Version 5.2.0, Aberration & Absolution
Dev Notes
- It’s finally here! Our main plotline, and your harem, has been carried forward into Act V Chapter Two.
- This is our largest update ever, but it is still a foundation. We plan to add faction catchups, reconquest mechanics, the kobold hatchery, the last court event, and many more interactions with your harem before we consider Chapter Two fully complete.
- If there are specific things you’d like to see added, be sure to let us know your ideas on our Discord server.
- Everyone has been working very hard on this build for a very long time, and we’re gonna take a much-needed break over the holidays.
- Regular monthly updates will return in the new year.
Act V Features
- Plot: Waking up into a new Chapter, with your betrothed at your side (four variants, collab with Mattrex).
- Court: A comprehensive update on all the things that happened while you were asleep (very many variants, collab with Mattrex).
- Court: Being presented with an oath of service by Knight Maelys (collab with Mattrex).
- Court: Killtoy Maelys falls under your geas (collab with Mattrex).
- Court: Handling your kingdom’s coffers, if your Prosperity is too low (collab with Mattrex).
- Court: Setting reconstruction priorities for your Realm (collab with Mattrex).
- Court: Dealing with a mind-altered Inquisitrix, if she is still loose in Bastion (collab with Mattrex).
- Court: Some constitutional questions regarding tributes to your hordes (collab with Mattrex).
- Court: Resolving cultural issues around repayments to the wolf tribe (collab with Mattrex).
- Court: Questions of progeny, and the future for your kobolds (collab with Mattrex).
- Court: Investigating matters of discipline in your forces (two variants, collab with Mattrex).
- Harem: Captive Adeline is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Mattrex).
- Harem: Princess Adeline is available to visit in Chapter Two.
- Harem: Balthorne is available to visit in Chapter One and Chapter Two (collab with DoItToJulia).
- Harem: Orthodox Chanwe is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with D Fyler and DoItToJulia).
- Harem: Heresiarch Chanwe is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with D Fyler and DoItToJulia).
- Harem: Cooch is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Deoz, Lailah Tov, and DoItToJulia).
- Harem: Princess Darja is available to visit in Chapter Two.
- Harem: Non-Princess Darja is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Obliquity and DoItToJulia).
- Harem: Happy Heloise is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Mattrex).
- Harem: Unhappy Heloise is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Mattrex).
- Harem: Issa is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with DoItToJulia).
- Harem: Killtoy Maelys is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Deoz, Gyarugoth, and DoItToJulia).
- Harem: Knight Maelys is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Krombomich, Gyarugoth, and DoItToJulia).
- Harem: Maelys’s other states are available to revisit in Chapter Two as well.
- Harem: Broken Marie-Anne is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Ghostwriter and DoItToJulia).
- Harem: ‘Fawn’ Marie-Anne is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Mattrex).
- Harem: Happy Marie-Anne is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Ghostwriter and DoItToJulia).
- Harem: Happy Mina is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Mattrex). Broken Mina will continue to be treated as Happy Mina, until her state-specific Act V interactions have been written.
- Harem: Unhappy Mina is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Mattrex).
- Harem: Pet Naho is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Mattrex).
- Harem: Broken Naho is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Mattrex).
- Harem: Wild Naho is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Mattrex).
- Harem: Sabetha & Inej are available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Garoompahfah and DoItToJulia).
- Harem: Valzira is available to visit in Chapter Two (collab with Mattrex).
- Faction: Zizeryx is now eligible for visitation in Chapter One of Act V, if it the infernals have been empowered (two variants).
- Scene: Princess Adeline shares her vast tracts of land with you (collab with anonymous and DoItToJulia).
- Scene: Balthorne is made to shut up for once (collab with Slashmarks and DoItToJulia).
- Scene: Balthorne bends over for his new king (two variants, collab with Slashmarks and DoItToJulia).
- Scene: Cooch’s microbrewery has a grand opening (collab with Deoz and DoItToJulia).
- Scene: Orthodox Chanwe delivers a sermon (collab with Deoz and DoItToJulia).
- Scene: Heresiarch Chanwe delivers a sermon, featuring a special guest (two variants, collab with Deoz and DoItToJulia).
- Scene: Princess Darja shares the full majesty of her honkadoozies (collab with Garoompahfah and DoItToJulia).
- Scene: Issa is reminded what he is (collab with DoItToJulia and Slashmarks).
- Scene: Baroness Katharen receives the solution to a knotty problem (collab with Mattrex).
