[UPDATE] — Reina, Finale — FREE Release


REINA, FINALE — PUBLIC RELEASE


After many excruciating months of wait, the time has finally come. The finale of one of, if not THE most popular, the most requested, and certainly the absolute fan-favorite route is here, and it's glorious.

We don't want to pat our own backs, but it just might be one of the best content expansions we have ever released. In the span of many months we have been meticulously figuring out the best way to end this story, and, in our professional opinion, it might be it. The perfect balance of drama, cute awkwardness, and spice. Oh, so much spice!

But let's address the elephant in the room — the redesign. It was a point of contention for many, and we completely understand, but we also want to make it clear — it was a necessary evil. As our game grows larger, it gets harder and harder to hide behind the excuse of being a parody game, so we simply had to ensure that all of the money that you pledged, and all of the time we dedicated to this project won't be lost in vain in case we get slammed by a lawsuit. Sure, we might have a solid defense: Our game is transformative enough to call it a fair use, and it is free to play, apart of the early access our patrons get rewarded with, but the reality of the situation is, we have no means to deal with a multi-billion dollar corporation in the court. If we want this project to prosper, we have to make those small sacrifices.

We made sure to keep her new appearance as close as possible to the very recognizable original form, as well did our best at implementing all of the feedback you provided in the span of last few months, perfecting her updated design. On top of that, we didn't change anything in her story, keeping it as is, since it was already completely original to begin with, as well as avoided making any changes to her body form in the scenes that were already present. The only thing we changed in the content you unlock throughout her route — is the hairstyle, piercing and the makeup she uses.

Basically, the only significant change are her dialogue sprites and the name itself. That's it, nothing else.

In the future, we will do our absolute best to stay as close as possible to the designs you have already gotten used to, and make only small adjustments, that shouldn't impact the quality of your experience. We are also looking into a possibility of adding more customization options, that will allow you to bring the updated look even closer to the original you are used to see.

Getting back to the update itself.

Making her final update has turned into one of the biggest passion projects for our team, where we poured all of our heart and soul to ensure that the best girl gets the best ending. Though, calling it an "ending" might be a little disingenuous...

Who knows what other misadventures your beloved hacker has planned for the future?

 

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are yall planning on maybe dropping mod support into the game so people could do things like make mods that can change the characters names back to the original ones. i was wondering because im replaying the game because of the newer updates and the new names you think would not bother you much but surprisingly in does alot, and it would be cool to just see some random mods that do things like add random side quest for fun or random new characters like jett from valorant and things that would not fit the game direction but players could implement for fun

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i really want the purple hair back :c, also her design feels way less cartoony then the others, and super out of place

love the game btw

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We already stated that we will be revisiting her design and bringing some parts back, maybe even purple hair. We understand that we probably gone a little too far into originality with her, so we'll try to tune it down a notch as soon as we have a little bit more time.

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I just lost basically all of my Hero Gallery, I don't know what to do!

The only things left are Andre's and Bridgette's replays and the X-Ray and Sombra's picture. The Sombra's replays aren't there too, and neither all of the other routes (I'm up to date with the free releases).

Is there anything I can do? I downloaded and booted up this new version as per usual, and still have the previous one in my computer. The previous one was normal until now, but I opened it and the gallery is also lost now.

Edit: Also, looking at Sombra's (Reina's) market, some variants that I'd already bought and Tracy's (Sonya's) spy cam are there...

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First of all, the (current) ending for Reina's route is hella good. You guys and your writers deserve big praises for it. Can't wait for future updates cuz I know all of them will be certified bangers 

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"Use Xray on the fountain" I can find no clickable icon or keyboard button or menu option to allow me to access Xray.  Playing current public mac version.  Thanks!

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Hi! It's in your phone on the second page.



If it's not there then you didn't complete Reina's xray quest for finding 3 jammers in the Academy.

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Thank you!  I did not remember that there was a second menu page, it'd been so long since I did that quest...