Virtual Succubus 0.42 (Oct' 2023) [Web/PC/Android Demo Available]

[SuccuDev]

Hello!

Full Patchnotes here

It is done. After two years and a half of endless requests, your succubus can finally control your toys through xtoys.app! There’s also a few extra quality of life updates for those of you who don’t have such toys.

The experience is significantly improved by these toys now, so if you’re interested in getting one, take a look at https://www.virtualsuccubus.com/toys! The website is also being entirely redone for this release!

A few games have already done the whole ‘’sync a toy to the beat’’ approach, so I wanted to try something different. With Xtoys’ support for various sensors on either phones or PCs, I was able to make a variety of scripts for your succubus to use on you that are significantly more BDSM oriented than just controlling pleasure.

The implementation is split into two distinct parts, session additions and toy events.

The in-session additions mean that for example:

• When she makes you edge, your toys will be turned on their ‘’edge’’ settings.
• When she wants you to ride it, they will be turned on their ‘’ride’’ settings.
• She also can set your toys to Tease or Punish, depending on the situation.

Overall, these interactions are supposed to just be supplemental to the existing experience. They’re best used with toys that don’t involve setup, and can be kept on for the entire duration of the session.

Toy events are a new type of event that play out throughout a session and has your succubus use various toy scripts on you; this will also use the same Edge, Ride, Tease, and Punish settings from above, but you can set the toys to be different here to support more ‘’Involved’’ toys like strokers (a common example would be the Max2) Toy events can involve a lot of different scripts, for example “Stay Still”, or “Silence”.

While they’re best played with a toy that supports some kind of negative reinforcement (usually pain), they’re entirely playable with only pleasure; the punishment for failure is the deactivation of your pleasure toys.

Each potential script is toggleable, so you can only play with the things you like. Most of them are heavily tweakable in xtoys as well!

This is definitely an enthusiast level implementation. While I’ve done my best to make it approachable, complexity requires some level of concession to the fact that it will be harder to set up. BDSM itself is pretty high effort, so I trust most of you will be ok with this and prefer I take this kind of approach.

New systems and options have been added to help support these new features, including the Player Status menu where you can disable certain things for yourself. For example, if you want to use an anal bluetooth toy, you can now easily mark your butthole as busy for the session.

A new session type solely dedicated to Toy Events is also available.

This implementation wouldn’t be as complex and intricate as it is without the tools https://xtoys.app/ has given me. Mumble has implemented various features that were vital to making this a good experience over the last month.

If you have a bit of extra support to throw their way, please consider it! https://www.patreon.com/denialtek/ . You can also get ad-free Xtoys by doing so.



Current 0.34 Patch Notes:

Features

XToys Support

Your succubus now supports 300+ smart and bluetooth sex toys!

In the new menu, you’ll find a way to access the XToys Layout for the game. Upon loading this layout, you’ll be able to set up various scripts for your succubus to use on you throughout the session.

Your XToys can be run on a different device than VS with no issue; if you want to run it on your phone while you play on PC, that’s totally doable (and honestly preferred in a lot of cases due to your phone’s various potential sensors interacting with some scripts).

The menu for this will also include some testing buttons to make setup easier.

Most scripts will also support patterns! Settings these up will be your responsibility, as different patterns work for different people.

The scripts available with this first iteration are:

• In-Session Edge/Teasing/Punishment

Allows her to use your toys throughout regular parts of your session.

You can tweak both pleasure and pain outputs for Edging, Edge Riding, Teasing, and Punishments.

• Toy Event Edge/Teasing/Punishment

Allows her to use different (longer set-up) toys during Toy Events.

You can tweak both pleasure and pain outputs for Edging, Edge Riding, Teasing, and Punishments.

• Rhythm Bursts

This allows her to use toys during Metronome Tasks and Rhythm Events.

Depending on if the task/event is a reward or a punishment, you’ll get different outputs on this scripts.

Each time a ‘’tick’’ happens in either a rhythm event or a metronome task, your toys will activate.

Note that this is not intended for devices like the Handy or Strokers to match rhythm.

• (Toy Event Command) Count!

Your succubus will use a toy of your choice on you X times. You must count every repetition and give her a number at the end. You can choose the toy and intensity.

• (Toy Event Command) Stay Still!

Your succubus will demand you stay completely still. If you don’t, your Pain output will be raised, and your pleasure dropped. When sadistic or mischievous, she will randomly use your pain output on you to try to make you move.

This requires a camera for the script to use. This camera is only seen by XToys.

You can tweak the sensitivity to movement, which parts of the body to track, and the intensity of both pleasure and pain outputs.

