My Proofreader Is On Holiday These Hours. It's Very Difficult To Do Everything Myself, But I Understand

My proofreader is on holiday these hours. It's very difficult to do everything myself, but I understand her need to balance work and personal life.

As you can see, however, she's very relaxed right now and I'm sure she will be back to check my writings after her well-deserved rest!

The monthly early access update is here!

This update brings about 11,000 words, with the second part of the fifth day of the journey.

DevLog

BUG FIXES

Fixed an issue where the dialogue incorrectly stated that MC was eating with others, even when they didn’t have food or didn’t want to stop to eat.

Fixed a bug affecting one of the mobile games that would conflict with the phone battery.

Fixed a bug related to the phone battery not charing in some situations.

Typos fixed.

IMPROVEMENTS

Improved the memory system tracking events related to MC's party—now they'll remember previous conversations and any shared info.

Added a way to retry some particularly bad choices in the previous part (3.5.1) without starting over.

Added the possibility of random connection failures when accessing the newspaper.

Reduced the amount of weight that can be carried.

Simplified some rolls for luck checks in various scenes.

NEW FEATURES

Added a new achievement related to in-game actions.

Implemented a soft save system—currently only available in select scenes, but to be expanded in future updates.

KNOWN ISSUES

Closing and reopening the menu without progressing in the story partially undoes the actions performed in the menu (especially on the phone).

I'm still working on the 3.5.1 known issues!

Patreon pledgers can now play it here. Enjoy! ☺♥

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After Dark question again! In route #1, I got the achievement for meeting all of the characters of that route. I was wondering if these characters (the main cast, I call them), will be the only interactable characters of said route?

Hi! No, it refers to your group's members, the same people you can find on FriendBook. It just means your group is complete, so any future interactions with new characters won't lead to long-term additions to the group :)

After Dark question again! If an MC romanced Michael and then tried to romance Rain, would the two confront MC about it? Somehow, there's appeal to breaking both their hearts 😈

There is nothing like that in the story yet, but you can always try. There is no telling how they will react in the future 😏

Thanks for the compliment! You have no idea how happy I am that you're enjoying it ♥

Yes, hunger and thirst deaths will be implemented in the game, but for now, I'm treating them as potential issues just in case, lol.

So, if you don't drink and your thirst is maxed out, it's normal for MC to die. However, there's a bug with Dashingdon where, when you save and reload, sometimes your hunger and thirst levels stay the same as they were before you loaded. This means that if you reload to a point where your thirst wasn't as high, but you didn't drink before saving, MC might still die during the next stat check because the values didn't reset properly.

I'm working on an internal soft save system for the game, so I hope to fix this problem sooner rather than later!

Just came to say I died from thirst unu, I WAS JUST TRYING TO NOT GET MY SLEEP TO LOW!! ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ (I reached this before meeting Rain)

I am a good little kid who listens to the game they had been playing non stop for 3hs

Thank you for bringing this to my attention! Sometimes bugs are a little tricky, so I always need to check this kind of death scenes.

Questions, questions:

Were you getting your MC to drink water? If so, how much?

Did you save and reload this game before you died?

This sent me flying

The latest chapter was wild! Without context, you won't understand, so 10/10 would recommend you to play AD

My normally nice MC was so annoyed at Mick and Rain, justified though, these two dumbasses