Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.
Updates are getting slowed down in this end-of-the-year season as there is much chaos between Christmas and the New Year. But it's still running steady and smoothly.
Continuing from the introduction of the sneak skill last week, we got a lot of polishing around it. How an enemy rolls dice against your group's average sneak skills have been reworked, polished, and made more balanced. However, it will not be fun if you can easily know you just avoided their detection. Thus, visual feedback has also been added. You can now see your character blink a bit once they successfully defeat an enemy's detection attempt. There are also many tech-prove works that have been done to make this system more customizable both for development and modding. Each enemy can set their detection strength differently; for example, those zombies are now less sensitive when you are running around, while those zombie dogs are still very aggressive in detecting anyone nearby. Meanwhile, additional concealment bonuses can be acquired by standing still or other means. The old smoke grenades are now part of this new system, allowing a beginner to use them to farm the sneak experience relatively easily. You can find more details on those tweaks in the completed update log at the end of this diary.
During the development of this system, I also took other games as references. One thing nobody can avoid checking into when developing a sneak system is Metal Gear. As such...
Hey! We shall have those boxes too! XD
Once you equip those card boxes on your main character, you will also see your image on the map changed accordingly.
Totally nothing suspicious here.
When you are hiding in a box and start a conversation with random NPCs, they may also react differently.
There are many different ways to acquire those boxes. You can purchase them from various merchants or craft them by yourself on any 3D printer after you get the blueprint, which can also be purchased from merchants or dropped by enemies. The ones you craft may come with various prefixes, and based on your 3D modeling skills, you may get ones with better attributions.
That's not all of the change yet. Various pets now also come with different racial bonuses to allow them to have higher base sneak skill levels. For example, a cat or a ghost certainly can conceal them better than large animals such as a mammoth. In the case of ghost cats, they get a racial bonus from both being a cat and a ghost. XD
Other than the sneak updates. I also made some new assets for new enemies that are about to appear in the game, such as this guy:
Aliens, the whispers of an old god, viruses, and those nasty shades are not the only things that can corrupt your mind. Sometimes, it's as simple as a book.
That's for this week. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
The complete update log of this week:
20241221
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[Sneak]Smoke bombs are now part of the new sneak system. Instead of making you totally immune to enemy detection, they provide you with a bonus equal to +100 sneak level when you are standing in it.
[Sneak]You can now gain sneak experience when you are standing in a smoke if enemies fail to detect you. (So, the smoke bombs are now helpful. You can use them to farm sneak experience.)
[Sneak]Once an enemy fails an attempt of trying to detect you, they cannot try it again for a short period. (About a half second.)
[Sneak]You now gain more sneak experience if an enemy fails to detect you to balance the reduced detection frequency.
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[Event Generator]Added a new delegate function that will be called when an event has been created. (Can be helpful for modding and maintaining a good code structure.)
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[Smoke Bomb]Fixed a bug that allows enemies to keep chasing you after they were confused by a smoke bomb.
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【潜行】烟雾弹现在是新的潜行系统的一部分。它们不再提供绝对的免疫敌人侦测的效果。取而代之的是，现在当你站在延误中的时候，当计算敌人的侦测成功率时，烟雾会提供一个大致等于+100潜行等级的奖励效果。
【潜行】现在当你站在烟雾中的时候，如果敌人没有能发现你，你可以获得潜行经验值。（所以，烟雾弹更有用了。你可以用它们刷潜行经验。）
【潜行】当敌人未能成功发现你之后，它们无法再在短时间内再度尝试发现你。（大约半秒钟。）
【潜行】当敌人未能成功发现你之后，你现在会获得更多的潜行经验值，用于平衡敌人被降低的侦测频率。
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【事件生成】加入了一个会在一个事件生成后广播的函数。（对于制作Mod有帮助，并且可以维持一个优雅的代码结构。）
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【烟雾弹】修复了一个允许敌人在短暂的因为烟雾弹陷入困惑状态后依然能够追踪你的Bug。
20241222
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[Item]New Item: Totally Unsuspicious Cardbox
[Totally Unsuspicious Cardbox]If your main character equips a Totally Unsuspicious Cardbox, your group's walking image will change to the box.
[Totally Unsuspicious Cardbox]Random citizens will react to you a bit differently if you talk to them when hiding in a Totally Unsuspicious Cardbox.
[Shopping]Random junk items may now sell Totally Unsuspicious Cardboxes.
[Shopping]The magic item vendor in the Bazaar now sells Totally Unsuspicious Cardboxes.
[Christmas] Christmas events now start on December 18th instead of December 24th.
[Christmas]The Samujier Supermarket now has Christmas trees during the Christmas season.
[Christmas]The Wonderland Travel Agency now has Christmas trees during the Christmas season.
