Star Knightess Aura 0.36.0-prerelease-1 (Patreon)

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And we start with the next dev cycle! As you may already know from the project plan, the big goal of this and the next two weeks is to close out the Reverse Summoning Ritual. This week I got the the point where I was hoping I could have ended with the last update.

First we have the battle against Roland. Depending on how much you interacted with him, it you may only get a fairly short dialogue here, but if you have progressed down his event chain you will get additional dialogue and reactions from your party members.

Roland's popularity also plays a major role in the difficulty of the fight, as well as Aura's Roland Adoration level. You will not be able to kill Roland yet, if that was your hope. In order to kill him, you will need to be able to drop his Popularity low enough, which will only be possible to do after the next Roland quest. That being said, if you miss killing him here, you will get a second chance during the Chapter 3 quest Judgement of Pride where he will make a guest appearance.

Besides the Roland battle, I have also done some other general work on the related dungeon area. The Souldust mage now has a bunch of skills instead of just the one passive. There are also a couple minor mapping changes and improvements to the Lysander dialogue. I still need to do more testing, but even if your preparation is perfect, the new souldust spells (and their appropriate usage) should allow you to counter a lot of things you can find in the dungeon.

Then, I have also worked on the next area, from which point onwards we will be on a bit more of a narrative part of the quest. I won't post a screenshot since it would probably easily spoil too much. I was hoping I would also get to the next event, but realized there are still a couple of things I want to improve on the narrative flow, so today I mostly added a couple of stubs that are not yet accessible (Heavenly Path 4 in the changelog). Next week I hope I can finish the narrative dungeon segment and then we go to the boss battle in the one after that.

Aaaand that covers this week's changelog. As usual, the complete changelog including the changes from today's public patch can be found below.

EDIT: ALSO I HATE THE PATREON REDESIGN. AND IT'S BUGGED, SOMETIMES IN MY BROWSER WHILE I AM TYPING THE FONT SIZE WEIRDLY FLICKERS WEIRD THINGS HAPPEN. WEIRD THINGS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING WHILE TYPING.

Changelog 0.36.0-prerelease-1 (06.10.2023)

• Implemented boss fight Roland
• Implemented Souldust Mage spells #4639
• Set default option for Dash to true, may need to tweak tutorial dialogue to say press shift to move slowly instead of dash
• Added meeting Claire after Second Divine Gate
• Configured Nightmare Sorceress class
• Added stub Heavenly Path 4
• Increased max killed bosses to 105

Balancing

• Increased Souldust of human encounters to 1 per enemy

Bugfixes

• Fixed duplicate code in quest word wrap formatting and fixed multi-line long objectives overflowing into the border
• Fixed Ascend/Descend not memorizing jump direction for Ascend skill
• Fixed missplaced jump and broken tile on Roland side in Divine Path 2
• Iterated Poisoned Elixirs fixes/improvements
• Fixed third Darry and Barry fight triggering when defeating them the second time during reverse summoning ritual
• Fixed Rose Bond passive giving floating point willpower
• Fixed doubled KO icons
• Fixed locked/unlocked labelling glitches in recollection room
• Fixed missing Aura standing images in intro dialogues
• Fixed missing Not-Alicia portrait in Rose betrayal scene
• Fixed memory fragment typo
• Fixed Tenacity I learn option still being available after learning it
• Applied minor fixes to meeting Goddess dialogue
• Fixed auto-spell usage decreasing states turn 1