The Company - Alpha 5.1.0 - Patreon Release
Added 2017-11-25 17:00:59 +0000 UTCAM and PM are basically the same thing, right? Anyway... It's finally here! The Company - Alpha 5.1 is officially released to patrons.
If you want to play locally, you'll need to download both Image Pack 1 and Image Pack 2, as well as the game's HTML file. The HTML file should be in the same directory as the "pics" folder.
Image Pack 1
Image Pack 2
The Company - Alpha 5.1.11
I want to give a special shout out to all my pre-alpha testers, but especially to Mr. J Jester. Without him, this release wouldn't be nearly as solid as it is!
And now, the patch notes.
The Company - Alpha 5.1.0 - Dakota
System Changes
- Alpha 5.1.0 focuses on Dakota, who has received:
- 21 conversation events
- 15 room exploration events
- 10 random events
- 2 "bad end" events, each with multiple sub-events
- 1 MCS-3 event
- Dakota will react to player's gender and chastity state, comment on clothing in the morning, and react to new (or missing) genitals
- Stats have been removed. This includes relationship, arousal, willpower, corruption, intelligence, masculinity and femininity
- Arousal has been redesigned, and can increase based both on events and passive effects, such as clothing or gender
- At maximum arousal (Uncontrollably Horny) you will no longer be able to select any non-sexual options when given the choice
- Masturbating will reset your arousal level, though passive effects will remain
- Player transformation now occurs more fluidly, and you'll be notified of changes as they happen. Each transformation comes with an event that will trigger overnight
- Your family and coworkers will react to transformations as they occur
- You can easily shift between the "male" end of the gender spectrum (male, trans, sissy) or the "female" end (female, shemale, bimbo), though it's more difficult to bridge the gaps between trans and shemale, though it is possible
- As more content gets added to the game, more avenues for transformations will be added as well
- It is possible to toggle forced transformations, which are enabled by default
- It is possible to permanently become a sissy or a bimbo, thus disabling the transformation system
- Wardrobe system added. You can now change your clothing in your bedroom. Clothing will affect your transformation direction, arousal level, and dialogue in some scenes
- Clothing and reactions to what you're wearing are constantly expanding. Note that this update is only the first pass
- New dialogue system
- New dialogue system allows for player choice in conversation topics with character
- Conversation topics can be unlocked in various ways, and can unlock other events and conversations themselves
- This patch only introduces the system to Dakota, though in the future it will be expanded game-wide
- New exploration system
- New exploration system lets you spend time exploring rooms and objects, which may unlock other events, objects or conversations
- Rooms and objects can be unlocked via conversations, exploration, events, and just about anything else
- This patch only introduces the system to Dakota, though in the future it will be expanded game-wide
- New location, Shopping Mall!
- The mall can be visited on the weekend
- You'll meet four new characters here who will all get more interactions in the future. For now they're just here to sell you clothing
- At the mall you can buy men's, women's, and intimate clothing, as well as adult toys. Intimate Apparel and Women's Boutique are locked from Male players until they've begun trending towards a feminine gender state
- The adult toy store also offers a chastity device removal service
- Walking around the mall will cause time to pass
- The mall will be expanded in the future with its own set of events and additional locations!
- Random events!
- Random events have a chance to occur at certain times and days at home and work
- These events will provide various bonuses, unlocks, and content, and themselves can be unlocked in various ways
- Alpha 5.1 ships with 10 office events and 15 home events, for a total of 25 random events
- New events will be added regularly, this system is designed to be constantly expanded
- Over 85 new images
- Several improvements in dialogue formatting
- Improved masturbation scene can affect player transformation
- Characters now have relationships (Mom, Sister, Co Worker, Boss, etc) as well as statuses that will change based on your interactions with them. These statuses can be viewed from the side bar.
