Hi!

This here is the first devlog out of many planned for the development of Overbreed.

Value of our Community

First of all, we'd like to thank you for your overwhelming support and say couple of words about the upcoming updates/plans.

After three months, we managed to get ourselves back on track after the patreon fiasco, and most importantly, get guidance from a well experienced developer thanks to your funding! We are optimistic about our approach, as his knowledge has already helped us solve many issues lingering in the game. Secondly, we're gonna invest some of the funding on buying assets for our upcoming features. Once again, thank you all for believing in us and in the potential of the project.

That being said, we'd like to point your attention towards what's been happening behind the scenes:

ENGINE UPGRADE!
Recently, we have upgraded our engine from 5.2 to 5.7 version.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
In short words, we have received much needed engine features to further optimise our project, as well as make more content easier.

GAME CHANGING FEATURES
Most notably, the animation software has been added with UE5.5, gaining us access to modify and create animations directly inside the engine. Same can be said for meshes of objects, which we can now easier modify and optimise with nanite being available for almost all structures in the game. But thats only small portion of what the engine update brings.

Luxuria is now researching and analising our possibilities with mutable plugin, which was only available from UE 5.5 upwards.
This feature offers us better performance, as well as much needed visual upgrade to the overall aesthetic of our characters, which is a HUGE deal!
As an example, this can solve our overlap issues with the clothing (You will no longer see bulky Adam lol). However, it requires a complete redesign of our character creator system. Although it may sound time consuming, it might be easier than thought. We'll be keeping you posted about it.

If i were to describe all that could benefit our project from this one change, this would not be a devlog but almost a book worth of information, that's why we decided to transition into the new version now.

That being said with the engine upgrade bugs are coming. Its a normal process, therefore the new version requires a testing phase. We will be informing our betatesters to be prepared for new batch of bugs to discover and report.

TL'DR, The new engine is more performant, easier to adapt to our needs and doesnt require that big of a setup.

WHAT TO EXPECT IN THE UPDATE 0.2?
In the new update, we'll include our first iteration of the Combat System!
While it's still being in the works, we are confident the nessesary parts of it are already in place and being tested.

At the same time, we are developing the Building System. We can proudly say its mostly ready, still requiring a little time to figure small things out, but that can happen in a short period of time.

Before those hit the live version though, we still need to address some issues with the current version as well as develop linking features, predominantly the Catching System. Before that, combat and building systems will stay separate for the time being.

TL'DR, Testing, 5.7 Update, then Combat update, Catching mechanics and Building System updates after that.

We're happy to say we are on schedule with our plans. We still have loads of work before us. If you want to support our effort in making THE ultimate adult experience, concider supporting us on SubscribeStar or DeviantArt!

Adult Subscribestar: https://subscribestar.adult/overbreed
Deviantart (For paypal user):
https://www.deviantart.com/overbreed/subscriptions
Discord: https://discord.gg/ta5bNpgNrH

Thank you for your attention. As always, we're happy to answer any questions on our discord, so do not hesitate to ask.

Overbreed Team