Hi, everyone! Welcome to the last developer's diary of November!
That also means we are in the week of Thanksgiving.
I'd like to thank everyone who is on this long journey with me, especially the people who provide me with feedback and help. The game will not be the same without you! As you may find in our daily updates, we got 2 additional updates this week with changes and bug fixes all thanks to those constructive feedback and bug reports.
Now, let's go further down to the content updates of this week.
First, we get Turkeys!
After all, it's Thanksgiving.
But, where can we find turkeys in the game? According to the old Stone Age Online, turkeys exist in a town located in the west part of Sayinas Island, known as Hottle. Thus, we expanded our map all the way to there to include this town in our playable areas. Now we have access to three towns in Sayinas Island.
However, the path to get there is not that easy. Also according to that old Stone Age Online, there is a bandit called Genzou guarding a bridge on the path to there.
But, as we are now living in a modern world, we no longer call bandits as bandits. They are now called toll collectors. :D
Anyway, that makes a return of another iconic character.
Certainly, he has a relationship card here. If you pay him tolls to pass the bridge, you can improve your relationship with him. But, you can also attack him to get through the bridge. Such action will decrease your relationship with him of course.
If you decide to fight him, his loyal dog companion will join him. The dog will be very useful in the battle by sleeping all the time and deciding to escape once Genzou is defeated. Well, at least, moral support is provided.
The entire encounter and this character are supposed to be funny just as he was in old times. However, just like the theme of this game, there are always secrets beneath something that seems so natural and happy. Our past defines who we are. We will know about his past in future updates.
Meanwhile, feel free to use his appearance on your main character or any customized teammates.
I know some people want to make a character with his big Afro hairstyle. It's specifically designed to make him look closer to what he was in Stone Age Online.
A side note: Porting hairs from DAZ is a very bad idea. Too many polygons. It took me quite a while to manually reduce the hair to a usable level.
To more peaceful players, there is also another easier way to solve this Genzou problem. That is using our new Mammoth Inc. Bus Services in Sayinas Island. As the area in Sayinas is growing bigger, it's time to add public transportation between towns in addition to the Butterfly Wings. By using public transportation, you can technically teleport to any town in Sayinas Island except one that is not in the game right now. The driver will briefly introduce your destination as each town on this island has its unique features.
Meanwhile, to make our Templars with Machine Gun meme a real thing, we now also added new bullet types in Samujier Cathedral
Just for a reminder, here is the screenshot of that old Templar Cutscene:
They are your potential allies back in Chapter Two. :)
What else do we get this week?
Samujier's post office is open! You can put yourself in a package and tell the postal officers to deliver you back to your safe house or pocket dimension. A strange way of transportation. However, it may solve the problem that the doorway system does not exist in Salinas.
You can ask Alicia how to become a cat-lover like her in a short quest. Consequently, you can gain more benefits from having cats in your group, especially for a magic user.
You can now buy analysis bullets in Bazaar. It's more about filling in a missing piece of our previous story. After all, that is the type of bullets Zhang Yin used in both versions of prologues.
That's for this week. More detailed updated information can be found below.
Now we also get some good news and some bad news.
Bad news: I think I may get quite busy all the way till December 4th because of pressure from both my daytime job as a lawyer and another side project of mine. Thus, the update speed may be affected. Alright, it's just a big maybe. Because you can see me talking about such things all the time. Yet, we still maintain daily updates.
Good news: There will be another sale right at the start of the December after Steam Autumn Sale. Because of two "Holy Days" in this game's history. A reminder of all our past glorious. :)
So, have fun and enjoy the Thanksgiving. I will be working on filling in the remaining parts of Sayinas Island while also pushing towards Qinuyi Island.
This week's full update log:
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[Gun Module]New Module: Rifle Holy Light Mag.
[Gun Module]New Module: Pistol Holy Light Mag
[Samujier Cathedral]The merchant now sells Rifle Holy Light Mags and Pistol Holy Light Mags.
[Samujier Cathedral]The merchant can now modify guns for you.
[Samujier Cathedral]Random prayers now appear in this cathedral.
