Sapphire Safari (Beta Access)
Early Access Launch v025
Hello Photographers! What a momentous occasion! After years of dev work, the day is finally here! Sapphire Safari has launched on Steam! Version 025 is chock full of QOL features and updates based on the Steam Nextfest demo feedback. Lots of stuff is in the build, so let's quickly go over it now.
Just as a starting point, we were working tirelessly to get this build ready in time. One feature was unable to be completed in a state we would consider release-worthy, and that was the corrective IK system for the sex animations. However, the system is working, it just needs more time to polish. So following the launch of this build, the team will get back to polishing up the IK tech for the animations, and in a couple of days, we expect to have v026 ready, just to make all the animations feel as good as they can be! Just let us cook a little longer!
Okay, update time!
Tig ol’ Bitties
You can now change the sizes of the creatures' breasts in the game to suit your needs. By default, they are randomized, but you have complete control over what scale you’d prefer to see.
Default (regular size as designed), Random, Small (smaller than default), Medium (slightly bigger), and Large (bazongas).
Sadly the croc won’t have any changes due to her never having breasts to begin with. Such is life…
Speaka ma language!
We now have a total of 12 supported languages for Sapphire Safari. These are machine-translated so expect some wobbly translations here and there. It is very difficult to do LQA on languages we do not speak so I hope our lovely community can point out any glaring issues.
Languages include: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Thai, Ukrainian, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). We will only have English Voice work though.
On the topic of speaking, we have also fixed the cursed Lipsync the humans had
Peepin for Science
You can now enter bushes and peep out of them without being exposed! And to top it off the Photographer will be able to enter stealth mode automatically even if they are standing up as long as the bush or foliage is big enough to cover them!
There is also a nice UI darkening effect when you are hidden from sight, which should help stay in the shadows better.
Achievements for all!
The last big one is that now we have finally added all the early game achievements we wanna add, plus have done extensive bug testing to make sure they are triggering correctly and registering on Steam’s backend!
You can also 100% the entire game now, it took me like 30-40 hours of raw doggin the game to get there, but it is entirely possible without issue. You’ll even get a fancy License upgrade on the main menu for your save slot if you pull it off!
And a whooooole lot more!
Fixes
- Fixed lipsync face shapes to reduce unwanted mouth shapes
- Reduced lipsync face shape production size by 20%
- Reimported Frida head movement animations for game introduction
- Reweighted Frida hair to remove skull clipping
- Fixed storm effects on hair during calls
- Malous now visible during Head Pat and Monsutra animations
- Fixed Oscar eye pop issues
- Fixed Oscar enchilada line frequency
- Fixed Jamie's butt error
- Fixed Furloin butt physics
- Adjusted LOD to correct tail physics issues
- Creatures no longer pay attention to the player being inside sex acts
- Fixed model illumination during the night
- Pink Moon Night now happens every four in-game days
- Forced LOD0 for call participant models
- Tweaked cum particle to exist longer, future tweaks required
- Locked exploration tab as it is an upcoming feature
- Locked main menu in the intro cinematic to remove frozen player input
- Marked Tool Use and Nest Act as upcoming categories for Achievement tracking
- Updated Malous spawn rate
- Updated Tip to Tip Monsutra act spawn rate
- Updated Tip to Tip scales
- Updated Top Trick tags
- Resaved Rune Puzzle assets to solve missing texture issue
- Blocked clipping player spawns post-sex ragdoll
- Added blockers for plant interactions
- Added blocker for AI interruptions during Monsutra animations
- Fixed dead threesome AI teleport issue
- Adjusted volumes on Expedition Logs
- Normalized vocals on phone call interactions
- Adjusted volumes on boat idle and movements during the introduction section
- Removed morph target from Jamie hat inside player selection
- Fixed New Game fatal crash for creating logstrings
- Modified Radio Beacon land mass
- Removed assets under land mass
- Removed broken trap plants from land mass
- Corrected creature vocals to remove moaning during standard smart object use
- Fixed fatal fall vocals and sfx triggers
- Tweaked extreme face shapes for modeling poses
- Fixed camera aiming behaviors during capture
- Removed tools from hand during capture
- Removed tool swap animation blocking behaviors
- Reduced in-game time between Pink Moon events
- Tweaked fade to black after sex animations showing more of the ejaculation frames
- Fixed controller inputs during photo submission to remove multiple inputs on the D-Pad
- Fixed several Achievement triggering conditions
- Fixed License completion checking method
- Updated Pink Moon Shuffle achievement description
- Updated save file for older saves to include new narrative triggers
- Fixed tutorial texts
- Updated Troubleshooting txt file
Additions
- Added 95% voiced photo submission tutorial call with Frida
- Added Localization system
- Added 11 new languages to the Localization system
- Added localization splash screen for machine-translation notification
- Added several new fonts to support new languages
- Updated UI scaling and button setup for LQA
- Added additional camera controls for capture and monsutra actions
- Added black fade UX effect to alert players of hidden status update
- Added player tracking on creature head during modeling animations
- Added bush movement to player collisions
- Added bush cutout material for player interactions with foliage
- Added stealth activation on player collisions with bushes on 100% coverage
- Added stealth vocal activation on full-standing bush coverage
- Updated variant textures for creatures and custom morph targets
- Added 3 modeling poses to the pool list
- Added Rudier horn variants
- Added Sweedee head pat interaction
- Added Sweedee flora interaction twerk animation
- Added creature breast size modifications and gameplay options for player preference
- Updated landmass with foliage, and clipping prevention
- Added checks and fixes for potential GPU crashes
- Added HLOD optimizations to land mass
- Added Smart Doll locations
- Added Smart Object locations and animations
- UX update for photo submission on adding a photo to the player gallery to no longer progress to the next entry
- Added water ripple effect from creature and player movements in water
- Added predator pounce SFX
- Added sprinting from stealth
- Added 16:10 Gallery, Camera Options, and Map Screen screen options
- Added Journeyman, Professional, and Legendary Achievements
- Demo Specific Changes
- Modified global spawn rate to reduce the flocking of creatures in the small demo space
We hope you all will take the time to leave us a good review on Steam! We are eager to hear feedback from everyone, and I hope it was worth the wait! Thank you all very much from the bottom of our hearts, we couldn’t do it without the support of our wonderful community!