- Image pack check added to beginning of game
- Time/date system now progresses properly, even outside of game's limits
Lab and Serum Changes
- Serums no longer cost money to make
- The player now starts with less money, and earns less weekly
- "Money" is no longer "Budget", and now represents the player's actual money
- Serums now require various amounts of material components
- These components can be prepared in the lab, and doing so causes time to pass
- Various events can reward the player with additional components
- Penny's assistance in the lab will either increase material yield, or remove the time cost of producing serum
- The lab can be upgraded up to 10 times
- Each upgrade increases material yields by 50%
- Upgrade costs increase with each upgrade
- Upgrade costs come out of the player's pocket
- During the game, the player will unlock the ability to sell excess serums as an additional way to earn money
- Due to the new time requirement to make serums, dose cooldowns have been reduced to 1 day across the board, and no longer increase
- New serum has been added to the game which can trigger a character's "bad end"
- Once administered, that character can no longer be otherwise dosed
- Effects will trigger gradually, culminating in a major change in that character
- This effect will likely lock out most if not all future normal interactions with that character, so be careful!
- This system currently only applies to Dakota, but will be added to more characters over future patches
Story and Events
- For comparison, 5.0.2 released with 87,026 words. 5.1.0 clocks in at 151,018
- New dream sequences have been added to the beginning of the game which act as a way for the player to change various settings in the game
- New story events involving The Company have been added, revealing some background (and raising more questions) surrounding the game's overarching story
- Penny has received two new dose events, for a total of 4
- All events have been updated to account for variance in player gender and chastity status, though not all to the same extent
- Events involving Dakota and John have received the most attention, while others will all get additional passes through future updates
- Weekend all-day events no longer have a cooldown, and now cost money instead
- As part of the new crafting system, players will be ask to craft a vial of CMD-1 themselves for the end of Chapter 1 event
- As part of the new crafting system, players will need to craft a vial of TFM-1 themselves for John's TF event
- Reaction events to John's TF have been added
- A transition scene on the way to work to accommodate morning events has been added
- An extra week has been added to Chapter 1 to accommodate new crafting system
- Events added to "Bad Ends" in Chapter 2 to make do-overs cleaner
Please submit bugs either to me directly or post them in the comments. Thanks all!
Comments
it might be based off of corruption or lust now since their still in the game.
2017-11-29 06:07:33 +0000 UTCwith the intelligence removed im assuming you cant be dumb or cock dumb anymore with John in the bathroom? For my character i shout either im not stupid or im out of here. just curious
2017-11-29 01:52:33 +0000 UTCTwine has a way of overwriting the wrong passage when copy-pasting, and I didn't catch it on my way out the door this morning. I've fixed this and re-uploaded the file. I apologize for that.
Westane
2017-11-28 16:25:31 +0000 UTCIs anybody else experiencing an issue with 5.1.6 being stuck in a "prologue" with nothing to click?
2017-11-28 16:11:48 +0000 UTChay i have a request can we drug lenny into our spy. he is the custodian for the whole (or your section) of the building its a perfect opatunity to gather some dirt. you just have to offer him a bear and do the obedience command you did for penny and then order him to spy, done. it would give us a reason to stay till we get kick out of the building because that is when he is their. (only face to face meetings out of the building because this compony defiantly bugged your phone, his phone and the rooms, plus no sat or sun meetings to suspicious at the beginning)
2017-11-28 15:22:26 +0000 UTCI agree wholeheartedly with being able to dose your family more often. Any time you're one on one should be an acceptable time. Especially in a time management game where walking from one store to another in the mall takes four hours. Another thing: Mall trips should be a half a day, set rate. Go to one store, or to them all.
Twisted Kidney
2017-11-28 14:53:05 +0000 UTCi have to suggestions one is on the toys and other is on the family. for the toys, can it be possible to give our toys to the people. it would cost a pretty penny but it would open up new scenes. plus for a guy who generally plays male only (unless experimenting) the toys are practically useless. then when it comes to the family i have 2 suggestions for dosing. now i find being able to dose the family only on the weekends to be quite annoying. being able to possibly dose my family at dinner or breakfast would be perfect (acts as a randome event "sis left early, mom went shopping, sis slept in, mom is sick etc) no reason to break the system i would just like to have the incentive to leave after breakfast instead of going straight to work and then working all day. the second one is quite simple alow us to dose the people we take out on a date, were with them all day long. your telling me there isn't a chance to dose them during any of that.