[Battle]Specious-specific power modifiers will now check if the target belongs to the target species before applying. (For example, a modifier +10% damage to demons, shall now first check if the target is a demon before applying this modifier.)
[Battle]Optimized the calculation of elemental damage modification for guns.
[Samujier]New Location: Samujier Post Office.
[Butterfly]Once you visit the Samujier Post Office, you can teleport there.
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[UI]Fixed some display issues for array-based special attributions on gun modules and after attaching them to a gun.
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【枪械模组】新模组：步枪圣光弹夹。
【枪械模组】新模组：手枪圣光弹夹。
【萨姆吉尔大教堂】这里的商人现在贩卖步枪圣光弹夹和手枪圣光弹夹。
【萨姆吉尔大教堂】这里的商人现在会帮你改造枪械。
【萨姆吉尔大教堂】随机的祈祷者现在会在这里出现。
【战斗】针对特定种族的效果修正现在会先检查目标是否属于对应的种族后再进行修正。（举例：+10%对恶魔伤害的修正会先检查目标是否是恶魔，然后再进行修正。）
【战斗】优化了枪械在战斗中对元素属性修正的算法。
【萨姆吉尔】新地点：萨姆吉尔邮局
【蝴蝶之翼】在首次访问萨姆吉尔邮局后，你可以传送到那里。
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【UI】修复了导致枪械模组的一些写成数组的特殊属性未能正确显示的Bug。同样也了它们装在枪械上之后这些特殊属性的显示问题。
20231119
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[Character Customization]Added a new male character variation for your main character or any customized teammates.
[Relationship]Captain Nameless will now only appear in your relationship UI after the Prologue.
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【角色自定义】加入了一个新的可用男性角色外观。
【关系】无名队长现在只有在序章之后才会出现在关系界面上。
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[QuickSave/QuickLoad]A message will now display when you try to use hotkeys to quick-save or quick-load while the game is unable to do so.
[QuickSave/QuickLoad]You can now quick-save and quick-load during most of the dialogs.
[QuickSave/QuickLoad]As I am currently not able to test all cases of quick saving during all dialogs, bugs may happen. Thus, a warning message will appear.
[Samujier Post Office]Added a postal manager.
[Samujier Post Office]You can put yourself in a package and ask them to send you back to the Safehouse or Your pocket dimension if it's unlocked.
[Samujier Post Office]Added a local version of the "Lost & Found" vendor.
[Lost & Found]The shop inventory is now a function shared between different Lost & Found vendors.
[Lost & Found]After you get Kayir's medicine once during the Paddy Field quest, Kayir's medicine will now appear in the Lost&Found inventory in case you somehow lost the item.
[Sayinas]New Location: The Bridge of Genzou
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【快速存档/快速读档】在无法进行快速存档和读档的场合使用快捷键进行快速存档或读档现在会有错误信息显示。
【快速存档/快速读档】你现在可以在大部分的对话中快速存档和快速读档。
【快速存档/快速读档】由于我目前无法测试所有的对话中快速存档和读档的情景，因此可能会有Bug。因此在尝试在对话中快速存档时会有一个警告。
【萨姆吉尔邮局】加入了一个邮政管理员。
【萨姆吉尔邮局】你可以把自己装在一个包裹里让他们把你运回安全屋，或者你的口袋空间。（如果口袋空间已经解锁的话。）
【萨姆吉尔邮局】加入了一个当地版本的失物贩卖NPC。
【失物贩卖】这类商店的物品栏现在是一个通用函数，在不同的失物贩卖NPC间共享。
【失物贩卖】在水田任务中首次获得卡伊特的药物之后，失物贩卖的物品中会包括卡伊特的药物，从而避免你因为各种原因弄丢这件物品的情况。
【萨伊纳斯】新地点：愿藏之桥
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Optimized the memory control of the game party class. A clean-up to hash tables will automatically trigger when your group gains/loses an item/weapon/equipment.
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Fixed a bug that may cause the crash in some random item delivery missions. (Caused by null pointers in item inventory. (Thanks for 渺兔's bug report.))
