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Unholy Arts Version 0.3.22 Smartass Candidates Changelog
🕑 Added 2023-06-22 03:29:54 +0000 UTCGreetings, Candidates! Today's update brings a new story event, as well as the aforementioned battle AI rework, along with some tweaks it's received in the last few days. The story event features Hope, Rock and several variants of a sex scene with Claw, which may be locked or unlocked depending on whether one of you is domming the other. Beware of exhibitionist cats.
The new AI is far more sophisticated. The previous one took a few pointers to understand what was the overall situation on the scene, and randomly picked a target and an action that had adequate tags. The new version analyzes all possible action-target combinations and assigns different weights to them depending on contextual information, such as prioritizing actions that allow them to recover control only when they're missing some, using debuffs that target agility on fast targets, and preferring to use sex-based buffs and debuffs only when pounces may be imminent. If the topic interests you, I will talk about it with more detail on an itch.io post later.
On top of it all, this version now lets you take a peek at the portraits of Veel and Sethra, characters who will get some spotlight on the next adventure, if you start a new playthrough.
Changelog
Portrait files
- Added avatar file for Sethra.
- Added avatar and portrait files for Veel.
Story Events
- Added "Owed Gratitude", involving Hope, Claw and optionally Rock, if he is also a guest in the Temple. Sex scenes with exhibitionism involving Claw.
* Requirements: Hope is a guest in the Passion Temple and is currently visiting. The Player Character has a free mouth. Claw has a free dick or a free pussy.
* Alternatives: The event can trigger if Rock isn't a guest in the Temple, but if he is, you will also get relationship points with him. Alternate descriptions if Claw has a free dick.
* On your first choice:
** If you choose not to thank Claw, the event ends early. Hope and Rock gain 300 enmity towards you, and Claw gains 150 self-improvement.
** If you choose to thank claw, the event continues and Hope gains 150 domination towards you.
* Your next options change depending on your special relationship with Claw:
** As submissive, your only option is to kneel submissively.
** Without any special relationship that establishes dominance, you can kneel submissively, kneel and take control, grope her head-on, or laugh it off.
** As dominant, you can kneel and take control, grope her from behind, or laugh it off.
*** Kneeling submissively will result in a sex scene where Claw has the lead. Claw gains 350 domination towards you, Hope and Rock; Claw and Hope gain 350 rivalry; Claw, Hope, Rock and you all gain 350 sexual tension towards each other.
*** Groping Claw head-on or kneeling while taking control results in a sex scene with shared lead. The player character gains 350 friendship with Claw; both the player and Claw gain 350 domination towards both Hope and Rock; the player character, Claw, Hope and Rock all gain 350 sexual tension with each other.
*** Groping Claw from behind results in a sex scene where the player has the lead. The player character will gain 350 domination towards Claw, Hope and Rock; Claw will gain 350 domination towards Hope and Rock; the player character, Claw, Hope and Rock all gain 350 sexual tension with each other.
*** Laughing it off without being Claw's dominant will give you 500 friendship with Hope and 350 friendship with Rock, but also 300 rivalry with Claw, and you will lose 300 friendship with Claw. Claw's self-improvement drive will raise by 150.
*** Laughing it off as Claw's dominant will give you 350 friendship with Claw, Hope and Rock, and raise Claw's self-improvement and love drives by 150.
* The sex scenes contain dialogues. Be careful and don't miss them.
* Clairvoyance: Hope must be a guest in the Temple for clairvoyance data to appear.
** 3 different requisites and 3 different hints, locked behind (30,70,120) and (50,100,150) clairvoyance power.
Story Edits
- Added brief glimpses of Sethra and Veel at the start of the game, as well as the full portrait of Veel when you talk to him later.
Battle Scene Actions Changes
- Thrust, Scissor, Ride Dick:
* Increased base attack damage from (Physique*0.6 + Agility*0.2) to (Physique*0.8 + Agility*0.3).
- Push Hips Back, Scissor Back, :
* Increased base damage from (Physique*0.4 + Agility*0.1) to (Physique*0.6 + Agility*0.2).
- Vine Arm Lock:
* On top of the agility reduction, the physique and resilience of the target will suffer half the same reduction.
* The 5 willpower cost has been changed to 2 willpower and 2 energy cost.
- Relaxing Scent:
* Stat Loss Multiplier changed from 4-8% to 6-12%.
* Duration raised from 4-5 turns to 4-6 turns.
- Tease:
* Lust damage contribution from charisma and empathy doubled.
- Borrowed Identity:
* The "Confused Identities" debuff now also reduces will, on top of perception, empathy and charisma.
- Draining Roots:
* Draining roots now robs half the damage it provokes unto the enemy, rather than the whole amount.