2017-11-28 09:05:19 +0000 UTCOkay, it sounds like I may have over tuned the TF weights. I'll start working on this.
Westane
2017-11-28 06:54:13 +0000 UTCOMG love the new stuff...unsurprisingly, absolutely adore the new Dakota line...oh my...
Wandrer
2017-11-28 06:11:35 +0000 UTCAs a Male character, acting "girly" will push you towards Trans while acting "submissive" will push you towards Sissy, same with acting submissive while Trans. Keep an eye on the blue status on the sidebar, if it says you're feeling submissive then you're going in the right direction. Wearing a chastity device helps a lot with this, as does submitting to John at work. You can also disabled forced transformations by choosing to Fight the Man during the early dream sequences, which will give you the option to opt out of any unwanted transformations.
Westane
2017-11-27 14:27:51 +0000 UTCI am so confused by the tf switching. I just keep going back and forth between trans and shemale. How do i get to the sissy tf?
2017-11-27 14:06:20 +0000 UTCGoing to get a blow job from Tasha when you're in chastity causes an error as well.
Twisted Kidney
2017-11-27 02:38:51 +0000 UTCHaving something up your butt when the event with Tasha's vibe procs (endlessly) and choosing to insert her vibe in yourself causes the item taht was already there to get shoved to far up your tookus that the game shows you wearing forever and ever, but you can't get it out!
Twisted Kidney
2017-11-27 02:26:59 +0000 UTCDUDE! SECRET ENDING SPOILERS ! Damn, so much for my twist ending...
Westane
2017-11-27 00:28:13 +0000 UTCCuriousity question, how does one go through all the paths? I can only manage to get Bimbo, Shemale, and Sissy x.X
2017-11-27 00:25:46 +0000 UTCIt would be interesting if some event in the game could make you vulnerable to MCS-X. So normally you'd just get the bad end for the character you used it on, but if you had become vulnerable to it then they would spread it to you by 'contact', and you would wind up subject to the same bad end.
2017-11-27 00:15:37 +0000 UTCWhere is the Lenny route where he finds your stash and takes over the company?
2017-11-27 00:15:37 +0000 UTCSomething I've noticed in the image files; how does one trigger the f/f cuckold scenes with Penny? I can never seem to trigger them in any of my playthroughs. Also, what specific changes happen based on the choices in the dream sequences with Saya?
RunningRooster
2017-11-26 23:07:49 +0000 UTCI like the way you think!
Westane
2017-11-26 20:40:34 +0000 UTCGreat update! I feel like you should have the option to ummm... join in the fun with your sister in the porn star path. Like, you should be able to opt in and be the second girl in the gang bang scene. Also, if you give her that command and hit that scene as a bimbo yourself it should be a bad end where you both wind up as porn stars. :evil grin: Also, how do you move from male to female? I seem to just get stuck as 'sissy' forever and never change further.
2017-11-26 20:33:37 +0000 UTCAh, good catch. I'll update the online version tonight, though the local update will have to come later.
Westane
2017-11-26 20:00:06 +0000 UTCOne quick item, Westane. When you've progressed Penny as far as she'll go, there's not a picture for her notebook profile as a "Sexy Lab Assistant." ~Morningfrost
Morningfrost
2017-11-26 19:57:13 +0000 UTCThese are note images for when Sophie's dose path begins development. They're small, so I left them in, but related content isn't in the game yet.
