Our assistant developer Trihan has awoken from his winter slumber and returned with a boat load of bugfixes for this week. The most noteworthy one, is probably the bug in Nothing But The Truth that blocked the progress for some players.

And then we have a couple minor balancing changes. 

Goblin Teeth has lost its buff and goes back to +1 ATK and +1MATK, gaining a +1 Max MP as a consolaton. We buffed it back then because in the polls in appeared as the weakest material, but buffing it to a +1 ATK, +2 MATK material was a bit much and made hunting Goblin Shamans in the early game too much of a priority. 

Then, Arwin now pays another extra 250 Gold for each Maid Job, lifting his reward to 750G and 1000G each. With the debuffs that you get from his event, I felt like his payment was a little bit on the lower side, now that he also gives the very-late game relevant Obedience debuff, I think it's time to give him a little bit of an extra money boost. 

The last change is that Knight Duelist Francis gets a little HP buff to raise him a bit more above the three duelists you have to fight before him.

And that's it for the public release, onto the prerelease!

Changelog 0.38.1 (29.12.2023)

• None

Balancing

• Reversed +1 MATK from Goblin Teeth but give +1 MP instead 
• Increase Maid Job 1 and 2 reward by 250 Gold each to compensate for debuffs 
• Increased HP of Knight Duelist Francis by 500 

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos
• Fixed Missing Will variant not working as evidence in Nothing But The Truth 
• Fixed blank text box when feeding Maleficumplating to Slime 
• Fixed max vice being too high
• Fixed Nothing But The Truth ending when presenting incorrect evidence even with lives left 
• Fixed battles starting in ambush even if player did not ambush them 
• Fixed John being unable to learn Blooming Fire in some circumstances 
• Fixed inconsistent Aura line in Rampaging Golem 
• Fixed Ointed Body no longer showing permanent MDEF message 
• Fixed Medium Slime not splitting in Slime Queen fight
• Fixed being able to do Bonding with Slime II without doing the first one 
• Fixed knights outside Keep not having Roland death dialogue after doing Something is Fishy
• Fixed some enemies still getting popularity boost after Roland dies 
• Fixed battle bugs in Maid Academy catacombs 
• Fixed shop inventory disappearing if highlighting "sell" while inventory is empty 
• Fixed Aura portrait remaining in refugee shed if examining wall and leaving 
• Fixed Roland still being in forced sex event list after killing him 
• Fixed party reaction scene triggering if Paulina already moved to the maid academy before triggering it
• Fixed 1-4 inputs for skill sorting no longer working properly