Desert Stalker [v0.17 Beta] [Zetan]

v0.17 Beta

New Content (1,160 renders):

– A new mutants mission
– Pepper’s examination (multiple steps, repeatable)
– Sparring with Shani (repeatable)
– Invite Igor & Savana again (repeatable)

Reworks (~900 renders)*:
\* The reworks listed below are almost solely visual upgrades, not story changes
– d2e (Shani’s first adventure)
– d2f (Back from the pyramid)
– d3b (Night market visit)
– d3c (Shani and MC in old Cairo)
– d4a (Kyra in basement)
– d5b (First mutants visit)
– d5c (First raiders vist, including a 100-render extension)
– d5e (Kateryna & Igor’s first visit)
– d6a (Kateryna’s city visit)

Technical:
– Migrated to RenPy 8.3.3
– Added the ability to track quests so it’s easier to see where exactly you need to go
– Made content flags persistent and available to change in the Options menu
– Added the ability to upload/download saves using the Renpy Sync feature
– Streamlined most of the quests
– Completely reworked the underlying Event System

v0.16c
Minor changes / Bugfixes:
Added new animations in Zahra date scene
Added new animations in Lirah’s duty path
Added new animations in Shani’s repeatable workout scene & Emilia kitchen scene
Fixed a bug where dismissing the Queen’s question during the second arena event would continue the scene as if the player answered
Added non-sexual options when speaking to Talia at the end of the Freedom or Duty questline
Fixed a wrong condition where you could trigger Nadia and Rabiah visiting while Shani is in the Zone

v0.16b
– Fixed Lirah’s quest not starting under certain conditions (for real this time, I hope)
– Fixed an old corner case where playthroughs that started in version 0.12b didn’t have subsequent save compatibility fixes applied.
– Fixed grammar errors and typos that were reported
Translations:
– Updated the Italian translation to 0.16 (courtesy of Eagle1900)

v0.16a

• Added many missing renders & render variations
• Fixed renders with clipping issues
• Fixed Lirah’s quest not starting under certain conditions (hopefully should cover all cases)
• Fixed an issue with Fairy’s introduction causing the game to flow back to the main menu or random scenes
• Fixed an incorrect world map marker instance
• Fixed a wrong name interpolation in Kateryna’s scene
• Fixed a wrong variable check in the Queen’s bedroom scene
• Fixed a variable not having a default state
• Fixed a dialogue branch if you don’t choose any of the Lirah paths
• Fixed grammar errors and typos that were reported

v0.16 Beta: New Content (~1,250 renders):

• Igor visiting the house
• Date with Zahra
• Lirah’s questline (multiple events)

Minor additions:

• Added a continuation of the repeatable massage event with Shani
• Emilia can now service you while you’re eating in the kitchen
• Added another way for Ain to wake you up if you sleep in Zahra’s bed
• Added hints to locked gallery items

Reworks (~150 renders)*: * The reworks listed below are almost solely visual upgrades, not story changes

• d1c (Ain’s intro)
• d1d (Shani’s intro)
• d2a (Ivy’s escape)
• d4c (Shani’s workout)
• d4f (Ain’s new room)
• d5a (Shani’s massage)
• d5f partial rework (Abrax’s intro)
• d5h (Lirah delivers Emilia)

Minor changes / Bugfixes

• Fixed a wrong name interpolation for in Kateryna’s quest log
• Fixed a wrong objective description in “All in the family”
• Fixed a missing condition for d13k (the player needs to have romanced Shani for it to be available now)
• Fixed a bug in the Fairy introduction where under certain conditions the script would continue into the void
• Fixed a couple of instances in the home screen where people were showing up incorrectly
• Fixed a missing variable check in the bunker when playing as Shani that made examining the device option inaccessible

