Major Content Update - Gathering Power & Sex Scenes

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!

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!

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.

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!

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!

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.

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

• 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 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

• Updated, changed and added new foley around the world

• Updated male voice acting for Ohna

• Updated landscape material layers

• Updated world map image and borders

• Updated game map

• Updated and changed multiple sound files

• Updated world water

• Updated Stone Watcher AI to have a smaller radius for deactivation

• Updated multiple quest objectives for the journal

• Updated multiple enemies to use new arcana/ranged armor calculations

• Updated and changed map area overlaps for POIs