Release 39: Mediation

This update adds an option I've been talking about wanting for awhile now - the ability to put Chosen and Forsaken into custom sex scenes with each other!  This involved significant refinement of the code that custom sex scene partners use to pick their actions, some of which will probably be noticeable in sex scenes involving the Demon Lord as well.  The system works pretty well for when the participants have high Deviancy and a good relationship with each other.  It gets rougher when they're lacking either lust or affection - they might get frustrated with each other and start slinging insults, or they might just keep awkwardly praising each other without actually doing anything sexual.  It will get a lot better once I add the ability for custom sex scene partners to actively perform bondage and domination for proper hatesex, and once I add more cute-but-not-quite-sexual interactions for friends, both of which should be coming soon.  Hopefully the existing content is enough to hold your interest until then.

Linked with the above, I've also added the new Ambassador position for Forsaken.  This allows you to send the subject in your place to Approach the Chosen for a custom sex scene.  You can use your Ambassador to initiate the Negotiation Distortion just like you can by sending your own Demon Lord body.  This is currently just a flavor text difference, and much of the text surrounding the Negotiation Distortion can come across as a bit strange if you haven't actually approached the subject in person yet, but it will all tie in nicely to my plans for further improvements to the relationship system.

On the gameplay front, the main addition for this update is the new Retry/Reset buttons added to combat and Forsaken training.  I've always intended for Corrupted Saviors to be a game with minimal randomness where the player is given perfect information about enemy behavior and the challenge is to identify the best possible result for the player's long-term plans.  In practice, because it isn't practical to diagram the Chosen response to every possible player action in advance, this means that experimenting with different sequences of action is necessary to see what happens, and that has required a bunch of tedious time spent in the save and load menus.  The ability to just go straight back to the start of the encounter should make the game's qualify of life feel much better.

A new vignette commissioned by Kalloi has also been added to the game, and this is the first vignette which acts as a continuation of a previous vignette.  Players aiming to put the Core Morality Chosen onto the Negotiation Distortion path will often run across it naturally, but the main condition to note is that the target Chosen must be Approached before the Negotiation Distortion is formally started.  There's a substantial variation on the vignette depending on whether the subject was Approached by the Demon Lord or by an Ambassador Forsaken, so be sure to try out both options!  Another minor addition is the tracking of individual Chosen sex acts - while this doesn't yet have any extra content tied to it, the player can now view the Chosen's exact sex act counts at any time, which might prove interesting for anyone curious about just how much masturbation they get up to at each increasing level of Innocence Break.

With the new additions to Chosen sex stat tracking and custom sex scene mechanics, some features that were previously far out of reach have suddenly become low-hanging fruit.  Namely, it's now possible for future releases to introduce alternative flavors for Breaks which involve different sex acts but share the same gameplay mechanics.  This will allow both for virgin Chosen with Morality Break and for non-virgin Chosen who have yet to experience Morality Break.  And this, in turn, will pave the way for MILF Chosen, including Chosen who are the mothers of other Chosen.  After that, of course, the door will be open for Forsaken breeding programs, inheritable body traits, and so on.  I think it'll be worth the time to start on this content before making the leap into implementing boss fights.

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• Content: The game now tracks each individual sex act performed by the Chosen.  This information can be viewed in the Chosen profiles.
• Content: Added the ability to put two Chosen or Forsaken into a custom sex scene with each other.
• Content: Added the Ambassador position for Forsaken, which allows them to be sent in the Demon Lord's place to approach the Chosen.
• Content: Added one new vignette.
• Balance: On the first day of campaign mode, players may freely swap to a different starting item.
• Interface: During campaign mode, the information menu can now be used to preview the future Forsaken traits of the current team of Chosen.
• Interface: Added a Retry/Reset button to battle and Forsaken training.
• Bugfix: Chosen who escape the final battle will no longer forget about their previous partners.
• Bugfix: Chosen will now correctly store the body type of the first Demon Lord body to visit them.
• Other: Campaign mode will now keep track of which version of the game the campaign was started on.
• Other: Significant changes to custom sex scene partner behavior, including allowing some previously Demon-Lord-only actions and adding more dialogue.

Release 39b:

• Resolved a crash that could affect the Inseminate+ and Sodomize+ actions.

Release 39c:

• Resolved a crash that could affect some variants of the Negotiation post-battle scene for Core Morality/Core Dignity Chosen.

Release 39d:

• Bugfix: Resolved a possible crash when attempting to increase the exposure count of a subject who hasn't been in a custom sex scene during the current play session.
• Bugfix: Resolved a crash when trying to change the starting Vulnerability Breaks of a campaign custom non-Animalistic non-Undead Chosen.
• Bugfix: Resolved a crash when attempting to increment the sexual experience count of male Chosen.

Release 39e:

• Bugfix: Resolved another crash that could trigger when incrementing the sexual experience count of male Chosen.

Release 39f:

• Bugfix: Resolved a crash that could trigger when a Chosen who hasn't been met in a prior loop escapes the final battle.
• Bugfix: Custom sex scene partners in scenes involving the Demon Lord will now properly change their portrait expressions.
• Bugfix: The system that tracks which version the current campaign was started on will now work consistently.
• Bugfix: The save file's roster of custom campaign Chosen will now have its members' stats properly updated for the current version.

Release 39g:

• Resolved a crash that could happen during a later session of play depending on behavior during the prior session of play.

Release 39h:

• Bugfix: Fixed an issue that would cause some Forsaken Punisher bonuses to stop working.