Star Knightess Aura 0.33.0-prerelease-3

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Fairly straightforward update this week, focusing on Winterfall. The Domains of the three demons besides the Demon Generals and the demons themselves got added this week. Most of the fights include already known concepts such as hunger, summoning, etc but their application is changed up to require some adaptation.

There is also one boss fight with a completely new concept based on "copying". Said boss can copy your resistances, attributes and even imitate the last skill used on it. I didn't yet have the time to test too deeply some of the consequences of this and fine tune it. Currently it only copies "positive" resistances and also only the attributes that exceed its own, so you can't give yourself a bad resistance to copy, which makes the fight a bit less exploitable but also less interactive I find. Will need to check in the future if this concept needs some more adjustment.

Besides that, mostly just a couple of minor things. Most notably, As you have seen, the character art unificaiton project is now done for all main party members except Slime. So only a little bit more until we can move on to new characters. Also next up in the pipeline is finally the artwork for the first Richard event, since I only received the Desmond artwork today, I haven't yet discussed the brief with our artist Emubi yet. But we will tackle that at the start of the next week.

Then there are also a couple for rescuable prisoners in Winterfall, but as expected I didn't get too far there. There are still about 1/3 left, doing 1 Domain+Boss fight each day definitely was a bit too ambitious, but not much of a surprise since I planned some time from next week to continue working on this.

And that's it for this week. Next week I will be moving back to the southern part of the storyline and to work on setting up the preparations for the Reverse Summoning Ritual quest line.

Changelog 0.33.0-prerelease-3 (21.07.2023)

• Added map Astaroth Domain
• Added map Eligos Domain
• Added map Balor Domain
• Added boss demon Astaroth
• Added boss demon Eligos
• Added boss demon Balor
• Added some of the remaining rescueable prisoners
• Integrated updated John character artwork
• Integrated updated Desmond character artwork
• Increased max defeated bosses to 97

Balancing

• Equiped Hunger fragment with Primal Hunger skill

Bugfixes

• Fixed Skillbook: Bomb Proficiency II using The Art of Tremor's progress variable
• Fixed flicker on save file list 
• Fixed missing promise checks anywhere they are missing