Hi everyone, welcome to another week's developer's diary.
This week, our journey into the Dark Alley continues. In addition to a new battle background, better Butterfly supports, and more decorations. The main focus is on the people living here, those gangsters. Thus, the content updates about them this week can be viewed from different aspects of them.
The Interact:As mentioned in the last week. Those gangsters are not lawless bandits who want to rob you. However, they will still be alarmed by your presence in their territory. They will approach you and ask you to leave, by words or by force, one way or another. In response, you can also have various options. You can agree to leave or convince them you are not leaving one way or another.
The Loot:I can already see that the most bloodthirsty among us are very eager to fight them and loot them. So, they will need some loot if you decide to defeat them. That is, besides doing all those messed up things, you can already do to them after defeating all human enemies. (Such as enslavement, collecting their corpses, or sacrificing their souls to some evil deities.)
So, what does a gangster in Shanghai drop? Well, it's not like in some Hollywood movies; it's real life. You cannot find them carrying big guns or even rocket launchers to start a massive gunfight with the police forces. They may, instead, carry small daggers, but that's also rare. In most cases, you can find them using makeshift weapons you can find in your daily life, such as steel chairs, broken glass bottles, bricks, and things like those. Those are what you can expect them to drop.
"The advantage of the steel chairs is that they can be hidden in people's houses. You can sit on them to hide your murderous intentions. Even if the police catch you, they can't sue you just because you are holding a steel chair. It is worthy of being the best of the seven weapons." --- 《The God of Cooking》
The FaithAs it was also mentioned in last week's developer's diary, those gangsters follow their own rules. Many of them worship the legendary general Guan Yu from the Three Kingdoms era of China because of his loyalty, righteousness, and martial prowess. He is both a God of War and a God of Prosperity.
Thus, if you use the "Detect Faith" skill on those gangsters, you may find they may have Guan Yu as a belief tenet in their faith system.
But not all gangsters are that traditional. Nowadays, new members of those gangs may be atheists or even nihilists. Thus, you may find them in the game as well. Even though they may be using the same graphics assets, no two gangsters in the game are exactly the same.
More background facts: In real life, Guan Yu is still widely worshipped by many people in East Asia. Hong Kong police pay respect to him to show their loyalty and resistance to corruption. Many business owners worship him to be blessed with good fortune when doing business. You can even find his temple in Osaka, Japan.
Now, how do you unlock this faith tenet?
Well, that's another item those gangsters may drop.
Guan Gong Fu is a kind of Taoism talisman believed to be blessed by Guan Yu and thus can protect people from evil forces. Some of those gangsters may carry such an item. You can unlock the "Guan Yu' tenet just by equipping this item once. This is also a real-life item. You can easily order some from various online stores in East Asia. Meanwhile, it feels unnatural to unlock it through a religious book like many other tenets in the game because of cultural differences. Thus, I made a quite different design choice to this tenet.
A "Car Dealer" in the Dark AlleyOf course, the Dark Alley has some unique gangsters who provide their unique services. Thus, we also got one this week that can help you dispose of cars you stole or acquired by various meanings. Even those toy cars you get from another timeline. You can also buy some cheap materials from him. Let's just pretend this has totally nothing to do with GTA. :D
That shall conclude the majority of this week's content updates. But, as usual, we also got some small things here and there. Things such as a new battlefield effect in the Final Valor Cave as another clue to tell the story of what happened here, and all procedurally generated citizens in Liu now have their own faith. Please find the full update log below if you want to know all the details. Have fun!
The Complete Update Log of This Week:
20241110
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[Gangsters]Added an item drop list on them.
[Gangsters]Their MaxHp values are now randomized.
[Dark Alley]Added a new battle background.
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[Enemy]The faith of an enemy can now be instanced. That means, even two enemies with the same ID in the database can now have different faith.
[Enemy]Instanced enemy faith can now be randomized with additional parameters.
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【帮派成员】加入了物品掉落列表
【帮派成员】他们的最大生命值现在有了一定的随机性。
【疁城暗巷】加入了新的战斗背景图片。
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【敌人】敌人的信仰现在可以被实例化，也就是说两个在数据库里完全相同ID的敌人，可以有不同的信仰。
【敌人】实例化信仰现在可以通过额外的参数实现随机化。
20241111
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[Battlefield Enviornment]New Environment: Lingering Poison Gas (-50% Poison Resistance)
[Final Valor Cave]This location now has the "Lingering Poison Gas" battlefield modifier.
[Butterfly]You can now use Butterfly Wings to leave the Dark Alley instead of teleporting to other locations in Liu.
[Loot]Gangsters in the Dark Alley now drop money.
