The Company – Update 6.2.0 – Release Notes

The Company – Update 6.2.0

Update 6.2.0 will be released to backers on Thursday, September 26th, with a public release to follow afterwards.

Content Updates

• John’s Bathroom Oral scenes have been completely reworked
  • New dialogue has been added to all variants of the scene
  • Willingly submitting to John now requires being Bimbo, Sissy, or have a preference for giving Oral
  • Now use the new Content Block system
  • Second Bathroom Oral scene (after being dosed) is now repeatable and (sort of) interactive
• Overhaul to John’s dose scene structure
  • Mostly backend, but you’ll see some visual changes
  • Much more organized, though functionally the same
  • Will be applied to other characters moving forward
• Implementation of John’s Greeting content
  • Effective replacement for Comment system
  • John will greet you once a day the first time you interact with him directly
  • He will comment on character traits and changes of interest to him
  • Appealing to John’s tastes can increase Relationship
  • Applies to “Nice John” and Chanel as well
  • Check out the associated DevBlog for more info!
• Added new option to skip entire days to the game
  • Option only available in player’s Room when selecting “Not first time playing”
  • Option only available on days where no story events take place
  • Will skip forward to Night
• Added new option to skip to Evening on Friday, September 1st
• John and Chanel image handling have been completely converted to utilize Image Packs!
• New images have been added for John and Chanel
• UI updates applied to significant portion of the game
• Check Mirror scene has been redesigned to be slightly less horrible
• Penny’s “Lab Release” scene now uses Content Blocks (Whore Route)
• Napping in Room now always passes 2 time units
• Using Phone in Room now has its own scene
• Achievement reward improvements
  • Achievements are still a huge work in progress
  • They will be getting a proper once-over in the not too distant future

System Updates

• Removed HUNDREDS of superfluous story variables from game
  • You may need to clear your cache, but after doing so you should notice SIGNIFICANT performance improvements
  • This is still an ongoing process and will be further improved moving forward
  • I’m a bad… bad programmer
• Preferences have been established for John and Chanel
• Content Block infrastructure has been built for John’s content
• Update image handling to be more forgiving (not thoroughly crashing a scene) if an image is missing
• Update Tracking functions to now adjust Preference updates
  • When an action is Tracked, the “performer” will have their preference for the action increased by 1, and the “recipient” if any will have their preference increased by 2
  • This is default behavior and can be overwritten where appropriate
  • This is how it was working previously, but now saves me having to write 3+ lines of code for every single tracked action!
• New functionality for tracking story flags in code
• New functionality for tracking/manipulating time elements in code
• New functionality for handling NPC memory, recall, and comparison of player traits
• Several structural updates made to scenes
  • Just getting old code up to date!

Fixes

• Fixed possible duplicate Penny appearances at Noon in Chapter 1
• Fixed “hiss” macro error
• Fixed Ava’s entries in Notebook not reflecting relationship status
• Fixed missing UI elements and errors in Penny’s Lab Sex scene
• Several grammar/spelling/syntax fixes