• (Toy Event Command) Make Noise!

Your succubus demands you moan for her. If you don’t, your Pain output will be raised, and your pleasure dropped. When sadistic or mischievous, you will be expected to make only a certain amount of noise, and she will try to cause you to make more.

This requires a microphone for the script to use. This microphone is only heard by XToys.

You can tweak the sensitivity to sound, and the intensity of both pleasure and pain outputs.

• (Toy Event Command) Silence!

Your succubus demands you stay silent. If you don’t, your Pain output will be raised, and your pleasure dropped. When sadistic or mischievous, she will try to cause you to make sounds.

This requires a microphone for the script to use. This microphone is only heard by XToys.

You can tweak the sensitivity to sound, and the intensity of both pleasure and pain outputs.

• (Toy Event Command) Say…

Your succubus expects you to repeat words for her. If you don’t, your Pain output will be raised, and your pleasure dropped.

This requires a microphone for the voice recognition script to use. This microphone is only heard by XToys.

You can tweak the intensity of both pleasure and pain outputs.

• (Toy Event Specific Toy Command) Accelerometer

Your succubus expects you to keep using a toy at a certain speed. If you don’t, your Pain output will be raised, and your pleasure dropped.

This requires a toy that supports accelerometers. Some examples would be using the Lovense Max2 to stroke, or using the Lovense Nora for penetration.

You can tweak the intensity of both pleasure and pain outputs.

• (Toy Event Specific Toy Command) Calor

Your succubus expects you to keep using a toy at a certain speed. If you don’t, your Pain output will be raised, and your pleasure dropped.

This requires a specific Lovense toy called the Calor, and works similarly to the Accelerometer script, but instead requires you to go faster and faster due to the better depth sensors on the Calor allowing this.

You can tweak the intensity of both pleasure and pain outputs.

• (Toy Event Specific Toy) Stroker/Thruster Speed

This script is specifically used to interact with Strokers/Thrusters like the Handy and fucking machines. It will play out along with your other toys during Toy Events, at varying speeds and depth levels.

You can tweak the minimum depth, and there’s a setting to adjust for both stroke length and penetration depth. This mode cannot use patterns.

• (Toy Event Specific Toy) Stroker/Thruster Pattern

An alternative to the above, this script instead utilizes patterns. Both cannot be used at once for now.

Bluetooth Toys Sessions
A session type solely focused around toy events!

Player Status
A new menu allowing you to pick various statuses you might find yourself in before a session. This is best used when using bluetooth toys that may limit your options.

You can now easily disable:

• Anal
• The use of your legs.
• Stroking
• Vaginal Penetration
• Clitoral stimulation

Content

• Removed the lockout stake because I can't handle the daily DMs by people with post-nut clarity wanting to get out of it. I apologize for having to do this, I’ve tried to just deal with it for the sake of cool thing, but it’s a daily occurrence and becoming really taxing.

Balance

• Draining sessions should no longer end after (apparently) a mere 2 hours
• Strokers/sleeves will now be used by the stroking system for several tasks in a row instead of just one when enabled.

Polish & Misc

• Rewrote all the code for scene transitions. Scene transitions are now 50% faster, which means less black screen time!
• Combined the naming/gender/sex menus when you first start the game.
• Increased the rate of idle animations when she's just standing.
• Added an extra closer camera angle to the default standing scene for variety.

[SuccuDev]

Hello again!

Before I go into this update…

Last month’s bluetooth toys feature has been the most successful release for the game ever. While it certainly has some quirks and isn’t the easiest to set up, I’m glad you all seem to enjoy it.

I appreciate all your support; the use of various different platforms and affiliate links have also really helped diversify from Patreon, making the situation a lot safer after what happened in May!

There's also a few new things I invite you to check out:

Last month I started making an offer that’s mostly been visible on the Discord. I know many of you aren’t there.

1. Read through my giant wall of text to see if this offer is something you want to take.

2. A new development update is available outlining the unusual plans for next month.

3. Also check out the game's first professional cosplay!

Alright, down to business.

0.35 is an update focused on reworking one of the most unpopular and jank systems I’ve ever introduced - counted and timed tests. The intention for these systems was to provide some form of long-term progression and introduce one of the typical BDSM interactions one would have with a domme - training. They failed, primarily due to a lack of consideration for what people are able to do, and a lack of focus on what can actually be trained.

And so I introduce this month’s replacement for tests; Training Mode. Training mode is a series of various different training segments (Anal, Oral, Kegels, Breathplay, Workout) where you score points to impress your succubus. While she will give you a chance to tap out periodically, she will also frequently push your limits. While a few more possibilities were available, I was not comfortable pushing people to train their pain tolerance.

