Sapphire Safari (Early Access)
Predator Pounding v022c + 3rd Birthday!
Time sure flies huh? Today Sapphire Safari turns 3 years old! What an absolutely crazy ride it has been so far. The team is still hard at work building the dream game, and this year alone has been a massive step forward for the game! As a birthday gift to you all, Sapphire Safari will be 50% off for the next 2 weeks! This will be your last chance to grab the game at this price since we won’t be dropping so low ever again! Also, today marks the day that v022c has been released, which is most definitely the patch everyone has been wanting for so very very long.
First, let’s quickly go over what's new in v022c!
Hunting, Predators, and Sexual Flowers
Sapphire Island just got a whole lot more dangerous. This entire patch had one major focus, make predators as threatening as we could. This is a very big step for the game, as now Prey and Predator classification actually has meaning.
Prey will fluff around the island, being cute, hanging out, and interacting with each other. You’ll see them making sweet plaps, and being cute while being lewd. Predators are much more elusive, they will sometimes spawn thirsty and being to hunt down Prey that tickles their fancy, stalking them through bushes, until they find the perfect time to pounce. Capturing their target in a bundle of lust, using them however they want, and discarding them when they are done.
Documenting this event will be very tricky as if the player is spotted at any point during, they will now become the target of their hunt. And yes, you’ll get stuffed and grinded upon without mercy. If captured players will be used over and over until the next day, waking up sore and covered in cum. Sensitive photography equipment will break and any photos held in temporary storage will be lost.
Predators are also extremely dangerous outside of hunting mode. If the player is spotted by a Predator, they will instantly desire the exciting new creature, chasing until you manage to elude them or get caught.
We have also activated the new Prev Plant on the island as well, these stationary flowers will reach out and grab anyone close enough. Predator, Prey, Photographer. The flower does not care. Much like the Predator capture, this will result in a failure state. So do be careful.
AI Overhaul
To help add the correct feeling to the game, the AI around predators and reactions has been drastically updated. Prey will flee if they spot you, or if you trigger any noises. Predators will try to find the source of sounds or alerts. Prey will be cautious of Predators walking around outside of hunt mode. And reaction speeds in general have been sped up unless they are pleasuring themselves.
Tutorials and Help
We goofed in the last patch, leaving in old Tutorial Popups that were no longer relevant to the systems inside the game. In this patch, we over-corrected this and built all new tutorials explaining new systems, and how scoring works, and improved the look and feel of the tutorials in general!
Changelog v022c
- Added Tentacle Plant Spawn/Activation AI
- Added 4x Tentacle Plant Sex Animations
- Added Tentacle Plant IK Focus
- Added Tentacle Plant Warning SFX
- Added Tentacle Plant Failure State for Player Capture
- Added Monster Sex Sleep State and Ragdoll
- Added Predator Spawn/Activation AI
- Added Predator Hunt AI and Behavior
- Added Pink Smoke Eye Flair for Hunting Predators
- Added Prey Caution AI for Predators
- Added Predator Hunt Locomotion and Capture Animation
- Added 4x Predator Sex Animations
- Added 9x Monpedia Mating Tab Photo Categories and Animation Tags
- Added nearly 100x general animations for general activities.
- Updated all existing Sex Animations Updated all IK hold points and interactions
- Changed Furloin Nest Location
- Fixed Walking Slopes on Radio Beacons
- Added Player capture state skip
- Added Player torn clothing models - use wardrobe in Camp to repair clothing
- Added Oscar vocals
- Added Bunnets vocals - currently used by all Species
- Changed Jamie model - new tanlines and hair color
- Changed Oscar model - new skin texture
- Updated Jamie breast physics Updated Jamie butt physics - her ass claps so nicely now
- Updated testicle physics
- Added New flee and alert AI Added New noisemaker AI Adjusted reaction speed and systems for awareness
- Prey Awareness mode added
- Mating Tab additional tagging added
- Added Sex Skeleton optimizations
- Adjusted New Moon and Transition Moon brightness at night
- Added Player Capture camera
- World Respawn on Player Capture transition
- Several Map upgrades
- Fixed Player NG spawn-facing
- Fixed Malous spawn rate
- Main Menu overhauled to include Tourist Mode and Story Mode buttons
This patch was massive for us, and now our focus turns to Familiarity. The last bastion of open-world sex mechanics left to build in Sapphire Safari. Here is a quick sneak peek at some of the “modeling” poses higher familiarity species will jump into when you’re spotted!
