Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.
This week marks the 1000 day of Ukraine's brave resistance against Putin's invasion. Thus, first thing first, a new post has been added to the game. You can find a copy of it in the Safehouse.
If you have followed this game long enough, you may feel that the life we live today will become the history of the future. After all, this game has been around for more than 20 years—not a very long time. But still, I think you get the idea. Every day, the game's update is one more step in our journey to the future together. It certainly brings some important meanings with it.
As such, a new life skill has been added to the game, known as "Mundane History." It just represents a character's knowledge of this "normal" world. It is nothing supernatural, but it is still an important part of this modern-day world.
I intend to make it a bit different this time. Every character may have some knowledge of the history of the world they live in. So, all existing teammates do not start this skill with level 1, but various, depending on their background stories. If you chose your main character's background as a student, you can also start with this kill at lv6. All related code has been changed to provide retroactive save compatibility. The life skill system has also become more flexible because of those changes. Even though there may be some efficiency loss, the game is optimized enough to allow a computer from 2004 to run it. So, that shall not be a problem.
Now that we have this new history skill. Let's move on to get more pieces of human history.
First, I continued with last week's updates, and Guan Yu now has a statue.
It's a new furniture item you can acquire from the manager of No.181 River Road.
Many business owners in China may also have such a statue in their shops in the game.
Depending on whether you have unlocked the "Guan Yu" tenet, the interact option will be different.
If you have not unlocked the tenet, you can pass a history skill check on the statue to unlock it.
If you have the "Guan Yu" tenet in your faith system, you can worship the statue and gain some temporal beneficial effects just like the Samujier statues do to these followers.
Meanwhile, about some item availability issues from the last week:
Since some of the players will prefer a much more peaceful approach to everything, defeating the gangsters and looting them is no longer the only way to get Guan Gong Fu. You can now exchange Dragon's Marks for both Guan Gong Fu and Guan Yu Statue in the Dragon's Treasure.
Of course, we shall also have some content from the history of other parts of the world.
A new faith tenet is the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution which provides additional ammo when you shoot firearms.
A new skill originated from the tales told by British sailors, which is an attack that can cause silence. (Well, you can find the original story was much darker if you search for it.) All your newly bound cat teammates shall start this skill automatically. All existing cat teammates can learn it from the Caretaker Services. The definition of "cats" also got much wider and wilder during this week's updates.
One last thing before we end this sector: The new history skill also comes with infrastructures around it.
War, war never changes.
So, you can find history skill books from bookstores or loot them from enemies that drop books.
Many items you can equip may also have the new "Historian's" prefix that provides various levels of history skills to buff your characters.
That covers the majority of this week's content updates. But, again, we have other small improvements across the board. For example, the pet withdrawal window of the Caretaker Services has been improved, and there are now more loots in the Fjordr Command Center. If you are interested in all the details, please find them in the completed update logs below.
The 200th developer's dairy and the 200th week on Steam will soon be upon us. And our best days are yet to come because the game's evolution never stops.
The complete update log of this week:
20241116
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[Fjordr Command Center]Added some loot in some cabinets.
[Samujier Cathedral]The location now has a second floor. (Still in a grey box design pass.)
[Faith]New Faith Tenet: Second Amendment (Suggested by one of our friends in the US. It basically gives you +10% firearm ammo.)
[Wiki]Updated everything mentioned above to the game's wiki.
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【福尔德指挥部】在一些柜子里加入了一些可以搜刮的物品。
【萨姆吉尔大教堂】该建筑现在有了第二层。（仍然在灰盒设计阶段）
【信仰】新信仰信条：美国宪法第二修正案（来自我们的一位美国友人的建议。效果是增加10%的枪械弹药。）
【维基】同步了上述内容到游戏维基。
20241117
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[Life Skill]New Lifke Skill: Mundane History
[Mundane History]All story teammates start with some levels of Mundane History. (Currently, the Martial Artist has the highest, and the President has the second highest.) Save Compatible has been implemented, so your existing teammates will get it automatically.
[Background]The student background now provides a +5 Mundane History level.
[Trump]Added the Second Amendment to Trump's default faith.
[Life Skill]If a character previously did not know a life skill but gained some life skill levels from any other sources, such as equipment, faith, or state effects, they will gain the knowledge of this life skill.
[Book]New Life Skill Book: History of Cruelty Vol. 1 (Mundane History skill book. You can buy it from bookstores. Certain enemies that drop books may also drop this book.)
[Wiki]Updated everything mentioned above to the game's wiki.
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[Life Skills]All life skill-related codes have been moved to their own file.
[Life Skills]Changed the way this system works to become more flexible; adding new life skills and setting default values for existing story teammates shall be much easier, at the cost of some efficiency.
[Life Skills]Added a function to make directly set a life skill's level much easier.
