X-Change Life [0.18b]

Version 0.18b – In the Hole

• 5 new sex scenes – including new topics, like free use, Purple Pills, etc.
• 2 new item types
• Achievements system
• 50 new female NPCs
• New interactions with male NPCs
• 100k words’ worth of new descriptions and content
• Lots of new game mechanics and balance improvements to add depth to existing content
• Dozens of new quality of life features!
• Performance and technical improvements
• More details
  • Bruce – the playboy son of Victor Maddox, CEO of SWP, now has his own goals and will increasingly act as a “chaos agent” in the game. He will start sleeping with the in-game girls in the background, and might see you as a threat!
    • Bruce will have an effect on the girls at the bar – if he’s currently sleeping with them, they will be more resistant to your advances. You can shake his hold by giving them lots of orgasms etc!
    • Bruce will also hit on Alexia sometimes at the club – your options when this happen will depend on your relationship with her
    • Bruce will try to convince you to “bet your masculinity” – lose a game of cards, and you take a pill to become a woman (he’ll then try to convince you to fuck!)
    • Or take revenge! Bring your own X-Change pill to the card game, beat him, and make him take a pill and become a woman himself! (If it’s a Breeder pill… you might be able to take advantage of his – now her – urges…)
    • Blackjack has been fully revamped with new mechanics and rules to make it more interesting to play. https://x-change.life/wiki/docs/summer-city-blackjack/
    • 2 sex scenes – 1 with Bruce as male and you as female, 1 with “Bree”
  • Achievements! Thanks to the tireless work of datdude69, and achievement suggestions from the wider X-Change Life community, we now have an achievements system in place – this will help you track how much of the game content you’ve seen! I bet there’s more than you thought 
    • Achievements are tracked outside your saves
    • Modders can also add their own packs of achievements!
  • Handbags – in order to change clothes out in public, you now need a handbag. There’s a whole range of them to buy, and different ones will give you different perks and XP bonuses based on how color coordinated, etc you are!
  • Buy Bubba Zipple – the refreshing soft drink that comes in 7 out of this world flavors, all with different effects! Purchasable at the club, the bar, the mall, and you can also find them in your own fridge – drink them at night though, and you’ll get a debuff in the morning from lack of sleep due to caffeine
  • Your fitness will decay over time if you don’t hit the gym every once in a while, and your charm / sex skills will decay if you don’t go out and at least socialize! (doesn’t affect low stat characters – only if you are trying to invest in high stats)
  • 3 new NPC sex scenes (these are actually VERY hot and fairly in depth – I don’t want to spoil them too much)
    • 2 At the mall (triggerable as male)
    • 1 At the club (triggerable as female)
  • 100 new hairstyles
  • Balance changes:
    • NPCs offering you money for sex has been reduced / nerfed.
    • Stripping payouts are no longer easily exploitable.
    • Action points can be spent on more things
  • Two new types of NPC interactions when males hit on you in public places – they can “Neg” you (backhanded compliments), and you have more options for telling them off / making them go away (the option to “get upset” is more reliable and powerful – and there are hundreds of new tailored dialogue lines for this)
  • There’s lots of other new features but I am getting a little tired of writing this changelog…
  • New modding tools and features to make it easier for Modders to create mods that don’t have compatibility issues with new game versions, and to more easily write scenes.
  • It’s hard to convey just how many hundreds/thousands of hours went into this build, hope you enjoy it!

Oct 28 Mini-release – this is the last release before I switch fully over to the next roadmap item.

• Added:
  • 2 new sex scenes – Harley & Kendra will now sleep with your character, no matter what race you are – however, they still have slight preferences that affect their attraction gain – you’ll won’t have to work as hard if you’re “their type”
  • Mod loader updated to 1.2.0 – with more features and much better support for mods, allowing mods to hijack almost any code in the game without breaking future compatibility, by using aspect-oriented programming. See this updated guide for creating mods: https://x-change.life/wiki/docs/creating-mods/
  • E-stim support & Sex Toy Integration
    • Thanks to the hard work and experience of salad, the sex toy integration is now properly functioning throughout the game. Please follow this guide to get it working: https://x-change.life/wiki/docs/toy-integration/
    • Additionally, E-Stim integration has been added (right now, you get zapped with a little electric shock if you lose masculinity). This requires a bit of extra software to get running, so please see the above wiki page for additional info. This will be expanded in future.
      • Please do not use this feature if you have a pacemaker or something like that!!!
• Modified:
  • Score multiplier is now set from the beginning of the game and does not change as your stats increase. This will reward players who start with low stats. Additionally, XP curves were made slightly more forgiving – will continue modifying this.
  • Curiosity quests have been improved and now grant rewards immediately, and do not have any downsides when the quest is active.
  • Many more outfits now available for purchase in the mall
  • Gabbie will no longer not sleep with you after the scene with Dredd
  • Skill check added to orgasm control check
• Fixed:
  • Left sidebar is now often scrollable if it overflows the screen
  • Lots of types and weird descriptions fixed
  • Pregnancy advancement cheat works properly now
  • Selling cards now works nicely
  • Fixes around the notice board
  • User-submitted Correct Cuban dialect Spanish usage fixes for Mariselle scene

Version 0.18a – Smooth Operator
0.18a is mainly a gameplay loop improvement release, that makes the entire gameplay loop of XCL deeper and more interesting. There are quite a few new scenes and content, but in general the focus of this release is an overall quality improvement of the game, especially from the male character perspective.

