Heat 0.3.5.3 Milestone - New Hand Engine, Spanking Tools, Character Thrusting, Marina Poses

AUTH ISSUE HAS BEEN FIXED. Old version should work again
There was an auth issue on Patreon's end that broke all authing and I've scrambled to put in a workaround. Hopefully they fix it on their end soon. I apologize for the trouble.
Likewise, sorry for the all tiny issues. We'll be making steps towards a patcher soon as well.

The main feature this month is a complete overhaul to the hand engine! It dynamically creates grab poses, allows you to grab things from any point and with both hands, and allows your hands to remain visible when grabbing character parts. This feature is an important step to a full player body, as well as many other improvements down the line.

It also kicked our ass and required massive rewrites to huge chunks of the game's code, so a few things are likely to be a bit buggy. We've done our best but we apologize for any issues. One of these issues has created the need for a hand strength option in the settings. If the toys are too hard or too easy to insert change this setting to your preference. Somehow the hand's physics are tied to the headset's refresh rate of all things and we're still trying to figure out why. Until then, this options should keep things feeling good. If something you like doesn't work quite right, the previous milestone has the old, working hands you can play until we get everything ironed out in this system.

Another of big things this build are the new spanking tools and redness, we've added some spanking paddles and a riding crop for all your spanking needs ;). If you have the option enabled and you spank a character, they'll get a bit red!

We've also added a radial menu toggle to have the characters thrust much like the glory hole characters when you grab them, suck them, or use the penetrable on them. Get your mouth ready! Unfortunately this had to break existing saved poses so they'll have to be remade.

Check out the full changes below and please provide feedback in Discord! Thank you everyone for your continued support of Heat! Your support allows this game to exist!

DOWNLOAD LINK HERE 

How to run Heat(Remember you need SteamVR to run the game in VR, and 7zip(recommended) or WinRAR to unpack it.)

New Patrons: Patreon is really slow at the beginning of the month and may take a few hours to acknowledge you're a patron for the authentication. Patreon is not updating a handful of user's pages and is failing to auth even after a long time. If you can't auth, try relogging into Patreon. If it still doesn't work, go into your Patreon profile and change any setting, such as your Patreon name or pledge privacy setting to force Patreon to update your profile. The auth should work after that. If it doesn't message me on Discord or Patreon.

Controls:

Oculus/Index:

• B: Menu
• A: Radial Menu
• Thumbstick press: Kiss/Lick
• Left Joystick: Move
• Right Joystick: Rotate/Teleport
• Trigger whilst holding toy: Shoot

Vive:

I've completely run out of buttons on this thing so you may need to customize the controls in the SteamVR overlay. If you have any suggestion on how best to bind everything, let me know on Discord please.

• That weird button close to the pad: Menu
• Grip: Shoot w/ toys
• Bottom of touchpad: Kiss/Lick
• Left Touchpad: Move
• Sides of Right Touchpad: Rotate
• Top of Touchpad whilst holding toy: Radial Menu

WMR

WMR controls change depending on the model, and some actions may be unbound entirely. You can see/edit your bindings by going to the settings in the SteamVR overlay and adjust the bindings and add any missing actions there.

For 2D:

• ESC: Close/move menu
• WASD: Move
• P/L: Switch between VR mode and 2D mode
• Q/E or Ctrl/Space: Move up and Down
• TAB: Open Radial Menu
• N: Extend tongue/kiss
• M whilst holding toy: Shoot
• Click: Grab something when the cursor lights up green
• R/F and Z/X: Rotate item in hand
• Mouse Wheel: Move object away or towards the camera
• Mouse: Rub something when the hand moves in
  Debug Keys:
• I: Make character erect
• C: Make character climax

The 2D interactions are still experimental and limited, but hopefully still enjoyable :)

