Patch 0.6.0: 2021-10-18

The Battle for Capital Bridge

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ADDITIONS

-The Battle for Capital Bridge can now be completed! Fight through Guscorp's forces, including three new bosses, to stop their march against the desert pigmen once and for all! 

 -The battle will alter slightly depending on miscellaneous factors such as party roster and relationship status.

 -Cross will join the party permanently following the battle! 

  -All existing whirlwind locations can now be activated with Cross in the party! SEVERAL new areas, treasures, and events are now discoverable via these whirlwinds, including but not limited to new maps in Costa Del Nyan, the Thunder Highlands, and Blackhollow!

-Added Renee's Cafe, a coffee shop in Costa Del Nyan that you'll need Cross in order to access!

 -The Cafe currently has a few small events and character interactions, as well as some blatant fanservice that can be accessed if Claire isn't currently dating anyone (except Vespa, who is totally there for it if you go talk to her first.)

 -More will be added to the location in coming updates~

-Added a couple of new relics (and made one which was already implemented finally accessible via the permanent addition of Cross to the party.)

-Added some new readable books to the game: Siraly the Red, and The Lost City (Parts One to Four)!

 -Siraly the Red is a single-volume biographical interview with an anonymous former crew member. It can be found in Verloc Books in Crabshoot Bay.

 -The Lost City is a four-part story scattered across Imperium. Part One can be found in the training room at Bablo's Dojo. The rest can be found in areas related to mining and/or Spiters. Find all four parts for a small reward!

-Added character cards and face graphics for Sang, Raziel, and Esther, and cleaned up some of their dialogue for good measure.

-Added a few new face graphics for Claire and Abby.

-Added a quest exclusive to dating Abby which can be accessed, after recruiting Elmira and discovering the location of Lilith's ship, by asking Abby about jobs.

-Nell is now dateable (if you chose her route at the start of the game)! She will offer to date Claire on Capital Bridge once the battle has concluded -regardless of approval rating- if Claire has not chosen to date anyone else. This means she can now equip panties if chosen to date!

 -Added plenty of new relationship dialogue for Nell, as well as a quest exclusive to dating her, which can be found by talking to her in the tent.

-Nell can now gain weight (I'll let you all discover how to make that happen on your own~)

-Added a side area in Grunk Forest that is accessible during the opening of the game. If Diet Mode is not enabled, the area will contain a small (fanservice) scene involving Nell!

-Added a new quest involving Ashley and Sang that is available even if Ashley didn't join the party in Westhaven!

 -If Ashley is in the party, the quest can be accessed by first completing the 'Bloody Thievery' quest then inquiring about jobs with Ashley in the Tent again.

 -If Ashley isn't in the party, the quest will be delivered via a letter from Jimi Bablo after completing the events at Capital Bridge.

-Cedric can now gain weight via very, very specific circumstances tied to one of the new whirlwind destinations! 

 -Incidentally, added a couple of new relationship events for him in said location.

-Added two new dates and related sidequests for Vespa/Leslie!

 -Go shark fishing in Blackhand Cove and Search for a Ghost Ship (both currently exclusive to Vespa's Leslie relationship path) in the hunt for rare ingredients!

 -Create the perfect evening for Leslie and further her and Vespa's relationship for exclusive rewards!

  -Added a fishernyan near the fishing rod stand on the Costa Del Nyan waterfront who sells Trade Sea Snapper, but not for cheap!

  -Added some more fishing spots to the beach behind Leslie's House, and one more to the Del Nyan Waterfront.

-Added a third Iron Gut Contest on the Del Nyan Waterfront which will become available after the Battle for Capital Bridge has concluded!

 -The contest will change slightly and possibly even become more difficult depending on Vespa's relationship with Leslie when attempted.

-Added some helpful functionality to the Iron Gut contests!

 -Added a HUD during each contest that actively tracks dishes eaten, bloat meter, and character size!

 -You can now replay a lost contest (for a small fee) until you beat it!

-Reworked and added new functionality to the Devour skill/mechanic!

 -Changed the ability's cost from 40 MP to 30 TP, and removed its initial damaging effect.

 -Devour now has an 80% chance to succeed in swallowing the targeted enemy! Swallowed enemies will suffer immobilization and a heavily damaging 'digestion' debuff for 5 turns or until they reach 0 HP.

 -Successfully swallowing an enemy applies the 'Digesting' state to the user for 5 turns! This state slows the user to a crawl but increases their HRG (HP Regeneration) by 5% as they digest!

 -This functionality will not trigger in Diet Mode.

 -Split the Devour skill into separate skills for Nell and Vespa (functionally identical except for the attached common events.) Adjusted the skill ticket's common event accordingly.

  -If you have already taught Vespa Devour, returning to the world map will replace the old version in her skillset with the new one! (The skill will be glitched and think Nell is doing the devouring until you do this.)

-Added a handful of minor battle interactions that occur at the end of turn when Nell and/or Vespa have eaten one of the following enemies:

  -Fire elemental sprites/igniters/knights and their bewitched variants

  -Will o' Wisps (but only the ones that aren't on their own) 

  -Angels (Vespa only)

  -The female Blightwood Vampire, but only in certain troops (Vespa only. Won't work if there's another Blightwood Vampire in the troop since I didn't have time to implement this one fully.)

 -There's only a few of these at the moment, but I'll likely add more with future updates!