v0.15c

– Updated Italian translation to 0.15c
– Updated Russian translation to 0.15c
– Added some bloody animation variants in Kateryna’s first time
– Fixed a corner case where if you met and denied helping the Mutants, some checks for reaching the end of current content would fail
– Fixed some missing icon markers for first time of Pepper and repeatable Hive scenes
– Fixed being able to sleep with Shani if you haven’t romanced her. The option should be disabled now.
– Fixed some noisy renders in d13l
– Added whipping sounds in Fairy’s broken scene
– Fixed various typos and grammar errors

v0.15b

– Added some missing animations in Nadia/Ain’s scene
– Two stray replay scenes have found their way back into the gallery (we have accidentally mislabeled them, causing them to vanish)
– Fixed an issue where the Raiders quest wouldn’t trigger the next step to show on the quest log
– Fixed a missing quest log resolution for Ivy’s quest
– Fixed various reported typos and grammar issues

v0.15a

– Added some missing animations in Shani’s and Nadia/Ain’s scenes, more to come
– Added Shani licking her fingers at the end of the Kateryna/Shani harem event.
– Fixed a wrong condition in Shani’s harem button, causing a soft-lock if Kateryna hasn’t joined the house
– Fixed a crash in Replay gallery when trying to access the Zeta tab
– Fixed a couple of instances where old saves would fail to update properly
– Fixed a mistyped replay check in d9c
– Added a missing tooltip in “Sleep with Shani” button
– Fixed various typos and grammatical errors

v0.15 Beta

New Content:
– Nadia visiting the house
– Sekhmet’s Legion pt. 1 (Raiders quest)
– Shani in the terrace (leading to a repeatable scene)
– You can now sleep with Shani
– Visiting Ivy
– Small repeatable Fairy scenes for her broken path
– Harem scene (Shani/Kateryna)

Minor additions:
– You can be woken up by different people when you sleep with your wife
– Added a few overlay variations in the home overview to make it feel more alive

Minor changes / Bugfixes:
– (Hopefully) Fixed all occasions where animations played on top of each other, causing lag/choppy animations.
– Added animated backgrounds for home overview and world map
– Fixed a really long-standing bug, where under certain conditions the player would never meet Fairy
– Added a missing marker in world map button and Palace for the first Queen visit
– Added a missing marker in world map button and mutants lab for the Pepper scene
– Added a missing marker in Palace for the second Queen visit
– Fixed an issue with d13i marker being shown, but the event not accessible yet because the settlement quest was not finished
– Removed the requirement of Ivy not being scared for Hive mission pt. 2
– Fixed an issue with Kateryna’s introduction happening before getting the new car
– Fixed a wrong variable check when discussing with Shani about the Zone, causing Ivy’s notes to be referenced even if you haven’t seen the event
– Fixed an incorrect variable check, causing Shani to be injured after returning from the Zone even if she actually wasn’t
– Fixed being able to go to the scout mission in the Zone before doing Abrax’s quest
– You can’t sleep with Ain or massage her if she’s in the basement anymore
– Fixed a small interaction appearing while Shani is actually in the Zone
– Fixed a missing variable definition for the thug execution scene, potentially causing errors later on
– Added an 1-day cooldown between the Hive mission parts
– Added the option to avoid hugging the Queen in the Palace bedroom
– Added the option to avoid checking out the Queen during d14d
– Fixed a missing jump if you deny the servant in the second planning event with the Queen
– Fixed “Public Servants” replay from missing an end for one of the paths, causing the game to crash.
– Improved the animation quality of d9c-37 (Thug girl)
– Ain sometimes took her choker off in the plaza date scene. Now she knows better
– Fixed some dialogue inconsistency when the player sleeps with Ain
– Fixed an incorrect image variant in Pepper’s repeatable scene
– Fixed missing background lighting in a couple of Mantis’ training scene renders
– Fixed Nadia’s slave dress clipping in the dress-up scene
– Fixed some incorrect image variants in Fairy’s introduction
– Fixed an incorrect image variant in Ain’s punishment scene
– Fixed some potential small stutter each time you start a new day