- Scene: Killtoy Maelys can receive some additional decorations (four variants, collab with Deoz and DoItToJulia).
- Scene: Killtoy Maelys serves both wings of the throne (four variants, collab with Deoz and DoItToJulia).
- Scene: Knight Maelys becomes a decorated soldier (collab with Julia).
- Scene: Marie-Anne welcomes change in Chapter Two (collab with Mattrex).
- Scene: Marie-Anne is reunited with an old friend (two variants, collab with HereToHelp and DoItToJulia).
- Scene: Unhappy Mina demonstrates her willingness to work for you (collab with Mattrex).
- Scene: Broken Naho has been waiting a long time to see you (two variants, collab with Mattrex).
- Scene: Naho is inducted into the joys of motherhood (two variants, collab with Mattrex).
- Scene: Sabetha helps Inej start on a second clutch (collab with Garoompahfah and DoItToJulia).
- Scene: Zizeryx provides a valuable lesson on the virtue of submission (collab with DoItToJulia).
- Dynamic: Cooch’s brewery has a grand opening (collab with Deoz and DoItToJulia).
- Dynamic: Inej’s clutch is ready to hatch (collab with Garoompahfah).
- Dynamic: Broken Naho wants out of the dungeon (collab with Mattrex).
- Dynamic: A variant for Naho’s promotion to pet status, if Darja is your betrothed at the time.
- Art: A loved one’s new shape (Undoodle).
- Art: Expressing your love for a fellow monster (Undoodle).
- Art: Captive Adeline, if pregnant, receives a topup in Chapter Two (six images, Lubbio).
- Art: Princess Adeline encourages you to explore her vast tracts of land (six images, Lubbio).
- Art: Princess Darja shares the full majesty of her honkadoozies (two variants, seven images, Lubbio).
- Art: Princess Darja’s queenly butt gets put to use (two variants, twelve images, Lubbio).
- Art: Baroness Katharen has her petition forcefully denied (three images, Lubbio).
- Art: Killtoy Maelys is drenched in misery (four variants, sixteen images, Lubbio).
- Art: Knight Maelys becomes a decorated soldier (four images, Lubbio).
- Art: Marie-Anne shows her fondness for Trojan and the dragon at the same time (four variants, twenty images, Lubbio).
- Art: Mina gets behind on her paperwork (six images, Lubbio).
- Art: Naho is inducted into the joys of motherhood (two variants, eighteen images, Lubbio).
- Art: Remastered doggystyle scenes for Naho in your royal bedchamber (four scenes, twenty images, Lubbio).
- Art: Rain assists Heresiarch Chanwe with a theological demonstration (two variants, seven images, Lubbio).
- Art: Sabetha helps Inej start on a new clutch (six images, Lubbio).
- Art: Zizeryx teaches the dragon a valuable lesson (three images, Lubbio).
- Art: Adeline’s queenly regalia (two variants, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Queenly emotes for Adeline (eight images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Adeline’s pregnant captive sprite (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Adeline’s pregnant nude sprite (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Beatrix’s main sprite (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Emotes for Beatrix (four images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Chia’s pregnant sprite (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Darja’s queenly regalia (two variants. twenty-four images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Darja wearing half of her queenly regalia (two variants. twenty-four images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Emotes for Darja’s queenly regalia (twenty-two images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Inej’s nude sprite (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Emotes for nude Inej (seven images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Baroness Katharen’s sprite (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: A ripped-dress variant sprite for Baroness Katharen (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Emotes for Baroness Katharen (two variants, seven images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: A costume restoration for the court herald (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Emotes for the katbolds (five images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Emotes for the koboofs (five images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Maelys’s new attire as a killtoy (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Maelys’s killtoy emotes (twenty images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Maelys’s new attire as a knight (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Maelys’s knight emotes (twenty images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: An emote for Marie-Anne’s new form (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: A nude sprite for Rain (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Nude emotes for Rain (five images, Irrelevant Art).
- Animation: An animated splash for a loved one’s new shape (Amon Ra).
- Animation: An animated scene, monster-to-monster (3 animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for queenly Adeline (ten animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for pregnant queenly Adeline (ten animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for pregnant nude Adeline (ten animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for pregnant captive Adeline (ten animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for pregnant Chia (six animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for queenly Darja (fifteen animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for pregnant queenly Darja (fifteen animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for nude queenly Darja (fifteen animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for nude pregnant queenly Darja (fifteen animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for nude Inej (eight animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for Katharen (four animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for stripped Katharen (five animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for killtoy Maelys (ten animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for knight Maelys (ten animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for Naho’s remastered broken pregnant state (fourteen animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for Naho’s remastered pregnant state (fourteen animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for nude Rain (seven animations, Amon Ra).
