[Neolithic]To the End News

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Added item drop list for mercenaries and their shaded versions.
The list includes rifle ammo, vest, flashbang, dog tags, and more generic items.
The shaded mercenaries will get equipment they drop converted to shaded version.
Added some destroyed cars near the Unlucky-13 Motel.
Renamed "Ballistic Damage Reduce" to "Bulletproof" in English localization to make it short.
Police Vests now have a bulletproof range instead of previously reducing damage by a fixed value.
Slightly reduced the mercenaries' basic ballistic damage.
New item: Riot Shield (It can have prefixes.)
The weapon merchant in the Bazaar now seels Riot Shield at a relatively higher price.
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Changed the way to apply bulletproof value on Ballistic Vest so that its bulletproof attributions can now display correctly.
Bulletproof items may now have a radomized damage reduce range instead of a fixed value.
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加入了佣兵和被暗影感染的佣兵的物品掉落列表。
列表上，包括突击步枪子弹、防弹背心、闪光弹、狗牌、和一些常见的通用掉落物。
被暗影感染的佣兵会掉落被暗影侵蚀的装备。
在厄运13旅馆附近加入了一些被毁坏的车辆。
在英文文本中将"子弹伤害降低"的效果改为了"防弹" 从而缩短了文本长度。
警用防弹背心现在有一个防弹的伤害降低范围而非每次都是降低一个固定的数值。
略微降低了佣兵的子弹伤害。
新物品：防暴盾（可以带词缀）
巴扎的武器商人现在以较高的价格贩卖防暴盾。
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变更了商店贩卖的防弹背心的数据赋值方式从而使其特殊属性可以正确显示。
防弹物品现在可以有一个伤害降低的随机范围而非一个固定的数值。

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[Sins of the Father]Added a document in the Inner Chamber of Queensmouth Church about the priest when he was still sane.
Melting a pod lid now gives Aluminum instead of Steel.
Right after you melt an item, you can now select to melt another immediately, saving some clicks.
New item: Dog Tag. (You can melt it to gain steel or aluminum)
Added dog tags to the item drop lists of zombies, police, possessed, infected, crazed survivors, and the homeless.
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【父辈的原罪】在王后镇内部房间中加入了一个新的文档。关于牧师的精神状态还正常时的记录。
熔化锅盖现在会得到铝，而不再是钢铁。
在熔化一件物品后，你现在可以选择立刻再熔化下一件，省去了几次点击的步骤。
新物品：狗牌。（你可以熔化它们来获得钢铁或铝）
将狗牌加入到了这些角色的物品掉落清单：僵尸、警察、被附体之人、被感染者、发狂的幸存者、无家可归者。

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Added a motel sign near the Unlucky-13 Motel.
Added an interior area of Unlucky-13 Motel.
Modified the "Hell in Reality" tileset to add some tables.
Adjusted the basic attributions of the Possessed, physical defense reduced, max HP increased.
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在厄运13旅馆附近加入了一块旅馆指示牌。
厄运13旅馆加入了一个内部区域。
修改了侵入现实的地狱图块组，加入了一些桌子。
调整了被附体之人的基本属性，降低了物理防御，增加了最大生命。

Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.
The game turned 18 years old this week.
However, we don't have much time to celebrate as many sad events took place this week.

On July 5th, we lost Yui. It's always sad to put someone to this game's "in memory of" section in the credit file. But, it happens. Yui is the first discord bot on NEOLITHIC's discord server. She also once lived on many of my friends' servers. However, in the past 5 years, Yui has become a huge project that her developer finds it hard to spend time to keep maintaining. What makes things worse is Discord's policy to enforce slash command. Thus, the creator of Yui shut the project down on July 5th, 2022. As a game developer who worked on my own project in the last 18 years, I fully understand how much efforts need to be put into a personal project. I respect their decision and appreciate all the joys I had with Yui.
Hopefully, some miracles may happen in the future to bring her back. There is still hope as Yui is a digitalized life form, more robust than fragile humans.
But, for now, rest in peace.

In order to remember her, I've added an NPC named Yui in our game as well. You can find her near Queensmouth Church. I reimplemented some of Yui's functions such as providing random kitten and puppy images. But, that's just a memorial. I don't think I can fully reimplement all her functions. At least, not right now.
Maybe, only those with her in her last moment know what this means:

Thank you for all the free hugs, cookies, kittens, puppies, inspirations, and kisses.

