TLS 0.53.0 Release (Patreon)

EDIT: New 0.53.1 with a whole lot of polishing. If anyone wants to give feedback on the new orc balance, feel free, but I'm mainly just putting out a cleaner version for new players or replayers.

Link: https://mega.nz/file/70lDSDpL#hIIn2BuuHpGjaCKvvMqIjzSQg7JBxjbC1W2ayP0M_Hc 

TLS 0.53.1

 - Significant polishing, minor bugfixing.

 - Balance of the orc tournament has become several steps more difficult.

 - Balance of the gauntlet has changed: one piece has become more forgiving, one research option now has an effect, overly simple option removed.

ORIGINAL POST:

I tried something new this release, a reorganization to attempt to make the final stretch less exhausting. Well, it was also a way to use a chaotic development period effectively.

Essentially, I tried to make the parts that require the most testing first, so that they got more testing throughout and didn't feel rushed at the end. That sort of worked... but it also meant I was writing/scripting new events barely an hour ago, instead of a final day of just making sure everything was working smoothly. It was... also stressful, just in a different way. =/

So I don't know. Hopefully it will all be in decent shape. Maybe it will be a fatally crashing mess of typos and the whole middle part is a toaster oven repair manual I copied in by accident. As always, keep saves before content that's in flux.

Link: https://mega.nz/file/utdBRACA#OqLoNFTJ64pd5OzuQfiurGe6lJLjwinRJjRGlaaazvU 

RTP: https://mega.nz/file/XsFXVAIb#lqV3b6Z0T3RH8tZZyAAxikHLdH1PHaxD-Vjj8o7bAnA 

TLS 0.53.0

 - Big new section covering the first half of the Gathering.

 - 2 new scenes

 - Added a notification after Chapter 1 to forestall potential confusion over illustrations.

 - 9 new illustrated scenes: Comforting Simon, Janine's Wedding, Orcent Orgy, Robin BJ, Tertia TF, Uyae in Heat, Varia Standing, Varia TF, Wynn Binding

Anyway, I hope that all this has brought you an update you enjoy! I think it should be mostly stable and feel like it includes a whole lot of different elements. This is one of those I worry some players will blow through quickly, as there's not a lot of combat, but it has quite a bit of content packed in there.

I'm first interested in whether or not the update is stable and if anything major got missed, of course. Beyond that, I hope to get this update polished up so that I can focus on the second half of the Gathering.

Meanwhile, we have news that may be of significant interest to many of you: the TLS wiki is going to be moving. Please check out Decanter's post about it if you use or contribute to the wiki.