-Added an event post-Capital Bridge that will lead to the option to teach Nell or Vespa Max Devour!

 -One Fae Aspect is needed to teach this ability to a party member (One per party member).

 -Max Devour costs 88 TP. When used in battle, it will attempt to swallow every enemy at once! (Max Devour will not work on enemies immune to 'deathmark' abilities, namely bosses.)

 -The above event and the Max Devour skill will not trigger in Diet Mode.

-Cross now learns Air Weapon at level 8 and Cleave at level 16.

 -He will learn Air Weapon automatically at Capital Bridge if he does not already.

-Angelic Infantry, Merfolk Shellshingers/Worshippers/Retainers (Female), Guscorp Rear Guards and Guscorp Battle-Shamans can now be visibly fattened!

-Mercy, Fang, and Maddie (if you choose to fight her on Capital Bridge) can now also be visibly (and permanently) fattened!

 -Mercy and Sally's sprites will now appear as fattened in the Rotwald Mining Museum Basement and Skycastle if they have been fattened in battle.

 -Fang's sprite will also now appear as fattened in the Bone Dry Hideout if she is fattened in battle, though this may be tougher to see since she mostly faces upward on that map.

-All enemy 'fat' abilities now have small animations to accompany them (these are the joke abilities that will sometimes trigger when an enemy is fattened.)

-The Del Nyan Bakery is now open... but not for business! There isn't much there at the moment, but it's where the first meeting of the Anya Fan Club will happen if you're doing that quest following the events at Capital Bridge (the reason for that should become apparent.)

-Added an upper stairwell and rooftop gallery to the Royal Feldwich. The rooftop is currently empty, but some special functionality will be added to it eventually!

-Added a few little extra caverns to the lower level of the Magma Tunnel since it felt pretty awkward being able to fly the lava bat around over the walls for no good reason.

TWEAKS

-Decreased the ATK bonus of Abby's Nyan Stance from 125% to 120%.

 -Decreased the ATK bonus of Abby's Nyan Stance + (acquired upon reaching 75 or higher approval with her) from 150% to 140%.

-Reduced the TP Cost of Abby's upgraded stances (Nyan/Mao/Goro +) from 20 TP to 15 TP.

-Increased Lani's base TCR (TP Charge Rate) by 1%.

-Reworked Lani and Cedric's Hone ability.

 -Before: 10 MP - Restores the user's TP by 30%.

 -Reworked: 25 MP - Restores the user's TP by 35% and raises their DEF for 3 turns.

-Reworked Lani's Defensive Stance ability.

 -Before: 15 TP - Greatly increases DEF for 5 turns.

 -Reworked: 18 TP - Greatly increases DEF and makes the user more likely to be targeted by enemies for 5 turns.

-Added a 1 TP generation bonus to Lani's Tackle skill on use.

-Flaming Husks, Dire Husks, and Erupting Husks now have a small chance of dropping a Magic Fire (1/25 for the smaller husks and 1/15 for the giant variety.)

-The enemy attack Gravel Spray now has an added 10% chance to blind on hit.

-Raised the MHP of the Axewasps and Sicklebugs in Ironfruit Jungle very slightly.

-Slag Tribe Long Guards and Tum-Drums now have stealable items.

-Updated the icons for all Fire, Thunder, and Status-inflicting bombs to be colour-coded for easier identification!

-Updated the icons for a few armours, namely the rings, Elarel's Embrace, and some of the panties, to give them each a unique appearance. Also changed a couple of the amulets purchasable in the Del Nyan Megamall to be rings, and updated their icons accordingly.

-Changed Fang's sprite to Linda's temporarily so that her fattened state will show up on the map.

-Updated Lamel's face sprite to a new sheet of them.

-Being eaten now also reduces the affected party member's TGR to 0% (TGR stands for Target Rate). This means that an ally that has been eaten should be much, much less likely to be attacked, which should mitigate some of the weirdness involving things like succubus hustlers repeatedly punching themselves in the stomachs.

-Increased the walking distance required to remove the Petrification state from 50 to 200 steps, and fixed the state being called Paralysis when it is removed.

BUGFIXES

-Fixed the Find Weakness skill giving an enemy increased crit chance instead of the user.

-Fixed Jimi Bablo repeating himself a lot during basic training lessons 2 and 2b.

-Skazili will now comment on the party having reached Skyhill Ruins if visited in his hut, and he will repeat what he says on Capital Bridge when visited following that event.

-Fixed Cross' Tailwind Strike skill not always giving him an extra action the following turn.

KNOWN ISSUES

-Nell may not show up as fat in every cutscene featuring her currently. I'm working to update these instances as I find them, so please let me know in #bug-reports if you come across any!

-The bloat meter in the new Iron Gut HUD can sometimes be slow to catch up to where it should be, especially after burping. This is tough to fix given how quickly it has to cycle between images, but I'll be doing my best to streamline it more for future patches!

-There may, may, mayyyy be some issues with Devour's common events still, for a variety of reasons. If anything happens like, say, Nell's dialogue appearing when Vespa uses Devour, let me know when and where it happens and I'll look into it!

-Finally, this is a wide update (ay lmao) and it's almost certain that there are a few serious bugs lurking around somewhere that I missed! As always, report anything you find to #bug-reports and I'll do my best to fix it asap!

~ENJOY THE UPDATE!~