Hi, everyone. Welcome to the first developer's diary of September!
As mentioned last week, this week's primary focus is on expanding the Marinas areas. Thus, the development is going accordingly.
In the Marinas Town Hall, we now have randomly generated quests. In the great Marinas areas, we now have a pet store and a tourist beach. They all have butterfly settings and fishing settings covered. In the lighthouse, we now have the 2nd floor where you can find more clues on what happened here. Meanwhile, you may find those shade-tainted agents. The bad news, they still know how to shoot their guns. The good news, you may loot them to get different firearms, ammo, and gun components. The maybe-good-maybe-bad news, the firearms they drop are all shade-tainted. Depending on whether you are going to embrace the power of shade, it may be an advantage or a disadvantage. On the way in and out of the Marinas Station, we now get a short cutscene. It still feels quite 2000s. But, better than just using a black screen to teleport you directly to the target. The cutscene is also added to the Gallery of Memories so that you can also check it from there after unlocking it.
But, gentlemen, let's face it. All above are not some of our community members interested most in this week's content update. After all, many players may not even get to Marinas yet. Thus, what may really have a greater and more direct impact on all players in this week's changes is the expansion of the usage of seduction skills.
With a new skill added to the game, you can now directly apply your seduction skills into battle, causing enemies to be stunned or confused. Mathematically, each level of your seduction skill provides about a +2% success chance. Unlike in some skill checks, this does not have many restrictions or penalties on the user's species or the target's sexual preference. Thus, may your wildest dream come true. Maybe your skeleton or zombie teammates are just that sexy. :)
The functionality of the Profane of Succubus is totally overhauled. Instead of directly doing something nasty on your enemies, it now temporarily adds +10 levels to your seduction skills. And then, you can use your empowered seduction skills to do a wider range of things such as charm your enemies in battles or get through some skill checks.
Carnal Exaltation also becomes a better faith tenet. It now brings you a bonus to your seduction skills while also directly granting you access to the charm skill without the need to learn it from other sources.
In addition to those content updates, some old content also got polished. For example, you can now find butterfly wings in the basement of the 3D Printing Store.
That's for this week. I hope everyone had a great summer. :)
Today's changelog: ############Content################ [Skill]New Skill: Charm (It causes "stun" and "confusion" based on your seduction skills.) [Skill]Kalina and Andarufira can now teach you "Charm." [Faith]Tenet "Carnal Exaltation" now automatically grants you with the "Charm" skill. [Butchery]Zhao Sandao can now butch crabs to give you meat. [Marinas]New location: Marinas Tourist Beach [Marinas Tourist Beach]Added butterfly settings, fishing settings, and a lot of random crabs. (It's still otherwise quite empty for now.) [Marinas]Removed a map reference in the game data.
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Update, Version 20230831
