The Last Challenge Season 1 Chapter 2b - change-log

Took a bit longer than what I wanted but the new update is almost here. I stated many times that I’m not happy with this update since it’s short and doesn’t move the story forward much, but you and me both need to realize that a game this caliber needs some time to get going. A lot of work has to go into it; it’s not just renders and animations a ton of code and game mechanics have to be built up from scratch, characters have to be created, different environments have to be made, props have to be re-textured to fit the universe I imagined.
I’m not gonna bullshit you, things will move slowly for some time, but after the foundation of the game is established, things will speed up. Especially once I am able to afford second PC.

First of all, what is this update?

Your choices have consequences; this branch is a perfect example of how impactful some of them are. In Chapter 1 v0.1.3 of my game you could take Samantha in the restroom to have sex with her. At the time only the quickie option was available due to how big of an impact the other choice (this one) has on how the story unfolds.

In this update you will be able to select the other choice where you fuck Samantha without rushing, but like I said your actions have consequences and the bus leaves without you.

In this path you will learn new things about Meteor Valley, meet totally new characters, learn a bit more about the MC’s past in Meteor Valley. Of course, you won’t learn EVERYTHING at once since a lot happened in 10 years and it can't be all revealed in one update. The story will unfold slowly, this is just a small piece of the puzzle.

This major branch, splits into 3 smaller branches. Chapter 2b, Chapter2c, and Chapter 2d

This update will focus on Chapter 2b. The story is taking place somewhat at the same time while the bus is on the way back to Rosewood. I wanted to clarify this since I heard about some Einstein on a certain site thinking that the other paths are alternate versions of the story where the pandemic didn’t happen or some other stupid shit like that lmfao. If you want accurate info about my game, ask me instead of listening to every fool who might not even have the brain capacity to understand a simple story line lol.

Why not continue the story from where the last update left off? (at the Lost City)

I said this before, I can’t afford the assets that I need for those parts yet. I don’t have much support yet, and taxes and various fees are a bitch. After all the taxes and various fees, I end up receiving only a bit more than half of my total earnings. So, I need time to save up for all the stuff that I need since this game is expensive as hell to make.

No release date yet.

The game is probably 97% finished. Due to some stupid ass decisions, I’m still rendering… Like an idiot I left the cutscenes to render last and my dumbass forgot that thunderstorms are a thing this time period. I need to turn my PC off and unplug everything, every time there’s a storm since lightning strikes are frequent.

Aside from this I also give my subscribers render rewards each month, which are 4k and usually 10 pictures. And oh boy they take some time to render. Fml haha

While I’m rendering, I’m also testing the shit out of the game, since one of my own rules is that I don’t release a buggy game. I’m also tweaking the UI there’s always some little things to be done.

So, the game is not quite ready yet but it's very close to being finished. Not everything is rendered out and I don’t want to give you a release date and hype people up when things are a bit unpredictable. Will the game be done by the 30th? It is a big possibility… but if there are storms and if I need to turn my PC off again and lose hours of render time it won’t be done. So, I’m not gonna give a release date until everything is rendered out.

After everything is finished, I will make a separate post with the update dates.

Save file compatibility

You will have to start a new game, Chapter 2a v0.2.0 save files are not compatible.

Do not try to mod or use old save files the game will spit out errors at you. This is not one of those games that have 3 variables and that’s it. Almost every encounter choice, dialogue option ties into a different variable in order to make this game non-linear as possible, and to make the characters actually remember the shit that’s happening through the game.

The save files will probably break with new updates up until v0.5.0 once the foundation and all the different game mechanics are fully functional. After v0.5.0 the save files will fully work with every update up to season 6-7.

How do you get on this path?

The quickest and easiest way is to do the following:

Be aggressive with Murphy when taking over the Challenge. Choke him and make him accept you the takeover, this will get Samantha excited and she will start coming onto you. Picking her up and taking her to the restroom is the quickest way to get to the sex scene but you can mess around with other options. After you're in the restroom with her, take your time fucking her and that’s it. Previous choices throughout the game doesn’t affect this story path in this update but this update only not through the rest of the game.

The Last Challenge Chapter 2b update contains the following:

So, I said I will have around 600 renders probably and max 700 but it turns out I’m as good as math as Tyrese is… It’s a bit more than 600-700 renders lol.

