Hey, I just checked both of those quests after skipping the start of the story, and they both work perfectly fine.
When you click the “Start” button, does any kind of popup appear? For those quests, you need to have Hu Tao and Artoria in your party, respectively. If they are transformed, you either need to cleanse them first or purchase “Free Trial” tickets from Koyanskaya.
Signing the contract unlocks new storylines, quests, a trinket slot, new zone influences, the farm, transformations, units, scenes, and more. Basically a huge chunk of the game ;^) It also doesn’t lock you out of anything.
You can gift her “Tasty Treat” from her character screen to increase her Chivalry stat faster. Eventually, after viewing all of her story-related scenes, you’ll be able to “Promote” her. After the second promotion, the quest will be completed.
For the ongoing arc, we will most likely continue as is. However, we’ve already received some cool monster TF requests and ideas that are a perfect fit for certain characters. Also, other arcs we’ve already introduced, like Infinity Castle and Demon Pits, feature much less “humane” TFs in them. :^)
Hey, it’s too early to discuss something like this. Right now, we’re avoiding any kind of “permanency” so that players don’t ruin their playthroughs by accident.
Hey, now you can click on chibis in the town and gift them Cursed Milk to transform them into cowgirls (other gifts will have different effects). After that, at the farm, in the barn, you can play the new "milking" minigame with them, and the scene you're missing will be unlocked.
Hey, that boss is the final fight of the update, and it doesn’t unlock any new content for now. In the next update, that fight will be nerfed as the story progresses.
Hey, eventually yes, but there are no real plans yet. We also want to remake older still scenes into animated ones, like we already did with Artoria’s first scene.
Heh, it’s been like this since day one. Previously, only the poor low-level skeleton had Taunt, so very few people actually noticed it. :^) But the description of the effect will be updated in the next build.
Hey, those Corrupting Stones aren’t consumed when used, they’re just not available in every zone. The second and third stones double the amount of loot, and any additional quantity from rerolling area mods increases that amount even further.
The game actually had a system like that before. It was implemented in 1.6. It combined damage and healing into single instances before spawning the text, but I disabled it in 1.9 because I realized it was displaying absolute nonsense.
So I will either have to redo that system or add something like a "disable damage numbers during combat" toggle setting.
Hey, they can be cured, but depends on the type of transformation: High Affinity Transformations: Once transformed, you must complete the character’s storyline to cure them. This requires raising their Corruption Level to 100. After the final scene, you can use Distilled Holiness to cure them. Generic Transformations: These can be cured at any time using Distilled Holiness. Distilled Holiness can be purchased from Aura.
Frozen Mountains has two types of zones: one is a normal 10-wave mode that drops gear only, and the other is a 999-wave mode that drops materials only, there you can farm reforge materials.
Are you sure you’re not playing the very first version of the game?
In the main menu, in the bottom-left corner, there’s a game version number. It should be 1.8c. If there’s none, I honestly don’t even know where you got it from :)