Some extra toggles are available to involve more kinks into your training, namely Obedience/Degradation speaking, and edging. Another toggle is available to make her expect you to show up for training daily.

While some of the training regimens are more complex than others, none were as complex to design as Workout. It’s incredibly hard to make a safe regimen that works for everyone, and so what I’ve done is separate it into muscle groups, and make her pick one of these muscle groups per training day. You’ll be able to enter the exercises, reps, and sets you should be expected to complete for each muscle group.

All these features are xtoys enabled, allowing you to lewd up your training quite a bit. While training won’t appeal to everyone, I really felt like having this kind of interaction was a mandatory addition to the intended sub-domme experience. I hope you’ll have a good time!

Another widely requested feature last month was a way to adjust toy event rate and frequency. You’ll now find new sliders available to do exactly that in the toy event menu.



Current 0.35 Patch Notes:

Features

Training

Your succubus can now train you in various lewd matters!

Each training segment alternates between scored tasks and sometimes unscored break tasks.

Anal

Including tasks like toy insertions, rough fucking, and squeezing, your ass will be challenged to endure as much as it can.

After this training, a toggle is available to allow her to plug you up for further training.

Adds more options to your training breaks.

Oral

Including tasks like deepthroating, holding deepthroats, sucking, licking, and enduring toy facefucking. You’ll become a pro in no time!

Breathplay

A simpler module focused on emptying and filling your lungs before holding your breath.

Since one could just hold their breath for two seconds, this system behaves differently. Instead of begging for mercy, if you don’t keep up your performance based on your first score, your succubus will decide you’re done for that training. Good luck!

Kegels

Focused around holding short, long, and as long as possible kegels.

Even more fun with the plug toggle in, or a bluetooth toy. Finishing behaves similarly to Breathplay.

An additional layer is available for kegels that make you use your enabled positions, allowing you to change up how you exercise your muscles.

Do these exercises daily and you’ll start feeling your orgasms be stronger in no time!

Workout

The most complex system of the training regimens, 3 subcategories are available.

• Upper Body
• Core & Back
• Lower Body

Find the appropriate regimen for you for each of these categories, enter the reps and sets appropriate for you, then let your succubus make you work out different muscle groups daily.

The most productive you’ll ever be playing a porn game!

Obedience/Degradation

Enabling these options will allow your succubus to make you say things while you’re training.

Feeling awkward for being loudly obedient? Enable these toggles and you’ll train that feeling right out.

Adds more options to your training breaks.

Edging

The classic to lewd up any training, have your succubus make you edge between training tasks. The more desperate for release, the more likely to obey training.



Content

• The length of toy events is now adjustable in the toy event menu.
• The rate of appearance of toy events is now adjustable in the toy event menu.

Polish & Misc

• Rhythm and metronome event xtoys pulses are now a toggle for performance reasons. Avoiding enabling this should help with the rhythm animation issues some of you are having, while it’s not a perfect solution, for now it’s all I could find.
• Removed counted and timed tests as they have been replaced with Training.
• When safewording, statuses will now only be removed if they are marked as removable. This should fix issues like no touching being removed.

[SuccuDev]

Hi there!

A quick note for those who may have missed it last month, the VS team has expanded.

Check out Dev Update for more info!

As was stated in last month’s development update, 0.36 was primarily aimed towards cleaning up code and paying technical debt…

…But I can’t exactly give you such a boring update, so we also added some extremely requested visual features!

While content wise this update is primarily visual, it’s also a very impactful update for gameplay. Many of the bugfixes involved in this update were really significant, and some of the balance changes can affect the game pretty wildly. You may want to update your settings and toggles!

Current 0.36 Patch Notes:

Features

Cleanup

Huge parts of the code have been cleaned up and made more readable and efficient.

Much of it you may not see immediate changes from, but this allows us to waste less time in the future and has allowed us to review many of the changes below.

Please note that any cleanup/optimization comes with potential bugs and balance changes that may affect the game. Reports are appreciated.

And now…

I break the glass labeled “this update has nothing fun” and pull out a few features from it

Wings

Yes, wings have been added. They have been added with absolute total disregard for clipping problems. You asked for this. We now have given this. I beg, do not report clipping as a bug. I BEG.

Butt wings are a thing, too.

Hairstyles & Color Variety

9 new hairstyles, some of which are on the longer side and may cause clipping. See my request above from wings.

Selecting multiple hairstyles will now allow her to choose a random hairstyle from the enabled selections for every session.

