DD#180 May Our Diversity Be Our Strength in This Dark Time
Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.
But, before we start to talk about this week's game content, I'd like to have your attention on a hospital.
This is the surgery room of one of the biggest children's hospitals in Kyiv, Ukraine.
It was bombed by Putin's minions this week. Given the strong air defense of Kyiv supported by everyone so far (as maybe you and I all have donated our money there already), such an attack on the hospital was certainly intentional and took a lot of effort. Life is simply unfair, people are not born equal, some are born in rich families, and some are born in developed civilized countries, yet, some of the kids in Ukraine were born with cancer, spending their childhood in that hospital, and they are now facing something even worse than cancer, that is Putin and his missiles. We are having a better life than those poor kids have. But, we shall not take that for granted. People cannot decide where they are born. We are just lucky. As such, at a moment like this, we shall once again provide our support to them. For we are human.
We all come from different lines of life, living in different parts of the world, and having our own stories. Such diversity shall be our strength for we are gifted with our distinct talents.
So, shall be the pets in the game.
In this week's updates, pets may now have different perks when they join you. Some of those perks provide numerical advantages on certain attributions. But, some may even add a new layer of mechanisms.
For example, the perk shown above may even allow a seemingly killed pet to come back alive. (No pun intended, but do you know "Come Back Alive" is a Ukrainian charity organization? :D )
Of course, there are certain facts that will determine the likelihood of a pet to have certain perks. For example, dogs may be more likely to have the "Loyal" perk and rats may be more likely to have the "Escapist" perk. But, there are no hard limitations. It's totally not a bug to have a bunny with the "Pyromaniac" perk. (Actually, that's kind of fun in such a chaotic random system.)
As we are talking about pets, we now also have a new pet added this week.
Those big cats are called Beiruyka by native people in Nise. Although they are bigger, they are still considered cats. So, they can still have all game features related to cats in the game. Imagine this, a huge sabertooth suddenly jumps in front of you, it's scary. Some may even need to do a sanity check. But, instead of attacking, she just meows at you for food. :)
We also got more Dragon content this week as this faction will soon become more important in the game's storylines.
Previously, when talking about the Dragon, people may immediately think of them as the secret supernatural society in China. That's likely because, so far, we see their activities are in Liu which is a town in Shanghai, China. And naturally, you cannot have a very separate organization independent too far away from the government in China. It's just like you may be able to make private mercenary companies or private weapon manufactories in the US. But, that's absolutely unthinkable in China. The Party must have full control of such sensitive supernatural matters. Thus, unlike the Foundation or the Illuminati. The Dragon in mainland China is now essentially a government program.
They even have PLA commissars in their ranks.
However, that's just the modern-day Dragon in mainland China.
(OK, even within the Red Dragon, there are different sub-factions that hold different goals and even ideologies.)
Dragons Come in More Than One Color
There is now a new document you can find in the book shop of Liu. It provides a more detailed background history of this organization. Actually, the Dragon you encounter in Liu is just the Red Dragon. There are others out there. All may share an ancient heritage, yet divided by all those historical events in the past thousands of years. From the ancient Romance of Three Kingdoms to the Mongol invasion and the Fall of Song Dynasty. From the Three Slaughters of Liu when Manchu warlords tried to get rid of the Dragon resistance to the Revolution and the Fall of Qing. From the Black Dragon's attempt to claim the true successor of the ancient order and unite everyone under the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere to the Schism in the Chinese Civil War. The ancient order has shattered into many. Yet, all claim to be the Dragon.
More stories about them shall come in future game updates.
The last part of this week's major game content updates focuses on addressing some feedback.
There are various improvements in different game systems.
For examples:
You can now have more control over the loot you get from a battle. You can take them all, discard them all, or decide each one of them. It shall solve the problem of having too much loot all dumped into your inventory after several battles. Although we have no inventory space limitations, it may sometimes cause lags when you open the inventory. (As the game grows, it somehow becomes more and more common to see people carry thousands of items before they go to a merchant to sell them.)
Another important improvement is that when you allocate your attribution points, you now see your attributes in their raw forms without being affected by any equipment or state effects which shall give more accurate information and avoid miscommunication.
That's for this week. As the 20th anniversary of this game, as the longest-living RPG in China, was just last week, I think it's only fair to have an extended sale even after the Steam Summer Sales are over. Have fun and enjoy your summer. And also remember, try to help those in pain if you can. For we are human.
