If you didn't see the post on Patreon or Subscribestar, I was away over the weekend, and am settling back in today. That means, as you can probably guess, that there wasn't any progress on Maids & Masters' Strategy Guide over the weekend. That also means I'm pretty solidly behind schedule, and I'm not sure I'll be able to complete Act 2 by the end of the month for a new "test build" for VIPs at the end of the month (which would actually be May 1st, because that's when the closest Friday is).
To try and make up for that (and for the probably pretty boring preview that the Table of Contents page made for) I'll be doing a back to back page preview, with this Friday's post being about the Freeze tasks.
I've been trying to avoid that, as there are only so many "types" of pages I can post as previews before I'm just picking pages at random to show off, but I'm always trying to make sure I'm doing right by the people supporting me (and hopefully encouraging more of you to support me), so I'm hoping this makes up for any disappointment while I gather up the energy to try and have Act 2 of the guide finished in two weeks.
That's not an impossible goal, even if it does mean I'll likely end up in crunch mode again. While there are the cult segments in between and all the side content that gets unlocked as you go, most of Act 2 takes place inside of 6 major quests - getting into the mountains, the four Estates you can complete in any order, and Archibald's segment - and that first one is already mostly done. Even if each of those that are left take me two days each due to the extra complexity, May 1st is exactly 10 days away. That means no days off or really crunching down on a few days (or more realistically, both), but it's not impossible to do.
Though it's more likely I'll just take an extra week instead of killing myself trying to get all that work done as fast as humanly possible.
Act 3 is comparatively short, so even with the extra week, it's entirely possible the guide will still be finished at the end of May, which is roughly in line with the longer end of how long I wanted to spend on this thing. If I actually pull it off, I'll be happy. Though it does seem likely I'll end up pushing into June (no pun intended) since I also have all the appendices to put together after the story is done.
But regardless of whether it takes until the end of June or not, that's still miles better than the original estimate I had of this guide taking a year to put together. I'm itching to get to whatever game you want me to make next, and putting that off for a whole year would drive me up a wall.
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