Star Knightess Aura Public Release 0.25.4 (Patreon)

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https://aura-dev.itch.io/star-knightess-aura

Usual bugfixes and and a couple of minor changes. There is one bigger change regarding some discounts.

The Story Mode discount was removed and Hermann discounts were reduced to 15%/30%. The reason for this is that high discounts, especially when stacked, could create situations where buying and then selling back could generate money. 

The discount on Story Mode was introduced before the gold drops got drasticaly increased. I don't believe that since money drops were this massively boosted that the discount is necessary anymore. Having no difficulty based discounts will make it easier to keep an eye on whacky interactions.

The other changes are fairly minor. If you somehow maximum derped in Mountainreach and didn't even learn Open Domain II before losing to the curse, you can now learn Open Domain II from Elaine at the Church. Hard mode got a +2 Required Reading progress for books, as the slowed down game has created quite a few days with nothing to do for a day end. This should kind of "fit" the book reading times to the slower game speed. Due to some inconvenient implementation details, this change is not retroactive!

If you check the changelog you can also find the addition of a relationship boost for Alicia in the Library Club 8 scene. This change is applied retroactively, so your relationship values will be auto-corrected if you already have seen the scene.

And then it's really just bugfixes. See you in a couple hours again for the prererlease. Until then, the full changelog for this patch is as usual below.

Changelog 0.25.4 (23.12.2022)

• Reduce Hermann discount to 15%/30% 
• Added relationship gain for Alicia in Library Club 8 (retroactively) 
• Added option to learn Open Domain II from Elaine after her return 

Balancing

• Added +2 Required Reading Progress for non-lewd books to Hard mode 
• Removed Story mode item discount to deal with weird buy/sell interactions to gain infinite money 

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos 
• Fixed not-respawning incarnations 
• Fixed add summons when boss is already dead 
• Fixed glitchy guard movement when starting fortress of wrath upon leaving adventurer guild 
• Fixed being able to open chest in Northern Mountain Ranges on a different height level