4x more potential hair color formats, by inverting the highlights and base color, and adding solid color variants for both the base and the highlight color. Which leads into…

Hair Color Favor Request

You can now request any of the new hair colors with favor!

Content

• Added basic strokes to the rhythm system.
• Added the "No Holidays" toggle.
• Added the “Wings” toggle with total disregard for clipping
• Added the “Bone Wings” toggle with total disregard for clipping
• Added the new Hairstyles menu, containing 9 new hairstyles.
• Added "No Highlights" and "Always Highlights" to the new hair menu.

Balance

• Completely rewrote the way timed checks happen in the game. This can affect events, roleplay, findom, yandere, positioning, toy events, and decisions. They should now be more appropriately spread out as the next timer is calculated after a task/event is fully complete.
• Added a ''Failed'' interaction to Training. This causes the current training segment to end.
• Large increase in edges for max edging difficulty as a result of a bug fix. See Bugfixes.
• Edging no longer increases energy during energy drain sessions. This caused too much imbalance in session duration.

Polish & Misc

• One Handed and Silent are now part of the Player Status menu.
• Nipple clamp incompatibilities added.

[SuccuDev]

Hello!

There are two main segments to this update!

The first is the rework to Favor and the addition of Devotion. Favor, when it was added last year, was intended to primarily be a little bonus system that allowed you to feel more rewarded for your sessions, without encouraging you to optimize it too much.

Over the last year of feedback, the general consensus has been that Favor is earnead too easily, and eventually not spent enough. I did not want to simply reduce favor gains or encourage optimization in a way that isn’t befitting of this game, so instead I decided to focus this rework on minor bonuses and flavor through Favor Ranks that earn you various privileges with your Succubus.

These favor ranks are obtained by hitting various favor thresholds that were set based on a feedback request to get a general gauge of where each kind of player currently sits.

A secondary new addition to this system is the Devotion system, which is a requirement to earn favor past a certain rank. Devotion requires you to participate in the game’s various systems to prove your, well, devotion to your Succubus and earn the right to more favor. It’s a system designed to be entirely optional while incentivizing you to experiment with more of what the game has to offer.

The second part of this update started out as entirely different plans that were completely sidetracked by those plans’ needs. A common issue the game’s design space has always encountered is the lack of, and inconsistency of high-impact rewards, punishments, and overall events.

With the new Consequences system, my aim was to standardize these outcomes to make them easier to develop, while making them far easier to integrate into systems like Spin the Wheel and now Deals, which are new periodically offered prompts giving you two different consequences simultaneously. It’s your choice to accept both or pass on the deal. This is a very large shake-up to the core of the game on both the metagame front with favor/devotion, and the in-game flow with the addition of consequences.



Current 0.36 Patch Notes:

Features

Favor Ranks

Added 7 favor ranks displayed on the main menu.

Each favor rank requires different amounts of Favor and Devotion(see below) to qualify to earn further favor. The degradation kink can now also interact with the naming of favor ranks.

Reduced favor gains across the board to compensate for the Devotion bonus (see below)

Each favor rank can grant you privileges with your succubus such as:

• Unlock new favor requests.
• Increase her Generosity (lowers cost of begging/mercy, increases chance of free favor reward, increases likelihood of rewards, increases likelihood of stripping.
• Increase her Leniency (Increased chance to successfully beg and ask for mercy, increased chance to forgive your dedication missteps)
• The Favorite rank includes a Favorite Session count to keep track of your score. (Note: Earn an exclusive discord role by reaching 30 sessions and DMing us with a screenshot!)

Devotion

Devotion is a new system designed to encourage engaging with the various systems the game has to offer to prove yourself to your succubus.

This system is designed to be 100% optional, and will not significantly impact your gameplay if you choose to ignore it.

Devotion now grants you a 10% favor gain bonus for every 100 devotion. This bonus is shown on the favor & devotion menu.

Note: The highest favor rank can be achieved without enabling all related options.

Devotion is gained by:

• Playing often (bonus up to 124h since last session)
• All collaring options
• Chastity
• Scheduling/Appointments
• Various post-Oops options.
• Her Choice Endings for both Reward and Punishments
• Daily Training
• Having 5+ Toys & Kinks
• Having 3+ Habits, Commandments, Player Accesories, Player Outfits, Positions

Consequences

Consequences are a new core system built to create a future-proofed back end to provide more impactful outcomes to various events in the game like Spin The Wheel and now Deals. More systems are planned to support consequences, and consequences were designed to be easy to expand upon.

