v0.1.8b Changelog

v0.1.8a

Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that could result in a crash when venturing to floor 5 in the Dungeon
- Fixed an issue preventing Chris' Poison attack from dealing double damage out of Stealth
- Fixed an issue preventing some chests from dropping two items
- Fixed an issue resulting in a crash when wearing Kazuma's Masked Thief skin when fishing
- Fixed an issue resulting in a crash with some traps
- Fixed a few lines with orthographic mistakes



v0.1.8b

Technical:
- Added Web support. The game now has a Web build and can be playable from the browser (for instance on itch)
- Rudimentary mod support

Minor changes:
- Slightly reduced XP and gold rewards from Quests
- Collectibles are now non-interactive during the fishing minigame
- Regions on the Worldmap will now contain a warning if a boss is present in the level
- +1 Aqua skin
- +1 Darkness skin
- By popular demand, you can now invite Darkness & Megumin to your room for headpats again even if you've already finished those events
- Added a hard level cap to level 9 for the time being.
- Reduced days added to the counter after completing a quest from 5 to 4

Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the player from using Skip button
- Fixed an issue allowing certain dialogues in Steph's rescue quest to be played multiple times
- Fixed an issue that would cap bonus attributes from training with Darkness and Roxy at a lower value than intended. Applies retroactively
- Fixed an issue with a possessive pronoun in procedurally generated adventurers
- Fixed an issue with a certain foreground covering enemies in the dark forest
- Fixed an issue with Aqua dispelling self-applied Marked effect
- Fixed an issue with a missing displayable when visiting Gabriel
- Fixed an issue where you could still interact with objects after interrupting an adventure
- Fixed an issue with traps disappearing from the screen after an all-out-attack
- Fixed an issue with locked chests still being unpickable when Chris is in the party
- Fixed an issue resulting "Goddess of Calamities" event being available before Steal is learned
- Fixed an issue with scrollwheel not working in the shop menus

v0.1.8

Story:
- +12k words, totaling 113k
- +451 images, totaling 4628
- +19 animations, totaling 89

- Added the Heist event chain + quest + 2 cinematics
- +1 Main Event
- +1 Chris H-scene
- +1 Yunyun Event
- +1 Succubi Dream H-scene (rat-themed)
- +1 Gabriel Event
- +1 Vanir Event
- +1 Roxy Event

Technical:
- Upgraded to Ren'Py 8.1.2, bringing enhanced performance and numerous bug fixes
- Added a rudimentary lighting system for adventuring. Units will now get lit up and cast shadows during certain interactions or when AOE abilities are being cast
- The choice screen can now appear in different locations depending on the scene. This is to ensure it doesn't cover characters' faces in some cases
- H-scenes buttons now have their own style and are transparent
- Performance improvements % graphical updates for city & mansion screens
- General UI revamps & improvements
- You can now make "inventions" to sell to Vanir. Each product will generate a small amount of income every morning
- You can now feed Chomusuke in exchange for affection points and random rewards
- The Dreams in Succubi Cafe will now have "Ero Event" markers when available. After purchase you'll be able to rewatch them for free (and not just from the gallery)
- Work at the guild option will now have a quest marker if there are any plot-relevant jobs available
- Added a new book: In The Veil of Night
- Added a new Feat: Vampire Seducer. Now we just need some vampires

Adventuring:
- Added Chris
- Added new enemies: Brigand Lieutenant, City Guard, City Guard Sergeant
- Added new bosses: Brigand Boss, Shadow of Joy, *REDACTED*
- New visuals for the brigands camp location
- You can now venture to the deep forest to fight the birdheads
- Added a new class of abilities with variable effects. They function similarly to how you switch weapons in combat: you can cycle through possible effects and choose one you need most
- Added a new ability for Kazuma, "Create Element". It contains 4 different abilities (Create Water, Create Fire, Create Air, Create Earth) each of which can be used. Learn it from Roxy so she has reason to exist
- Added a new AbilityChain class for abilities that can (wait for it) chain effects.
- Added Drain Touch ability for Kazuma that can drain HP away from enemies in return for mana/health. That said, we won't see it in action yet
- Added a Wet status effect. Units affected by it take extra damage from Lightning attacks.
- Added a Frozen status effect. Frozen units receive penalties to their speed and dodge
- Added a new Riposte effect. Units with Riposte will counter-attack upon being hit.
- Added a Fear effect. Characters affected by fear might skip their turn
- Added a Hunting/Tracking effect. Units affected by it gain bonuses when attacking Marked enemies
- Added a Weaken effect. The next hit Weakened units receive is guaranteed to be critical
- Added a Confused effect. Confused units will choose their targets at random
- The initiative queue is now dynamic and can change mid-combat with speed boosts or penalties.
- You can now use the mousewheel to increase/decrease boost
- Successful attacks will now shake the screen lightly to provide feedback.
- Missed attacks will not show graphical effects of the attack on the target
- Added Traps that will damage the party if they're not disarmed
- Added Time Limited Battles (one in the Heist quest). You will need to last a certain amount of turns in order to win