20230831 English ############Content################ [Gallery]Added the train departure cutscene to the Gallery of Memories. [Marinas]New location: Marinas Pet Store [Butterfly]You can now teleport the Marinas Pet Store from any outdoor location in Marinas after you have visited the pet store once. [Profane of Succubus]Changed the effect of this item. Instead of causing enemies to become confused, it now gives one of your allies a new effect that provides +10 seductive skills. [Profane of Succubus]Added a new animation. [Profane of Succubus]Added a new effect with the same name. [Faith]Tenet "Carnal Exaltation" now also provides +3 seductive skills. Consequently, it's now also a functional tenet in addition to a devotion-generator tenet. 简体中文 ############Content################ 【影集】将列车出发的过场动画加入到了回忆的影集。 【玛丽娜斯】新地点：玛丽娜斯宠物店 【蝴蝶】在进入过宠物店一次之后，你现在可以从玛丽娜斯室外地点传送到玛丽娜斯宠物店。 【魅魔信息素】该物品的功能进行了大幅修改。现在，这个物品会让你的一名队友获得一个临时的+10诱惑技能的效果。而不再是此前的让敌人混乱的效果。 【魅魔信息素】加入了一个新的动画。 【魅魔信息素】加入了一个同名状态 【信仰】信条【肉欲飞升】现在同样会提供+3诱惑技能。因此这个信条变成了一个同时具有功能性和虔诚生成功能的信条。
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Update, Version 20230830
English ############Content################ [Cutscene]Added a new cutscene that plays when you take the train of the Wonderland Travel Agency. 简体中文 ############Content################ 【过场动画】加入了一个新的过场动画，会在你使用奇幻之地旅行社的列车时播放。
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Update, Version 20230829
English ############Content################ [Loot]New item drop list for Shade-Tainted Agents. (They may drop a lot of different ammo, gun components, and shaded versions of guns.) [Marinas Lighthouse]New location: Marinas Lighthouse 2F [Marinas Lighthouse]If you cannot see shades, the location is almost totally safe. If you can see shades, there are some Shade-Tainted Agents wandering around along with other shade creatures. [Butterfly]Butterfly Wings now works on the 2nd floor of the Marinas Lighthouse. [Marinas Lighthouse]Added a document on the 2nd floor of the Marinas Lighthouse. (You may find out which grow was here and have some clues about what happened..) 简体中文 ############Content################ 【掉落物】为被暗影侵蚀的特工加入了掉落物列表。（包括了弹药、各种枪械部件、被暗影侵蚀的枪支。） 【玛丽娜斯灯塔】新地点：玛丽娜斯灯塔2楼。 【玛丽娜斯灯塔】如果你看不见暗影，那么这个区域是基本安全的。如果你能看到暗影，那么会发现这里实际上有一些被暗影侵蚀的特工和其它的暗影生物。 【蝴蝶】蝴蝶之翼现在可以在玛丽娜斯灯塔2楼使用。 【玛丽娜斯灯塔】在玛丽娜斯灯塔2楼加入了一份新的文档。（你能发现这里曾经有哪个组织进行了某种行动，以及这里大概发生了什么的线索。）
English ############Content################ [Enemy]New enemy: Shade-Tainted Agent [Enemy]Shade-Tainted Agents use firearms. They will attack you with other shade creatures. [Wonderland Travel Agency]Shade-Tainted Agent may appear in random locations that have shade enemies. [Faith]Greatly reduced the cost to convert to a new belief. [Faith]You no longer lose all your devotion when converting to a new belief. You can now keep 50% of your devotion. [Faith]Added a historical record of your converting history. Some vindictive gods may not be happy with your betrayal. [Faith] Updated related texts in the game to reflect those changes. [Faith]Tenet: "Freedom of Speech" now also provides +1 speech skill. 简体中文 ############Content################ 【敌人】新敌人：被暗影侵蚀的特工 【敌人】被暗影侵蚀的特工使用枪械进行攻击。他们会和其它暗影生物一起攻击。 【奇幻之地旅行社】被暗影侵蚀的特工现在可能会出现在有暗影敌人出现的随机地点。 【信仰】大幅降低了改变信仰核心的虔诚消耗。 【信仰】改变信仰核心不会再让的虔诚归零。你现在会保留50%的虔诚值。 【信仰】加入了对于历史上你进行改变 信仰核心的记录。有些报复心强的神明可能对于你的背叛不会很高兴。 【信仰】改变了游戏中的文字信息来体现这些变更。 【信仰】【言论自由】信条现在额外提供+1说服力。
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Update, Version 20230827
English ############Content################ [3D Printing Store Basement]Butterfly Wings may appear in the random supply boxes here. [3D Printing Store Basement]Increased the amount of random supply boxes. [Butterfly]You can now teleport to the 3D Printing Store from any outdoor area of Liu. (It requires you to have visited this location after this version once.) [Marinas Station]Added a card player who you can play Tomb Stone with. [Marinas]Changed the Southeast part of the map to add a new building. 简体中文 ############Content################ 【3D打印店地下室】蝴蝶之翼可能出现在这里的随机补给箱中。 【3D打印店地下室】增加了这个区域的随机补给箱数量。 【蝴蝶之翼】你现在可以在任何疁城室外区域传送到3D打印店。（需要在这个版本更新后访问过这个地点。） 【玛丽娜斯车站】加入了一个打牌的人员，可以和你玩墓石牌。 【玛丽娜斯】在地图的东南方向进行了修改加入了一个新的建筑物。
Some bad news: My grandma is COVID-19 positive and gets hospitalized. Thus, today's update is slowed down a bit. 因为祖母新冠阳性已住院，今日更新效率有所影响。