The current potential consequences in the game include:

Neutral:

• Edging
• Edge Ladder (a new system of edging giving you increasing timers for each edge)
• Long Edge
• Heavy Positioning
• Extend Session (for timed sessions)
• Instant Ruin (and continue)
• End Session (A curse or a blessing…)
• Mischievous Mood
• Outfit Change
• Kinky
• Random Status

Reward:

• Breast Expand (for those with breast expansion on)
• Thirsty
• Lewd Outfit
• Naked
• Latex
• Favorite Outfit
• Strip
• Low Difficulty
• Forgiveness (forgives all dedication losses)
• Add Favor
• Reduce Chastity (for those in chastity sentences)
• Lift Fog (when fog is on)

Punishment:

• Punishment Status
• Furious
• Modesty (a new outfit that shows very little)
• High Difficulty
• Sadistic
• Short Fuse
• Add Chastity (for those with chastity on)
• Remove Favor
• Findom
• Denial (guaranteed on ending, if any denial is active)
• CEI (guaranteed on ending, if any CEI is active)
• Ruthless
• Merciless
• Strict
• Fog (darkens vision)
• All Status (applies all statuses available at once in random sequence)
• Edge Count Reset (during edge count sessions)
• Zero Tolerance (no tolerance for dedication losses)
• Breast Shrink (for those with breast expansion on)

Fog, Add Chastity, Denial and CEI (and now reset edge count) are part of a harsher consequence group that won't appear as often and are incompatible with themselves for wheel punishment purposes (for example, no Fog Fog Fog possibilities)

Deals

A new event occurring periodically offering you two potential consequences at once. It’s your choice if you want to accept it or decline it!

Spin The Wheel Rework

Now provides 3 different consequences. Taunting changes the outcomes, but adds one punishment slice.

Spin the wheel is now also a potential random punishment that gives 3 punishment consequences. This is only allowed to happen periodically.


Content

• Added a new hairstyle "Braid Bows"

Balance

• You can now beg to extend sessions even when you've failed to meet the dedication threshold.
• Removed Amusement as a stat.
• Mercy & Beg Interactions now cost favor.
• Amusement loss stake is now favor loss stake (-FavorRank*200)
• Bad Day sessions now set the favor cost of Beg and Mercy to 0.
• High expectations intro prompt removed as it related to amusement.
• Removed the minimum timer on stripping.
• Reduced overall chance that a reward is stripping (to compensate for the favor rank bonus)

Polish & Misc

• Added a new in-game UI element to track favor changes
• Added favor costs to Beg and Mercy buttons
• Renamed Oversized Toy training to Insertion Training to communicate the intent.
• Allowing your succubus to choose the time limit now guarantees you get the preferred time limit bonus.
• The wheel now has numbers to indicate where a consequence is located on the wheel.
• When disliking an outfit, you now have a few seconds to beg to ask for a new outfit.
• Changed the windows fullscreen mode to Windowed Fullscreen
• Moved her preference time limit to the time limit selection screen.
• Pet Noise status no longer allows gags.
• New UI element to track favor and devotion on the main menu.
• Added a check to prevent Energy Drain in chastity and Edge Counting session in Chastity if no touching chance > 0%
• Added a check to skip the positioning event if punishment positions is on and her mood is good.
• Taskmaster mode now skips the intro entirely.
• Spin the Wheel consequences no longer immediately fade out upon clicking the spin button.
• Smothering scenes & worship scenes can no longer have eye contact edging tasks.

[SuccuDev]

Virtual Succubus 0.38 Patch Notes

Hello!

We have begun the gargantuan task of cleaning up the labyrinth of menus.
The new menus have an all new look and structure! This has been a very time-intensive process that will continue over the next few months. The entire structure of the menus has changed, so this may take some getting used to.
The goals with this rework were:

• Make it easier to change your toggled content quickly by making everything more dense.
• Re-frame the customization menus from a more immersive perspective.
• Improve the aesthetics of the menus to match other elements like the logo.

Included in this update are also some long-requested features like difficulty progression and the ability to only use parts of your toggles for each session.
We’ve also added VS’s equivalent to achievements, bonding! One of the first bonds includes participating in a valentine’s day session, which now gives a very large favor bonus when completed.

