Posted April 26, 2024 by aura-dev
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Ahhhhh!!!! Its done it is done it is dooooooneeeee!!!! The first update of Chapter 3-B and probably the largest update on Earth Corruption content to date!! Phew, everyone on the team has been pushing pretty hard this month, so I'm really glad we finished in time.
And it's not just a matter of sheer number. Most of the scenes have a strong plot impact, character development, unlock new passives or otherwise accelerate the story towards its corruption finale. And then of course lots of developments like: INFINITE GEORGE SUFFERING! Slutty Clothing! Aura's resistance breaking down! Repeat sex on Earth! Maid George!
Have I already mentioned infinte George suffering?
I won't be going too deep in the usual summary post as I feel like that would be just retelleing of the events that happen in-game, so for the corruption scenes I will this time just do the numbers recap. Otherwise it's just too much :'D And then maybe talk a bit about the new passives and appearance changes that get unlocked along the way.
So, as usual, for in-depth development updates on the prereleases, check out the weekly devlog posts. Now, let's jump into the numerical overview of this major update! We have: 24 new Corruption scenes (!!!!!), 5 new lewd scenes (some of them just short repeat versions though), 1 new H-CG, 1 new character artwork, variations to two older CGs, 1 new quest+dungeon+boss, 1 new Compendium Category, 5 new mental changes, 6 new passives, and the usual bunch of little things!
Uff. Like I said, I won't be going through the new corruption content except for the teaser sentences above or else I would be sitting here tomorrow writing this update post :'D.
Instead, let us take a look at the new appearance changes and passive skills! With the new Slutty Clothes mental change unlocked at a high Fan-Count, we are approaching the final form of slutty Aura! (Also I have now managed to structure Chapter 3 in a way so that tan will be optional) Furthermore, as a more minor change, Aura also gets an upgrade in Underwear! I decided not to have a mental change for it, as the change itself seemed pretty natural at this point without needing any helping hand.
Then, for the lewd passives! Be careful from progressing too far into Chapter 3 before finishing your fight against powerful human enemies like Roland or you will have to deal with the Submission Fantasis passive! When fighting a Handsome (new enemy tag) Human, Male, Aura will start the battle fantasizing about sex during battle, giving her Aroused (Until Battle End), and Paralyzed (Until the end of the next turn).
Then, we have a set of mental changes that massively reflect Aura's increasing disinterest in having to save the ass of stranger's every night! Unlocked through the corruption of the Diligence 2 Value Orb, we have Learning Skills Sucks and Beauty Sleep is Important, both of them capable of adding the also new passive Lazy I/II.
Moving on, we have a new passive similar to Party Girl, Sex Duties Of A Demon Queen. The denotes the remaining time until the next repeatable Earth sex event occurs.
And finally we have Modeling Proficiency I, which allows Aura's skills that can give a target Aroused to also affect females.
Then I would like to talk a bit about a new UI feature developed this week by our assistant developer Trihan: The Social Category. What used to be a small sub-category of the Aura Category with only the Earth characters, has been expanded to capture all notable characters in the game!
It's a bit janky as its first iteration was only finished on Wednesday and likewise we most likely forgot to add a bunch of interesting characters and tags to it. (For example Paulina doesn't really work yet as the current system doesn't fully support her large changes in location/sprites without causing massive copy&paste)
But I think it should serve as a good basis to collect some extra feedback. Which characters would you like to see in here? What kind of tags would be helpful to you? For now we focused on adding important quest characters and lewd partners. Furthermore, character lewd tags such as evil, kind, etc. were the first line of priority that we decided to add. Beyond that I also added some simple "progression tags" such as Nadia's "Partner" tag which changes from Albrecht to Rosemond if you do his quest. Likewise, notable NPCs that you killed - such as the Drug Dealer - are listed with the "Dead" tag. So you can now easily look up if you killed a lewd partner in the past!
As a negative note, maybe you saw in a previous devlog the feature for save renaming, this we had to take out. The (form) approach that we used to create the input fields was not very compatible with the remaining engine and caused more holes to fix than we anticipated. So I decided that we should deactivate it until Trihan implements an alternative approach.
I could talk a bit more about the small other additions the update has brought with it, such as the new quest to uncurse Jacob's daughter or the ability to go back and steal the Mana Catalyst from the Hermit if you missed out on it when the Vice choice first popped up - but I feel like we have already reached quite the length for this update post, so I will close out here.
Have fun with the update! The full changelog is as usual below. Next month will start the Charlotte lewd content development and otherwise continue the heavy Earth Corruption content focus --- The Corruption Ending is getting close!!!!!!