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Update, Version 20230826
English ############Content################ [Marinas Town Hall]Added a new NPC that gives randomly procedurally generated quests. [Marinas Town Hall]Added randomly generated material collect quests. [Marinas Town Hall]Added a vendor machine. [Butterfly]You can now use the Butterfly Wings to teleport out of the Wonderland Travel Agency. [Butterfly]You can now use the Butterfly Wings to teleport to the conductor when you are in the Wonderland Travel Agency. (It requires you to have talked to him once.) [Butterfly]You can now use the Butterfly Wings to teleport out of the Marinas Station. (It requires you to have entered Marinas from the Station once.) [Butterfly]You can now use the Butterfly Wings to teleport to the conductor when you are in the Marinas Station. ############System################# Added a function to export a list of map area coordinates to a text file. (MapAreaData::quickWriteDataArray(list)) 简体中文 ############Content################ 【玛丽娜斯政厅】加入了一个提供随机任务的NPC。 【玛丽娜斯政厅】加入了随机生成的收集原料的任务。 【玛丽娜斯政厅】加入了一个自动贩卖机。 【蝴蝶之翼】你现在可以使用蝴蝶之翼从奇幻之地旅行社传送出来。 【蝴蝶之翼】在奇幻之地旅行社中的时候，你现在可以使用蝴蝶之翼传送到列车长附近。（需要你和他说过一次话。） 【蝴蝶之翼】你现在可以使用蝴蝶之翼从玛丽娜斯车站传送出来。（需要你从玛丽娜斯车站走到玛丽娜斯一次。） 【蝴蝶之翼】在玛丽娜斯车站中的时候，你现在可以使用蝴蝶之翼传送到列车长附近。 ############System################# 加入了将一组地图坐标数据输出到文本文件的功能。 (MapAreaData::quickWriteDataArray(list))
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DD#135 When the Real Life Comes to Knock My Door.
Hi, everyone! Welcome to another week's developer's diary.
Well, a lot of things happened this week. I also got quite busy. Thus, there is not much serious game content for this week. See you next week. XD
Oh, wait a second, we instead got quite a few real-life game content. XD To start with, Prigozhin, the infamous leader of Wagner PMC, died in a plane crash. Just like this: Here is also an alternative link for people who live under internet censorship: https://www.zhihu.com/zvideo/1678479772823420928 So, basically, we get a new random curse stone event that may happen in Russia's outdoor areas. Who knows maybe your enemy is so unlucky enough that Prigozhin's plane just crashes on them. That's totally random as is the nature of calamity. Or, maybe it is not all left by chance. More details about this new event can be found on the game's wiki. Let's officially pretend it's just an accident. :)
Next, we also know Putin decided to invade the moon. But, apparently, the moon does not welcome his spacecraft for some reason. The Russian spacecraft crashed while the Indian spacecraft successfully landed. Congratulations to our Indian friends! And, maybe we shall praise the moon. Thus, we get a new tenet. It's always unlocked. You can add it to your customized faith/ideology. Something unique to it is it takes your local system time for consideration. Thus, if you have this tenet on your faith and you are playing this game at night, you can get more devotion from praying. Also on the image of this tenet, you may find some shiba dogs at the bottom of it. One of the most famous Shiba passed away this week. It's sad. But let's hope he went to a happier place for he has left this world with so much happiness.
What also happened this week is the nuclear water from Japan is now slowly dumping into the Pacific. "This is the end of the world!" Many cry. Especially in China, because of massive political propaganda about how bad things are. But, let's be realistic, it's bad. But, it's not that bad. So, I don't think I will change my appetite for delicious sushi. Instead, we got a new side quest in Marinas to get rid of a doomsayer. It's a non-linear side quest. Thus, you can have all the different ways to start it and solve it. If you can pass a skill check, you can also get more rewards at the end.