- Confused Identities:
* Changed base stat weight loss from 5~10 to 3~6.
NPC Battle AI
- Some data is stored and saved in the middle of scene turns, before calling NPC AI to save calculations: each character's overall power, each team's overall power, each character's overall amount of buffs and debuffs, which characters are about to be defeated (<15% max lust), are pinnable (out of control, isn't in a position), need immediate help (<35% max lust, not pinned down) and are losing control (<60% max control).
- calculateEvasion may now return the parameter data used to calculate the result, rather than only the binary Success/Failure, in order to let the AI make more sophisticated evaluations.
- Battle actions now have actorStatWeights and targetStatWeights, data that helps NPCs AI determine if one action is more or less adequate depending on their target's build and their own; as well as overallWeightMultiplier, which helps to gauge the overall base strength of an action.
- Battle action strategic tags (labels used by the AI to determine whether it is appropriate or not to use certain actions) have been revamped. The new strategic tags are classified as it follows:
* Basic Tags (Define who should be considered as the possible target of these actions): targetEnemy, targetAlly, targetAllyOtherThanSelf, targetSelf, targetsAllOtherChars
* Functionality Tags (Define the primary goal/s of these actions): damage (damage lust), damageControl, damageEnergy, buff, minorBuff, debuff, minorDebuff
* Tactical Tags (Vary the utility of the action depending on the conjuncture): drain, drainLust, drainEnergy, recoverEnergy, recoverWillpower, recoverControl, highControls, holy, holyAttack, multipleEnemies, selfProtection, teamProtection, recovery, targetFreeArms
* Circumstantial Tags (Vary the overall utility of the action depending on specific circumstances): sex, sexOffensive, onlySexOffensive, sexDefensive, eitherSexStrategy, physical, pain, magic, fire, social, willpowerOffensive, energyOffensive
* Special Tags (Used for very specific types of actions, such as struggling or escaping): struggle, pounce, captureMonster, runAway
- Edited all instances in the game where the battle algorithm is called, replacing it with the new one.
New Battle AI Algorithm (given its own section due to the complete redesign)
- Battle Scene strategic data is selected according to the character's perspective (which characters are about to be defeated -> Is it I? Is it one of my enemies? ; characters who need immediate help -> Is any of them in my team?).
- Each character considers all valid action-target combinations at the start of the turn.
- Each combination is assigned a success chance.
- Combinations without valid [basic tag/target] pairs will not be evaluated (for instance, Cold Guts has a "targetSelf" tag, so it will only be evaluated when the target is the own actor).
- A weight is assigned for each combination, calculated as:
* Base weight of 10.
* For each stat, weight is summed: [action's actor [stat] weight * actor's [stat] / action's stat weight divider] + [action's target [stat] weight * target's [stat] / action's stat weight divider].
** Why are actions summing weight depending on the target's stats? Actions that are resisted with the target's stats (for instance, magical actions often deal less damage to character with higher willpower), the target [stat] weight is negative. Alternatively, if the action will apply a debuff that reduces a character's stats, the target [stat] weight will be positive, as targeting the high stats of a target will be considered more valuable.
** What is stat weight divider? The total sum of stat weights assigned to each action is arbitrary, as what's important is the proportion of stats for a given action. Stat weight divider homogenizes the sometimes disparate numbers of different actions.
* If the target is about to be defeated, "damage" action combinations gain *3 weight.
** Targets whose lust is below certain thresholds ( 30%, 50%, 80% ), have damage actions gain weight against them ( *1.5 , *1.25, *1.1 ).
* If the character is about to be defeated, "damage" actions gain *10 weight.
** Otherwise, if the character is pinned down, "struggle" actions gain *30 weight.
** Otherwise, proceed to standard evaluations:
* If the target is pinnable, "pounce" actions gain *2 weight. If the character's overall strength (roughly stats*lust) is larger than the target's * 1.15, weight increases by a further *4.
** If the target has more than one turn of lost control, weight will be reduced by 0.5.
* If the character's control is depleting, buffs on themself gain *2 weight, and "recoverControl" actions gain *1.5 weight.
* If the target is among the enemies losing control (below 60% of their max control, and not being pinned down by anyone), "damageControl" actions gain *2 weight; if the target has more control, but also has barely damaged lust, they gain *1.2 weight instead.
* If the target has 0 control, "damageControl" actions lose 0.6 weight.
* Non-"damageControl" and non-"pounce" actions lose *0.7 weight when the target has >= 1.5 control and more than 60% of their max lust.
* If any allies need immediate help (low lust, but not pinned down), "teamProtection" actions gain *5 weight; if the actor does need help, "selfProtection" actions gain *10 weight.
* Buffs/Debuffs general evaluations:
** Base De/Buff weight multiplier is target's overall power / actor's overall power, making characters comparatively more intimidating more likely to become the target of buffs or debuffs.
