Jul 17, 2019

House Party - hank

The time has come...House Party 0.14.4 is HERE!

For those of you who haven’t heard, 0.14.4 is centered around LetyDoesStuff, who was the winner of our “Be in the Game” contest along with the Game Grumps. We worked really closely with Lety to tell an awesome, fully-fleshed story that adds a crap-load of new content.

Expect hundreds and hundreds of new dialogues split between 10 characters, several new interactive items, a UI redesign (that looks sharp as shit), and new animations--both in and out of the bedroom.

One other awesome addition to this update is that saves between versions of House Party will no longer be deleted, meaning you can load and continue your previous playthroughs. However, for the most stable experience, and to gain future Steam Achievements, a new save is still recommended.

And to that end... HUZZAH! Steam Achievements are working again! Rejoice, you completionist weirdos!

Seriously, we’re real damn proud of this new House Party chapter. For a full list of changes and additions, check out our changelog below. If you’ve got questions or feedback, you can find us at the usual spots--Discord, Official Forum, or Steam boards!

Alright, it’s Miller Time. Enjoy this new content drop while we take a breath. Then, party people, it’s right back to working on Leah’s upcoming story!

-Eek Team

P.S. For our German and Spanish players, translations for this newest update are coming soon. We’ll post an update when they’re added.

