Oh my! these devs nowadays no updating already finished projects... lol jk.
Seriously now though, the Arena has been long finished by now. That's why it's the exact same version. We posted it here to let more people know about it.
Since the end of the Arena, we focused on the development of the real game, so the Arena isn't abandoned but finished and the game is the total opposite to being abandoned as it's being worked on every day 😊
Typically when I see actually finished products they don't contain the square default textures and contain "(Not available yet)" in options clearly shown on the main menu. I have seen only a couple games (not NSFW games) that had their "1.0" release but still had WIP inside of their game like the survival game Icarus that has since still received updates to add those features so sorry for calling what looks like a beta build unfinished.
No need to be sorry. If you could let me know or show me where exactly there is that "square default texture" I'd be grateful, since I never receive a single report about anything like that.
About the "(Not Available yet)" in options clearly shown in the main menu: they're there becaue that's the main menu for the Game not just the Arena, that's why, to avoid people asking "Why can't I access XXX option?" we added that text to it, just to avoid confusion. That was just a matter of stuff that happened over the development of the Arena. It wasn't specified in here but if you saw this same version a year ago, you maybe saw the ending and credits and post-credit scene it had, basically showing it was finished. That is assuming you played it, otherwise my bad.
But yeah, it's finished😊
The square default texture style is all over the first mission, the time trial challenge. I have last seen that texture playing the in-progress maps in Ready or Not during its early access as well as for demo rooms in unity.
Yes, the "Not available yet" is clearly shown, that's the thing I have a bit of a problem with when it's said to be a final release. I do understand Arena is more of a test bed but with those, the "Not available yet", so prevalent on the main menu it gives the illusion of it not being complete for what was released.
Look at this from the consumer point of view, we are very stupid when looked at as a collective. Being told that we have a final release of something, even free, and see something that is 99% of the time only seen in early access titles, we will get confused and wonder why there are things missing. If when I loaded into the main menu and saw the "Not Available yet" options removed for the Arena release and instead saw a little advertisement to keep up with the development of the main bioasshard title on Patreon for the release of the campaign/story in the corner I would have a better idea of what exactly is going on. If I shown this release to a friend he would tell me it's still early access and that this would get updated, apart from it actually being a good project that go against all of the cookie cutter visual novels you see EVERYWHERE.
