Hi, everyone. Welcome to the first developer's diary of February.
The Spring Festival holidays are over in China. (Well, in a traditional sense, it shall end after 15 days since the Spring Festival. However, in modern days, people have to get back to their work much earlier. Why? Don't ask, comrade. The official version is always to blame the USA. :D)
Anyway, the chaos is over. Now, let's get back to the game content of this week.
Last week, I mentioned many things in my plan. Instead of focusing on one, why don't we get as many of them done as possible? So, let's get started.
First, about the Spring Festival: It's a time for family reunions. In a traditional sense, the term family does not just refer to the living; it also extends to deceased family members. Thus, in rural areas of China, you can still see people holding ceremonies. Before the living starts their feast, the ghosts of the deceased shall "eat" the delicious food first. The living also shall burn ghost money for the deceased so that they can have a good afterlife. (Surprisingly, it's heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism, a religion of pre-Islamic Iran that somehow found its way to China long ago. Thus, people believe that fire can send items from the material world to the spiritual world.)
Thus, we now also have Ghost Money in the game.
In addition to its traditional usage, you can also use it to pacify hostile ghost entities.
Although not all ghosts can be pacified this way, it may be a good addition for you to clean some haunted locations without any tough fights.
Next, we need more types of heavier machine enemies in the Jiru direction other than those cannon fodder machine skeletons. So, here we go.
Near Dana, you can now find the new Assaulter M.K.IV units that serve as stormtroopers to break the defense lines of the survivors. They have their own AI scripts that focus on quickly disabling their targets and then taking them down with stronger attacks.
As more intelligent machines, they may also drop a new type of chip which may be useful in future updates when you craft something.
Other advanced intelligent machines may now also drop this type of chip too.
And then, another kind of snake just joined the game.
This new wind-element snake, known as Ehecacoatl, is somehow influenced by Aztec religions. You can find them near the entrance of the Xuanhuang Cave. They are not your mundane snakes. Instead, they may cast strong wind spells.
On the other hand, you may turn them into your pets or slaughter them to get their unique meat.
In many old religions, it's commonly believed that if you eat something, you can gain a slice of the power that once belonged to what you eat. At least, it's true in this case. But, in modern days, people rarely eat raw meat. Thus, you can use such meat to make dishes or make potions. Those dishes and potions can inherit the attribution that enhances your wind spell power.
In addition to a new snake, we also get something for Serpent-Men.
The Serpent-Men can now summon some mundane snakes to assist them in battles. However, that's not all. All civilization is nothing without faith. Thus, they now have their own faith, too.
That brings us to another Great Old One. Yig, the Father of Serpents, is who they worship.
In addition to what Lovecraft has written, what if all those Snake Gods and Goddesses, from Quetzalcoatl and Kuklkan in the Aztec and Mayan cultures to Nuwa and Fuxi in China, are merely avatars or offspring of Yig? What if many human leaders have been replaced by serpents and reptilians? You can find the Book of Yig dropped by the Serpent-Men or from the Great Library to unlock this new faith.
Faith is what you believe in, even if others may not agree. Do you want to believe this is the truth or burn it as another heresy?
One thing is certain: once you pick this as the core of your customized faith, you can get a lot of snakes on your side.
The best part is yet to come!
Here, another new feature just got added!
Say it again; time is about to speed up!
You can now hold down the shift key on your keyboard to make all battle animation runs much faster.
This is made in heaven!
OK, that's for this week. Have fun!
The full update log of this week:
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[Jiru Island]Added a new BGM for the South of Dana area. (One of my favorite Japanese musicians' products is on sale, so I just purchased them and put one of them into the game.)
[Jiru Island]Battles will not interrupt the BGM of the South of Dana area.
[Eastern Jiru Ridge]This location now has Mudscale Snakes.
[SFX]Added the sound of frogs. It will play when frog/toad enemies attack you. It will also play when you pet a frog/toad pet.
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【吉鲁岛】为达那南方加入了新的背景音乐。（我最喜欢的某个日本音乐家的音乐包在打折贩卖中，所以我就顺便买来加入了游戏。）
【吉鲁岛】战斗不会打断达那南方的背景音乐。
【东吉鲁山岭】该区域现在会有泥鳞蛇。
【音效】加入了蛙类生物的音效。会在它们攻击你时播放。也会在你爱抚一只蛙类宠物时播放。
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[Enemy]New Enemy: Assaulter M.K.IV
[Enemy]Added unique AI for Assaulter M.K.IV enemies (Their guiding strategy is to quickly disable your entire group and then start to kill you.)
[Loot]Added an item loot list for Assaulter M.K.IV enemies. (Yes, they have lightsabers.)
[Wonderland Travel Agency]Random locations with machine entities may now have Assaulter M.K.IV enemies.
[Jiru Island]The South of Dana area and the Eastern Jiru Ridge's Dana side may now have Assaulter M.K.IV enemies.
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【敌人】新敌人：突击者肆型
【敌人】为突击者肆型加入了专用AI （他们的启发式策略是试图快速硬控你的队伍，然后开始慢慢杀光你的队伍。）
【掉落物】为突击者肆型加入了物品掉落列表。（对，他们有光剑。）
【奇幻之地旅行社】随机的机械生物为主题的地点现在可能会出现突击者肆型。
【吉鲁岛】达那南部和东吉鲁山岭靠近达那一侧现在会有突击者肆型
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[Battle]You can now press the shift keys on your keyboard to make all animations in the battle faster. (5 times faster, to be precise.)
