The World After Silence [Ongoing] - Version: 0.5

What's New in The World After Silence Version - 0.5?

Pregnancy & Children

• Added pregnancy for female players and NPCs.
• Added three visual stages corresponding to the three trimesters.
• Added videos for sex scenes.
• Improved pregnancy overlays and their layering with clothing.
• Added childcare and progression for children as they grow.

Nika Veres: Expanded Questline

• Added a 12-part character storyline with investigations, choices, discoveries, and relationship development.
• Added optional private encounters and gender-specific videos.
• Moved shelter conversations to the door interaction menu.
• Added a yellow quest indicator when a conversation is available.

New Random Events
Ambush

• Entering a location can trigger a new ambush event.
• Added a blackout effect and a blurred first-person awakening scene.
• Added two video stages, with separate pools for male and female players.
• Connected 19 videos, selected randomly from the appropriate pools.
• Base encounter chance is 20%, reduced by Perception.

Someone at the Door

• Random adult visitors can now arrive at the shelter asking for accommodation, food, or water.
• Added a door notification and a visitor dialogue.
• Players can help, refuse, or decide later.
• Added capacity and inventory checks, with explanations for unavailable actions.
• Added an optional private interaction after helping.

Shelter & Settlement

• Added living quarters where residents appear within the room.
• Connected rooms through door hotspots.
• Added door markers, highlighting, and room transitions.
• Made storage accessible directly from its hotspot.
• Separated shelter upgrades from resident interactions and removed redundant menus.
• Reworked storage presentation toward a more atmospheric, in-world layout.
• Improved housing layouts on mobile and desktop.
• Fixed overlapping resident controls and improved access to larger resident lists.

Exploration & Survival

• Expanded the loot pool.
• Added wood gathering with an axe.
• Added gradual Scavenging progression when searching for loot.
• Added small Combat skill gains after victories.
• Increased the influence of player attributes on search duration and danger.
• Added access to food, drinks, and medicine within exploration scenes.

Character & Equipment

• Added player attributes to the equipment screen.
• Added three male hairstyles and updated their character-creation names.
• Made the player figure on the world map open Character Overview.

Interface & Performance

• Added smoother transitions between scenes, locations, and major game screens.
• Improved quest journal layout and small-screen usability.
• Expanded reactive interface updates using Preact.
• Added a game favicon.
• Removed the Dawn theme; existing selections fall back to Wasteland.