This week's full developer's diary:
20240706
English
############Content###############
[Pet/Enemy]New Pet/Wild Animal/Enemy: Beruika
[Species]New animal species: Big Cat.
[Perk]Ailurophile's effect works on "Big Cats" as well.
[Item]New meat: Beruika Meat.
[Outside the Xuanhuang Cave]Beruikas now appear in this area.
############System##################
A system to add random perks to newly generated pets is currently working in progress.
简体中文
##########Content#################
【宠物/敌人】新的宠物/野生动物/敌人：贝鲁伊卡
【种族】新动物种类：大猫猫。
【特殊属性】爱猫人士的效果现在同样适用于大猫猫。
【物品】新肉类：贝鲁伊卡肉。
【玄黄洞外】贝鲁伊卡现在会出现在这个区域。
############System##################
一个让新生成的宠物带有特殊的天赋的系统正在施工。
20240707
English
############Content###############
[Perk]New Perk: Brave
[Perk]New Perk: Foodie
[Perk]New Perk: Prayer
[Perk]New Perk: Escapist
[Perk]All those perks are now in the game's code. You can add them by console command. However, the system to add them randomly to newly generated pets is still working in progress.
[Wiki]Added a page about the character perks: https://neolithia.fandom.com/wiki/Character_Perk
[Shopping]Dr. Kyofu now sells some anti-debuff items such as shower gels, sunscreens, and eyedrops.
[Pet Fusion]Big Cats + Bunnies can now correctly make TigerBunnies.
[Pet Fusion]Lowered the pet level requirements for Pet Fusion. From lv50 to lv30. (Higher levels still provide attribution bonuses.)
[Pet Fusion]Fusioned pet shall inherit all perks.
############DEBUG################
[Pet Fusion]Fixed a bug that causes fusion pets to have extremely high initial attributions while also making them not grow at all.
简体中文
##########Content#################
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：勇者
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：吃货
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：祈祷者
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：跑路大师
【特殊属性】上面这些特殊属性都已经在游戏的代码中，可以用控制台加入。但是，让新宠物随机获取这些特殊属性的系统还在施工。
【维基】加入了一个关于角色特殊属性的页面：https://neolithia.fandom.com/wiki/Character_Perk
【购物】恐怖博士现在会贩卖一些对抗负面状态的物品，比如沐浴露、防晒霜、眼药水等。
【宠物融合】大猫猫+兔兔，现在可以正确地融合出虎兔兔。
【宠物融合】降低了宠物融合的宠物等级要求。从50级降低到了30级。（更高的等级依然有属性奖励。）
【宠物融合】融合产生的宠物将会继承所有的特殊属性。
############DEBUG################
【宠物融合】宠物融合，修正了一个导致融合产生的宠物会有极高的初始属性但是无法成长的bug。
20240708
English
############Content###############
[Pets]When you gain a pet, they may now come with different perks.
[Pets]Some pets have a higher chance to have certain perks while some pets are less likely to have certain perks. For example, dogs are more likely to have the "Brave" perk while many types of undead and machines are unlikely to be "Foodie."
[Perk]New Perk: Seducer.
[Perk]New Perk: Not Dead Yet.
[Perk]New Perk: Loyalty!
[Perk]New Perk: Hard to Drunk
简体中文
##########Content#################
【宠物】现在当你获得宠物的时候，它们可能自带各种特殊属性。
【宠物】某些类型的宠物更加可能会获得某些特定的特殊属性，而某些类型的宠物则较为不可能获得某些特殊属性。比如，狗狗更加可能有【勇者】的特殊属性。而很多亡灵生物和机械生物基本上不会有【吃货】的特殊属性。
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：誘惑者
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：尚未死透
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：忠诚！
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：千杯不倒
20240709
English
############Content###############
[Pet]You can now pet Big Cats.
[Pet]Big Cats will now also meow to you when you pet them in the menu.
[Faith]The "Cat Worshiper" tenet now also applies to Big Cats.
[Character Customization]Added one more playable male character appearance.
简体中文
##########Content#################
【宠物】你现在可以爱抚大猫猫。
【宠物】在菜单中爱抚大猫猫，他们现在也会对你喵。
【信仰】【猫猫崇拜者】信条现在对大猫猫也有效。
【角色自定义】加入了一个新的可用男性角色外观。
20240710
English
############Content###############
[Document]Added a new document: Dragons Come in More Than One Color
[Liu]You can now find "Dragons Come in More than One Color" on the bookshelves of the bookstore.