CHANGELOG

Added new character: Lety
Implemented new story, quests, and achievements for Lety
New updated “selfie” pictures for Madison’s phone
Lighting improvements and color corrections
All sex animations are now synced better
Merged the thought bubble and system messages into one compact HUD
Added icons to distinguish thoughts from system messages
Lighting tweaks and adjustments
Implemented three new sex positions: Wall Sex, Wall Sex 2, and Wall Sex 3
Added front yard and navigation areas for NPCs
Player can now grope male chests
Added talking fish with animations
Added Scorpion Tequila bottle
Added Lety to the main menu
Added Chili Pepper Bottle
Added a new IK animation where NPCs will open doors before walking through them instead of the awkward “bump into the door and step backwards” mechanic
Revamped disclaimer screen
Revamped credits screen
Added Whizbanger Firecracker Poppers box
Added Popper model
Added Popper explosion effect + SFX
Added new front door
Added graphics to throw meter
Added (upstairs) laptop login screen and desktop
New design for thought bubbles
Condensed dialog UI
Added BGC UI
Added Leah’s sound effects
Tweaked various animations
Fixed offset on narrator UI
Painkillers can now be grabbed
Tweaked and enhanced navigation system
Tweaked and enhanced combat system
Tweaked and enhanced lighting and post processing
You can now have up to 69 save games. Heh.
NPCs can no longer be shoved into closets and left for dead
Adjusted some areas of the map so NPCs can’t get stuck in select areas
Removed lamp colliders on stairs
Fixed an issue with non-important move targets getting set as important when an NPC runs into a locked door
MakingOut can now always be started regardless of orgasm state
Sexual acts and roles that do not increase the orgasm meter now cool it down
Starting a sexual act no longer cuts off main dialogues
Fixed Madison LOD2 shirt clipping with her body
Tweaked Lety’s reflectiveness
Fixed Lety’s eyelids clipping and improved skinning shirt right shoulder
Tweaked Amy’s hair highlights
Fixed main menu Lety clothing disappearing
Improved Ashley’s hair, less clipping
Tweaked the automatic closing of the Fridge Door: will now only automatically close when the player is too far away or on a different floor for more than approximately 12 seconds
NPCs will now not be as likely to choose a new Roaming ChangeLocation object within the same room, most notably in the larger rooms like Madison’s/Master Bedroom, and the Living Room-Dining Room-Kitchen area
The Item command’s “itemfunction list” functionality will no longer list items for which itemfunctions are not enabled/cannot be used
The Item command’s “itemfunction list” functionality will no longer duplicate list entries, and the formatting of the list has been cleaned up slightly
Added the CharFunc console command in order to allow testing/use of Character Functions
Fixed an issue with the CharInfo command that was preventing the correct distance to a character’s closest movetarget from being displayed correctly
Added the DontReleasePoseAfterSex state, which will prevent characters from automatically releasing their pose the moment an intimacy act is ended
Changes to the help and example feedback text of the Achievements console command, to better reflect the potentially disastrous consequences of using it correctly
Fixed the height of a handful of outside move targets, which was causing characters to float if they were used as sex spots
Other very minor tweaks to move target or sex spot heights
Added two wall sex spots in the Compubrah environment/DongVR FUCKDOME V3.Blazeit
Very, very slightly relaxed a few specific character limitations when saving a game
Fixed an issue with NPCs trying to navigate to items that the player may have picked up or put in his inventoty
Fixed an issue with Display messages sometimes breaking the radial menu
Added low level “headlight” light to camera for better viewing in dark areas
Aligned the grab hand for a few items around the house that were not implemented yet
Increased the camera speed for transitioning to sex acts
Orgasm meter now “cools down” during making out
Fixed an issue with items sometimes being able to fall through the floor
Loading games now preserve NPC movetargets more gracefully
AllowLocation and ProhibitLocation can no longer have duplicate items added to them
Warping now takes precidence over Action Items
NPCs can no longer be “distracted” when making out
Fix for Gamma slider not working correctly
Lowered fence colliders so players can throw items outside the fence
Fixed an issue where characters wouldn’t swing if they were too close to each other in combat
NPCs will no longer randomly pick another NPC as a roaming target if that NPC is currently headed towards a hot tub seat. Should help mitigate seeing NPCs randomly standing knee-deep in the hot tub
Added the ForcedToDance state, which will allow characters to dance while away from a music source. This new and non-consensual (bool false MEANS FALSE DAMMIT) form of dancing can only be interrupted by movement-related events, intimacy, and a few other story-driven events
Fixed an issue where characters could receive PassOut events when they were already passed out
Added a system to prevent NPCs from being able to get stuck anywhere on the map. This should now auto-correct itself in most cases
Characters will no longer roam to NPCs in the hot tub, which would cause them to stand around the hot tub clothed
Characters should no longer be able to lock NPCs in the closet in Ashley’s room
Characters no longer dance if they are not in the same room as the speaker
Characters now react to WalkTo and ChangeLocation events much more quickly
