Supermodel Update 11: The Truth
This is the big one, the update I've been looking forward to ever since I started making this game. After much buildup of the story's central mystery, I'm finally ready to reveal the answer to the greatest mystery of them all. With these new chapters out of the way, I'll be able to speak relatively freely on the topic of Supermodel's real theme at long last, one that I've been playing coy with for a long time. Everything hinges on this reveal, and I'm beyond excited.
This update includes two new story chapters, and they mark the peak of the mid-story climax. After this update, things will calm down and go back to some kind of normalcy. Then again, how can things ever be normal again at STALWART after what has just happened?
In addition to the story, this update includes two much-requested features designed to make the game menu easier to navigate. Two complaints I've seen come up again and again are that it can be hard to know what chapter or scenario to play next (with the answer being "any of them," but that doesn't work for everyone) and that it can be difficult to even find the new scenarios if you don't remember which characters have new content to play. Update 11 solves these issues in the game menu by adding a small "NEW" banner to characters with unplayed, available content and introducing a new chapter guide feature. The latter is available in the game's preferences menu and defaults to off. When enabled, the game menu will display a recommendation on which chapter or scenario to play next. The order isn't random; I carefully curated it to maximize the impact of each event in the story. If you prefer a more guided experience, you will likely welcome this feature. Additionally, the guide includes a Reset button that, when selected, restarts the recommendations from the beginning. This is ideal if you want to replay the story from scratch without losing any unlocks or cards, since it doesn't lock away any available chapters or scenarios. It just guides you through them again.
But enough rambling! I'm excited for you to get to play the new story content, and I hope you'll like what I've come up with. The entire premise of Supermodel relies on the reveal in this update. With that out of the way, most of the story will start to make a lot more sense.
Enjoy!
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Changelog:
- Added: Two new story chapters.
- Added: On the character selection screen in the main menu, a "NEW" banner now appears if unlocked, unplayed content is available for that character.
- Added: A new option to show a suggestion for what to play next can be toggled in the settings. If enabled, the character selection screen will show a tip on which chapter or scenario to play next if you prefer a more curated, guided experience.
- Added: A reset button connected to the chapter suggestion feature mentioned above. If you press this button, the suggestions will reset to the start of the story without locking or removing any unlocked content. This is handy if you want to replay the story from the beginning.
- Added: A cross-fading system for music, allowing tracks to transition smoothly between intensities. Only used in the new chapters so far, but will be added to previous chapters at a later date.
- Changed: Vanguard's first chapter was accidentally entirely optional. It is now part of the mandatory story flow.
- Fixed: Under specific circumstances in Phoebe's scenario, you could run into a crash/exception, for example, with the "This is Fine" card in play.
- Fixed: Burnout cards with no initial Heat cost were unaffected by other cards modifying their cost when Burnout was above zero.
- Fixed: Spread Thin could, under specific circumstances, count the target card as destroyed twice.