Solace Inc. News

Hey guys! We've got another Solace Inc. update to celebrate Valentine's Day! 💖

This update features Week 6, which has new missions that are holiday-themed! It also features new recruits, new enemies, new bosses, and a bunch of other small changes and additions! (and bug fixes of course)

[h3]New Missions[/h3]
Woah! Harpies? Cool!



Killer Snowmen? With guns??



[h3]New Enemies[/h3]
I've added in some new enemies to a few of the previous stages to spice them up a bit, such as a new enemy in the mining mission, enemies in both of the boss missions, and more!



[h3]New Lootcrates[/h3]
There are two new lootcrates under the research tab, the Employee Crate and the Ultimate Crate!

The former works like the Cameo Crate except it unlocks a random employee (one of my characters) so you don't have to go into the missions to unlock characters if you don't want, and the latter unlocks every single recruit in the game that you haven't unlocked yet at once! (although it's very expensive)



[h3]Other Minor Additions[/h3]

There's also some small changes like more stats on the pause screen/mission end screen, an auto upgrade option (so if you're playing as grim reaper the game doesn't stop every 2 seconds, or if you just wanna get wacky), and other stuff like the game now adjusting the resolution when you fullscreen it so the text doesn't look as weird as it did, I meant to fix that a while back but never got around to it lol

[h3]Valentine's Day Cards[/h3]

Some of the lovely ladies over at Solace made some Valentine's Day cards for you guys as well! 🥺💕









I hope you guys enjoy this update! I really appreciate the support you guys have given the game so far (especially with the dialogue thing I talked about last week, thank you for the comments 💖), I didn't really expect that many people to play or even like this game that much, and I wouldn't still be working on it if it weren't for the lovely people who play it so thank you guys 🥺💕

If you encounter any bugs/issues or have feedback you can DM me directly on Discord (@aplove) and I'll try to have it fixed asap 🤘

Thank you for playing!!

Solace Inc v1.5 Update changelog

• added week 6 (new missions)
  
• added enemies and more enemy variety to some existing missions
  
• new recruits
  
• added new loot crates under the research tab
  - employee crate unlocks a random solace employee you haven't unlocked yet
  - ultimate crate unlocks all curently locked recruits at once, although very expensive
  
• game now scales properly when fullscreened
  - this should make playing in fullscreen easier on the eyes
  
• added more stats on pause menu and mission end screen
  
• added achievements
  
• added auto upgrade option
  
• minor visual improvements
  
• general bug fixes
  

- fixed steam not working properly, achievements should appear now
- fixed interns disappearing when messing around with the intern creator for long enough
- decreased quota for mining mission
- decreased wait time for shopping mission
- minor bug fixes & adjustments

- rewrote a large portion of the dialogue to make it overall less raunchy and more tame
+ there are still mature sections of dialogue, but it should be much less frequent than previously
- added recruits
- added alternates
- added toggles for particles and damage numbers in options
- minor adjustments

So... I recently got some feedback about the game's dialogue and... wow. Yeah, apparently it's... pretty bad.

Someone dm'ed me with some feedback and they said that the dialogue was "vivziepop tier". I asked a group of individuals what they thought about that and they pretty much all agreed. There was also a negative review yesterday that said the same thing. Someone even said that it's Amy Schumer levels, which is... honestly much worse.

I had no idea that it was that bad. I honestly thought that the dialogue was fine, but hearing this genuinely was disheartening. Like, no joke, it actually hurt.

So, I decided to rewrite a lot of the dialogue in the game to make it a lot more tame. There's still some mature sections in some of the dialogue, but overall that kind of stuff should be a lot less frequent. Some sections I just completely cut out or replaced. I don't know if this will make the dialogue better or not, but hopefully I trimmed away enough for it to not as bad as it was. I think the biggest culprits were some of the earlier stuff that I wrote several months ago, which is what most people were encountering and is what shied them away from the rest of the dialogue or from the game entirely.

I deeply apologize to anyone who wasn't able to experience the game to it's fullest extent because of the dialogue. I know that it's a pretty minor part of the game overall and won't affect most people, but it's important to me that every aspect of the game is, at a bare minimum, tolerable. If I had known this a lot sooner I would've changed it then. It's clear to me that not many people enjoy my writing style, and from now on I'm going to keep it more tame or reduce it overall so people are not uncomfortable with what I make.

I cannot make a perfect game. But I can make them better, and I can't do that without feedback from others. If you encounter anything, ANYTHING, that you do not like about this game, please feel free to dm me on Discord (@aplove) and I will do what I can to improve my craft. Thank you.

- added new recruits
- added new song for magma giantess mission
- added new intern creation options
- added a warning when enemies are able to deal serious damage to you
+ caution = enemies can deal more than 50% of your current hp
+ danger = enemies can instakill you)
- explosions can no longer be reflected from parries (by you or enemies)
- minor adjustments



"you work for solace inc.? you must be pretty strong"

- added a new recruit
- added new alternates
- added new synergy
- made buttons on menu main more apparent that they're buttons
- added tutorial text that explains mission unlocks
- minor visual changes
- fixed crash caused by alt aqua

I'm doing reverse rule 34 where I draw adult art and THEN add them into the game