Star Knightess Aura Internal Release 0.19.1

https://aura-dev.itch.io/star-knightess-aura-prerelease/patreon-access

Note that the public release will be in 1 week. You can also skip the waiting time by buying Star Knightess Aura on itch.

https://aura-dev.itch.io/star-knightess-aura

NOTE:  Due to some added intermediate objectives in Festival Of Greed and Impostor Refugees, if the quest is currently ongoing in your save before updating to 0.19.1, there will be visual glitches when marking completed objectives off green. 

Lots of bugfixes and a couple of balancing and quality of life improvements from my dev backlog. 

I also added an intermediate objective for Festival Of greed and Impostor Refugees. At Festival of greed you will now have an objective telling you to ask the merchant you asked to take you to the Festival to, well, take you to the Festival. :'D Also you now have the option the decline using Edwin's favor to get into the Festival. For Impostor Refugees the additional objective is added after talking to Julian telling Aura to find the Camp Guard and question him. These two were the most common quests where players seemed to get stuck not knowing how to continue, so this should help out. 

On the downside, messing with the questlines messes a bit with save compatibility. Saves that are beyond this point are unaffected. Saves that are in the middle of these quests will have the incorrect objectives marked as done. Otherwise everything should work, though I only did a quick testing run. If you have started the quests maybe consider finishing them before upgrading to 0.19.1.

There are two changes which I am not sure will be kept in the game, but I decided to add them for now and see how they affect the game.

• The Story Mode debuff for enemies has been raised to 50%. This has some problems like for example the tutorial enemies dying before you can hit them with a Tactical Advantage attack, basically making fights so easy that it's more difficult to pick up on the basics of the game mechanics. Which then leads to higher difficulties in fights where stats just don't matter as much as using the game mechanics. 
• NPCs that having interactions leading to lewd scenes are marked with a Heart mark. I like to reward exploration, so I don't marking NPCs. On the other hand, lewd actions are supposed to be the tempting easy way, so making them easily accessible would fit the game design, albeit it's inconsistent with not having other markings for NPCs.

For both of these changes, I will observe how this affects players, so it's possible that I might remove them again at some point in the future. E.g. if adding lewd markers gives off the impression to many players that you are supposed to do it the lewd way and that the non-lewd way isn't an equally intended way to tackle Aura's problems. But as I said, for now, these changes are in the game and I will use the opportunity of the game being a long shot off of being finished to try them out.

Most changes are in the 0.19.1 patch, but there are some minor additions coming up in the prerelease coming in a couple of hours. So, see you in a couple of hours!

Changelog 0.19.1 (03.06.2022)

• Added heart marks to NPCs with interactions leading to lewd scenes
• Cleaned up some [NOT IMPLEMENTED] NPCs whose planned content has been cut
• Updated to RPGM 1.5.0
• Mapped pagedown key from overwritten w key to e
• Added intermediate objective for Festival of Greed to ask Young Merchant or Edwin to take you to the Festival 
• Added intermediate objective for Impostor Refugess to find the Camp Guard after reporting stolen food to Julian

Balancing

• Reduced daily increase of Blessed Water by 1 to 4 Gold per day
• Increased enemy debuff on Story Mode to 50%
• Increased ATK gain from "How To Distract With Your Female Charms" book by 1 to +2 ATK
• Decreased bonus trust reward for Demon Worshipper 101 from 10 to 5 but added a 3 trust bonus for special answer for King Of Lies name

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos
• Fixed "Eyes of Greed" not deactivating choices with variable gold costs 
• Fixed onEnhance event not getting triggered when switching between Enhancespells
• Fixed killing demon before starting Darkness In The Woods incorrectly setting quest variable
• Fixed more Mountainreach teleporters
• Fixed character sprite in Cheerleading Practice 6 not being adjusted to hairstyle corruption
• Fixed passability issues in Nephlune Vault
• Fixed Buny Suit Loving Magistrate recollection crystal 
• Fixed invalid runtime variable i in Nephlune Vault
• Fixed lewdness increase glitches in Underground Pub
• Fixed references to Breast Groping By John being shown during Kissing With Johne even if the event hasn't happened
• Fixed lack of support for multiple alternative conditions causing a deadlock with Artist 2
• Fixed Lunchbreak 7 recollection calling Lunchbreak 6 recollection
• Fixed teleport deactivating flag always being reset when leavin the Clean Room allowing to teleport out of the Festival
• Fixed incorrect AGI condition on jump in Draknor Fortress
• Fixed missing costume variable reset during pink variation of Showing Pussy To Guard lewd scene