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【生活技能】新生活技能：常态历史
【常态历史】剧情队友普遍存在一定的常态历史初始等级。（目前，某个功夫大师这个技能最高，某个总统第二高。）已经实现了对旧存档的兼容，你已有的队友现在会自动获得相应的技能等级。
【背景】学生背景的角色现在会获得+5的常态历史的生活技能。
【川普】将美国宪法第二修正案加入到了川普的默认信仰上。
【生活技能】一个此前不知道某项生活技能的角色，现在在通过其它方式获得了一个生活技能的等级后（比如通过装备、信仰、状态等），现在会知道这个生活技能。
【书籍】新生活技能书：残暴的历史（第一卷）（常态世界历史技能书。可以从书店买到。也可能由那些会掉落书的敌人掉落。）
【维基】同步了上述内容到游戏维基。
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【生活技能】所有和生活技能有关的代码被移动到了它们自己的文件中。
【生活技能】改变了这个系统的运作方式，让其更加灵活，增加新的生活技能和为已有的剧情角色设定这些新技能的初始值更加方便，但是运行效率会略微降低。
【生活技能】增加了一个可以更方便直接指定生活技能等级的函数。
20241118
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[Furniture]New Furniture: Guan Yu Statue
[Shopping]You can now purchase Guan Yu Statues from the manager of No.181 River Road.
[Faith]Anyone with the "Guan Yu" tenet in their faith system can worship a Guan Yu Statue and receive healing. (It works just like the Samujier Statues. Two minutes cool down.)
[Guan Yu Statue]If you have not unlocked the "Guan Yu" tenet. You can pass a history skill check to unlock it by inspecting the statue.
[This Is a Bar]Added a Guan Yu Statue on the 2nd floor.
[3D Printing Store]Added a Guan Yu Statue in the warehouse.
[Museum of Weird History]Added a Guan Yu Statue.
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【家具】新家具：关公像
【购物】你现在可以在清河路181号的经理那里购买到关公像。
【信仰】任何有【关羽】信条的人员可以崇拜关公像来恢复体力。（和萨姆吉尔雕像类似。 有两分钟的冷却时间。）
【关公像】未解锁【关羽】信条的情况下，你可以通过一个【历史】技能检定来解锁【关羽】信条。
【这是间酒吧】在二楼加入了一个关公像。
【3D打印店】在仓库里加入了一个关公像。
【奇怪历史博物馆】加入了一个关公像。
20241119
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[Dragon's Treasure]You can now purchase the Guan Yu Statue with the Dragon's Marks here. (It costs two marks.)
[Dragon's Treasure]You can now purchase the Guan Gong Fu with the Dragon's Marks here. (It costs four marks. It guarantees to have one prefix.)
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[Dragon's Treasure]Fixed a bug that gives you two katanas instead of one when you purchase a katana with the Dragon's Marks.
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【龍之宝库】你现在可以在这里用龍之印章购买关公像。（消耗2枚印章。）
【龍之宝库】你现在可以在这里用龍之印章购买关公符。（消耗4枚印章。保证会有一个词缀。）
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【龍之宝库】修复了一个在你用龍之印章购买武士刀时会给你两把武士刀而非一把武士刀的BUG。
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[Furniture]New Furniture: Ukraine 1000 Days Post
[Safehouse]Added a Ukraine 1000 Days Post on the wall.
[Shopping]You can now get Ukraine 1000 Days Posts from the manager of the No.181 River Road.
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【家具】新家具：乌克兰的1000天海报
【安全屋】在墙上加入了一张乌克兰的1000天海报
【购物】清河路181号的经理现在出售乌克兰的1000天海报
20241121
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[Skill]New Skill: Meow! Got Your Tongue. (It's a physical attack that can cause silence.)
[Pet]All newly bound cats will have the "Meow! Got Your Tongue" skill.
[Pet]Very big cats such as Beruika now also start with all small cat skills.
[Pet]The change is not retroactive. However, all existing cats can learn this skill from Caretaker Services. (They can regain this skill there if they forget it.)
[Perk]TigerBunnies are now also considered "cats" when calculating bonuses for characters with the "Ailurophile" perk.
[Wiki]Updated everything mentioned above to the game's wiki.
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【技能】新技能：猫猫咬舌术。
【宠物】新捕捉到的猫猫会自带这个技能。
【宠物】很大的猫猫比如贝鲁伊卡现在在被捕捉到后会自带小型猫猫的各种技能。
【宠物】该更新不具有追溯性。但是，已有的所有猫猫可以到看护者那里学会这个技能。（如果遗忘了这个技能，也可以在看护者那里重新获取。）
【特殊属性】现在在计算【爱猫人士】特性的加成时，队伍中的虎兔兔现在也被认为是一种猫猫。
【维基】同步了上述内容到游戏维基。
20241122
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[Caretaker]The pet withdrawal window now has better mouse support.
[Skill Check]A success history check on Guan Yu Statue now gives history skill experience.
[Prefix]New Generic Prefix: Historian's (+Mundane History Skills)
[Wiki]Updated everything mentioned above to the game's wiki.
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[Caretaker]Fixed a bug that causes pet names not to display correctly if they are on the next page of the pet withdrawal window.
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【看护者】宠物提取窗口现在有了更好的鼠标支持。
【技能检定】成功对关公像进行历史技能检定，现在会提供历史经验值。
【词缀】新通用词缀：史学家的（+常态历史技能）
【维基】同步了上述内容到游戏维基。
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【看护者】修复了宠物提取窗口中，如果宠物位于之后几页，有时名字无法正确显示的Bug。
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