Newlife 0.7.0 (Patreon)

Hi all, I hope you've had a good week!

This is version 0.7.0 of Newlife - the final update in the Work & Careers update. 

I spent quite a lot of this release reworking some of Newlife's internals to deal with some problems with multi-NPC scenes that the party scene had made painfully obvious.

There is some new content though: people who want to date the office boss will be pleased, and there's new stuff for the office party and for characters in the PA job.

The next major update will be Lesbian Content but I also have to investigate a save-game issue that might involve some rework of how Newlife handles saved games. I may take a release to do that and other "bits and pieces" changes before diving straight into the girl-on-girl scenes.

Changelog:

Major changes & additions:

Added a new path to the office party, intended to give the scene more variety for players with a non-sleazy boss. You need to be wearing underwear to the party to get this route.

Extensively reworked how enjoy and relationship processing works internally. This probably won't be very visible to players, but it should solve the numerous issues involved with handling relationship-stat changes in multiple-NPC scenes.

Added a new event for characters in the office career, especially those on the PA sub-path. This is the work trip, a scene requested by PrettyPenny which also allows the boss to become properly dateable. 

Minor changes:

Added some clarification to the user-created-npcs guide to highlight some changes made since it was written, notably that the number of NPCs can be modified in the options.

Slightly improved one of the makeout action text sections that was a bit bare if none of the clauses were available.

Increased the effects of likes-rough and low-self-esteem on the lowlife “freeze in panic” route. As long as there are no negative effects, having one of these will now be sufficient by itself for the route to end in sex.

Added a new option at character creation: Underling. This dooms the PC to never receive any but the most basic of promotions. Specifically, underlings can get one promotion in a career, but no more.

Changes for user-submitted content:

There are none. Enjoy is now properly linked to a specific NPC, but this has been something I've wanted to do for a while now and the custom scene methods were written to support the change without affecting custom scenes. I did get to remove the paragraph in the documentation referring to the enjoy system having “major internal flaws”, so I'm pleased about that!

Bugfixes:

Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Joisub and Wakisha for reporting some of these.

Fixed an issue reported by AnarChYsT where the game was mistakenly thinking you don't have a computer at home when faking nude pictures of your rival.

Fixed a bug that would block an event where the PC reconsiders someone's bastard status.

Fixed a bug reported by PhazonMario where the date scene could error if there were no suitable men for a threesome.

Have fun, and let me know if you find any bugs!