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Hello everyone, this is Agang,

To be honest, I’ve never felt this exhausted from working on an update before. We faced many challenges during the development of this update, from endless bugs caused by changes to the underlying code to systematic text modifications and storyline reordering. At some moments, I even started to wonder if we really needed to do all of this. We could have just kept making new scenes without making any changes to the system or addressing the issues in the existing storylines.

But that was not an option. We can't tolerate a half-hearted or complacent attitude in making updates. We started this journey out of passion, and we must continue it with the same enthusiasm. We will always do our very best to bring you a better PHOENIXES.

This is the 11th version of PHOENIXES and a new beginning for the game. Hmmm… perhaps you can even consider v11 as the first version of PHOENIXES 2.0. We hope this update will lay a solid foundation for the future development of PHOENIXES.

As I mentioned in previous posts, in v11, your old saves will no longer be usable. We’ve added and changed so many things to the game that made it impossible to be compatible with old saves. You’ll need to start a new game in v11, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Now, let’s see what we’ve prepared for you:

• Complete reworked the free-roaming system and map UI

  Now, locations on the map are no longer just for show. You can actually click on a location to open a menu of available actions, such as scavenging, doing paperwork, raising girls' love levels, or even triggering special side stories.

  And of course, you can still keep the old habits and raise girls' love levels through bubble events above locations.

  We’ll continue to add more interesting actions on the map in future updates.

    

• Side storylines

  I have some ideas for erotic scenes that don’t quite fit in the main storyline and should have some independent plot space for expansion. So in this update, we introduced the concept of ‘side storylines.’ These side stories will allow you to learn more about your girls from new angles. The main scenes of a side storyline will gradually unlock as the girl’s love level increases. In v11, we’ve created side storylines for Heather, Sorring, and Osonia, with Heather’s and Sorring’s being quite complete (since their love level is already high).

  We aim to add at least one side storyline for every girl in future updates.

  Side storylines are triggered by special actions that appear at specific times in locations. Detailed information is recorded in the Status screen, so you don’t need to worry about missing them.

  

• Main storyline

  I got some feedback from time to time about some girls' relationships with the MC heating up too quickly, and I do acknowledge this issue. To make sure we had enough new erotic scenes in each update, we had to advance some girls' stories fast so they could provide more and more erotic scenes for us.

  And now it’s time to slow down and readjust the whole story. In this update, we didn’t advance any girl's main storyline; they remain where they left off in v10. However, we’ve inserted many new scenes into the girls’ existing stories to flesh out the characters and make things less abrupt.

  Heather, Sorring, Osonia, Alnilam, Juliana, Molly, and Cassy all have new scenes more or less.

• New function for Novella’s office

  Since v2, we haven’t added any new events to Novella’s office because I couldn’t think of any erotic content that needed to happen there. In fact, creating some erotic content in just a short, repeatable event seemed pointless as well. So, in v11, we changed the role of this room and rewrote the events there. It’s no longer just a trigger for uneventful erotic short events. Now the events happening in this room will help flesh out the club members’ characters better.

   

• A detailed tutorial page

  After making so many changes to the game system, some guidance might be necessary.

   

• New club upgrades

  In v11, your initial AP limit will only be 1, but you can gradually increase it to 3 through club upgrades.

• Reworked over 200 poorly-performing old images

  Most of them are relics from the v0.1 era. After this huge redo, over 90% of the old images from v0.1 have been replaced with better versions. We will continue to redo more poorly-performing old images in future updates.

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• Revised plots

  We’ve systematically modified some plot texts to make the early MC more… likable.

• Rewritten biographies for the girls

  We were unsatisfied with the biographies added in the last version because they only retold the plot you’ve already experienced without adding more information about the girls.

  In this update, we’ve completely rewritten all the biographies. Now these bios should help you understand your girls better.