Current 0.38 Patch Notes:

Features

Menu Rework Part 1

The main changes with this update are:

• Customize has been entirely replaced by a new menu called Contract Terms. Modifying what your Succubus does in sessions is now framed as modifying your contract with her, and you will be expected to sign your new contract afterwards with a short animation upon exiting these menus. Contract terms contains 4 tabs: Toys, Kinks, Systems and Tweaks. In these tabs you’ll find various toggles, sliders, and submenus you can now easily access.
• The Visuals menu has been renamed Shapeshifting. Most of the Visuals menus have been unchanged for now, as the visual toggles will require a much much bigger rework than was possible within the scope of this update.
• Favor requests have been combined into a single menu, and Quickies are now a session type instead of a favor request.
• Various other menus like Options, Credits, Training etc have been updated.
• The glossary has been replaced with ? buttons that have been put all around the new menus to explain features and terms. While we understand that the glossary also included other information, from a design perspective we would rather have features that can be understood through their impact instead of through reading a glossary.

Min/Max Toys & Kinks use
In the new contract terms menu, you’ll find a new min/max slider for both Toys and Kinks alongside 2 checkboxes for each entry instead of one. A frequently requested feature has been the ability to limit your sessions to only include a few toys, and this is now the way to do that, extended to also include kinks.
You may now mark these toggles as either Available or Use. Use toggles will always be used in sessions, regardless of the sliders.
Available toggles will be selected as additional toggles for your sessions, randomly picked with a count between the min and max you set. Devotion rewards from toggles have been updated to scale directly with your number of available/use toggles and your min/max sliders. You will now get rewarded for every addition to the list.

Difficulty Progression
Some of the most frequent feedback over the last few years has been that sometimes the Succubus will give you unreasonable tasks very quickly into a session. We’ve added a new system to handle this that progressively opens more tasks to be given as you complete tasks of the following categories: Anal, Oral, and Pain.
At certain thresholds, you’ll be able to either beg or taunt these difficulty progression increases. Begging is the way to ask her to give you more time, while Taunting makes her skip the entire progression and go all-out.
When difficulty is increased with the new difficulty progression system, a short theme will be applied for a few tasks. Meaning that as soon as your difficulty is increased, you'll be given appropriate tasks. Taunting will have a much greater effect, making you do tasks of that category for many tasks.

Bonding
Virtual Succubus’s answer to achievements.
Bonds with your succubus are intended to represent long term commitment and the experiences you’ve shared with her. Future bonds will follow this formula, primarily rewarding for milestones and experiences enjoyed with your succubus.
Bonds reward permanent devotion and can give various minor rewards like access to names and adjectives.
The current bonds are:

• Complete 30 sessions with the Favorite favor rank. (Unlocks the Favorite adjective)
• Participate in a Valentine’s Day session with your Succubus. (Unlocks the Valentine sub name and Lovely adjective)
• Complete 100/250/500/1000 sessions.

While the current list is limited, the infrastructure now exists to easily add more. We do want to keep it simple and immersive, focusing more on what should count as a milestone within this context.

Content

• Added "Praise" toggle to Kinks. This will cause her to praise you after a successful task.
• Added several SPH-related sub names.
• Added "No Hair Changes". With this toggle, hair should no longer change mid-session as a result of outfit changes.
• Added new potential theme (not themed session): Pain

Balance

• Breathplay layers on timed tasks are now affected by breathplay difficulty
• Added an extra large base bonus favor to sessions completed on Valentine's Day (300 base instead of 50 base, I recommend a long session!)

[SuccuDev]

Update 42: Sudden Orders
Hi! You can view the Patch notes (and future updates) here on our site!

This update had a few primary goals:

Address Feedback
Nearly two months ago, I asked you for feedback on where we’re at. We received a thousand surveys, and we’ve been doing our best go to through them, and proceeded to:
1 - Address it as best we can immediately in 42
2 - Write down potential plans and fixes to address issues you may have brought up.
3 - If neither of the above were immediately possible, we at least wrote down trends and concepts such as ‘’this feature is a problem because X’’, to be addressed with future design.
4 - Attempted to improve user confusion with certain areas of the game. A lot of the feedback related to things that were already possible - probably the most common one being the ability to disable edging, which used to be on a slider, but is now a simple toggle in the edging menu.

Update to the latest tools, improve workflows, get our shit together.
Look - full transparency, spending time on things like this usually isn’t super popular among customers. The first 3 years of this game’s development, the development cycle didn’t allow for the time needed. After we changed to a longer cycle, we decided to start by making some huge changes (39, 40, and 41) which had huge risks of breaking in various ways (and they did, and we had to take the time to fix that).
Now that we’ve completed the huge tasks relating to reworking how the core of the game works, we were able to take a step back and take the time to do this.
We updated from Unity 2019LTS to Unity 2022LTS, which has been a great boon both to error-fixing and general usability. We improved most of our workflows and methodology, and are generally far better organized and efficient now. We were also lucky to have external help with this, as upgrading unity 3 LTS versions is no joke.