- Background: A background for the palace temple (two variants, Exo Spectra).
- Background: A remastered background for the palace (Exo Spectra).
- Background: A remastered background for the castle dungeons (Exo Spectra).
- Background: A remastered background for the castle storerooms (Exo Spectra).
- Voice: Beatrix’s part in Cooch’s grand opening in Chapter Two (Demi Goggles).
- Voice: Chia’s manual and vaginal scenes at the beginning of Chapter One (Marina Montague).
- Voice: Darja’s responses to being told her pending offspring are kobolds (Nyah).
- Voice: Inej’s pitch to the dragon from the palace dungeons, and her responses to your pitch (Gruella).
- Voice: Inej’s part in the rogues’ Act V introduction if Inej was pregnant, and the chats about her pregnancy, the palace, and the prospect of being made queens (Gruella).
- Voice: Maelys’s dialogue after she has been restored by Malice (Catkit).
- Voice: Maelys’s scene after she has been restored by Malice (Catkit).
- Sound: A crockery smashing sound effect.
- Soundtrack: The soundtrack has been professionally mastered and reuploaded at 320kbps audio quality (Exo Spectra).
- Soundtrack: The soundtrack now has proper metadata (HereToHelp).
- Achievement: The ‘Immaculate Deception’, ‘Romantic Aberration’, ‘No Worst, There Is None’, ‘These Last Strands Of Man’, ‘What The Pup?’, ‘Having Kittens’, ‘What Did I Miss?’, and ‘You Awaken Feeling Well Rested’ achievements have been added (Tosk).
- Gallery: Adeline’s “Vast Tracts Of Land” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
- Gallery: Chanwe and Rain’s “Desacralisation” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
- Gallery: Darja’s “Big Supernaturals” and “Who’s Queen?” scenes have been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
- Gallery: Katharen’s “Stripped Of Title” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
- Gallery: Maelys’s “Dazed & Glazed” and “Decorated Soldier” scenes have been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
- Gallery: Marie-Anne’s “Buckets Of Love”, “Doggy Style II”, and “Monster Loving Monster” scenes have been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
- Gallery: Mina’s “Behind On Paperwork” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
- Gallery: Naho’s “Whelp Wishes” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
- Gallery: Sabetha & Inej’s “Sister Sandwich” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
- Gallery: Zizeryx’s “The Desiring Machine” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
- Walkthrough: The walkthrough has been updated. A copy of it is stored within the game folder on desktop versions.
Act I-IV Features
- Fate: Valzira’s infernal fate, if she is not broken.
- Art: Adeline’s embrace, upon your emergence (Undoodle).
- Art: Remastered doggy-style scenes for Naho in your roost (two scenes, ten images, Lubbio).
- Art: Remastered manual scene for Maelys (four images, Lubbio).
- Art: Horny and ecstatic emotes for Enid (two images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Remastered main sprite and emotes for converted Heloise (six images, Sintax_Error).
- Art: A remastered sleeping emote for Inej (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: A remastered battle damage sprite for Maelys (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: A remastered main sprite for Rain (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Remastered emotes for Rain (five images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: A remastered nude sprite for Sabetha (two images, Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Remastered main sprite and emotes for the centaur stallion (six images, Sintax_Error).
- Art: A main sprite for converted Valzira (Irrelevant Art).
- Art: Emotes for converted Valzira (five images, Irrelevant Art).
- Animation: An animated version of Adeline’s embrace (Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for Chia’s pregnant state (six animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for Maelys’s battle damaged state (ten animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for Naho’s remastered wild state (fourteen animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for Naho’s remastered captive state (fourteen animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for Naho’s remastered broken state (fourteen animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for Naho’s remastered draconic form (fourteen animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for Naho’s remastered plush form (fourteen animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Animated idles for converted Valzira (5 animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Remastered idles for converted Heloise (seven animations, Amon Ra).
- Animation: Remastered idles for Rain (seven animations, Amon Ra).
- Background: A remastered background for Gutter’s Cove (Exo Spectra).
- Background: A remastered background for the mountain campfire (Exo Spectra).
