Now that the Distortion paths have all been implemented, the next step is to add the next round of boss fights to the game. The first of this new round of bosses is Judgment, the boss of the Devil Chosen. Judgment has some unique mechanics and flavor text (especially when interacting with the other boss Chosen), as well as a set of story scenes that will display as her corruption progresses. She's intended to be fought in campaign mode (where she'll start showing up every 5 loops after Splendor is defeated, so Loop 15 at the earliest), but you can also face her in a new single play scenario which offers a bunch of items to compensate for her difficulty.
In most respects, Judgment's gameplay mechanics are just stronger versions of the regular Devil gameplay mechanics. She has stronger versions of their T3 Break moves, and her ability to restrict her allies' sinful actions extends to making it harder to make them start using T3 Break moves. On top of this, she's outright immune to Resolve damage until her corruption has progressed far enough. Unlike Victory, she continues to fight hard even after you start to break her, which means that her boss fight remains challenging right up to the final battle. Her portrait design was heavily inspired by the art that Kalloi made for his portrait pack, so if you notice any similarities there, then it's not a coincidence!
The implementation of the boss fight consumed most of this month's development time, but there's also a significant new sexual content addition in the conclusion of the Significant-Morality Negotiation vignette chain commissioned by Kalloi. This vignette is notable in that it has some minor branching depending on how you use the "streaming studio" custom sex scene location unlocked by last month's vignette. If you unmask the Chosen while streaming a sex scene together, her feelings toward the player will be different than if you allow her identity to remain hidden. (There's also a third variant if you've made her experience extremely large amounts of pleasure while streaming - look for green text to display once it's been triggered.) These variants only change a few minor details, but they should serve as proof of concept for more long-term acknowledgements of things that happen during custom sex scenes.
And on that note, the planned focus for next month is more custom sex scene content. Currently, even though the game allows for any number of Forsaken to participate in a custom sex scene, and also allows for custom sex scenes between Chosen, it doesn't allow for mixes of multiple Chosen meeting with Demon-affiliated characters at once. This is something I've wanted to change for a long time, mainly because it makes sense (and will save a bunch of clicks) for multiple Negotiation-path Chosen to be able to accept a truce and offer themselves to you together. This should also involve some new custom sex scene actions and some improvements to existing ones - the code was originally written to allow actions by different characters to take each other into account (to allow for "double blowjobs" and such), but in the update that added code support for threesomes, there wasn't actually any time to write that extra flavor. The next update should make much better use of that system.
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- Content: Added the Judgment boss fight to campaign mode after Splendor has been defeated.
- Content: Added the Versus Judgment scenario to single play mode.
- Content: Added Judgment's portraits to the default portrait pack.
- Content: Added one new vignette.
- Balance: The Psychographic Laboratory objective now grants 2 days' worth of your best Evil Energy generation (up from 1).
- Balance: Victory is only immune to Resolve damage when she has no Breaks at all.
- Balance: Boss Forsaken now have "Personal" compatibility with all Boss Chosen.
- Balance: The trauma threshold for Chosen to be guaranteed to use the most-sinful-possible downtime action is reduced to 1 trillion.
- Bugfix: Splendor will no longer use different logic for using Glorious Fatal Curse in campaign mode than in single play mode.
- Bugfix: Chosen already on Distortion paths can no longer be indirectly set to the Despair Distortion plan.
- Bugfix: Undead Chosen will now properly grant Evil Energy for T3 Core Breaks that happen in loops without relationship scenes.
- Bugfix: Splendor will no longer spoil her allies' First Seal by using a weak Second Seal which immediately expires.
- Bugfix: The conditions for unlocking the Devil Chosen warp route will now properly be calculated on the same day that the trauma is inflicted.
- Bugfix: The Forsaken summary for the Unfocused combat style will no longer be blank.
- Bugfix: Chosen who should start to Rampage with only 1 turn left in their Surround will no longer skip the Rampage and just act normally.
- Bugfix: The Dimensional Kaleidoscope preview will now properly show all Distortion traits.
- Bugfix: Resolved a crash that could happen when attempting to deploy Rampant Forsaken.
- Bugfix: Resolved a crash that could happen from Splendor's using Indelible Glory in the final battle.
- Bugfix: Angel Chosen's Forgiveness duration will no longer carry over between battles.
- Bugfix: Splendor will no longer skip her breaking scenes and become fully broken after any fellow Boss Chosen has been defeated.
- Bugfix: Tempted Chosen will no longer be able to repeatedly undergo the same T3 Innocence Break.
- Bugfix: Distortion Chosen will no longer have their reluctance to use incompatible T3 Break moves mistakenly attributed to Judgment's leadership.