Untagged the armchairs as movetargets. This was causing NPCs to walk into them until they were issued another directive
NPCs can no longer have their orgasm meter go past 100 while in sixty-nine position
Fixed Lety’s shirt/jacket clipping and transparency issue in doggie style
Fixed Lety jacket disappearing from a distance
Shrunk several colliders associated with the No Loitering system to further prevent accidental changelocations. NPCs will also no longer count as “Loitering” if they are currently being groped, currently speaking, currently posing, or have an inaccessible/queued mandatory target they are trying to reach.
Added CharacterFunction mechanic. Will function similarly to Interactive Item ItemFunctions, but are triggered from Characters rather than Items
Fixed an issue that could cause NPCs to select a non-roaming-enabled Action Item, such as the Toilet(s) if they were invited to hang with another NPC and the Action Item in question was in range of the hangout spot
Slightly increased verbosity, viscosity, duplicity, and luminosity of logging for NPC changes of location when they are invited to hang out with a BFF
Minor tweaks to Debug Log formatting to prevent text from being cut off
NPCs that have been renamed in the CSC will now show their customized name over their Orgasm meter when having filthy relations with the Player
Addressed an issue that could cause collisions against characters and ragdolls for some items to not be re-enabled properly after being Unmounted
Addressed an issue that could cause collisions against characters and ragdolls for some items to bug out and be ignored after being thrown or dropped by the “grab hand”
Characters no longer play conversational animations when they are standing, posed, and have an item mounted to either of their hands
Added Game Menu option for Chatter Subtitles
Tweaked and polished door-opening mechanics
Aligned the grab-hand for new items
Added measures to prevent items from being lost and characters getting stuck trying to navigate to items off the navigable area
Fixed an issue with synchronization between the two speakers
Updated and added several new animations
Fixed some issues with the intro timing before input becomes available to the user
Fixed an issue where NPCs would not navigate through a door unless they were on camera
Improvements on getting on and off the bed
Added DoesNotUseIKToOpenDoors NPC Property
Fixed weird shine effect on the wrong side of the gazebo
Fixed Lety wearing double jackets in game and main menu
Fixed an issue with non-important move-targets being saved as important after loading a save game
Fixed an issue with NPCs still having an “In Combat” flag after they’ve been knocked out
Fixed some issues with moving between different sex positions with different NPCs
Fixed an issue that could cause a character being warped to another character to get stuck on surrounding geometry
Slightly modified default (non-scripted) reactions to gropes
Improved and general quality of life enhancements to the CSC export system
NPCs now move to important move-targets more promptly
Updated navigation AI to consider items that may be being held by the player or in the player’s inventory
Fixed an issue with the CharInfo command that could prevent it from showing a character’s list of inaccessible mandatory targets
Charinfo command will now also show combat-related information
CSC users will no longer be prompted to choose a 2nd character when selecting the End or StartMasturbation sexual acts within an intimacy event, as a 2nd character is not needed for these choices
The Debug Log and CSC will no longer attempt to show a 2nd character when displaying event name of the Intimacy StartMasturbation and End sex events
Added an event usable by Story Creators that opens the radial menu for an NPC or item without the Player having to directly interact with the target
Updated Pose console command to work with some newly added poses
The Debug Window will no longer show a duplicate event entry when a system warning, error, or exception occurs. System issues will now properly be timestamped and logged in the Debug Window
The Debug Log will now also log System Warnings
The WhereIs console command has been changed to the CharInfo console command. It now shows the same info as the “WhereIs” command did, but also queued Mandatory move targets, if a pose is being used, if an NPC has an intimacy partner, and additional real-time info about the specified character
Debug Logs will now be saved automatically when quitting to the main menu, restarting a game, or loading a game from the in-game ESC menu
Added in new SendEvent game event that will animate a character to turn towards and then reach for an item (best used with items at knee height or lower)
Fixed issues that were preventing beer pong practice from working as intended with the newly revamped Grab functionality and/or preventing the Player’s practice score from appearing
Added new global Item Function: AddPhysicsRigidBody, which will allow story creators to make any item “physics enabled” (can be pushed, etc.) but not necessarily grabbable
Fixed an issue where the inventory no longer displayed properly after a combat event
Added door sounds that were missing from some doors
Fixed an issue with some of Ashley’s intimacy sounds being too queit
NPCs are now allowed to freely roam and changelocations while they are speaking a main dialogue if the dialogue is targeted at themselves
Optimized and improved the Lighting Manager for better performance
Added new animations for picking items up off the ground with either hand
Fixed an issue where intimacy sounds could sometimes play after an act has finished
