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Star Knightess Aura 0.19.0-prerelease-1

Added 2022-05-06 22:31:53 +0000 UTC

Like every week, grab the latest prerelease at:

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

Like always, the biggest focus of the first dev week is cleaning stuff up and dealing with the bug reports. As I mentioned in the public patch post I got through the bug reports quicker so this week 1 prerelease is going to have a bit more content than the usual first prerelease of the new update.

First of all, let's start with the art side, as you have probably already seen, a new CG has been finished and been integated into the Aura Masturbating At Home 1 & 2 scenes. With this we have the first illustrated real world scenes.

Then we have a couple a couple of changes in the Adventurer Guild quests. The quest "What Is It With Birds And Stealing" (Hermit quest) had its dungeon reworked. The wind mechanic for interferring with player input has remained but instead of falling its been integrated into combat. This should make for a less frustrating and more composable experience, allowing me to reuse the mechanic in a different dungeon in the future. "Save the Crops" got turned into an Adventurer Guild quest, and the demon in the eastern forest of runes also got a quest to kill him. Don't worry, if you already killed him, the quest will still spawn and you can simply directly report that you have already killed him.

In addition, we also have a new dungeon area, continuing the dungeon work in Nephlune. You can now enter the vault beneath the Underground. Some loot there hasn't been implemented yet, though. And you won't be able to enter the final area yet as the necessary spell is locked behind progress in Mountainreach.

However, there are a bunch of mineable materials, items to pickup, and some bosses with rewards to defeat. The dungeon composes various mechanics you have already seen in some previous dungeons. Eventually there will be a side quest that will give Aura an additional reason to enter this dungeon area to slay the local boss. But this will be a couple of updates into the future.

The complete changelog containing the changes from the public patch and the prelease can be found below.