Joey then recieves a message from Cridea who tells her to change the train onto the express track, in order to reach Jeevik Island faster. Soon after boarding, Joey gets a message on the tablet from Fiamet, who tells her than both Alternia and Earth will be destroyed in 11 days if she doesn't go back through the portal. Joey and Xefros board the train, where they can meet the various trolls from Troll Call, with the trolls separated by blood caste. Regardless, Elwurd wants Joey to give her some pogs to sweeten the deal, which she does. This choice makes either troll not show up on the train. The player can then choose to get a ticket from Zebruh by getting Marvus to recommend him for Slam or Get Culled, or getting one by convincing Chixie not to go. The duo meet Zebruh, Chixie, Elwurd, and Marvus on the platform, and Elwurd offers the Joey and Xefros two fake tickets in exchange for one real ticket. They leave to a train station where they attempt to get tickets to Jeevik Week, but Joey breaks the ticket booth due to the fact that she doesn't have troll blood, and it gives a message that a imperial drone is coming to fix it in two hours. They find and enter a beekeeper's hive and Joey does a bee dance for his lusus. The duo narrowly escape an explosion caused by a missile and pass through a cave hive to get Joey fake troll horns as a disguise, along with a sweatshirt she was already wearing. Plot Īfter escaping from Outglut's bombing, Joey and Xefros begin heading towards Jeevik Island for its upcoming Jeevik Week party to meet up with Fiamet and Cridea Jeevik. Game files also show that there were unrealised plans for a fishing minigame outside Charun's cave. Also, he stated all trolls from the troll call would be present as well background trolls with "brief unimportant interactions".ĭespite being announced in the Troll Call and appearing in promotional material for the game, Zebede Tongva and Charun Krojib did not appear in Act 2, with only their empty residences visited by the player. On the first anniversary of Hiveswap: Act 1, James Roach released some music concepts ( archived link) for Act 2, revealing the track playing in an area with many dialogue options would change its instruments depending of the troll you interact with, based on their importance and caste. In a further post discussing the music of Friendsim Volume 9, James Roach stated that Chahut's theme ♫ was originally created for a potential sequence in Hiveswap: Act 2 described as a " Highblood minigame".
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An update including the credits and temporarily removing the bee rhythm minigame due to accessibility concerns was released on November 28th. It was initially released without credits, with the Homestuck Team Twitter announcing on November 27th that the credits would be patched in later. The game released on November 25th, 2020. One last trailer on the 16th of November confirmed a November 25 release date.
In it, he mentions that Act 2 contains a "significant interaction" involving Troll Call trolls Konyyl Okimaw and Azdaja Knelax, revealed in Friendsim Volume 7 to be mercenary partners and matesprits, and that the pair reportedly have musical themes that can overlap to form a single melody, like "two sides of one coin".Ī new trailer and Steam store listing were both posted on Halloween, 2019, and another new trailer finally announced a November release date on the 25th of October, 2020. On July 7th, 2018, former Hiveswap music composer James Roach made a post on his tumblr discussing the music in Hiveswap: Act 2 in relation to the music in Hiveswap Friendsim.
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This release date was delayed, however, and the game's progress was left totally unknown while episodes of the Hiveswap Friendship Simulator and Pesterquest were released instead. A What Pumpkin Studios Tumblr post post on the 11th of November, 2017, announced that Act 2 would see a Spring 2018 release.
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