Happy Friday, party people!

We’ve got a redeploy for House Party, bringing us to update 0.15.5! This time round, we’ve made sure the loading issue that many House Party players were experiencing is gone for good. No more staring at the screen as Brittney stares back, eating away at your soul.

We’ve also done some other touch ups to our massive 0.15.4 update, but more than anything it was about getting this loading issue resolved. Alright, have a good weekend!

-Eek Team

Changelog

0.15.5

• Fixed an issues that was causing long loading times
• Added code to prevent characters from doing exaggerated animations while holding items, causing them to sometimes clip
• Fixed an issue that could cause characters with a combat Stamina between 0 and 1 to get hit for more damage than intended
• Added the MatchValue GameEvent for CSC Users, and a corresponding Console Command. This will allow you to set Character values to be equal to each other (across Characters, or two values for one Character)
• Fixed an issue that could cause a Character’s zone to not update properly if they were sitting, laying down, or in certain other poses
• Performance optimization of Zoning system
• Listening the Quests for a specific character via the Quest console command will no longer count as Cheating
• Listening the Events for a specific character via the Events console command will no longer count as Cheating
• Listing the Events for a specific character via the Events console command will now show the name of the event, followed by the event’s type, and finally if it is enabled or not
• The Events console command will now correctly list Events assigned to DialogueOnlyCharacters (Compubrah, Phone Call). Be aware that DialogueOnlyCharacters can make use of very few Event types, e.g. GameStarts
• Optimization of the command console to prevent excess garbage collection, memory usage, and mitigate hiccups
• Corrections to a number of ‘help’ and ‘example’ texts for various console commands
• In the Original Story: Ashley will not be considered “Occupied” for quite as much of her “Sibling Warfare” opportunity, which will prevent her from being unavailable in some circumstances that did not make sense
• In the Combat Training story: There is now a Help text on the briefcase. Cause, you know…this is a learning experience and stuff
• In the Combat Training story: The NPCs that are summoned for combat practice will wait to attack you until you attack them
• In the Combat Training story: Fixed a few bugs that were causing duplicate messages to display
• In the Combat Training story: If the Player wins one fight, they can unlock Social Justic…Outrage Mode
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could cause Leah’s content to break if you did “Just in the Kick of Time” (Leah and Lety’s “talk”) first
• In the Original Story: Amy’s “Stub Toe” event with Stephanie will no longer trigger during many combat-heavy sections of Leah’s content, and while it was already checking to see if the Player was in combat, will now no longer fire if the Player is about to be attacked by an NPC
• In the Original Story: Rachael’s confrontation with Patrick will no longer trigger during many combat-heavy sections of Leah’s content, and while it was already checking to see if the Player was in combat, will now no longer fire if the Player is about to be attacked by an NPC
• In the Original Story: Fixed a missing value in Stephanie’s Value List
• In the Original Story: The Player can now unlock Leah’s VR reward if they have fully completed her content, have the Open Briefcase in their inventory, and THEN engage in any sort of intimacy…Compubrah can get data this way, for sure
• In the Original Story: Fixed another issue that could cause Leah to walk to Lety to start their “Just in the Kick of Time” conversation, even if the Player was just starting the Spare Room search stage of the 0.15.4 content
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that would prevent Katherine from opening the downstairs bathroom door herself, if it was locked, in the event that Frank was not available to help her. She’s too crafty to be stopped by a door!
• In the Original Story: Cleaned up some redundant/confusing values associated with Stephanie’s “Meltdown” opportunity
• In the Original Story: The Player will no longer be able to simply walk up to Stephanie and complete “Meltdown” if they got the Gut Grip but not a bottle of water
• In the Original Story: Fixed a few VA-Dialogue text mismatches for Frank and Leah
• In the Original Story: Frank will be slightly less likely to fall off the roof prematurely when Leah confronts him during one of the “Good” finales to the “Broken Code” opportunity
• In the Original Story: Leah should more reliably point to the places the Player should look during the Garage Search stage of “Snake in the Grass”
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue with Loaded Games (specifically those made prior to 0.15.4) that would allow various versions of the Snake to be visible when they should not have been
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue with Loaded Games (specifically those made prior to 0.15.4) that would result in Frank being literally an indestructible killing machine that no skills, blood sacrifice, or thrown vibratrons could ever hope to topple
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that would allow Players to earn the Achievement “The Harder They Fall…Dood” without actually having engaged Frank in Combat. Hey asshole, I see you with that exploit, you’re fucking dead!
• In the Original Story: Modified the back-end relationship values between Frank and Leah, should the Player take Leah down the “evil” route during “Broken Code”
• In the Original Story: Patrick will not walk to the Player to talk to them about his VR brahmbat training if the Player betrayed him at any point
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could cause the Debug Log to be spammed with events that are part of Rachael’s initial confrontation with Patrick
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could cause the Player to see multiple Achievement pop-ups for the “Caught in the Act” Achievement
