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the more recent wand changes have been nice, making things play more smoothly and survivably. i kind of wish the miser shot for the cards was the default for the base, non-upgraded weapon, with its faster reload. I tend to use the wand the most out of all the weapons, with the others being very situational, but i wouldn't say the wand is op, now. could something like the wand's charge work for the cards? holding fire for a weaker but steadier flow of cards.. would be nice for rooms with a bunch of dolls alongside stronger enemies you want full blasts for, and would present a little more variety while spreading ammo consumption.

edit: maybe i'm still not using tomes enough. even considering that,  it feels like ammo flow holds you back a bit until you get a backpack and fill it.

There's a lot to digest when it comes to modding this game, with some tragic limitations from the animation system. On that note, does anyone know just what's going on with mechhound? Tried to do some move adding/replacement with it which causes a swap to the organic (original?) sprite, and the overworld/dungeon puppet to become invisible. Looking at EroStats, I see a bunch of files with VanillaReplace prefixes..are these an actual engine thing you need to use when replacing stuff?

Edit: Think there was something malformed in my replacement.. Simple replacement does override properly now, but I'm still running into functionality around Grapple being hardcoded. Most likely a pipedream, but more flexible grapple and kneeling puppet overhaul would make modding more enticing.

This has been a really nice update. I'll admit I was having doubts before about the rebuild, but it looks like things are trucking along. It's good to see feedback taken into consideration, too. Excited to see what the future holds for the girls of In Heat. Edit: Oh yeah, the lag reduction has been a big help.

Man, I love Sammy.

Oh, nice, didn't think of trying to grab it. Will definitely make use of this next time, thanks.

Any tips? Having a hell of a time dealing with one spawning at the bottom of the river near Echo. It's pretty much stuck in the river and I'm about to get the damned deadly wisps coming along. Thankfully my gamestate is such that I can sell a bunch of MREs to cure radiation and stock up a bit on heals, but fighting one of these underwater while wearing a hazmat suit just sucks..

Edit: Took numerous tries, but finally did it. Best to take small breaks between phases and refocus, immediately leaving the river and healing if you take two bad hits. Best also to remember to use shift and stay in its face as best you can as you circlestrafe, Have to be right on it and try to remain on the riverbed while also not running out of air.

Thinking along these lines, I've considered modding in a 'Present' action to the Pet class in Dungeons a couple times.. something like a token that acts as a Taunt but for grapple actions to prioritize (not sure this is actually possible.. waiting until I soak in more of the base content before I experiment with this and other ideas.)

I just wish it was chibi like Dungeons, but I understand it's probably to avoid problems with stores/payment etc. (if not, I can respect the desire to do something different, too.) More races sounds fun.

How exactly does New Game+/Ascension work? Does it lead to saved game slot loss/reset, or does it just unlock an NG+ option for empty slots?

If Cassie was the original raccoon, probably removed in 0.0.8. Not sure about when added.

Well, not certain since she tends to be distant from the camera when I see it, but it's that same pose she was in, before. Maybe they did switch it out with a broom and I didn't notice.

Edit: She still has it in the splash art at the top of this page, so it's probably still there, it's just she whacks you with a broom if she 'kills' you.

Ari (Ahri?) still has the rifle in some poses. I don't remember the Poppi scene, but didn't keep up with all the releases. I don't think the wolf was in-game until the rebuild with the new models by kekitopu, though.

I think it would be good if there were a couple alternate methods of getting money, or maybe a casino to take chances with (could limit max bet and earnings per day to prevent chance at one-shotting the economy). I dropped the demo on first try because I couldn't get into the delivery movement system, but I tried it again with better luck recently after seeing the update activity (dancing cat girl gif brought me back.) The character models for the girls are nice.

Haven't encountered her yet (haven't gotten past stage 7 or so.)

