Monday Update #62 | A bit early

This weeks monday update comes a day early, I just felt like writing it now and not tomorrow. So without further ado, what is new in the game?

Everything new:

• The rework of Robins early game is done.
• I animated and rendered 2 additional reworked scenes for her. You can get a peek at them on Discord if you don't mind spoilers.
• I've further tweeked the new exp system.
• I've also started changing the balancing of the stamina consumption when out on explorations.
• And I am tweeking the way food is used and obtained in the game.
• I am making sure that even through all of those changes save files stay compatible by using a few sneaky workarounds.
• And I've started implementing a way to get rid of the pesky "x not in list" bug. That one was really just caused by my oversight and can be easily fixed, although it requires a bit of manual work, which takes time.
• I am also starting to bugfix all of the changes I am making.

In game design is this idea of always making your first level last, which I obviously can't do here on Patreon. But I can, now that there is a lot more game out, go back and make adjustments, which is what I am doing right now.

But do not worry, I don't plan to suddenly retcon the game and characters you like away. I am really just talking about tweeks and adjustments and only in the case of Robin some changes to the actual story, but only to the early parts and not the later ones.

Now, what is still missing? I have to remake 2 more scenes, I need to write events for all of the other girls when using the new stargazing option and I have to do some more tests and tweeks and fixes so everything runs smoothly. With the changes I am making the chance for accidental bugs is really high, so I have to make very, very sure that I don't softlock anyone playing the game. So all in all I am confident that I will be releasing at the end of august. Some might be wondering why not any earlier?

The answer is that I have actually decided to take a break this week. I haven't taken much time off from the game this year and I am starting to feel a little bit of fatigue, so I am gonna do something about it and... well, do nothing for a week. I just recently started playing ff14 in my freetime, so that is probably gonna be my timesink for the week.

That is all, you'll hear from me in the next Monday Update. Until then, stay safe!