Star Knightess Aura Internal Release 0.30.0 (Patreon)

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Note that the public release will be in 2 weeks. You can also skip the waiting time by buying Star Knightess Aura on itch. <- Not recommended right now! 

Due to recent developments there is uncertainty about the future of nsfw games on itch. I don't want to explain too much here since there are a lot of unknowns floating around but the core issue is that itch has removed the ability to collect payouts for various developers this month.

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A month where we finally see some advancement on the main story of Star Knightess Aura! As usual, I refer to the devlogs for the individiual prereleases for those who are interested in a closer look at the changes, here we will dive into a summary of the main changes.

Put into numbers we have 11 new corruption scenes, 1 new dungeon, 2 new boss fights, 2 new lewd scenes, 1 new H-CG, 1 new character artwork, and various new additions to Verdeaux including main story progress!

Enter Main Cathedral and meet some old faces to kickstart the main event of Chapter 2-B! Besides that you can also find the new Bless II spell in here which also enhance Coatings and Drugs. You can also find the Shadowcloak II spell can be learned, further reducing your dectability. Of course, you know the Church at this point, they like their tutoring fees...

Besides the new skills in Main Cathedral we also have new ways to powerup all over Verdeaux. The Elixir Alchemist can turn large amounts of raw materials into Elixir potions which instantly raise your stats. The Book Cafe Pastries & Books has some new books to sell for those who are too poor for any of the other powerups :'D. At the market square you can find a new Material Merchant who sells the materials Slimy Oil, Mutated Spores, Scorpio Claw and Jelly Jam - although with a pretty slow restock speed, like the Nephlune material merchant. The prices are pretty expensive but those in need of these materials to deal with debuffs or to create new coatings, it should be helpful.

Even the Erotic Bookstore has a new book for sale, requiring 30 Lewd Knowledge though! However, if Aura reads it, she becomes so proficient at making her partners cum during sex, that the first day-ending sex action will not end the day. This means for example you can now have sex with Hermann without ending the day, giving Aura some counterplay to have more time for questing afterwards. Of course, the downside being the fact that she has to be corrupted enough to have 30 Lewd Knowledge in the first place.

The final addition this month to the Roya content is the second level of the Mount Firestorm dungeon, putting to 50% completion. Mine a lot of Pyromantium, a boss similar to Whitefang but tuned up to Chapter 2-B levels of difficulty and try to reach the end of the level without KOing from the heat.

In the mental world we also have a lot of new mental changes! Install a derogative nickname for George, power up Perverted Fulfillment, strenghten the curse to give extra corruption on orgasms, pull the George reationship lever and counter Aura's counter to questing post-sex by giving her a trait that makes it hard for her to focus for the rest of the day after reaching an orgasm.

We also have a lot of new corruption scenes to go along (altough most of them don't need you to trigger any mental changes). The bullying story line continues alongside the deterioration of George's and Aura's relationship as her values in other people changes towards valuing appearances and status over character and kindness. We also reach the by now for several built up point of Rose infiltrating the cheerleaders and switching to her gyaru art.

Then masturbation storyline has been further expanded, making Aura's sessions more explosive as she incorporates some toys into them. 

Finally, there is one more story scene to the Bad Guys meetup scene sequence I won't further spoil.

And I believe that covers most of it --- wait! Nearly all of it, we still need to take a look at some new balancing changes! The most important one: Eyes of Greed can now be partially dodged! You will receive an incomplete version of the curse that still reduces Aura's willpower as you spend money but it won't lock you out from spending the money at 0 Willpower.

Then, we also have two new difficulty modes that act as intermediate difficulty levels between Story and Hard. Hard has been renamed to Nightmare in this context. The new difficulty level between Story and Normal - Explorer - leaves the difficulty of encounters as they are, but turns off the Soul-Break bad end. It also does the encounter reduction and gives you some more money, but overall the difficulty itself is similar to Normal but you have a lot more room to play the game at whatever pace you feel like.

The new Hard mode which is now the intermediate difficulty between Normal and Nightmare likewise has its original trait of doubling curse effects and the costs of using workshop services, forcing you to rely less on raw stats. Encounters however, have not been buffed and are on the same difficulty as Normal.

I am not too much of a fan of adding too many difficulty modes as I mentioned a couple of times, but I believe the time has come to filter out the noise of feedback that is actually not feedback for a difficulty level but rather the wish for an intermediate one like I added this update.

Besides that there are a bunch of further balancing updates. Slime users will have a bit of a harder time with the summoning costs increasing by 2 instead of 1 per feeding now. Luck has also become a bit less powerful since I felt it was too common that encounters had the max luck factor. Some no-story mental changes like most of the spiderwebs are now auto-removed once their removal condition is met. Likewise, the computer which required 20 mental changes to become unlocked, becomes automatically unlocked once you have them.