[Dragon's Treasure]You can also purchase the book here. It costs 2 Dragon's Marks.
简体中文
##########Content#################
【文档】加入了一篇新文档：龍并非只有一种颜色
【疁城】你现在可以在书店的书架上找到【龍并非只有一种颜色】
【龍之宝库】你也可以在这个区域购买这本书。消耗2个龍之印章。
20240711
English
############Content###############
[Battle]You can now choose to take all the loot or discard all the loot after a battle. (Thanks to 客官不可以's suggestion)
[Battle]You can now also choose to get down to details to decide whether you want to take or discard every item among the loots.
[Battle]If you set battle auto-end without the need for your input, you will automatically take all the loots by default.
[Battle]If there is no loot, the choice window will not appear.
############System################
[Battle]Refacted the code of the post-battle loot window.
简体中文
##########Content#################
【战斗】你现在可以在战斗结束后选择获得所有的战利品或者丢弃所有的战利品。（感谢【客官不可以】的建议。）
【战斗】你现在也可以选择去更详细地选取是否获得或丢弃所有战利品中的每一个物品。
【战斗】如果你在游戏选项中选择了战斗会自动结束而不需要你的选择，那么系统将会自动选择获得所有战利品。
【战斗】如果没有战利品，则不会出现这个选项界面。
############System################
【战斗】重构了战斗后的战利品窗口的代码。
20240712
English
############Content###############
[Character Customization]Attribution Point Allocation Menu now displays your character's raw attributions not affected by equipment and state effects. (Thanks to M1kh4iLyN/A's feedback)
[Prologue]If you choose to skip the prologue, you can now still get the pistol and some ammo.
[Pet Perk]New Random Pet Perk: Pyromaniac
简体中文
##########Content#################
【角色自定义】角色属性点分配界面上现在会显失角色不受装备和状态影响的属性数值。（感谢M1kh4iLyN/A的反馈。）
【序章】如果你选择跳过序章，你现在依然可以获得那把手枪以及一些弹药。
【宠物特殊属性】新的随机出现的宠物特殊属性：纵火狂
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But, before we start to talk about this week's game content, I'd like to have your attention on a hospital.
This is the surgery room of one of the biggest children's hospitals in Kyiv, Ukraine.
It was bombed by Putin's minions this week. Given the strong air defense of Kyiv supported by everyone so far (as maybe you and I all have donated our money there already), such an attack on the hospital was certainly intentional and took a lot of effort. Life is simply unfair, people are not born equal, some are born in rich families, and some are born in developed civilized countries, yet, some of the kids in Ukraine were born with cancer, spending their childhood in that hospital, and they are now facing something even worse than cancer, that is Putin and his missiles. We are having a better life than those poor kids have. But, we shall not take that for granted. People cannot decide where they are born. We are just lucky. As such, at a moment like this, we shall once again provide our support to them. For we are human.
We all come from different lines of life, living in different parts of the world, and having our own stories. Such diversity shall be our strength for we are gifted with our distinct talents.
So, shall be the pets in the game.
In this week's updates, pets may now have different perks when they join you. Some of those perks provide numerical advantages on certain attributions. But, some may even add a new layer of mechanisms.
For example, the perk shown above may even allow a seemingly killed pet to come back alive. (No pun intended, but do you know "Come Back Alive" is a Ukrainian charity organization? :D )
Of course, there are certain facts that will determine the likelihood of a pet to have certain perks. For example, dogs may be more likely to have the "Loyal" perk and rats may be more likely to have the "Escapist" perk. But, there are no hard limitations. It's totally not a bug to have a bunny with the "Pyromaniac" perk. (Actually, that's kind of fun in such a chaotic random system.)
As we are talking about pets, we now also have a new pet added this week.
Those big cats are called Beiruyka by native people in Nise. Although they are bigger, they are still considered cats. So, they can still have all game features related to cats in the game. Imagine this, a huge sabertooth suddenly jumps in front of you, it's scary. Some may even need to do a sanity check. But, instead of attacking, she just meows at you for food. :)
We also got more Dragon content this week as this faction will soon become more important in the game's storylines.
