Neolithic: To the End
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[Cooking]Newly cooked cactus dishes will now be known as something about "cactus" instead of something about "cactus slice." (For example, we now have Fried Cactus Noodles instead of Fried Cactus Slice Noodles.)
[Outside the Black Pyramid]Added a very big Sphinx.
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If no target is available, FPS mode with a single-target weapon will no longer trigger. (Previously, it can happen in continuous battle when the current wave is cleared while the next wave of enemies has not yet arrived.)
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【料理】新制成的仙人掌料理现在会有一个关于【仙人掌】的名字，而不是关于【仙人掌切片】的名字。（比如，我们现在会获得【仙人掌炒面】而不是【仙人掌切片炒面】）
【黑暗金字塔外】加入了一个巨大的狮身人面像。
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如果当前没有合适的目标，单体武器现在不会进入FPS模式。（此前，某些情况下，比如在持续的战斗中，当前一波敌人已被消灭而下一波敌人还未出现时可能会发生。）
加入了一个系统让物品的本地化名称在某些情况可以转化为更符合这些情况的表述方式。
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修复了一个某些情况下没有触发FPS模式也会消耗弹药的Bug。
DD#117 The Siege of the Black Pyramid
This week, the content updates are mostly two parts.
The first one is something we left from the last week. You can now turn Cactus People into your pets. You can now grow your own cactus plants. We also got a new recipe for cooking fried vegetable noodles.
The second part is something more exciting. As our main story reached the Black Pyramid's outside area, it's natural that the Aten Cultists would have set up a defense to stop you from reaching there. Here is where things can go on diverse paths based on your previous choices.
During this week's updates, we got four different ways the story can develop and how you can overcome the obstacle of the defense of Aten Cultists. You will not be able to experience all four different stories in one play-through unless you load a previous save as early as back in the Grand Library. However, that is the point. Your choices matter. (Even though that means I will have to put in additional works to address all those possibilities. :P)
Details on the different paths can be found on the game's wiki. Here are just some short summaries to avoid too many spoilers.
The first big difference is, do you decide to go alone?
Despite other seeming friendly factions offering their help to aid you as long as you share the knowledge from a certain book with them. But, do you think you can really trust them? Or, maybe you have already foreseen the possibility to turn hostile to them later. Or, maybe you just want all the secret knowledge for yourself. No matter the reason, you spent your sanity and figured out the previous answers. But, when you reached the outside of the Black Pyramid, facing the defense of the Aten Cultists. You are still alone. Thus, you will have to break through all by yourself in a long fight. But, maybe, everything will be worth it in the end.
The second big difference is if you have allies, who would that be?
Did you side with the designated evil capitalists Illuminatis or the overzealous Templars? Either of the faction will bring their own solution to help you destroy the defense of your enemy. In addition to that, they both have their own additional service. You can get a supply vendor if you allied with the Illuminati while if you allied with the Templars, you can get free healing. Either can be helpful, but you have to make your choice.
Or, not.
Maybe, the choice is an illusion. You like to think out of the box. Thus, you spent extra efforts back in the Grand Library and figured out a way to convince both of those two factions to work together and formed a joint force. Congratulations! You will now get help from both of them. Of course, they still don't see eye to eye with each other. But, they both agree to help you. An argument will break out. But, you may be surprised to see they systemically obliterate every single Aten Cultist in this area even when they are arguing. After that, you will get benefits from both factions. Namely, both the supply vendor and the free healing.
The story will continue from here. No matter what you chose before, they will continue to affect the story. But, that's for this week.
Next week, I will be taking another relatively smaller surgery to takeout the implant from the previous surgery. It may affect the updates for a day or two. But, we will get it over with. Meanwhile, a global holiday seems will arrive soon. Thus, the discount plan will likely be revealed in the next DD.