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【物品】新物品：一点也不可疑的纸板箱
【一点也不可疑的纸板箱】当你的主角装备一点也不可疑的纸板箱之后，你的队伍的角色图会变成一个箱子。
【一点也不可疑的纸板箱】当你隐藏在一点也不可疑的纸板箱中和随机的市民对话时，他们会有特别的反应。
【购物】随机的废品商人现在可能贩卖一点也不可疑的纸板箱。
【购物】巴扎的魔法物品商人现在会贩卖一点也不可疑的纸板箱。
【圣诞节】圣诞节事件现在会在12月18日开始，而非12月24日。
【圣诞节】萨姆吉尔的超市现在会在圣诞节期间有圣诞树。
【圣诞节】奇幻之地旅行社现在会在圣诞节期间有圣诞树。
20241223
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[Cat]When checking if a character is a cat, the game now uses an element check instead of a class check. So, a character dynamically morphs into a cat can be considered a cat.
[Special Attributions]Different races and species of a character can now provide special attribution bonuses. In the report, it will be listed as a "racial bonus."
[Sneak]All cats now start with +5 sneak levels. (All existing cats shall get this bonus retroactively as this is a racial bonus.)
[Sneak]All ghosts now start with +8 sneak levels. (Ghost Cats will thus start with 14 sneak levels.)
[Pet]New Random Pet Perk: Sneaky (+4 sneak levels.)
[Wiki]Updated the character perk page of the game's wiki.
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【猫猫】当判定一个角色是否是一只猫猫的时候。现在游戏使用元素检定而非种族检定。从而允许让一个动态变形成为猫猫的角色正确地被判定为猫猫。
【特殊属性】当一个角色属于特定的物种时，现在它们可能获得来自物种加成的特殊属性奖励。会在报告中显示为【来自种族加成】
【潜行】所有的猫猫现在会默认自带+5级的潜行技能。（该变动具有追溯性，已经存在的猫猫会自动活动。因为这是一个种族加成。）
【潜行】所有的幽灵现在会默认自带+8级的潜行技能。（于是，幽灵猫猫最终的初始潜行等级会是14.）
【宠物】新的随机宠物天赋：潜行者（+4潜行等级）
【维基】更新了角色天赋页面。
20241224
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[Element]New Element Type: vs Rats
[Sneak]All rats now start with +5 sneak levels.
[Sneak]All shade creatures now start with +12 sneak levels.
[Sneak]Enemies now always have at least a 5% chance to detect you in usual cases. However, other bonuses, such as standing in the smoke, can remove or reduce this chance.
[Enemy]Zombies now have a much reduced detection strength. (If your group's average sneak level is more than 15, you shall be likely safe.)
[Sneak]Enemies are slightly harder to detect if you are not moving.
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[Sneak]Each enemy can now have customized detection strength against your group's average sneak level.
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【元素】新元素类行：对鼠
【潜行】所有的鼠类生物现在会默认自带+5级的潜行技能。
【潜行】所有的暗影实体现在会默认自带+12级的潜行技能。
【潜行】现在敌人在一般情况下总是有至少5%的概率会发现你。但是，其它类行的奖励，比如站在烟雾弹里面，可以降低或者消除这个概率。
【敌人】僵尸的侦测能力大幅降低。（如果你队伍的平均潜行等级超过15，基本上就很安全了。）
【潜行】你在不移动的时候，敌人会略微更难发现你。
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【潜行】每个不同的敌人现在可以单独设置它们对抗你的团队的平均潜行等级的侦测能力数据。
20241225
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[Sneak]Increased the enemy's sneak detection gap from about half a second to a second.
[Sneak]Increased the XP you can gain each time an enemy fails to detect you.
[Sneak]A visual effect will now play on your character when an enemy fails to detect you.
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【潜行】提高了敌人的潜行检定间隔。（从半秒提高到了1秒）
【潜行】提高了每次敌人未能发现你时，你获得的潜行经验值。
【潜行】当敌人未能发现你时，你的角色身上现在会播放一个特效。
20241226
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[3D Printing]Totally Unsuspicious Cardbox can now be crafted. (Unlike the ones sold by merchants, the ones you craft can have prefixes, and their attributions will take your 3D modeling skills into account.)
[Shopping]Random Junk Vendors now also sell Totally Unsuspicious Cardbox crafting blueprints in addition to selling those boxes.
[Shopping]Random General Goods Vendors now also sell Totally Unsuspicious Cardboxes and their crafting blueprints.
[Shopping]Random Travelling Merchants now sometimes sell Totally Unsuspicious Cardboxes and their crafting blueprints.
[Wiki]Updated everything above to the wiki.
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【3D打印】一点也不可疑的纸板箱现在可以通过3D打印制造。（不同于商店里贩卖的版本，你制造的这些纸箱可以带有词缀。并且，会考虑你的3D建模技能等级。）
【购物】随机的废品商人现在也会贩卖一点也不可疑的纸板箱的设计图。
【购物】随机的杂货商现在会贩卖一点也不可疑的纸板箱和一点也不可疑的纸板箱的设计图。
【购物】旅行商人现在有时会贩卖一点也不可疑的纸板箱和一点也不可疑的纸板箱的设计图。
【维基】将上面提到的内容全部更新到了维基上。
20241227
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[Loot]Various enemies that can drop crafting blueprints may now also drop Totally Unsuspicious Cardbox crafting blueprints.
[Asset]Added the art assets for a new enemy character.
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【掉落物】各种可能掉落3D打印图纸的敌人现在也可能掉落一点也不可疑的纸板箱的设计图。
【资源】加入了一个新敌人的美术资源。
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