Westane
2017-11-26 18:43:06 +0000 UTCSo in the image packs, there are a bunch of extra profile pics for Sophie. We're not actually able to dose Sophie other than that first time, right? ~Morningfrost
Morningfrost
2017-11-26 18:29:49 +0000 UTCWOW! MCS-X is grim. I'd be lying if the whole dog thing didn't make me laugh a little. I'd love to see Dakota manage to flip that on the MC a little, without the MCS-X obviously.
Twisted Kidney
2017-11-26 16:55:55 +0000 UTCHm... Are you sure you're on 5.1.4? I just triggered the transformation coming from trans, female and bimbo and all three of them moved properly into the reaction sequence.
Westane
2017-11-26 15:37:18 +0000 UTCAt the moment there game ends after chapter 2. Once this round of character centric patches finishes, the game will start moving into chapter 3.
Westane
2017-11-26 14:43:40 +0000 UTCSo for the MCS-X transformation "bad end," is there a definitive end to the game, or does it just stop progression for that character?
Khinzaw
2017-11-26 10:42:50 +0000 UTC"It is possible to permanently become a sissy or a bimbo, thus disabling the transformation system"
Khinzaw
2017-11-26 10:29:47 +0000 UTCHey ! If you manage to become a shemale in 5.1.4, the next screen when you're supposed to see your mother and dakota react to the change is empty (you can't even continue). So you can't be a shemale at the moment.
2017-11-26 10:03:09 +0000 UTCI've been getting an error almost throughout the entire game, when you go to bed and there should be a dream there is an error message about an undefined variable. Something about a TFcheck?
2017-11-26 08:30:25 +0000 UTCI'm investigating this issue right now
Westane
2017-11-26 07:09:48 +0000 UTCGetting the following error in chapter one: Playing a submissive male: You decide to call it a night and climb into bed. Error: <<tfcheck>>: error within widget contents (Error: <<if>>: bad conditional expression in <<if>> clause: Cannot read property '2' of undefined)</if></if></tfcheck>
Onedrift
2017-11-26 06:35:43 +0000 UTCHere is good, thanks. I'll get a new patch out tonight!
Westane
2017-11-26 01:46:36 +0000 UTCis this a good place for a bug report? Found a few: Trying to to the intimate apparel store while you're "curious" sends you instead to the women's apparel store, and there are assignment operators rather than equality operators within Tasha's checks for dosage (tasha.dose = 8 and tasha.dose = 9)
Nerina
2017-11-26 01:36:08 +0000 UTCThe chastity removal event was a little broken, and now fixed in 5.1.2. The save files should work between all versions of 5.1. Is it throwing an error, or just missing? Also online version or local?
Westane
2017-11-25 23:04:57 +0000 UTCHmmm.... Still playing off of 5.1. It seems that paying to get the Chastity Device removed doesn't actually remove it.... And... 5.1 save file doesn't transfer over to 5.1.1..... WELP
2017-11-25 22:53:24 +0000 UTCAwwwww, c'mon man! :D
Westane
2017-11-25 22:05:46 +0000 UTCDamn, so close to flawless release. I've uploaded 5.1.1 which fixed this issue. The serum now properly unlocks on October 9th, and if you're past that point in the game it will unlock next time you go to sleep.
Westane
2017-11-25 22:05:16 +0000 UTCHow much do I have to pay you to replace the pictures of Dakota with someone who's actually attractive?
2017-11-25 22:02:53 +0000 UTCAn MSC-3 event is mentioned, but I have no idea how to find or make MSC-3. I already finished chapter 2 and got my lab fully upgraded.
Risax the Imp
2017-11-25 21:52:32 +0000 UTCCorrect.
Westane
2017-11-25 20:40:54 +0000 UTCSo the chastity Tasha puts on you and breake the key can fall off ?
RubberBimbo
2017-11-25 20:24:05 +0000 UTCYep, and it's only going to get bigger. That's why I started offering the browser version as an alternative.
Westane
2017-11-25 18:10:46 +0000 UTCThat's a lot of growth in the download.
Twisted Kidney
2017-11-25 18:07:30 +0000 UTC
