Ravager – Version 6.0.2

Dev Notes

• Act VII fast approaches! I’ll make a separate post about that soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this chunky monthly update.
• Exo Spectra’s expansion of our soundtrack continues. Most of it is prepped for Act VII, but some more of it can be enjoyed now.
• MVPs of this build were our visual lead Amon Ra, who has created oodles of new and updated art with Ratatooey – and Tosk, who managed to get the new proteans script loaded when I dropped it on his desk at the last possible moment. Thanks guys!

Act V-VI Features

• Dynamic: The proteans can now be visited in Act V (collab with DoItToJulia).
• Scene: Plunging into Mother’s abyss (collab with DoItToJulia and Mattrex).
• Art: Art for Naho’s “Extinction Burst” scene (two variants, 14 images, collab with Ratatooey and Amon Ra).
• Art: Retouched splash art for the Incomplete ending (collab with Anon).
• Art: Variant background art for the royal bedchamber during the eclipse.
• Art: Variant background art for the farms during the eclipse.
• Art: Retouched background art for the palace bailey (two variants).
• Art: Retouched background art for the palace kitchens.
• Art: Retouched background art for the palace stables.
• Art: Retouched background art for the unveiled throneroom.
• Art: Retouched background art for the hinterlands exterior.
• Art: Retouched background art for the hinterlands interior.
• Animation: A new animated background for the royal bedchamber during the eclipse (Amon Ra).
• Music: An expanded suite for the Paling adventure (2 tracks, Exo Spectra).
• Voice: Zizeryx’s lines during its “Desiring Machine” scene (Jezebeth, edited by Mokkel).
• Gallery: Naho’s “Extinction Burst” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
• Achievement: The “Mother Knows Best” achievement has been added (Tosk).

Act I-IV Features

• Art: Finalised art for Maelys’s “Seed On Barren Ground” scene (5 images, collab with Ratatooey and Amon Ra).
• Art: Finalised art for Malice’s “Past And Future” scene (two variants, 10 images, collab with Ratatooey and Amon Ra).
• Art: Retouched art for Chanwe’s “Revelation” scene (5 images).
• Art: Retouched background art for the farms.
• Art: Retouched background art for the infernal altar.
• Art: Retouched background art for the inferno.
• Art: Retouched background art for the protean depths (two variants).
• Animation: A new animated background for the royal bedchamber (Amon Ra).
• Music: A revamped and expanded suite for Malagar (6 tracks, Exo Spectra).
• Voice: Naho’s part in her “Dracogenesis” warlock fate followup (Marina Montague, edited by Cython).
• Voice: Naho’s part in the strange cheese dream (Marina Montague, edited by Cython).
• UI: A “Goofiness” indicator has been added, with screen reader support, and a toggle in the Preferences menu (HereToHelp).
• UI: Descriptions of touch controls have been added to the Controls screen, for those on touch devices (HereToHelp).
• Gallery: Heloise’s “Leisure” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).
• Modding: The image override feature has been expanded to support the replacement of all media types (Katzenwiese).
• Modding: Instructions for the override feature have been updated, and added to the /media_overrides/ folder (HereToHelp).

Enhancements

• Chanwe’s “Revelation” scene has had its visual and audio direction improved.
• The dragon’s voice lines, where they repeat, have been more evenly distributed across the code.
• Eburon’s Paling sequence in ActVI will use its new expanded suite.
• Interactions with killtoy Maelys will use her new Severance suite.
• Malagar’s escalation sequence in Act VI will make full use of his expanded music suite.
• Grading on the art for Marie-Anne’s “Down On The Farm” scene has been improved.
• Marie-Anne and Mina’s “Sharing Is Caring” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
• Mina’s “Stand and Deliver” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
• Mina’s “Looted Goods” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
• Mina’s “Sweetened Deal” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
• Mina’s “Forcible Renegotiation” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Grey
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• Mina’s “Liquid Assets” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).Mina’s “Bed of Riches” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
• Mina’s “Back Alley Deal” scene has had its audio enhanced (collab with Greyscale).
• Mother’s interactions are gated behind first finding out their name.
• Act VI can now be accessed whilst playing in Streamer Mode (HereToHelp).
• The Preferences menu has been improved for all devices. No more needless scrolling! (HereToHelp)
• Alt text describing the UI change for screen readers has been added to the Goofy dream (HereToHelp).
• Our code for handling messy character animations has been improved (Katzenwiese).
• Side portraits now automatically crop away any transparent pixels (Katzenwiese).
• Scene names have been updated for extra clarity and character.
• The display order of scenes in the Gallery has been made more intuitive.
• Guidance hints for scenes in the Gallery have been made clearer.
• Game credits have been updated.

Fixes

• You cannot ask harem members to become your queen if you are already betrothed to someone else.
• Adeline cannot be asked about the health of her child if she is not pregnant.
• The art in Chia’s “Maid To Be Broken” scene will not have sprites drawn on top of it.
• Chia’s “Maid To Order” scene will not offer multiple seemingly-identical commands to undress.
• If Enid was never retained, she does not appear in the hatchery after Marie-Anne’s visit.
• Killing your kobolds for allowing Heloïse to escape requires Gore to be enabled.
• Heloise will not discuss Adeline’s free status if the princess is a selkie.
• Issa will recognise being named after Grokkan or Kralak if you capitalise their names.
• Repeatedly visiting Issa during Act VI will not result in the palace theme playing over his own.
• If Maelys is serving as your knight or killtoy, she will have a cameo outside your chamber if you subsequently promote Naho.
• Fixed a rare circumstance where Malice would not derive a disposition from her upbringing if you had an unusual choice of consort.
• The art in Marie-Anne’s “Free Cowgirl” scene has been retouched.
• Mina’s voice lines at the end of her “Liquid Assets” scene will play for all routes through the scene.
• Many instances of Mina’s nonverbal sound effects will now play correctly; they were previously silent.
• Visiting Mina in Breaker’s chamber repeatedly on the same day will not cause her to be ejected from the HR process.
• Promoting Naho during Act VI will not subsequently play the confrontation scene as though she was promoted during Act V.
• Naho’s Act VI scenes will use her pregnant art, where applicable.
• If you sent them immediately to Breaker, Sabetha and Inej will not have their initial standard interaction afterwards.
• Sabetha and Inej’s lines during their Act V pregnancy talk will appear with speakers’ names.
• Sabetha and Inej’s offspring will not appear during visits to the hatchery if they have been laid, but not yet hatched.
• Valzira will not appear with a bump during her “Payback” scene if she has not been established as the naga’s carrier.
• If a naga was not born, Valzira will not talk about them whilst in the palace dungeons.
• If your first visit to the hatchery is in Act VI, you will not be told that your clutch has grown since your last visit.
• The Act VI Reconquest will not softlock or crash if every territory has been assigned and you still have surplus forces left.
• The cataclysm ambience will not keep playing after the end of the Act VI Paling adventure.
• The Act VI Breeding Tax crowd ambience will not keep playing after the scene has ended.
• The “On Second Thought” achievement can be earned in all cases where one pregnant elf dies, but another pregnant elf lives.
• …and everything found during playtesting. Thank you, playtesters!

Extract and run.

Having a bat file in the main directory will stop the game from running.