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I'll chime in on the feedback here:

I got to agree, the new beastkin faces look a bit weird, given that we've seen a fair share of beastkin in the first game and this one who don't seem to have snouts at all (Mae, Savra, whatever Wolf-Girl and Catgirl's  name was from the first game) 

Tanuki and Cat come to mind here first since we've seen previous instances of them looking different. 

On Wolfes and Foxes/ Caninines it looks fitting, though we've seen a wolf without the snout before too. 

What exactly does the "Must not be engaged in work" requirement mean? 

Do you mean that they are supposed to be set to rest, or that you are never allowed to set them to work for you before turning them in period? 

I have a slave that fulfills all other requirements, bar this one despite being set to rest.  I did use some physical labor before to increase their physics stat a bit though. 

Sometimes, the requirements don't all fit into that line, in which case it creates a small scroll bar next to the box containing the requirements, which can be a bit hard to spot when you don't know it's there. 

So it's possible that there is still an open requirement somewhere. 

There used to be on-character-textures for those two items displayed on the random characters if you had the corresponding item equipped(in Conquest). 

i.e. If you equipped them, they had clothing textures on the random characters's avatar/ragdoll(on the inventory screen for example). - Just like armor and other costumes do(The Mantle for example.)I, specifically talking about the random characters here, not story characters.

If I recall right, they were there around the time you introduced the avatars/ragdolls for the random characters and vanished a several itch versions later. 

However, at some point the clothing/costume textures for those two suddenly stopped displaying on the characters. 

The only real issue with those two I remember is that the underwear was using the See-Through's texture and vis versa, which is why I was wondering why they are gone/if they would eventually return. 

You need the 175 Physics to pull it out.

The following combination can lead to poor quality on a crafted item, even with the Blacksmith trait (crafted items are at least normal) 

Smith:
Dragonkin - Combat Slave

100 Phys; 14 + 20 wit

Good quality Mythril Hammer(Ironwood handle) 

Item built: Adv. Heavy armor. 

E:; A 2nd Smith w/o  trait was potentially involved

Given that you also need Warmastery 5 I do wonder whether it's supposed to be there for the Paladinor the Knight. Discription and stats do suggest it to be a Paladin weapon, but the knight seems to be the more offensive of the two. 

Since Heleviel has a questline now, are there any plans for adding one for Lira too, in case someone leaves Heleviel in power? 

In one of the random events, there is a famine in one of the servants hometown. 

You get exactly two options: 

- Give 20 Grain (You actually need to have it)

- *Burn the letter*

I'd like to request for either a third option like comforting them, or turning the 20 grain thing in a 2 day delivery quest, since the text suggest cruelty and players get forced into it merely by not having a resource that gets consumed passively. :/

Out of curiosity, why were the textures removed(I mean the ones for the character creator made ragdolls)?  

As far as I remember they were even fully colored already and looked fine on the ragdolls too.

I remember that we, at least for a while, used to have textures for the see through lingerie and the lacy underwear. I think I even still saw them in the game files a while ago, but it seems they are no longer being used. Is there a reason for that, or are they just temporarily out and will come back?

How long will the Dating mode take now that an additional mode will be added in the near future? I mean a lot of them don't even have their first one yet. 

I on the other hand would wish they'd finish one mode at a time. 

Do I need to have any specifc stats, or go at a specific day/time? None of the available NPCs in the entire town have something. Going by Raine's gallery there should be another main quest though.  (The thieves to catch were in the slums, in case there is a second thief quest) I should be on 0.13a

Edit: Apparently, I continued an older save file, and the quest got stuck. It worked in a new safe file. 

I'm kinda stuck atm. My card's hint tells me to to check Raine's and Aveline's cards if they need anything. Meanwhile, their cards just tell me to continue the main quest (Which I can't find) .

The last thing I did was catching some thieves for ember. 

How do you get Jean in the current version of the game? Usually she joined somewhere around the Mayor elections or shortly after. Currently I'm way further though, namely I just finished the elven story line and already am on several of the character quests. 

I know this isn't high priority, but can you please start removing the vegetation from the Security office level? 

The way it's clipping through the floor makes it clear that it's not supposed to be an abandoned building, and by removing it you would also slightly increase performance. 

The shark is still everything but fun. 

Unless I missed something you only have a second in between that sound and closing the door, meaning you already have to look at the door to close it on time.
The only real way to protect myself from the shark I have found is to just leave the left door closed. 

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• Adjusted Grass to have less of a performance impact

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Why the grass is even there?
I remember Version A where it was there, then B where the grass was removed, then when you guys switched Engine, it was suddenly back again. 

Are you trying to imply that the facility has been abandoned by now? If so the grass would need some serious adjusting, as it looks more like it's clipping through the floor than sprouting out of cracks. 

I know I'm a bit late with the second part, but I need to get these suggestions off my brain regardless.

First Slave Backstory:

Compared to Srife for Power, the first slave we get feels kind of lackluster due to the lack of a backstory. 

In SfP your first slave had an entire backstory, deciding how you met them, and there were events that build on that and later even influenced traits the Servant would get. 

The suggestion here would be to not let the first slave be handed to you by the guild, but rather be someone you already bring with you like in Strife for Power. Even a carbon copy of the choices and events would already go a long way, considering that said servant will likely stay with you for the rest of the game. 
The guilds involvement with them should imho be kept minimal, unless they get better integrated into the story. Maybe training in their initial class or just gear for them. 

