Release 35: Animalism

This update marks a major milestone of development: the introduction of the third species, Animalistic Chosen.  These Chosen are people who, due to having personalities which closely resemble those popularly attributed to a type of animal, have had their bodies changed by the psychic energy they receive.  They often have animal ears and animal tails, and their physical and mental abilities are far greater than those of normal humans.  When combined with their Chosen powers, this makes them into mighty foes - but their abilities can also be valuable once they've been brought into the service of the Demon Lord.  The full details of their abilities can be found in the new species reference file included with the download.

Animalistic Chosen will normally start to appear in Loop 5 of campaign mode.  This update also allows you to change the species of custom Chosen made for single play mode, but because Animalistic Chosen are balanced for players who have powerful Forsaken and achievement bonuses on their side, I wouldn't recommend using this option unless you're also playing with cheats.  Speaking of which, this update also allows for the generation of Superior and Animalistic Forsaken in single play mode, so it should be easier to just give yourself an overpowered tool if you want.

Other new content related to Animalistic Chosen includes the tracking of animal body parts in custom sex scenes.  Animalistic Chosen will naturally come with appropriate ears, tails, horns, wings, and (depending on your toggles) penises.  These parts have all been added to the body customization system for Forsaken and the Demon Lord as well.  The new Stroke Ears and Stroke Tail actions in custom sex scenes take advantage of these parts.  Partners in custom sex scenes can choose to use these actions when appropriate as well, for those Demon Lords who like to be pampered.

Finally, thanks to some help from an anonymous subscriber, I'm now producing a steady stream of portraits using the recent advancements in AI art generation.  Most of the Animalistic Chosen portraits included in the default pack make use of this, and I intend to go back and replace all of the portraits in the default pack using the same method (and polish up some of the new ones as well, since I'm still learning how to make them look good).  If you're using a custom pack and want to keep all of that art, but you also want to use the new Animalistic-specific portraits, then you can accomplish this by pasting the portrait folder you've been using into the default portrait folder included with the download.  This will overwrite all the standard default portraits while leaving the new Animalistic folders intact.

This update also includes some new content unrelated to Animalistic Chosen.  Along with the usual bugfixes, there's a new vignette commissioned by Kalloi which is unique in that it involves two Chosen on different Distortion paths.  There are no personality requirements, but getting a Temptation and an Aversion Chosen within the same playthrough is a pretty tough challenge in itself.  As a small quality of life improvement, Chosen profiles now record the previous day's Evil Energy generation and the conditions necessary to increase it.  The guide goal system has also been fleshed out a little more with some tips that explain why each goal is important.

The next species to be added will be Undead Chosen (and in retrospect, I sort of wish I had rearranged the update schedule to make is so that they had been the Halloween update instead of Animalistic Chosen).  They'll be coming very soon, but first I'd like to devote another update to general user experience improvements, since I wasn't able to cross everything off my list last time.  I'd also like to take the chance to gather feedback on Animalistic Chosen before adding another species, so please let me know how your runs against them go!

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• Content: Added the Animalistic species to the game.
• Content: Added animal body parts (ears, tails, wings, horns, penises) to body customization.  Animal penises for randomly generated characters are toggled off by default.
• Content: Added Stroke Ears and Stroke Tail actions to custom sex scenes.  When the Demon Lord's body has animal features, the sex scene partner will also use these actions when appropriate.
• Content: Added one new vignette.
• Content: Added 12 new faces specific to Animalistic characters to the default portrait pack.
• Balance: An Orgy which is cancelled early (due to Rampage or final battle Aversion) will also cancel any Defiler actions that would break unbroken Vulnerabilities.
• Balance: Chosen can no longer escape Capture on turns where a Forsaken Punisher would be used.
• Bugfix: Warnings for possible threats to Distortion Plans now cover a couple more edge cases, and some false alarms have been removed.
• Bugfix: Superior Chosen will now properly use Detonate earlier than regular Chosen.
• Bugfix: The Slaughter action will no longer extend allies' Surround duration when used immediately before allies would escape.
• Bugfix: Passive training for certain combat styles will no longer fail to grant expertise for Forsaken currently using certain other combat styles.
• Bugfix: Achieving the Rampancy Distortion on a Core Innocence Chosen and a Core Confidence Chosen for the first time on the same day will no longer display an incorrect duplicate post-battle scene.
• Bugfix: Chosen who undergo a body shift due to Inseminate or Fantasize will now properly update their custom sex scene bodies.
• Bugfix: Chosen who are Surrounded and immediately Rampage will now properly increase their defense level.
• Bugfix: Resolved a crash that could happen in future play sessions when setting a Forsaken as your trainer or favorite.
• Bugfix: Loved ones will no longer sometimes be counted twice when determining training consent modifiers.
• Other: It is now possible to change the species of custom Chosen created for single play mode.
• Other: When using cheats, it is now possible to generate random Forsaken of any species.
• Other: Added a summary of yesterday's EE generation and the required conditions to increase EE generation to Chosen profiles.
• Other: The guide goals system now provides more gameplay tips when completing goals.
• Other: Added a species reference text file to the game download.

Release 35b:

• Bugfix: Resolved a cosmetic issue that was causing random Animalistic Forsaken generated in cheat mode to lack portraits and default to the rodent subspecies.