Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.
First, regarding the main story's progress, the preparation for Jiru Island is almost done. As mentioned in last week's developer's diary. The Red Dragons will appear in this area. Last week, I showed you the graphics assets for their commissar. Now, here are some images of their common soldiers.
I took some reference from Fallout 3's Anchorage DLC. So, you may find some similarities between the PLA soldiers in our game and the ones in Fallout 3. They may be friends or foes depending on your choices just like how you chose your allies in previous chapters. You can also use their appearance for your main character or customized teammates if you want.
It's likely the first area in Jiru will open its public access sometime next week unless Microsoft's bluescreen of death suddenly wants to have some fun. (Good news, so far, I am not affected.)
The second major update is the Marinas Lighthouse. You can now find out what happened here. After the only survivor in this location realizes you are carrying the same curse as his, he will let you in. It's a curse of knowing something normal people blessed with ignorance are not supposed to know.
Of course, the Foundation will not allow such knowledge to spread like a disease and get more people exposed. They tried to do something but, it didn't end well. It's all about UPEX0000.
The rest parts of this week's updates are just some seemingly small and insignificant content spreading all across the world. (But who knows if there will be any chain effects in the future triggered by such tiny little seeds planned at this moment in time.)
Those updates are:
1, Deers now appear in the old town of Liu.
Thanks to someone who keeps bombing me with that シカ色デイズ song. :D
Fun fact: There were indeed some deers that once existed in the real-life counterpart of this old town. I saw them about 30 years ago in that park. Now that area which was once a park, is full of commercial establishments and little green remains. I think that's a common fate to many once-rural areas around Shanghai. A pity that kids nowadays may never have a chance to see what that once was. Oh, well, at least it exists in our timeless game. :D
2, Egypt now has a new area that connects the Long-Forgotten Mountain Path and the Bank of the Nile.
That means you can go directly to the Nile without even entering the city, allowing the area around the Nile to become more accessible to people who want to catch some crocodile pets or just see sharks eating some unfortunately tourists.
3, More random pet perks.
There are a total of four new random pet perks that may appear on any pets that join your group for the first time. That shall bring further diversity to your pet collection and allow you to have more ways to solve problems with their unique talents.
That's for this week.
And a bit teaser for the game's DLC-in-development.
Although we will have a lot of guns, you don't need them. You can absolutely go melee.
This week's full update log:
20240713
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[Pet Perk]New Random Pet Perk: Regenerator
[Pet Perk]New Random Pet Perk: Noisy
[Pet Perk]New Random Pet Perk: Deceiver
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[Liu]Fixed a bug that you can bring Genzou to the 2nd floor of No.181 River Road. (Thanks to Kain's bug report.)
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【宠物特殊属性】新的随机出现的宠物特殊属性：再生者
【宠物特殊属性】新的随机出现的宠物特殊属性：喧哗者
【宠物特殊属性】新的随机出现的宠物特殊属性：欺诈者
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【疁城】修复了你可以带愿藏进入清河路181号2楼的BUG。（感谢Kain的Bug报告。）
20240714
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[Pet/Animal]New Pet/Animal: Deer. (Non-hostile)
[Liu]The ancient stone bridge area now has deer.
[Loot]Added an item drop list for deers.
[Item]New type of meat: Deer Meat
[Loot]When you select "Take All" on the loot menu, there is now a sound effect.
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【宠物/野生动物】新宠物/野生动物：鹿（非敌意实体）
【疁城】那座远古的石桥附近现在有鹿出没。
【掉落物】为鹿加入了物品掉落清单
【物品】新的肉类：鹿肉
【掉落物】在选择战利品的界面选择【拿走全部】时，现在有了一个音效。
20240715
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[Pet Perk]New Random Pet Perk: Righteous
[Marinas Lighthouse]Added a secret room on the 2nd floor. (This shall be a safe zone on the 2nd floor where you can rest unless you somehow put in some hostile entities there by yourself, such as summoning a vengeful spirit or making a hostile slime.)
[Marinas Lighthouse]The screen is now much brighter in battles that take place here.
[Marinas Lighthouse]Added new story content at a previously locked door. Depending on the main story's progress and some decisions, you may be granted or denied entrance.
[Marinas Lighthouse]Added Butterfly support for the Lighthouse. (You will need to visit this location once after this update to unlock the teleportation option.)
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【宠物特殊属性】新的随机出现的宠物特殊属性：正义之士
【玛丽娜斯灯塔】在2楼加入了一个秘密房间。（这是二楼的一个安全区域，你可以在里面休息。除非你自己在其中加入了一些敌意的生物，比如召唤复仇怨灵或者制造了一个敌意的史莱姆。）
【玛丽娜斯灯塔】在这里发生的战斗的画面现在会相较之前更加明亮。
【玛丽娜斯灯塔】加入了在此前上锁的一道门上的剧情内容。基于主线剧情的进度和一些选择，你可能可以进入那间秘密房间。
【玛丽娜斯灯塔】加入了对这个地点的蝴蝶之翼支持。（需要在这个版本更新后访问过这个地点来解锁传送。）
20240716
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[Marinas Lighthouse]New location: Marinas Lighthouse 3F
[Marinas Lighthouse]Added some story content when you enter Marinas Lighthouse 3F for the first time.
[Marinas Lighthouse]Added a former Foundation agent in this location. He can provide you with some information about how the Foundation handles uncontrolled exposure to UPEX0000. (Not very successful, though. :P )
[Butterfly]Added the Butterfly Wings support to Marinas Lighthouse 3F
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【玛丽娜斯灯塔】新地点：玛丽娜斯灯塔3楼
【玛丽娜斯灯塔】加入了首次进入玛丽娜斯灯塔3楼时的故事剧情。
【玛丽娜斯灯塔】加入了一个基金会的前任特工，会提供一些信息，包括基金会如何处置不受控制的暴露于UPEX0000下的情况。（当然，并不是很成功。:P）
【蝴蝶之翼】加入了玛丽娜斯灯塔3楼的蝴蝶之翼支持。
20240717
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[Character Customization]Added 1 new playable male character variation. (PLA winter trooper.)
[Marinas Lighthouse]Added another dialog option to provide more information about what happened here.
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【角色自定义】加入了一个新的可用男性角色造型。（PLA冬季士兵）
【玛丽娜斯灯塔】加入了一个新的对话选项可以提供更多关于这里发生的事情的信息。
20240718
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[Jiru]Added some art assets for characters that will appear on the Jiru Island.
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[Skills]All skill windows now use the detailed version of skill description windows just like the one used by item windows. That shall allow much longer skill descriptions.
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【吉鲁】加入了一些在吉鲁岛将会出现的角色的美术资源。
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【技能】所有的技能现在使用类似于物品详细信息那样的更大的说明窗口，从而允许技能描述可以写更多的内容。
20240719
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[Egypt]Added a new area that connects the Long-Forgotten Mountain Path and the Bank of the Nile bypassing the city.
[Butterfly]Added the butterfly support for this new area.
[Fishing]Added fishing data for this new area.
[Egypt]Added more trees in this new area and the Long-Forgotten Mountain Path.
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Fixed a crash when leaving the item menu caused by some code changes yesterday.
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【埃及】加入了一个新区域连接被遗忘的山道和尼罗河畔，绕过城市区域。
【蝴蝶】对这个区域加入了蝴蝶之翼支持。
【钓鱼】加入了这个区域的钓鱼数据。
【埃及】在这个区域和被遗忘的山道加入了更多树木。
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修复了昨天的代码变动导致的离开物品界面后的游戏崩溃问题。
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