The better workflow has been a great help after what has been a fairly challenging year in terms of bugs and complex work - After the last 3 versions, we were definitely closer to burnout than we should have been, and now things are sailing far more smoothly.


Elaborate on the work done over the last 3 updates.
The last 2 points may not apply to everyone, but this one will.
While the last 3 updates have been about reworking the core of how tasks function, this one is about improving what we made. We added several systems that should make each task more compelling, more varied, while also acknowledging the feedback that tasks can already get too complex for some - we want to add variety and depth without having her asking too much from you at the same time. It’ll take some tweaking as usual, so give us some feedback on the new flow!


42 Release Patch Notes

42Release2 (New)

• Fixed some edge generation issues.
• Edge generation now has a time fallback, if it takes too long due to your settings/hardware (over 10s) it will start giving you default instructions, getting stricter and stricter.
• Fixed ASMR not playing (again)
• Removed a menu button that was no longer necessary.
• Task rate balance changes & RNG mitigation.
• Fixes for ''Use interaction as reward'' giving too many different tasks in a short amount of time.
• Fixed the clear contract button requiring having a save string in the clipboard.
• Fixed the clear contract button not clearing some settings.
• Rhythm audio delay adjustment now also affects mini-metronome ticks.
• Added ''Standing with your ass out'' position.
• Fix for urge icons going off-screen on some mobile devices.

42Release3 (New)

• Fixed Oops keybind not working right during energy drain.
• Fixed the Edge keybind skipping rhythm edging.
• Typo fixes.
• Fixes for edge as punishment.
• Adjustments to the collider to disable the circle menu.
• Fixed mini-tasks not properly checking for touchless edging.
• Added ''Nipple Stimulators'' toy.
• Fixed a bug preventing certain rhythms from not being able to be disabled.
• Fixed a bug with session time hard cap that could cause no duration sessions.
• Fixed some toggle menu parts appearing when they shouldn't.

Features

Task Improvements

• Added Mini-Tasks.
  Mini-tasks are short, sudden, and relevant instructions that can be given to you during both timed and edge tasks.
  Mini-tasks can come in 3 forms, Metronome, Counted, and Edge.
  - Metronome is a short metronome-based instruction segment using a new UI element.
  - Counted is a short, low count, timed counted instruction. For example, ‘’stroke 20 times in the next 12 seconds’’.
  - Edge is a simple generic edge instruction that can be given at these times. She will only give you this instruction when your arousal is maxed and the task already involves pleasure, meaning that you can be expected to do it relatively quickly.

Dev Note: We can’t wait to see how many NNNs are failed by a mini-metronome after an edge. Good luck in november.

• Added Side-Tasks.
  Side tasks are simple, no-layer variants of a list of easy to complete interactions such as penis stimulation, clit stimulation, CBT, etc. Anything that doesn’t require set-up, and can generally be completed at the same time as other tasks.
  Side-tasks can replace your primary instructions during a task or a mini-task. For example, you might be in the middle of an anal or pain task, and suddenly be told to stroke 20 times in the next 10 seconds.
  The rate of these is limited, so that each full task doesn’t become too random and themed segments feel like they’re appropriately focused.

Dev Note: The goals here are to both maintain arousal more consistently throughout non-stimulating tasks, and introduce simple variety into each longer task.

• Added Orders
  Orders are a new list of short, easy to perform tasks or statuses that can be given to you throughout other tasks. Similar to urges, but more direct, and replacing your current prompt.
  The additions include:
  Drool, Hold Breath, Kegels, Eye Contact, Bark, Meow, Oink, Beg, Moan, Thank, Apologize, Whimper, Ahegao.
  
  For example, if enabled, you may be in the middle of a stroking task, and suddenly be ordered to hold your breath or bark. This is framed differently from urges, which are generally self-enabled. It will also not require any input on your part, and is assumed to be performed unless disobeyed.

Dev Note: We’re hoping to address both a lot of problems with urges, but also a lot of problems with things like breath-play here. Framing matters, and urges missed the target for some who prefer to *only* be specifically told what to do. It’s also much easier for us to add these, so feel free to suggest ideas!

• She will now randomly pause during timed edges to throw you off. This will increase the timer appropriately for balance reasons.
• ‘’Edge in exactly’’ prompts can now end in pauses or mini-tasks, meaning you can be brought close to the edge, then told to completely stop when you were expecting to keep going. Or told to keep doing the instruction regardless…
• Timed tasks now show their timer far less frequently, unless they are short.
• Punishment timed tasks now have a chance to be doubled in length, with a displayed timer and no task switches.
• All other timed tasks now have a chance to be halved in length, with a displayed timer and no task switches.