Chapter 1 Alternate End:

An idea should you ever have the time for that, as I think the civil war feels a bit short: 

Since the story suggests you getting sold into slavery yourself if you fail to make the goal you and your slaves could get bought/liberated by the rebellion, allowing you to join them instead of the guilds during the war as a second chance at the game, and you only fail if you also don't manage to beat this alternate story. 

The only guild leader that would really need replacement there is Duncan and Myr, for whom we already have a good candidates with either Aire or Gregor. or a completely new character. 
Alternatively, they could get replaced by Paperdoll characters. 

In this version of the story you have two mini  branches: 

You excel as much as Aire suggested in the current story, and actually win the war for them, giving you a noble title and being able to court Anastasia with her answer depending on similar factors as in the main story.  In this version your mansion is being referred to as "castle" instead as you'd move in with Anastasia. You'll be referred to as either King or King-Consort, depending on whether Anastasia is allowed to rule in their society 

You fail to, or don't try to court Anastasia, in which case you'd move back into the mansion, and get the title of governor over the town instead. You cannot get Anastasia (and potentially Aire) in this route. 

Zephyra: You don't meet her while taking the Settlement, but rather a bit later, when she does the Shield over Aliron instead. 

The Elven Capitol part: not necessary in this version of the chapter, alternatively Duncan and Myr flee there instead of Anastasia

All I read when Akaime is asking me questions is "Just so you know, your childhood friend probably died and got replaced by a robot"

Regarding the Sequence Minigame:

Can you please make it so that already hit parts are vanishing, rather than just moving to the side? They are extremely distracting and keep causing me to input the sequence wrong, as you loose track of what has already been typed in. 

Overall a solid update. 

A few things about the Night club: 
Maddie seems to have been neglected a bit here in terms of animations. Both towards the customers and the operator/sec guard in normal mode. 

I mean we get it, she is huge and heavy. Meanwhile Ari even has one for crying when killing a customer. 

I never figured out how to fix the suddenly locked rooms. Maybe I missed the explanation, maybe there wasn't one.  Going by one of the steam pictures I take you need to find whoever is hiding inside the trash can. Even if I'm right though the possible trash panda though, the night where the mechanic is introduced barely leaves any time to fix the issue. 

I can't really check whether something is in the room either as the robot keeps falling through the floor. 

Something bothering me for a while in main mode: 

Ever since you changed engines again, the entire facility is overgrown with grass that is also clipping through the area. Can you please start removing that? I really makes no sense for it to be there, and going by how it's clipping through the floor it's clearly not meant to be there either. It's also kinda distracting. 

I think the point is more that the war itself is far too short, rather than that it needs another timer. I'll write a bit more on this someday, but in a nutshell: Progressing too fast, while not having enough war-related content. I think gatekeeping progression like mansion upgrades and perhaps the farm would be a better choice. I.e. giving people a reason for wanting to complete it rather than forcing a timer. 

For example: Ore could cost more while the mine is not in your possession, or not be available at all. Classes being gatekept behind progression in the story, perhaps in the form of teachers that aren't available. 

Minor annoyances that don't force people to progress if they don't want to but also don't let them get strong enough to cheese the game. 

Paladin for example should imho require you to have Knight + Templar and Holy attacks should be restricted to Priest, Bishop, and Paladins in particular.  Other classes should have similar flavor. I have for example no real reason to pick Knight over Paladin, so that would give Knight a better use. Those classes in turn could be kept behind story related content, or sidequests, like the Priest class is. 

Another thing regarding classes is that there should be a maximum (not counting Master, and so on though. the master is already pretty weak compared to the Servants. )

And last but most importantly: Available quest rewards. I literally got a full, average levelled, Draconic Lance for slaying an Ogre, which is really easy even without a healer. 

Maybe my version is old... But sometimes when you use it, it resets the entire manor. All upgrades - gone. 

Edit: addendum: It also resets all the stat points ion some characters, while not giving you the option to allocate them. 

Same problem, it seems to randomly appear at some point in the game. 

I tried turning off my mods, but it didn't help either.  Would be nice to get a short hotfix telling us which line in the save we'd have to change to make it work again. 

Note: This was a completely new game, and it DID work at first. My guess is that either some of the classes or skills might be buggy. 

It also still works with Quests that give you the normal menu with the plus sign, for example right before the Siege

Some things that I noticed with 0.8:

• Poppy sometimes clips through the wall, shortly before she intends to stick to the window.
• Poppi sometimes T poses. 
• 8/10 times someone sticks to the window it's Poppy. The other times it's Nile. 
• Sammy never seem to come to the window, even if you deliberately let her break stuff. 
• On the rare occasions Sammy at least enters the corridor next to the booth (without preparing an attack), she usually picks the right side one. I've never seen her on the the left side. Poppy and Nile on the other hand, seem to prefer the left window. 
• The rest of the time I couldn't even find her.

A suggestion:

Would it be possible for them to move around instead of standing still on the part of the map where they currently are? 

I mean like do something interesting to distract the player rather than standing there in the same pose. 

For example do some tricks, leave the map by walking out instead of teleporting. 

Sammy could do some magic tricks, Poppy could... Set someone dog on fire? (that's a reference)Misty could play a guitar and so on. 

Will they ever get their glowing eyes back? Dunno why but their absence makes them look really cartony rather than scary.