Valentine's Day Holiday Pack Pre-Patch!

Valentine's Day Holiday Pack Pre-Patch for release at 1PM today 2/14/2024. Plus some fixes:
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused guests to show up to the party without appropriate attire.
• Added reminder text in the customizer to create or select a preset when the Default preset is selected.
• Only one Holiday Pack can be active at a time now. This only affects decorations and story content. All Holiday Pack clothing items will always be available in the customizer as long as the DLC is installed.
• Improved main menu lighting and shadows.
• GBK undershirt is now available for Derek in the customizer if you have the Solar Flare achievement.
• Optimized story and texture memory usage, which in most cases will result in less memory usage, especially on Potato graphics settings. In some cases memory usage is decreased by 1GB+.
• Improved loading of characters on the main menu. They now only appear after clothing and textures have been applied.
• Fixed a couple of issues that would sometimes cause swapping customizer group presets to not work correctly.

Patch 1.3.12069b

• Fixed various story issues (i.e. Frank not getting Katherine out of the bathroom).
• Fixed an issue with incorrectly sized older skin texture mods. They are now automatically resized if incorrectly sized.
• Fixed blocky lower resolution mirror reflections.
• Improved the visibility of the starbomb box when it's resting in the grass.
• Added in-game achievement images for Valentine's achievement.
• Fix for Valentine's Easter Egg not always showing up correctly when achievement occurs.

Quick Hotfix to resolve an issue that caused characters lips to sometimes not move when they were talking for players with surround/spatial audio setups.

Patch 1.3.1.12069d

• Fixed an issue that could cause the head to fall through the floor after the freezer cutscene.

Patch 1.3.1.12069e

• Fixed an issue that caused characters to still react when they were knocked out.
• Fixed an issue that caused characters to not react correctly when the walked in on a private event.

House Party 1.3.2 Character Customization Update - Hairstyles / Secondary Colors

Check out this video where Zigga shows off the new features in this update:
https://youtu.be/gYsybQYcOTs

① Hairstyle Options
We've added hairstyle options to the customizer! Now you can give Frank a full head of hair, and choose from several styles for all characters. You can even choose to fit other characters with a smooth bald Frank-style!

② Secondary Colors
We've also added secondary color regions to most clothing items. This means that now you'll be able to customize clothing items with up to 3 color choices! You'll be able to choose base and secondary colors and then you'll also still be able to choose a pattern and pattern color!

③ We've added some DLC items to the Customizer
⯈ Items available for players with the Liz Katz DLC:
• Unlockable Elf Outfit wearable by all characters
• Unlockable Detective Dress wearable by all female characters except the player character and Ashley
⯈ Items available for players with the Doja Cat DLC:
• A Dinolicious Hat wearable by all characters
• Earrings wearable by all characters
• Doja Cat Leaf underwear wearable by Amy

We can't wait to see the new customizations you all come up with!

And we'd love to see your designs in our discord!

NOTE: We had to adjust the elf ears to work with the hairstyles. You may see elf ears missing from some outfits and you may need to turn them back on.

Official sharing support for customization presets is coming next. In the meantime, if you really want to share a creation with a friend, you can by copying the files in your Documents\Eek\House Party\Customization\ folder and having your friend drop the files in their respective folders.

Patch 1.3.2.12206

• Rolled back Unity to version 2022.3.16f1.
• Fixed an issue that caused hair shadows to not work correctly for the player character.
• Fixed an issue that caused Katherine's Choke Collar to not show up.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Nails section to not collapse when Fun Stuff was clicked.
• Added safeguards to prevent a potential issue of a hairstyle getting assigned more than once.

Patch 1.3.2.12219

• Fixed an issue that caused the all.change v2 console command to not work.
• Fixed an issue that caused the nails on Leah's left hand to not be customizable.
• Fixed a bug that caused House Party to freeze on loading on the main menu for players with a + in their House Party path.

Patch 1.3.2.12219b

• Fixed an issue that caused Liz Katz to become unresponsive after the Laundry Room cutscene for some players.
• Fixed an issue that caused Liz Katz to not have hair when inside Compubrah.

Patch 1.3.2.12219d

Small patch to improve save/load function.

This patch is a potential fix for corrupted save files (empty house) being generated sometimes for some players. We haven't been able to reproduce the issue in our testing environment, but we have been analyzing our code closely to identify what could be causing the issue. This patch will not fix save files that have already been corrupted, but it we hope it will prevent the creation of corrupted save files going forward. This patch may also improve performance of some older saves (pre 1.3.0), although saves from 1.3.0 forward are still recommended for the best experience with the new system.

House Party 1.3.3 Character Design Sharing and Customizer Update

Check out this video where Zigga shows off the new Character Design Sharing feature in this update:
https://youtu.be/G7MbxIV-OQk

① Share Your Designs
Share your favorite designs with the community!
https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/f1b55c755f7369eba7739854bf12658b54512fca.png

② Browse Designs
Browse, download, and customize designs shared by other community members! In addition to popular, top rated, and recent, designs can also be filtered by tag, creator name, and Share ID!
https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/51f567996ce772543dd553e78d6641b78cf15c10.png

③ Customizer Upgrades
We've upgraded the customizer to make the character customization experience more enjoyable. We've replaced almost all dropdowns with thumbnail picker components and we've added a recent colors feature that allows pinning colors, to make color coordination between items easier.
https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/84175603957634f02d620fe63022672e1bf4a012.png
https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/56afb7d21deba384105732e940f3b9400f17af8b.png
https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/e5b513d879208a981ff7244b7964a4df7c350d7a.png

④ Don't Forget About Customizable DLC Items!
⯈ House Party - Business and Pleasure Style Pack! [Get It Friday August 2nd!]
• All Characters: https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/a7913530bc6b51f7324799207872a81395796c52.png
• Male characters: https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/4057fe8aadf3da8f50f2f56a6e4aeed69d281556.png
• Female characters: https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/81859b9fad864ee16dd7ed2493a9a35594566d68.png
⯈ House Party - Liz Katz DLC
https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/854f7afeef55e3294ac473f1bc59bd7a94717ae0.png
⯈ House Party - Doja Cat DLC
• (Note: Doja Cat herself is not customizable.)
https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/2acb2b22b21dc47ff918d06b1864ddf49b854d3e.png
⯈ House Party - Valentine's Day Holiday Pack [Free!]
https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/e37de9c5925a77c0e2ca4629947f3f02a5e003b5.png
⯈ House Party - Halloween Holiday Pack [Free!]
https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/28835ff9839458ccf6dade9e994e02bb99335a8c.png
⯈ House Party -Winter Day Holiday Pack [Free!]
https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images//29297549/93c948b8a97d59c434229dab35cc5ee2ed7f5728.png

We can't wait to see the new customizations you all come up with, in the new Design Browser!

We'd love to see your designs in our discord too!

Patch 1.3.3.122720

• Fixed an issue that caused changing nail color in the customizer to also change skin color.
• Fixed an issue that caused some designs to freeze the design browser.
• Fixed an issue that caused the design browser to sometimes lose connection with the server during longer idle times.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused characters to be put on bottoms when wearing a dress that covers top and bottom.

Patch 1.3.3.122745

Pre-Patch for Business and Pleasure
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the register checkmark to not expand the login popup window the way it is supposed to (missing confirm password field).
• Fixed an issue that caused some Halloween accessories to be set to black by default.

Patch 1.3.3.122748

One more pre-patch for Business and Pleasure DLC
• Last minute tweaks on some of the new clothing items.