Weekly News #57 (For Patreon) [eng] (Patreon)

Without further ado - Weekly News #57. Most likely, even the last ones for this month, because a new update will be released soon, but this is not about that now.
 
And... For this week, quite a lot of things were done, starting from the next fixed bugs and ending with new locations, but let's start with the most long-awaited-the plot. Finally, the event where you go on a date with Hitomi was completed: new options, answers and opportunities were added to it. In addition, by itself, it hints at what will be in the next updates, but we will do this time without unnecessary spoilers.
In addition, the first steps were taken to the possibility of offering Ayano to cohabit together. To do this, you just need the promised desire from her and correctly answer her questions - in this case, you will have a new roommate! Of course, such pleasant connections will be full of events. Your daily life will be full of the next troubles from cohabiting with her, but there will also be many pleasant events! Cohabiting with her will be strikingly different from cohabiting with Yuki Oota, while you will not be able to live with them at the same time together, so your choice will have to fall on only one of your chosen ones! Of course, this choice is optional, you can just ignore it if you are a lone wolf, so this update will be without unnecessary imposition.
 
But not only the plot and plot possibilities end with innovations. The existing randomized NPC generator has been improved! More than hundreds of different names and surnames were added to the existing dictionaries, and in all of them, starting from Slavic and ending with Japanese! Full statistics of what was added can be found below:

American Dictionary
207 Male names
250 Female names
426 Surnames

Slavic Dictionary
181 Male names
502 Male surnames
165 Female names
478 Female Surnames

Japanese Dictionary
494 Male Names
337 Female Names
553 Surnames
 
In addition, a new function was sewn into the generator itself, which checks the uniqueness of the first/last name selected by the randomizer. In other words, NPCs with the same variations of names and surnames will no longer be generated-they will all be unique!
 
Well, now let's get down to something else - new locations and features. Of course, very little time was devoted to this. Not as much as I'd like, but... We will still work on innovations in this direction in the time before the release of the new version. From the new locations, a temple and a fountain in the park were added. In these two locations, the most ambiguous attribute of the game - luck-increases. Throwing a coin in the fountain and praying in the temple, you will swing this attribute a little. Already in the next versions, it will have a more clear impact on the gameplay and moreover, with it there will be elections in the events, but for now this is just a little preparation for subsequent updates.
 
Well, the last thing worth mentioning is bug fixes. We've worked hard on that this month. By releasing Hot Bug Fixes 1 on version 0.916, we fixed a lot of bugs, but still not all of them. We are still working on this and right now you can read the list below:

 
Minimum thresholds for attributes are set. Now there should be many times fewer exceptions associated with them.

A condition has been made that events with Hitomi cannot be called until an event involving truancy and Yuki Oota is completed.

Fixed a bug where the gender of a randomized NPC could change during a dialog with it.

Fixed Yuki Oota's daily routine when she lives with you. Now at 5 am, she will not be busy with paperwork, but will be safely asleep. In addition, some other minor issues related to this have been fixed.

Fixed a bug where you could invite people who were already members to your club using group interactions.

Fixed a bug where an incorrect item description could initially be displayed when opening the inventory.

Corrected the formula that calculates the font size for the names of randomized NPCs.

A condition is made for the event with Azumi to fall out. Now, if someone cohabits with you, the event where she walks around naked in your apartment will not fall out.


0.917 updates will be released between April 24 and 27. Most likely, even on April 27, for the reason that we want to make an interesting system of cohabitation with Ayano Yoshida, as well as for the need to add new features to the existing locations.