Previously, when talking about the Dragon, people may immediately think of them as the secret supernatural society in China. That's likely because, so far, we see their activities are in Liu which is a town in Shanghai, China. And naturally, you cannot have a very separate organization independent too far away from the government in China. It's just like you may be able to make private mercenary companies or private weapon manufactories in the US. But, that's absolutely unthinkable in China. The Party must have full control of such sensitive supernatural matters. Thus, unlike the Foundation or the Illuminati. The Dragon in mainland China is now essentially a government program.
They even have PLA commissars in their ranks.
However, that's just the modern-day Dragon in mainland China.
(OK, even within the Red Dragon, there are different sub-factions that hold different goals and even ideologies.)
Dragons Come in More Than One Color
There is now a new document you can find in the book shop of Liu. It provides a more detailed background history of this organization. Actually, the Dragon you encounter in Liu is just the Red Dragon. There are others out there. All may share an ancient heritage, yet divided by all those historical events in the past thousands of years. From the ancient Romance of Three Kingdoms to the Mongol invasion and the Fall of Song Dynasty. From the Three Slaughters of Liu when Manchu warlords tried to get rid of the Dragon resistance to the Revolution and the Fall of Qing. From the Black Dragon's attempt to claim the true successor of the ancient order and unite everyone under the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere to the Schism in the Chinese Civil War. The ancient order has shattered into many. Yet, all claim to be the Dragon.
More stories about them shall come in future game updates.
The last part of this week's major game content updates focuses on addressing some feedback.
There are various improvements in different game systems.
For examples:
You can now have more control over the loot you get from a battle. You can take them all, discard them all, or decide each one of them. It shall solve the problem of having too much loot all dumped into your inventory after several battles. Although we have no inventory space limitations, it may sometimes cause lags when you open the inventory. (As the game grows, it somehow becomes more and more common to see people carry thousands of items before they go to a merchant to sell them.)
Another important improvement is that when you allocate your attribution points, you now see your attributes in their raw forms without being affected by any equipment or state effects which shall give more accurate information and avoid miscommunication.
That's for this week. As the 20th anniversary of this game, as the longest-living RPG in China, was just last week, I think it's only fair to have an extended sale even after the Steam Summer Sales are over. Have fun and enjoy your summer. And also remember, try to help those in pain if you can. For we are human.
This week's full developer's diary:
20240706
English
############Content###############
[Pet/Enemy]New Pet/Wild Animal/Enemy: Beruika
[Species]New animal species: Big Cat.
[Perk]Ailurophile's effect works on "Big Cats" as well.
[Item]New meat: Beruika Meat.
[Outside the Xuanhuang Cave]Beruikas now appear in this area.
############System##################
A system to add random perks to newly generated pets is currently working in progress.
简体中文
##########Content#################
【宠物/敌人】新的宠物/野生动物/敌人：贝鲁伊卡
【种族】新动物种类：大猫猫。
【特殊属性】爱猫人士的效果现在同样适用于大猫猫。
【物品】新肉类：贝鲁伊卡肉。
【玄黄洞外】贝鲁伊卡现在会出现在这个区域。
############System##################
一个让新生成的宠物带有特殊的天赋的系统正在施工。
20240707
English
############Content###############
[Perk]New Perk: Brave
[Perk]New Perk: Foodie
[Perk]New Perk: Prayer
[Perk]New Perk: Escapist
[Perk]All those perks are now in the game's code. You can add them by console command. However, the system to add them randomly to newly generated pets is still working in progress.
[Wiki]Added a page about the character perks: https://neolithia.fandom.com/wiki/Character_Perk
[Shopping]Dr. Kyofu now sells some anti-debuff items such as shower gels, sunscreens, and eyedrops.
[Pet Fusion]Big Cats + Bunnies can now correctly make TigerBunnies.
[Pet Fusion]Lowered the pet level requirements for Pet Fusion. From lv50 to lv30. (Higher levels still provide attribution bonuses.)
[Pet Fusion]Fusioned pet shall inherit all perks.
############DEBUG################
[Pet Fusion]Fixed a bug that causes fusion pets to have extremely high initial attributions while also making them not grow at all.