In Nightclub mode, if a room is taped-up it's probably because you put Ari (mint green wolf) in the top-right room, which permanently ruins it for that run (explanation is the moonlight theme makes her go berserk and kill the customer.) When a room is locked, you need to use the roving robot to find the raccoon girl hiding in one of the trashcans and click it.

I think it might be a bit of a sore spot with the devs due to the rebuild being a move away from the original dev/programmer's work, but I'm not sure. Might poke the discord for leads on version 0.7.

Looks like versions _before_ 0.8 have the old stuff. Version numbering changed at some point after that due to rebuild, but I don't think there are other x.x.8s or 7s to get confused with.

Premium is the $18 version with soundtrack and debug console, 'Patch 1' indicates (currently) latest patch applied with different renderer and bugfixes.

I'm pretty sure you don't need an empty slot. Whenever you pick up an excess char, to recruit, sell, or save, they just kind of follow behind the rest of the party until you leave the dungeon.

Edit: Naturally, after I wrote this up it's not feeling quite so bad after another try, but this has been my lingering impression. The new 'deaths' are looking pretty nice so far.

Edit 2: Man, I'd almost forgotten about the figure gacha in the original version. I kind of miss that.

I find myself avoiding Security Room when I get around to trying updates these days because ever since the overhaul it's just had poor visibility and largely unintelligible rooms. I think the vegetation is excessive and the lighting far too dark, making searching for interactables or anything feel pointless.

Night Club is amusing, but I wish there were more than just 2 cam angles per room, and that switching them didn't cycle animations.

The file permissions within the uploaded archive are kind of annoying to deal with. Several are marked administrator-owned, like the il2cpp stuff, affecting extraction/manipulation/deletion etc.

Ah whoops, I guess I'd assumed they'd all target first rank in addition to whatever else, for the most part at least.

Are the Noble's moves supposed to become unusable after 4~8 rounds of combat? For some reason I always get to this point where only Moulinet seems to work and I can't find a reason why.

Sometimes I get the feeling there might be some sort of rank overflow going on with Forward/Back moves that Move can fix sometimes, depending on how the logic works out.

There's an in-game reference. I think it's a question mark that's usually down at the bottom-right. The icons are explained under 'tokens'.

Whichever the case, it's starting to feel like I'm just entering a failstate I can't really get out of.

Edit: Guess I just need to make more use of weapons and maybe training. Had some poor starts trying weaker chars in harder dungeons before, but my most recent attempts are doing okay. Might need to identify problem chars and check their stats more closely. Was also neglecting the personal goals a bit too much. 

You can get rid of those sorts of curses later with a certain building unlock, but it takes a while to get that. Just have to kind of go for a mix of dropping some chars, adapting to curses with others, or ignoring the item if possible. (Just try to get your stagecoach to where you always have 4+ replacement choices available when you get back to town.. also pump up your barracks capacity.)

Re: trapped chests, you can avoid most problems with those by learning to spot mimics and using sacrificial chars to map out the consequences of the actions taken (as you encounter each potential result, the game will show % chances of outcomes for specific interactions.)

Kidnappings can feel devastating in the beginning, but as options increase they're really not so bad.

It feels like there's a bit too much weight for higher-level missions. I have 1 Elite, 4~ Veterans, 30-something Adepts (chars), but right now in a spread of 10 available missions, half are for Elites and half for Veterans.. Wondering if I'm supposed to drop the Elites into new novice jobs until more catch up.

Edit: Dropped the Elite (removed cursed signet ring) and now there are no Elite chars and still same mission ratio..

Good game, will likely buy it at some point after release. I just wish cursed equips didn't disappear visually when grappled.. was kind of disappointed when I realized that about the pet class items in particular. Is this something modding could potentially address, or something that could be opened to modding if not? Good stuff, either way. Music is amazing, too.

Edit: Guessing the new char model stuff mentioned in the devlog might be related. That'd be killer if so..

