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Public Beta Version 20210926


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New game mechanic: Headshot! (You can now headshot enemies in FPS mode by aim and shot at their heads if they have one. It can cause massive damage, penetrating armors that a normal gunshot cannot.)
Added 65 characters' head information in PNG format, easily moddable. (If you want to cheat, check "sp\MOD\Graphics\Battlers" folder and paint all the headshot information images red.)
It's also quite easy to add the head information to those enemies I didn't add, following the naming conversion. (For example, you can define the head of a tree if you want.)
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Slowed down all target's moving speed in FPS mode.
Optimized the booby trap's detection algorithm to use event coordinate cache so that a few dozens of booby traps a player planted will not cause too many lags.
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新游戏机制:爆头! (你现在可以在第一人称射击模式下通过瞄准敌人的头部射击造成爆头,这将导致大幅的伤害奖励提升,甚至对某些有较高子弹抗性的敌人造成穿透其护甲造成伤害的效果。)
加入了65种角色的头部信息保存于PNG文件中,可以被轻易修改或用于制作MOD。(如果你想作弊的话可以将位于"sp\MOD\Graphics\Battlers" 文件夹下的这些图片全部涂成红色。)
同时,依据命名规则你可以轻易加入我没有加入头部信息的角色的头部信息。(比如你可以定义一棵树什么位置是头部。)
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所有敌人在第一人称射击模式下的移动速度降低。
优化了诡雷的碰撞检测算法,使用了事件坐标缓存,现在在同一张地图上存在几十个玩家部署的诡雷也不会造成太大的延迟了。

DD# 35 The Dark Side of Moon.

Welcome! I hope everyone had a nice Moon Festival.
It's another Friday night. That means another developer's diary is here.

When the Illuminati is bleeding itself in popular culture to hide their agendas, putting their logos everywhere, another secret society that is directly involved in the incident of Queensmouth also found its way to hide in plain sight.

The Foundation.

When mentioning the name of this organization, people may think of some science fiction novels or SCP, that effectively makes this Foundation off the radar when people get direct away from them by misinformation. It's just like the moon. You can see it in the sky. But, you can almost never see its dark side from the earth.

In this week's update, with the right key to the right location, you can find one of their sites located right inside Queensmouth. Although it's not SCP Foundation, unfortunately, it also has its own containment branch thanks to all the current events in Queensmouth. As the Foundation discovered a certain threat earlier than other organizations, they are working on their own projects to counter it except things went wrong.

Base on the site's name, it does not take much genius to discover this is one of the problems:

Do the dwellers of night howl at the moon or does a black moon itself howl?

This is just part of the story we can see from the surface for now. With the sadistic prefix added onto weapons and combat robot modules this week, we may go even deeper into the sorrow underneath this facility till a secret is uncovered and her story is told.

The description in this DD is vague as the story updates of this week may easily be spoiled if not careful.
But, please feel free to take a bite to see it by yourself.


That's for this week.

Next Friday, we will participate in the "Steam Next Fest."
However, there will be no active marketing efforts to be made as I'd rather spend time in development.
The life cycle of the game's update will be extreme compared to many other games while a fest is merely a glimpse. Even it may bring some good marketing numbers in the short term if I redirect my weekly update efforts onto it, I don't think it will matter too much in the long run. Meanwhile, a game about a secret world doing some additional marketing can be quite an irony. Thus, I'd enjoy the peace and solitude on the dark side of the moon.


Today's changelog:
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You can now find a keycard in Kristin's room in Ardham Hotel.
Added a new dialogue option for Kristin after you get the keycard.
New area: Site Demeter (The Foundation site underneath the Ardham Hotel.)
New side story: Containment Breach (Automatically start when you enter the Foundation site. Just a part of it. It's still in development.)
New enemy type: Vampiric Researcher (Can not be turned into pets for now.)
New crafting material: Vampire Dust. (Dropped by vampires of course.)
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Some passable bugs are fixed in the "Facility" tileset.

Public Beta Version 20210922


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You can now restore the power on the 1st floor of the Ardham Hotel via a secret room. (But, the elevator-related content is still under development.)
This part of the story is not linear, you can do that even before triggering the stories in the Illuminati base.
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你现在可以恢复在一个阿德汉姆旅店的秘密房间内恢复一楼的供电了。(但是,电梯那里的内容还在进一步开发中。)
这部分的剧情并非线性,因此你完全可以在完成光照派基地的剧情前进行。

Public Beta Version 20210920

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Combat Robot Modules can now have the prefix of "Sadistic"
Added new tileset "Facility" that can be used to customize your home.
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Fixed a crash when entering your pocket dimension that already exists before version 20210905
Fixed some bugs causing events on saved maps, including your pocket dimension, that cannot be triggered and having passable issues.
Now when loading a saved map, a forced update to event coordinate cache and big event list will trigger.
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战斗机器人模组现在可以包括前缀“虐待狂的”
加入了新的图块风格“设施”可以用于自宅自定义。
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修复了进入一个20210905版本以前的口袋空间时会崩溃的BUG
修复了一些导致被保存的地图,包括你的口袋空间,中的事件可能不被正确触发或者存在通行问题的BUG。
现在每当读取一张被保存的地图时,事件坐标缓存和大物体清单会被强制更新。


Making art assets are always slow as I'm not good at that.
I also got delayed by some bugs I just found right before making the build.
The good news is, those bugs are now eliminated.

Public Beta Version 20210919

20210919
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In the fast tutorial, Mephisto will explain a bit why he uses the word "Racism." And overall, why he sounds weird sometimes.
Updated current procedurally generated weapons to have the potential to gain the "Sadistic" prefix.
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New generic prefix: Sadistic Gain MP when causing physical damage on anyone, even when you hit your teammates.
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在快速教程中,梅菲斯特现在会稍微解释一下为什么用“种族歧视”这个词。以及为什么实际上他说的任何东西有时听起来都可能很奇怪。
更新了动态生成的武器,使之可能带有“虐待狂的”词缀
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新通用词缀:虐待狂的 造成物理伤害将会恢复一定量的MP,这包括殴打自己的队友的情况。


I'm trapped in some social events of the Moon Festival, shareholder meetings, and legal business. Thus, the update is short.
Fun fact: The word "sadism" comes from Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, a French nobleman and revolutionary politician.