Hell-Strain

Major Changes: -You can now access, complete and scavenge the Oldwood Police Station delve in the Oldwood Hills region. The delve features 5 new enemies, one of which is an optional boss. Completing the delve will also unlock a new upgrade for your safe house. -Added accessibility options. In the options menu, you can now find a new tab labelled 'Accessibility'. There are currently two settings: 'Screen Flash Intensity' - which lets you tone down or turn off screen flash effects, and 'QTE Assist' - which allows you to auto-progress through QTEs by holding down the confirm button. (Note: This is not an auto-win setting, and you will still fail some QTEs, depending on their difficulty.) -Reworked/Rebalanced many skills and states, including psionic abilities. v0.1.5.2 Demo Hotfix Changes: You are now able to use the Adrenaline Rush skill during any Arianna's Parlour session where you take an active role, so long as you've unlocked the skill . Bug Fixes: Fixed the final Service EXP trait checking for Aphrodisiac EXP instead of Service EXP. (So long as you have at least 50 Service EXP, this should auto-correct itself if you got that final trait by mistake.) Fixed the Struggle Game UI not showing up in the latest version. v0.1.5 Demo Changes: Added Ariana's Parlour in Westview Park, just southeast of the player's Safe House. Here, you can partake in 'servicing' semi-anonymous clients in exchange for a new currency, that in-turn can be used to acquire supplies and a small selection of upgrades. To sign up, speak to Arianna outside of her 'parlour', and agree to one of her conditions. The Parlour features 22 semi-anonymous 'patrons' to encounter, with 10 of those being more fleshed out and involved, as well as one bonus 'patron'. ( After partnering with Arianna, seek out a certain dumpster-diving raccoon on the streets of the Westview Suburbs .) Added 'Service EXP' and its accompanying traits, which is increased by willingly performing sexual service on others. ( Currently, it can only be raised by working at Arianna's Parlour. ) You can no longer Scavenge if you are Exhausted. As regaining Energy by relaxing is always available, this should limit being able to Scavenge indefinitely without softlocking people out of supplies. When purchasing items using a token currency, your total available amount of that currency will be displayed in the shop, instead of credits. You can now auto-advance text by pressing the A key. There is currently no visual display to show that it's on, but it will make a click sound to denote whether it is on or off. (It will persist between dialogue events, even if you press confirm, currently. Might change in the future.) Holding Ctrl now rapidly advances text at a much faster rate. Please let me know if this breaks anything, as I have not yet tested it with every single line of text and event in the game. Bug Fixes: Fixed being able to go into the negative on Needs values when consuming multiple items in the inventory. I will no longer be including a 'Save' folder with a config save with each release, as with some setups, this can cause people to lose their saves when copying over the files. If you're playing for the first time, make sure to check the options menu before you begin and set things to your preferences. v0.1.4 Demo Changes: Added a new specialization, Occultist, for those that want to more specifically focus on Psionic abilities, or just focus-costing skills in general. ( Gives 15 Focus at the start of every battle, including Struggle Games, as well as a tiny increase to Libido. Hedonist is still effective for raising Libido, but will be more of a choice for people who just want to bang everyone and everything they encounter. ) Added tutorials to explain how grabs and struggling works. Evading grabs when at very high Arousal is now a tiny bit easier, and the overall difficulty of the input is slightly reduced by the player's Agility. When performing a Struggle QTE, Enter and Spacebar are now disabled, and you are locked into whichever input you make first ( Either Z-key or mouse click/screen tap ), which effectively means you can no longer 'cheat' the system. Removed the burst of Stamina you get at the start of battle, now that Stealth no longer consumes any. ( Note: Balancing Stamina usage is still a work-in-progress, but I want to convey that using lots of Stamina, unless you're focusing on improving it, should leave you at some kind of disadvantage. This, with the Agility bonus for evading grabs, should hopefully also make Stamina-focused specializations more appealing. Let me know what you think. ) Lowered the Focus cost of the Deep Breath skill from 30 to 20. Bug Fixes: Fixed the X-Ray cut-in when sleeping with STCP-1471-a not resetting when you sleep with her two times in succession. Fixed the post-backrooms scene with Oracle replaying if you go back