Release 23: Visualization

With this release, the game is now capable of displaying portraits for the Chosen and the Forsaken.  Every time the subject takes an action in combat, is targeted by an action in combat, appears in a post-battle scene, or generally makes an appearance, a portrait showing the character feeling an appropriate emotion will be shown.  The default portraits included in the game probably won't match up to how the player has been envisioning any particular Chosen, and the feature may be toggled off for those who prefer to leave things purely to their own imagination.  However, I encourage everyone to give it a try and see how it works, as the system is designed to be very easily customizable so that players can crop whatever images they find more fitting and display those in-game.

The current default portrait set includes only 8 different faces (each with its own set of expressions).  They're set up so that you'll never encounter duplicate faces on a single team of 3 Chosen, but anyone who plays Campaign Mode or otherwise uses Forsaken will eventually end up pitting someone against her mirror image.  I intend to continue making more portrait sets alongside the regular monthly content for the game, but in the meantime, I'm hopeful that players will make some of their own portrait sets for each other to use.  I'd be happy to host them here on the blog.

This update also has a bit of content for players who aren't at all interested in using portraits.  In addition to the usual handful of bugfixes and balance adjustments, there are two new vignettes.  The first happens when the Chosen with moderate Morality hits a decent trauma threshold, which should be a sign to the player that it's time to start trying for more sinful downtime actions.  The second is a scene between the Chosen with Core Morality and the one with Minor Morality which fires when they're both significantly corrupted and hate each other.  After all the scenes between friendly Chosen, it seemed like players who prefer to make their Chosen enemies should get something as well.  I hope that everyone enjoys this update!

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• Content: Added a system to display portraits.
• Content: Added two new vignettes.
• Balance: Damage values can now go higher before the soft cap begins to be applied.
• Balance: When picking a target city in campaign mode, one target will usually have fewer elites than the other.
• Balance: When training Forsaken, very low expertise values penalize any attempts to increase other expertise values.
• Interface: When training Forsaken, gained expertise values are color coded depending on whether they're getting bonuses or penalties.
• Interface: When targeted Tempted Chosen, the Inseminate and Sodomize/Torture/Force Laughter buttons are now displayed in red.
• Bugfix: Retreating before all three Chosen are introduced will no longer sometimes crash the game.
• Bugfix: Difficulty modifiers from campaign mode will no longer bleed over into new save files.
• Bugfix: In campaign mode, vignettes will no longer display after the Chosen have been defeated.
• Bugfix: Non-Superior Chosen will no longer be able to use Superior Slaughter.
• Bugfix: When three Forsaken are converted together, they'll no longer misremember how they felt about each other as Chosen.