Today's changelog:
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[Lost in the Sand]Story continues on the "Jointed Force" path. (If you previously convinced both the Templars and the Illuminati to work together, they will both come to your aid. An argument will break out between those two factions. During the argument, they systemically will murder all the defense forces of the Aten Cultists. You will get benefits from both of those two factions. Variable 850 -> 930)
[Lost in the Sand]Added a failsafe, in case of the system cannot detect which path a player is on for any reason, it will consider the path as the "lone-wolf" path.
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[Lost in the Sand]Story continues on the "Illuminati" path. (If you previously decided to ally with the Illuminati, they will come to your aid and use superior firepower, including calling for fire support from a HIMARS to annihilate the defense of the Aten Cultists. They also brought in a Quartermaster robot that can sell your medical supplies, ammo, and some guns. Eve would also appear. You can ask her about the HIMARS, give her the bunny if you previously didn't, and give her gifts. Variable 850 -> 930)
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【迷失于沙粒中】光照派线剧情继续。（如果此前你选择和光照派结盟，那么他们会出现并使用成吨的火力以及召唤海马斯轰炸的方式摧毁阿腾教徒的防线。同时，他们会带来一个军需官机器人向你贩卖各种医疗补给品、弹药、某些枪械。伊芙也会出现，你可以询问她关于海马斯的事情、给她那只兔子（如果你之前没给的话）、送她礼物等。变量850 -> 930）
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[Lost in the Sand]Story continues on the "Templar" path. (If you previously decided to ally with the Templars, they will come to you aid and use their Holy Handgrenades to break the defense of the Aten Cultists. They also brought in free healing service. Variable 850 -> 930)
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【迷失于沙粒中】圣殿骑士团线的剧情继续。（如果此前你选择和圣殿骑士团结盟，那么他们会出现并使用他们的神圣手榴弹摧毁阿腾教徒的防线。同时，他们还带来了免费的医疗服务。变量850 -> 930）
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[Lost in the Sand]Story continues on the "lone-wolf" path. (If you previously didn't side with any potential allies, you can now choose to break through the defense of the Aten Cultists by yourself by force. Other story branches are still working in progress. Variable 850 -> 930)
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Moved some of the enemies' generate code of Aten Cultists from the Enemy Troop Manager to Enemy Data Manager.
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Fixed a bug that causes Aten Cultists to lack the weakness of being human.
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【迷失于沙粒中】孤狼线的剧情继续。（如果此前你并没有发展任何盟友，那么你可以选择靠自己强行突破阿腾教徒的防线。其余路线的剧情分支还在施工中。变量850 -> 930）
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将部分阿腾邪教徒的敌人生成代码从Enemy Troop Manager转移到了Enemy Data Manager
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修复了阿腾邪教徒缺乏作为人类的弱点的Bug。
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[Lost in the Sand]Story continues. (No variable changes. But, we are now right in front of the next conflict.)
[Skill]"I am your shield" can no longer self-target. If the intended target dies before the skill can be cast, the casting will now be canceled. (The changes are to prevent unintended action results.)
[Cooking]New cooking recipe: Fried Vegetable Noodles. (Raw Noodles + Food Oil + Any Green Vegetable. Depending on which vegetable you are using, you can get different results.)
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【迷失于砂砾中】故事继续。（没有变量改变。但是我们抵达了下一个冲突点之前。）
【技能】【吾为君之盾】无法对自己使用。如果技能的使用目标在技能发动前死亡，则技能的使用会终止。（这次的改动目的是解决一些意外的行动结果。）
【料理】新食谱：蔬菜炒面。（生面条+食用油+任何种类的绿色蔬菜。 基于使用的蔬菜的不同。你可以获得不同的炒面。）
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[Gardening]New Seed: Cactus Seed
[Commodity Market]Random gardening merchants now sell cactus seeds.
[Gardening]It's no longer a good idea to plant seeds of certain types of plants in the middle of a traffic-heavy road. Cars will just run over and destroy your plants. (You can also no longer use those planted seeds to block the traffic.)
[Prefix]New generic prefix: Green Thumb (Increase gardening skill levels.)
