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https://www.patreon.com/posts/lab-rats-2-v0-27-35507683It's the start of a new month, which means a new Lab Rats 2 patron release! It's a star-studded release season, but I hope LR2 v0.27.0 will capture your interest just as much as Animal Crossing or Bannerlord! This update cycle had two major focuses: business policy mechanics and the seduction system. It is now possible to toggle business policies, such as mandatory corporate nudity, on and off. The seduction system has been reworked, with the previous generic "seduce" option replaced with a number of context specific options. These options correspond to a girls key stats: Love, Obedience, and Sluttiness. What approach you should take to seduce someone will depend on the girl.
The ability to toggle business policies on and off is the most immediate change to the policy system, but there has been a lot more work done under the hood as well. The policy purchase UI has been revamped to display more information more clearly and to support policies being toggled on and off. There is now code support for policies with an ongoing per-turn or per-day effect/cost, opening up a huge number of possibilities for additions in future updates.
The seduction system rework broke the previous generic "seduce" option into three distinct approaches, each one focused on a different key stat for a girl. Girls with high Love now respond positively to flirting, especially when the two of you are alone. Girls with high Sluttiness can be seduced by groping them to get them hot and bothered. Finally, girls who are highly Obedient can simply be commanded to submit their bodies to you. The results of each of these approaches is highly context specific; girls who are shy will want to go somewhere private before you do anything naughty, slutty girls don't care if you start grabbing their tits in the middle of the office.
There have also been a few additions and changes scattered throughout the game. Your aunt Rebecca has had a full suite of taboo break dialogue written for her, a total of 3,500 words. The generic ability to try and give any girl a dose of serum has been removed in favour of a high Obedience "Command" variant, with the "Sneak" option being replaced by more frequent random events and the "Ask" option being role or character specific now. Girls with high Obedience can now be commanded to strip to their underwear, get their tits out, or strip naked for you. When having sex girls will only try and take control if they have the energy to do something, and they now properly break their own taboos when in control of the encounter.
v0.27.0 has been a big update! If you're a patron I hope you enjoy it, if not I hope you're looking forward to it!
Changelog (v0.26.1 to v0.27.0):
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*CHANGES AND ADDITIONS*
- Some purchased policies can now be toggled to be active or inactive. Some policies are always active when purchased.
- Added support for policy fuctions when applied, removed, on each turn, or on each day beginning.
- Redesigned policy purchase screen. Now allows you to select a policy without purchasing it, instead of requiring you to hover.
- Adjusted policy purchase screen style to match the rest of the game.
- Some policies now require lower level policies to be active before being activateable.
- Active policies that are required by other active policies can not be disabled.
- Policy info screen now shows what other policies are preventing you from enabling/disabling a policy.
- Uniforms may now be invalid if uniform policies are deactivated after they are defined. Invalid uniforms will not be worn until the appropraite policies are activated.
- Girls will change out of newly invalid uniforms if they are not naturally slutty enough to wear it anyways.
- Added a disabled slug to set daily serum action when policy is owned but disabled.
- Added full suite of taboo break dialogue for Rebecca.
- Removed generic "Seduce" option.
- Added "Grope" option, available on all girls once sluttiness is 5 or higher.
- Added multiple tiers to grope action, leading to entering the normal sex system at high enough Sluttiness.
- Added "Command" option, available on all girls above 100 Obedience.
- Moved "Command her to take serum" option into the general "Command" menu.
- Added "Command her to let her touch you" option. Allows you to enter the normal sex system at high enough Obedience.
- Added public sex check and dialogue to grope and command sex options.
- Redid flirt dialogue, now has three tiers for different levels of Love. Highest level may also lead into sex system.
- High or low happiness now has a minor effect on sluttiness.
- Added "Command her to strip" option, with three possibilities: Show me your tits, show me your underwear, and get naked.
- Girls will now only attempt to take control if you try and stop having sex when they have at least some (30+) energy.
- Removed generic option to "give" anyone serum (note: you can still "Command" someone to take it).
*BUG FIXES*
- Fixed another crash source for Macs with animation system.
- Fixed incorrect transition call going from skull fuck to deepthroat.
- Reduced max available rollback to reduce eout of memory errors.
- Fixed incorrect strip list implementation that would result in skipping strip transitions and progression.
- Fixed position taboos not breaking when a girl took control.
- Fixed stripping not breaking a taboo when a girl did it.
- Fixed incorrect boob and ass animation mask being used during animated strips using a characters default pose.
- Fixed incorrect outfit check for company model.