With this update, campaign mode is now another large step closer to being completed, as the fifth Chosen species has been added: Devil Chosen. Rather than serving evil, Devils in the Corrupted Saviors universe are all about punishing mortals for their sins. They consist of various subspecies, each of which specializes in punishing a different sin. Fallen angels who punish sinners in Hell are of course present, but there are also oni who punish those who think themselves undefeatable, or bogeygirls who lurk in wait for anybody who disobeys the rules.
In campaign mode, Devils will show up after Splendor has been defeated, which means that they can appear in Loop 11 at the earliest. They're very powerful, almost as strong as the bosses themselves, and so the new Devilish Clash scenario only puts you up against a single Devil with two regular human allies. The abilities of Devil Chosen are based around getting stronger as their allies suffer more ANGST damage, so you have to be very careful about fighting them. But after they fall to the side of the Demons, their Forsaken abilities are also on a whole new level.
The minor additions for this update include a new item which makes an alternate-universe evil duplicate of one of the Chosen to add to your Forsaken roster, so I imagine that fans of selfcest might find that enjoyable. A new category of Forsaken customization has also been added, "tools," which allow you to customize how your Forsaken fight against the Chosen. Currently, the only tool is a permanent-breast-expansion-incuding Demon which can normally only be equipped by Chosen who see the Satisfied Curiosity vignette commissioned by Kalloi. This is a pretty steep requirement, but all tools will be equippable using cheat mode.
Everything is now in place for Angel Chosen to be added, but I want to collect some feedback about Devil Chosen before I add another species at the same power level. So, next month is going to be an update focused on flavor content, including a new intermission scene similar to the Day 15 interview (but maybe a bit more sexy). In the meantime, I'd very much like to hear everybody's thoughts on the new species!
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- Content: Added Devil Chosen to campaign mode following Splendor's defeat.
- Content: Added the Devilish Clash scenario for single play mode.
- Content: Added 16 new faces for the Devil Chosen to the default portrait pack.
- Content: Added some more body customization options for Devils (which can also be freely used by custom Chosen and Demon Lord bodies).
- Content: Added the Dimensional Kaleidoscope item along with the "alternate universe doppelganger" personal relationship.
- Content: Added "tools" to Forsaken customization options (currently only visible for those who have seen the Satisfied Curiosity vignette as Chosen, or during cheat mode).
- Balance: Base damage susceptibility will never go below 1/100.
- Balance: Damage dealt to Chosen in battle will now _immediately_ be reflected in their ANGST bonus instead of needing to wait to be summed until the end of the day.
- Balance: Loop-skipping routes in campaign mode now provide 10 days of training before moving on to the next city.
- Balance: Forsaken training will now always provide at least a certain fraction of each training action's base expertise gain.
- Interface: The game will now inform you of whether a loop-skipping route has been unlocked (displayed in green text on the shop screen).
- Bugfix: Resolved a bugged state which could cause custom sex scenes to always crash.
- Bugfix: Consensual virginity loss for Chosen will now be correctly recorded even after becoming Forsaken.
- Bugfix: Advanced species will now correctly display the extra species flavor paragraph in their Chosen profiles.
- Bugfix: Boss Chosen bodies will no longer sometimes be generated in a bugged state which doesn't match the player's toggles.
- Bugfix: Resolved some cases where Chosen would still be described as getting penetrated even when set to use non-penetrative actions.
- Bugfix: Resolved some cases where Chosen not set to use non-penetrative actions would still use descriptions from the non-penetrative corruption flavor.
- Bugfix: Some saves from older versions which previously broke upon trying to load will now work properly.
- Bugfix: Forsaken capture lines will no longer sometimes be repeated endlessly on subsequent turns.
- Other: Added a new loop-skipping route to campaign mode (see the campaign map .txt file).
- Other: The game now tracks which Forsaken have experienced which vignettes as Chosen (some new Forsaken downtime flavors have been added to use this).
- Other: The removal of campaign difficulty modifiers from cheat mode is now controlled by a cheat rather than being on by default.
- Bugfix: Instill Fixation and Grand Concert will no longer be treated as Obedience training for the purpose of consent.
