The Grand Gallery area has been updated with 2 new rooms and tons of new art. The game now features a whopping 71 pieces of fanart, and 31 bits of concept art. If you follow my blogs closely, you’ll have already seen all of that art, but there’s also some new dialogue to go along with it.

Also, EBF5 version 2 is now 80% complete!
All that’s left to do is:
• Finish the Equip Remix mode.
• Misc Quality of Life improvements.
• Some (but not all) debugging and balancing.
• A quick playthrough or two of the game by me.
• Version 2 trailer.

After those it’ll be beta testing time, which should be by the end of November, in time for the anniversary of EBF5’s Steam launch. Patrons should get it a week or two earlier than that, and everyone else can opt-into the beta on Steam.

Beta testing will likely take a long time, since due to the nature of the update, players will have to play through the game several times with different options to try everything out. And there’s tons of new content to balance too. And finally, translations will also be happening at the same time – so the beta will be only in English at first. If you’re waiting for the 100% finished version, it’ll probably be soon after Christmas.

That’s all, folks!

Here’s the Custom Game menu, with all of the final options that will be available. This is what you’re getting instead of more Newgame+ options.

If these options don’t satisfy you, I don’t know what to say.