July News update (Patrons only) (Patreon)

Hey there and welcome to the news update for the month of July.

Let's talk about the upcoming Private Eyes update. After the recent, busy days, new clients for our two detectives somehow won't materialize. So this update won't be focusing on another case, it will instead focus on taking something to the next level, that has been coming for a while (well, if you decided so in your game): the relationship between the FMC and Sawyer. I won't go into too much detail yet, but our female protagonist gets invited by Sawyer to a very special outing and things may or may not happen.

But, if you're more into the idea of a vanilla romance between the two protagonists, you might also get a little treat. So there's also that.

Also, I will finally get to the UI rework, to properly display the relationship status and corruption levels. More details on that in the release post.

Now, normally I'd give you a rough release date and end things there, but I'll have to put a little asterisk behind my current, estimated release date. Over the last two weeks, my PC, which I use for rendering, has shown signs of potential hardware failure, those being complete system freezes and random shutdowns and restarts. Without going into too much detail, the problem being on the software side can be almost certainly ruled out, so it's either my 8+ year old core components (CPU, motherboard, RAM (even though memtest showed no issues)) or my 3 year old GPU, which has been put under an almost daily render load. It's probaly the latter, but I can't be certain.

So, why am I telling you this? Because right now, these issues have been mostly a nuisance. A random shutdown or system freeze once every other day, which didn't affect the workflow in a real, significant way. But if whatever part, that's potentially on its last legs, dies, we've got an issue, meaning, at the very least, a release delay. However, knock on wood that it doesn't come to it.

So tl;dr: The estimated release for the next update is early next month, if my hardware doesn't die on me.

Anyway, that's it for now. Till next time.