** This multiplier is summed or rested the DeBuffs factor depending on the target's team, making it more important to provoke buffs on debuffed allies and debuffs on buffed enemies.
** If the overall teams strength proportion is below certain thresholds ( 1.6, 1.2, 0.9, 0.7, >1.6 ), the multiplier is multiplied by a certain value ( 0.7, 0.9, 1.5, 2, 0.4 ), making it more likely for characters to attempt to close the power gap throughs buffs and debuffs.
** "buff" and "debuff" actions' weight is directly affected by this multiplier. "minorBuff" and "minorDebuff" actions' weight instead receive *(0.5 + multiplier * 0.5), reducing the overall importance of the modifier for the action's weight.
* Actions with "multipleEnemies" and "multipleAllies" tags have their weight multiplied by (0.55 + (active allies + active enemies) * 0.15), while actions with only one of those tags receive instead the multiplier (0.55 + [either active allies or enemies] * 0.3), thus making them more desirable the larger a battle is. An "active" character is that which is present in the scene and hasn't been koed.
* "targetSelf" actions weight is multiplied by (0.4 + (active allies + active enemies) * 0.3), to make up for the fact that fewer instances of combinations with "targetSelf" actions will be evaluated.
* "drainX" actions weight is multiplied by (0.7 + (1 - (Actor's X bar percentage)) * 1.5), giving it increasing priority as the character is losing the corresponding bar.
* "recovery" actions weight is multiplied by (1 - (recoveryStacks * 0.12)), recoveryStacks being how damaged is the character's capacity to use recovery actions in the battle.
* "recoveryX" actions weight may be multiplied by 0.2 if the corresponding bar is over 30%, but is otherwise multiplied by (0.3 - (Actor's X bar percentage) * 10), drastically increasing weight as the bar gets depleted.
* "holyAttacks" actions weight is multiplied by 3 if the target is weak to holy attacks, and multiplied by 0 otherwise.
* If the actor has less than 50% of their max lust, "holy" actions weight is multiplied by ((their current lust's percentage) - 0.1), making actors much less willing to use them if they're approaching defeat.
* "targetFreeArms" actions have their weight multiplied by 0.3 if the target does not have free arms.
* "checkElementalDamage" list, containing list of affinities that must be checked for elemental damage: "sex","physical","magic","social","fire","ice","thunder".
** When a "damage" action has an associated "elemental" damage, the expected elemental damage multiplier is calculated ((actor's strength - actor's frailty + target's weakness - target's resistance) * 0.01), and the action's weight is multiplied by (1 + expectedMultiplier * 0.5) (RIP Padmiri).
* Strategy - Sex offensive: Activated when a pinnable enemy has more than one turn of lost control.
** If a valid enemy would receive above average sex damage, "sexOffensive" actions targeted at enemies gain *2 weight. Examples of these actions would be Tease and Sparking Rubbing, as they increase damage received by sex actions.
** If there's at least a valid enemy, "sexOffensive" actions targeted at self gain *1.5 weight. Examples of these actions would be Flaunt and Cold Guts, as they increase damage dealt or decrease damage received by sex actions, respectively.
** If it wasn't possible to find a compatible strategy multiplier, "onlySexOffensive" actions lose *0.4 weight.
* Strategy - Sex Defensive: The actor has at least 1 turn of lost control, and wants to get ready to get pounced.
* "eitherSexStrategy" actions will have their weight reduced by *0.2 if neither sexOffensive or sexDefensive were triggered.
* When a monster target of the type the actor wants to capture may be the target of a "captureMonster" action, weight receives *50.
* When the enemy team has roughly over twice the power of the actor's team, "runAway" actions weight receives *30.
- Once all weights have been assigned:
* The maximum weight is found.
* If the maximum weight is 0 or lower, the character will select "Do nothing".
* Combinations with 0 or lower weight are purged.
* Combinations below the lower weight threshold (maximum weight * 0.3) are purged.
* Combinations above the middle weight threshold (maximum weight * 0.5) have their weight raised to the 1.1th potency.
* Combinations above the upper weight threshold (maximum weight * 0.8) have their weight raised to the 1.2th potency.
* If the character's has been assigned a fixed target through custom scripts, the fixed target is in the scene and isn't koed, combinations that target themself have their weight reduced by *0.3, and all other combinations that do not target the fixed target their weight reduced by *0.1.
Debug tools
- Added scene log to gather and display battle AI data, if allowed in the code.
* Showing global scene strategic data.
Fixes
- Fixed Disabling Shot not properly provoking an agility loss.
- Fixed "confused identities" debuff from "borrowed identity" expiring immediately.
Comments
Israfel
Nice Work!