[Battle]The first time you get into a battle after this update, you can see a popup that informs you that you can hold down the shift keys to accelerate battle animations.
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[Battle]Fixed a bug that, in sporadic cases, the battle may get stuck because certain animations cannot finish.
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【战斗】你现在可以按下键盘上的Shift键来加速战斗中的动画播放。（目前是5倍速。）
【战斗】在本次更新后首次进入战斗，你可以看到一个提示，告诉你按住Shift键可以加速战斗动画播放。
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【战斗】修复了在某些极端情况下战斗会因为动画无法播放完成而卡住。
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[Item]New Item: Ghost Money
[Enemy]If you use Ghost Money on certain ghost enemies, they may take the Ghost Money and disappear. (It counts as if they escaped the battle, so no loot will drop.)
[Shopping]Several magic item vendors now sell Ghost Money.
[Dragon's Treasure]You can now exchange Dragon's Marks for Ghost Money. (1 Mark = 10 Ghost Money)
[Item]New Item: AAIPU Chip
[Loot]Assaulter M.K.IV and the Infinite Machine may now drop AAIPU Chips
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【物品】新物品：冥币
【敌人】当你对部分幽灵类的敌人使用冥币的时候，他们可能会拿走冥币然后消失。（视为该敌人逃离了战斗。所以，没有掉落物。）
【购物】部分魔法物品商人现在会贩卖冥币。
【龍之宝库】你可以用龍之印章交换冥币。（1印章=10冥币）
【物品】新物品：AAIPU芯片
【掉落物】突击者肆型和无尽机器现在可能掉落AAIPU芯片
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[Enemy]New Enemy: Ehecacoatl (You can turn them into pets)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Ehecacoatl
[Wonderland Travel Agency]Random locations with a "snake entity" theme may now have Ehecacoatl
[Xuanhuang]Ehecacoatl may appear near the entrance of this cave.
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The game now uses project management tools provided by Atlassian.
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【敌人】新敌人：埃赫卡科特尔 （可以变成宠物）
【掉落物】为埃赫卡科特尔加入了掉落物清单
【奇幻之地旅行社】以蛇类生物为主题的随机地点现在可能会有埃赫卡科特尔
【玄黄】洞穴外现在可能出现埃赫卡科特尔。
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游戏现在使用Atlassian提供的项目管理工具进行管理。
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[Loot]Ehecacoatl now drops their own type of meat instead of generic snake meat.
[Ehecacoatl Meat]Such meat can enhance wind spell powers.
[Ehecacoatl Meat]Such meat can be used for cooking and alchemy, and the final products often inherit the attribution that enhances wind spell powers.
[Ehecacoatl Meat]Such meat has a different icon that looks yellower than generic snake meat.
[Wiki]Updated the pet page and the alchemy page.
[Enemy]Serpent-Men Infiltrators can now summon some weak snakes to assist them in battles.
[Enemy]Serpent-Men Infiltrators now have their own unique AI script.
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【掉落物】埃赫卡科特尔现在掉落它们自己的特有肉类而非普通的蛇肉。
【埃赫卡科特尔肉】该种肉类可以提高风属性魔法强度。
【埃赫卡科特尔肉】该种肉类可以用于料理和炼金，往往会导致最终产品继承提高风属性魔法强度的属性。
【埃赫卡科特尔肉】该种肉类具有一个不同的图标，颜色比普通的蛇肉看上去更黄一点。
【维基】更新了宠物页面和炼金页面。
【敌人】蛇人渗透者现在可以召唤一些较弱的蛇在战斗中协助他们。
【敌人】蛇人渗透者现在有了他们自己的AI脚本。
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[Faith]New Faith Core: Yig
[Faith]New NPC Faith: Serpent-Men Faith
[Enemy]Serpent-Men Infiltrator now follows the Serpent-Men Faith
[Battle]Capture pets will no longer trigger any faith effect as if you killed them.
[Item]New Religion Book: The Book of Yig (It unlocks the Yig faith.)
[Loot]Serpent-Men Infiltrators may now drop The Book of Yig.
[Faith]New Religion Group: Snake God Religion
[Faith]The "Snake Worship" tenet is free if you follow a Snake God Religion.
[The Grand Library]Added a copy of The Book of Yig on the Floor of Religion.
[Wiki]Updated the faith pages on the wiki.
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【信仰】新信仰核心：伊格
【信仰】新NPC信仰：蛇人信仰
【敌人】蛇人渗透者现在追随蛇人信仰。
【战斗】捕获宠物不会再触发击杀目标时的信仰效果判定。
【物品】新宗教书籍：伊格之书（解锁伊格信仰）
【掉落物】蛇人渗透者现在可能掉落伊格之书
【信仰】新信仰宗教组：蛇神宗教
【信仰】【蛇神崇拜】信条现在在你信仰一个蛇神宗教时没有任何开销。
【大图书馆】在宗教层加入了一本伊格之书
【维基】更新了关于信仰的那些页面。
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