[Loot]Gangsters in the Dark Alley now may also drop brick weapons.
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【战场环境】新环境类型：残留的毒气 （-50%毒抗性）
【勇气终点洞穴】该区域现在有【残留的毒气】效果。
【蝴蝶之翼】你现在可以用蝴蝶之翼传送出暗巷而非传送到其它疁城的地点。
【掉落物】疁城暗巷的帮派人员现在会掉落金钱。
【掉落物】疁城暗巷的帮派人员现在可能掉落板砖武器。
20241112
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[Dark Alley]Added more decorations.
[Dark Alley]Sometimes, you may find some junk piles that you can mine in this area.
[Loot]Gangsters in the Dark Alley now may also drop Broken Glass Bottle weapons.
[Furniture]The generating code for the "WoodChair1" has now been moved to the FurnitureGen module instead of using raw code everywhere.
[Furniture]The generating code for the "SteelChair1" has now been moved to the FurnitureGen module instead of using raw code everywhere.
[Furniture]The generating code for the "SteelChair2" has now been moved to the FurnitureGen module instead of using raw code everywhere.
[Furniture]The generating code for the "SteelChair3" (Sanders' Steel Chair) has now been moved to the FurnitureGen module instead of using raw code everywhere.
[Loot]Gangsters in the Dark Alley now may also drop Steel Chair weapons.
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[Loot]Dynamic loot can now create furniture weapons from FurnitureGen.
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【疁城暗巷】加入了更多装饰物。
【疁城暗巷】有时你可以在这里可以找到一些可以挖的垃圾矿。
【掉落物】疁城暗巷的帮派人员现在可能掉落破玻璃瓶武器。
【家具】木制椅子1的生成代码现在移动到了FurnitureGen模组而非在各处使用裸代码。
【家具】钢制椅子1的生成代码现在移动到了FurnitureGen模组而非在各处使用裸代码。
【家具】钢制椅子2的生成代码现在移动到了FurnitureGen模组而非在各处使用裸代码。
【家具】钢制椅子3（桑德斯的钢铁折凳）的生成代码现在移动到了FurnitureGen模组而非在各处使用裸代码。
【掉落物】疁城暗巷的帮派人员现在可能掉落钢铁折凳武器。
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【掉落物】动态生成的掉落物现在可以从FurnitureGen的家具型武器中进行生成。
20241113
English
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[Faith]The "Sanctioned Raider" tenet's cost was reduced to 1200. The gold bonus of it increased from 2% to 5%
[Faith]New Faith Tenet: Guan Yu
[Wiki]You can find more details about Guan Yu on the game's wiki.
[Faith]Added 6 faiths for the gangsters in the Dark Alley. (They are assigned randomly. You can check their faith by using the "Detect Faith" skill)
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【信仰】掠夺者信条的消耗减少至少1200.获得的金钱奖励从2%提高到了5%
【信仰】新信条：关羽
【维基】你可以在游戏的维基上找到关羽信条的更多细节。
【信仰】为疁城暗巷的帮派人员加入了6个随机信仰。(随机分配。你可以通过【侦测信仰】技能来检查他们的信仰。)
20241114
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[Item]New Item: Guan Gong Fu. (Can have prefixes. They unlock the "Guan Yu" tenet on equip.)
[Loot]The gangsters in the Dark Alley may now drop Guan Gong Fu.
[Enemy]Redcued the Max HP of the gangsters in the Dark Alley to be in line with other enemies in this area.
[Wiki]Updated everything mentioned above to the game's wiki.
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【物品】新物品：关公符 （可以带有词缀。在装备时解锁【关羽】信条）
【掉落物】疁城暗巷的帮派成员可能会掉落关公符。
【敌人】疁城暗巷的帮派成员的最大生命值降低，和周围的敌人相对一致。
【维基】同步了上述内容到游戏维基。
20241115
English
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[Dark Alley]Added a car dealer to dispose of any cars you steal or acquire in other ways. He also sells some cheap materials.
[Faith] A generic Taoism faith was added for NPCs to use.
[Faith]Random citizens of Liu may now have a randomized faith. (Most people are Atheism or Nihilism; some follow Taoism, Buddhism, or Christianity)
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【疁城暗巷】加入了一个处理车辆的人员。你可以向他贩卖任何你偷的或者用别的方法获得的车辆。你也可以从他那里获得一些便宜的原料。
【信仰】加入了一个通用的道教信仰供NPC使用。
【信仰】疁城的随机市民现在有了随机分配的信仰。（大部分是无神论者或虚无主义者。还有一些道教徒、佛教徒和基督教徒。）
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