Hi, everyone. Welcome to the first developer's dairy of 2025.
Alright, it has been the 2nd developer's diary of this week. The last one was released at the End Day of 2024. Now we are in 2025. So, Happy New Year!
Now, business as usual, let's go down to the details of this week's content updates:
First, continuing from last week's work. The "Book Slaves" are now a new type of enemy in the game:
They have some quite unique game mechanics. As they are human or corpses possessed by those corrupted books. Once the body is destroyed, the book will detach from the body and continue to fight you. (As it is shown in the image above.)
Next, the Foundation gets a new cutscene.
This is part of the story of the slowly developing DLC in the game. It's the first time I have used a fully UE5-rendered cutscene in the game; all previous cutscenes were made with other software.
At the same time, due to the various chaotic situations during Christmas and New Year, many people are quite exhausted. (Hopefully, this is a good thing, and everyone is using the holidays to enjoy life, do things they are usually too busy to do, or spend time with friends and family. Rather than rushing to work overtime. :D)
As a result, many people are already quite drowsy. Sleeping is something pleasant and important. Everyone who has been busy all year deserves to enjoy a comfortable rest. (Hmm, I paused for a few seconds here to rest and then continued writing this log. After all, the evolution of this game is eternal, and there are still many things to be busy with. :D)
So a new faith tenet has been added to the game:
Hey, do you know you can gain devotion by simply sleeping in and out of battles?
Just put this tenet to your customized personal faith. It can also help you make other people become very sleepy. :D
Fun Fact:
Originally, I planned to use a creature like this to represent this tenet:
However, considering that Nintendo's legal department might come over and send me a lawyer's letter, although I also have a lawyer's license and could fight them, I'm just too lazy to get into such trouble. So, to avoid the hassle, I used a cute anime girl instead.
In addition to the new game features mentioned above, I am currently working on a new storyline about a young man rebuilding his family's reputation. This is the quest called "Family Honor." It will be a relatively short task. (Relative to the Foundation's containment breach and the ever-lengthening legend of the Dark Elf King.) In fact, one of the three planned endings is already in the game. It is the shortest and most brutal one, but it is also the one that can be completed this week. The purpose of this task is to enrich the content of Fjordr and guide everyone to the Final Valor Cave. It includes many stories that happened in the past as the background of this quest. Those who have played this game for more than ten years may be familiar with some content. However, considering the ever-increasing number of new players joining the game, this quest also includes many descriptions of these past plots in dialogues and item descriptions. The guy who gives you the quest alone has four options and a lot of dialogue to handle this task. A seemingly ordinary item retrieval task may lead you to one of the biggest conspiracies in the history of the Nise Federation. Have fun. :D
That's basically all for this week, in addition to what was mentioned in the previous diary. Because of the two diaries a week, it seems a bit chaotic, but as the start of 2025, it seems pretty good. I hope this year will also be a meaningful one for everyone. We have many things to accomplish this year. Ad Victoriam!
The full update log of this week:
20241228
English
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[Enemy]New Enemy: Book Slave
[The Grand Library]Book Slaves now appear on the Floor of Philosophy.
简体中文
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【敌人】新敌人：书奴
【大图书馆】哲学层现在会出现书奴。
20241229
English
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[Gallery]New Cinematic: Will the black moon howl when THEY whisper?
[Takedown]Added the takedown data for Book Slaves.
[Takedown]You can now gain loot after a successful takedown outside a battle.
[Loot]Shade-Tainted Researchers now have their own item drop list. They may drop Analysis Pads.
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【回忆的影集】新过场动画：黑月亮是否在它们低语时嚎叫？
【推倒】加入了推倒书奴时使用的数据。
【推倒】现在在不进入战斗的情况下成功直接推倒敌人可以获得它们的掉落物。
【掉落物】被暗影侵蚀的研究员现在有了自己的物品掉落列表。它们可能会掉落分析面板。
20241231
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[Faith]New Faith Tenet: Sleepy Cult
[Special Attribution]Added a special attribution that allows you to gain devotion when you sleep during a battle.
[Special Attribution]Added a special attribution that allows you to gain devotion when you have a good sleep outside a battle.
[Wiki] More information about the Sleepy Cult is on the game's faith tenet page.
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【信仰】新信仰信条：睡教
【特殊属性】加入了一个特殊属性可以让你在战斗中睡觉时获得虔诚。
【特殊属性】加入了一个特殊属性可以让你在战斗外好好睡一觉的时候获得虔诚。
【维基】你能在游戏维基的信条页面上找到更多关于睡教的信息。
20250101
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[Fjordr]Added a new encounter that leads to a new quest: Family Honor.(The quest is still working in progress.)
[Wiki]Added a new wiki page about the "Family Honor" quest.
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【福尔德】加入了一个新的遭遇，会开始一个新的任务：家族荣誉。（任务本身还在施工中。）
【维基】在维基上加入了一个新的关于【家族荣誉】的页面。
20250102
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[Family Honor]The story continues.
[Family Honor]Added six more dialog options on John Emberwood that can provide information related to some background story that took place in the SAPC era. (About 20 years ago in real life.)
[Family Honor]Added the quest item: the Broken Blade of Emberwood.
[Final Valor Cave]Added a skeleton that you can loot a full set of the White Wolf Warrior gear. (They do not have the "ghost" prefix. They may have other random prefixes. Save/Load if you want.)
[Final Valor Cave]You can find the Broken Blade of Emberwood on this skeleton too.
[Final Valor Cave]Added another document that you can find here as another clue. (You may already have guessed what happened. This is more about who did it.)
[Wiki]Updated the "Family Honor" quest page.
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【家族荣誉】故事继续。
【家族荣誉】为约翰·安博伍德加入了6个对话选项，提供很多关于那个遥远的避风塘单机版时期时代SAPC时期发生的一些故事。（大约是现实中的20年前。）
【家族荣誉】加入了任务物品：安博伍德的断剑。
【勇气终点洞穴】加入了一具可以搜刮到一整套白狼战士装备的骷髅。（没有幽灵词缀。可能包含别的随机词缀。想刷词缀的同学可以考虑S/L）
【勇气终点洞穴】在这具骷髅上也能找到安博伍德的断剑。
【勇气终点洞穴】加入了一篇新的文档作为新的线索。（你可能猜到了这里发生了什么。这个线索是关于是谁干的。）
【维基】更新了【家族荣誉】任务页面。
20250103
English
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[Family Honor]Added the first ending of this quest.
[Wiki]Updated the "Family Honor" quest page.
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【家族荣誉】加入了这个任务的第一个结局。
【维基】更新了【家族荣誉】任务页面。
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