There are a couple more mental changes but the post is now too long again, so just check out the changelog. :'D Have fun playing the new update and lets see if we need a hotfix tomorrow. :'D

Changelog 0.30.0 (28.04.2023)

• Added Homewrecking 3 H-CGs 
• Added Charlotte character artwork 
• Added dungeon Mount Firestorm Caves 1 
• Added map Main Cathedral
• Added quest stub "Reverse Summoning Ritual" 
• Added scene "Vulgar Language 1" 
• Added scene "George Nickname 1" 
• Added scene "Hallway Bullying 5" 
• Added scene "Library Club 9" 
• Added scene "Homework Project 5" 
• Added scene "Rose Infiltrating Cheerleading Club 1" 
• Added scene "Rose Infiltrating Cheerleaders 2" 
• Added scene "Bad Guys Meetup 3" 
• Added scene "Aura Masturbating 5" 
• Added scene "Aura Masturbating 6" 
• Added scene "Aura Masturbating 7" 
• Added mental change Orgasm Afterglow 
• Added mental changes George relationship lever 
• Added mental change language "Derogatory George Nickname" 
• Added mental change lewd control crystal
• Added mental change Perverted Fulfillment+
• Added boss Hi-Aethon 
• Added item Stasis Bomb+ 
• Added item Emerald Tea+ 
• Added item Vitality Potion+
• Added items Elixir of Power, Elixir of Magic, Elixir of Speed 
• Added book "An Advanced Guide To Focusing Your Mind" 
• Added book "Encyclopedia Alchemica Volume II" 
• Added book "Holding Your Breath"
• Added lewd book "Master Class Techniques To Make A Male Cum" 
• Added skill Shadowcloak II 
• Added skill Bless II and Blessed versions of Coatings and Drugs 
• Added Ex-Knight-Commander Lorraine
• Added Verdeaux Book Cafe Pastries & Books 
• Added Verdeaux Verdeaux Elixir Alchemist 
• Added Luck Professor NPC stubs 
• Added event meeting with Arch-Cardinal and Gabriel 
• Added Verdeaux shrine 
• Added variation for meeting Roland after starting Reverse Summoning Ritual 
• Added Gabriel post-meeting dialogue 
• Added Dolus post-meeting dialogue 
• Added minor Main Cathedral NPCs and flavor books 
• Added end of content point at party discussion 
• Added difficulty modes Explorer, Renamed Hard to Nightmare, and add easier Hard mode 
• Moved Lumerian Bread to Book Cafe and change Bread Merchant to a Material Merchant 
• Improved side-ways stairs to be more mouse and mobile friendly 
• Improved wildlife 
• Improved Ladder behavior for events such as evented ropes 
• Improved Color of HP/MP/WP text in the main menu 
• Renamed header for Special/Magic/Martial from "Skill" to "Special/Magic/Martial" 
• Added option to directly enter Mount Firestorm when possible 
• Added paper doll plugin to layer pixel art parts for actors 
• Refactord wildlife additions using TemplateEvent plugin 
• Increased max killed bosses to 86 
• Increased max mental changes to 122

Balancing

• Added Eyes Of Greed (Incomplete) and add option to Remove Collar when rescuing Abductees 
• Moved The Art of Tremor book to Verdeaux Bookstore 
• Exchanged Greater Salamander lava restriction for greater lava area 
• Increased price of Magic Enhancer from 2500 to 4000 Gold 
• Increased MDEF of Cockatrice and Willpower reduction of Mind Gaze 
• Decreased Slime natural DEF to MDEF curve and and reduce initial HP by 5 
• Increased Slimes summoning cost increase per feeding by 1 per feed to 2 per feed 
• Auto-unlocked blocking mental changes like computer and spiderweb when their condition is satisfied
• Decreased luck factor increase to 2.5% per luck 
• Increased John DEF gain from paying him to learn Slash from 3 to 5 

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos
• Fixed migrator not applying to previous saves
• Fixed Perverted Fulfillment+ text not displaying properly in instincts room
• Fixed incorrect Aura position in Next Super Model scene
• Fixed Aura RL costume not restoring after sex/masturbation scenes
• Fixed summoned slimes not having boss collapse type
• Fixed missing export protection rules for Rose assets
• Fixed passability error in Main Cathedral
• Fixed repeated music reset in Arwin Domain 1
• Fixed John Rising crash in official release
• Fixed Show Rose Naked sprite using outdated paths 
• Fixed John not being able to use taught spells
• Fixed movement issue in first underground pub cutscene 
• Fixed Poisoned Blade applying Poison with 100% chance 
• Fixed incorrect enemy ID in enemy Summon Fire Slime 
• Fixed being able to view Tutored by George 3 before Tests are Out 6 
• Fixed missing bust change in cheerleader infiltration scene 
• Fixed incorrect template map ID for wildlife 
• Fixed template event override settings 
• Fixed item names overlapping quantity in buy/sell confirm window 
• Fixed overlapping usage of temp variables in Barracks 
• Fixed doubled Blessed Water price applying to hew Hard mode 

Stats

• Estimated play time: 26-33h
• Word Count: 478k
• Lewd Scenes: 74
• Real World Scenes: 207
• CGs: 32 (+1 Bonus CG)