January Update Post

Hey guys ! Time to talk about this month's progress:

First, about the new area:
The Swamp will be implemented back into the game with a total of four new enemies for now, including a new boss. This should help me balance the game's difficulty. As I said earlier, it's not an easy task to do it while the game had only two areas, as the Forest was the starting area and the Deep Forest was the final. With that, Claire is no longer the final boss, so her HP has been considerably decreased.

Three new Bad Endings have been created for these new girls, there are also new Traits, both good and bad, which should help with replayability. And of course, new achievements have been added for these girls and their respective Bad Endings.

I've improved shop menus, so in addition to being able to sell materials like in HC1, you can now choose to buy materials while crafting, without having to switch between the forge screen and the blacksmith shop. Basically, if the Hero doesn't have enough materials to complete the crafting process, you will have the option to pay the remaining value of the materials in gold.

Most keyboard inputs have been replaced by buttons, as is the case with the church menu. You can also choose to lower the "Max" amount of Addiction, which will take into consideration the amount of Addiction or the amount of gold carried by the hero, whichever is the lowest.

There are also some new minor stuff, like a new utility for the primary stat, Constitution; a more detailed dialog for Addictions Checks and a few other things...

In the next few days I'll be studying the best way to rework the equipment's code, the way the code is written now, despite being functional, is not efficient at all. This is why there are only three weapons in the game.

I have to optimize this code as soon as possible, so that accessories are re-implemented and new weapons, including legendary ones, are added. I really want this to be ready for the next version, along with accessories and possible new weapons, but no promises.

I also plan to rebalance the EXP and Points gain, the amount of EXP gained should go up a bit. However, this readjustment will be done at the same time as I look for possible bugs in the patch while playtesting, which usually happens in the last week, so I don't have much to share for now.

I'm scheduling the next release for Saturday, February 4th. If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this post or send me a DM.

On a final note before we wrap things up, I'm doing a controlled test of the browser version for HC2, if you want to help, DM me and I'll be sending you the link. There are no new features in this web version, it's just something that I'd like to test before releasing to all patrons.

Have a great week everyone ! ❤ ❤