Game size: TBA

1026 still renders so far (more is being added)
20 nsfw animations, voice acted 30fps. (these animations contain more than 1524 frames)
TBA - SFW animations / cutscenes
Added 10 new female Characters (more on this down below)
Added 17 new male characters (more on this down below)
Reworked the entire character profiles menu (Yes there’s a back button now)
Added character profiles for male characters (more on this down below)
Fix some of the Grammar, big thanks to the fuckers who decided to help my illiterate ass.
Disabled condom options with Samantha (more on this down below)
Updated the versioning of my game from Chapters to Seasons (there’s a post about this)
Updated MC’s character profile, still a lot of stuff locked since some menus are not developed yet.
Added Molly Crowley’s (Mc’s Mother) younger outdated character profile
Added Arthur Crowley’s (Mc’s Father) younger outdated character profile
Added Amanda Crowley’s (Mc’s Older sister) younger outdated character profile
Re-made 7-character gallery background images so far (more on this below)
Re-made 5-character profile background images so far (more on this below)
Added different background images to various game menus
Added option to adjust textbar opacity
New music and sound effects have been added (more on this below)
Added new disclaimers

Game size

I said this many times before. This is not a hobby, this is a product like any other mainstream game.I will not reduce the quality of my renders any further and release an inferior product.

Large game size is the price for high quality renders.

I have compressed the raw .png files into webp images with a lossless preset that reduced the size of the original images by 30-37%. I won’t do it any further since when I tried the images lost details and became pixelated.
Images are not the only thing that add to the size of the game, there are plenty of music sound effects, small UI images, buttons, etc etc…

The game also has more than 5.000 renders and 275+ animations that are all high quality 1920x1080 resolution. It can’t be 300mb at this quality lol

New Disclaimers

I added some new disclaimers mainly because I noticed that some people don’t seem to be able to comprehend that meaningful choices don’t play out right away and by rolling back and selecting a different choice you pretty much just opened a different kind of worms lol

Not gonna get into too much details, read the game disclaimers. I will probably add some sort of a tutorial menu one day that explains pretty much every game mechanic, but in all honestly just use common sense and don’t expect everything to play out at once.

For example, just because you tell Annette to fuck off and make her cry that doesn’t mean you burned all future content with her. Life doesn’t work that way and neither does my game; you can apologize to people after some time and they might forgive you. Stick with your choices don’t roll back and have fun.

Changes to naming the formatting of my game

I changed the formatting of the game. Somehow ‘’seasons’’ have became the standard for AVN’s and to not confuse people I just went with it. So, the current version my game is:

The Last Challenge – Season 1 – Chapter2b – Government Bidniss v0.2.4

Here’s the post where I talked about it in more detail: https://subscribestar.adult/posts/1711555

Gallery bullshittery

What I won’t fall in line with is the Gallery bullshit. Gallery should contain reward images and NOT images that you already saw in game.

It shouldn’t be used as progress tracking or any other stupid shit like that. A proper progress tracking menu will be added (I don’t know when) and gallery will be used as it was always intended as extra reward images of characters.

Animations and Sexual content in this update:

There’s only 1 sex scene in this update and it’s with Samantha.

The scene contains the following:

Blowjob
Pussy eating
Vaginal sex
Kissing
Fingering
69
Creampie

These animations are all 1080p 30fps and fully voice acted with sound effects. The animations contain more than 1524 render frames.

As usual there are 4 sex positions and they all have 4 different camera angles you can view.

I have disabled the condom options, since having the same exact animation with a condom on seems like a waste of time and adds a bigger size to an already big game.

This was a last-minute decision so I haven’t removed the renders and the animations with Samantha where the MC has a condom on yet, to not break the game any further, but I will remove these in the update after this one.

So, from now on, some women will use birth control. Pregnancy is a thing here, while the random chance mechanic is not currently functional, it will be in later versions. So, watch what you’re doing, because this game is a bit more grounded in realism and you can end up having to pay money on child support and have other headaches if you knock someone up, and miss out on other things because of it.

Or you can start a family with someone… it’s up to you.

