Star Knightess Aura 0.32.0-prerelease-3

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Cleaning out some unfinished business this week. First of all, I implemented the mental change for ruining the first sex memory with George and from there we go into Unsexy Times With George 3, after which we have finally reached an emotionally quite weak point in the relationship between the two.

And then we also have another streaming scene to in the future link into the the lewd streaming event chain for which Emubi prepared the costume. 

Besides that, we also have some asset integration. I added the prostitute costume into the game - currently with the default hair configuration. I replaced it later with the hair style winning in the poll. Another asset that got added into the game is the cleaned up Lovely Degradation soundtrack by our composer. I currently added it to all scenes where I believe we should play a more corrupt soundtrack. Next month I will be commissioning another lewd soundtrack for the original purpose I had in mind, for penetration sex with the corrupt characters (e.g. who isn't George or John).

On the balancing side, there is one important addition: Blessed Water now no longer increases in Price but instead in Value. This means, that you also gain more money by selling it. This introduces quite a bit more money into the game, but I did also remove some over the last months, so it should be fine. It should give some incentive to turn your Blessed Water into money instead of using it to reduce corruption, making it also more of an interesting loot for corruption players. Funnily enough, this basically means that buying Blessed Water is an investment with an return of 2 Gold/Day - once you sell it. :'D

Then we have a bit more of an iteration of the battle flow improvements from last week. From feedback I collected that the main points of improvement were AoE attacks. I also turned off the animation wait delay, making attacks like Slash play much faster now. Hopefully, not too fast now :'D Also there is a bit of a delay whenever a status effect is applied. We will need to see if this feels natural or if we need to iterate further.

Other than, I commissioned the Roland 3 and 4 scenes from Emubi this week. We tried to also get Roland 5 into the same CG set but it got way too complicated. That increases the number of CGs I would like to spend on the event chain by one more than I planned, but that should be fine with our current art progress. 

And that's pretty much it for this week. If you remember the project plan, this is also the week where I planned to take some time off :'D which uhhhh worked mediocrely, I did take the afternoon off on Tuesday, wohoo :'DDD 

Okay, anyways, next week we are back to Winterfall --- kind of? MissNiles has been away this week and I noticed that I prioritized the incorrect interior maps which I need to complete the map design of the dungenon, so there is a bit of blocking there. I will probably already get started on the Roland quest if I get blocked, for which our assisstant writer Absurdity also has some update but I didn't have the time yet to check it out.

Changelog 0.32.0-prerelease-3 (16.06.2023)

• Added Prostitute costume
• Added mental change "Corrupt First Sex With George Memory"  
• Added scene "Unsexy Times With George 3" 
• Added scene "Aura Streaming 2"
• Applied skill list skin from the Skills menu to the NG+ skill selection menu 
• Removed animation wait delay in AoE attacks
• Added Loveley Degredation lewd soundtrack 
• Increased max mental changes to 125 
• Removed one of the repeated Demons*2 encounters in the intro
• Displayed which techniques have been learned at spellshops
• Ordered items in drug dealer shop according to production order
• Reinstated tactical advantage message

Balancing

• Increased gold loot for Winterfall corpses
• Changed Blessed Water to increase in Value instead of Price
• Reduced average gold loot from adventurer corpses in Draknor Fortress by about 50 Gold
• Added Gluttonous trait to Mature Spider Queen

Bugfixes

• Fixed corpse glitch
• Fixed wrongful chase trigger in Winterfall 
• Fixed George standing image glitch in Night Club 4 
• Fixed missplaced lower rope event
• Fixed resists not working against states of the same category
• Fixed water passability in Winterfall caves 
• Fixed typos
• Fixed quest "imposter refugees" preventing Aura from doing other actions with Julian
• Fixed flicker bug in skill list
• Fixed passability issues in Verdeaux trees
• Fixed glitched sound effect at the end of Hermann Election event
• Fixed available mental change indicators not working for variable corruption costs mental changes
• Fixed off-by-one in restock time comuptation for drug dealer
• Fixed missing check on refugee 1 winning race in discussion with luck professor
• Fixed Rene lacking fallback basic attack
• Fixed incorrect flavor text in Northern Mines Vault
• Fixed blonde hair change reverting after viewing first sex memory
• Fixed bracket error in shopping in mall 5
• Fixed corruption increase issues in Roland scenes
• Fixed passability error in Mount Firestorm 1
• Fixed incorrect corruption check in Evening Relationship Alicia insertion
• Fixed Fast Items Stance quadrupling item usage speed in main menu
• Fixed typos in prerelease content