Status Update #56 (Patreon)

Good evening, night, morning or day!

This week we... well, we did pretty much the same as last week. Editing, dialogue proof-reading, and post-processing renders. New renders were also made for the last scene, and some supplementary renders for other scenes.

There is a semi big branch right at the end of the update and we're thinking about the best way to put it together. We think a lot of people will be met with greyed out options again, while others will finally get to act on a certain choice they made earlier in the game. We know the paths for this scene, and a couple others will also converge a bit later. But the context will be very different.

Aside from that, we also fixed some in-game icons and bugged out links, and reworked some hover buttons. Great success. Generally making the code slightly more efficient and future proof. There were also a couple of new clothing morphs for Bree made.

Next week, some ❤ for the Android version.

Update when

Lately we've been answering a lot of "update when?" questions again so we figured we might as well confirm it publicly as well. Yes, Summer Heat will be updating this year. Or in other words, before GTA6.

For the anxious ones, at this point in the development cycle we recommend checking the title of the status updates. If there's no release date in the title, there won't be one in the post either. The status updates are more about keeping you in the loop about what's happening on a weekly basis, and not a magic hat to pull dates out of. When the fabled release date is here, it'll be announced very clearly in the title. Until then, the TBA remains.

We'd love to give you a date, and we almost did a while ago. It would've been Inaccurate however, and now you'd be reading about delays instead. We're not fans of delays or excuses, which is why you won't see either in our status updates (we hope). This comes with the Unknown debuff instead, but is that any better? We personally prefer guaranteed dates and no guesstimates, but we understand that everyone has their own perspective.

In the future we can also condense our yapping into bullet points again, if that's preferred. Like in the good old days. Opinions are welcome, as always.

Other news

The monthly special render poll will be up this weekend. This time, the theme will be Halloween. Kate was the winning lady for September and won't be in the poll, but who else would you like to see win this month? And would you like to see the side girls included? Below you can find the previous two Halloween renders. The pumpkins will also be returning.

Happy Halloween from Eve!

Happy Halloween from Sophie!

Cheers,

Rob & Npx