The the final pre-corruption ending milestone falls this week! With the 45th month of updates, the non-ending corruption events are now all DONE! It's not a lot of scenes, only 3, but they finally round out the remaining storylines.

The storyline for 'The Next Super Model' intertwines once more with the main plot, this time more fundamentally than just that shoutout scene. Likewise, the storyline of Aura overtaking Alicia takes form. I don't want to spoil too much but besides that we also have a bit of Patricia focus and George's storyline gets a little more aftermath. I think after the scene I wrote this week there really isn't anymore to do there, it's kind of like kicking a puppy that's on the ground at this point :'D 

Anyways, it's hard to believe, after all these years of adding one scene after the next, but the Earth Recollection Room is now completely filled up. We still have more scenes in the form of the actual ending scene and "epilogue scenes" coming up in the ending itself. These will probably get a room of their own east of the Earth Recollection Room. I will talk more about the structure of the endings in the Project Plan Update next month.

Then on the Roya side, Trihan has finished the first iteration of the complete Demon-crazy quest. Corrupt the girls so that they support the Shadow getting power or fight against him when he tries to win the election by force. I did a quest test run, the quest is still quite buggy so proceed with caution. :'D

Also on the Roya side, but not included in the prerelease is some progress on the Lady Charlotte content. Sadly I only managed to finish the Vice scene of Lady Charlotte 3 today, so I'm quite slow at that one. I'm not sure what it is, but the Charlotte content has been really dragging in terms of speed. The Earth scenes have been chugging along nicely, but since I tried to do her quest in April, it's been kind of a struggle.

I'm not unhappy with her content, I really like especially Lady Charlotte 2, but unlike say Paulina scenes which I could just brain -> rpgmaker write down, these require me to do a lot more sessions just to figure out how I want to write the scenes instead of just writing them from my imagination. Well, anyways, on the bright side, I did write the Vice sub-scene, it's sadly not in the prerelease as it's thightly coupled with the follow-up lewd scene content I then need to get started on next week.

On the art side, Cheerleading Game 4 has received it's H-CG and I also created this week the brief to Fighting Over Richard 5. Probably again one of the most complex CGs in the game as it's the first one featuring 6-people in a sex scene x_X The prices reflected the complexity accordingly.

Finally, one little more experimental balancing change. the MATK lewd book could kind of go bonkers in the mid- to late game and therefore received a nerf to cap how crazy it can go. The MATK bonus from Lewd Knowledge is now limited by 50% of your base MATK (in Status menu the full value - the green value). This allows to majorly boost your MATK but not to levels where the game is fully trivialized and additionally you need to invest into your MATK to gain the benefit, so it's not quite 0 cost.

Alright, that's it for the week! Next week, more Charlotte stuff and whatever else I managed to squeeze in before the major release!

Changelog 0.45.0-prerelease-3 (19.07.2024)

• Added Cheerleading Game 4 H-CGs
• Added mental change Demon Queen Question
• Added scene Wanting To Be A Model 10
• Added scene Patricia Rebelling 2
• Added scene Social Ranking 8
• Demon-cracy: Implemented Shadow boss fight
• Eliminated duplicate code in shrine and individual teleport CEs
• Added passive Entitlement: Queen's Privilege
• Increased max mental changes to 155

Balancing

• Limited MATK gain from Lewd Knowledge to 50% base MATK

Bugfixes

• Fixed Truthmaker Page being usable, having no price, and missing its enhance event
• Fixed Shadow gold reward not actually giving gold
• Fixed Liliana reward not actually adding gold
• Fixed Hair Highlights infused in Cheerleading Game 4 H-CG