A few more thoughts and suggestions after some play (I think I still have some things to try, like tome combos with the saw and unknown secrets..) I don't mean to intrude on the project, but I thought I'd toss them out in case they inspire; don't feel pressured to acknowledge 'em or anything:

* I'm not quite sure what shrapnel + rings does. Slow close-range ground attack? Will continue to experiment.

* Player death cam almost never has the player sprite in frame when I play. Just noting this as an anecdote.

* Could be neat for the player to have an option to induce freeze deaths. I like that the option to petrify is there.

* It might be amusing to have an effect that turns defeated enemies into rabbits (extra fun if transmuted angels had sprites with design cues to indicate what type it was previously.) Mere ammo pickups, or something else? Who knows.

* Assuming the Angelic Aviary texture pack comes along, it could be neat to have interactions between this mod's magic and certain textures (assuming gzdoom has a function to query tex on hit/use/whatever.. no idea honestly.) I tend to play these mods with obsidian-generated maps, and I'm picturing interactions with randomly-occurring portaits kind of like with the statues..

i appreciate your mods. This makes a great companion to angelic aviary. I didn't like the rapid switching of tomes at first, but now i'm just trying to pick up my favored ones after cleaning up the others. These weapons have just the right amount of power, for the most part.

Finally got around to trying this game out after being reminded of its existence. This game is incredible. I almost never play horror, puzzle, or cryptic progression games in general but this is a treasure. I'm probably not touching any other games until my first run is concluded.

Kekitopu's work may have topology that's worlds better than before, but I feel the original faces/facial proportions had a certain charm that shined through the brokenness. I hope there can be a little reworking or hybridization of style.

Any chance of feral Mitsuko making it into the game?

By 'portable' I just mean a release that's essentially a zipped file dump for manual file management. Fewer areas of the system touched and no risk of rogue misconfigured uninstaller. I am noticing a fair amount of itch end-users unfamiliar with archiving tools, though.. they seem to get by with zips, but rar or 7z files will mystify them.

Looking forward to the update.

Always wanted to see some games centered around ovi, and this is a pretty good start. Good size for the eggs, too (hardly such a thing as 'too big' for this.) It'd be great if portable archived versions were available as an alternative to installers. Lastly, it's kind of funny this is over 80 megs, but I guess that's how it goes these days with SDKs.

You don't need to buy it again. The easiest way to locate the link is go to your library and download the 0.6f version (win and linux 0.5 will be above it). If you don't have an itch account, you need to find the email with the download page link from when you bought it.

You have to click on the little security office room adjacent to the T-shaped walkway and the rave venue (can't remember actual names at the moment.) Right-click to back out of the map doesn't work on Nightclub,  yet, unfortunately.

Finally got around to trying .6 and now .6f, and I'm getting an issue where the status light is always black in the original map, and the lights/buttons on Misty's console (nightclub) are always black after the first change (unless I click one of them on her end.. i think.) This game has the best characters. Excited for the possibilities Cassidy brings to the table, and hoping she has her way with more of the cast. It'd be kind of funny to see her railing the others via security cam (throwaway idea for inspiration: maybe on occasion she'll mount one of the others with a fun sound cue, and you have to find them and turn on the room's sprinklers, or the other girl goes berserk with heat.. maybe something for a different map, who knows). The wolf is looking cute.

I'm getting the thing others have mentioned now where interactions stop. It could be me not knowing what Sammy's minigame does, but once her caution/warning graphic pops up on the right of the UI, I often find she's stolen her plush and then no click interactions work (game menu works fine).

The game's shaping up pretty nicely. I had a suggestion in mind for the previous version, but it might overlap/conflict with the new figure collecting system: I was thinking it'd be neat to unlock a model/animation viewer so you could view and rotate the character animations (specifically the ones seen via camera system.. I realize the death anims are probably not intended to be viewed from multiple angles and might look funny/broken). Maybe after unlocking all of a character's tapes, those start opening up..? Anyway, keep up the good work.