v0.2.3c Public Release + Adventurer Tier Discount

🔔Hey, adventurers!

v0.2.3c is now in Public Access! As always, I look forward to hearing your thoughts and hope you enjoy the newest release!

This is the biggest update we've had since 2023. Among the changes are a massive amount of gameplay fixes and improvements, new region and minibosses, proper arena, blackjack, item enchantments, food, new Boons, a bunch of new H-scenes, and more!

Oh, and of course, our first group H-scene is here!

v0.2.3c
Win/Linux: MEGA | Itch
Mac: MEGA | Itch
Android: MEGA | Itch

Additionally, the Adventurer Tier is going to be 30% off for the next week! The promotion code 58008 will automatically apply when you sign up.

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Changelog:

v0.2.3c

Minor changes:

- Dialogue options that refuse relationships with characters will now prompt the player for additional confirmation

- The game will now block attempts to load into an older save during an adventure since this breaks savefile updates

Fixes:

- Fixed an issue with error handling in combat that could result in an additional error in some cases

- Fixed an issue that could result in an error during some string handling operations

- Fixed an issue that could potentially prevent access to the final Rookie Killer hunt in some cases

- Made camera blur a configurable option in the settings so it can be disabled for devices that have issues with the effect

v0.2.3

This update brings a massive amount of gameplay fixes and improvements, new region and minibosses, proper arena, blackjack, item enchantments, food, new Boons, and a bunch of new H-scenes.

Oh, and of course, our first group H-scene is here!

Story:

- +1 Aqua H-scene

- +1 Darkness interactive H-scene

- +1 Megumin H-scene

- +1 Yunyun H-scene

- +1 Megumin & Yunyun H-scene

- +1 Eris H-scene

- +1 Ghislaine event

- New H-scenes total: 44

- +10k words, totaling 170k. That's a couple of novels long!

- +414 images, totaling 7247

- +18 animations, totaling 156

Technical:

- Spanish translation for 0.2.2b content now comes embedded within the game! Thanks to Beltrack for all the hard work

- Implemented a new shader-driven rendering process and texture stitching in hopes to improve performance

- Switched some text effects from Python-driven to transforms-driven to improve performance

- Removed Discord presence

- Added item enchantment system, available at the blacksmith. It consumes Enchantment Crystals and can be used to empower your items with special effects, stronger stats, etc

- Revamped the cheat menu for items. It now looks like a shop so its easier to use

- Added a way to toggle relationship status in cheats menu

- You can now play blackjack at the Succubi Cafe

- Changelogs are now going to be shown in-game after updating

- New achievements

- You can now eat at the Guild. Food provides temporary effects for the day, allowing you to gain more XP and providing useful buffs

- You can now cook caught fish at the mansion for bonuses, much like Guild-bought food

- Added Language, Renderer and Accessibility settings to the options menu

- Restyled Renderer and Accessibility settings

- Some events can now belong to multiple categories simultaneously. This is useful specifically for group H-scenes

Adventuring:

- +3 Side Quests

- +2 Bosses

- +1 New Region

- Added Raphiel's boons: Sadistic Focus (extra damage for each consecutive attack), Sly Manipulation (applies Confusion), Mocking Blast (dead enemies explode and deal damage)

- Implemented proper boss challenges in Colosseum. You can now earn power gems as rewards for completing arena fights with ramping difficulty levels

- Brigand Boss is now guaranteed to spawn if you have a quest to defeat him

Balancing:

- Removed "helmet" wearable type from Mana Crown. It is now replaced with "accessory"

- Added new armor items, accessories, and enchantment crystals

- Chainmail now provides more HP

- Certain buff/debuff status effects can no longer be dispelled

- Reworked Megumin's "Explosive Force" upgrade, renamed to "All Out": Explosion will always consume all of Megumin's mana to increase the damage (no less than 50 mana to cast). Damage increases by 1% per 2 mana spent

- Reworked Megumin's "Cataclysm" upgrade: now provides a flat 50% increase to critical chance.

