DD#117 The Siege of the Black Pyramid
Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.
This week, the content updates are mostly two parts.
The first one is something we left from the last week. You can now turn Cactus People into your pets. You can now grow your own cactus plants. We also got a new recipe for cooking fried vegetable noodles.
The second part is something more exciting. As our main story reached the Black Pyramid's outside area, it's natural that the Aten Cultists would have set up a defense to stop you from reaching there. Here is where things can go on diverse paths based on your previous choices.
During this week's updates, we got four different ways the story can develop and how you can overcome the obstacle of the defense of Aten Cultists. You will not be able to experience all four different stories in one play-through unless you load a previous save as early as back in the Grand Library. However, that is the point. Your choices matter. (Even though that means I will have to put in additional works to address all those possibilities. :P)
Details on the different paths can be found on the game's wiki. Here are just some short summaries to avoid too many spoilers.
The first big difference is, do you decide to go alone?
Despite other seeming friendly factions offering their help to aid you as long as you share the knowledge from a certain book with them. But, do you think you can really trust them? Or, maybe you have already foreseen the possibility to turn hostile to them later. Or, maybe you just want all the secret knowledge for yourself. No matter the reason, you spent your sanity and figured out the previous answers. But, when you reached the outside of the Black Pyramid, facing the defense of the Aten Cultists. You are still alone. Thus, you will have to break through all by yourself in a long fight. But, maybe, everything will be worth it in the end.
The second big difference is if you have allies, who would that be?
Did you side with the designated evil capitalists Illuminatis or the overzealous Templars? Either of the faction will bring their own solution to help you destroy the defense of your enemy. In addition to that, they both have their own additional service. You can get a supply vendor if you allied with the Illuminati while if you allied with the Templars, you can get free healing. Either can be helpful, but you have to make your choice.
Or, not.
Maybe, the choice is an illusion. You like to think out of the box. Thus, you spent extra efforts back in the Grand Library and figured out a way to convince both of those two factions to work together and formed a joint force. Congratulations! You will now get help from both of them. Of course, they still don't see eye to eye with each other. But, they both agree to help you. An argument will break out. But, you may be surprised to see they systemically obliterate every single Aten Cultist in this area even when they are arguing. After that, you will get benefits from both factions. Namely, both the supply vendor and the free healing.
The story will continue from here. No matter what you chose before, they will continue to affect the story. But, that's for this week.
Next week, I will be taking another relatively smaller surgery to takeout the implant from the previous surgery. It may affect the updates for a day or two. But, we will get it over with. Meanwhile, a global holiday seems will arrive soon. Thus, the discount plan will likely be revealed in the next DD.
Today's changelog:
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[Lost in the Sand]Story continues on the "Jointed Force" path. (If you previously convinced both the Templars and the Illuminati to work together, they will both come to your aid. An argument will break out between those two factions. During the argument, they systemically will murder all the defense forces of the Aten Cultists. You will get benefits from both of those two factions. Variable 850 -> 930)
[Lost in the Sand]Added a failsafe, in case of the system cannot detect which path a player is on for any reason, it will consider the path as the "lone-wolf" path.