[Release] Version 0.8.9

Hello everyone, Corintio here!

This time with a patch that I think its a huge milestone for our project's development: Save slots!

Who on an RPG game never saved the game, did all the wrong choices (By accident or not) and then reverted to an old save just because... I don't know,you made that NPC sad?

Since we we aim to make a game with meaningful choices, having the possibility to go back to old saves were a very necessary feature before we even thought about making such complicated quests, and with a lot of study and hard work from Astutejoe, we managed to do it earlier than we thought possible! =)

Simple example that is already on the game: If you are thirsty on the first time you meet the nurse, her dialog lines will change a bit, and you will have a different dialogue option were Kalyskah doesn't lie. The way Fara greets you also change if you are thirsty or not when you are about to deliver the wolf hunt quest. Now you have slots, you can check it out!

Another thing we did on this new patch is to bring back that cutscene when you defeat Gremmnoch. but the old one weren't making tooooo much sense. 

[SPOILER ALERT]

Okay, you could understand that Kaly were geting some power from him and then dashing towards a wall to break it and get through some path that lead her to the open world? Yeah... but the storytelling was as simple as: "Oh, I just killed my dog, let me dash around and then BUM! Open world."

[SPOILER ENDED]

Now, with this review I think we are kinda being able to tell what we want to tell and also to give a hint about the first vampiric power Kalyskah will get.... as soon as we program it =P

As already said before, we are also improving the grass and general environment of the game:

And here is the complete....

Version 0.8.9 Changelog – 10/09/2019 

Fixes

• Fixed the quest to release Merishya so it will always get completed when you open the door to the Sacrificial Chamber
• Fixed Partner weird rotations when they want to go back to their patrol position during an erotic scene
• Environmental fixes

Enhancements

• Slightly reduced the amount of undead at the dungeon
• Made Claymore damage scaling with D on dexterity
• Foliage, grass and rocks improvements
• Improvements on the boss area
• Added some water flowing sounds to the places that you can find water at the dungeon, so this might help on the immersion
• Decreased the arousal loss on the resting poses on the sex scenes so they are not as hard as they were before to ‘win’
• Improvements on the Mist-Form effects: It no longer has footsteps sound and the effect looks better
• Tweaks on the effects when Kalyskah jumps

Features

• Completely revamp of the save\load system: Now you will have save slots and will be able to delete, overwrite and load them. Checkpoints will be saved on an ‘autosave’ slot and the “quicksave” option on the menu will save on the same autosave slot. This will be a lot helpful when we introduce quests with different outcomes, so you will be able to save your progress and then go back to test all the possible branches! Notice that when you save a slot, you are also saving Kalyskah’s appearance, but don’t worry, you can always go to the main menu, change her appearance and then load the slot you want to apply the changes there =)
• Started to create Kelhold, a new settlement that in the future will be like Kalyskah’s safe-heaven, once we introduce the new quests
• Extended and added again the final cutscene after Kalyskah kills Gremmnoch. It is looking better than it was before, but we are not 100% happy with that yet because we need to improve some camera cuts and VFX =)

Known issues:

• The time of the day is not being saved yet. It will be dealt with on a future patch.
• Humanoid characters are rotating weirdly. We’ll have a look into their AI when possible
• If by any chance your Kalyskah has a pitch black skin tone with pink squares around her eyes, it’s because you have an incompatible saveslot from an oldest version of the game. You will have to delete the folder on User\AppData\Local\Kalyskah_RPG\Saved\SaveGames. This is possibly the last time that this will going to happen because now we have a more reliable way to deal with save\loading games. And if in the future we do have a problem with incompatible saved games, the new save manager screen should be enough to handle the whole “erasing of old files”. 
• The "Delete" option doesn't have an "ARE YOU SURE?" popup yet because we want to make that instead of clicking on a message, you will need to hold the delete button for a few seconds. We just didn't had time to finish this feature in time =)

Download

Follow this instructions if you have a Vampire or Royal Blood Tier: First, you need to create an account on itch.io.

VAMPIRE (Version 0.8): Link your account here, and download the game here. 

ROYAL BLOOD (Testing 0.8) :  Link your account here, and download the game here.

Notice that you need to follow the steps in order, or the page to download the game will not be found (You will get an error 404). And we highly recommend the download of itch app, because this way you will be able to update the game by getting just the files that have changed instead of the whole 4gb at once.

Sharing save files:

The cool thing is that now we will be able to share saved games with items and progress, so people who don’t want to play the whole dungeon over and over again can just import another .sav file to their appdata folder.  And that's exactly what the attachments on this post are: A save that I played without leveling up (So you can customize your stats to the way you'd like) but that I got most of the items that you can find at the dungeon. So when you go to your AppData folder and find Kalyskah's saves there, you can delete the old and place the ones I'm giving in case you want to jump right to the boss fight or Thulgatha =)

You HAVE to delete the whole  C:\Users\[YOUR_USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Kalyskah_RPG  folder before opening the game on this latest version. Otherwise you will have a problem were the game will load forever. But if even after deleting this whole folder you are still unable to create a new game, I added on this post a .sav called "Karnstein Temple Start", that shoud be exactly where the dungeon begin. Put on your saved folder and load it.