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that would cause Leah to not punch towards the Spray Paint Can in the upstairs art room closet during “Snake in the Grass”
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could cause NPCs to get stuck in the Garage if Leah and Madison/Lety’s Garage-based scenes occurred in close proximity
• In the Original Story: Fixed another issue that could cause Leah to approach Lety for their “Just in the Kick of Time” conversation while in the middle of Leah’s new 0.15 content
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that was preventing a specific Lety-Brittney BGC exchange from ever occurring
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could prevent the Player from earning “Flash” score with Katherine in certain circumstances
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could allow the Player to earn “Flash” score with Katherine by flashing the same NPC more than once
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that would allow the Player to continue with Katherine’s content even if they had not flashed all NPCs at the party (Lety and Vickie excluded)
• In the Original Story: The Player will now hit a bit harder and take a little more damage as part of the “evil”/Ronin finale of “Broken Code”, should they get “trained”/enraged by Leah
• In the Original Story: Frank, due to being terrified by Leah toward the finale of the “evil”/Ronin finale of “Broken Code”, will be slightly weaker until “Broken Code” is Completed or Failed, even moreso if he witnesses the Player’s descent into Rage…
• In the Original Story: Certain food items from the fridge can now be eaten for additional Combat Stat increases, and health restoration. Remember that these may or may not be needed for use in other content!
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could cause the “Signs of Affection” Opportunity to become stuck, if the Player also had “Road to Redemption” active at the same time
• In the Original Story: Cleaned up a redundant Derek hint response about getting closer to Ashley
• In the Original Story: Drunk Lety will try to avoid bothering the Player about starting the “Try Anything Once” opportunity if the Player is in combat or about to be in combat
• In the Original Story: Fixed a couple humiliating typos in one of Rachael’s BGC’s. This is why we don’t have localization for your language…we can’t even use our own correctly
• In the Original Story: Fixed another issue that could allow Leah to walk to meet up with Lety for their “Just in the Kick of Time”, even if Leah was hunting for the snake in the Art Room with the Player
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could cause Katherine to ask Stephanie to sing to her, and Stephanie to sing back in reply, even if Stephanie was nowhere near the downstairs bathroom during “Meltdown”
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could cause Lety to repeatedly walk towards the Player, if an older save was loaded. PERSONAL SPACE, LETY. PERSONAL. SPACE.
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could cause Ashley’s “Drunk and Disorderly” to break after the finale fight
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could cause eating a certain item to compromise Katherine’s positioning, permanently
• In the Original Story: Katherine will no longer wait around forever for the Player to get intimate with her. Since she hates her boyfriend so much, however, she will still be willing to give the Player a shot even if he was slow in tending to her needs. What honor. Such loyalty.
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could cause Patrick to repeatedly deliver “VR hint” dialogue after Leah’s Garage Search in “Snake in the Grass”
• In the Original Story: Fixed another issue with Leah/Lety content clashing towards the end of the yard/perimeter search in “Snake in the Grass”
• In the Original Story: Amy won’t be as likely to trigger her toe stub dialogue while Ashley is confronting Madison during Ashley’s “Drunk and Disorderly”
• In the Original Story: Rachael won’t be as likely to confront Patrick about his website while Ashley is confronting Madison during Ashley’s “Drunk and Disorderly”
• In the Original Story: Fixed a few issues that remained in regards to Leah-Lety “Just in the Kick of Time placement and movement event timing, as well as availability of certain Leah dialogue responses right before Leah and Lety’s conversation starts
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue that could cause game message spam to occur if the Player was far away from Leah and Lety while they were waiting to talk
• In the Original Story: Fixed an issue caused by yesterday’s (10/14) Katherine master bedroom “wait behavior” change that could result in her not having her phone or glasses properly mounted or enabled
• In the Original Story: There is now an apology response available so that the Player can recover from Untying Ashley’s top AFTER having been nice to her all game and completed “Signs of Affection” from Vickie. But pursuing the actual “make up” part with Ashley in this situation won’t require the Blue Flower or even be completable depending on your other previous choices…
• In the Original Story: Fixed an incorrect criteria in an “apologize to Ashley” line that was preventing the Player from receiving a small social bonus with Ashley
• In the Original Story: After throwing beer on Madison, Ashley wills till try to walk to the Player, but only if she is not occupied with other content the Player has involved her with, if the Player is not in combat, etc. This will prevent her from disappearing during moments of the “Family Time” opportunity, or bothering the Player mid-fight against Frank, and more annoying crap
• In the Original Story: Addressed an issue which could cause Madison to approach the Player about her Sky Animal crap at inopportune times
• In the Original Story: Certain “approach the Player and bother them” or “HEY PLAYER LOOK AT WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!” events like Amy’s “Toe Stub” moment with Steph are now delayed by a brief universal time buffer, to prevent them from all happening at once quite as often
• In the Original Story: Ashley will no longer react to the Player’s amazing, shirtless body if she is in the middle of “Family Time” with Patrick