Public Release 2.8: Personalities/Curios/Class Rework

What's New?

Personalities

Quirks are no longer assigned randomly, but depend on the personality of the adventurer. Quirks that conform with their personality will get strengthened, other ones get removed. The same holds for crests, and innate personality traits. This makes your girls less interchangeable, and gives them more... well... personality.

The mental ward has been overhauled. It will still remove quirks, but also allows you to instill mantras in your adventurers to guide their personality the right way. Perhaps your aggressive, autonomous warrior should learn to be a bit more service-minded to fulfill her destiny as a maid?

Curios

Curios come from Darkest Dungeon. There they are interactables that you encounter during your dungeon delving. You can cleanse them with provisions and get benefits or debuffs from interacting with them. They serve the purpose of making the dungeon runs less repetitive. Curios take up an entire room, though multiple ones can be combined. When interacting with them, either forcedly or by choice, each party member will have an opinion of how to handle the situation. Those opinions depend primarily on their personality, but can also be based on their quirks, class, or stats. You then decide which option (or none if the curio allows so) to pick. These options can range from your adventurer getting fully healed, getting extra lust, getting forced equipment, or even getting permanently turned into a [REDACTED]. 

Read more about the curios in the dedicated devlog at: https://madodev.itch.io/lewdest-dungeon/devlog/646056/progress-report-curios

Quests and Flavor

There are now quests in the game. These serve three purposes. Firstly they are a soft tutorial. Secondly they will be the basis of the main story. Thirdly they allow for repeatable semi-random quests. Currently, they aren't anywhere near that. It's just an implementation framework, serving to see what works and doesn't work for the quest UI. Additionally I went through all gear, quirks, traits... and gave all of them a flavor description.

Read more about the quests in the dedicated devlog at: https://madodev.itch.io/lewdest-dungeon/devlog/650430/progress-report-flavor-and...

Class Rework

Classes now exist of different upgrades which are bought using point obtained from completing development goals. After completing a set amount of goals the character "levels up", but that only matters for uncursings and the dungeon difficulty required for goals. So with the goals you buy upgrades which give you the moves or stat boosts as before. This allows you to beeline certain moves and feel like you're growing faster.

Read more about the class rework in the dedicated devlog at: https://madodev.itch.io/lewdest-dungeon/devlog/653930/progress-report-class-rewo...

Translation Support

The game now also supports translations. These are .po files that have to be added in the Translations folder next to the game. Unfortunately there aren't any translations yet, but at least they are possible now.

What's Next?

Swamp Biome

Petgirl and Slimes (already available to Patrons)

Next it's time to start working on the Swamp area and the accompanying cursed class. The pet class is already added for Patrons, it mostly works like the other cursed classes. But its weapon prevents her from wearing outfits and underwear.

I also created a couple of Slimes. These should have been added sooner (and are the reason the encounter rate of some dungeons doesn't sum up to 100%) but mostly occur in the swamp. Slimes work like Ectoplasms in Darkest Dungeon in that they can combine to form larger slimes.

Alraunes and Vines

After the slimes there are still a bunch of swamp only enemies, primarily vines and Alraunes. That's what I'll be working on now.

Changelog 2.8

Major:

• Full rework of the class system.
  
• Adventurers now have personality traits. These traits influence their personality which is measured on 5 axes.
• Crests now influence, and are influenced by, personalities. Same with Quirks.
• A large amount of curios for all dungeon types.
• A quest system and a large amount of flavor text.
• Translation support.

Minor:

• Healing no longer is no longer percentage based on max HP, instead healing done is increased by WIS and healing received by DEX.
  
• The Mental Ward now allows instilling mantras which slowly change the girl's personality.
  
• Bunch of new equipment from hoods to boots. Courtesy of Heretic Angel.
• Quirks now have icons.
• There's a UI for the personalities, which also shows the progress in different crests.
• There are console commands for setting personalities, traits, and mantras.
• There's now an overview of all missions in the overworld.
• A bunch of collectable doll accessories. 
• Some performance enhancements for larger guilds and the desire panel.
  