Changelog 0.3.5.3

• Fix irl toy 10hz limit and make it optional
• Menu now works whilst possessing a char in a duo pose, allow you to trigger their climax and manage other options
• Fix radial menu in Gym
• Fix errors when leaving fingers in a hole whilst changing characters
• Stop playerbody from colliding with things it shouldn't
• 2D indicators turns green on grabbable things in gym now
• Player can suck on dildos again
• Stop players from walking through walls
• Fix teleport max angle
• Manage inactive hands properly
• Fix menu and teleport laser being relative to the physics hands rather than the controller
• Fix moving whilst possessing a character
• Allow you to rotate toys inside character holes
• Added hand strength slider
• Fix player scaling, although this may still be a bit wonk
• Fix radials in Hera pos 4

Changelog 0.3.5.2

• Improve detection of dick grabbing
• Fix floaty characters when custom posing
• Fix inconsistent spank detection
• Sanded down marina's dick to stop causing too much friction on the hand
• Added a temp marker for the teleport point
• Switch player movement system to a physics based one
• Reworked UI options for snap/smoothturn to work with the movement system
• Fixed player spawn point
• Fixed teleport teleporting relative to the roomspace instead of the headset
• Fixed height offset not working at all
• Fixed player scale
• Smooth out grabbing all the character's dangly bits and make them not spaz out when pulling
• Make all character balls stretch a bit when tugged on
• Fix grabbing spank tools with 2 hands
• Fix the various grab point laser pointer bugs
• Remove crappy code that was crappy
• Increase failsafe distance at which hands teleport back to your controller location
• Fix player colliding with toys
• Make more of marina's tail grabbable
• Refactor system for grabbing character limbs
• Fix male player hands being wonky
• Fix grabbing Emmy's tail frills
• 2d mode indicator will turn when you can interact with the thing you're pointing at
• Fixed canine glory hole guest
• Improved 2d mode belly rubs
• Fix riley boop
• Fix grabbing toys with 2 hands
• Fix grabbing penetrable toy when it's on a dick

Changelog 0.3.5.1

• Entirely new hand engine that has left us husks of our former selves
• Fixed Atlas jog pose monstrosity

Changelog 0.3.5.0

• Marina boop!
• Spank tools and redness
• Character thrusting in radial menu! (this breaks previously saved poses)
• Marina jog and BJ poses
• Added locations to main menu cause too many people miss the door handle
• Pose numbers should be more consistent across characters, like pose 3 will always be the animated pose
• Refactored some auth code to not use ancient tech (lemme know if there's any auth trouble)
• Add 10hz limit to irl toy updates
• Duo poses should no longer have synced breathing
• Fix character's elbows and knees moving funny when posing in pose 2
• Increased max speed for animated poses
• Removed unused code
• Updated Marina's collision to respect her chub slider
• Blocked loading of poses immediately after entering a scene whilst things are still loading
• Fixed marina againstwall pose jitter
• Refactor character mouths
• Fix gloryhole character thrusts
• Fixed bottom UI hint text loop properly
• Made boobies teleportable
• Adjust Marina and Gym UI colours
• Fixed open mouth radial option

Known Issues

• Laser might not register with UI sometimes, possible fixes are: Game restart, by setting the game window to focus by clicking on it, or by alt-tabbing (let me know if this still happens, I may have fixed it)
• Browser doesn't launch when hitting authenticate, or refuses to connect: Try running in admin mode or setting a different browser to default temporarily

Common Solutions to Game Issues

These are common solutions to many problems, ranging from the tongue not spawning to the game not launching in VR, or the game not authenticating. Try these out first if you're having issues, they work surprisingly often. If they don't work, message me and I'll be glad to help.

• Right click on verifyintegrity.ps1 and select 'Run with PowerShell' to validate your files. If this fails, redownload the game. The download got corrupted.
• Running the game as admin
• Make sure an antivirus isn't messing with Heat
• Adding the game as a non-steam game then running from within SteamVR (if not working in VR)
• If you're using Oculus and the game doesn't launch in VR, sit in launch SteamVR about 30seconds early then run the game from within SteamVR
• Reinstall/validate SteamVR
• Update video drivers
• Clicking on the game window with your mouse when the game is open then putting on your VR headset (if the laser doesn't work)
• Make sure the game isn't installed within any folders that have winky faces or other unusual characters in them
• Restart the game

MD5 hash for this build: B1D03DCCEA3EF293CAAE7E5609A49220