Next patch is almost ready! Just need to do a few more things... Here are the new features:
1) Stains: leftover residues from climaxing during grabs.
2) Binds - various attachments that enemies can place onto your character(s). Like face binds, vibrators and so on. They give a penalty to the character and dilute your hand. You can optionally use up a turn to remove one piece of bondage. Whether or not it is better to remove attachment asap or to fight on with them is your call. Choose wisely.
Here is how they work in action: https://twitter.com/Enlit3D/status/1363718464179818498
3) Devices - devices are making a comeback! These are total restraints that immobilizes your character completely, functioning similarly to when you are placed under a grab.
To place a unit to a Device, you must first Grab the target and then select the Carry action. The Carry action allows you to move the grabbed unit, or, in case of selecting a tile with a Device, carry the target to the device and place him/her onto the device!
Here is a vid of the AI doing the Carry -> Device: https://twitter.com/Enlit3D/status/1363718619411087362
There is a change I made to the Devices comparing to the HRT version though, which is how the "Helping Ally Escape" work. In HRT, there is a separate action for freeing from device. This is no longer the case in CATC. Instead, Devices have a HP bar and allies can issue attacks against the device to break it.
I feel this method is more intuitive and more aligned with how regular grabs work. In addition, the code is already there for when I want to implement destructible obstacle or containers in the future. A win win.
Video LINK: https://twitter.com/enlit3D/status/1357772862736637952.
Hair customization is (almost) here! This is an improvement over the HR/HRT system because the hair is separate into 3 categories for additional flexibility. You can freely mix and match between the front (bangs), side and back hair to pick the style you want.
Color and shininess can be adjusted via the Surface button as usual.
I will probably add another "Hair Extensions" category in the future that attaches additional strands of hair.
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I decided to try a couple of things in this patch.
The first is the experimental card background art you see in the picture above. Here is another screenshot on the Deck display:
I also upgraded the engine to use OpenGL 3.3. Some may see a slight performance improvement. More importantly, it allows me to use tools such as RenderDoc to help with debugging. RenderDoc, for example, only supports OpenGL >= 3.2. Everything should just work as usual but if you experience problems with this build please let me know.
The third experimental feature is a fundamental game mechanic change. Previously, your characters discard their old hand, and draw 4 cards at the start of every turn. Now, cards are kept in between turns. However, you draw 8 cards at the start of encounter, or if you start the turn with less or equal to 1 card in hand, or by using the new "Redraw Hand" button right above the "End Turn" button. I may very well revert back this change but I want to test how this new system plays out.
Exhaust mechanic got changed too. The game now separate between per-encounter cards, and per-rest cards (the old Exhausts are per rest). The Exhaust keyword now means that card can be used once per-encounter (aka, they get "recharged" at end of combat), and the "Long-Exhaust" keyword means that card can be used once per-rest. (What the old Exhaust did)
Finally, there is this new radar-ish feature in the minimap, which should help you determine which room each door actually led to.
Changelog:
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Resolution change and borderless option is finally here! It should probably be available sooner, but, in my defense, working out how to scale the various UI elements is not a trivial problem. The text scaling was particularly problematic.
One new feature of this patch is the Beckon, a self-inflicted status effect that cause enemy attacks to grab you instead, similar to what happens when you are KOed. This allows you to do things like "avoiding" a potentially big enemy attack, or enemy aggro management by sending someone in there and take one for the team. Of course, you can use this to sit back and enjoy the scene as well.
Armor/outfit breaking is also in! Pretty straight forward, characters take outfit damage when hit, and when they take enough damage, outfit will break and leaves them exposed! Currently, armor only protect against Finisher-type of moves, nothing more.
I also did some tweaking on grab damage values. Here is a summary of what each category of grab does:
== Tease ==
== Pleasure ==
== Finisher ==
* Using H and O here to represent the pink and white damage. Else the post gets flagged.
Changelog:
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There are 2 main features in this build: the first is a total revamp of the dungeon exploration system, and the second is the beginning of the progression system and customization of each character's deck.
For the dungeon exploration system upgrade, I decided to completely ditch the old click-on-room and wait for yellow square system and replaces it with a real-time exploration with segmented rooms. Basically, each dungeon is made of rooms, and you click on the yellow door-arrow object to move around the rooms. It is a little abstract at the moment, as I don't have much time to work on it, but the new minimap on the bottom right should help a lot to orient yourself.
The second is the starting of the progression system. I decided to start with slay-the-spire-ish deck building system to test things out, although I would like to transition into a item drop system (that you can permanently acquire, and not reset per run like STS) in the future.
This build will also feature 2 new girls with their new decks, which are meant as the precursor of the starter decks in the actual game. You are limited to these 2 girls in the build to help to get a better sense of balancing and such. In my own playtesting, I was able to get to floor 3 pretty consistently, managing to reach it in all of my non-aborted runs. You might be able to beat floor 3 with some luck, but I would think beating floor 4 is improbable. Anyways, give it a try and let me know what you think!
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