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优化了队伍类的内存管理。现在在获得/失去 物品/武器/装备的时候会自动触发对于哈希表的清理。
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修复了一个可以导致物品传递的随机任务中游戏崩溃的Bug。（由于物品栏里的空指针造成。（感谢渺兔的Bug报告。））
20231121
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[Skill]All speech-based skills now provide their users with speech EXP. (Scaled by the number of targets.)
[The Bridge of Genzou]Added Genzou and his dog.
[The Bridge of Genzou]You can pay a toll to let Genzou let you pass.
[The Bridge of Genzou]You can attack Genzou to get through here. (His dog will join the fight but not do anything helpful at all. Once Genzou is defeated and his dog is not sleeping, Genzou's dog will start to escape.)
[Genzou]After meeting him for the first time, he will appear on your relationship list. (Attack him reduces relationship, pay tolls increases relationship.)
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Added la_addexp as a pure virtual function in Game_Battler to be inherited by its child classes. The reason here is just to make a failsafe against potential crashes.
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【技能】所有基于说服力的技能现在在使用时会让使用者获得一定的说服力经验值。（数值会根据目标数量扩大。）
【愿藏之桥】加入了愿藏和他的狗狗。
【愿藏之桥】你可以向愿藏支付过路费的方式通过这个区域。
【愿藏之桥】你可以直接攻击原藏来通过这个区域。（他的狗狗会加入战斗，但是全程摸鱼。在击败原藏后，如果原藏的狗狗不在睡觉，那么原藏的狗狗会开始逃跑。）
【愿藏】在首次遇到他之后，他会出现在你的关系界面中。（攻击他会降低关系，付过路费会提高关系。）
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在Game_Battler类加入了一个纯虚函数 la_addexp由子类继承使用。目的是为了防止一些潜在导致崩溃的代码写法。
20231122
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[Tileset]New Tileset: Mountain-Desert (It can be used in your pocket dimension.)
[The Bridge of Genzou]The area is now set as a generic Sayinas Outdoor area. Thus, you can teleport from here by using Butterfly Wings. It also has fishing data automatically set.
[Sayinas Island]New Location: Hottle Suburbs
[Sayinas Island]New Location: Hottle (Map only, no content yet.)
[BGM]Added new BGMs for those two new locations.
[Hottle Suburbs]Cactus People may be found in this location.
[Pet]New Pet/Animal: Turkey. (Happy Thanksgiving. :D)
[Hottle Suburbs]Turkeys will appear in this area.
[Wonderland Travel Agency]Random caves with "Cute Animal" themes may now have turkeys.
[Butcher]Zhao Sandao can now butcher Turkeys.
[Butterfly]Added Hottle into the Sayinas Butterfly Wings Network.
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【图块】新图块：山道-沙漠（可以在口袋空间里使用。）
【愿藏之桥】这个区域现在被标记为萨伊纳斯野外区域，从而你可以在这里使用蝴蝶之翼，并且自动获得了钓鱼数据。
【萨伊纳斯】新地点：霍特尔近郊
【萨伊纳斯】新地点：霍特尔 （只有地图，目前还没有内容。）
【音乐】为上述两个地点加入了新的背景音乐。
【霍特尔近郊】该区域可能出现仙人掌人。
【宠物】新野生动物/宠物：火鸡（感恩节快乐！）
【霍特尔近郊】火鸡会在这里出现。
【奇幻之地旅行社】以【可爱动物】为主题的随机洞穴现在可能会有火鸡。
【屠夫】赵三刀现在可以屠宰火鸡。
【蝴蝶之翼】将霍特尔加入到了萨伊纳斯的蝴蝶之翼网络中。
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[Hottle]Random townfolks now walk around the town on their life routine. They have their own greeting messages. They will also tell you local rumors.
[Hottle]Added 4 random merchants in the local market area. (Their types are randomized every time you enter this town.)
[Hottle]Added a static food vendor.
[Hottle]Added a static caretaker.