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【种植】新种子：仙人掌种子
【小商品市场】随机出现的种植商人现在会贩卖仙人掌种子。
【种植】现在最好不要在交通繁忙的公路中央种植各类植物，车辆现在会直接碾压过某些还没彻底成长的植物并将其摧毁。（同时，你也无法通过在道路中央种植这些植物来阻碍交通了。）
【前缀】新的通用前缀：园艺师的（增加种植技能等级。）
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[Pet] You can now turn Cactus People into your pets. (They have a passive 8% close-range physical damage reflection.)
[Pet]When you drop a Cactus Person, they will immediately disguise as a normal cactus.
[Localization]Localized two physical damage reflection special attribution.
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【宠物】你现在可以把仙人掌人变成你的宠物了。（它们自带一个被动的8%的进展物理伤害反弹属性。）
【宠物】当你丢出一个仙人掌人的时候，它们会立刻伪装成一个普通的仙人掌。
【本地化】加入了两个物理伤害反弹特殊属性的本地化文本。
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加入了在窗口中绘制单帧的角色行走图的代码支持。
DD#116 A Bit Green Diet
Unfortunately, I still have a fever at this moment. So, there will be no fancy images this week. We will go directly to what content we got this week.
1, Vegetables
Among many of my doctor's suggestions, one thing has been specifically mentioned. That is to change the diet behavior to have a more healthy balance. Then, I realized we get a problem with our game. We don't have any vegetables except potatoes in our game. And, of course, eating potatoes alone is not quite healthy. Thus, we now have cabbages and cactuses in our game.
First, let's talk about cabbages. Surprisingly such a humble vegetable was a table luxury in the Roman Empire thousands of years ago according to The Natural History of Pompeii. Cambridge University Press. 2002. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-521-80054-9. It's also widely consumed by people all over the world nowadays. In the game, you can now plant cabbage seeds and harvest them. To those who don't want to get their hands dirty to do farming, cabbages are also purchasable from random food ingredient vendors.
Next is the cactuses, many people may not know cactuses can be used as food. However, after some research, I learned it's a common ingredient in numerous cuisine dishes all over the world especially in Mexica. In ancient China, people also recognized its medicinal usage. Thus, in the game, cactuses can be used both for cooking and alchemy. Unfortunately, I have not gotten enough energy to integrate it into our gardening system so far. You can purchase cactuses from food ingredient vendors and there is also another interesting way to get them that I will cover more details about later.
2, Cooking
Now that we got some vegetables, we shall go on to cook them. I intended to make vegetables as generic as possible right now so that code can be used like templates. As a result, we now have three very basic recipes for all green vegetables for both that we currently have and those that will come in the future. Those are vegetable soups, vegetable juices, and fried vegetables. Any green vegetables can be used for those cooking purposes the result is depending on your cooking skills, the cooking device that you are using, and the vegetable you are using. As always, if you use holy water instead of normal water when cooking, you will get the blessed version.
3, Cactus People in the Desert
Alright, this is a quite wild idea just for fun. From now on, when you go to the desert area in Egypt, you may find some cactuses are actually not what they look like. Those are the cactus people who pretend to be cactuses. They are mostly harmless. After all, why would a cactus want to hurt you? By nature and evolution, they have grown into a very defensive nature with almost no intention of aggression. However, in case anyone wants to attack them for any reason, they shall be aware that those creatures have thorns on them, they have passive physical attack reflection. Should you defeat them, you may get some cactus slices that you can use for cooking or alchemy as mentioned previously. The possibility to turn them into pets is planned, but, has not been implemented yet.
That's for our green diet parts of the developer's diary. Now let's move on to see other major content updates of this week.
4, A bit of control over public awareness of the supernatural world.
You may have done something terrible in the normal town of Liu. Now, people are getting more and more aware that the supernatural world exists. Shades are spreading everywhere. Is there anything we can do to amend this? Now, there is. When people's awareness of the supernatural world gets above 15, the bartender of "This is a Bar" will be annoyed as her job is to keep people stay in blessed ignorance. Thus, she will ask you to fund some "Wine Festivals" so that people will all get drunk with her amnestic drinks. It will result in public awareness getting reduced slightly. Meanwhile, the cost of such "Wine Festivals" are scaled with the value of current public awareness. If you do it too late, you may get bankrupt and lead things out of control. Basically, you now have the tool to somehow fix the problem. However, if you keep revealing the supernatural side of the world to local citizens. Eventually, it will become less efficient.