- Background: A remastered background for swamps (Exo Spectra).
- Background: A remastered background for the underground baths (Exo Spectra).
- Background: A remastered background for Valzira’s shack (Exo Spectra).
- Voice: The dragon’s part in Enid’s lair interactions, Malice’s Bring Your Daughter To Work Day events, Marie-Anne’s mercenary fate, Marie-Anne and Mina’s Sharing Is Caring scene, Mina’s Bed Of Riches scene, and Sabetha & Inej’s mercenary fate (GreyScale).
- Voice: Inej’s missing lines and retakes for her consort arc with Sabetha (Gruella).
- Voice: The kobolds’ part in Cooch’s visit to Valzira, Issa’s new dress discovery, Issa’s punishment, Marie-Anne’s capture, Marie-Anne’s gift for Maelys, Sabetha & Inej’s captive interactions, Valzira’s abortive attempt, and the conquest of Gutter’s Cove (Kobold34).
- Voice: Maelys’s reflections after her encounter with Darja (Catkit).
- Voice: Mother’s conquest of the convent, Gutter’s Cove, farmlands, and Coldreach (Midnight, Demi Goggles, and Mokkel).
- Voice: Naho’s first-night consort event, if she was not broken before being promoted (Marina Montague).
- Voice: Retakes and missing lines for Sabetha’s Backdoor Break-In (Emery Aylar).
- Music: The highlands suite has been completely remastered (Exo Spectra).
- Music: The mountains suite has also been completely remastered (Exo Spectra).
- Sound: A new ‘sting’ for Act transitions.
- Sound: A remastered ‘sting’ for important stat changes.
- Sound: An improved defenestration sound effect.
- Sound: A variety of new gorey sound effects (GreyScale)
- UI: The system for displaying character art has been completely refactored to improve performance and maintainability (HereToHelp).
- UI: You can now choose to individually name save files. If you don't want to, the prompt can be turned off in Preferences (code from BadMustard, modified by HereToHelp).
- UI: The UI has been modified to make deleting saves easier (code from BadMustard).
- UI: A display issue in the Preferences menu on the Steam Deck has been fixed (Soulphase, HereToHelp).
- UI: The territory map has undergone a visual revamp, and should now be more aesthetically pleasing (Soulphase, HereToHelp).
- UI: The territory map regions have each been given an alt text to ease navigation, for players using self-voicing (Soulphase).
- UI: The Gallery and settings screens have had their compatibility with screen readers vastly improved (HereToHelp).
- UI: Performance has been improved when changing languages to one of our fan translations (HereToHelp).
- UI: The Achievements screen has been optimised for Steam Deck (HereToHelp).
- Gallery: Proper music and ambience has been added to many scenes that did not have them, when viewed through the Gallery (HereToHelp)
- Achievement: The ‘Your Package Has Arrived’ achievement has been added.
Tweaks
- The ‘Sharing’ content flag has been more consistently applied to all scenes where you permit sexual contact between a partner and another person.
- The ‘Gore’ content flag has been expanded to cover all instances (up to Act III so far) where you choose to kill or eat someone.
- During the initial “emergence” scene, you will be given a choice of what kind of nest to build.
- During “emergence”, the narration makes it clearer that you have grown rapidly after hatching.
- Adeline’s singing options in Act V will display Undoodle’s new splash art.
- Heloise is now worth an extra point of Morale for any horde or lair faction you choose to give her to. She’s very popular!
- Issa’s new soundtrack suite has been added throughout all of his in-lair interactions, throughout the game (GreyScale).
- Issa’s heartbeat track has been made louder.
- Maelys’s new soundtrack suite has been added throughout all of her in-lair interactions, throughout the game (Nyah).
- Goopy SFX has been added to Malagar’s experiment on Issa, and Issa’s Act V harem scenes (GreyScale).
- Naho’s non-animated scene art has been reshuffled. Art is consistent across scenes in captivity, as a consort, or as a pet.
- Valzira’s new soundtrack suite has been added to all of her in-lair interactions, throughout the game (GreyScale).
- Ambient sound has been added to early scenes in the palace.
- The Gallery's scene catalogue has moved to a dynamic framework, making the implementation and management of gallery entries much easier (HereToHelp, Soulphase, and Tosk).
- Cutscenes in Act I have had performance significantly improved, especially for users on Steam Deck (HereToHelp and Tosk).
- Punctuation has been standardised throughout the game (Soulphase).