[Sayinas Island]You can now find Mammoth Inc. Bus Services in all major towns. You can now use buses to travel around the island. (You can also use those buses to unlock the teleportation of those towns you previously have not visited. You can also use those buses to bypass Genzou's bridge.)
[Mammoth Inc. Bus Services]When you select a destination, the driver will tell you some information about that town.
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【霍特尔】加入了随机的村民根据他们的日常生活路线移动。他们有自己的打招呼的对白。他们会告诉你一些当地的传闻。
【霍特尔】在市场区域加入了四个随机的商人。（他们的种类是随机的，会在你每次进入时变化。）
【霍特尔】加入了一个静态的食物商人。
【霍特尔】加入了一个静态的看护者。
【萨伊纳斯】各个主要城镇中现在有了长毛象公车。你可以用这些公交车在这个岛上的各个主要村庄之间移动。（可以用于解锁你没有到过的村庄的传送点。也可以用来直接跳过愿藏之桥。）
【长毛象公车】在选择了一个目的后，司机会告诉你关于那个村庄的简要信息。
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Disabled the quick load during dialogs. It's way too buggy in some cases. (Thanks for Loni's streaming. :D)
Changed the quick load hotkey's behavior, it now calls the entire loading menu so that you can select which save to load.
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Fixed a missing localization in Chinese languages in the Windows setting. (Thanks for Loni's streaming. :D)
Unified Harold's name in Traditional Chinese. (Thanks for Loni's streaming. :D)
Fixed some characters in Traditional Chinese that are displayed as Simplified Chinese. (Thanks for Loni's streaming. :D)
Fixed some typos in Chinese languages. (Thanks for Loni's streaming. :D)
Fixed two places where Harold's name is incorrectly displayed as Zhang Yin in the quest "Hello Stranger." (Thanks for Loni's streaming. :D)
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禁用了在对话中快速读档的功能。因为会导致很多欢乐的Bug。 （感谢肉泥的直播。:D）
改变了快速读档热键的功能，现在会召唤出整个读档界面来选择读取哪个档案。
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修复了中文文本中窗口设置中一处遗漏的文本。（感谢肉泥的直播。:D）
在繁体中文的文本中让哈罗德的名字变得一致了。（感谢肉泥的直播。:D）
修复了繁体中文文本中一些字使用简体显示的Bug。（感谢肉泥的直播。:D）
修复了一些中文文本的错别字。（感谢肉泥的直播。:D）
修复了在【你好，陌生人。】任务中有两处哈罗德的名字被错误显示为张银的Bug。（感谢肉泥的直播。:D）
20231124
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[Samujier Hospital]All healing spells now bypass any learning limitation here.
[Localization]Moved localization text of equipment modules to their own localization file.
[Gun Module]New Gun Module: Pistol Analysis Mag. (Sold in the Bazaar. That shall explain where Zhang Yin got his analysis bullets from during the prologue. )
[Hottle]Added a Phoenician Captain to provide mercenary service.
[Pet]Petting cats or dogs from the menu now also increases your total cat-petting and dog-petting statics.
[Quest]Added a tiny little quest in the safehouse: How to become a cat-lover? (Talk to Alicia to start.)
[Wiki]Added a wiki page of the quest "How to become a cat-lover? "
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Fixed a bug that when a character has no life skill unlocked, there may be a display error in their life skill menu.
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【萨姆吉尔医院】所有在这里的治疗技能的学习现在会跳过所有限制的检查。
【本地化】将装备模块的文本移动到了属于它们自己的独立本地化文件内。
【枪械部件】新枪械部件：手枪分析弹夹。（在巴扎出售。从而可以解释张银在序章中的分析子弹的来源。）
【霍特尔】加入了一名凤凰军团上尉提供佣兵服务。
【宠物】从菜单中撸猫和撸狗现在也会增加到对应的统计次数中。
【任务】加入了一个简短的任务：如何变成爱猫人士？ （和艾丽西亚对话触发。）
【维基】在游戏维基上加入了【如何变成爱猫人士？】的页面。
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修复了当一个角色没有生活技能时，生活技能界面可能会有显示错误的Bug。
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