Jun 30

CUSTOM ORDER MAID 3D2 It's a Night Magic - S-court

Thank you for your continued support of CUSTOM ORDER MAID 3D2 It's a Night Magic.
Here are the DLC planned for release in July 2024.
This month, we have a value pack and a personality compatibility pack for X1.

▼7/11 (Thu) CUSTOM ORDER MAID 3D2 It's a Night Magic Just Around the Summer ALL in ONE Pack

This DLC includes the following content.
There’s lots to enjoy, including breezy, summery hairstyles and dances.

【Costume】
*Casual Hoodie Set
*Zip Hoodie Set
*Sweater Vest Uniform Set

【Hair】
-Bangs
*Adventurer Bangs
*Beautiful Asymmetry
*Drop Down

-Back Hair
*Adventurer Hair
*Very Low Ponytail Tied
*Tight Tied-Back Hair

-Hair extentions
*Low Mini Ponytail

【Events】
Heroine type: Muku
*A woman just for you
*Just with the mouth

Heroine type: Majime
*Going crazy when watched
*The secret is in the dream

Heroine type: Rindere
*Getting out of a rut
*One-day pass

【Dance】
*Sun☆Shine☆Summer-ver. nao
*Sun☆Shine☆Summer-ver. Sayaka Sasaki
*Sun☆Shine☆Summer-ver. Aki Misato

▼7/25 (Thu) CUSTOM ORDER MAID 3D2 + X1 +Vol.01

We released the huge expansion pack X1 on Steam last month, and now we’ve got compatibility for 5 more personalities!
You’ll be able to take these 5 maids on a honeymoon for the first time:

・Quiet and Loves to be Pampered Bookworm
・Naturally Sadistic Sweet Little Devil
・Sexy and Ladylike Woman
・Guarded, Blunt Girl
・Overbearing Preppy Girl Maid

*You must have installed the corresponding Personality Packs to enjoy this content.

We’ll have more information for you closer to release!
Can’t wait until then?
Check out our official homepage for more info!

That's all for July.
Our staff are continuing to pour themselves into development, and we have more major titles being translated, so check back here for more info!
We hope you continue to enjoy your life as the master of an Empire Club.

Jun 30

CUSTOM ORDER MAID 3D2 Character EX Pack Gyaru RELEASED

CUSTOM ORDER MAID 3D2 It's a Night Magic - S-court

We apologize for the delay in the release due to the holdup in the Steam review process.
CUSTOM ORDER MAID 3D2 Character EX Pack Gyaru is finally here!

Now you’ll be able to play the yotogi and H-events you enjoyed with Muku, Majime, and Rindere with Gyaru as well.

～What Kind of Girl is Gyaru?～
Having fun is her motto, and she strives to treasure every moment: that's Gyaru. She's the type to act first and think later because if things don't go her way, she can try something else then. Like a typhoon, she constantly gets other people wrapped up in her antics. She's a free spirit who knows what she likes and what she doesn't, and she can't bring herself to do anything she doesn't want to. While she's not the smartest girl around, she's an admirable person who loves seeing others smile and brightens every room she's in.

・1 new Normal & High-poly body maid outfit!
・1 new Normal & High-poly body lingerie set!
・1 new Normal & High-poly body hairstyle!
・Over 70 playable yotogi skills!
・2 types of New Yotogi events!
・4 different branches to explore between the 2 New yotogi events!
・Hiring interview events, affection increase events, stat increase events, and plenty more opportunities for Master to talk to Gyaru!
・Conversation events with Muku, Majime, and Rindere are also included!

Jun 30

OUTBRK: Development Outlook (June 2024)

OUTBRK - MOARNial

Hello chasers! OUTBRK RELEASED ! Huge newsletter to come, tighten your seatbelt, we're dropping a lot of infos about what we did to prepare the launch, how the launch went, and how we reacted to the feedback and issues.