Now as we are talking about skill checks. Baldur's Gate 3 remains a hot topic this week. Time to "borrow" a bit more content from it. That is the skill check. Previously, we already had skill checks everywhere in the game. But, we didn't have a good UI to represent the difficulty range of each challenge. Now we have it, a dice roll sound will also play when rolling the final difficulty number. This is not exactly a D&D system. It's more like the one in CoC. Anyway, good luck with your dice roll. I have gone through all existing game content to replace the old skill check with this new one. In addition to that, we also have more different types of skill checks in existing and new content. For example, you can seduce the nurse who guards the secret room in the Marinas Hospital. You can persuade, deceive, or just fight the doomsayer in our latest side quest. As a big open-world RPG with a lot of freedom, there will likely be more and more places to continually use this system with all kinds of skill checks.
In addition to everything mentioned above, we also have a new location in Marinas, new crafting materials, new background music, and other little content.
That's for this week. Many times in the past 19 years, real life has provided me with great ideas and stories that I sometimes don't even need to write them myself. All I need to do is just add them to the game. This week is another one of such interesting times. :)
The final sale before the game price increases shall start next week. Marinas area will expand further to provide stages for our next stories.
Today's changelog: ############Content################ [Curse Stones]New curse stone effect: Prigozhin's Plane Crash! (It will cause great damage. Even if the target survives, they may still burn.) [Curse Stones]Prigozhin's Plane Crash only happens in a Russian outdoor area. [Curse Stone]Prigozhin's Plane Crash has a relatively high chance of happening compared to other random events if it has not happened before. [Curse Stone]Added new animation and sound effects for Prigozhin's Plane Crash.
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Update, Version 20230824
English ############Content################ [Marinas]New non-linear side quest: Get Rid of the Doomsayer. [Get Rid of the Doomsayer]The quest can either start from the town hall or the dock. [Get Rid of the Doomsayer]Added three new dialog options to the Doomsayer in the dock area. They are all related to this quest. [Get Rid of the Doomsayer]You can use persuasion, deception, or your combat skills to "Get Rid of the Doomsayer." [Get Rid of the Doomsayer]You can get your rewards from someone in the town hall. [Get Rid of the Doomsayer]You can get more rewards if you can pass a persuasion skill check. [Wiki]Added a wiki page about this quest: https://neolithia.fandom.com/wiki/Get_Rid_of_the_Doomsayer_(Quest) 简体中文 ############Content################ 【玛丽娜斯】新非线性支线任务：解决末日预言者 【解决末日预言者】该任务可以从玛丽娜斯码头或政厅开始。 【解决末日预言者】对末日预言者加入了3个关于这个任务的选项。 【解决末日预言者】你可以使用说服、欺骗、或者你的战斗技能来【解决末日预言者】 【解决末日预言者】你可以在政厅获得报酬 【解决末日预言者】如果你过了一个说服检定的话会有更多报酬。 【维基】加入了这个任务的危机页面： https://neolithia.fandom.com/wiki/Get_Rid_of_the_Doomsayer_(Quest)
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Update Version 20230823
English ############Content################ [Marinas]New location: Marinas Town Hall [Marinas Town Hall]A short story will automatically play when you get in for the first time. [Butterfly]After you have visited the Marinas Town Hall for the first time, you can use Butterfly Wings to teleport here. [Marinas Hospital]In addition to the option of deception, you can now also roll "seduction" to get rid of the nurse near the door. (Male Human character is preferred by the nurse.) [Fella]Fellas are now considered human when seducting a human. 简体中文 ############Content################ 【玛丽娜斯】新地点：玛丽娜斯政厅 【玛丽娜斯政厅】一段简短的剧情会在进入时自动播放。 【蝴蝶】首次访问玛丽娜斯政厅之后，你可以用蝴蝶之翼传送到这里。 【玛丽娜斯医院】除了欺骗的选项外，你现在也可以使用【色诱】的抛骰来让守在门口的护士离开。（人类男性有额外优势。） 【Fella】Fella现在在对人类抛骰【色诱】骰子的时候被视为人类。
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