Taken from the following Patreon post.

Hi everyone! Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you’re all well (and if you’re a Bears fan, you have my extra condolences.)

Anyway, let’s talk about 2024. I don’t want to say it’s a 0% chance that Update 2 comes out this year, but I do want to say, at the current trajectory, it seems extremely unlikely it will come out this year. I apologize for this error in judgment. Just like how it is when I DM a campaign, I’m always quite terrible when it comes to estimating how long something might take. Again, I am sorry.

However…

That does not mean that I haven’t been working on it just about every chance I get. Let’s talk about Update 2.

First of all, I want to say that the entirety of Update 1 (the text-based update made in Twine/HTML) is now completely playable from start to finish (all 70k words, Chapters 1-3, including the secret ending) in Ren’Py. You can now get the full, complete Wrestling Dynasty story in one place, one playthrough. The contents of Update 1 relies heavily on the new “character busts + backgrounds” format, which will also be used at times going forwards.

After the Chapter 3 secret ending, Chapter 4 (the contents of the Ren’Py Demo) will seamlessly play, leading straight into all the new content.

I consider Update 2 to be broken up into 3 major parts:

0%-33% = The morning (as in the Ren’Py Demo) up until the Morgan Three leave the Driftwood Motel.

34%-66% - The first day at the Grapple Garage for the Morgan Three.

69%-99% - The entire evening event(s), which was established in the Ren’Py Demo, is to be another movie night with Melissa.

99%-100% - ?

The script has been done for a while, and what I’ve been working on since last time we talked is doing all the new Daz renders. Including what was in the demo, there’s currently 650 renders and counting, because I’m not done rendering just yet. I’m currently about 75% done with the Daz work (again, take my estimates as you will lol). I have started the evening event and am just about to get to the bulk of it, so about 75%? However, I intentionally wrote this section in mind in case I needed to rely more on text descriptions of the movie rather than… something more, which again, the movie night is the bulk of the evening event.

Regardless of how much I fast forward (lol) the evening event in terms of Daz content, then comes all the Ren’Py coding. Ren’Py definitely does not take as long as Daz rendering does so that shouldn’t be all that long afterwards, all things considered.

What does this mean for a release date? I’m just not going to say one. I’m going to say that I’m working on it like crazy and it will be done when it’s done. Given all of what was said, what do you think the release window might be?

No other notes, no other side projects to announce at this time. I’m just working on this day and night and I think you guys are really going to like this. I just need a little more time.

Anyway, here’s some Update 2 previews. I’m relieved to announce that MC Morgan has finally texted Beverly his new number. I’ve included the selfie she sends in return. You know, for a “contact picture”.

Well, that wraps things up for this post. I hope you’re all well and look forward to the next time we talk. The next devblog will be along the lines of a “Release is next week” kind of posts, however soon I can do so.

Hakai! I mean, farewell!

— Beerus of U7S