PREPARING FOR LAUNCH

During June alone, we:

Integrated 8 new weather scenarios.
Rigged all commercial buildings and small props for destruction.
Created a massive technical optimisation solution of map assets management to increase performance when driving.
Massive town polish pass on all southern cities (Saint John, Fort City, Bridgetown, Southbay, Eagle Cliff)
Updated world map and minimap assets.
Added tornado sirens in all towns.
Fixed an issue on lower end PCs with terrains sometimes not loading correctly and leaving big holes in the map.
Fixed an issue requiring players to restart their game client between matches to join another match.
Integrated a system to prevent players not getting the same scenario too often in a row.
Integrated new loading screen digital art.
HUUUUUGE Day 1 patch following Closed Beta Testing https://steamcommunity.com/app/1107320/eventcomments/4411920671410569399/

LAUNCHING OUTBRK

It’s 2am on June 28, we’re fixing critical bugs that were found during closed beta, we’re moving servers from the testing environment to the live environment and realized our servers still had a hard limit on them that would have prevented MOST players to connect and we sent our request to increase that limit just in time, we’re rendering the final version of the gameplay trailer, we’re all super tired of the crazy last few weeks of pre-release crunch to get everything sorted to be ready to press the big LAUNCH button on steam at 10am EDT.

We released the gameplay trailer ! Watch it here :
https://youtu.be/VG1Lh6HJqi8?si=dfIbD13DloEJ5Tn7

Then we pressed launch, and then… SERVER ISSUES! YIKES. FPS ISSUES! YIKES.
We posted this announcement as fast as possible https://steamcommunity.com/app/1107320/eventcomments/4411920671412424104/

Here is what happened:

SERVER STUFF

Servers took some time to warm up and scale so it took time to identify the real issues that were preventing the players from joining.
We had different issues on NA and EU, further complicating our investigating process.
Once we identified the actual issues with matchmaking we got to work on hotfixes.

FPS STUFF

We are well aware about the fps issues with our new cloud technology and we are working on it, that being said, we released the game with the “fantastic” graphic preset by default for everybody so that really hurts the player’s experience with the game when they first launched it.
We failed to explain what we’re trying to do with our cloud technology to the average gamer, people see the average look of the game, which is very indie we know, and compare the performance with AAA titles. All our weather is a completely unique technology made for OUTBRK and it’s something that has never been done before. We’re rendering real weather data accurately, this is absolutely out of scope for any video game usually. The technology is brand new, we made it work for OUTBRK at the very end of the development cycle, right before we launched Early Access, there is a lot of work remaining still, for the people that follow our Trello work board, it’s everything under the Backlog - Catalyst section.
Part of this same point, we have some settings to mitigate some of the cloud fps issues in the graphical settings, such as Cloud Downsampling, but this is not really understood by players since it’s not a setting usually found in games. People think they have to play on low with a high end computer to run the game, when in fact they just have to up their Cloud Downsampling a tiny bit.

The game launched to MOSTLY NEGATIVE (aouch) reviews on steam, understandably so, we got to work non stop all day to get hotfixes ready as fast as possible.

It’s now June 28 at 23h45, we’re absolutely dead tired, we just want to catch some sleep and get back to work, but we forced ourselves to celebrate the launch of OUTBRK on release day even if it didn’t feel like a victory lap, otherwise we would never have.

OUR REACTION TO THE FEEDBACK

Let’s not kid ourselves, launching a multiplayer game is hard as hell. If AAA games have server issues at launch, we expected something would go wrong too, no matter how much we would prepare to some extent. However, being in the driver seat is another experience entirely. Having to work on critical bug fixes at the same time as we have to answer to the community is an incredible amount of pressure. Huuuuge shout out to our moderation team on Discord and Steam and our lead tester WalkOverYou that handled the bug reports coming in MASS, gave swift answers to the people getting stuck, and gave workarounds to players. Really an incredible support team that did a fantastic job under the huge amount of pressure that is release day.
We did our best to keep our cool and focus on what we do best, fix bugs. We went in “war room mode” tackled urgent issues, got a first patch out addressing critical issues, and behold, it worked! We released PATCH 0.1.571 and servers stabilized dramatically and new players now have much better FPS getting in the game.

Full patch notes here : https://steamcommunity.com/app/1107320/eventcomments/4411920838128198787/

NEXT STEPS

We’re currently actively working on a new series of bug fixes and improvements for a new hotfix patch that should release shortly. We have a LOT of work ahead of us, but we already started working on important post launch features such as the party system, more weather scenarios, and critical continuous FPS improvements.

That's all for this development update ! Thanks for all your support, consider leaving a review on the steam store to reach more potential future chasers ! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1107320/OUTBRK/

Till next time,
-The OUTBRK Team