First big patch of the year is starting things off with one of our biggest dungeons yet, some plot movement on the part of Princess Varena, a reworked character creation experience, and a rework that brings the Charmer class out of being a weird spellcaster hybrid and into its own unique little niche. I hope you all enjoy!
KNOTQUEST
- After having either let Drifa get carried off to the knot cave or having saved her in the Old Forest, you’ll be able to find the location of the the Corrupted Lupines’ base. Check your questlog for a new quest that’s been back-ported in if you’ve interacted with Drifa. This quest is balanced for level 4 or 5 Champions. If you’re heading in there, you might want to bring some friends good at teasing or spellcasting, or stock up on Blood Iris! Remember: beastfolk hate Blight damage!
- This is a quite deep dungeon — over 300 pages of raw content, with a lot of different paths through the various bosses and NPC encounters therein. To avoid too much in the way of spoilers: there’s no less than 4 chunky bosses with suites of scenes and bad ends, some really rather interesting sub-quest design going on in there, plus fun ways you can end up changing certain characters throughout the dungeon!
- Please note, when I say 300 pages of content I just mean IN THE DUNGEON. The followup content for the dungeon (more Drifa, more corrupted lupines, written by a combination of Jstar, Tobs, and others) will be rolling out throughout the early year. At my last count there’s more pages of follow-on content than dungeon content already waiting in the wings, which is really saying something.
Other Various New Content
- Cait and Katya have a 3way together with some high-impact kitty-on-kitty-on-PC squish.
- The first of Varena’s two personal quests is now implemented — a small romp to find someone who’s been stalking the princess.
- Varena’s Trust scores have been adjusted slightly now that the quest is in, so if you haven’t already banged her, she’ll require a little more buttering-up to get into bed.
- Various den foxes have new talks reacting to your having shagged Komari. Some of these are really quite funny.
- New sleep event after fully upgrading the Wayfort and having purified the Hornet Hive — Queenie comes and gives you a private dance.
- New Busts for the Knot Gods: Meridyx, Olivia, Atugia’s mom and dad from the flashback, the Head-Slicing Wraith, Genova updated bust, and NinaQuest 2 busts
- New CGs: Cats Double Blowjob, Character Creation Races, Varena Cowgirl sex, Ivaze, Queen Nyzerrah’s Dance
Gameplay and Experience Reworks
- Character Creation has seen a major update. While the core 5 Classes and 5 Races remain unchanged, as does the total list of 10 available Backgrounds, many new options have been added for starting cosmetic appearance. In addition, you can now choose any Background regardless of Class.
- Most races have new eye, hair, and/or skin color options to start with.
- Maximum starting breast size has been increased.
- New sliders have been added for most physical properties of the character in CharGen, such as thickness, muscle tone, butt size, and more.
- In addition to weapon and spell powers, we now have Charm powers. These function like spells, but for… Charmers! Charms scale off of Sexiness instead of Spellpower, and use Temptation instead of Spell Pen. Most Charmer abilities are now Charms rather than a slapdash mix of spells and untyped tease attacks.
- List of Charms: Flametongue, Hymn to Light (NEW, Cantrix Viv exclusive for now), Scaldic Cadence (NEW), Bardic Cadence (NEW), Cadence of Power (NEW), Bolstering Dance, Song of Storms, War Song, Song of Splendor, Sunblade, Charm Spell, Charming Glance (NEW), Thunder Chord (NEW), Holy Reverberation (NEW, Cantrix Viv), Dischord, Grand Finale, Notation Revelation (NEW, Cantrix Viv), Flare, Sacred Chord (NEW, Cantrix Viv)
- A bunch of healing powers now scale off of your tease boost: Flametongue, Hymn to Light, Bolstering Dance, Song of Courage, Soothing Dance.
- Bardic Cadence, Cadence of Power, Scaldic Cadence, Charming Glance, Thunder Chord have all been added to regular ol’ charmer lists.
- Song of Splendor is now a tease that applies 3 stacks of resonance
- Vestal’s Embrace now can be used even if allies are at full health so as to enable threat generation.
- Holy Ward now works as intended.
- Toughness now provides more additional Health per point (7.5 as opposed to 5).
- Base Threat is now increased by Toughness and reduced by Cunning.
- Presence no longer increases Health.
- The Leadership bonus from Presence has been reduced by half. To compensate, the scaling on Summons has been increased to Leadership + Presence instead of JUST Leadership.
- The Accuracy bonus from Agility has been reduced by half. To compensate, all characters now have a level-based passive Accuracy boost: this should equal out to about the same for max-Agility characters and provide a nice boost to low-Agility characters’ hit rates. Poor Arona can finally swing straight!
- Tease base damage nerfed from 30 to 27
- Terrified now reduces magic resist instead of mental resist
- Aroused reduces mental resist instead of magic resist
- The Charmer’s Stylish perk is now “isn’t wearing heavy armor” and gives 4*level Sexiness OR “is wearing heavy armor” and thus gives a Threat bonus equal to your Sexiness. Bard tanks!
- Catalysts now directly give their bonuses to Spell and Charm-tagged powers, rather than obliquely benefitting things using the magicalHit formula. This doesn’t REALLY change much but is a slight buff to catalysts overall, making them apply to more powers.
- Caranbrot now heals the player if they are already shielded.
- Wooden Pipes no longer grant spellpower and spell pen, instead giving ward and temptation
- Viviane has two news sets! Elemental, themed around debuffs and setting up combos, which is always unlocked; Cantrix, a holy-themed bard, which is currently unlocked by default pending some upcoming content for the witch. The latter set is exclusive to human Viv, while Demon Viv will have an exclusive set of her own soon as well.
- Skin/Fur/Scale plurality should now be properly accommodated in the game’s text.