- A variety of voice lines have been re-recorded and replaced, throughout the game.
- Game credits have been updated.
Fixes
- Adeline will no longer appear in the dungeons after being Transanguinated.
- Balthorne will not be flagged as emasculated by default. You will have to put the work in yourself.
- Balthorne’s shouting emote will display correctly.
- Chanwe’s ahegao animation displays correctly.
- Chanwe’s talking animation no longer summons the dreaded black box.
- Cooch's pain animation displays correctly.
- Cooch's angry emote appears consistently across all states.
- Darja’s butt stuff scenes in Act V will show their withdrawal and afterglow images correctly.
- Darja’s “overwhelmed” animated sprites display correctly for her regular, nude, and homemade dress outfits.
- Eburon cannot be asked his opinions on the Cataclysm if there is no Cataclysm.
- Eburon's side image will be properly silhouetted while he is sleeping.
- Enid will not return to your lair after Act III if she was set free after her first clutch.
- Heloise's angry emote appears consistently across all states.
- Heloise and Valzira cannot appear pregnant at the same time.
- Issa cannot be killed by you after annoying you if the Gore flag is disabled.
- Issa can no longer be visited in Act V if he died during the attack on Pale Rock.
- Issa’s opinion of you will not change from repeated actions.
- Infernal Issa is no longer called “???” when you see him via the Gallery.
- Issa will respond appropriately if he is named after one of Petruk’s successors.
- Gallery reject messages for disabled content flags have been added to many of Marie-Anne’s entries.
- Several Gallery entries that should not work in demo versions of the game have been properly blocked off.
- Maelys no longer responds to a nonexistent command if the dragon refuses to turn away during her new dress scene.
- Maelys’s victimisation by the centaurs in Act II is covered under the correct content flags.
- Malice’s grin animation will show up when appropriate.
- Logic handling the circumstances behind Malice’s ‘chiding’ dream has been improved.
- Refusing Maelys in her penitent state causes her to be upset for more than like two minutes.
- Marie-Anne will no longer cause the game to crash on Steam. Whoops.
- Marie-Anne’s toppy is not sufficiently sloppy that the sound effects will continue on after her Act II scene has finished.
- Marie-Anne’s nude static sprite will display its messiness, if you have made her messy.
- The correct content flags are applied to attacking Marie-Anne in Act III, after failing to convince her to come with you.
- Mina puts her clothes back on after having fun in Act III/IV when unbroken.
- Mina cannot join Marie-Anne for the Sharing Is Caring scene if she is currently visiting Breaker.
- Mina’s Act V Chapter One interactions no longer occasionally throw an error screen.
- Mina’s main dress sprites can appear as messy, if you have static images enabled.
- Broken Mina will put her clothes back on between Acts, if permitted, without needing a revisit to do so.
- Mina’s sad animated idle will appear correctly if she has been broken.
- Naho’s moaning will not follow you around after her defeat scene in the lowlands has ended.
- Naho will put her clothes back on if left free to do so after her defeat in the wildlands.
- Naho will also put her clothes on for her cameo in the Ravager High dream.
- Naho's sad animated idle will use the correct buffer image.
- Naho’s infernal fate can trigger the Towering Inferno achievement.
- Revisiting Sabetha & Inej in the palace dungeons after hearing Inej’s proposal will not repeat the proposal.
- Valzira’s choking during her oral scenes will no longer loop.
- Valzira will use the proper silhouette if she is both pregnant and broken.
- Valzira's grin and smug animated idles now use the correct buffer images.
- An incorrect dragon voiceline has been replaced in Zizeryx’s question about the games of divinity.
- Zizeryx’s gallery entries are no longer stacked on top of each other.
- Zizeryx will no longer attend court to advocate for the Sun faith in Chapter One if a Cataclysm is in progress.
- Captives gifted to Zizeryx are deducted correctly against your total, fixing some rare navigation issues.
- Court events will no longer give a ‘to be continued’ message in Chapter One, once all of them have been seen.
- Ambient sound will fade out when you die.
- Ambient sound will return faster upon waking up in Act III.
- Artefacts have been cleaned from the ambient track for the mines.
- Whether or not you have pillaged the wildlands is now properly tracked.
- And the many, many, many bugs found during playtesting for our new content. Special thanks to Stuke, who carried us for the first 20-odd playtesting builds, and to the squad of surge-playtesters who joined us for the final two weeks.
Wow! You've all certainly been busy!