Star Knightess Aura 0.27.0-prerelease-2

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Aaaand onto the next release, this time the prerelease! This week I mostly worked on George related content. Alicia finally manages to get a good angle of attack and start dropping their relationship points. 

Helping her are two new mental changes, corrupting the character orb and the kindness orb that will make Aura dislike George a little bit more and also make her less capable of hating someone with the corrupted characteristics - appearance and assertiveness. In total there are 5 new corruption scenes that can be triggered this way.

Then we have on the art side the Rose and Richard Sex CG you have already seen. I have also commissioned both the first and second H-CG of the Bunny Loving Magister scenes. Originally they were intended to be two different CGs, but I discussed with Emubi how we could make it that we have 1 base cg for both scenes and can then operate using some clever variations. This should help us catch up a little bit on the CG plan.

Moving on to the third main contribution of this prerelease, is some more techical work on the battle HUD rework and a couple other minor UI improvements. The most important one to highlight here is that our UI coder Trihan did an iteration on the performance, it should now also run smoothly again even when using CTRL/SKIP during battle. Otherwise it's mostly ironing out some issues and bugs.

On the negative side, Terekov has resigned as our mapper due to issues in performing the payments. He might still do some contributions, but I will need to start my search for another mapper again. This will most likely cause some issues in week 4 where I wanted to work on Verdeaux, so I will need to see how to proceed there.

For now I can continue as planned in Nephlune next week, where I will be working on the quest line taking Aura north. 

On the personal side, I have finished my last presentation from my day time job time (my oral phd exam/defense actually :'D, finally closing out that chapter after like 6 years), so that's one more weight off my shoulder.

And that's it then! For the complete changelog including the prerelease and the public patch changes, see as usual below.

Changelog 0.27.0-prerelease-2 (13.01.2023)

• Added mental change corrupt Character Orb 1
• Added mental change corrupt Kindness Orb 1
• Added scene Gossip About George 1 
• Added scene Gossip About George 2 
• Added scene Cheerleading Practice 7 
• Added scene Hallway Bullying 4 
• Added scene Exploiting Gofers 3 
• Implemented remaining controller icons in battle scene 
• Integrated Rose Seduced By Richard H-CGs
• Integrated additional creampie layers into John Sex CGs 
• Improved frame rate in battle scene 
• Improved visibility of version number on title screen 

Balancing

• None

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos 
• Fix repeated functionality on ok button in battle
• Fixed turn durations on indefinite states 
• Fixed non-responsive VN buttons 
• Added keys with missing string conversions to the code-to-string list 
• Fixed message box flicker 
• Fixed turn sync issue for buff duration display 
• Fixed extra windows background remaining for too long 
• Fixed incorrect curiosity tag processing for some sensitivity and fetish tags
• Fixed being able to use Blue Sugar Drug at 1 Max Hp
• Add missing breasts tag to Flashing breasts recollection event