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Continued debugging (almost there).

Expect another update on October 4th.
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that they aren't aiming for release on the 4th anymore just more of hoping to be done debugging and implementation of the translations (English and Chinese I believe) in the case that DLsite has given the green light they could release it.
 
Jesus said:
Yeah, I was being facetious, but the guy really does love his rocks. I might even have learned a few things. I can't put a finger on what it was that led to me never playing through the entire game, even though the art was really good. I think it was just the overall pacing being very drawn out, especially with regard to time played : new enemies/scenes
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Admittedly, Chapter 4 is where the best stuff is at, and Chapters 1-3 simply get in the way of that. I'd honestly say to just get a save editor and give yourself a ton of EXP and money so you can blast through those chapters and get to the lab, where all the DOS robots are at. Chapter 5's also got some descent enemies and the gimpsuit, Chapter 6 is kinda mixed on content but does have the futa stuff, and Chapter 7 is just bland tentacle content.

I rather liked Undercrust enough to attempt to learn how to mod the game, and managed to do a lot of editing on the DOS robots themselves. I managed to remove the hologram parts plus manage to layer even more stuff on some of the sprites.

One of the biggest shames of the entire game, though, is most (if not all) of the status effects are limited to the chapters they're in. Like, there's an item to put the gimp suit on yourself or give you the futa status, but they don't work with enemies from other chapters.
 
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New preview images released with the cien blog's update today. Team hopes to finish debugging around Oct 4th and apply for sales as soon as they're ready.
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blueinorb9 said:
New preview images released with the cien blog's update today. Team hopes to finish debugging around Oct 4th and apply for sales as soon as they're ready.
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New stuffs that I can tell so far:
- Pink web restraint (in-game status effect)
- Green tentacle rubbing Hachina (cutscene)
- Male human molesting Hachina (cutscene)
 
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More teasing and closer the release day.
Yet I am annoyed af because I can't access Ci-en nor Dlsite without VPN because my country Gov block them for "moral reason"
Well at least I can use VPN. Excite for Release.
 
Speaking of censorship... I hope DLsite doesn't overcensor this. Those fuckers have even been forcing censorship on lower detail pixel art so I worry about the visibility of more detailed stuff.
 
@IAmAKi If they do I hope that they don't demand hardbaked censorship like they did with azcat's Ecchi & Craft or made so annoyingly hard to remove that people gave up.....I hope though that if they do then the team release a little patch that enables you to uncensor it. I hope that due to Hachina's demo not showing too much genitals like Mission Mermaiden that they go meh and accept what was already there.
 
An interesting comment in the end of month article on the blog. They note that unlike mission mermaiden, in Hachina escaping from grabs becomes significantly more difficult as the level of development (guessing they're talking about h-stats here) increases. Good to see that they're improving on the gameplay formula rather than sticking with what they had in their last game.
 
Azrail26232 said:
An interesting comment in the end of month article on the blog. They note that unlike mission mermaiden, in Hachina escaping from grabs becomes significantly more difficult as the level of development (guessing they're talking about h-stats here) increases. Good to see that they're improving on the gameplay formula rather than sticking with what they had in their last game.
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Quite a bit has changed, going by the trial from a year ago.

You can't spam batteries to nonstop transform, so healing is rarer.
The ultimate attack is based on your combo, rather than just dumping a meter.
Fixing status effects doesn't just use a cleanser or transforming now. You need to make a specific cure.
Transformations also cleansed you, so without them now, you will keep statuses for much longer.
The enemies also now take multiple hits, as opposed to how most died in one last game.

I like it. I'm curious how the next Hachina game will handle these.
 
I am hoping that for the next game they might.....look into something like Handy integration or buttplug support maybe. As depending on how this turns out I feel like they have everything pretty well done unless they are going from 2D to 3D. So they could open up the field slightly in well letting people play and have fun instead of having to sometimes remove a hand from the controls once in a while.
 
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Speaking of censorship... I hope DLsite doesn't overcensor this. Those fuckers have even been forcing censorship on lower detail pixel art so I worry about the visibility of more detailed stuff.
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DLSite also knows that most devs don't have much alternatives.
 
Rat-attack said:
I am hoping that for the next game they might.....look into something like Handy integration or buttplug support maybe. As depending on how this turns out I feel like they have everything pretty well done unless they are going from 2D to 3D. So they could open up the field slightly in well letting people play and have fun instead of having to sometimes remove a hand from the controls once in a while.
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I just remapped my keyboard so I can play the games all with one hand. It's not perfect, but it works well enough.
 
Oooo interesting @Noby Any chance you can easily share the remap so we can attempt to copy it if not maybe make it better?
 
Rat-attack said:
Oooo interesting @Noby Any chance you can easily share the remap so we can attempt to copy it if not maybe make it better?
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Well, typically these games use the arrow keys and ZXC primarily.

I remap WASD to be the arrow keys while keeping ZXC the same. Anything that was previously mapped to WASD can be shifted to QE and RFV.

I haven't come across many games that had more than that actively used, so it's functional enough, and I can manage to play most games well enough with just my left hand at that point. I wouldn't be able to play a "real" videogame like that, but these are generally not so gameplay intensive that I can't get through it.
 
@Noby Hm nice though I'm surprised a bit that you've found V possible to use as for me that drags my fingers around slightly. Do you have anything bound to spacebar or shift and ctrl? As they are much more usable I found in games like Arma as it requires your pinky so you can still use WASD at the same time roughly. (and you get to train your pinky to reach
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very slightly)
 
V is pretty much the emergency "this game has way too many buttons and I have no other options" button.

I generally don't bother with shift, ctrl, or spacebar, since shift and spacebar tend to already be used by some games, usually as sprint and jump respectively. I try to stick with my one configuration that works with as many games as possible.

Not ideal, but it beats having to set things up again for every new game.
 
Was hoping for some kind of update today but nothing on cien, has anybody seen anything? Can't look at twitter anymore without an account for some reason
 
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