~THG Derek September 2022 Update~

Hello everyone, Derek here. I hope you’re all doing well.

Another productive month has gone by here, albeit a lot of it has gone on behind the scenes. The forward crew section of the ship has gone through our Q/A process, which has resulted in quite a lot of bug fixes and light-rebuilds to sort out the remaining issues, so this has demanded quite a lot of my time this past month. However, I’m quite happy with the final result and it’s now officially got the green light to move into the upcoming V1.5 build of Demo401.

Since then, I have been prepping the 2nd class spaces for a dev build, and completing light bakes for those areas. At the time of writing this, we’re just a few days away from getting that build out into the hands of our Q/A Team.

As you may have noticed, visual sneak peeks of my work have been a little light in the last month. That’s mostly because you’ve already gotten to see the most notable spaces in 2nd class, such as the Library, and 2nd class smoking room. Those spaces have gotten some minor tweaks since you last saw them, but are otherwise identical.

I will tease that the next targeted area will be the coal bunkers and new updated and enlarged boiler rooms. This will contain the majority of the remaining spaces that are being added to V1.5. Once that section is complete, only 1st class remains. A large number of 1st class rooms are already nearly complete, such as the Café Parisian, the Palm Courts, Smoking Room, Lounge, reading and writing room, A deck forward corridor and cabins, Gym, elevator gear room, Marconi wireless room, officers quarters corridors, B51 and it’s promenade, al la carte restaurant, Strauss suite, Turkish bath, swimming bath, mail room, baggage, and the squash court. The end is certainly within sight.

For now, I hope you’ll enjoy these latest sneak peeks into V1.5. I promise I’ll have more to show shortly.