Release 54: Advancement

The focus of this release is the addition of a new class of "heavyweight" items to campaign mode (along with one non-heavyweight item related to last release's Megalomania Distortion).  In theory, the accumulation of Influence throughout campaign mode was meant to grant players a steady boost in power the deeper they go.  In practice, there weren't enough high-Influence-cost items to spend all the Influence gained, and so players would be weaker than intended because all that unspent Influence wasn't doing anything for them.  Now, once the player has 50 or more unspent Influence, these heavyweight items will be very likely to appear.

Because heavyweight items are so powerful and run-defining, I've made it possible for players to affect to some degree which ones appear.  Every heavyweight item has a prerequisite item which must be owned before it will appear.  By only picking the items whose heavyweight equivalents you want, you can make sure that unwanted heavyweight items won't end up eating all your Influence.  Items without heavyweight equivalents can be picked without diluting the current pool of possible heavyweight items.  The items with heavyweight equivalents are as follow: the eight starting items, the ten "Pantsu" items, the five items which grant Distortion-related bonuses, the Silver Collar, and Soul Liquefaction.  If you want to know the options ahead of time, you can make the new items immediately show up in the Archive by using the "All Items" cheat in any of your save files.

Some heavyweight items just offer straight numerical bonuses, while others allow for entirely new gameplay strategies.  They don't offer much in the way of new sexual content, but this update does have a couple of side features to make up for that.  Kalloi has commissioned a sequel to the Sleep Molester vignette as the start of a new vignette chain, this time targeting the Significant Morality Chosen.  See the vignette checklist for details.  The commission also included a new Blindfold action for custom sex scenes, which can currently only be used in the S&M Club location (another location where it can be used will be coming soon).

The update also includes quite a few bugfixes, as I had expected when adding a new Distortion.  But now that that's taken care of, we can move directly onward to the sixth and final Distortion: Despair.  As a Distortion that affects the entire city, this one will break a couple more patterns from the previous Distortions and require some new code, but once it's done, everything will be ready to start on the endgame of campaign mode.

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• Content: Added 26 new items to the game.
• Content: Added one new vignette.
• Content: Added the Blindfold action to custom sex scenes.
• Balance: Adjusted the Influence cost of some items.
• Balance: Tempted Forsaken no longer generally have decreased Motivation cost, but instead gain bonus damage based on Motivation.
• Balance: Splendor will now be smarter about offering better Bargains.
• Balance: Inevitability can now be activated for the final battle (but this does not apply the x10 bonus to Resolve damage).
• Balance: Undead Chosen will be more willing to use Enervate very late in the loop.
• Balance: When all valid items have already been seen in a campaign, the game will allow rejected items to appear again.
• Bugfix: Single play scenarios will no longer sometimes fail to respect the gender settings on a new save.
• Bugfix: Megalomaniac Forsaken can now properly be set to not follow a training plan.
• Bugfix: Animalistic Chosen will no longer rudely use Frenzy against Forsaken who have already been knocked out by Mutual Damnation.
• Bugfix: Splendor will no longer consider impossible Bargains and sometimes crash the game as a result.
• Bugfix: Buying upgrades other than Imago Quickening with your Second-in-Command selected for deployment will no longer grant an Evil Energy refund.
• Bugfix: The code for handling trauma overflow will now properly consider T4 downtimes to be more attractive than Temptation and Rampancy downtimes.
• Bugfix: The display of how quickly Chosen with Angel allies are escaping is now more accurate.
• Bugfix: The Ego Murder effect will no longer carry over between battles.
• Other: The details of the Megalomania Distortion have been added to the Forsaken guide.
• Other: The cheat option to set Forsaken on a Distortion path now also includes Megalomania.
• Other: The in-game tips for T1 Breaks are now more specific about which types of damage should approach 10k.
• Other: Any combination of spared and non-spared Forsaken may now be added to a custom sex scene.
• Other: Added a visual indicator for when boss Chosen are using their signature abilities.

Release 54b

• Interface: The remaining Captures for a Demon Commander will now be displayed on the button itself instead of just the tooltip.
• Bugfix: The Forsaken Preview in campaign mode will now print properly.
• Bugfix: Forsaken whose Punisher bonuses have been changed by a Velvet Key merge between two other Forsaken will now correctly use the changed Punisher for determining their own Velvet Key merge.