Hello everyone and welcome to our end of week devlog for Dead Heat.

This new update includes:

• Black Widow Reputation
• Randomised Bishop Behaviours
• New dialogue interrupts

Yesterday, we released v0.9 of the first phase of our demo. We released a devlog last week detailing what the update would include. This devlog we will be talking about the elements that have been added in. The first new feature you would notice when playing the game would be a new reputation. We finally got around to releasing the Black Widow reputation for everyone to try out!
This reputation will allow you the most options for persuasion, but you will need them, as very few people will truly trust you. You will need to have your silver tongue at its sharpest when talking to people. This will be better expanded upon in the demo once we add new areas and characters (nudge nudge) to test all of the possible persuasion techniques, along with the verbal jousting!

In the demo itself, we tweaked some scene triggers that were not placed correctly, leading to player navigation issues. If you encounter any of these issues while playing, please let us know in the Bug Database on our main itch page.

The most noticeable change, if it happened to you, would have to be Bishop now offering to follow you up to the apartment to show you around. This will only happen on some scenarios, and he may suggest only one of you going up with him. You could accept this, or you can insist on him taking both of you. All up to you!

This is the first randomised element we have implemented in Dead Heat, we will be adding many more to the demo during Phase II, with this one, we'll test how far we can reasonably go with random elements and experiment with what we can do to make the world a real living place. As we said above, this will be shown most in the next area. For now, we will continue to test new elements and make plans for the next years timetable. Hopefully getting phase II and III done by next April.

Thank you for reading our devlog. We hope you will give the demo a try and join our discord to become part of are community!