• Two new locations! A disco club called “The Electric Pickle”, which is a new evening activity available on Friday and Saturday (with different music and things happening on those two nights). You can go and dance alone and get an XP boost that lasts the week, or you can invite Alexia along, as well as any of the bar girl NPCs! All of the NPCs have unique text and dialogue. You can affect your relationships with them and stuff. You can bring girls home, or you can just suck guys off in the club bathroom, up to you! You can also dance with guys who approach you (choosing to dance sluttily or normally), as well as explore the backrooms (and who knows who you might find back there???) – the club has a cover charge but legent has it, you can use various forms of “convincing” to get in for free.
• Close to 100k words of new writing and descriptions spread throughout the game.
• A brand new female character with an extremely involved sex scene that is hard to find – but you’d better
• The Potion Shop from maxahoy’s amazing mod has been added to the game and expanded upon! I wrote flavor text and a background story for the shopkeeper, Nyx, and have actually begun incorporating her in my plans for the main story. You can use it to sacrifice stats for rewards like increased dick size!!
• Alcohol system. Gone are the days of endless bar girl drinking!!! Now you get to drink as well, and alcohol will affect you in TONS of ways. It will make it easier to approach girls, and temporarily buff your charm, but be careful, the more you drink, the more the chance you could get spiked… I’ll let you discover this system for yourself! Basically there are 4 levels of drunkenness, and there are pros and cons to them. Get too drunk, and you’ll wake up the next day with a major hangover.
• Curiosity quests. I have incorporated Ebiora’s amazing mod, and integrated it into the action points system. Now, action points will regen at a lower rate, and all regen will be blocked if there is something your character is curious about doing, such as visiting a specific location or taking a pill – curiosities are triggered by what you do! Ebiora and I are going to continue working on expanding this functionality, to act as a guide for what your character feels curious about doing. Complete a curiosity, and you will be rewarded with little things such as additional action points!
• Player dick! You now have a dick. Yes. Sorry. You do. When you’re a guy, you have dick stats just like other NPCs. The dick is dynamically generated based off your character when you create it, and can be improved at the potion shop if you sell your stats. Your dick affects how quickly girls you have sex with will orgasm, and your ball size even dictates how much you cum (AND YES I KNOW THAT’S UNREALISTIC!)  You actually gain more pleasure in the masturbation minigame by cumming with larger balls, and thus clear more arousal… if you have a tiny dick, girls will balk when they see it (depending on their personality), and might even kick you out.
• Office enhancements (courtesy of maxahoy) – low-stat players will now experience an alternate interview process, which if you fail, will put you firmly in the secretary job, you won’t have the option to even be a salesperson. If you want to get out of just getting groped, fucked and doing admin work, you need to work hard! Eventually, you’ll be able to earn a promotion out of it… additionally, the “notice board” section of the DynaPill break room includes demos you can complete at any time on behalf of your coworkers. You will only earn 100% of your commission instead of 125%, but better leads will be available sooner than would otherwise be possible. Also, if you don’t want to complete a demo for a company, you can post one demo at a time on the notice board. Every night your demo has a chance of being attempted, at which point it might be a success or failure. Successful demos of yours will still earn you 25% of your commission percentage. Overall, the office enhancements are designed to both improve Quality Of Life, while also creating a loop that increases the chances reluctant characters will take pills and gain sexual reputation.
• Major enhancements to the performance of the wardrobe and the trading card inventory – you can now browse your trading cards as if in a binder!
• Female NPC system with 100 NEW SMOKING HOT NPCS! (read that in a 90s style ad voice) FIFTY smoking hot Female NPCs have been added to the mall, and FIFTY to the club. You will be able to spot them, and sometimes gain arousal. They might make comments about you when you’re a girl, and they might trigger curiosities as well. This NPC system is a precursor to the general female NPC sex scenes coming in 0.18b!
• You can get spiked by X-Change at the bar!
• 1000+ new arousal descriptions. Your arousal at different things in the game world will now more heavily depend on your current gender and masculinity level, with tons of unique descriptions depending on your current situation and things you’ve done.
• Male clothes are now an actual visible outfit! When you’re a girl.
• The bartender stops you from buying too many drinks for bar girls, and they will get weirded out if you’re not drinking with them as well.
• Bar girl relationship integration – girls are now much harder to pick up. You need to work up “courage” to even talk to them. And they are just now way harder to woo as a loser/nerd type character. There is lots of new dialogue, and lots of new sex descriptions for sex with them!
• You can now play blackjack as a woman!