December Update Post (Patreon)

There goes another year and with that Hero Corruption approaches two years of constant development. Let's talk about this month's progress:

As you may have noticed, Milovana is experiencing some instability for a few days now, this makes it impossible for HC1 to be edited or published, so the release schedule may be affected depending on when the site will be fixed.

The launch of the new version would be scheduled for Friday, January 6th. I already have the content ready for version 1.65 but the site needs to remain stable for the content to be implemented in the actual tease. 

If the site happens to come back too close or after that period, I'll work hard to try to release the new patch as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, great progress has been made in HC2. These include a tutorial, difficulty selection, personality traits, new enemies, quality of life improvements, and some other tweaks:

The Tutorial introduces the player to the first screens of the game, which consist of the Skill Tree, Attributes and with this new update, the Personality Traits. It also explains the UI and walks the player through their first encounter.

Even if you already have a save state, you will still be able to participate in the tutorial the first time you play the new version. I should probably mention that there is a new achievement for those who complete it.

I had a lot of fun writing it, so I hope you guys do too and let me know if there's anything important that I've forgot to cover.

You will also be able to play HC2 in Easy, Normal and Hard mode, just keep in mind that achievements are disabled in easy mode and, in the future, those who beat the game in hard mode will receive a unique achievement.

The easy mode will increase the hero's EXP gain and decrease the enemy's health, while the hard mode will increase the girls' health, increase the amount of gold dropped when defeated and add some new moves to the enemies. There are no new pics in Hard mode.

Hard mode can be very frustrating, so if you regret it, there's a new "Delete All Save Data" function in the options menu that will erase all your game progress and allow you to start over at a new difficulty.

Personality Traits were implemented to give more individuality to each run, you may think of it as a "Souls 2.0" (Only much cooler)

At the start of each run, you will be able to choose between negative and positive traits. These traits cannot be removed and will be a part of your Hero throughout the entire adventure.

A Hero can be Clumsy and miss his opponents during battle, but he can also be able to neutralize negative potions side-effects. While another may be stronger and hit much harder, but hides a vulnerability to a very specific addiction. And if you're not feeling like playing the meta-game just hit "Random" and do some roleplay, maybe you'll even get Lucky.

Although they cannot be removed, some personality traits can be developed in the middle of a run, so be careful what you expose your hero to in HC2

I'm really looking forward to you guys playing this new version and creating your own stories, and of course, ideas for new traits are very welcome. There are also plans to add new unlockable traits to the talent tree and even mid-run.

Can you guess what the other traits are based on the screenshot?

A quick side-note before we wrap things up:

When HC2 v0.5 releases, v0.1d will be updated to v0.1e and released to the public. The new tutorial and difficulty toggle was added to v0.1e in order to help potential new players

Personality traits, enemies and other new additions will only be available in version 0.5

There are other new features, but I'll let you guys find out on launch day on Monday, January 2nd.

Happy holidays ! And have a great new year everyone ❤