Progress Update #16 - Major Patch Soon (Really)

To everyone who's been waiting for a substantial update: We're really close to getting the major patch out. It should be ideally released on November 15th, and latest would be 20th. We're still waiting on two voice actors to submit their gameplay voiceovers, but if they don't make it, we'll push the voice acting forward and have their voices at a later date.
The patch will have the following:
1. Female Junius option
2. Additional tutorials
3. Controller Support *new*
4. Gameplay voices
5. Improved battle visuals *new*
6. Arcade mode (alpha) *new*
7. "Story" difficulty mode

For the second game, it's the same as last week - Youko has been writing Chapters 4 and 5 while also handling her dice business.
There's also a new background artwork by Tobby! It's the Hero's Monument located in Mondshire, Central Sector:


Lastly, on a more personal note: We apologize for pushing back the update schedule ːtiredadmiralː, we'll try to recover and go back to updating every Fridays once we have our irl stuff sorted out around January. Why January? Because that's the only time we can see if all our efforts in improving the game were worth it or not. We expect two upcoming major Steam Sale to happen, and if we still can't break past the bare minimum, we still have our last stand which is the 2nd game early access, but it'll be delayed the more we get negative income.

We had a rough launch, 1.5 years of little to no support, and we've only started recovering recently. We try to stay positive that things will work out, that the game can stand on its own eventually. Once the major sales come out, we hope everyone can share Sierra Ops to their friends/colleagues so we can bring the rest of the story sooner to you. We promise that the journey in seeing Sierra to completion is worth it - after all, we aim to be one of the great sci-fi/mecha stories to be ever told.