Welcome Pink Pony Clubbers (not in any way affiliated with Taylor Swift), here is a new build. Lots of changes here, so once again - I wouldn't advise trying to continue a save from a previous version unless seeing your computer suffer amuses you.
FEATURES
* The new updates screen, which is what you are looking at right now. I kept running out of space using the bulletin board! When we leave early access, this will be changed to an icon on the title screen so you don't have to skip past it every time.
* If you're after a cloak completion run, you can now click the crematorium on the overhead town view screen. This will bring up who is held for cremation, how long until they get chargrilled and if their rump mark is still present. This is all null and void if you kill the Undertaker of course.
* The town screen also now has an address book button. Click this, and it will show you all the addresses and who lives there and what they do - if you know. Click the address in the address book and it will be automatically selected on the town screen. This should save you having to click house after house when you're trying to remember where a particular pony lives.
* There is a new assist button, if you fancy another way to cheat. Card Shark will allow you to see which tarot card you're hovering over before you click it. Who needs luck?
* A new sign that a pony has fallen VERY out of favour - their house might get vandalised. This is limited as I plan to update the houses later to make them more ponyish, so it's a proof of concept kind of thing. And this includes your house!
* Now the Jester Special has been discovered, if at least the recipe not nailed down, it has an achievement and I changed its effects. It's a wabberjack of cakes. It'll affect your victim in one of several random ways which may benefit them or otherwise! A Jester Special made with Best Friend flesh will apply this effect up to three times.
* And just to upset you, there is now a NEW secret, off-the-recipe-book cake to discover. I'll give you a hint... it's French (aka as "fancy" if you're a hick pony), and there's a clue as how to find it. More secret cakes in the planning stage. I left room for up to 16 cakes, so we might as well use the slots! Like the Jester Special, it still needs two regular ingredients and meat, but the order the ingredients go into the pot matters and it's a combination that does not make a recipe book cake.
GAMEPLAY
* You are no longer completely committed if you enter the baking screen from the Night Phase and can return to go for a different option. You can muck about as much as you want, but you will lose this option as soon as a valid ingredient is put into the pot. Clicking 'Quit Baking' will still end the round.
* The Magician has a new spell. She can 'jail' anypony there is suspicion about in their home. The target will be protected but also unable to leave. If a murder still occurs while this pony is trapped, suspicion on them will decrease - and vice versa. Magician spells have a minimum three day cooldown before another can be cast. This is pretty basic at the moment.
* The hidden round where ponies interact, share suspicions etc. is no longer so hidden so you can get a better feel of how they're all getting along. This now takes place in your cake shop (the hippest place for the cool ponies to be) between whichever customers you have that day and you will 'overhear' this information. To assist this mechanic, you can now have up to six customers in your shop instead of three. The amount of customers you get is related to your friendship and suspiciousness - if they don't like you, they won't support your baking endeavours. If for any reason your shop is closed either for the day or permanently, the interactions will still happen but you won't be privy to them.
* Previously you could not enter the kitchen if you lacked meat or ingredients when you DID have the two items for the Changeling trick available. You now can.
* The way the Undertaker works has been tweaked. Rather than waiting for the next day, dead ponies will now be transferred to the morgue immediately. If you win a game, any marks in the morgue you want for your cloak will be given to you - but only if the Undertaker is still alive! This prevents the situation where you could win but not be allowed to finish your cloak when there were valid marks still in the morgue.
* The previous mechanic where killing the Noble/Alicorn would affect the Royal Guard's sanity has been restored. However, rather than one massive hit like before, it now eats away at the Guard's conscience. Killing the Noble will hit the Guard's sanity by 5% each day - killing the Alicorn will give a bigger daily hit of 10%.
* Some new events included.
GRAPHICS
* Some fonts improved.
* Particle effects restored for the Weather Spell and furnace.
* New backgrounds for delivered cakes and found items.
* Little graphic bar to show initial process replaces digits.
* The Changeling brew now has sound and particle effects, rather than just turning green.
* Roster wall and Disciple's floor given a bit of a brush-up. Bit of decoration for the roster room. As SH2 has been made up as I go along a good deal, I do think the art style overall is very incohesive. Ultimately, it should all look like a cartoon... gone a bit nasty.
BUGFIXES
* The death of the Magician will now dismiss all their current spells.
* Pretty sure that bug that made the visiting text appear in the bulletin has been fixed!
* Not a bug per se, but the little test tube of Changeling blood had a habit of getting itself lost in the kitchen so now it's in a larger flask that should be less fiddly.
* Bug fixed where the Alicorn would vanish from the roster if you sorted by race.
* Bug fixed that was causing ponies to not learn as much about each other as intended each day.
* Bug fixed where making a post note on the roster would then cause some buttons to become inoperative.
* Bug fixed where viewing cakes from the hit list left text on the screen.
* Bug fixed where returning from town screen to hitlist made the mini tarot card cover the exit button.
* Bug fixed where a roster card update would make the pony look like a recolour of you!
* Bug fixed where the announcement of the Reporter's demise could still be accompanied by a photo from another story.
* Bug fixed where a global variable related to cakes could be changed in code, which would affect the save file and corrupt the game. If you ever tried to play and were greeted with a message that stated an array had overshot by a terrific number - that's what this was.