简体中文
##########Content#################
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：勇者
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：吃货
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：祈祷者
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：跑路大师
【特殊属性】上面这些特殊属性都已经在游戏的代码中，可以用控制台加入。但是，让新宠物随机获取这些特殊属性的系统还在施工。
【维基】加入了一个关于角色特殊属性的页面：https://neolithia.fandom.com/wiki/Character_Perk
【购物】恐怖博士现在会贩卖一些对抗负面状态的物品，比如沐浴露、防晒霜、眼药水等。
【宠物融合】大猫猫+兔兔，现在可以正确地融合出虎兔兔。
【宠物融合】降低了宠物融合的宠物等级要求。从50级降低到了30级。（更高的等级依然有属性奖励。）
【宠物融合】融合产生的宠物将会继承所有的特殊属性。
############DEBUG################
【宠物融合】宠物融合，修正了一个导致融合产生的宠物会有极高的初始属性但是无法成长的bug。
20240708
English
############Content###############
[Pets]When you gain a pet, they may now come with different perks.
[Pets]Some pets have a higher chance to have certain perks while some pets are less likely to have certain perks. For example, dogs are more likely to have the "Brave" perk while many types of undead and machines are unlikely to be "Foodie."
[Perk]New Perk: Seducer.
[Perk]New Perk: Not Dead Yet.
[Perk]New Perk: Loyalty!
[Perk]New Perk: Hard to Drunk
简体中文
##########Content#################
【宠物】现在当你获得宠物的时候，它们可能自带各种特殊属性。
【宠物】某些类型的宠物更加可能会获得某些特定的特殊属性，而某些类型的宠物则较为不可能获得某些特殊属性。比如，狗狗更加可能有【勇者】的特殊属性。而很多亡灵生物和机械生物基本上不会有【吃货】的特殊属性。
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：誘惑者
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：尚未死透
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：忠诚！
【特殊属性】新特殊属性：千杯不倒
20240709
English
############Content###############
[Pet]You can now pet Big Cats.
[Pet]Big Cats will now also meow to you when you pet them in the menu.
[Faith]The "Cat Worshiper" tenet now also applies to Big Cats.
[Character Customization]Added one more playable male character appearance.
简体中文
##########Content#################
【宠物】你现在可以爱抚大猫猫。
【宠物】在菜单中爱抚大猫猫，他们现在也会对你喵。
【信仰】【猫猫崇拜者】信条现在对大猫猫也有效。
【角色自定义】加入了一个新的可用男性角色外观。
20240710
English
############Content###############
[Document]Added a new document: Dragons Come in More Than One Color
[Liu]You can now find "Dragons Come in More than One Color" on the bookshelves of the bookstore.
[Dragon's Treasure]You can also purchase the book here. It costs 2 Dragon's Marks.
简体中文
##########Content#################
【文档】加入了一篇新文档：龍并非只有一种颜色
【疁城】你现在可以在书店的书架上找到【龍并非只有一种颜色】
【龍之宝库】你也可以在这个区域购买这本书。消耗2个龍之印章。
20240711
English
############Content###############
[Battle]You can now choose to take all the loot or discard all the loot after a battle. (Thanks to 客官不可以's suggestion)
[Battle]You can now also choose to get down to details to decide whether you want to take or discard every item among the loots.
[Battle]If you set battle auto-end without the need for your input, you will automatically take all the loots by default.
[Battle]If there is no loot, the choice window will not appear.
############System################
[Battle]Refacted the code of the post-battle loot window.
简体中文
##########Content#################
【战斗】你现在可以在战斗结束后选择获得所有的战利品或者丢弃所有的战利品。（感谢【客官不可以】的建议。）
【战斗】你现在也可以选择去更详细地选取是否获得或丢弃所有战利品中的每一个物品。
【战斗】如果你在游戏选项中选择了战斗会自动结束而不需要你的选择，那么系统将会自动选择获得所有战利品。
【战斗】如果没有战利品，则不会出现这个选项界面。
############System################
【战斗】重构了战斗后的战利品窗口的代码。
20240712
English
############Content###############
[Character Customization]Attribution Point Allocation Menu now displays your character's raw attributions not affected by equipment and state effects. (Thanks to M1kh4iLyN/A's feedback)
[Prologue]If you choose to skip the prologue, you can now still get the pistol and some ammo.
[Pet Perk]New Random Pet Perk: Pyromaniac
简体中文
##########Content#################
【角色自定义】角色属性点分配界面上现在会显失角色不受装备和状态影响的属性数值。（感谢M1kh4iLyN/A的反馈。）
【序章】如果你选择跳过序章，你现在依然可以获得那把手枪以及一些弹药。
【宠物特殊属性】新的随机出现的宠物特殊属性：纵火狂
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