Hi, everyone. Welcome to the developer's diary of Thanksgiving!
It's the 200th developer's diary, Thanksgiving, and the Steam autumn sale simultaneously. Thus, the game is on sale. You know what? Next week will be this game's 200th week on Steam, the Steam Early Access anniversary, and our traditional Holy Days. So, the sale will be extended for another week. Plus, it's also Christmas soon, and there will be another Steam-Wide game sale. So, I guess we can already call it the holiday season now.
Alright, anyway, let's start this week's content update rundown.
If you can have a chance to get what you most desire in your life, what price will you pay for it?Many people in Liu spend their daily lives working their hopeless jobs over and over again, seeing no real future. The economic decline only makes things worse. Some lost their jobs and could not find another one for months. Despair is like a plague spreading among the population. It's in such a desperate time that people start looking for ways out, even supernatural ones. As such, urban rumors about there exists a pawnshop that can fulfill one's desire start to emerge. As more and more people began to desire such a place's existence, it finally emerged into reality once again.
This is the tale of the No.4 Pawnstop. You can now find it deep down on a path in the Dark Alley.
Here, you may find your desire fulfilled as long as you can pawn something they consider worthy to grant you their blessing or curse.
Many functions of this location are still working in progress. But, at least you can sell some common items to exchange for money or pawn some human souls you have collected for various purposes, such as something you may be interested in.
Of course, a particular demon friend of yours will not be pleased about this. As he also desires those souls. A conflict of interest may grow in future updates.
Such is the first part of the No.4 Pawnstore's story.
History is a terrible university major, and students cannot find a good job once they graduate, isn't it?Oh, well, as a new life skill I just added last week, its usage is undoubtedly quite limited. But let me fix this for you. You shall have infinite opportunities to use it.
A new procedurally generated quest just appeared in the Bazaar. In this secret world of the supernatural, it's not uncommon for people to find strange historical items with various meanings. Sometimes, they cannot identify those objects by themselves. Thus, they come to the Bazaar, looking for an expert to help them. That expert can be you or your teammates if you have the skills. Such procedurally generated quests may come with various difficulties, as reflected by their descriptions and rewards. Will you choose easy jobs and earn a small amount of rewards slowly, or try something that puts your reputation at risk but may gain a huge reward? It's all up to you.
What? Those annoying assholes again? Ugh, I told your superiors we should have sealed them with my concrete when we had the chance!During the story in Queensmouth, you may have heard the story about Dr. Klein and his concretes. (And how much trouble it caused to almost everybody investigating the church area.) Well, it was inspired by a meme from another game. But that game may be long forgotten by now. It's still a fun memory. So, I think I shall put more effort into making it live on in this game's eternal journey. As such, Dr. Klein's Quick Concrete is now officially an in-game item that you can use to cause some nasty effects on your enemies (or your allies, if you so desire). Usually, it can only make its victim slow down. But, if the victim is unfortunately wet, they will instantly become petrified without any resistance checks.
A certain magic item merchant in the Bazaar can sell you this item. Alternatively, you may find a significant amount of supplies in the Unfinished Building. You may find it in local supply boxes or dropped by all those crazed construction workers.
Wait, what was that smell?This was the last word of a white wolf warrior in the Final Valor Cave. You may have pieced together some ideas about what happened in this cave based on previous clues. But here comes one more clue:
You can now find a new type of zombie in this cave.
Of course, you can bind them to become your pets. Compared to other zombies in other places in this supernatural world, you can find they come with some very unique traits. They have a natural regeneration power. But, once they are poisoned, their regeneration power also amplifies. Rather than lose HP, they gain HP when poisoned. They are also very easy to be poisoned thanks to their very, very low resistance to poison. On the other hand, any of their physical attacks can cause poison effects. They can be very nasty foes. But, you may also make them become nasty foes to your enemies. Does this new clue confirm or deny your assumption of what happened here? Anyway, we will learn more about the background of this cave in future updates. That's for sure.
Those are some of the major updates for this week. There are certainly more. The completed update log for this week contains everything below. Happy Thanksgiving!
The Full Update Log:
20241123
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[Quest]New Procedurally Generated Quests in the Bazaar: Identify Historical Object (When generating, the quest may come with different difficulty levels reflected in their descriptions and rewards.)
[Wiki]Updated this new quest to the wiki's quest page.
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【任务】在巴扎出现了新的过程生成任务：鉴定历史文物 （该任务生成时会有不同的任务难度，反应在任务的描述和奖励上。）
【维基】同步了该任务到游戏的维基页面上。
20241124
English
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[Identify Historical Object]Increased the chance for higher-difficult versions of this mission to appear.
[Identify Historical Object]Added an even more difficult version of this mission.
[Identify Historical Object]All versions above the difficulty level 5 now reward two reputation points instead of 1.
[Bazaar]Increased the amount of procedurally generated missions in this area per refresh.