On July 6th, the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh, Kazuki Takahashi was found dead wearing snorkeling gear in Okinawa, Japan. I'm not a serious Yu-Gi-Oh gamer and I only watched a few seasons of the anime. But, I do remember spending a lot of time playing online with my vampire decks against players from all over the world. I also remember once I sent too much money to Konami and got my credit card frozen by my bank. I had all those fun thanks to Kazuki Takahashi. But, now he is gone.
I added the scroll of reborn to our game with a similar design to Yu-Gi-Oh's "Monster Reborn" card.
However, it's a pity that we do not live in a game world and there is no card that can bring him back.

There is more sad news this week. Japanese former prime minister Shinzo Abe just got assassinated a few hours ago; British prime minister Boris Johnson was forced to resign yesterday; Famous Minecraft Youtuber Technoblade passed away after years of struggle against cancer. Some people in China may dislike Abe, some people in the UK may dislike Johnson, some...well...I don't know any people who dislike Technoblade so far. But, anyway, being an indie game developer, I can care less about what others say, and as a human being, I feel the sorrow of their departure. With limited resources, I can't add them all into the game. But, at least, I shall mention them here. When people who once lived in this area are gone, it always brings me a feeling of the world is ending. Maybe, indeed, to live is to have a mortal wound that step by step we will reach the inevitable.

Now, enough for the sad part of the story. We shall move on.
The story continues both in Queensmouth Church and the Unlucky-13 Motel.
Treason has been revealed even among the rank of a secret society while demons now drop sulfur.

Some live quality improvements have been made with the item selection UI with some items receiving an update to make them more flexible.
New items to better control enemy aggro.
New character appearance to make the world more diverse.
New skill book mechanism to make reading smoother.
We live on, carrying those memories so that they will not be forgotten.

That's for this week. Maybe one day, everything, everyone dies. But, before that, let's live and have fun.


Today's changelog:
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The game will no longer quit the item selection menu after you use a book. Including life skill books from the book store, skill books dropped from enemies, and weapon proficiency books. (Thanks to 7.Ti's suggestion.)
This change only applies to new books generated after this version as there are some code changes in item generation.
Books already generated before this version can still be used. But, they will quit the item selection menu after being used.
If a character fails to learn anything new from a life skill book or a weapon proficiency book, the book will no longer be consumed.
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If there is no more in-use item left, the system will now prompt and automatically exit the target selection window.
Items can now run a sub-event interpolator without needing to go back to the map. (Some limitations apply.)

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Added a new variation of the Possessed near the Unlucky-13 Motel.
The Life Essence can now be used on targets that are still alive. (No revive effects as the target is not dead. But, the healing effect works.)
Life Essence can now be correctly used on enemies if you wish to do so.
Reduced the basic MP cost of the skill "I am your shield" from 120 to 70 so that tank characters are more useful.
New item: Scroll of Reborn. (It's sold in the Bazaar. Fully restore one character, no matter dead or alive. Can only use once per battle. No limitation out of battle.)
It's somewhat related to the death of Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh, on July 6th, 2022. Unfortunately, no card can bring him back.
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It's now possible to make certain items that can only be used once per battle.
An item with such attribution shall display this information in its detailed description.
Some items can now be used on both the living, dead, and undead.
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Fixed a bug that when some items are used from the menu, their numbers are not updated correctly on the UI.
Fixed a bug that the mouse cannot select a dead teammate in the battle.
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厄运13旅馆附近增加了一种新的被附体之人。
生命精髓现在可以对还未阵亡的角色使用。（因为目标没有阵亡，所以不会有复活效果。但是治疗效果会被应用到目标上。）
生命精髓现在可以正确地作用在敌方角色身上，如果你想要这么做的话。
降低了技能『吾为君之盾』的基本气力消耗，从120降低到了70。从而让坦克类的角色更加有用。
新物品：死者苏生卷轴。（在巴扎有售。完全恢复一个角色的生命值，无论生死。每次战斗中仅能使用一次。战斗之外没有限制。）
与游戏王作者高桥和希在2022年7月6日的死亡多少有点关系，不过再多的游戏卡片也已经无法把他复活了。
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对战斗中限定只可使用一次的物品提供代码上的支持。
有这类属性的物品将会在其详细物品介绍窗口中显示该属性。
部分物品现在可以同时作用于活的、死的、不死的目标。
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修复了一个造成物品在从菜单中使用后，队伍中拥有的数值未正确在界面上反应的Bug。
修复了鼠标无法在战斗中选择阵亡的队友的Bug。