Cutscenes / SFW animations

I’m in the process of adding SFW animations and these are not just shitty camera moving around the scene these are actually very complex animated segments. Short for now, it will get better later on. Unfortunately, these are quite hard to make look right due to Daz3d limitations but still not bad so far. (I’m currently still rendering these)

This will all become better and better once I buy another PC and I can start working on these type of stuff in blender and not shitty Daz lol.

Renders

Like I said my calculations were not correcc and there are 1000 + renders instead of the 600-700 that I thought I have lol.

The renders are all 1920x1080 webp compressed with a lossless preset so they are still large. And honestly, I don’t care about the size. Hdd’s are cheap, a 12 terabyte one will be enough for season 1… Probably… xD

All jokes aside, I spent a lot of time, effort and money to build environments and lighting that will make my renders beautiful and realistic I’m not gonna destroy the quality of images any further.

My renders have improved as you may have seen in my previous posts.

Now I can let loose with scene building and lighting since I have a 4090, thank you for that. I’m getting closer and closer to how I want my game to end up looking. I’m still not there quite yet but I’m very close. My goal is to make them look natural, somewhat close to what real life is. I’m not looking to be an “arteeeeest” lol, so I’m not going for that amazing Summer’s gone artistic look even though I really love it, I want to figure out and have my own art style instead of you know trying to rip-off someone else’s.

The renders and the flow of the game is also cinematic? I don’t know if that’s the right word for it or not. Basically, characters move around, renders switch when people talk and most definitely environments are carefully personalized or build from scratch to add to the narrative. Quality over quantity, I only have about 1000 renders in this update I think these are worth more than 12,000 poorly lit and, posed renders where the characters stand in the middle of the screen opening and closing their mouths, with a shitty background or a HDRI behind them.

These renders take place in various different environments, with different lighting and all that shit. Some of them look better some of them look not so good. Daytime renders I still need to figure out.

Character profiles

This was a big focus of this update. I have entirely reworked the code behind the character profiles. Now that I have a bit more experience coding, I was able to achieve pretty much what I had in mind in the first place. And now EVEN the back button works properly… So, yay no more exiting the menu and going back, you can now freely click through anything, nothing will crash the game and everything will work as it was intended. (as long as you don’t try to mod the game and fuck everything up lol)

Now when you click the characters button you will be met with this screen. (the background is still a work in progress; it will be perfected later)

You have 3 buttons here, no back button needed, here you can just right click to exit.

Pretty much all self-explanatory, Female, Male and a dedicated button for the MC. I created the button to say MC since it looked weird and it didn’t line up with the rest of the buttons if the MC’s name was longer than his default name Marcus. This was pretty much a last-minute change that’s why that button is till big, I will redesign that next update.

Now when you click Female or Male you will open the main profile page with the currently active characters.

The new version contains portraits now of the characters instead of just text and by clicking on them you will open their profiles. The character portraits are arranged in an alphabetical order so you can easily find them… That is of course if you know the alphabet.

As you can see the back button is now added and it’s fully functional. Visually I only changed their main profile image, to an idle animation. In time all of them will have different animated Idle animations; but for now, this is gonna be it. Also, not all of them have animated backgrounds yet since this was a late decision, and I don’t want to delay to update because of cosmetics.

I had to change remake/ re-render these since all UI images were rendered out with a gtx 1070 and they look like shit. Here’s the comparison.

I have also updated the gallery background images. Again, much better looking than the previous ones.

The layout and the UI is the same as it was before, no point changing it since it’s pretty much looks as I want it too look. Not too fancy, not too complicated and it’s easy to use or understand.

The profile page also has an inactive character’s button. In order to not clutter up the screen too much, the game will automatically sort out active and inactive characters based on which story lines you are on. Also, if due to your stupid choices lol, some characters end up dying they will be also moved onto the inactive ones. You will be still able to view unlocked stuff for inactive characters.

Speaking of inactive characters, I added some of the MC’s family’s character profiles from 10 years ago. Molly, Arthur, and Amanda for now.

Characters.

In order to make the game feel alive there will be a lot of characters. Instead of doing some stupid shit like using mannequins with gray or back texture I rather use fully textured and clothed characters.

