This update continues the recent push toward improved customization options for the Chosen. Previously, Chosen outfits were extremely simple. They consisted of chest clothing, hips clothing, and sometimes footwear and panties. This has been replaced by an extremely flexible system where Chosen outfits may contain any number of articles of clothing, and each article of clothing has its own list of which body parts it covers. The old default outfits have been moved to this new system, and players can also make their own detailed outfits for custom Chosen. The improved custom clothing interface also now allows players to set Chosen to use an outfit normally reserved for another personality type, or to write up their own fancy transformation paragraph to go with a custom outfit.
Although the main focus here was improving customization, there are also some downstream effects which should prove enjoyable even for players using a completely default roster. When examining Chosen, the game will now generate a paragraph describing their current clothing. And when the Chosen take clothing damage during battle, this paragraph will be updated appropriately - there's a small random element to which parts of each article of clothing are destroyed when hitting any given EXPO level, and the Regenerate move will also repair clothing randomly, so these descriptions should have plenty of variety even when examining the same Chosen across multiple battles.
As a convenient showcase of the new clothing system, the commissioned content from last month has been updated. The "From the Descent of Guilt" vignette now actually gives the subject a pair of persistent nipple piercings which will be mentioned whenever viewed while topless, and the new Tempt variants now change the subject's worn clothing (while also making the Thralls more reluctant to damage the kinky outfit). Furthermore, when Tempting a target who has suffered Total Dignity Break, the exhibitionistic outfit she adopts will become a permanent fixture of her Chosen transformation.
I've done as much as I can to smooth the transition to the new system, but a rework as big as this one rarely goes off without a hitch. In particular, because of the huge number of options when designing clothing, the customization interface on the player's end is pretty clunky. It's also not practical for me to check every possible combination of clothing coverage to make sure that the examination descriptions flow naturally. Player feedback is very welcome on both of these points, because I'm interested in improving them as time goes on.
Saves should be compatible between this version and the last one, but because the game has no way of knowing what the player had in mind when making custom clothes in the previous versions, the coverage will just use a set of default clothing designs. Players who want to make the fullest of the new system will have to remake their custom Chosen, but this should be a one-time affair. Currently, the clothing description paragraph is lacking in some ways (notably it doesn't cover armwear, headwear, the from-behind view, and some types of open clothing). But once the paragraph is improved, it will retroactively be able to produce the improved description for outfits designed in this version.
The next update will focus on custom sex scenes, which will include updating them to use the new clothing system. This will allow crotchless panties and such to actually be relevant, and it will also enable more corruption-highlighting content in that Chosen and Forsaken will be able to make varying decisions for what to wear as civilians. This will also be a good chance to add some more sex actions that have been on hold for a long time, so I hope that you'll all be looking forward to it!
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- Content: Clothing damage in combat is now tracked and viewable with the Examine button.
- Content: Custom Chosen outfits can now be designed in much greater detail.
- Content: Default transformation sequence for custom Chosen improved, and player-written transformation sequences can be used.
- Content: The outfit additions attached to the commissioned content in the last update are now persistent.
- Bugfix: Tomorrow's Newspaper will now properly grant all the upgrades it says it does regardless of upgrade order.
- Bugfix: The Spite and Vanity upgrades are no longer bugged when applied to Drain-type Commanders.
- Interface: Changing the text size will now also change button size.
- Interface: The game now asks for confirmation before deleting clothing in the outfit customization screen.
- Bugfix: Changing a Chosen's transformation outfit will no longer keep some non-persistent outfit parts.
- Bugfix: Resolved some crashes and other instability for custom Chosen.
- Bugfix: New outfit parts may now correctly be designated as weaponry when the subject does not already have a weapon.
- Interface: Clothing customization is no longer reset immediately upon entering the default outfit selection screen.
- Bugfix: Removing clothing shoulder coverage on clothing with sleeves will no longer sometimes crash the game.
- Bugfix: Adjusted some sleeve description text so that it no longer breaks the description paragraph.
- Bugfix: Resolved some cases where EXPO level increases would crash the game.
- Bugfix: Total Dignity Break clothing changes will now take effect immediately instead of waiting until the next battle.
- Bugfix: New Chosen arriving for the first time will no longer sometimes crash the game.
- Bugfix: Restored some missing combat flavor text that hadn't properly been updated to the new clothing system.
- Bugfix: Resolved a crash that could happen when trying to destroy Chosen underwear.
- Bugfix: The default transformation sequence for campaign custom Chosen will no longer always use the default alias for their personality.
- Bugfix: Generic campaign Chosen will no longer be generated with a transformation sequence which refers to them as "null."
- Bugfix: Resolved a crash that could happen when the Chosen use Regenerate.
