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Full Slasher U: An 18+ Horror Movie Dating Sim, Act 1 update
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What changed
- Store
- Gameplay
- Events
- UI and audio
- Fixes
- Balance
Slasher U: An 18+ Horror Movie Dating Sim, Act 1 changes
New build (v7.0012), available now on the main page! MAJOR CHANGES AHOY: I've beefed up the main quest (about 1/3rd of Act 2's main plot is now in Act 1!), slowed down the pacing of Act 1, made Sawyer WAY harder to bone, and other big ol' changes you can read about below! PLUS - a new skin!! Get yer ravenous monster on with my collab with EnbyKaiju of Digital Diversity! <33 Yes. Outfits TOTALLY work with them. Rawrrrr ecks dee
If you get stuck on main mystery, the walkthrough on the main Slasher U website has been updated as well!
MAJOR CHANGES
NEW SKIN! Slasher U x Digital Diversity presents: the school’s first ever kaiju player skin! >:)) Works with outfits!! PLUS catch EnbyKaiju streaming Slasher U in early February & more goodies to come!!
UPDATED MAIN QUEST! Discovering all 4 hooded figure cutscenes around campus prompts you to report it to the Dean, who then unlocks a cutscene/dialogue about the main quest and progresses you to Prom Season
5 new texts under “How’s it Going?” for each dateable!
Made it slightly harder to get Sawyer, Hex, and Juno to like you in general
Sawyer has to like you a LOT more to trigger him asking you to his BDSM party
Sawyer has to like you a LOT more to trigger him asking you on his picnic date
Added +20 Campus Fame when you reach main quest phases 3 and 4.
Game now tracks how many times you’ve bartended at each level
Moved Autosaves to save right AFTER you exit/enter and not before
Adjusted SPOILERS post-Act1-murder Plutonium dialogue about Tanya
Reconfigured how you enter reels into the film projector in the projector room
Much easier to see if you have certain content blocks turned on or off
Added content block for cop siren sounds
You can now play a LOT more music on the sound bank!
Covington now has a Prom suit!
Reduced how much Juno is impressed by Campus Fame
Fixed Hex gym time loop for, hopefully, the final time, lol
Rebalanced starter stats for opening credits choice
Made your personality affect how much each dateable likes you even MORE
You now get +100 Campus Fame for winning Prom Royalty!
You now get Campus Fame for: Delivering food, more story events
Changed Purple bed customization option to Red & Black
Reduced amount of temp personality points each item gives you
Added regular base chat options to Sawyer when he’s chilling in the outdoors zone by the gym/admin building and it’s not Prom season
Significantly raised the amount of Campus Fame you get from bartending (differs per level)
Added directions to the forest when you talk to Veronika
Fixed selection box location when you change your appearance at Dr Steinfurter
Removed Hex’s classroom cutscene as being counted towards progress towards Chapter 2.
Moved Tate’s dead body hidin’ request to only trigger if A) he likes you an okay amount, B) you’ve discovered all 4 hooded figure cutscenes, and C) he’s your closest friend.
Game now tracks time passing not just by story events/emotional progress per NPC, but also by day/night cycles (nothing else has been changed to react to this yet except spacing out events, so you’re good/nothing’s suddenly on a time limit)
Gutted the trigger/response part of the main quest where your love interest waits for you outside your dorm EXCEPT for Tate (see above).
Placed (MASSIVE SPOILERS) plot book from Act2 into Act 1 projector room
Moved some plot stuff up from Act 2 into Act 1
Changed title screen/chapter names to fit reworked main quest!!
End of Act 1 now triggers after Prom, (MASSIVE SPOILERS) once you’ve made the connection between the Hays Society and the Hays Code, once you’ve seen the 1968 football microfiche, and once Plutonium tells you about how Slasher U operated under the Code. (END SPOILERS)
Updated Class of 2023 credits names! <33
MINOR CHANGES
Fixed duplicate instance of Campus Fame counting your Sawyer stuff twice
Fixed campus fame for bartending
Fixed Prof. Xerxes’ name appearing correctly while on shrooms
Removed extra night orb in Forest
Widened exit range for coffee shop map
Widened hitbox for entering projector room
Changed icon for inventory item Blank Reel
Changed icon for inventory item Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds
Fixed text on sound bank controls on set.
Centralized sound bank controls on set.
Removed extra breakup option for Tate
Adjusted text for going into cinema for Prom
Added positive fx feedback for frisbee scene!
Updated some +’s and !’s fx for Tate
Fixed some text and memory line breaks
Adjusted Veronika’s directions to the cinema
Fixed shrooms name appearing properly for Dean Whatsisname
Added more quest text to the Slasher U Football Game 1968 microfiche (and fixed the title, too. Me plus numbers equals oh no)
Changed Sawyer’s library key card to be more library key like
Added computer lab key to projector room if Prom is happening.
As always, you can report bugs in the Bugfinder General thread, or on the #bugs-bugs-bugs channel on Discord! <3333
[ONGOING STUFF]
The Discord is, as always, kickass, and discussing the finer points of horror movies and whether Sawyer would like clam chowder or not (he would)
I answer questions over on the Slasher U Tumblr!
My Patreon (where I do behind-the-scenes, secrets, and Five Alarm Fridays!)
The fanmade Slasher U Wiki! 🖤🖤🖤
The official Slasher U Website!
As always - Thank y'all so much for your support, tumblr asks, discord memes, and deep fried Tate McGillicutty photoshops!!!!!!! I couldn't do this without you!! Y'all rule, Student Disembody!!!!!!!! xoxoxoxooxoxox Professor Plutonium
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