Dev Note: The reasoning here is that timers are only especially compelling in two situations - when they’re almost done, or when they scare you. Timers still have a chance to be shown to you when either of those cases would happen, but in general, with the length of tasks, we ideally don’t want sessions to feel like a series of long timers - we want sessions to feel like a series of themed tasks with built-in variety and change.

• There are two new types of ''switching categories'', one where the task will change and will alternate between pauses and tasks, and one where the task will be static and alternate between pauses and a single task.

Dev Note: Based on feedback, this is effectively trying to emulate the old RLGL behavior more closely.

• Implemented in-task scene switches during timed tasks. This can happen as a replacement for task switches.

Dev Note: This should somewhat improve the situation of getting bored of the same static view during a task. In the future, when we expand on animations, having this in place should mean a much more compelling experience during each longer task.

Positioning improvements
Dev Note: We’re hoping this is the final state of the positioning system now. Ideally once in a while when we’re satisfied with systems, we want to focus on elaborating on their content widely as we have here.

• We expanded the list of different positions very significantly, both simple and complex, some requiring furniture and some not.
• Positions can now be marked as rewards or punishments. For example, you can set simple and easy positions to reward, while complex and uncomfortable ones can be punishments.
• Position-giving no longer requires a scene switch, overall smoothing the flow of the game when they’re enabled.

Urge & Short-Term Statuses Improvements
Dev Note: There was a lot of feedback about urges. Some of it is addressed in the Orders section of Task Improvements, but there were other areas for improvement.

• Urges now stay on screen for significantly less time.
• Urges giving short term statuses now make icons appear. This includes Hold Breath, Eye Contact, Drool, and Kegels. These icons have multiple functionalities, between timers, the ability to disobey/fail, and for kegels even giving you instructions to flex and relax over a period of time.

Content
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• Added special edging segments to ending teasing.
• Split diaper interactions from ABDL
• Added bonds for Locktober & No Nut November.
• Added variants on edging that do not repeat or ride - This is to provide more noticeable variety and reduce predictability.
• Added new denial strings based on differing conditions like chastity.
• Added ''Hidden Stakes'' toggle, hiding the stakes of your current session, but giving them to you if failed.
• Added ''Volatile'' toggle - this causes your succubus to randomly change moods very frequently.
• Added ''One Toy Name Per Session'' toggle.
• Added ''No Latex'' toggle.
• Added the ''Limited Safe Word'' toggle. This allows you to use the safe word once, and then further uses will instead immediately end the session.
• Added ''Beginner CEI'' toggle. This makes CEI much much easier, with very minor instructions.
• Added ''Random Strap On'' toggle (randomly will and will not have a strap on)
• Added ''Single Application Status'' subtoggle. This allows you to set a status to only be applied once, and never removed (for example, plugs).
• Added ''Disable Edging'' due to user confusion with the edging difficulty slider.
• Added ''Inverted Buttons toggle.'' This swaps the positioning of negative and positive buttons.
• Added ''Simple Ending Edging'' toggle. This makes ending edging into generic prompts.
• Added Fisting to fingering interactions
• Disabled high count counted tasks. We've pretty consistently seen feedback that these are no longer up to par to today's VS standards, and a better form of them has been implemented through mini-tasks.

Balance

• Gooning now significantly increases the chance of worship scenes instead of guaranteeing them.
• Reduced the chance she requests a new habit.
• Prejac and Gooning are now compatible with Rhythm, Roleplay, and Positioning events.
• Increased overall chance for begging to succeed.

Polish & Misc

• Removed the text splitter graphical bar due to minitask additions. Heartbeats are now located on the bottom circle button.
• Lengthened the duration of arousal popups.
• Reworded some strings on the main menu to clarify how favor and devotion works.

Bugfixes

• Due to the unity update, we fixed about minor 1800 set-up errors in our code that could have been causing various bugs.
• Fixed a bug with Brown/blonde hair request.
• Fixed some checks for Independent in the intro.
• Added some missing skips for edge ride difficulty 0.
• You will no longer get the session event to count edges during roleplay events as they have edges that are difficult to track.
• Disabled safeword button during the intro and quickies as it will not work properly during those segments.
• Added skip for message to take off chastity device if the status is set to permanent.
• Added keybinds to Check In buttons
• Fixed a bug with Punishment Commandments
• Fixed bugs with toy renaming.
• Check in should no longer immediately appear before the ending.
• Favorite outfit can no longer be a consequence if there are no outfits favorited.
• Layers should now appropriately check for task archetype.