In the Original Story: Rachael and Patrick’s fight (intro to “Patty’s Striking Resemblance”) and associated dialogue sequence will not play out while the Player is enjoying a thorough, thorough stroking by Vickie in the Hot Tub
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause redundant events to occur if the Player tried to take the Thermos while Frank was knocked out
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could allow a “Scavenger Hunt” related response to continue appearing for Amy, even if the Player had voluntarily opted out of the Hunt by starting “Chasing Amy”
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Vickie’s roaming to remain disabled if the Player opted out of her first Hot Tub “test”
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Derek to become unavailable for Madison’s Art Show (during “The Muse”) if certain events within “Derek Smash!” were performed at inopportune times
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: fixed an issue that could cause Vickie to initiate intimacy with the Player in very unintended, very compromising spots
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: minor miscellaneous event timing/polishing tweaks
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: disabled a handful of items that should have been cleaned up after Madison’s party
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: fixed an issue that could cause duplicate dialogues to appear when Vickie is waiting for the Player in Ashley’s room, prior to giving the Player the phone or finding the stashbox key
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: fixed an issue that could cause a temporary loss of intimacy options if the Player saved a game during Vickie’s “cuddle break” and loaded back into it
In Date Night With Brittney: fixed a handful of issues related to Game Over event handling
In Date Night With Brittney: fixed a few instances where the Player being out of vision of Brittney would cause her to walk toward the Player, putting her in, frankly, ludicrous positions
In Date Night With Brittney: fixed an issue that could cause Brittney to exit the bathroom while naked, become “stuck”, and repeatedly warp the Player to Frank’s chair in a never ending cycle of disappointment and misery
In Date Night With Brittney: disabled a number of newer items to prevent them from being visible in “Brittney’s house that is no shape way or form Madison’s house so do not even fucking ask us about it”
In Date Night With Brittney: fixed an issue that could cause the Player to encounter a blank dialogue with Brittney that essentially “froze” their current playthrough
In Date Night With Brittney: fixed an issue that could cause incorrect narration messages to appear if the Player ate Brittney’s food but did not protect their tummy tum tum
In Date Night With Brittney: numerous small fixes to intimacy event timing and related radial option issues
In Date Night With Brittney: fixed an issue where the Flower item would not show an inspect text
In Date Night With Brittney: fixed an issue that would prevent Brittney from being properly interactable if the Player had saved and loaded a game immediately prior to her master bedroom intimacy scene
In Date Night With Brittney: fixed an issue that could cause Brittney to kneel and simply look at the Player after he approached her, rather than get all oral on his junk
In Date Night With Brittney: fixed an issue that could cause Patrick to be out of place after turning off the speaker in the living room
In Date Night With Brittney: fixed a handful of other spots where save/loading of games could cause continuity/flexibility/fuckability/suckability/stability issues
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Ashley to be out of place for her “room tour” finale during “Smooth Operator: Ashley”
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause a response to Ashley’s mid-oral dialogue to be lost after using it once
In the Original Story: made adjustments to Amy’s stub toe event so that it plays out a little more smoothly
In the Original Story: a few more of the ‘help’ responses Derek offers the player will require the Player to talk to him slightly more before they become available; aligning with other ‘help’ responses he offers
In the Original Story: fixed a thought bubble conflict that could occur when choosing certain response options while talking to Madison about getting Vickie’s phone number
In the Original Story: the Player can no longer give Ashley Madison’s phone when she is topless. Let’s be real, at this point she is either way, way too busy with you…or she hates you and your face
In the Original Story: the Player can now try to give Madison’s phone to Ashley as long as they know about the drama between Ashley and Madison, rather than ONLY after seeing one specific dialogue
In the Original Story: telling Patrick to go check under the sofa for booze will no longer interfere with his approaching Brittney, talking to her about getting his phone, and then returning to the Player with the good (or bad) news
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that would cause Rachael to cover herself up when flashing the Player…’cause doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could allow Rachael to walk off when flashing the Player in the outside yard corner; applies to partial and full nudity “flashes”
In the Original Story: Rachael will now be immobile the moment she reaches the Spare Room 2/Art Room for her self-pleasuring, and will release this state when she finishes, or is caught doing her thing. Should cut down on any chance of her moving awkwardly before/after
In the Original Story: cleaned up Rachael’s sequence of self-pleasure in the Spare Room 2/Art Room to prevent many duplicate events from being fired off while she fires one off
