Update Tomorrow! || Pause on Stacy's Story (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

Got a few details to share about Beta 0.3!  Mostly good news but one planned piece of content won't be getting completed just yet.

== Beta 0.3 Release ==

For the most part, everything planned for Beta 0.3 is still happening and I'm happy to announce the release date for $5+ ZR2 Patrons is tomorrow, July 23rd (July 24th for some based on timezones)

Jenny is getting some early story content that serves as the main 'focus' for this build.  Additionally, 2 new women are able to be rescued, 3 new tools are craftable, and The Grid is getting 3 (kinda 4?) new constructions to build! 

However, while Stacy, one of the new characters in Beta 0.3, has a new animated NSFW scene, I've decided to pause her early questline which I'll explain below if you're interested-

== Stacy & Diner Facility ==

Stacy is the first facility owner in ZR2 which means she'll operate her own building in The Grid: in this case, a diner.  

The purpose of her diner is to provide a place to receive temporary and possibly permanent stat boosts (milkshakes) and occasionally find other residents enjoying a refreshing shake but these features of the facility aren't planned until a future update.

Originally, Stacy was going to have a pretty standard questline like the other women but I realized, not integrating her quests WITH the facility's offerings seems like a wasted opportunity and unfitting for her story.  

Rather than cram in a generic start to her content, I'm going to wait until I have enough proper time to get the diner's mechanics up & running first.  Then I can build Stacy's questline on top of the diner's features.  Beta 0.4 is when I hope to have this feature figured out & implemented.

However, since I've already teased Stacy's new scene, I'm still going to include the animation in this update!  So if you want to see it, you can.  But, if you want to wait until the context of the scene adds up (with dialogue) then you can wait as it's optional currently.

Hopefully I explained everything clearly.  Stacy's planned content in 0.3 was pretty minimal so the bulk of the update is still continuing as planned!

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(Weird image crop is because I can't post NSFW pics on public posts and Stacy's design is a bit much)

After 4 long months, I'm more than ready to get this build out to everyone!

Thank you all so much for your support and I will see you tomorrow with the $5+ Patron release of Beta 0.3!