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【鉴定历史文物】提高了这个任务的较高难度版本的出现几率。
【鉴定历史文物】加入了一个更高难度的版本。
【鉴定历史文物】所有难度5以上的版本现在会奖励2点声望而非普通的1点。
【巴扎】增加了这个区域每次刷形的过程生成任务数量。
20241125
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[Dark Alley]New Location: The No.4 Pawnshop (It's still working in progress)
[The No.4 Pawnshop]You can sell items here. (More to come later.)
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【暗巷】新地点：第四号当铺 （仍然在施工中。）
【第四号当铺】你可以在这里贩卖物品。（更多可以贩卖的选项之后会加入。）
20241126
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[Item]New Item: Dr. Klein's Quick Concrete
[Shopping]The magic item vendor in the Bazaar now sells Dr. Klein's Quick Concrete
[Unfinished Building]Refactored the supply chest generate code on the 3rd and 4th floor and the Worker's Dormitory to make the code more readable. Dr. Klein's Quick Concrete may now also appear in those chests.
[Unfinished Building]Added more cabinets in the Worker's Dormitory.
[Unfinished Building]You are guaranteed to find Dr. Klein's Quick Concrete in one of the cabinets in the Worker's Dormitory.
[Loot]Crazed Worker/Senior Crazed Worker/Foreman in the Unfinished Building now all drop Dr. Klein's Quick Concrete
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[Item]Items with a default target scope of a single enemy target but without any restrictions to forbid them from being used on a single friendly target can now be used correctly from the menu if such a function is allowed.
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[The No.4 Pawnshop]Fixed a tile display issue.
[Unfinished Building]Fixed a bug that causes when you escape from certain enemies, those enemies to be not disabled.
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【物品】新物品：克莱因博士的速效水泥
【购物】巴扎的魔法物品商人现在会贩卖克莱因博士的速效水泥
【未完之建筑】重构了三楼和四楼还有工人宿舍的补给箱生成代码，增加了可读性。同时，将克莱因博士的速效水泥加入到了这些箱子中可能出现的物品列表中。
【未完之建筑】工人宿舍有了更多的柜子。
【未完之建筑】在工人宿舍的某个柜子里，你现在100%可以找到克莱因博士的速效水泥。
【掉落物】未完之建筑中的发狂的工人、发狂的高级工人、工头现在均可能掉落克莱因博士的速效水泥。
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【物品】默认针对敌人单体的物品，如果没有被禁止不可以对友方单体使用，则现在可以从菜单中作为一个对友方可以使用的物品正确使用。如果该功能被允许的话。
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【第四号当铺】修复了一个土块显示错误。
【未完之建筑】修复了一个造成你逃离某些敌人时，这些敌人不会被临时限制行动的Bug。
20241127
English
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[The No.4 Pawnshop]Added more dialog options for the Pawnshop Staff.
[The No.4 Pawnshop]You can unlock a soul dealer. (However, the action of exchanging souls for various business offers is still working in progress.)
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【第四号当铺】为当铺工作人员加入了更多对话选项。
【第四号当铺】你可以解锁一个进行灵魂交易的人员。（但是，用人类灵魂兑换各种物品的功能本身还在施工中。）
20241128
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[Enemy]New Enemy: Plague Zombie (Some Perks: They regenerate when poisoned. Their attacks apply poison effects.)
[Pet]You can turn a Plague Zombie into your pet.
[Final Valor Cave]Plague Zombies now appear in this area.
[Wiki]You can find more details about the Plague Zombies on the pet page of the game's wiki.
[Enemy]Added takedown data for gangsters.
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[Final Valor Cave]Fixed a bug that causes non-ghost enemies to spawn in strange locations.
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【敌人】新敌人：疫病丧尸 （一些特性：中毒状态下会恢复生命。攻击自带中毒状态。）
【宠物】你可以将疫病丧尸封印为宠物。
【勇气终点洞穴】该区域现在有疫病丧尸
【维基】你可以在游戏的维基的宠物页面上发现更多关于疫病丧尸的细节。
【敌人】加入了暗巷帮派人员的推倒经验值数据。
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【勇气终点洞穴】修复了一个造成非幽灵敌人刷新在奇怪的地方的Bug。
20241129
English
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[The No.4 Pawnshop]You can now exchange souls with the soul dealer for various rewards.
[Special Currency Stores]Added a white space between the price and the currency name so that they display better in English.
[Wiki]Updated the game wiki's location page.
[Wiki]Added a page about the No.4 Pawnshop.
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【第四号当铺】你现在可以在这里和灵魂交易员用灵魂兑换各种物品。
【特殊货币商店】在商品的价格和货币名称之间加入了一个空格，使英语文本显示的效果更佳。
【维基】更新了游戏维基的地点页面。
【维基】加入了一个关于第四号当铺的页面。
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