Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Harem c8m5 released to patrons, public version updated to c8m4!


After entirely too long, I’m happy to announce that Harem c8m5 is ready for my patrons!

In what was supposed to be a leave of only a few weeks, you have been without your healer for many months now.  Well, finish the next few Aries’s quests and her time helping Livia recover is at an end.  And she’ll have quite a few stories to tell you from her time in Mercalius’s mansion.  Speaking of missing women, Joan has been gone since you sent her back to the Westlands.  With the Ratans in Celee, you should check in on her.  Speaking of people and places you should also be checking in on, Hanno in Eowen would like to see his daughter again and your brothel has been closed for far too long.  Something vague about the ‘plot’ as well.  Oh… and Yvone.  Yup, Yvone.  And a huge number of bug fixes by TG22 and new code for both Ralph and Vanessa.

Content additions
-The plot quickens!
-You've done as Mercalius requested by helping Aries.  Time to recover your healer and start on a plan to betray Aries.
-With gaining entry to Eowen, you should check on your friend Hanno the governor.  Make sure to bring his daughter along!
-Westlands opened.  It's been too long since you've visited your assets in there.
-You've met many new women... time to reopen your brothel and get them working!
-Bonus scene with Yvone involving her, you, and Donnie or Tomas.  A small conversation if you sent them packing.
-6 new scenes, 202 pages of new text in game, 205 new images

Bug fixes/combat adjustments
-Fixed a memory leak that was causing crashes.
-Ralph has a new passive aura, Vanessa has a new TP mode.  Various other character fixes.
-Brand new brothel UI! https://harem-db.lewdbit.studio/wiki/Eowen_Brothel
-Fixed an issue where you could get back to Celee without Adeline.  Talk to Mercalius to have her added to your party if she was not after her questline completed.
-Retconned Shenetore Elders to have names, Kyruth and Safio
-Improved item UI and many moderate to minor bug fixes/combat improvements.


And again, thank you to all my patrons who continued their support during my long illness and recovery.  And with the patron release, the public version gets updated to Harem c8m4.  Livia was injured in Booker’s attack and Mercalius will want your help in healing her back to help, and maybe a bit of stress release for himself.  Eowen is opened to you, offering chances to meet both new and old friends.  With benefits, of course.  This is also the start of the combat revamp, many characters received significant upgrades.

Content additions
-Livia’s healing is going slower than you’d like.  After meeting Aries in your Castra, you can assign a healer to help her recovery and possibly her husband’s needs.
-Eowen is now opened to explore and talk to the citizens after meeting Valarie in the Cheli village and speaking to the chieftain.  Hanno is slated for 8m5, the
brothel in the near future.
-Your ally has sent one of her most trusted lieutenants to set up a new portal for you in Eowen, but she may need help for it to be finished.
-While you got most of the women in you wanted in Celee before, a few got away.  Baylie’s, the waitress in Eowen, wouldn’t sell her until the way to Corsix was opened. 
Well you opened it, time to get her!
-Phase 1 of the combat improvement completed!  We went through and tried to improve a few of the less useful or interesting character’s design and skills.  Sarah, Rhea,
Jessica, and Naitay have all received significant changes.  Vanessa, Terra, Angelica, and Donna have received tweaks as well.
-6 new scenes added to the game
-196 new pages of text, 218 new images

Other adjustments:
-All characters had to be unequipped for the new designs.  Make sure to equip them again.
-Large shields have been buffed by 33% but made exclusive to Ralph and Vanessa
-Many more skills will crit now, many monsters, skills, item, and animations fixed.
-Note: Because Mercalius doesn't return Donna until 8m5 and she's required for a few of Baylie's events, the game "forgets" Donna shouldn't be in the base.  She won't
be in combat, but she will be in your Denai base.  This "bug" will be fixed in 8m5.  Please don't report it.
-Added a combat glossary to help explain the mechanics.

17 comments:

  1. YES, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK

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  2. Congrats on returning to this. And glad to see more.

    I do hope... dang, been so long that I forgot his name. I think Edrin or something? Gets turned into a girl soon in one of these upcoming updates.

    For now, just getting my save points that I lost back to getting read to both go into Elan... and apparently into the colonies too, since the event that leads into that has no stop gap. It just assumed I had gone to Elan, though I hadn't, and opened up the mission where a guard asked me to go see Mercalius about that savage murder. That's one thing that could be fixed, though not sure how it'd effect people that have already saved passed that point.

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    1. One thing i am curious about is, why not turn Tomas/Donnie into women instead of sending them away on the tram, not sure about others but other than the sex scenes i dont use them at all.
      Also why not add Diana to dark Rhea route, something along the lines of her managing to survive running away and living free in Celee, and Rhea not being happy about it.
      Finally any plan about visiting Cindy hometown situation and maybe increase our harem?

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    2. Rhea lost all hope to be a Tenta warrior because she thinks she killed Diana. If Diana suddenly appeared in the Dark path Harem, Rhea could regain her ability to resist Ralph's power and flee.

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    3. her ability to resist the mc powers came form her vows same as her inability to reveal any tenta secrets, she lost both the moment she abandoned her vows, that is why the tenta matron is also inmune to the mc powers

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    4. I agree on those points and ideas for Shinikage. Would also love to be able to turn all of the Circle Guild into girls, at some point. Perhaps with more variety, since Thomas and Donnie's 3D avatars are unfortunately the same. I understand there's limitations on that front though.

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  3. Guess i will do run from zero to properly appraise the changes to the combat system.
    BTW anyone knows how to trigger Alena escape scene?

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    1. You should simply have to talk to her after the scene where she joins your group.

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    2. i did but nothing happened, maybe it got bugged, also it says you only had anal sex when doing her quest but when i replay the scene on both routes it only says vaginal sex

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  4. Sometimes, all of my saves suddenly get corrupted and all that happens is a black screen and a error message.

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  5. start a new game, save, quit and try to load one of your previous saves

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  6. in c8m4.1:
    When buying Baylie, if she wanders into a side room and can't path to the bar the game soft locks after the cg sequence.

    Either block the side rooms with empty events or jump the Baylie to the correct position before clearing the cg.

    In the mercury cave the orcs can't pass through each other. The main issue is that a defeated orc prevents a live one from going through it's space. I've seen a simple event passability script that will fix this.

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  7. Does anyone know WHAT actually triggers the dialogue for Angelica's normal herb bag? I'm not talking about the upgraded version but the regular one. I don't know how you actually trigger the conversation though. It doesn't seem to happen after her first two scenes as your slave. All I get is generic dialogue. It also does not seem to be tied to a certain amount of side-quests or fights as I have been able to also get it by simply going to the next required area.

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  8. had the freeze-bug with baylie too - even when I think she was close enough to the bar...
    thanks too autosave and a few retries I managed to work around it
    btw: wasn't there something that should have been fixed with a missing tkp-token? or is the new one you get the fix (tried to edit the save file before to increase the number from zero to one for one token I didn't receive from a quest I think but didn't work...)

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  9. i've just begun chapter 8 evrey time i trie to talk to Reah, Jessica o proced in the plot the screen goes dark and a message tells me." Script: 'Cache'line 106 RGSSError occurred failed to create bitmap. Any tips

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    1. Probably a bad download. Try to download it again.

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  10. The saves from past version aren't showing up on the latest version. Please help! I don't want to restart from the beginning.

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