Hero Corruption 2 v1.40b Released !
Added 2025-02-03 12:15:09 +0000 UTCThe new version of HC2 is out !
Changes:
NEW EVENT
Now is the time for you to prove that those basic math lessons were worth it
Guessing the correct result in this new event increases your score, you need an A+ to pass the exam. Running out of time repeatedly will result in private lessons.
Get an A+ grade before being called to the front of the classroom to unlock the new album for the Museum
The Exam event can be found at any area within the game and the odds of triggering it were greatly increased. This is temporary, so that you can experience it easily.
NEW CHALLENGER
Ella is back from Hero Corruption 1 as a new challenger at the Arena
Just like you, she has a Stamina system that will determine the strength of her attacks, use that to your advantage.
Her first stance is very different from her second one, and is relatively easy to switch. Try to keep her in the stance that benefits your hero's stats.
OTHERS
Added 2 new Bad Endings: The Exam, Ella
Added 1 new support technique: Ruined
Added 1 new Quest: Brat Control
Added 2 new arena modifiers
Added 2 new achievements
Added The Exam event to the Museum gallery unlockable pool
Updated the tutorial
BALANCE STUFF
Reduced Technique training minigame speed by ~45%
Reduced the amount of gold that Marian takes 10% > 5%
BUG FIXES
Fixed Tired increasing Stamina consumption by +100% instead of +50%
Fixed tutorial crash
Fixed Autumn sound loop
Fixed technique crash when encounter is Multiple type
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v1.40b:
Fixed a crash when entering the city when the museum and recipe store are both unlocked
Fixed Charlotte never ending loop
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v1.40c:
Fixed Ella not showing up to be challenged again in the Arena
Event trigger chance was scaled back to normal
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Comments
Sorry about that Tom, are you playing the latest version uploaded? (1.40c) What happens before your hero gets broken? Does the classroom pics even show up or are you taken straight to the bedroom when the event triggers?
Diogaoo
2025-02-08 10:40:35 +0000 UTCThe game is bugged for me. I always end up in private lessons without ever getting a chance to do the math. It seems like the event isn't triggering properly. I'm using the APK version, and I have it recorded if you want to check.
Tom collins
2025-02-08 06:24:22 +0000 UTCThe keys are randomized, there are a few places that are "spawn" points (the cleaning room, the end of the northwest hallway) that might have keys... or not. The exit isn't locked until you get caught once or twice. You don't need an exit key if you don't run into anyone. So just go in, skulk about for a bit of gold and maybe some materials or potions and pop back out before anyone notices you. Once you get caught though it becomes more dire, as you need to find the exit key. Anytime you see a bin or shrub in a hallway it might have a key, you might have to investigate it several times before the key drops. Nearly any hallway can have a random bin somewhere in it. I'm not too sure on the specifics or limitations on where they can spawn. Not at intersections maybe?
OnceNotThrice
2025-02-07 18:10:30 +0000 UTCStill trying to figure out how to get through the Facility, get the milking room key and cleaning room key, but I can't seem to find the right door to open after a number of tries and reruns at that point. Are the key drops randomized? Is there a hard check that prevents progression or something. Also sometimes I find an exit key, sometimes not.
Civil
2025-02-07 02:34:13 +0000 UTCFor my part: I mentioned before the event was difficult, but I may have misspoke. Running into it very very early in a run can be difficult as it can put a lot of addiction on you if you get to the third stage or so. Once I memorized the answers like the above user mentioned I didn't have as much trouble, but running into the event later on when I had more money to spend at the church made it much less consequential. The issue may be less with the event itself and more having it trigger anywhere at any point. Then again I may have gotten very unlucky getting it twice before I even got access to the city. It's only really brutal the first time or three you see it, when you have to actually do the math.
