Easter Progress Report — About the next update and production direction

Hi All,

Thought we'd give a quick report on where we're at in terms of Cherry VX updates. We expect the next update (Major Update 5) to be released in time for the Steam summer sale (mid-June). It will have a bunch of optimizations to improve performance on Quest, new features, UI improvements and some new content. 

The choices made for this update have been guided primarily by complaints about the user experience (UX) relating to game mechanics and - to a lesser extent - the results of the poll conducted last month. Of note was that most poll respondents wanted new features (toys, fluids, dirty-talk etc.) by a considerable margin. The next most popular item was new models, then poses. So after knocking over the glaring UX issues features, models and poses (in that order) will be our focus moving into the future.

The current update is taking a little longer than expected which is why the decision was made to leave it until the next sale so we can tie it in with the PC update. It's also much more efficient to do it this way. Admittedly, it has taken considerable time and effort this year (2022) making the game project easily switchable between Android (i.e. Quest) and PC platforms after introducing the Quest version at the very end of last year (2021). We've also taken time to update our websites and store pages to attract more players.

We'd like to thank everyone who has jumped on board here at Patreon and kept this game alive and kicking. As you can see there is still much to do. We look forward to improving the game to make it the best experience in the NSFW space on quest. See below for specific updates/changes made and future plans.

Happy Easter!

THE POLYBAY TEAM

Here are the most noteworthy improvements already completed:

• added 'D guides' which highlight when moving the D near interaction zones to guide the player
• added "wipe clean" function to remove player discharge
• updated decal shader (player discharge shader) to look more realistic
• new & improved player discharge textures
• D collider now moves with D visual mesh when animating
• decal textures now render on UV2+ which will improve performance significantly
• + many more minor improvements/optimizations

Planned between now and the release of the next update:

• add more options other than the 'D' and tongue for interaction (toys and fingers etc.)
• improvements to interaction system for better user experience
• environment update
• adding more and improvement of current hair/makeup/pubic hairstyle options for all models
• improvement of quality of clothing models & textures
• improvement of quality of rigs & vertex weights of models
• new/improved SFX

Exploration and concepts for future updates:

• lip-syncing phoneme morph targets for 'dirty-talk system'
• implementation of new models
• varied body-types and heads for customization
• more creative/unique sex poses
• improvement of posing system
• fluid systems