Posted October 27, 2023 by aura-dev
Aaaand now you can properly continue playing after finishing the reverse summoning ritual. :'D Most of this week was spent on cleaning up after the reverse summoning ritual and also adding a couple of things to better prepare for it. Aside from that a ton of bugfixes, but honestly, I feel like this one here will definitely need a hotfix or two. Since we have so many fixes, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more bugs that were hidden behind everything we fixed. But welp, making a lot of progress also means making a bunch of bugs, I guess. :'D
Anyways, so the main progress this month was finishing up the Reverse Summoning Ritual. So there isn't really much of the usual number summary to do here, but besides the Ritual we did also see some new art content this month in the form of the Elizabeth character artwork and the Roland 6 H-CG I integrated this week. For the usual details, I refer as usual to the devlog posts. Usually, I would also give a summary here but in this case it's just too many spoilers, so I will just report a bit more on a couple of this week's new changes and leave it at that.
Besides the Royan world state, I have also done some updating in the compendium. As you progress through Chapter 2, more of the relationship status tags will be updated until reaching the point of the above screenshot. I also updated Aura's personal page where you will now find her ? marks for her new hobbies disappearing and also new ones popping up.
In Verdeaux, the Artifact Workshop has finally received some new items that become unlocked as you increase their workshop level through selling of Star Metal. However, there is one major change here: Artifacts no longer automatically appear in the shop, you first have to craft them via materials. Especially Pyromantium and Ether that are aplenty in the world should find some more potential uses in these. As for the new Artifacts, we have one that acts as basically another level of Coating Proficiency (Coating Enhancer), an artifact that allows you to have a major AGI advantage during the first turns of battle, and with that also hopefully has some synergy with Assassinate (Reaction Booster), and finally you can further upgrade your bombs to ignore even more MDEF by upgrading the Bomb Enhancer artifact.
Then we also have two new items at the Alchemist that you unlock at Workshop Levels 7 and 8 respectively. Slime Armor Coating gives you PHYS resistance but WEAKNESS to all other elements and should provide an additional way to counter PHYS heavy attacks without needing to learn Defensive Stance. Liquifiy Weapon Coating main effect is that it gives you WATER element attacks, giving you an additional way to deal with PHYS resisting enemies using melee attacks besides Lightning Sword. It also gives players an additional way to deal with the enemies in Mount Firestorm without needing the spell Splash. They both require some investemnt in terms of materials/gold making them bad permanent solutions, so learning the skills should become obsolete. But on the other hand it should give an additional tactical option that can be helpful in some segments of the game.
Alright, so I will leave it at that for this post. Regarding the actual content of this update, as I said, not much point to report on it due to the spoilery nature, so I will just leave it to the players to explore. Regarding the next chapter, after the next project plan post, either in the same week or the week after that, I will be giving another update post on the main roadmap. In general, next month will most likely be a setup month, doing some concept work, setting up new locations, setting up the next mind rooms, etc. Then, I will probably post again tomorrow for the 99% probably necessary hotfix. :'D
As usual, the full changelog for the update can be found below.