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Weekly Status Report
🕑 Added 2023-12-01 15:12:14 +0000 UTCGood afternoon,
the first testversion is out, but of course I'm still working on the next objective.
But before I continue with that time for a short update.
A large part of the working time this week went into balancing the combat system. But of course it doesn't stop there, as you may have already seen in the 0.5.6.5 version I have made further minor changes. Among other things I have reworked a few dialogue pictures, including those of Marcus (which were long overdue) and also for the MC. Especially with the latter I had a hard time, because I know that it's hard to adjust to a new character image when you're used to the old ones (it was already something that only worked grudgingly the last time). But it was also very necessary, as the old character pictures had already collected a lot of dust. It will take some time to get used to, but I hope you can accept the new look of the MC (I tried to get the images as close to the old ones as possible), if you want I can also upload a patch with which you can restore the old dialogue pictures.
The changes to the combat system are far from complete. I plan to add more skills to the enemies and of course do more tests on higher levels in the coming week.
One thing I couldn't implement sadly is the set bonus feature. I've tested it on Wednesday and it worked fine until I tried loading an existing save (the game crashed). So I removed the armor sets again.
This together with the category system for items is now on the list of features that will require a save wipe. As promised I won't do it in this rework update, but I fear there won't be a way around it in the future. Right now it still isn't enough reason for me to make a save wipe, but I think that the next time I do a rework update there will be more plugins that I want to add so then it will become necessary. I know I said I didn't want to do this again, but it looks like I can't get around it if I want to add all the features I want for the game. So just so you can mentally prepare: I will do another save wipe on the next rework update (I hate to announce that).
I'm currently working on making the relationship with Emily optional. If everything goes as planned, I'll get it finished today. In the coming week I then plan to work on the other goals for this rework update. First the Rumah timetable, Frisha and the Kings visit, a rework of Claire's first animations + Imawyn's and there are a lot of smaller things that I will look into.
I've recently started a new playthrough myself to get a better understanding of which passages of the game need to be improved. I did this also to get the combat balancing right, but yeah that is still a longer process as said before.
Then there is of course also the upcoming christmas event. As said already I want to add something new for that this year, so that is something for you to decide. I will think about which scenes would work and then I'll make a poll in which you vote for who get's the christmas scene (Kate will be excluded since she already had one). That will be started in the coming week.
Okay, that's all for now. I'll now continue working.
I wish you all a nice weekend!
Comments
Ramseur
Not on my watch - enjoy though.
Chyos
Yes, it's made on rpgmaker. and the problem is that some (not all plugins) initialize themselfes on starting a new game. Later on when you load a save they look up existing parameters if they then don't exist it crashes. If it were possible to extract said parameters so that you could write them into an existing savefile, that would be cool, but as far as I know this isn't possible. I've been looking for a way to carry saves through such a situation for a while now, but so far I haven't found anything on that matter.
Dr.Dick666
Oh well, looks like Dasan is gonna get to fuck Tia, Raaisha, Rumah, and Maui as the chieftain all over again.
Knoddy Toddas
As a developer I'm curious as to why you'd need to do a save swipe? (and yes, really curious, not trying to be snarky :-) ) If you're loading a save game that is missing certain attributes or certain var names that have been changed, wouldn't it be possible to compensate for that in the code? Sure keeping backwards compatibility can be some what costly in terms of maintaining code but it seems it's being done all the time? Saying this not really even knowing what platform the game is built in, is it RPG maker or some such?