there and escape again. Fixed being able to press 'Cancel' to avoid being forced to select Gabby Mk.II's services when at maximum Arousal. Fixed the Relax command in safe areas reducing Satiation and Thirst as if you'd slept and passed two segments of time, instead of one. Fixed ST Fenris Droid losing her basic grab attack after an accidental reversion of a previous change. Fixed being transferred to an inaccessible part of the world map when pressing Cancel at a Transit Terminal. Fixed the first Masturbation Trait not giving the Masturbate skill. v0.1.3 Demo Changes: Added a small new area, Westview Park, southeast of the Safe House. Features two new enemies and will be the location of an upcoming repeatable minigame. Implemented a simple enemy aggression system. If you don't deal damage to a regular enemy for several turns, they will become Curious, then eventually will stop attacking you altogether. If you hurt them at any point, this effect is lost and cannot be regained. Does not work in the Sim-Mate system or against strong enemies, such as bosses. (May be re-worked/expanded later.) Made the arrow input keys for the grab evade sequence larger and much easier to read. Removed the Stamina drain when using Stealth. Out of battle Stamina Regen has been reduced slightly to compensate. (This is an experimental change. Let me know what you think.) Added a small description in the Sim-Mate Database notes section when hovering over a category, to explain the (V), (A) and (T) next to certain scenes. Added a Tutorial section to the Safe House library, allowing you to re-view any previously read tutorials. New & improved sprite for Catalogue, made by the amazingly talented FishNeedWata! Added a number display for Vitality, Stamina and Focus on the HUD. (Numbers are a little small. Might tweak after some feedback.) The ST-A2 'Dominatrix' Assault Rifle now only uses 3 rounds per burst fire, but its damage has been slightly reduced. Bug Fixes: Fixed Masturbation EXP not triggering level ups, which prevented the acquisition of Masturbation-related Traits. (Basically a new feature, because it wasn't working before.) Fixed ST Patrol Droid's Thighjob images not displaying correctly. The STCP-1471-a Datachip now adds the correct data to the Sim-Mate Database. Fixed the Exercise Sweatband, which now actually reduces the cost of the Charge, Retreat and Escape skills by 10, instead of just showing a reduced cost. Fixed the M-110 Hunting Rifle skill giving the incorrect type of EXP. Added the missing Robot type to Lori Mk.II and Gabby Mk.II. Fixed the Strength Training perks not providing the stated boost to Strength. Fixed the Liquidator boss battle not giving the player the Overwhelming Presence state, which prevents escape. Fixed the post-battle defeat 'Wounded' event not triggering correctly and messing up the player sprite after losing to the Liquidator boss. (If you had this bug, please return to 1F of the Safe House at least once to correct the error.) - Special thanks to lucaspl9o for helping me nail down and fix this one! v0.1.2 Demo Hotfix Changes: Implemented basic Impregnation functionality: - Ejaculating inside of an enemy has a chance to impregnate them, increasing with the number of times you've ejaculated inside them that battle. - At the moment, there is a visual cue and some lines of dialogue, as well as an Impregnation kink/fetish you can acquire and level up by repeatedly impregnating foes. - You cannot impregnate foes in the Sim Chair virtual environment. - I plan to add more consequences and functionality to this in the future. Penetrating an enemy when simulating them via the Sim Chair no longer causes you to lose your virginity. The 'Wait' skill now also increases your Evasion Rate by 25% for the rest of the turn. Added a marker to more clearly designate where you can read skill books in the Safe House library. Bug Fixes: Fixed The Smiler's Game Over sequence not triggering correctly. Psi-Pulse Upgrade Node no longer can be removed indefinitely, providing infinite EXP. Fixed Exercise Perks not applying their appropriate stat bonuses. A few minor tiling and spelling errors. v0.1.1 Demo Hotfix Removed a trigger I left in for testing add-on content, because I'm an idiot. If you enabled this trigger and consequently saved, please avoid using the yellow portal that appears, as it will crash your game due to missing files. At the start of each battle, you now gain a burst of Stamina equal to a quarter of your maximum. This should allow you to at least reposition, even when out of Stamina due to sneaking. I might adjust this value in the future. Slightly lowered encounter rates in most areas. Added the 'Scalie' tag to the Sewer Frog enemy. I hope to fill out the less-represented enemy types going forward, both in WIP game builds and free updates to this demo. Apologies for the oversight! v0.1 Demo Release