[Neolithic]To the End News

Hello everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.

Warning! Security breach! Reality instable.

Oh, don't worry. That's just our new hacking mini-game heavily connected with the "programming" skill of each character. Mercenaries, secret organization agents, information brokers may always need someone to crack password-protected laptops to get the information they want. Thus, they go to Bazaar to seek experts to work for them. If you are good at it, you may be the exact expert they look for and gain some easy money.


Meanwhile, as the DOTA2 Ti10 concludes with the Russian team beating the Chinese team in the finale, "Why not ban the Mammoth?" became a trending meme in the online communities in China. As if it would have made any difference if the Chinese team banned the Russian team's signature champion "Magnus" (Known as the mammoth in China). When my countrymen are whining about this over and over this week, I'd like to just say congregations to the winner.
Thus, the Siberia area in the game got some explanation, and we also got mammoths there now.
They can be powerful allies on your journey to defeat unspeakable horrors.

And, I guess I will just mention the mammoths to my fellow Chinese Dota2 players for fun. :P

However, life is not all just making funs and happy.
A piece of recent news concerns me.
It was said a kind man, who once saved a dolphin, brutally murdered his neighbors after 20 years since they stole his house from him by using some legal loopholes. During the 20 years, he asked all kinds of government departments for help. He asked the police for help. He asked the media for help. Nobody responded. But, after the murder, the government reacted within 20 minutes. They announced whoever can find him alive will be rewarded 20,000RMB. However, they also announced whoever can find him dead will be rewarded 50,000RMB. A very dark joke indeed.
The story ends up with someone finding him alive. Witnesses mentioned he was arrested without resistance. However, the public records said he committed suicide before police forces can arrest him.
Many believe, he was made to "be suicided." So that we may never know the truth about another crime where people stole his house for 20 years. There will be no further investigation. There will be no trails. Everything will soon be censored on the Internet. Everything will soon be forgotten.

But, they are wrong. There is NEOLITHIC. A game all about memories.
In the PSB of Liu, the procedurally generated quests will always tell the tales of this story.
The story of a murder who "was suicided."
They call it suicide while I am not convinced it's not murder.

The world around me is just that dark. I hope being a lawyer and making this game can bring some light to it.
This is for this week.


Today's changelog:
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Another secret room in the PSB of Liu is now accessible with a not-so-friendly officer inside.
There is a mission board near the officer.
New procedurally generated missions type: They will all [suicide] for their crime.
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Implemented a basic Chinese random name generator.
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Fixed some texts that were not localized in the procedurally generated quests of "collecting debts."
Fixed a bug that map names were not updated when the game is switched into another language during gameplay.

English
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Added another possible prefix and item in Object UPEI2195's inventory. It will appear if things go really well.
The Siberia area is expanding a bit to the north. The trees may hide the path. But, we can cut down the trees.
New pet: Mammoth (It appears in the new area in Siberia. It comes with high ballistic resistance. It has high hp and endurance growth. But it is unable to equip certain items.)
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Fixed a localization error in Traditional Chinese.
Fixed a bug that causes pets to sometimes have a customized portrait from another character when they are captured.
简体中文
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在UPEI2195的物品中加入了一个新的可能出现的物品和对应的前缀。它会在事情进展非常顺利时出现。
西伯利亚地区向北扩展。一些树木可能隐藏或阻挡道路，但是你可以把它们砍掉。
新宠物：猛犸，出现在西伯利亚的新区域，自带较高的子弹抗性，较高的生命和耐力成长，但是有些装备无法使用。
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修復了一處正體中文中的錯誤。
修复了新捕获的宠物有时可能会有另外一个角色的自定义头像的BUG


Yes, I am making fun of people who whine about "why didn't they ban the mammoth?" regarding the DOTA2 Ti10. Congratulations to the winner. :)

English
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New mini game: Hacking
The programming skill increases the time limitation on hacking.
The programming skill decreases the alarm accumulation rate.
The alarm increases each time the selected data hit the bottom edge, and each time the wrong code is chosen.
Successfully solving the hacking minigame rewards programming exp.
You can ask a teammate to do it for you. Thus, they may help you to skip the minigame if you don't want to play.
When a teammate is hacking. The target and the teammate will each throw a dice based on the difficulty vs skill to decide the result.
When asking a teammate to pick a lock, they now use the same mechanism.
A more detailed teammate hacking/lockpicking result will now display.
Increased the number of procedurally generated quests per update in Bazaar.
New procedurally generated quest type in Bazaar: Bypass Password.
简体中文
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新增小游戏：黑客
编程技能增加黑客游戏的时间限制
编程技能降低每次选择的数据撞到底部或者选错代码积累的系统警报速率
每次成功完成黑客小游戏会获得编程技能的经验
你可以让一名有编程能力的队友来帮你完成。从而可能可以跳过这类小游戏。
当队友进行黑客活动时，基本上就是被黑的系统和队友各自基于难度和技能水平抛骰决定结果。
当让队友开锁时现在会使用相同的机制。
当队友进行黑客活动或开锁时，现在会有一个更详细的数值报告。
增加了巴扎每次刷新的动态生成任务数量。
在巴扎增加了动态生成的任务类型：破除密码

English
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We can now use the keyboard to move the crosshair in the FPS mode. Thus, a mouse or a gamepad is once again no longer necessary.
Added a sound effect on some computers.
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Fixed the campfire toolkit may sometimes causes screen tone issues.
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我们现在可以在第一人称射击模式下使用键盘来移动准心了。因此，鼠标或手柄再次不是必要的了。
在一些电脑上加入了音效。
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修复了野营工具会让某些画面色调应当不正常的区域变得正常的BUG


Of course, that's not everything. Some secrets are yet to be revealed.

Hi everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.

It has been a busy week. A lot of things need to be done. Thus, I was trying to cure sleep with tons of coffee. Unfortunately, my current human vessel seems to get a bit overwhelmed by that. The experience is unpleasant, involving sweating, abnormal heartbeat speed, high blood pressure, vomiting, and digestive system malfunction. It's exhausting and unsleepable.
But, let's look at the good side, I didn't take the cat form. Otherwise, that may be lethal. :3
To reflect on this new knowledge I learned, coffee in the game may now cause poison effects on cats and dogs. Certainly, you can be creative by using coffee on enemies.

Alright, now let's go down to something more interesting stuff of this week.
Continuing from last week's work. The audio volume is now more customizable.
Three more audio channels, namely BGS/ME/VO, can now be set separately.


Meanwhile, the main content update of the week is around the new research sector of Site Demeter where there were once three anomalies contained in this area. The first one of them comes with a document that mentions "NEOLITHIC" for the first time in a Foundation document, linking back to another event that happened back in 2013 long before this game's 2nd reboot in 2020 when the world was still called SAPC++, familiar names are mentioned just as the relic itself repeatedly reappearing in the last 17 years. The second one is a bit different as it's an anomaly that you can have a conversation with and your choice may have a direct impact on this anomaly. The third may not even be there or may always be there. The room is both empty and filled. Nobody remembers.

Other small changes include new equipment, a new blueprint, new item prefixes, and a unique mechanism of an anomaly.

That's for this week. I guess I will try to take a nap.

Today's changelog:
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Added a 3D printer in the research sector of Site Demeter.
New equipment: Analysis Pad (Grant analysis skill, increase battle Exp, may have prefixes.)
Added the blueprint of the Analysis Pad that can be found on the new 3D printer.
Added 2 sets of dialogs of Object UPEI2195. (When the current dialogs are depleted, another dialog will keep repeating while also keep affecting Object UPEI2195)
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Localized the special attribution of Battle Exp Modifier.