Haremon 0.27 (Patreon)

Hi everyone! August's build is ready for download. It's focused on quality-of-life improvements, some miscellaneous new features, and some new voice acting.

C-cup patrons can download the build here!  
DD-cup patrons can download the CG archive and MP3 soundtrack here!  
E-cup patrons can download the build with debug console access here!

As I mentioned last month, due to most of our effort going to Chapter 3 right now, new builds are probably going to be a bit light on new content until that's finished. If this is a problem, please feel free to pause your pledge for a while. The current world situation continues to slow down much of our progress, especially with a team spread across the globe; but rest assured that my effort is going into making the next big story update happen as soon as possible!

As always, thanks so much for your support! Read on for a full changelog.

CHANGELOG (Alpha 0.27)

Major additions

• Added in-battle voice lines for Aqua! She's voiced by Miss Moonified.
• Added more voice acting for Ash (the cerberus), including interactions in the dungeon, bedroom, and more.
• Added a new feature: boss rematches. After completing the "Tech Support" quest, you can find rare VR modules called "BMs" (Battle Modules), which you can use with the headset at Laurel's lab to re-fight bosses. Currently, you can obtain a BM in each Temple after defeating the related boss. (They're 3-star treasures, so you'll need to use the Lucky Bell, the Lucky dungeon skill, or find a locked 2-star chest.) There may also be a couple secret modules out there somewhere...
• Added a "Notes" app. This app stores the info from all "notes" items you've obtained, even if you've returned those items to the professor. NOTE: importing a save *should* automatically unlock the notes you've obtained already, but may not work on older saves.
• Added a "BlackBook" app. This app stores all the personal info you've obtained on all your Haremon and NPCs. (For the sake of consistency, that info is no longer displayed in the Haremon app.)
• Added a "Rush" feature to battles. By pressing L3 (controller) or CTRL (keyboard), you can toggle Rush. This drastically speeds up the speed of battle, and also skips all button prompts. To compensate for the skipped prompts, you'll get a constant 10% prompt modifier (the same as getting "OK" on every button prompt).
• Re-implemented the saving and loading of all text messages. Since the texts are actually "reconstructed" rather than "saved", this took forever to get working and is surprisingly a pretty complex system, so please report and problems you encounter with it. (Your text messages may be reordered on load... I ran out of time to figure out why.)
• Added 7 new types of panties, each of which is exclusive to a particular dungeon. They're all found on 2-star treasure tiles, and can all be upgraded.

Minor additions/changes

• When giving a gift in the bedroom, you'll now see an icon representing the girl's opinion of that type of item, as long as you've discovered that info.
• Added a unique line of text for each Haremon when they give you their Lover item.
• You can now click and drag the scrollbars in the Credits, Load/Save, and Items apps, as well as the dialogue backlog. Also added a scrollbar to the Gallery.
• You can now check the Haremon app in battle by selecting Tactics > Party.
• Added a new technique to Circe's initial moveset: Trash Talk. It lowers a target's evasion and accuracy. (Unfortunately, it seems importing a save will not add this to her existing moveset.)
• Edible panties now recover a set 3 HP per turn (5 if upgraded). This benefits Haremon with lower max HP.
• Added voice clips to many Chance Wheel vignettes.
• Wishing for Luck at the wishing well now affects Chance tiles in addition to treasure tiles.
• Stats on the Haremon app are now colored blue if enhanced by equipped panties, and red if lowered.
• Dark Panties and Dark Panties + have had their effectiveness doubled.
• Changed manipulation drops for golden enemies.
• Added a tutorial to the battle Help menu: "Fast-forward and Rush"
• Added a "current panties" tooltip when equipping panties from the bag
• Menu choices in the restaurant are now shuffled on each visit
• Reordered the apps on the phone and reworked some app icons slightly. Also renamed the Nile app because I don't think anybody got the joke anyway.
• Deleted some unused graphics and reorganized the existing graphics into better groups, which is mostly for my benefit but *may* slightly improve performance in some areas. 
• Added a secret item. It can only be obtained through crafting, and is used in battle.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash that could happen if you loaded a save with certain unread texts.
• Fixed a crash when hitting "Z" on the crafting screen to select an ingredient when there's no valid ingredients.
• Fixed a bug where replaying a bonding scene from outside a dungeon could cause you to enter a dungeon.
• Fixed a bug where a girl's gift preferences could overlap other text.
• Fixed a bug where certain unread texts would appear with a null sender when loading a game.
• Fixed a bug where Miruku's post-H text message couldn't be received.
• Fixed a bug where VN effects on the dungeon board were drawn behind actors instead of in front.
• Replaying a Bonding scene in town no longer causes an autosave.
• Fixed a small error with an accented character not displaying correctly.

Hotfix 0.27.0.2

• Fixed a crash when loading the game with unread text messages (still working on other messaging-related issues)
• Fixed a bug where tagging out could cause the Haremon app to be replaced by the Tag Out screen outside of battle
• Fixed a crash that could happen when equipping/using items under certain circumstances 

 Hotfix 0.27.0.3

•  Fixed several more issues in the text message system that were causing crashes

That's all, folks!