Balancing:
- Balancing changes to monsters across the board
- Portable Toilet now applies Wet effect. Now there's a line I never thought I'd write
- "Blessed Restoration" and "Divine Heal" upgrades of Aqua's Heal ability now stack correctly
- "Blessed Restoration" heal percent amount decreased from 50% to 40%
- Aqua's "Blessing" now applies a +10 buff to speed
- Darkness' "Intimidate" now applies a -7 penalty to speed
- Added Fearless Feat to Darkness, rendering her immune to Fear effects
- Darkness' Bolster Ranks and Intimidate received some skill upgrades
- You will now receive a Power Gem every time you level up. This change is applied retroactively
- Buffed "Blinding Strike" upgrade for Turn Undead to further reduce accuracy (20->40) and dodge (10->20)
- Balanced Sword now adds a flat +10 bonus accuracy instead of a +10% modifier (which makes it rather useless for Darkness)
- Increased accuracy for Steal ability
- Darkness's strength gain increased to 9
- Kazuma's HP gain reduced from 14 to 12
- Kazuma's strength gain reduced from 7 to 6
- Aqua's Blessing duration from 2 -> 4
- Megumin's Concussive effect chance 30%->50%
- Jibril's Cleanse ability will now correctly cleanse most dispellable status effects that are positive

Minor changes:
- You can now end the workday early when working at the guild. You should still work the entire day, of course. Your corporate overlords demand it.
- Slightly adjusted monsters' death visual effect
- Removed some buttons from the game menu and the quick menu during replay mode cause some of y'all get overwhelmed by buttons too quickly
- Darkness's Headpat invitation will be inaccessible once complete. For now.
- Animation enhancements for screens when working at the guild and receiving results
- Added a tint effect to units when affected by Burn
- Adjusted the collectibles' glint additive quality to 0.5 so that it doesnt stand out as much
- Adjusted colors of the tray icon for Eris's boons
- Percent-based Heal skills will now show their percentages in the Skill Upgrade menu instead of flat numerical amount
- Auto-battle hotkey is now hidden on mobile devices
- Slightly adjusted the notification popup animation
- "Retake the Library" guild job will now only appear if "Investigate the Farm" is completed
- "Investigate the Farm" progress per day upped from 25 to 35
- Updated the first background in "Investigate the Tomb" quest
- Converted adventuring backgrounds to webp, saving on space
- Quick menu is now properly centered on the screen
- Replaced the city day BGM with a different track that I feel fits better
- Slight changes in library background visuals in adventuring mode
- Slightly adjusted Kazuma and Darkness sprites when attacking with a sword
- The menu dropdown in top-left corner now activates upon hover
- Equipped items in the inventory screen will no longer show their full attributes, but instead only a summary
- Included a language override for people that used to play on translated builds (which sometimes results in no text displayed in main build)
- Added an animated pointer to options in Jibril fight to make it more obvious that they're interactive
- Unlocking chests will now spawn a floating message to indicate success
- Jibril's chess minigame is now replayable from the Replay screen
- Reduced the reward from working at the construction site from 75 to 25
- Added on-screen controls to abandon lockpicking when possible

Fixes:
- FINALLY FIXED THE ITEM DUPE BUG WOOOOO, thanks M-L for the help in troubleshooting this menace
- Fixed the bug preventing Luna's "Greg" event from triggering. Thanks Leon for the report
- Fixed the bug causing an uncaught exception when using Auto-Battle option with Steph in the party
- Fixed the bug preventing the "Festival of Fortune" achievement from being granted
- Fixed the bug causing positive accuracy modifiers to further reduce Darkness's accuracy. Thanks TheRapist for the report
- Fixed Snipe not applying +50% damage to Marked targets. Those stinky ToDos... Thanks M-L for the report.
- Fixed a bug that resulted in PerfectFit label be cut off when working at the guild
- Fixed a bug with animations being interrupted when shown results of working at the guild
- Fixed a bug preventing players from seeing locked characters when unlocking the gallery via a cheat. Thanks Chamnyne for the report
- Fixed an issue with custom names showing up as None in Replays (Replays now have their own canonized placeholders)
- Fixed an issue with some names going out of namebox bounds in the festival events
- Fixed some clipping visuals in the last cuscene of Investigate the Tomb
- Fixed the issue with freezing animation when opening a shop menu
- Fixed an issue that would result in a bug where it appears as if mana was used when a hero is attacked by a monster
- Fixed a bug that would result in some Status Effects not clearing properly at the end of combat
- Fixed a bug where Knocked Out status effect would stay applied to Megumin after casting Explosion, rendering her useless at the start of the next fight
- Fixed the bug causing an uncaught exception sometimes during the fight with Jibril. Thanks billyjoebobmartin for the report
- Fixed inconsistent text colors in item attributes
- Fixed an issue which could result in some status effects description displaying "0 Turns Remaining"
- Fixed some hints that could mislead players into thinking they had highlightable elements, thanks dragon++ for the report
- Fixed inaccurate description of Aqua's Sacred Turn Undead upgrade, thanks dragon++ for the report
- Fixed an issue where a feat description was cut off in the feats section
- Fixed a bug with Bosses portraits having a blue (allied) background
- Fixed a bug where using Steal (or any other non-damaging ability) could trigger the Fickle Fate status effect
- Fixed an issue where skills could apply Fickle Fate to party members
- Fixed a bug which prevented Lucky Boost from increasing crit chance