[PROGRESS REPORT] The Home Stretch! Get Ready for 1.5.0.0! (Patreon)

​Hoo boy. Been a while since you've seen one of these, huh?

We've been on fire lately. Saffryn is ready for early access release to T4 and up Supporters, and 1.5.0.0, the end of Season 2 Episode 5, is almost ready to ship. The main story section is completely finished, and we're just finishing up the side story scenes and the side story unlock pacing. In fact, I made this graphic 6 hours ago, and we finished 2 more side story scenes since then, so it's not even fuggin accurate anymore. 

I do wanna say one thing, though. Everyone who's been wanting River content is gonna be real happy this patch.

I stated this on a Supporter Only post, but we're waiting to put Saffryn into Early Access until 1.5.0.0 ships, and we've had a chance to fix any bugs that pop up. Saffryn's compatibility hooks are baked into 1.5.0.0, so releasing that first makes it so our Supporters don't have to update their game twice.

Since people keep asking, T4 supporters and up get to test out new DLCs and keep them for free as soon as they're ready to test. Regardless of the final price of the DLC.

T3 gets all FINISHED DLCs for free, as soon as they're marked Complete. Also regardless of the price of the DLC.

T2 gets a 50% Discount on all Itch.io DLC purchases. There is a pattern here. 

T1 gets a thank-you. 

It's $2. What do you expect.

ANYWAY, every since getting this new PC, all of my frustration with the VideoExport plugin has evaporated. It finally just works. No more freezing, no more hanging on encoding, no more retakes that aren't my own damn fault for forgetting to set the limit to Animation instead of Seconds after selecting an object and reselecting a character(animations that pop... you know the ones). And I'm beginning to think that most of my burnout was due to frustration with the equipment I was working with. I, personally, have gotten more done in these first two weeks of January than I had in October through December of last year. I can't promise I'll keep up this pace, but goddamn does this feel good. So I'mma use this. I almost hate that I have to go to bed in an hour 'cause I have more scenes I wanna do, but I know if I get locked in, I will keep myself up 2 hours past my bedtime... so I'mma have to be the bigger person and walk away.

That analogy makes no sense here, and I don't care.

But anyways, I've been having so much fun lately making WCA without all the frustration that I thought was part of the process. Mad difference some new equipment makes. 

More updates soon. Stay tuned.

-Vic