Release 74: Comprehension

This is another smaller release, following last month's new boss battle and leading up to the final battle of campaign mode which is coming next month.  The main new addition is the "Versus Wisdom" scenario which has been added to single play mode.  Because the Wisdom boss fight is about seeing how many iterations of increasing difficulty you're prepared to face, and because scenarios always start the player at the same level of power (based on how many items they give you), Wisdom's scenario works a bit differently from all the others.  After you've completed it once, another sub-scenario is unlocked which makes Wisdom more difficult in exchange for starting you with a few more items.  The items probably won't quite be strong enough to make up for the increased difficulty, which means that beating Wisdom in the base scenario isn't too hard, but the later scenarios will definitely test your skills.

This release also adds a fair number of new Favorite Forsaken smalltalk lines.  The new lines fall into two categories: those which are spoken by Boss Forsaken (replacing lines which didn't make sense for a Boss Forsaken to say) and those which are spoken by regular Forsaken regarding Boss Chosen who have already been defeated.  This is really just a minor update to an optional feature which some players might not even use, but players who care about the lore might find it interesting.

Among the bugfixes this month is one for an issue with the "To Day Start" retry system which could cause the game to be put in a bugged state where some combat-related variables weren't reset properly.  This would cause strange behavior like Chosen starting the battle Surrounded, and saving the game in this state would cause the bugged behavior to persist even after closing the game and opening it again.  This should be fixed in R74, and saves which were previously bugged should work properly, but please let me know if something like this is still occurring.

Next month should bring us to the conclusion of campaign mode!  Reign's boss fight, which is presently in a half-complete placeholder state, will be fully implemented, and the final battle on Loop 35 will be added!  It's taken quite awhile to get to this point, but once the main path through the game has been completed, we'll be free to go around and add side feature and polish without needing to worry about whether later additions will conflict with them.

Click here to download.  Mirror.

• Content: Added the Versus Wisdom scenario to single play mode.
• Content: Expanded the Favorite Forsaken smalltalk system with a bunch of new lines (mostly related to former Boss Chosen).
• Bugfix: Fixed a crash that could happen on the data menu.
• Bugfix: Resolved saves being put into a bugged state after using the "Return to day start" option in battle.
• Bugfix: Forsaken should no longer sometimes crash the game when giving birth in between campaign mode loops.