2025.09.06 released

This is a very quick update, that basically just expand the work done in the previous update.

Here are the highlights:

• Mass room conversion, like:
  • Brain city is mostly playable, with the exception of O.O., Cyberdwarf dialog and (probably) the wedding quest.
  • Cuchulain's lair (Including some unused maps)
  • (Whats left of) Al Akibahara
  • Hoosegow (room only, no script or cutscenes)
  • Triskelion (Pretty buggy)
  • Undersewer (Pretty buggy)
• Preload shaders at the game's start

• Mortgage minigame finished (somewhat buggy)
  • I think you can complete Wilmer's quest now. 
• Brain city stuff.

Reading books (Brain city)

Art appreciation (Brain City)

Tactical Wait-in-line Action (TNN)

2025-09-06.1 Changelog:

• Fixed issue with sewer audio.
• Title screen button highlight.

2025-09-06.0 Changelog:

• General
  • Changes in player's movement speed.
  • Changes in the animation speed too.
  • Changes in how the player interacts with doors.
  • Changes in how bullets collides with some objects
  • Turn-based combat wont be used, for now. Combat actors had theirs AIs "adjusted" to work only in free-roam combat.
  • Improvements to the camera in certain maps.

• TNN:
  • Movement speed and animation speed changes.
  • TNN Improvements, like adding rain and better crowd control.
  • Added Mortgage minigame

• Tutorial:
  • Tutorial improvements and bugfixes
    • Turn-based combat removed in favor or realtime combat.
• BrainCity:
  • All rooms converted.
  • Books can be read
  • Art can be seen
  • Some dialog with L.O.N.G.I.N.U.S. was ported.
  • Stairs added and improved (?)

• Cuchulain's lair:
  • All rooms converted.
  • Some events converted.
  • Unused room "r_chu_crustRoom01" ported.
  • Seems to be some version of the final level, with Hoopz fighting Cuchu. Scripting is broken, but can be fixed.

• Undersewer:
  • All rooms converted.
  • All rooms seems to be empty, with barelly any scripting done to them.
  • r_usw_rootstock01 and r_usw_ruinsWifi01 are the exceptions.

• Triskelion:
  • All rooms converted.
  • Very unfinished.

• Hoosegow:
  • All rooms converted.
  • No work was done on the events.

Bugs:

• If you mess around in the Mortgage minigame, things will break quite easily. you probably wont be able to cut in line.  If you try, you will find yourself "punished" with some bugs that may lock you out.
• The game doesn't handle running out out ammo very well. 
• Some performance issues with the new rain shader.
• Music may stop playing at certain points.
• Some weird issue with pathfinding keeps happening, breaking some cutscenes. No idea why, but I do have some workarounds applied.

Whats next?

• On the previous post, there was a very interesting (and appreciated) comment (now deleted) with some links to some old posts regarding the combat and gun genetics. After reading those, it may be a good time to work on gun related stuff.
• Rework Sound and Music autoloads.
• Find a way to convert ancient scripts (very old dialog scripts) to B2_CinemaScript.
• I want to add credits to the game and add the name of all the people that worked on it. No idea where to find that information.