v0.28.1 Game Status: Unprotected

Evening all, it's mid-month update time, and the pregnancy system is now fully operational!

If you engage in the 'romance' scene found when seducing crewmembers from the Crew Profiles, there is now a chance of pregnancy for crewmembers, the player, and the XO (if you pass all of the requirements listed below). Specialists do not get to engage in the fun for now as my current thinking is that I'll make that a part of their late-game relationship stages, which are quite a bit off in the future. In addition to the actual act itself I've also added in a number of followup scenes which the player will get if there's a pregnancy involving them. I haven't had as much time to bugtest all of this as I might like, so if anyone runs into any issues please let me know.

With that out of the way, it's time for me to return to game plot development for a bit, with the Happee and Schen. Part of that will be our next cameo appearance, as quite a while ago Switch won a poll to reappear in the series and they've been waiting for quite a long time at this point to actually do so. We'll see how that goes next time, until then, the patch notes are below, and the downloads can be found at the previous link. Thanks for playing!

v0.28.1 Change Log

Game Functions:

• Pregnancy mechanics added to the procedural 'romance' encounters. Each time there is a PIV climax involving the player, XO, or standard crewmembers, there is a chance for pregnancy. Specialists cannot impregnate or be impregnated at this time. For pregnancy to occur, the following must be true:

  • A Reproductive Health Officer must be staffed (Tier 3 ship required).

  • Mandatory birth control policies are not in use.

  • Both participants are the same species (future ship upgrades may remove this requirement).

  • Both participants must be fertile.

  • The potential mother must not already be pregnant or within 30 days of having been pregnant.

  • A random check based on the ship's fertility policy must be passed.

Scene Content:

• End-of-day Reproductive Health Officer scene added to inform the player when they have gotten a crewmember pregnant, requires an RHO to be staffed, will delay until one is staffed if there is none.

• End-of-day XO scene added to inform the player when they have gotten the XO pregnant, slight variants based on XO relationship. Note: Some options may change the XO relationship, however if chosen this change will be queued until further XO relationship mechanics are added to the game.

• End-of-day XO scene added to inform the XO when they have gotten the player pregnant, slight variants based on XO relationship. Same notes as the above scene.

Art Content:

•  None

Codex Entries:

• None

Bug Fixes:

• Corrected swapped Int and Init icons in combat command stat displays.

Known Issues:

• None