What the future holds

I already hinted at it, the next mod I'll work on will probably be for Fallout 4, although I have not yet decided which direction it will take. And what do you do if you can't make up your mind? Right! A poll and let others take the burden of decision. Although just as for real polls, I'll ignore the result at the end and still do what I like most

What kind of mod for Fallout 4 would you like to see?

A story based mod without an adult (sex) theme, focusing entirely on the story and RP elements

A story based mod featuring sex scenes, focusing on the adult elements (like Dark Investigation)

An adult game mechanic mod (for example create your own harem settlement) without much story

I hate Fallout 4 and won't play any mods for it

I hate you and your dog for not finishing Dark Investigations and won't play any mod from you

Poll Maker

Some small words (in a small font) about the last update I promised for Dark Investigations: It didn't quite work out as I wanted. I still plan to do it at some point, but it won't be soon. Sorry.

Things to End

As most of you noticed the last time plan didn't work quite out. Like at all. So thinking about the future of Dark Investigations bought me to the following conclusions. In the next few weeks I'll finally get the update to 0.28 out which includes new voices for chapter one as well as one new bonus scene with our beloved heroine. Those are things that I already started and the voice actors already sent me, so it's time to wrap this up and release it.

Afterward, the mod will end for the time being. Chapter 2 is a huge time investment to create it in the same high quality as the current content and unfortunately it's more time than I am currently motivated to spend on this tale. Given that chapter 1 is completely finished with the next update, it seems to be a good point to make a cut there. Perwar might go unpunished this time, but at least some bandits, theater visitors, guards and guard dogs had a good time during the Dragonborn's investigation.

I guess that was a bit of a good news / bad news post. But stay tuned for 0.28 and the final opportunity for our heroine to get into trouble

Things to Come

Now that the first chapter is finally finished, I know many of you wonder about things like „Why the fuck is the second chapter still not out? It has been months! I'll never buy a season pass from this publisher again!“. So to quell your ongoing curiosity, I'll indulge you into the next steps Dark Investigations will take. I have explained most of it scattered in different comments already, but here is the exciting summary:

The next version will focus on adding the remaining voices for the last chapter (hopefully esp. Shydra), fix some of the minor bugs and add a few smaller technical features (for example I'll look into optional SOS support, some VR tweaks, etc). While there will be no story progression I do intend to add one (or more, not sure yet) bonus scenes to satisfy your interest in the fate of our beloved actors. As always there is no fixed release date, but I hope it will be ready sometime later this year.

Afterwards the work on chapter two begins. And it will be a lot work: Building a new big location (the slavers base), introducing new characters, probably creating some new animations and of course the usual stuff of writing the story, dialogue and scripts. Which means two things: There will be a lot new stuff to see and I have no clue yet when said stuff will be there to see. It really depends on how much time I'll have (and use) to work on the mod.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves: The next stop is version 0.28.

Update to 0.27

Here we go, Chapter 1 is finally complete. Yay! Not much else to say here, I have described the new content already in the last post and except for some minor changes (Spoiler: There are two bad ends) that's what you'll find in this update.

You do need to install the FNIS Creature Pack and as always you have to run the FNIS User Tool after installing Dark Investigations. On the other hand you no longer need to have the SexIS Datapack. You can use any of your old savegames before deceiding to threaten Shydra to start the new branch.

Have fun

Progress 4

Take a seat and let's have a little talk. About the next update. What will be in there? The last choice for the Shydra branch, which let's you try to negotiate. The difference between Shydra's two branches will be bigger than those between Tursam's. To be specific there will be three small sub branches, which each has its own sex scene - although story wise they will be very similar.

One of those branches will (at least that is currently planed) contain bestiality, which is a good time to explain how such kinks will be handled in the mod. I know not everyone wants to see such scenes, so the more controversial kinks will always be optional. This means you will always have the choice to select another path and you will know (or be able take a pretty good guess) beforehand if one path leads towards the one or another scene.

Any other new content? Yes, actually I decided to include one bonus „bad end“ scene into the next update. It wasn't on the road map (if I would have one), but fit very well and added some reactivity to a (pretty bad) choice a player can make.

Anything else? Not much. I'll remove the dependency on SexiS. Even though the datapack alone never causes any conflicts and acts rather as resource pack, SexiS is due to being discontinued very uncommon and unknown these days, so that removing it will make it much easier for new users to install Dark Investigations.

Any other questions? No? Oh about the release date. Well it will be released. That is a specific as I can be. But for the progress: The bonus scene was just finished, and the Shydra branch is story-wise up to the point where it branches into the three possible sex scenes. We're not in Vegas anymore, but there's still some work to do.

Oh one more thing: If you haven't found the Unlying Mushroom yet, you better start searching for it soon or you won't be able to see the interesting parts of the new branch .

Back on track

Finally, I do have some time to work on this mod again and progress is made. No promises for a release date but... well there is no but
Stay tuned.

Negotiations aren't going that well...

Still alive

Well, this was the good news Now obviously far more interesting for my beloved readers is the answer to the question: „When the fuck are you updating Dark Investigations“. So here we come to the bad news: In the recent months I didn't have time to work on it, so there was no progress. I like tinkering on this mod, but it is a hobby I work on when there is nothing else to do, which wasn't the case lately.

But as I stated before: The mod will go on. The remaining story and scenes for the last branch are already planed out in my head and they will see the light of... well whatever time it is when it's being released.

Given that The Elder Scrolls VI was not yet announced, I think there is a fair chance that the Perwar will be brought to justice (ot the Dragonborn to her knees instead – who knows) before Skyrim is obsolete