Artifact – 0.79 Release and Changelog

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+Added Melissa's remaining sex scene images (frenzy image to come at a later date)

+Added the next main quest

+Added Black Ichor upgrade

• When taking initial control of a husk, you may engage in (a sort of) combat in which you can spew black ichor from your throat onto another target student to immediately create another husk out of them
• Reduces the need to spend a lot of time marking doors, reducing risk of losing husks because of doors being scrubbed
• Husks created this way are automatically sent to the boiler room

+Added the Peached Pink, a hair salon just off campus. Accessible from your home.

• You can change your haircut or hairstyle here, and doing so will slightly reduce suspicion
• Getting a shorter haircut is cheap and can be done any time
• Getting a longer haircut is expensive to do instantly, but as cheap as any other haircut as long as you wait for your hair to "grow out" more. Your hairstyle never automatically changes from what you set it as, no matter how long it grows.

+Added new background images for the following locations:

• Tennis courts
• Frat house
• Dormitories
• Clocktower
• Peached Pink

*Vitae Exchange Overhaul:

• Available traits have changed. Using Vitae Exchange on a husk will now “disassemble” the husk and present you with two random “essences” from either Identity, Breasts, Genitalia, Physique, Hair, Gender, or Skin Color. One essence from the husk may be salvaged, and you can only hold one essence from every type.
• All traits now cost a varying amount of XP to use either on yourself, or on your reserved husk
• Using different essences on yourself will have varying degrees of suspicion reduction, with the Identity essence providing the largest reduction

*Performing an NPC's favorite sex act for the first time will now result in gaining XP

*There is now a chance for marked dormitory doors to be found and scrubbed before the player can take possession of its resident student. A higher suspicion means that there is a higher chance that a mark will be scrubbed.

*Husk possession scenes have been fleshed out more

*The sidebar will now remember your preference between looking at the Info, Inventory, or the Map

*Fixed error that removed NPC stats from unfinished characters

*Fixed some formatting in Upgrades

*Updated the Game Over screen with the new options for loading saves

*Revised the Stats screen in the menu & provided explanation on some stats

*Fixed issue where displaying girth changes returned an error

*Reduced frequency and intensity of arousal that is automatically lost overnight

*Fixed issue that prevented the gifting system from working

*Fixed issue that prevented arousal changes from gifting and flirting

*Restored Priya's interactions in the pool

*Repaired the Cream Cheese solution to the Dr. Hartmann quest

*Fixed issue that could cause Priya to prematurely become platinum blonde

*Moved books link from Info to the Inventory

*Changed exit location of student housing

*The expanded map now shows you where you currently are

*The option to escape from a location if stuck has been moved from the Map to the “More” section of the Menu

*Updated Starby's coffee option to accurately reflect updated stat changes

*Restored Kai's image

*Made the Student Center and Recreation more prominent in the campus navigation menu

*A plethora of various formatting fixes!

(0.78.2)

*Applied new naming fix

*Fixed issue with Melissa's quest where player may end up stuck in arboretum

(0.78.1)

+Added nude drawing encounter aftermath flavor text
*Fixed hair images for Male Average Back Length
*Fixed bug that could cause premature expulsion (from school)
*Fixed Living Room bug that set money to $400 and set the day to 70
*Fixed bug that caused faces not to show on player dolls with Red eyes
*Fixed bug that caused the largest chest size to appear askew on the Female Lean doll (currently fixed on player doll only)
*the Days Remaining counter now properly updates with the correct number
*Reduced the amount of days that you can be knocked out from a certain encounter