[Neolithic]To the End News

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Added a special tag to all dogs, including zombie dogs.
Added a special tag to all cats, including ghost cats
Coffee can now cause poison to cats and dogs! Zombie dogs and ghost cats just have a relatively higher resistance to it. DO NOT LET YOUR CATS AND DOGS DRINK COFFEE! SERIOUSLY! Otherwise, I will not specifically make this change to the game.
Updated the coffee's item description to reflect this.
Other drinks that contain caffeine are currently not that lethal in the game. But, you shall still avoid using them on your pets in real life.
Added the document of Object UPEI2195. That's the last anomaly document for the Research Sector of Site Demeter. (The object itself is still working in progress. Thus, blocked by laser bars.)
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给所有的狗狗加入了一个特殊的标签，包括僵尸犬。
给所有的猫猫加入了一个特殊的标签，包括幽灵猫猫。
咖啡现在可能对所有种类的猫猫和狗狗造成中毒效果！幽灵猫猫和僵尸犬只是对此抗性较高。所以不要让你的猫猫和狗狗喝咖啡！这是个非常严肃的话题。否则的话，我不会专门给游戏加这条设定。
在咖啡的物品描述上加入了这条。
其余游戏中包含咖啡因的饮料目前不会有这么致命的效果。但是，在现实生活中应当避免对宠物使用。
加入了物体UPEI2195的介绍文档。这是前哨基地-德米特的研究部门楼层的最后一篇异常物体的文档。（该物体本身还在开发中。因此目前有激光围栏阻挡与之交互。）

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Reduced the campfire toolkit's price.
New furniture: Bed (1x2 size. Functionally speaking, it's a campfire toolkit that can be used for infinite amount of times.)
Added a computer with the information that explains the "empty room" in Site Demeter's Research Sector. The computer requires the ability to see shade to appear.
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Fixed the Guan Dao in Dragon's Treasure is using the wrong localization text in its description.
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降低了野营工具的价格。
新家具：床 （1x2大小。功能上，是一个可以无限使用的野营工具。）
在前哨基地-德米特的研究部门加入了一个有文档的电脑解释了“空无一人的房间”的真相。该电脑需要能够看到暗影的能力才会出现。
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修复了龍之宝库中的关刀的描述使用了错误的本地化字符串的BUG

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New area: Site Demeter Research Sector.
The area contains 3 secret rooms. (2 of them are safe, another depends...)
One of them has some slight difference depending on if you can see the shade.
There are currently 2 documents. One of them has some clues to solve some puzzles both in and out of the game so far. The word NEOLITHIC and a character from previous versions of the game are mentioned.
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新区域：前哨基地-德米特 研究部门
该区域有3个秘密房间。（其中两个相对安全，还有一个分情况讨论。）
其中一个根据你是否能够察觉到暗影会有细微不同。
目前有两份文档。其中一份包含了一些破解游戏内外的某些谜题的线索。纽莱西亚这个词以及一个来自此前版本的游戏的角色被提及。

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Added 3 more audio channel's volume control over BGS(ambiance sound), ME (Music Effect), and VO (Voice over)
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Fixed a bug that master volume sometimes does not affect certain types of audio.
Fixed an issue that the full screen black background is turned into white after alt+tab (I guess this may be the most racist bug I've ever seen. I blame Windows OS >_>)
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加入了三个新的音量控制器，管理环境音、音乐特效、以及配音
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修复了主音量控制器有时不会对某些声音生效的BUG
修复了一个全屏黑幕背景会在alt+tab后变成白色的BUG （啊，这种种族主义的BUG我还是头一次发现。我觉得可以甩锅给WINDOWS操作系统 >_>）

Hello, everyone. It's another week's developer's diary.

First, I shall welcome a lot of new friends who just added the game to their wishlist.
It's quite unexpected as I almost didn't spend any effort in marketing at all during the "Steam Next Festival." (No wishlist lotteries, no streaming key drops, no shady activities that are used by many other developers in China which I find disgusting. I'm just so old-school and stubborn I guess..)
But, there is still a relatively significant increase in the number of wishlists and people who played the public beta. Thank you! You are awesome! I mean it. After all, you can find this secret game while many others failed.
Here is the current data of the public beta version:

Average time played 1 hour 30 minutes
Median time played 14 minutes

Minimum time played Percentage of users
10 minutes 58%
30 minutes 37%
1 hour 0 minutes 26% (average as compared to other Steam demos)
2 hours 0 minutes 15%
5 hours 0 minutes 10%
10 hours 0 minutes 2%

Unfortunately, we are back to the days when more than 40% of people didn't make it through the first 10 minutes. It's possible that is because there are too many demos out there. But, if there are other reasons, I'd like to investigate further and see if anything can be done to improve.

Meanwhile, I also had a chance to see what others are doing in their projects. Some are quite inspiring. Maybe I will even steal some ideas from them. :P

However, the most important things I received are more feedbacks which helps this ever-evolving game to be better. Although I intended to focus on more safe updates this week as the game is likely to be exposed to much more people than before during the Festival week, some breakthroughs still happened because of some interesting feedbacks.

So, without further ado, let's go down to some highlights of this week's updates:
1, You can now change the portrait of ANY of your teammates!
A new item: the Makeup Tool Set is not sold in the Bazaar. It can allow you to switch the portrait of any of your teammates to a customized one. 144*144 png format is still recommended. But, the game can take a image file of any size less than 4096*4096 in most common formats such as png/jpg/bmp. Your change will also reflect in the dialogs if that involves your teammate. It will likely be also included as a part of future Steam workshop integration when we get there.

2, Gambling in Beggar Gangs Camp
The original plan for a certain beggar gangs vendor is to make sure players will not be soft-locked to a location in the game if they accidentally lost an item. After all, it's an open world, anything can happen. Thus, the beggar gangs may use their network to retrieve that item for you. However, after some interesting brainstorm, now this vendor also sells the lost wallets that contain an unknown amount of money at a fixed price. That's basically gambling like the loot boxes in other games. But, with a lot of luck or save/load a lot to be lucky, some people may actually become quite rich.

3, More configurations
The audio volume can now be adjusted in the game. BGM and SFX are controlled separately.

The fake-full screen background switch is now also part of the game option and can be accessed by hotkey F6 at any time.

Other updates of the week include Vampiric baseball bat and possibly other items with vampiric prefix; more story content in Site Demeter; Fist weapon proficiency skill book in the Dragon's Treasure; New item to stun undead and demons; more recycle format to gain paper from different items; procedurally generated equipment in daily supply box.

That's for this week.

Today's changelog:
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The hotkey F6, which turns on/off a borderless background, is now available globally as long as the game is running. (Previously, it's only working when on a map.)
The functionality of F6 is now also a part of the game option.
The setting of the borderless background is now saved in the game's config file. Thus, if the setting is previously turned on, the game will start with a borderless background.
Added audio volume setting in the game options. The master volume, BGM volume, and SFX volume can be set separately. (The UI may need some polish. But, let's get the function in there first.)
Hotkey F3 now summons the audio volume control menu. (Previously, it's a hotkey to stop bgm.)