Hello everyone,
sorry about the lateness of this post - managed to get the update pushed, but only just got home to handle the release post!
Thank you to everyone who played the 0.167 beta and reported on what bugs they found!
0.168 has now been released, and we hope those of you who haven't played it yet enjoy!
For those who did not see the last post, this is a smaller, intermittent update between our bigger content heavy updates, but we hope you enjoy it all the same! We have some really exciting things to come that we will talk more about very soon!
As always, thank you all so much for your continued support!
You guys are awesome and make all of this possible!
Love,
-The Parasite Black Team
Now excuse me while I go crash onto my bed to sleep....
Changelog: (0.168)
hotfixes:
- fixed being unable to return to carina during the coming storm quest
- (hopefully) fixed an error related to UnlockAllGalEntries function
- fixed an error in mika sex scene during Let's Celebrate quest
- fixed a bug with pages on container inventory screen (like chests) not changing
- "fixed" total transaction value to now also be displayed for selling items, not just buying
- fixed adara titjob gallery scene keeping adara naked into the game
- fixed kiara wash scene causing mc to stay in civ clothes
bigger additions:
- new dream event when sleeping in hamun
- new rare act2 travel event between novaras and lake balun
- new party banter scenes happening occasionally in Novaras or while traveling/camping
- new hamun location: beshar's smithy, with new items to craft
- new hamun location: marbella's mining co, to streamline your ore needs
- a bunch of new items, mostly for the above 2 places
- new (possibly) lewd encounter at desert normal and animal travel nodes: jackal girl
- also, camp visit events & preg content for jackal girl
- new alt path to take during the coming storm quest, looking for poltrik section, with lewd content too
- in same quest, new way to help out carina instead of putting on a sex
show
- characters, scenes, battle enemies, skills, sounds and such for the above two
- new repeatable variants of mika x markus sex scenes, at palam tower
- preg logic for mika: can now get knocked up
- new preg. variants to mika bj, doggy, missionary scenes
- new romantic scene with kiara when traveling in act 2
- balancing tweaks to classes' skills: inquisitor (erika), berserker (ves), rogue (elena), rogue wolf (elena too), warrior (mc/markus)
- balancing changes to zanarak
smaller additions/tweaks:
- lizards' gang size is now slightly random: it is not guaranteed to always be increased according to your party size
- chars rejoining party are healed (example: myu or elena during siege)
- during bloodhound resolution, infection gain is disabled to avoid killing player in case of near-100
- plenty choice options reordered (positive topmost, negative bottom-most)
- added mika gallery doggy scene
- added various bits of fluff to deceased characters' profiles on relationship screen
- added missing hotkeys to navigate some areas
- choice options involving barter attribute check now have an icon
- added missing music to some training battles with mika
- widened some "morning" time checks (mostly for mika questline) to also include dawn
fixes:
- fixed an error related to 2 of the wolf form skills' description formatting
- fixed fawha at black diamond to now speak to the player about the resolution of the Tarek situation
- fixed kiara being in her wrong "form" after meeting her in the camp
- fixed (more like restored) quick save & quick load functionality: you can now hit F5 and F9 to quicksave & quickload
- fixed wait button flickering between active/inactive when moving between locations
- fixed a bug with worn items removed from player inventory causing errors/crashes
- added an indicator showing steam/nosteam build kind in main menu
- fixed a bug with infection death right at midnight causing an endless death loop
- fixed alot of character expression sprites glitching out: adara, regina, mika, dros, myu, sypha, perhaps more
- fixed (restored) being able to select mika's clothes for rep. bj scene
- fixed mika gallery bj/missionary scenes displaying wrong stuff or missing variants
- fixed a bug with nyx dominant scene happening in romance route
- fixed a bug with nyx gallery scene
- fixed/improved alot of cinematic stuff all over (character placement, scenes)
- fixed plenty typos all over
other:
- improvements to save update routine
- lots of various backend codework
- improvements to save update routine (namely items will now always be updated on load)
- errors will now have extra data appended for easier debugging
- cleaner mika preg logic (hopefully fixes errors some people had)
- travel map nodes draw order is now top->bottom, fixes visual artifacts
- some notes now have permanent/delayed icons attached for convenience
- almost all item descriptions are now based on their function, not just written out as text (still in progress)
- item containers are now initialized more cleanly and in 1 spot, that should improve save compat reliability - other backend codework