Star Knightess Aura 0.27.0-prerelease-1 (Patreon)

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Tech week has passed once more. And while a lot of tech related stuff has happened this week, we also have a couple of minor content additions, with which I will be starting.

There are 3 new corruption events, one for each level of Novel Knowledge reduction. The scenes themselves are fairly short as I believe we have already sufficiently explored the whole interests loss in Chapter 1, but in return have a couple of noticeable effects. Aura's home continues to change as she throws out her old books, in the screencap for example, throwing away the books close to her bed and replacing it with a mirror with makeup products.

The scenes also have gameplay effects and reward Alicia for her persistent fight agains literature, giving Aura a new passive with 3 ranks.

Reading books will cause Aura to experience headaches, which in return will affect her ability to interact with magic. With each rank, the intensity and duration increases also by by 1 rank (+25% effects and 1 day of duration). Coupled with the extra required reading progress, Aura won't be having an easy time getting stronger from books. Lewd books are ok tough ;)

Should Aura still be able to draw an advantage from reading, then Alicia can squash that with the new mental change in the Library Club Daily Life key memory which Alicia can now completely erase, giving Aura the final reading debuff and wrapping up the book story line.

The huge Reading Progress requirements coupled with the lack of ability to read with a Headache effectively render reading an impossibility, though Aura may still try...

Alright, so much for the new content additions this week. On the technical side, our coder Trihan was quite busy further stabilizing and improving code quality of the now already a bit older UI rework, as well as the user experience experience.

If you are playing with controller, instead of the keyboard letters, the game now shows you the controller buttons (currently optimized for XBox and Steam deck). Players who use touch screen devices (e.g. mobile) should also have an easier time now, as you no longer need to tap select -> tap confirm options all the time. If you did prefer that, there is a new option in the General section to turn it back on.

Lastly, and I already posted this when it got introduced into the Daily Build, but since this technical change is high-impact I will reiterate it here, we also have the new Battle HUD rework.

I'm sure it will take a bit of getting used to but I think overall the reduction of useless clicking is more than worth it. If you have problems with it, suggestions, etc. it's best to share them in the #feedback channel on the Discord where you can also exchange your ideas and concerns with our coder directly.

The complete changelog for the prerelease content + the public patch is as usual below.

Changelog 0.27.0-prerelease-1 (06.12.2022)

• Scripted scene Aura Hating Books 1
• Scripted scene Aura Hating Books 2 
• Scripted scene Aura Hating Books 3 
• Added mental change "Empty Library Club Memory" 
• Implemented passives "Can't Remember Ever Enjoying Reading I - III" 
• Implemented passive "#fuckreading"
• Implemented battle HUD rework
• Integrated plugin fixing * passabilities being ignored 
• Logged and cleared enemies from compendium during intro 
• Removed double tap on mobile and added option for reenabling 
• Implemented controller icons 
• Increased max mental changes to 108 
• Put current legs of sloth progression into progression update message 
• Added ground marker for interactible relationship room characters 
• Added Rose Seduced by Richard removing Rose from relationships upon 

Balancing

• Gave Flash Bombs priority #3263

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos 
• Fixed broken script causing doubled dialogue for worshipper 
• Fixed nailpolish not appearing in Masturbating at Home 3