I have added a total of 27 new characters. This is a story driven game, Meteor Valley is a state. Not a city. A lot of people live there, and I will add as many characters I need to add to tell the story properly and for everything to make sense. But again, I need to clarify some things so there’s no misunderstanding. Not everyone is a Love interest. A love interest is someone you can pursue a romantic relationship with. Even though most of the females are not love interests, you will be able to bang them at some point in the game if you play your cards right.

The most important thing is:

None of the female characters are forced upon you, not Lexa not the MC's family or anyone else. You chose who you pursue but in order to get the storylines unfolding there will be some mandatory interactions, where you don’t have many choices. These are character introductions, like Larissa or in order to move the story forward like having to accept the challenge, which you will be able to give up later. And the characters you don’t like, just simply stop interacting with them.

I’ve added 10 new Female characters

Just as I stated before, these are not all love interests, some are background characters in one path, some are quite main characters in other. It’s complicated. Have fun and don’t over think it. You can always start a new game and make different choices.

You will only be able to unlock and view 5 of these characters profiles in this update, since like I said before some of these characters have smaller parts this path, but a bigger role in other. You unlock characters as you play and not everyone at start. That’s just stupid and can spoil future things.

Now the Male characters

I have also added new 17 male characters this update.

You can now view even the character profiles for the male characters. Male characters are NOT romanceable; there’s no gay, trans or futa content in my game. I know half of you want to fuck Donnie, but that’s not gonna happen lmfao.

The purpose of male character profiles is to get to know them better and use the knowledge you gained for manipulating them into doing your bidding or to steal away their girlfriends, wives and stuff like that.
And this is why they have fewer buttons, no gallery, just stats, detailed info and the last button which you don’t need to worry about what it is for at this time :)

Not all male characters are added, the early ones like Donnie, Murphy, Tyrese and the rest of them from previous chapters are not yet added. It’s a lot of time-consuming work and I don't want to delay the update any further.

I’m open to feedback on how can I make the character profiles even better, but please focus on that. I know you guys want replay menu, and a progress tracker. That all is coming but not this update.

Audio and sound effects.

I’ve added I don’t know how many sfx and music.

My goal is to enhance the gameplay experience with music and sound effects and not for them to be randomly playing in the background. I carefully select the music and SFX that would fit a certain scene to make the narrative better. But this is easier said than done it’s a bit hard since music licenses are expensive and not all artists or websites allow their music to be used in NSFW works. So, it’s a bit wonky not perfect but in time I will perfect this.

Notifications

I’ve decided to suppress notifications since it can become quite distracting and because of this you will only get notification popups once a certain scene is over. This might change in the future. I need feedback on this.

Some other stuff that I want to mention

Nothing went wrong this update cycle!

How EVERYTHING went to shit with previous update I was sure that I will have some bad luck this time too. But that didn’t happen yay!

I will be posting the dev journal about how this game even started and how everything went south in my life after the house fire happened, I meant to post it sooner but I got caught up working way too much on this update and kept postponing it.

I have purchased a portable air conditioner. Yay ^^

You can read all about it in this post: https://subscribestar.adult/posts/1825368

Social media presence and other crap.

I don’t have time to post much, even on SS I don’t post too frequently because almost all my free time I put towards making my game better. I’m happy to talk with anyone in Dm’s and on Discord though so feel free to message me, but I might not reply right away.

Twitter, reddit, deviantart.

Due to spam, death threats and other idiotic shit, I have decided not to bother with reading DM’s outside of Subscribestar and Discord anymore.

New QnA.

There will be a QnA hosted on discord 2 weeks after I release the game at the lowest tier. I will be streaming playing a game with my brother from another mother and just having fun. Naturally I will be in the voice channel come say hi ask me some questions etc or even come play with us.

My discord is private; you need to become a subscriber on her to get in.

More about this later, in a separate post. I just wanted to mention it.

Changes to Discord and my official reddit page.

I will be adding moar stickers, emojis all that crap to Discord. And I will be setting some rules on my Reddit page. Once I find some free time.

F95

While I’m not active on there anymore, it came to my attention that a few people are having the banner of my game as their signatures, so I will be making you some fan signatures once I sort out everything else.

Thank you for being interested in my game, thank you for your support and kind words. Sorry that this is taking a bit longer to release but it is what it is.

Have a nice night.

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