Another post in our roadmap diaries series, where we talk about future updates in our development plan.
And today we’re gonna talk about the 0.7 update, which would not only mark the end of our 7-day prologue storyline, but more importantly—introduce the Exhibitionism and the Monologue systems!
The Exhibitionism system
The Exhibitionism system, or as we devs prefer to call it, the Privacy system is one of the most fundamental when it comes to mechanics in Deluded. You've definitely noticed that NPCs don’t express any reactions when Alisa is waltzing around nak∗d. That’s not how it’s supposed to work and the implementation of the Privacy and Monologue systems aims to fix all that. But one thing at a time.
The Privacy system is built around a few key concepts, namely:
- Attributes such as L∗∗dness, Shame, Stress and Mood
- Clothing revealingness level
- Location privacy level
I’ll break them down one by one.
Attributes
When it comes to the Privacy system, there are pretty much 4 attributes to consider: Mood, Shame, Stress and L∗∗dness.
You’re already familiar with the two: L∗∗dness is one of the 8 main attributes, the opposite of Pureness, that can be upgraded via dialogue choices; Mood is the most important attribute in terms of survival, which works like HP—if it hits zero, it’s game over.
So what are the rest?
- Shame reflects how exposed or embarrassed Alisa should feel, based on visible effects like nud∗ty, bodywriting, c∗m, etc. Those effects stack and Shame stays constant until the effects are removed/added. Meanwhile, your Shame level when being nak∗d, covered in c∗m or bodywrite will be lower if you have high L∗∗dness level.
- Stress works similarly, although it builds up pressure from different sources, like: all needs, the aforementioned Shame, illnesses, cold, dirtiness, etc.
In the end, Stress affects Mood. The higher Stress is, the faster your Mood will drop and the quicker you will “die”.
Clothing Revealingness
The items in the inventory have their own parameters like Durability, HP, Price, etc, which you can check by hovering a cursor over them and looking at the tooltip. Clothes are also part of the “items” category (obviously), but they have their additional unique parameters such as: Durability, S∗xiness, Wetness… and the Clothing revealingness level is also one of them.
Each clothing item that belongs to Top, Bottom, Panties or Bra clothes slots has its revealingness score based on:
- Whether the clothes have or don’t have holes or cutouts (by clothing design or damage (HP = 0), so this parameter can be dynamic)
- Are the clothes skimpy
- Their opacity/transparency
- This parameter is not yet dynamic but it may be coded as such, like certain clothes materials reacting to changes in Wetness. So, please, tell us in the comments if you’d love to see this feature added or not 😉
Each clothes slot’s revealingness score is summed up for Top clothes and Bottom clothes separately and displayed in the Tab menu.
The total score from all 4 clothes slots affects the Shame level accordingly.
Location Privacy
Whether Alisa is walking around nak∗d in a private or public area also affects her Shame differently. I mean, it’s supposed to be ok to undress in her own room, right?
So, all locations in Deluded will be divided into 3 categories:
- Private (bathroom, own bedroom)
- Semi-private (forest, abandoned buildings and other places where NPCs are unlikely to wander)
- Public (streets, bar, parents’ room)
Being in private locations nak∗d won’t affect you Shame in any way. Being in a semi-private location will affect your Shame by a smaller margin. But if you fall into any NPC’s line of sight, the semi-private location counts as public. And public locations will have your Shame level skyrocketed… if you don’t have a high enough L∗∗dness level, of course. 🤭
Hell, why did I write all of this? The flowchart should sum it up better:
Hope my explanations made sense, otherwise—ask away in the comments section! 💬
At the moment of posting this, the privacy system prototype will already be available for testing in the upcoming v0.4, including: Shame, some privacy zones and clothes attributes!
Monologues system
And what kind of Privacy system is it without the proper one-liner reactions from the NPCs around? That’s why we decided to include the monologues system alongside it in the v0.7 update.
The system is simple—you step into the NPC’s line of sight and they may comment on your: appearance, nud∗ty, behavior, etc. NPC’s monologues can also be quest-specific and depend on NPC’s faction (e.g., hobos won’t care if your clothes are dirty, but people at the bar will).
The monologue text lines will appear above NPCs’ heads, much like in Kingdom Come.
We also plan to add the ability to overhear other NPCs’ random monologues and maybe some scripted dialogues.
We already have NPC reactions written out, but as of v0.3.5.1, they only work as dialogues.
End of the Prologue
The 0.7 update—the final 7th day of the prologue. Not much we can say about that without spoiling the story. But I can give you a little sneak peek about what’ll happen after the prologue when the game becomes truly open-world (yay!).
The story after the prologue will revolve around learning about Adelina, the lab (from the Beneath Familiar Floors quest) and how Alisa can get back home.
The stats that you’ve built up during the prologue will carry over into the open world, though the main attributes will be capped at the maximum of 25 points.
Or if you decide to skip the prologue (during the ride from the cemetery), you’ll get to customize your character via dialogue choices during that very ride.
But, of course, the final and ultimate prologue completion will come at the v0.8 where we’ll do a massive polishing of balance, QoL and all that good stuff, but that’s a topic for the next roadmap post (stay tuned!)
As usual, let us know your opinion about these mechanics in the comments! 👇
Best regards,
kufe7