It is once again the last Friday of the month and with that also time for the next internal release! This month's focus was largely in adding more dungeon crawling content. You will find 5 new boss fights in the new Draknor Fortress dungeon area consisting currently of 7 new maps. On the lewd side, we have 1 new lewd scene, concluding the events at the Formula Peddler, and 1 new H-CG, starting off the illustrations of said Formula Peddler. Finally, on the corruption side, there are 2 new mental changes and 5 new corruption scenes. In addition to these content changes, we also have two new additions to the system: Hard Mode and Skill Carry Over.

Now, let's briefly have a closer look to these changes!

The new dungeon can be accessed by following the Fortress of Wrath questline. The quest line also brings us a new major curse: Arms Of Wrath. Each step and turn in battle wears down Aura's resistance to the curse. Either follow Aura's "smashing through everything" approach and take the curse head on, or try to avoid it by finding and making short-cuts. Alternatively, bolstering up your MDEF to increase Aura's resistance is also a possible path to avoid the curse. With the new curse, Aura will continuously lose willpower for every executed phyiscal attack and once it hits 0, she will fall into an enraged state.

The area also comes with various new bosses, among them 2 new demon fights. Now, just to warn you: With the last boss of the content, Kerberos, I have no idea on whether it can be reasonable defeated with the currently available resources and skills. If any of you played the 0.3.0 version back then when I first added the Low-Demon, well, yeah think of this fight as the Chapter 2 version of that.

Moving on to the corruption side! Next month I plan to commission the next set of Appearance Changes, and this month I have been working on some of the necessary corruption scenes and mental changes to make that happen.

Following the Shoes plot line we hadn't continued since some time, Alicia further pushes up Aura's desire to throw more money at them, Aura gets more involved in social media, and we also get a new episode of Aura failing to continue the development of her game due to a very distracting online flash sale of shoes.

We also have two new scenes on the Cheerleader storyline, which will eventually be the trigger to the Make Over story line, unlocking the above mentioned Apperance Changes. However, that is still music for next month. For now, we can watch Aura raking in compliments, whch I plan to use as unlock condition for the upcoming Popularity 2 mental change.

Finally, let's talk a bit about the two new additions on the game system side. When you start a new game, you will now have the option to choose the new difficulty Hard Mode. In Hard Mode, you can earn a lot more NG+ Score points, but the difficulty is ramped up hard through stronger enemies, higher costs and by having Aura start out with an additional curse Womb Of Lust (Incomplete).

With this curse, Aura will lose 5 willpower for every day she passed without a lewd action or taking Blessed Water. The most terrific part, though, is defeating the Goblins at the start. Finally, the book in Aura's interests room about dying to Goblins has perfectly come true.

A great help for tackling the new difficulty mode using existing NG+ points is the new Skill Carry Over option. It's the last planned NG+ option for 1.0. Whenever you learn a new skill, you will be able to select it in exchange for some score and start a new game with said skill. Day 1 Summon Slime incomming! You can also start the game with Chapter 2 exclusive skills such as Bless Item or Shadowcloak and quite significantly change up the early game experience.

This concludes my report for this month's update. There are also a couple more minor additions I haven't mentioned in this post. For more details on the development and the new content, I refer to my prerelease devlog posts.

Otherwise, the complete changelog, as usual, below:

0.15.0 (28.01.2021)

• Added mental change "Shoes II Interest"
• Added mental change "Heel Universe Online App"
• Added scene "Cheerleader Practice 3"
• Added scene "Cheerleader Practice 4"
• Added scene "Evening Chat With Alicia 6"
• Added scene "Aura Dev 4"
• Added scene "Posting On Social Media 1"
• Integrated H-CG "Lewd Dance for Formula Peddler"
• Integrated lewd scene "Blowjob with Doll Aura" (Thanks to Gaurav)
• Added map "Draknor Fortress: Outer Area"
• Added map "Draknor Fortress: Caves"
• Added map "Draknor Fortress: Floor 0"
• Added map "Draknor Fortress: Floor 1"
• Added map "Draknor Fortress: Floor 2"
• Added map "Draknor Fortress: Aamon Domain"
• Added map "Draknor Fortress: Kerberos Domain"
• Added items "Antidote" and "Blessed Antidote"
• Added skill "Bomb Proficiency I"
• Added skill "Coating Proficiency I"
• Implemented options to learn Bomb Proficiency I and Coating Proficiency I from Desmond
• Revealing transformed enemy forms in beastiary upon victory
• Added tracking of number of bosses killed in Beastiary
• Added Fortress of Wrath dialogue with Sardine
• Made stolen food apples stealable
• Added curse "Arms of Wrath" (Thanks to Gaurav)
• Removed dependency of Getting Started to save Edwin
• Added Skilly Carry Over NG+ Bonus (Thanks to Gaurav)
• Added Hard Mode (Thanks to Gaurav)
• Increased max boss kills to 44
• Increased max mental changes to 53
• Increased max lewdness to 20
• Upgraded to RPGM 1.4.3

Balancing

• Corruption now only affects the initial willpower at day start
• Changed Poison Coating to Workshop Level 7, price to 420 and poison rate to 25%

Bugfixes

• Fixed beastiary stats not being adjusted to difficulty level (Thanks to Gaurav)
• Fixed #spells and #matrials not being correct when carrying over skills (Thanks to Gaurav)
• Fixed non-integer willpower values due to eyes of greed (Thanks to Gaurav)
• Fixed damage transfer in festival encounters on non-normal difficulties
• Fixed some bugs in obstacle removals (Thanks to Gaurav)
• Fixed drawbridge not being lowered after Festival (Thanks to Gaurav)
• Fixed missing direction fix flags for Memory Mirrors
• Fixed standing image race condition