• Hypno eyes for desire textures.
• A bunch of new (sometimes cursed) weaponry. Thanks to Meoaim.
  
• Icons of goals that the girl is under levelled for are now greyed out.

Balance:

• Technicians now prioritize build over reinvigorate.
• Surgery success can now reach 100%.
• Changed goals for curse accessories, making the cursed class equips easier to remove. 
  
• Loot from enemies has been reduced to take curios into account. 
  
• Cramps token increases cramps chance with 10% instead of 5%. 
  
• Divine intervention has been buffed, it goes one save further back and resets the random buffer.
  
• Armbinder of Adequate Violence now behaves like the Armbinder of Excessive Violence.
  
• Vine bangle now only reduces DUR damage by 30%. 
  
• Save and saveplus tokens now counter blind tokens.
• You get access to maid jobs a bit earlier.
  
• Ratkin Paladin can no longer heal himself.
  
• Warspider's Guard now has a two turn cooldown.
• Warrior's Mark Target now adds two vulnerability tokens.
• Mage's Blink adds stealth instead of dodge. 
•  Mage's Magic Missile now ignores defensive tokens. 
• Cleric's Pray now also heals a bit. 
• Cleric's Shield of Faith now adds riposte. 
•  Cleric's Seamantle now gives two dodgeplus tokens. 
•  Cleric's Bane does a small amount of damage, gives exposure and can no longer be resisted. 
• Rogue's advance and retreat now deal less damage but have a bleed dot. 
• Rogue's find weakness now always removes positive tokens. 
• Rogue's open vein does slightly more bleed damage. 
• Rogue's upperslice does a small amount of bleed damage. 
• Alchemist's upper damage ranges have been increased.
• Chronic Masturbator has been changed and is now a negative quirk.
  
• Collar of lust now puts minimum lust at 75 to prevent prisoner's explosion exploit. 
  

QoL

• You can now hide invalid items when sorting equipment.
  
• There are icons for the minimap and you can see adjacent rooms.
  
• You can now check missions even if you have an empty party.
  
• Clarified when you can't complete dev goals due to low dungeon difficulty. 
• Added more leeway for clicking towards the next room. 
• Rarity display is now more clear.
• Spruced up the losing conclusion screen. 
• Sort now sorts on job automatically.
  
• You get a summary of guild events after each day.
• Added minor autosaves in the guild, ensuring that the game saves when employing girls or changing their equipment.
  
• Missing gear (through mods or save incompatibility) now shows this clearly instead of turning into a Leather Armor.
•  Adventurering girls are now shown at the top in the guild.

Bugfixes:

• Paladin wouldn't get divine favor if the flagellate didn't make her bleed.
• Suggestion effects didn't actually work
• Daze on enemies with multiple turns would delete a turn.
• Added missing massage textures.
• Stop "Overencumbered" from appearing for a split second when exiting battle.
  