- Bugfix: Resolved some cases where Chosen would not be marked as having seen certain vignettes.
- Bugfix: Clothing items flagged as "persistent" (like piercings) will now persist correctly.
Hello, a minor bug - triggering aversion distortion and then reaching T3 confidence break will warn the player that the confidence break would disrupt the distortion, despite not doing so
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting me know that this could happen, but I haven't been able to replicate it yet. Does it also show a red "/" symbol somewhere in the Info menu corruption summary, or did the warning only appear in the daily report?
DeleteYes, it also showed as red "/" symbol in the menu on the next day after warning me about it - earlier in the run I had swapped plans between my distortions, so I wonder if this is part of the reproduction - maybe the warning for a different distortion plan did not turn off.
DeleteI think I figured out what happened, the red / was signifying that when the T3 break happened, since this was a core break, the Chosen would go rape another chosen and ruin their distortion? If this is the case, it was not very clear at all that she would mess with someone else's distortion solely based on the red slash
DeleteFiguring out how to communicate that better is something I've wanted to do for awhile. The scenes where Chosen break each other were added before Distortions were, and so the two systems sort of step on each other's toes. There also should have been a red text message during the downtime after the T3 threshold was hit, but I might need to add something that stands out more.
DeleteDumb question, the cheat option is no longer in the options menu. How do I enable cheats?
ReplyDeleteIt should appear as long as you have any save file which is past the day of the final battle (including campaign mode saves from Loop 2 or later).
DeleteNew player here, I like the game so far, but the mid-game seems to just drag on and on if you don't things practically perfect.
ReplyDeleteSome upgrades for the commander that cost EE to use (such as Relentless) should be free considering they already cost 40EE to begin with, that 10 cost to apply fucked me over in the final battle of my first playthrough, and there are probably other upgrades that should be free to apply as well.
The aforementioned trap of the mid-game really needs to be altered, as I said if you're not playing practically perfectly then you're just going to be stuck in a mediocre loop until you crap out at the end. This trap means that a very specific choice of upgrades is required, and if you deviate from it you won't be able to glut yourself on EE and will just stagnate with a mere +5/6 EE per battle for well over 20 days unless you just deliberately throw battles just to stockpile.
Speaking of stockpiling, the Retreat option is practically worthless, the requirements of it suggest late game usage, but the cost says early/mid-game usage, of which both will not be able to rack up the 5/10/15 turns required to pay out a paltry +1/2/3 EE, especially when it's more valuable to just inflict breaks on the Chosen and harvest the EE from that. The 5 EE cost to even be able to get it is also just insulting considering the other upgrades available at its tier.
Thanks for the feedback. I've been interested to hear how upgrades which some people find useless are considered useful by others (and vice versa).
DeleteJust curious, but I've noticed that for some reason the game seems to have starting using torture instead of sodomize for confidence defiler. I don't think I changed anything that would have caused this.
ReplyDeleteThe Confidence Defiler used by Forsaken is always displayed as "Torture", regardless of settings, so that might explain what you're seeing. Otherwise, I'd need to see the genders of your Chosen team to figure out whether it's a bug.
Deleteout of curiosity, when (if ever) do you expect to have the time to add mora/inno and conf/dign distortions?
ReplyDeleteIt's one of the possible next features after Angels are added.
DeleteIt seems strange that rivalries between chosen are increased by certain events. I have a girl undergoing negotiation who is rivals with the other two, but it seems counterintuitive that high corruption events like the total dignity break club show happening to one of her rivals would increase enmity instead of reducing it.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it's difficult to match the flavor with the gameplay, but I think it's important that the rules for how breaks affect relationships should always work the same way.
DeleteI've got a pretty bad bug. I can't save at all. My options won't stick and if I try to save no saves file is generated. Problem persists between both .exe and .jar. Running in admin mode doesn't fix it. I even tried copying an old save file over but it doesn't load.
ReplyDeleteI think I figured it out. I had it in a folder with a "+" sign. I put it higher in the folder structure and now it works. I think the game doesn't handle unusual folder names right.
DeleteThanks for letting me know about this issue. I'll see if there's anything I can do on my end to help the game handle unusual folder names.
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