We are also in the middle of overhauling the introduction sequence to the game (where you select your character) and making a CGI Trailer to show off the game in a better light. We realize up until this point we have had zero gameplay trailer or anything of the sort, and that is coming, we just need to steamroll these last mechanics before we focus on that.
Happy birthday to Sapphire Safari once more, and we hope you all enjoy the new patch!
Comments
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Hey, I like the game so far, but I have some questions!
1. Is there any utility right now about the leveling system, I have like 2000pp and I understand that the familiarity won't be available before the next patch so I know it'll be in fearful mode (and it's soooo slow to level up).
2. Is the mysterious stone is working?
Hey there, happy to answer your questions.
1. Research Level won't be worked on for a while its more just there to show our intention to have a system for progression. It will be worked on post steam early access launch. It is tied into the story mode. Familiarity is being worked on now, so it will be live next patch.
2. Yes! That is an environment puzzle, you will need to explore and discover what to do. HINT: explore at night!
Great game so far, really enjoying it, just wanted to leave some feedback for you.
The game freezes up for me, or rather the keyboard becomes unresponsive, if i change any settings in the game. If i do this, it requires me to ctrl+alt+del kill the process and launch the game again, and in the new launch state the changes I made took effect. Kind of a minor issue, but something I wanted to point out.
Not sure if this is intentional or not, but if you are caught by a predator (at least as the male character, have not been able to reproduce this as the female character) you can end up in a situation where upon awakening the next day/night you are immediately pounced upon again, before you have the opportunity to move. This happened about eight times in a row for me before the predator in question finally spawned facing away from me so I could at least have the time to get up and move the character before they turned around and pounced again.
Camera angles for sex with the monsters (at least predators, havn't gotten to the more docile ones yet.) can be weird. The mouse allows for rotating the camera and zooming in and out, but there doesnt appear to be an option to set the camera at a different elevation while maintaining the same angle. This is problematic for when you want to observe the action happening where one or more of the participants are very low to the ground.
I'm sure you probably were already aware of these issues but in case you weren't I just wanted to point out that at least I am experiencing this. Great game so far over all, cant wait to see new biomes / monster girls and the rest of the game as it unfolds.
Hey so like you said we are aware of those issues, the stunlock thing is something I wanna address in a hotfix before we move on to making the next patch. The options menu freeze might be a longer task to fix though. I am glad you like the game so far!
I hope there will be a PayPal option added to buy it or a patron link (that I can find if it's already here and I didn't see it) because I'm very hyped to play the game but can't get it since i don't have a master card or a visa.
There is a Patreon link in the other stores section on the main page. We won't be adding PayPal because they banned us for making porn.
Excellent, Now I can ever so slightly fill the void in my heart with monster girl affection, maybe also the void in my loins but that's beside the point.
#Monster girl supremacy
Oh and happy b-day!
Happy Birthday! I love this game and the directions it's going in.
Thank you! Glad you like it.
Love the poses. I've always been a big fan of "presenting" as a kink, and this looks like it might scratch that itch a little.
I think a lot of people will really dig the familiarity update for sure.
i see you updated the banner of the game with my favorite scp i love alot hehe nice i love it that's for sure and love seeing my lovely malo too but yeah can't wait hehe
Love the progression the game has made since release
Thank you! We are working hard to ensure it meets everyone's expectations!