Major Content Update – Gathering Power & Sex Scenes

New Main Story Quests – Mini Quests, New Scenes, Ambient Sex System

Hey Everyone! We’re back with a Major Content Update – the next main story quest and it’s accompanying Mini-Quests- new sex scenes, weapon and more!

Gathering Power

Speak to Amara at the shrine of Ascension she’ll let you know the next steps on your Journey, gathering Demi-God essence and feeding them to the shrine. The Demigod Pahnu can be found at their Desert Temple, this quest comes with some mini-quests along the way and trials to test and attune your character – don’t get lost in the Labyrinth!

This is a harder difficulty quest, I don’t want to spoil too much but to start the quest you’ll have to have completed Masquerade and bring potions!

p.s. There’s an optional quest reward of Pahnu’s bow for you to grab! – Pahnu’s Faun form will be coming as a playable form in the future!

New Sex Scenes – Reverse Cowgirl

After Finder’s Keepers Amhak has some spare time at his camp for some company, a new reverse cowgirl scene is available for all Body Types, and holes, giving you the opportunity to give and receive in this scene.

Moving around the World

After many requests from you all we’ve implemented a new movement system for the player which is much more similar to Unreal Engine 4, moving away from the root motion system we’ve had up until now in Unreal Engine 5.

This allows free camera movement and looking around the player as you run, only locking you in for combat. With new stops, starts, sprints and jumping we think this is a lot more fun for traversing the world and we think you’ll agree.

Given that this is the first implementation and we’ve kicked it out of the door to bring it to you with this update rather than later; there’s hundreds of animations per Body Type and situation there are some minor issues that need ironing out that we’re working on and you’ll see improved in the coming updates!

Ambient Sex Scenes

We mentioned in a previous devblog at the end of last year that we’ve been working on Ambient Sex Scenes. These are spontaneous and short bouts of sex that will be available around the world.

These aren’t as complicated as a full blown DSS Animation with dynamic control and Orgasms, but are to spice up certain areas, the first prototype of this is now available with this update, giving you the opportunity to ride the Stone Watcher after you’ve defeated them.

If all goes well you’ll be seeing more of these available around the world in coming updates!

Devblog – Optimization January & Rebalancing

We spent quite a lot of time in January working out engine bugs with upgrading Unreal Engine version and we didn’t really see much benefit. We’ve ultimately stayed where we are for now, but we’ve been working really hard on Loading Range Changes, HLODs, Collision, Occlusion and Shadows and we’ve gained some frames and clawed some texture memory back. You should gain the most benefit from this when you’re out and about in the open world, where we’ve been hiding all the sneaky assets you can’t really see. Optimization is a spring cleaning effort that we’ll keep at throughout the year and this is just a start.

Balancing – we’ve modified values for Magic Defense, Magic Attack Scaling, Ranged Attack armour, Ranged attack scaling and melee damage + health across all boss enemies. We also discovered a bug with damage values not correctly displaying, overall this needs some more tweaks but the difficulty overall has increased slightly.

Coming Up Next & Patch Notes

Right now we’re in the swing of the next update already, the UE4 area will be coming in the next updates, along with revamping some old quests and some new ones to the area. You’ll also see us bring to life back to the world with this update as the old Sabu docks were full of life!

As you may have noticed Pahnu has hooved feet, this was a part of us bringing back the void Daughter as a Playable form and future hooved playable Characters which you’ll be able to play as in the coming updates!

Thank you all for your support and we hope you enjoy the update!

Team Carnal Instinct

Patch Notes v0.7.5

ADDED

Added new Quest “Gathering Power”
Added new Mini Quest “Blackwater”
Added new Mini Quest “The Stonebound Tribunal”
Added new Mini Quest “Hidden Pilgrimage”
Added new DSS2 Sex Scene “Reverse Cowgirl”
Added new Ambient Sex Scene “Watcher”
Added new Movement System, back to same as CI UE4
Added new weapon “Briarpath”
Added new NPC “Faun”
Added new enemy AI “Tomb Robber”
Added new enemy AI “Khemari”
Added Pahnu Boss Fight
Added various new traps and puzzle systems for Gathering Power
Added multiple new items

FIXED

Fixed problems with climbing system for male characters
Fixed a bug where burnt beetle nests would still have interaction despite nothing happening
Fixed a bug where Blink couldnt be used during sprint states
Fixed bug with Gathering Power Maze door opening when already open
Fixed a problem with the Air Vents during “Hidden Pilgrimage”
Fixed Amhak missing a sex scene
Fixed multiple AI issues with Dune Beetles
Fixed multiple “sliding” animations which wernt updated during movement updates
Fixed a bug where the boat stopped moving when letting go of move forward
Fixed an issue in the Shrine of Ascension displaying a bright pink glow on character faces at low graphics
Fixed footstep decals being boots, not feet
Fixed a problem with the shader complier
Fixed various issues with z fighting
Fixed issues with camera zooms
Fixed an issue with the void scene clothing toggles
Fixed a problem with vertex shaders
Fixed and updated HLODs in the map
Fixed an issue where morph targets wern’t correctly applying in DSS2
Fixed issues with new forms being unable to equip wraps
Fixed a bug where the green skirt wasnt sold by Damaris
Fixed an issue with enemy armor incorrectly applying for ranged weapons
Fixed an issue with enemy armor incorrectly calculating arcana damage
Fixed a problem with the form screen regarding males
Fixed an issue with multiple meshes not using nanite
Fixed an issue with various interactables being flagged as moveable causing issues
Fixed and updated every combat animation to work with new movement system
Fixed and updated all states (swimming,riding.canopic capture.ect.) to work with new movement system
Fixed an issue with the Sobek laser not correctly playing
Fixed various materials
Fixed and updated alot of interactables to work correctly with shade sight
Fixed and updated multiple spelling errors
Fixed an issue with sotema cart loosing interaction
Fixed problems with climbing system for male characters
Fixed an issue which caused the load game screen to spike excessively
Fixed issues with hair/helmets not displaying on characters during cinematics and sex scenes
Fixed a bug where players could mantle into Pahnu’s maze causing them to get stuck
Fixed map errors with floating rocks and foliage
Fixed a bug where players could “tend” to the Mouth of Pahnu as a female
Fixed a problem with gathering power not displaying on the world map
Fixed an issue with canopic capture not working on NPCs