• Victory streak no longer starts at 8.
• Dungeons didn't get saved in the overworld. 
• Token scaling didn't work and could crash the game.
• Daily desire gain didn't work and could crash the game.
• When a girl ripostes a dead enemy (e.g. after multiple ripostes) the game would crash.
• Some randomness, like afflictions, wasn't kept after saving. 
• Bunny ears no longer prevent wearing earrings while allowing other ear types. 
• Movement indicator would remain visible after switching rooms.
• Weakness scanners didn't die if everyone dodged it's attack. 
• Weakness tokens got highlighted even if the move did no damage. 
• Blind tokens got ignored if the move did no damage. 
• Acid bangle has been removed, so acid bangle (cursed) is the only acid bangle.
• You now get the infinite gear for a class once unlocked.
• Lust was incorrectly aligned in combat.
• You can no longer call preset teams "" 
• You can no longer retreat during the enemy's turn
• Right-Clicking the in-combat info no longer opens it again if you were hovering an adventurer. 
• Retreat panel was off-center in the dungeon.
• Desire panel wouldn't stay selected in dungeon or combat.
• Player effects weren't saved in dungeons.
• The immobile token wouldn't always work.
• Hovering over curse revealed items in the conclusion panel would cause a crash.
• Healing abilities could crit, but wouldn't consume crit tokens.
• Pubes didn't show on non-Tomo characters.
• Open Mouth Gag and Penis Gag were cursed without goals.
• If two girls got ungrappled at the same time only one got ungrappled.
• Ungrappled girls wouldn't immediately move other ones back visually.
• Move goal now only works when moving yourself. It sometimes worked when getting moved before.
• Incorrect color for trinket slot in EquipmentPanel when swapping between a girl with an unremovable item in that slot, and one without item in that slot.
• Provision tooltips didn't show correctly. 
• Guard tokens wouldn't disappear if the guardian died.
• Mods didn't work on Linux.
  
• Durability wasn't displayed in case of items in the dungeon equip group.  
• Forced tokens weren't recalculated after repairing broken gear.
• Armorless goal was missing for level 1-2.
• Minimap curio didn't reveal minimap.  
• Goal checks could cause crashes when reequipping partially cursed gear that got unequipped after kidnapping or curio.
• Pick random wasn't actually random. This caused caverns to be overrepresented in missions.
• Doubleclicking a girl on a hidden building would unemploy her.

Changelog 2.81 (Patron only for now)

Major:

• Swamp dungeons.
• Slime enemies (of the normal, large, and huge varieties).
• The petgirl class.

QoL:

• There's now a way to view all girls in a neat overview. Thanks Haraberu.
• You can now skip days, this will reduce your victory streak, and won't reroll dungeons.
• Quirks can be locked again, giving a bonus to their growth.
• The class panel is now sorted by amount of XP.
• You can now see the dice rolls system that you get when upgrading your recruit quality.
• Readded exclamation hint when you don't have all your moves equipped.
• Changed tooltips in the personality panel to better correspond with the personalities.

Balance:

• Protection Unit won't receive a block token every turn any more.
• Protection Unit's Guard now has a two turn cooldown.
• Rogue's Stretch Muscles now gives a stealth token.
• Rogue's Stab now deals double damage when stealthed.

Bugfixes (also fixed in 2.8):

• Enemies kidnapped in the swamp didn't suffer any kidnap effects.
• Enemies in the swamp wouldn't correctly apply petgirl equipment.
• Quirks weren't granted to new adventurers Aura and Tomo had the wrong visual breastsize at start 
• Yelp and Rabid Rush moved in the wrong direction 
• Quirks are no longer lost at dungeon end, unless they are at 0 progress.
• Gain Main from the pet gear is now parsed as Gain Main Desire 
• Boob size changes through the Hospital wouldn't show immediately and could have fractional values.
• Cursed Class gear wouldn't uncurse on gaining a new level. 
• Quests wouldn't get completed on gaining a new level. 
• Visual error on the dog tail for a kneeling sprite.
• Curios could sometimes progress the placeholder crest of your girls.
• Typos
• Lick clean would remove the dot it applied.
• Latex ring would send gear to the guild, and wouldn't work in case of equipment taking multiple slots.
• The tavern curio could cause weapons to get unequipped. 
• Self: on hit effects will no longer trigger when targetting self or allies.
•  Goals from hidden cursed equipment wouldn't show in the goals overview.
• Hidden goals from hidden cursed equipment wouldn't work in some specific cases.
• Shuffling petgirls could cause the entire party to go on all fours. 
• Visual error with items on the Kneeling puppet that hide layers.
• Visual error with the full bondage mask on the petgirl.
• Some cursed items would get uncursed if they weren't equipped while saving 
• Hidden cursed items would show the incorrect durability.