Dev Update R5.5 #2 – Coming soon edition.

This’ll just be a quick post. R5.5 is almost done, just got to add a bit more content and tie everything together. I’m working to have it out by the 17th, a bit later than I wanted but IRL threw a few curve balls recently.

I’ll do a quick overview of what to expect:

Mel

Starting off is a few new club events, quite simple stuff. Really just bridges the gap where the current content left off and the first new story events. This is also where you’ll trigger the intros for her new levels.

I have a whole bunch of stuff I want to do with her and the club, quite a lot of it extremely lewd. But it makes more sense to happen after the story events of R5.5, so the club end won’t be getting a great deal in 5.5.

The first Love/Lewd story events will unlock her home once completed. Giving you access to a whole new set of things to get up to with her. I’d say overall it’s a bit simpler than what we got for Lydia in R5, but most of the actions have multiple choices so you’ll have to come back over a few days to see everything.

Some of the home locations/actions won’t have any meaningful content, because of time constraints, but I’ll look to fleshing out more when she gets her next pass. Most individual choices are quite short, so I’d be interested to see what you all think of this style once you have a chance to give it a go!

And of course to conclude is another pair of story events. As usual, all the story content was written as if playing a chosen route, but I’ll leave it up to you to decide if you want to do both routes at the same time.

Office/New Character

Just a couple short introduction events that occur once you reach a certain department performance. Originally I planned out 4, but had to cut back. Honestly where it stops is probably for the best anyway, the next step involves working on some new mechanics and changes to the manager job that probably deserve a good time investment.

Really looking forward to working on this character, so honestly more might come sooner than later. I’ve also implemented some new cheats for the office manager stats, so you’ll be able to cheat yourself performance, morale, or funds to help you in meeting the requirements. You do still have to make use of Jen and purchase some upgrades to increase your caps, but this should still help cut down the number of days spent just raising stats.

So that’s about it, a rather small release as befitting a .5. After this we’ll be back to the normal size and time scale. Already looking forward to R6, it’s probably going to end up being quite a lot of work. But I’ll talk about that after 5.5 is out ;)