Much love!
Kinky
Comments
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The cursed lipsync is still present in the part of selecting your character.
(The guy picking up the camera and going to the front of the boat has a creepy mouth, and the one driving the boat also look creepy and cringe.)
But other then that, yeah its fine in gameplay, but not on character selection.
That one is hand animated so we will need to swap it over to the automatic system instead.
Oh, forgot to mention in my last post - In a threesome act (one of the ones with Sweedee) a giant Sweedee appeared as the 3rd. Absolute stuff of nightmares. Model seemed to be the "large" size as it was bigger than the player. Couldn't stop laughing though, wish I got a screenshot. Are giant Sweedees intentional or just a hysterical glitch?
It's a glitch. We will get it fixed.
Yay femboys Basically exist (flat futa)
Kinky - WHAT an update! These QoL updates were immediately felt and appreciated. The whole island felt more alive and active too, it was nice to see the number of predators out and about again, as well as getting to see Malous! Freeform camera during the monsutra acts! The extra time post-climax before fading to black! The new variant skins are a wonderful touch on the mons, particularly Furloin (she thanks you for fixing her butt too). The updated frequently of the pink moon event is awesome as well. Sweedee doesn't constantly scream in my ear nor does she seem to dominate pink moon events like she used to. Personally, I feel like this update addressed any QoL-related "nitpicks" I had! Very well done.
If I were to report anything, the only two buggy things I found:
- Still getting the "start a monsutra act but player stays clothed and freely spins and will also instantly dump the mon if you press a button" bug, although didn't get it as often as I did in v024.
- Freeform camera during monustra acts clips hard into the ground when lowering camera, but mainly found that out when trying to push the limits of what camera angles were available.
Very eagerly anticipating the rollout of the IK system in v026, but also appreciative that you'd rather withhold the update until you're satisfied with the results. Keep cooking, indeed!
Yo, thanks for the feedback, the camera clipping into the ground is because we ran outta time. It needs some more TLC to be completely done. As for the player spinning thing, we tried to lock them in but it might have unfixed itself somewhere. more time needed.
The IK system ended up being more difficult then anticipated, which sums up everything in this game tbh lol. We keep cookin.
Hmm there seems to be a GPU driver crash (AMD RX6950xt with Pro 24.Q4 driver) with the new v0.25 update. Old one did not have that problem.
Edit:
Specifically on start of new game or clicking load it crashes.
This is using the installer not the manual zip.
We will have a patch later today that changes the rendering engine. Please check that out when it drops!
Good to hear! I have sent a crash report as well if that helps!
Join the discord, make a help ticket, and send your crash logs along with it
Thankyou for Thai langauge this could help my friends who dont know english.
You're welcome, it wont be perfect though.
Do you plan on giving out steam keys to those that bought the itch version?
No sorry. If you own the itch version you own the full game.
Finally! :D
Got it on Steam right away!
Two questions tho:
1. Are outfits unlockable? I interacted with a locker but nothing happened.
2. How to reveal the map? I unlocked several beacons but the map is completely in the fog.
1. Eventually we will have new costumes. For now it just repairs broken clothing.
2. This sounds like a common but we have. Just reload the game and it will correct itself. Something we will be working on.
Is there Chinese? That has to be boasted
There is. It is machine translation though
Yes! Good update. This is my favourite "fix list" so far.
Glad you like it!
What excellent progress, now no bush will block me from finding my next target for petting and belly rubs!
I had a random thought while reading through this, the idea of the girls petting the player like the player pets them, and I thought that sounded adorable so I wanted to share that thought.
Glad you like the work! Reverse petting sounds strange. Not sure how we would make it happen.
I imagine it would be like groping the balls or breast if NSFW, and hugs or a stroke on the cheek for SFW. Head pats on the player would feel weird unless its a large tall character doing it.
I wasn't really thinking much about it as a game mechanic, just that the idea was adorable in my mind. Like you're on this island getting to know the locals and a portion of your time interacting with them is petting them, I could see them interacting with you in a similar way, like when a parent gives their kid head pats for doing something good and the kid does the same back, they learn from the parent even if they don't really know the meaning behind the action.
TLDR: I wasn't asking for it as a mechanic just sharing random thoughts I had and thought were cute.
Besides we don't have monster girls in real life so I play these kinds of games to live out my desires through them. Also sorry if this comes off as rambling a bit.