Coffee Story 20250215 update

This update doubles the amount of freeform dialogue and adds much needed character development for Nanami.

Dialog, writing, story:

• Adds a new event focused on Nanami.
• Added Nanami to the list of interactable NPCs. You can talk to her when free as you do with Yuri and Kari. She appears after clearing the Sleepover and working once at Cat-Cat, but her dialogue is limited until you complete her story segment.
• Added location based topics to discuss with Kari(park, cafe, school, home), Nanami(park, cafe, school) and Yuri(school). These vary greatly in length and quality. (i.e Kari at school has over 300 lines with a male and female variant, Kari at the cafe has just 30)
• Shuffled around the locations a bit. Nanami will now be in Kari’s usual spots, Kari will be in the newly repurposed classroom in the afternoon and the WC after class(if you’ve found her in the lab) or near the exit(if you didn’t).
• You now trigger Nanami’s backstory through a dialog option, rather than just talking to her. She also won’t go with you anywhere at dusk until you finish her event.

Notable fixes and adjustments:

• The needle doesn’t count as an item for the purpose of leaving the void forest.
• Increased cohesion gain cap to 3 per character per day.
• c-alpha now removes all parasites, decontamination spray removes only Squidrabbit.
• Added c-alpha recipe to the console accessed through the Woods.
• The cards in the Void Forest and Jessica’s room are now 3 level.
• Fixed a crash caused by petting the cat. Might not be the crash that everyone experiences.
• Fixed missing collision in the mall
• Changed freeform dialog layout a bit: Grouped all topics that are about the main cast into the “About…” option.

v2 changes:

• Fixed player portrait crash, when configured to appear on left side. Recommend playing on default, as it’s untested.
• Recompiled in native code. Should improve performance.

I expect the next gameplay update to be ready late April/early May. I will likely have at least one more narrative update like this out before that, but I probably won’t be posting those here. Maybe I’ll delay update like that. That’s a popular model, right? I don’t know, I’m considering my options. I guess this is the point where I remind people that I have a Patreon and Subscribestar.