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DD# 107 Colorful Characters

Hi, everyone. Welcome to meet a list of extraordinary people in this week's developer's diary.

A wise man once said, "a feature that does not show on UI is not a feature at all."
(That's the previous Hearts of Iron 4's game director Podcat who I once dumped on a lot of bug reports to. He is now working on some new cool stuff that even I don't know much about. Even I know, I cannot tell you. :D)

Anyway, we got a relationship system in the game for a long time. The game is tirelessly tracking your actions and the impacts on various characters. However, it seems we don't have anything clearly indicating their feeling about you after all that you have done except sometimes you may find some clues in their dialogs. It's an issue I intend to fix this week.

Now we have a dedicated UI to show your relationships with those colorful characters in the game.
Please note, not all characters with a relationship value have been implemented on this UI. Some still require a few tech and art issues to be sorted out first.

Some examples:
The people you met at the very beginning of the game.

By the way, Zhang Yin just got his 3D model updated this week. Thus, he looks a bit different now.

The Illuminati:


The Beggar King:


Someone that you may develop a very special relationship with:


Of course, as we live in a strange world, you can develop a relationship even with a sentient vendor machine:

Because of the nature of this anomaly, the relationship with Vic directly affects what kind of soda you can get.

Not just to people, and not just to someone who likes you. You can also check your relationship with another secret or not-so-secret society here:

Hopefully, that's not too many spoilers. As the world keeps expanding, and more stories unfold, it's likely the relationships between you and all those existing and new colorful characters in this world will continue to develop.


Relationship UI is one of the focuses of this week. However, that's not everything. During the revisit to all those characters above. Some received new story content along the way. For example, Weishaupt now has some special dialog when you ask him about the incident near the Queensmouth Church while bringing Trump with you.


We also got something about cooking.
We got a new cooking recipe to make salted fish.
We got a new equipment prefix that can improve your cooking skills.
We even got a minor kitchen god worshiped by people in East Asia added to the game.



Some other small additions to the game include: exchanging dust of history with GPA coins and more prefixes such as Hunter's and Vengeful.

That's for this week. Even if we live in a twilight world, there may still be colorful friends at dusk,

Today's changelog:
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[Prefix]New prefix: Chef's (Increase cooking skills level.)
[Prefix]New prefix: Hunter's (Increase damage to animals.)
[Prefix]New prefix: Vengeful (Increase counter attack rate.)
[Bakery Girl]Increased the number of Baguette Weapons she bakes every time.

Update, Version 20230202


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[Cooking]New food recipe: Salted Fish (Salt + Any Fish on any cooking device.)
[Faith]New Tenet: Zao Jun. (+Cooking Skills, +Fire Resistance. As a minor eastern god, requires Polytheism. Half the cost if following Taoism.)
[Faith]New religious book: Tales of a Kitchen God. (It unlocks the Zao Jun tenet.)
[This is a bar]Added a copy of Tales of a Kitchen God in the kitchen.
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【料理】新的食谱:腌咸鱼 (盐+任何种类的鱼,可以在任何烹饪设备上制作。)
【信仰】新信条:灶君。(+料理技能,+火属性防御。需要多神论信仰。如果是道教信仰,则价格减半。)
【信仰】新的信仰书籍:灶王传说。(解锁灶君信条)
【这是间酒吧】在厨房冲加入了一本《灶王传说》

Update, Version 20230201


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[Relationships]Added Andarufira's relationship display. (It requires you have met her first.)
[Relationships]Added Vic's relationship display.
[Story]The option to destroy Vic now requires you to confirm again. (I misclicked when testing. Sorry!)
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[Relationships]Added caps on the relationship range that can be displayed on the screen.
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【关系】加入了安达露菲拉的关系显示。(需要你见到过她之后才会显示。)
【关系】加入了维克的关系显示。
【故事】摧毁维克的对话选项现在会要求你再次确认。(我在测试的时候手滑了。抱歉!)
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【关系】加入了可以在屏幕上显示的关系数值的上限和下限。

Update, Version 20230131



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[Character]Upgraded Zhang Yin's 3D assets.
[Character]Zhang Yin now has a 3D version of his portrait.
[Relationships]Added Zhang Yin's relationship display. (It requires you to have left the airport.)
[Relationships]Added Karaduman's relationship display. (It requires you have met him first.)
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【角色】升级了所有张银的3D模型资源。
【角色】张银现在有了一个3D版本的头像。
【关系】加入了张银的关系显示。(离开机场后解锁。)
【关系】加入了卡拉杜曼的关系显示。(需要你见到过他之后才会显示。)

Update, Version 20230130


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[Relationships]Added the Beggar King's relationship display. (It requires you have met him first.)
[Relationships]Added the Tlilpotonqui's relationship display. (It requires you have met him first.)
[Relationships]Added the Queensmouth Survivors' relationship display. (It requires you have met Deputy Judy first.)
[Relationships]Added the Cult of Aten's relationship display. (It requires you to go to Baldat'Aten'Almaleuna again after this update to display. The trigger didn't exist in previous versions.)
[Story]If you ask Aleister Weishaupt about the first church encounter at Queensmouth Airport when bringing Trump with you, Trump and Weishaupt will now have a short conversation.
[Character]Harold Yin now has a 3D version of his portrait.
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【关系】加入了乞丐王的关系显示。(需要你见到过他之后才会显示。)
【关系】加入了特利伯通基的关系显示。(需要你见到过他之后才会显示。)
【关系】加入了王后镇幸存者的关系显示。(需要你遇到过朱迪警长之后才会显示。)
【关系】加入了阿腾教团的关系显示。(需要你在本次更新后去一次巴达图'阿腾'阿玛拉乌那图以显示这个选项。此前版本中这个触发器不存在。)
【剧情】当你在王后镇机场询问魏萨普关于第一次在教堂的遭遇的时候,如果队伍里有川普,那么现在川普和魏萨普会有一个简短的对话。
【角色】哈罗德·殷现在有了他的头像的3D版本。