5 line so I can try your fix?
2020-12-04 19:33:26 +0000 UTCSame for me.
2020-12-04 16:02:43 +0000 UTCwhen looking through people to hire (hire someone, pay the 50 and than browsing people) I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. While loading <'VrenZipImage' u'stand2' u'Bra_Pattern_1_stand2_standard_body_B.png' 0>: File "game/script.rpy", line 10896, in script call $ picked_option.call_action() File "game/script.rpy", line 11208, in script call call hire_select_process(candidates) from _call_hire_select_process File "game/script.rpy", line 11234, in script call screen interview_ui(candidates,count) File "renpy/common/000statements.rpy", line 531, in execute_call_screen store._return = renpy.call_screen(name, *args, **kwargs) File "renpy/common/00action_control.rpy", line 204, in __call__ renpy.hide_screen(self.screen) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'
retchedegg
2020-12-03 18:29:38 +0000 UTCQuick bug report #2: I think limited_time_events.rpy has a lot of RenPy dialogue calls missing the '.char' in 'the_person' e.g. 'the_person Says something' should be 'the_person.char Says something' I did a find/replace for the_person " to the_person.char " and that seems to work... but I am a bit of a cowboy. Yeehaw! Edit: the_person.char is also missing three times in introvert_personality.rpy
0.5joker
2020-12-02 22:06:13 +0000 UTCIf Vren does wait a week to release the PC version, it will make it more difficult for me to help find bugs in the testing period, :)
2020-12-02 18:38:08 +0000 UTCQuick bug report: bit of a showstopper because of crash when trying to hire anyone: TypeError: uniform_disobedience_on_move() got an unexpected keyword argument 'uniform_disobedience_priority' Fix: changed 'given_priority' arg and later when used as var to 'uniform_disobedience_priority' in policy_disobedience_events.rpy - def uniform_disobedience_on_move(given_priority): + def uniform_disobedience_on_move(uniform_disobedience_priority): - if highest_active_priority != given_priority + if highest_active_priority != uniform_disobedience_priority I'm also seeing (or rather not seeing) seemingly random missing character layer images e.g. from stand3.zip , stand4.zip , stand5.zip . Not sure if that's because I'm running the Mac version on Windows. I'm seeing some ERR: . I tried re-zipping one of the archives but no change. I don't speak Python but I'll have a play. Edit: hmmm. I took out the max_tries = 5 while loop so there is no iteration in the image loading from zips and all the layer images load fine for me now. Not one image error so far. Not sure what you were trying to solve with the loop - guessing some underlying race condition possibly related to file system speed or reading the zip in memory. I upgraded the RenPy libs and renpy from latest (renpy-7.3.5-sdk) - but that's because I'm using the Mac link on a Windows box. Let me know if you want me to try anything if that helps.
0.5joker
2020-12-02 16:00:45 +0000 UTCThe PC version link incorrectly links the Android version. The PC version has not been released yet.
NuTrix
2020-12-02 14:14:37 +0000 UTCwhy pc link gives a apk format?
2020-12-02 12:54:00 +0000 UTCI actually think the bigger disconnect is between the dates and the sexual activities. Until you hit love ~50 you can't lay a finger on them by flirting. Then - around the same time they're willing to go see Ghostblasters with you- you get a +25 sluttiness from 'I really like you'. Throw in their base sluttiness and even a little happiness modifier and suddenly they'll have straight up sex with you without needing to be aroused first. I guess maybe what I'm saying is the check for flirting resulting in sex should factor in sluttiness/happiness as well - just to prevent the sudden switch flip from 'just friends' to 'I know you've never so much as touched my breasts but lets fuck'
2020-12-02 08:22:00 +0000 UTCDreamdayer - slows down the early game. Late game, I never bother to even talk to employees because the drugs get them to 100 Love. Speaking of which, I'd say that complimenting employees is one of the primary early game ways to raise Love anyway, and that appears to be untouched.
GAZZA
2020-12-02 00:36:13 +0000 UTCNot what I expected when I heard you were standardizing formats between PC and Android ;)
2020-12-01 23:43:54 +0000 UTCyeah, the dl links are just for android and mac...
archdesoive
2020-12-01 23:01:31 +0000 UTCThere seems to be no PC file to download. Both the PC and Android download links are for the Android apk format. The Mac download does seem to be for Macs.
2020-12-01 20:59:31 +0000 UTC"Fixed "begs you to finish" option being infinitely repeatable when you stop having sex early." RIP. Honestly that bug would give you such a leg up in the early game sometimes. "Small talk Love gain is now capped at 20" is a pretty huge change. Small talk was the primary way of raising Love quickly. Now I have to ask them to lunch (at least) 3 times to reach 50 love, to be able to ask them to a movie scene I can only use once a week? I mean I get there's progression there, and the main characters have a few more options of love gain, but this will slow down gameplay by a fair bit in places.
Dreamdayer
2020-12-01 19:53:49 +0000 UTCfail ><
2020-12-01 19:24:17 +0000 UTCVREN!!! The PC link accesses the Android version. Thank you
NuTrix
2020-12-01 17:51:00 +0000 UTCThe link for PC and Android are the same - so we're missing the link for the PC version :)
SomebodyElse
2020-12-01 12:06:30 +0000 UTCmen, you put a .apk link for your pc version too X)
Darkminou
2020-12-01 11:55:22 +0000 UTC