5, Relationship overhaul for the exiled Aztec prince
It has been a while since we met Tlilpotonqui. Back then, we do not have a relationship system and a gift system as developed as we have now. Thus, he was still using an old system where you can only give him chocolates and he is not quite helpful to your adventure as well. This issue has been fixed during this week's update. You can now use the modernized gifting system to send him anything that you think he likes. (Tips, he still loves chocolates.) Moreover, he can now teach you various necromancer skills one of which is quite unique. The costs of learning those skills are further scaled with your relationship with him. He will give you discounts if your relationship is good. We now also get him a Wiki page to document all his legendary passed life to this point. Maybe one day, the girl he has been waiting for all those long times will eventually return to this town.
6, More colorful persona masks
Previously, persona masks have a similar appearance no matter what pet you used to turn them into masks. Now things are getting a bit different. You may get some different results depending on which pet you use. You will now get skull masks if you use undead pets, you will now get bunny masks if you use a bunny or a tiger bunny, and you will get Greek Tragedy masks if you use a mannequin or a statue, and if you use a machine pet, you will get a mask that looks like a VR headset. A sneaky peak, the Steam Achievement icon for the "Persona" achievement is also changed.
7, Push forwards in the main story
We now reached the outside area of the Black Pyramid. The journey is not easy, as along the way when we pass the Path to the Black Pyramid, we also got dangerous new enemies such as those Cruel Slavedrivers and those giant poisonous snakes known as "Naja Desertus." On the good side, we also get more rewards if we defeat those enemies. For example, Naja Desertus now drops snake fangs that you can use for alchemy.
That shall cover most parts of this week's updates. I will likely need to have some sleep. See you around.
Today's changelog:
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[Steam]Changed the "Persona" Steam achievement icon.
[Item]New Item: Cactus Slice (When you use it for cooking, it works similarly to green vegetables. When you use it for alchemy, it has components to remove poison.)
[Commodity Market]Random food ingredient vendors now sell Cactus Slices at a relatively high price.
[Egypt]Some cactuses in the Desert of the Trapped may no longer be what they look like.
[Wildlife]New wildlife: Cactus Person. (Non-aggressive. They may drop Cactus Slice. They have physical damage reflection.)
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[Alchemy]New Alchemy Material: Snake Fang (Add Poison)
[Loot]Naja Desertus may now drop snake fangs.
[Persona]When using an undead pet to create a Persona Mask, the mask will now have an appearance of a Skull Mask.
[Persona]When using a bunny or tigerbunny pet to create a Persona Mask, the mask will now have an appearance of a Bunny Mask.
[Persona]When using a statue or mannequin pet to create a Persona Mask, the mask will now have an appearance of a Greek Tragedy Mask.
[Persona]When using a machine pet to create a Persona Mask, the mask will now have an appearance of a VR Headset.
[Persona]When using a plant pet to create a Persona Mask, the mask will now appear as a green mask.
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【炼金】新炼金原料：毒舌之牙（加中毒）
【掉落物】纳加·迪瑟图斯现在可能掉落毒舌之牙
【人格面具】当使用亡灵宠物制造人格面具的时候，现在生成的面具会有一个骷髅面具的造型。
【人格面具】当使用兔兔或者虎兔兔宠物制造人格面具的时候，现在生成的面具会有一个兔子面具的造型。
【人格面具】当使用雕像或人体模型宠物制造人格面具的时候，现在生成的面具会有一个古希腊悲剧面具的造型。
【人格面具】当使用机械宠物制造人格面具的时候，现在生成的面具会有一个VR头显的造型。
【人格面具】当使用植物系的宠物制造人格面具的时候，现在生成的面具会是绿色的。