In the Original Story: addressed a potential save/load issue with Rachael’s solo-pleasure dare that could cause the Spare Room 2/Art Room door to become locked forever
In the Original Story: the Player will no longer be able to give Patrick anything while being intimate with him. Believe us, it wasn’t worth your time anyway
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that would cause Patrick to cover up when he gets super drunk and naked during “Benedict Brahrnold”
In the Original Story: made tweaks to a save/load event that can cause Patrick to not be properly posed when loading a game in which he was laying down naked on the ground during Benedict Brahrnold (more improvements pending)
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Katherine to walk away to a semi-random spot instead of staying in the study if she caught the Player pleasuring Patrick in a specific location during “Benedict Brahrnold”
In the Original Story: Rachael will no longer use a negative dialogue line if the Player begins “warming themselves up” in front of her once they are about to get intimate with her
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Patrick to re-use his “Benedict Brahrnold” finale-intro dialogue, even if the Player had already seen the dialogue
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Patrick to warp to Ashley and the Player in the middle of the “Benedict Brahrnold” finale, should the Player have asked Ashley about Madison’s Sky Animals at a certain point
In the Original Story: added an additional help/hint thoughtbubble or two towards the finale of “The Muse”
In the Original Story: cleaned up minor save/load events for a few characters
In the Original Story: loosened the criteria for Madison being “occupied” during the events of “Sibling Warfare” just a bit, so that certain content is not cut off during the “free moments” of the opportunity
In the Original Story: restricted the use of a dialogue that would send Derek to Amy during “Runner Runner”, which could cause issues during the finale of “Sibling Warfare” and also forcibly cut off this WalkTo event at a couple points
In the Original Story: made a number of small tweaks that should speed up Ashley’s behavior right before she and the Player need to get into the closet during the finale of “Sibling Warfare”
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause parts of the “Sibling Warfare closet content” to play out even if the Player failed “Runner Runner” and/or “Sibling Warfare”
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could allow the player to get into the bathroom while Derek and Madison were dealing with the fallout from “Sibling Warfare”…and while Ashley was waiting to hook up with you. Priorities!
In the Original Story: added a brief sensitivity toggle that should make getting through the Ashley -> Phone Call sequence during “Voicemail Vengeance” a little more manageable
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that, when the Gastronomy Book and Paper were used together, could cause Madison to walk to the MasterBedroomClosetArea when she was otherwise occupied
In All Stories: removed “Faster”/”Slower”-type events to align with new animation sync system; these no longer have any effect and are now obsolete
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Derek to become stuck in a pose and permanently lose his ability to socialize with NPCs if the Player misses out on meeting Madison when starting “Like a French Girl”
In the Original Story: added additional response and dialogue handling for Ashley’s Family Time sequence, should Patrick already be occupied
In the Original Story: fixed a few missing state issues that could occur if the Player failed “Sibling Warfare” during its finale
In the Original Story: reduced the change Vickie would act as a movement blocker when trying to get into the closet during the finale of “Sibling Warfare”
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Madison and/or Derek to become briefly embroiled in background chatter while/after they went to the master bedroom for the finale of “Sibling Warfare”
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause silly oral nonsense to continue if the Player failed the finale of “Sibling Warfare” while Ashley was…busy
In the Original Story: if the Player pranked Madison and Derek by completing “Sibling Rivalry”, Madison will no longer feel like congratulating the Player about meeting everyone and will not approach him about that or sky animals
In the Original Story: various minor corrections to align dialogue text with certain voice lines
In the Original Story: made minor modifications to a few NPC’s “get outta here”-type responses (that change their location) to make more sense or make them more readily available
In the Original Story: Frank will no longer try to give the Player the condom twice, if he caught the Player getting intimate with another NPC, and THEN was prompted to hook up with the Player
In the Original Story: polished a few events across the story that could cause unnecessary debug log spam or that executed a bit too often
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Brittney to no longer go near Steph when she should, unless the Player pushed her out of vision of Steph or managed to get her VERY far away
In the Original Story: while being intimate with Patrick in DongVR, there is now a “nevermind” option so that the Player is not arbitrarily forced into a new intimacy act
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Stephanie to trip while approaching the downstairs bathroom to talk to Katherine (if the Player got high with her), and afterwards become unable to speak to Katherine or continue her story
