[Restoration] Early Bird Update V0.3.09

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V0.3.09 (Nov 8, 2024)

New game features

- Added support for a combat group to choose one of several possible battlefield maps

-- This allows for more variety in battles, particularly in interior locations such as Coalnose Quarry, the upcoming Vault Six-Nine-Six Alpha, the Tidwell Mines

-- Most quest battles will continue to always use one particular battlefield map

- Added support for random enemy team deployment within deploy zones for particular battles

-- This is most noticeable in battles against bimbo patrols in Coalnose Quarry, randomizing which tiles the enemies deploy on rather than always prioritizing the same ones

- Added line-of-sight requirement to engage the player party in local maps between the player party and enemy parties

-- This means wandering hostile NPC parties must now have visual sighting of the player party before they begin pursuit and won't detect the party through walls anymore, making evading enemy patrols far easier

-- Solid black tiles and the dark gray rocky local tiles are the tiles that currently block line of sight. That means enemy parties can still see over certain types of non-traversable terrain, such as over water or through window tiles.

New game content (quests/writing/art/etc):

- Added Automaton Guardian form. Art is by hermes3smegistus.

- Added Minotaur Marauder form. Art is by Icy.

- Willow and Vyndaii now offer their thoughts when occupying one another's bodies

- Reprogramming In Progress is now enabled and can be completed start to finish. The quest may still be expanded slightly including more trap variety and player/companion transformations, so keep an older save game file pre-quest.

Miscellaneous

- Fox Romancers now have a new form trait, Foxy, that increases the damage of lust-based attacks

- Replaced satyr wardance spear graphic

- Added map fog to the corrupted fairy grove in North Shore

-- Because this fog didn't exist in the map previously, it will be present upon entering, even if the map has been fully explored already

- Completing the Self Maid Mansion should now no longer removes the potion of mental preservation recipe or the relevant potions from the quest

- Opening an unlocked door now causes all tiles to update their neighbors instead of just the immediate nearby tiles

-- This (might) fix some issues with the player party still being blocked by opened doors (until the game is reloaded) but also causes the game to freeze for a short time while this happens

Cheat/Debug controls (patreon-backer builds only)

- Added debug option to sync the player's color tones with the select companion

- Added option to add in new followers at a specific level. By default, this will be set to match the player level the first time that panel is opened per play session

Bugfixes:

- Fix for Refreshed status effect not actually granting any bonus

- Blackjaw crag should no allow for safe follower dismissals