Release 38: Anastasis

With this update, another new species of opponent is now available: Undead Chosen!  These Chosen are those who remember experiencing some sort of "death."  They include heroes who died in battle against the Demons but were revived through the faith of the public, monsters of the night created by practitioners of necromantic arts, and ghosts who somehow remained attached to the world of the living.  Regardless of their origin, all of these Undead Chosen possess a suite of powers which makes them quite tricky to defeat despite their relatively frail, insubstantial nature.

Starting in Loop 5 of campaign mode, the first city option will always be defended by at least one Undead Chosen and the second city option will always be defened by at least one Animalistic Chosen.  In later loops, Undead and Animalistic Chosen can even be found on teams together.  They have roughly the same degree of difficulty, but their gameplay mechanics are quite different.  The species reference file has been updated to include details on Undead Chosen, and the new Undead Clash scenario has been added for players who wish to practice against them outside of campaign mode.

This update has a bit of new sexual content relevant to the new species.  The bodies of Chosen and Forsaken can now be made out of ghostly ectoplasm (used by some undead subspecies) or translucent slime (currently only used when specifically picked during customization).  Amorphous penetration actions have been added for when one custom sex scene participant is made of one of these materials and the other has a penis.  Additionally, the body's sexual experience and the mind's sexual experience are now tracked separately.  This currently only comes up for Undead Aversion-Distorted Chosen (because the player gains the ability to completely rewrite the subject's mind), but it opens the door to a lot of possession and mind-manipulation content for the future.

Unrelated to Undead Chosen, another vignette commissioned by Kalloi has been added to the game, this one between an Aversion Chosen and a Rampancy Chosen who have a friendly relationship.  It's now also possible to encounter a loved one of your Bait Forsaken during single play mode, so players who enjoy that aspect of the game can enjoy it even without playing through a campaign.

Finally, there's the usual set of bugfixes and balance adjustments.  Notably, the Empathy endgame upgrade has been reworked to make it more viable to let friendships develop between the Chosen.  During the final battle, when the upgrade has been bought, Chosen with Unbreakable Friendships will now absolutely refuse to kill each other when the surrounded/captured Chosen has at least 50% Resolve, regardless of how corrupted that Chosen is.  This gives you a lot more time to convert the Chosen, but it also means that you can't rely on them killing each other for you, so it's an upgrade that should only be taken with caution.

The next update will be focused on custom sex scenes, although I do have a few gameplay features I'd like to squeeze into it if I have the time.  After that, it'll be time to start working on the last major feature planned for campaign mode: boss fights.

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• Content: Added Undead Chosen to the game.
• Content: Added the Undead Clash scenario.
• Content: Added the ability for bodies to be made out of slime or ghostly ectoplasm.
• Content: Added amorphous penetration actions to custom sex scenes involving slime or ectoplasm bodies.
• Content: Added 12 new faces for Undead Chosen to the default portrait pack.
• Content: Added one new vignette.
• Balance: Chosen will now be much less eager to do group downtime actions which would generate fewer Evil Energy than the ones they'd do alone.
• Balance: Reworked the Empathy upgrade.
• Balance: Buffed the damage added by the Silver Collar from 20 to 30.
• Balance: Decreased the interest rate of Soul Liquefaction to 10%, but allowed it to store fractional Evil Energy which is paid to the player upon reaching a whole number.
• Bugfix: Resolved a crash that could happen at the end of a campaign mode run.
• Bugfix: The Tempting Negotiations vignette will no longer sometimes take place between two copies of the same Chosen.
• Bugfix: Virgin Chosen defeated in the final battle will no longer sometimes lose their virginities immediately upon becoming Forsaken.
• Bugfix: Rampant Forsaken will no longer mistakenly benefit from the Broken Psychometer when the player doesn't actually have that item.
• Bugfix: Forsaken will no longer sometimes lose their portraits.
• Other: Starting a single play game with a Forsaken in the Bait position will now cause one of the generated Chosen to be a loved one of the Bait Forsaken.
• Other: Forsaken sexual experience is now tracked separately for the body and for the mind.

Release 38b:

• Bugfix: Resolved a crash which could happen when using Forsaken capture.
• Bugfix: The "captured a flying Chosen" flavor text and Stamina reduction for Undead Chosen will no longer occur at inappropriate times.
• Bugfix: The Stamina and Motivation costs for deploying Forsaken will now correctly be assessed before the battle instead of after it.
• Bugfix: Resolved a crash which could happen when deploying Demon Knight Forsaken.
• Bugfix: Using cheats to swap a Forsaken's species will now work properly.
• Bugfix: Resolved a crash which could happen when importing a roster.
• Bugfix: Resolved a crash which could happen when performing a training action involving anal sex.
• Bugfix: The vignette checklist, which was missing from the previous download, is now included.

Release 38c:

• Bugfix: Resolved an issue which could cause Forsaken deployment costs to be ignored.