OnceNotThrice
2025-02-04 20:10:35 +0000 UTCOh boy, this event is getting tricky, some people find it too easy, other find it pretty hard π₯ After rethinking the situation you're right, stuffing the hero with potion after receiving the fairy buff feels wrong, I'll hotfix it On the other hand, Olivia maxhp is capped intentionally to prevent players from facing boss Olivia spamming addiction damage with 3k hp if they choose to be extra careful
Diogaoo
2025-02-04 10:11:42 +0000 UTCYou're right, my mistake, I'll upload a new version asap
Diogaoo
2025-02-04 10:06:58 +0000 UTCThanks for the feedback Once, I know it can be annoying, but I'll decrease it really soon and probably decrease it's difficulty a bit, a least at the final stages @edit: In fact, I'll be releasing 1.40c in about an hour, the event should spawn less often
Diogaoo
2025-02-04 10:06:09 +0000 UTCFighting Ella and after defeating her. The option to challenge her doesn't appear. she just disappears
Lucky Phan
2025-02-04 05:44:46 +0000 UTCTried out the new event, and had to redownload 1.40b as the version I got before that was broken. The exam set is eyecandy, but the event itself was quite easy. Even if you don't want to do "math" like 2+2, there are only a few answers total in the event, that are easy to memories. In terms of the usual stuff, I think I've mentioned this before, but you can still drink potions without addiction gain after fairy (like, stack 20 potions and chug them all in one turn when you find fairy), and player's lust resets fully during the shower scene. A new thing that I did notice was Olivia's HP being limited at 500 in the tower, ignoring HP modifiers from it.
Egypt Elton
2025-02-04 03:10:53 +0000 UTCOh, this explains why minigames where relatively harder than the rest of the game. Using 60 FPS cap set via RTSS, they're extremely easy suddenly.
Egypt Elton
2025-02-04 03:06:43 +0000 UTCI know it is just temporary, but the difficulty of the exam minigame mixed with its increased encounter rates makes the early stages of a run particularly difficult to get past. Very easy to suddenly be dealing with 5-10 corruption and 10-15 addiction before you even reach the city
OnceNotThrice
2025-02-03 23:36:29 +0000 UTCHey Chronicles, thank you for the tip. HC2 is coded in Ren'py and unlike Unity, Godot or other similar engines, Ren'py doesn't run continuously, it stops and wait for user input, which is great for a lightweight project like a VN, the engine's main proposal. HC2's QTEs make use of screens which are an exception to this rule, they have their own language and are indeed updated every frame as you noticed. The thing is, due to Renpy's nature, screens functionality is very limited when compared to the examples above, and I don't believe they have access to methods and complex objects like Time.deltatime. So unfortunately, as far as I know, this is one of the few limitations of Ren'py. But if you have any suggestion on how to work around this issue, please let me know, I might even be wrong about it and perhaps there's a way to handle this stuff that I'm not aware of
Diogaoo
2025-02-03 22:24:07 +0000 UTCAll the mini-games are framerate dependent. If I set my monitor refresh to 60 hz they are 4x slower compared to when i have it set to 240 hz. I don't know how you coded it or what engine you are using, but you need to insert delta (the time between frames) in your formulas to make them framerate independent.
Lost Chronicles
2025-02-03 21:17:03 +0000 UTCThat's was not a difficulty issue... Now that I have unlock the exam event album, I can tell why I was struggling. I think it was a bug, because on my first two run every time I encountered the exam event, my hero was instantly drained with +5 corruption followed by a hard test unwinnable and instantly broken. The bug skipped the begginning of the exam event.
Winc
2025-02-03 20:16:20 +0000 UTCGlad to know it's been fixed, I'll probably decrease the event difficulty, thanks for the feedback !
Diogaoo
2025-02-03 16:53:52 +0000 UTC1.40B solve the bug
Winc
2025-02-03 15:36:52 +0000 UTCI don't mind difficult event, but in my first two run I cannot pass day 2 because the event lead me to game over, in my third run the game froze when the event begin before any pics appear just the ring toned (I have to crtl alt sup and I can't load or it freeze again)
Winc
2025-02-03 14:50:56 +0000 UTCIt's really hard for me to keep track of how third party softwares deal with the code, so I can't promise anything, but if you send me the crash log I can take a look and see what I can do. @edit: Should be fixed in v1.40b
Diogaoo
2025-02-03 13:29:41 +0000 UTCFYI, if you have the museum unlocked and have the console enabled (through either use of unren or just by editing the text file) the game crashes when going to the city and if you press ignore you just go straight to the trainer with no way to leave Edit: This is issue has been present since the Museum got added
Aiden
2025-02-03 13:12:29 +0000 UTCHey Winc, this event is definitely on the hard side and you're not supposed to succeed on it in the early stages as well as in the first few attempts. At what point did the game freeze? Was there an image on display or something in the textbox?
Diogaoo
2025-02-03 13:10:58 +0000 UTCI believe something is wrong because this time the game freeze when the new event occurs.
Winc
2025-02-03 13:05:09 +0000 UTCIs it me or the new event is quite brutal?
Winc
2025-02-03 12:51:27 +0000 UTC
