Devlog: 0.43.0-prerelease-1

First prerelease of the next update cycle! We continue as announced in the Project Plan Post May our push towards the corruption ending. Last update, all characters received their final turning point and have their stories now geared towards the ending. There is still quite some remaining distance though and we continue climbing that distance in this update!

First of all, we can finally start tackling the Identity Room in Chapter 3 by dealing with the "Purpose Question". Interact with it after corrupting all the red Value Orbs to start the process of completing the curse and making Aura's inner state fully accept the corruption!

This mental change progresses the repeat sex story line to the next level, making Aura cave to Richard's demands to stay longer and have sex into the night. A second source for the Tired state in other words! Furthermore, the mental change also immediately unlocks a new passive--

Life's Purpose: Pleasure Seeker attacks the ability to simply deal with all the Willpower debilitation by drinking Emerald Tea. Well, you can still do that, but now you need twice as much. Actually, probably even more as this passive disrupts all sources of Willpower restoration. That also includes the restoration when fulfilling Aura's desires from Womb of Lust or the Willpower regain after a pink scene. The 50% may get tweaked if it's not sufficient but I hope it is because it just technically works the best without creating too many "ugly" values.

Finally, I also made progress on the last batch of appearance mental changes. Don't jump up too high in expectation when you read the message in the scene that you unlocked all three remaining changes - Pink Highlights, Slutty Underwear and Tan.

Only Pink Highlights is implemented as of today. Originally, I wanted them to be a part of the popularity storyline (events that give +Fans) but in order to get Tan optional I felt it was better to move them to the Submission storyline (events that give +submission) of Aura changing herself to suit Richard's tastes. This way you can substitute the Tan mental change with the other mental changes, or just have more Submission build up from the repeat sex. Since the number of CGs on Earth that get affected by this is fairly small, we can afford some flexibility here.

Okay. That's it for the week! Full changelog with both internal and public patch changes below as usual. Next week: Laura storyline and the start of the "Social Ranking Order" (Name tbd :'D) storyline!

Changelog 0.43.0-prerelease-1 (03.05.2024)

• Added mental change Purpose Question
• Added mental change Pink Highlights
• Added lewd scene Late Night Sex With Richard 1
• Added lewd scene Late Night Sex with Richard 2
• Added scene Hanging Out At Richards 2
• Added scene Hanging Out At Richards 3
• Added scene Going To Hair Salon 8
• Added scene Dating Richard 6
• Added lewd passive Life's Purpose: Pleasure Seeker
• Increased max mental changes to 153

Balancing

• None

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos
• Fixed Unearth option at Jacob's house available before unlocking quest
• Fixed books still not targeting correct actor under some circumstances
• Fixed auto-corrupt on indecency not triggering properly
• Fixed Power of the Horse tags showing MATK instead of ATK
• Fixed Victor blocking Desmond if A Just Reward and Meeting Victor trigger at the same time
• Fixed sexual subcategory icons staying on screen after navigating to other categories in compendium
• Fixed Aura standing image remaining after Hermann wedding sex if day continues after first sex
• Fixed interpreter issues when loading saved choice lists
• Fixed interaction between forced lewd event and Mountainreach church teleport
• Fixed max vice being 25 instead of 29