- Buffed Megumin's "Cumulative Explosion": each hit's damage penalty reduced from 50% to 40%

- Rebalanced the frequency of Boons appearing while adventuring. They are now more random

- Mark effects are no longer dispellable

- Regular enemies can now have immunities to damage types

- Having an immunity to a damage type now prevents an associated Damage-Over-Time effect from applying entirely

- Fire Elementals are now immune to fire, and Water Elementals are immune to water

- Multiplicative modifiers from items and buffs now apply after flat bonuses

Minor changes:

- Inventory description text will now adjust its size to fit into the window, plus some minor styling

- Eris's affection counter will now show the total (instead of the increment) after her important reveal

- Infinite dungeon will no longer signal that a boss is available

- Minor changes to existing scenes

- Adjusted some unit tints in some maps

- Updated Chunchunmaru's icon

- Added category filtering to shops + some styling

- Removed "Minibosses killed" from stats and added "Items Enchanted" instead

- Overlapping damage mods & bonuses will now display added together in inventory

- Quests can now reward items

- Regions with associated quests will now display an indicator on the map

- New icon for immunities to improve their readability

- Improved performance in main menu

- Added Fishing Bait, sold by Wiz, that guarantees a reward from a fishing pond

- Adjusted trap positioning

- Removed Earplugs. Megumin would want ALL the hearing damage she can get from an explosion

- Redid the visuals for the Colosseum and Raphiel's first event

- Slightly touched up the visuals for the Quintessential dream

- Converted some of the older uncompressed visuals to WEBP, saving space

- Minor updates to generic visuals

Fixes:

- Fixed a bug with Syphon Drain Touch that could cause an uncaught exception

- Fixed an issue in the book reading screen where the book's name could spill out of its container

- Fixed an issue with the skills upgrade screen that did not account for heroes stats and properties on hover

- Fixed an issue with the achievements descriptions spilling out of their containers

- Fixed an issue that could result in an error related to unsafe removal of status effects from units

- Fixed a bug preventing Doppelgangers from benefiting from passive status effects of their equipped items. I think they might be stronger now

- Fixed a bug that could result in an error when using Drain Touch Syphon under specific conditions

- Fixed a bug that could cause multiple Doppelgangers spawn in one enemy slot

- Weapon status effects and stat modifiers will now apply to the hero. The same way they would from a wearable item

- Fixed an issue that could cause the attack animation playing only once when attacking with boost enabled

- Fixed a bug that could cause lighting effects to become misaligned with the sprite position

- Fixed a bug that allowed enemy units use abilities without respecting their cooldowns

- Fixed a bug that could cause certain scenes render twice and becoming an unnecessary performance drain

- Fixed an issue that could prevent the plot marker from showing over the quest board

- Fixed an issue the prevented large numbers from being shortened on display if they were negative

- Fixed the announcement screen in the main menu related to the game's version

- Fixed a bug which could cause Rin's Rookie Killer dialogue incorrectly show after the Rookie Killer was already defeated

- Fixed an issue that could cause hint popups in the Girls menu to spill past the screen boundaries

- Fixed an issue that could sometimes consume player's input before passing it over to the pond, making it nigh impossible to catch a fish

- Fixed an issue preventing Chris from addressing the player with a custom name in an H-scene

- Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent the tutorial for multiple weapons from showing up

- Minor spelling fixes

- Various minor fixes I could not be bothered to log

v0.2.3a

Fixes:

- Fixed a bug that could throw an error when receiving XP outside of combat

- Fixed a bug that prevented access to the Ancient Tomb

- Minor spelling fixes

v0.2.3b

Translations:

- Added Russian localization package for 0.2.3 (thanks to Taiibat)

Fixes:

- Fixed a bug that prevented access to the quest board in some cases after updating a savefile

- Fixed an issue preventing the use of scrollwheel in the quest board menu

- Fixed an issue that could result in generating a quest to hunt bosses

- Fixed an issue that could result in generating a quest to hunt a huge amount of minibosses

- Fixed a bug that could result in a crash related to boon creation