This update adds the first of the endgame bosses: Reason, leader of the Mechanical Chosen! Reason will first appear 5 loops after Judgment is defeated. As a scientist whose knowledge of the workings of psychic energy has allowed her to replace her own body with mechanical parts, she's an exceptionally powerful and resolute opponent.
From a gameplay perspective, Reason can be treated as effectively a "final boss." Similar to the Mechanical Chosen who serve under her, Reason's Forsaken abilities once defeated are all about making the player stronger over time. If you can beat her as early as Loop 25, then it'll be easy for your power level to snowball to the point that the actual final boss on Loop 35 will become trivial. Even if you delay fighting Reason until Loop 30, the extra efficiency she adds when crafting buildings will still make you a lot more powerful by the true endgame.
This is important, because Reason's city is an exceptionally difficult fight. She has her own unique set of Operations (which are now also listed in the mechanical operations.txt file), and you'll need to figure out which ones to aim for and which Operations to manipulate her allies into using in order to make the fight winnable. Don't be afraid to burn all your resources (mechanical parts, limited Forsaken abilities, etc.) in order to beat her! She has a special gameplay mechanic you'll discover which encourages you to do just that.
Because the fight is so difficult, and because it assumes that you've spent all of campaign mode building up the resources to take it on, there's currently no single play version of the fight. I'll probably need to tweak some of Reason's mechanics in order to make the fight fair for players who don't have a Forsaken roster. Until then, campaign mode is the only way to face her.
Now that this is done, I'm going to be moving directly to implementing Reason's Elemental counterpart, Wisdom, as soon as possible. Like Reason, Wisdom makes use of some pretty tricky mechanics in her boss fight, so I expect this to take 2 months as well. Until then, I hope everyone enjoys the beginnings of the endgame!
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- Content: Added the Reason boss fight to campaign mode after Judgment has been defeated.
- Content: Added Reason's portraits to the default portrait pack.
- Bugfix: Resolved some incorrect behavior when recapturing a Chosen who had been subjected to the "Add to Orgy" Aversion Forsaken ability earlier in the battle.
- Bugfix: When bargaining with Splendor, the bargain to make the next loop easier will no longer expire before the next loop actually starts.
- Bugfix: Resolved an issue where Distortions other than Despair wouldn't properly carry over to Reason's Foraken's form.
