0.17 Progress Report

0.16 has been in your hands a week now. You've been playing it hard, and you've been telling us what you found — routing snags, state mismatches, the small ugly things that only surface when hundreds of playthroughs hit a build at once. Keep them coming. They're getting fixed.

Nothing you've reported breaks a playthrough, so rather than scramble a hotfix, the fixes fold into 0.17.

0.17 STARTS!

If you finished 0.16, you saw the exit page promise a few things: Tara. Dalisay. Elena.

They're first.

Tara's side quest is written. Six new passages. She predates the Club as Claire knows it. She was there before, she stayed, and she's the only person in Manila who talks to Claire like she's a person instead of an asset. What might she know? Or maybe she's just a true friend on offer.

Elena's arc is next in the queue.

And Datu's honeypot gets extended. He's been the most dangerous man Claire has gotten close to, and the closer she gets, the less she understands about what he actually knows.

THE PROLOGUE PASS REACHED UNIVERSITY

The proof-and-clean pass through the game's oldest content has cleared the entire university arc.

Rush. Hazing. The houses, the bids, the parties, the parts of Claire's life that happened before anyone ever handed her a codename. All of it tightened — prose sharpened, pacing fixed, dead branches closed, bugs pulled out that had been sitting there since the first public build.

This is unglamorous work and nobody makes a trailer out of it. But it matters. If someone new picks up Blue Swallow tomorrow, the first two hours are what decides whether they see the next ten. Those two hours are now written to the standard of everything that comes after them.

If you bounced off the Prologue early on — come back. It isn't the same game.

PUBLIC 0.15 — AUGUST 2

For everyone playing the free build: 0.15 goes public on Sunday, August 2.

It's the biggest jump the public build has taken.

More soon.