In the Original Story: Rachael and Patrick’s fight (precursor to “Patty’s Striking Resemblance”) can no longer initiate if the Player is knocked out, or if Rachael and/or Patrick are Currently Displaying Dialogue
In the Original Story: Katherine’s inspect text is no longer a thought bubble. More important news at 11!
In the Original Story: fixed a double-inspect text that could appear when the Player inspected Ashley at the start of a new game
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that allowed the Player to be able to send Rachael away to while they were being intimate with Patrick in the corner of the yard during “Benedict Brahrnold”
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Patrick to hang around near the outside corner of the yard after the conclusion of “Benedict Brahrnold”
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause talking to Rachael at a specific time and leaving that dialogue open while the Player goes down on Patrick to break Patrick’s “climactic dialogue”
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause talking to Patrick while the Player goes down on him as part of “Benedict Brahrnold” to break his “climactic dialogue”
In the Original Story: NPCs will not be as likely to roam to Rachael while she is going down on Patrick as part of the events of “Benedict Brahrnold”
In the Original Story: added new Achievements: La Coochadora, Derezzed, Te Amo Lety, The Elder Brahs, and Simple Geometry
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: fixed an issue that could cause Vickie to wander outside the bedroom if she warps the Player out of it (after running upstairs) and therefore repeatedly warp the Player to the Kitchen any time sees him
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: added an event trigger/reaction to handle the Player being KO’d
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: cleaned up a few minor inconsistencies with item interactions or inspect texts
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: fixed an issue that could cause the Player to NOT be warped to the kitchen by Vickie if he was pleasuring himself at a certain moment
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: fixed an issue that could cause Vickie to become unresponsive after playing Never Have I Ever with the Player
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: fixed other Warp To events that could be compromised by the Player’s ravenous need to self-pleasure
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: made additional tweaks to Vickie’s “bend over and pose” behavior (after the Player climbs the gutter) to avoid positioning issues if the Player is racing through the content. There’s a pod racing joke in here, but I dropped it
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: fixed an issue that could cause Vickie to not be in the armchair when playing Never Have I Ever with the Player
In A Vickie Vixen Valentine: added some additional emotive behaviors to Vickie as part of a few of her conversations with the Player
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Patrick to permanently have the Upset state enabled
In the Original Story: the Player can no longer opt out of Vickie’s first Hot Tub HJ and then pleasure himself near her in order to continue along her Opportunity. Yeah that’s right, how you like that 8? nerf bat?
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Patrick and Rachael to go hang out together (via roaming Invite To Hang) after they fought
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Brittney to no longer stay near Stephanie if the Player fails out of Amy’s Scavenger Hunt in a specific fashion
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Frank to use his “recently concussed” dialogue after the player uses the Slap Awake option on him, when Frank had not actually recently been concussed
In the Original Story: Amy will now use the new Front Door + yard exit mechanic(s) if the Player drives her away from the party
In the Original Story: swapped Frank’s throw of the closed briefcase to the new Throw SendEvent
In the Original Story: NPCs will no longer try to roam to Katherine while she is sick in the downstairs bathroom
In the Original Story: the Player can no longer use the gutter while being intimate with another character, as this can break the intimacy act
In the Original Story: corrected additional possible placement and state issues that could affect Derek or Madison during the ending of the High and Dry and Like a French Girl opportunities
In the Original Story: fixed a response from the Player to Derek re: Stephanie that was available a bit earlier than it should have been
In the Original Story: fixed a response from the Player to Derek re: Amy that was available a bit earlier than it should have been
In the Original Story: fixed an issue that could cause Amy to always have her phone in her hand after asking her about Scavenger Hunt items
In the Original Story: Amy will now check her phone when asked about all Scavenger Hunt items, instead of just the first few
In the Original Story: resolved an issue that could cause Rachael to confront the Player about Patrick a bit prematurely
In the Original Story: the distance check that fails the Player out of Screw Like a Bee during the Player’s pursuit of Leah is a bit more forgiving
In the Original Story: Patrick and Rachael should not dance as much prior to and immediately after their fight that starts the “Patty’s Striking Resemblance” Opportunity

For real--our Changelog is putting us over the character limit for this post. If you wanna read the full log, check out our main site!