DD# 164 Intermission news - [Neolithic]To the End

Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.

This week's work is mostly around polishing existing content and laying the foundations for future story and feature developments, thus the title.

Here are a few main updates of this week:

1, Guns!
As the "All Fear Comes from the Lack of Firepower" DLC announced last week, I am working on adding more firearms and related features to the game.
Thus, we now get the Israeli Negev as a new type of machine gun.

It may be more cost-efficient than M249. It also comes with a higher ammo capacity.
To make different types of guns have their more unique feature. A new game mechanics has also been added. That's the accuracy of a gun. The accuracy governs how likely the projectile from a firearm will accurately hit where your mouse clicks. A sniper rifle usually can have 100% accuracy while a machine gun usually has far less their bullets may spread from the center of the crosshair widely and wildly. As a result, you may find using machine guns to snipe enemies and secure headshots critical damages become much harder. But, that's compensation for their superior firepower when against a large group of enemies. You may also use various gun modules to make adjustments and find what can suit your needs in battles best.

2, More Cooking Variations.
The cooking system also received a tech-concept upgrade this week. Previously, each combination of ingredients could only make a single type of food mapped to them. However, that makes things less flexible and not very realistic. Thus, a change on system level has taken place to address this. The same sets of ingredients may now be used to cook different types of food if matched recipes exist.
For example:

When you use apples and flour to cook something, you may now choose to get an American Apple Pie or a French Tarte Tatin.
It may not be a big change that will bring you many benefits when you are fighting unspeakable horror to save the world or build your underground supervillain empire. But, I think we shall all enjoy some normal game in an RPG sometimes.

3, The Abandoned Village.
Here comes more content to make those Z-ombies of Putin mad. We now have a loot list on those meat cubes. Not many valuable things are on that list. But, if you are playing a necromancer, those blood, bones, and strange meat may have some use to you.
In addition to those meat cubes, the village now has some orc soldiers as mentioned previously.

They also have a loot list. You can even get some AK-47s from them.
However, those AK-47s are ill-maintained. Thus, they have terrible performances during battles.
Technically, that's achieved by adding a highly customizable prefix on normal AK-47s. The prefix itself can have a parameter list to decide how to modify an item. Thus, it's possible to make more unique items in the future. Both better ones and worse ones.

4, Another Dark Elf

He will appear in the Sealed Palace soon. But, let's keep his identity a secret for now.
Meanwhile, you can use his appearance on your main character or customized teammates if you like.

That shall cover most parts of this week's update. There are still more small changes that can be found on the full update log. Next week, we will have one more developer's diary before the release of the new DLC. It's likely I will add more guns and actually start to work on the content of the DLC and hook everything up. :)


The full update log of this week:
20240316
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[Recycling]All firearms now have their recycle data attached to them so that their modified versions can inherit that. (It does not affect previously modified guns in old game versions.)
[Sanctuary Cave]Added a simple campfire device for cooking.
[Sanctuary Cave]Added an altar.
[Cooking]New Recipe: American Apple Pie.
[Cooking]You may now decide which food to cook if multiple recipes match your ingredients.
[The Grand Library]Added an Alter of Book, allowing you to fuse spells while no longer needing to go all the way to the Mage Guild.
[Loot]Fire Imps may now drop elemental proficiency books.
[Butterfly]After you met with the Begar King, you can now teleport to the Beggar Gang's Camp from anywhere in the Sewer.


20240317
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[Character Customization]Added a new playable male character variation. (He will appear in the game soon.)
[Loot]Added an additional item drop list on meat cubes.
[Pet]You can now pet meat cubes. (Well, it's your choice.)


20240318
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[Guns]New Gun: Negev
[Bazaar]The Weapon Merchant now sells Negevs.
[Guns]Adjusted the base powers of various guns. (They are still quite overpowered for low-level characters. The adjustment also does not affect any modified guns.)


20240319
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[Guns]Guns now have an accuracy value. It defines how likely a projectile will hit your mouse location. Guns with low accuracy (such as machine guns) tend to have their projectile spread away from your mouse location in the screen space.
[Guns]Added the accuracy values to all existing guns. (It does not affect previously modified guns.)
[UI]Item detail windows now display the accuracy value of guns.


20240320
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[The Unfinished Building]If you kill any one of the three people in a mini-game on the 4th floor when you also have the "Killer Monk" tenet in your customized faith, you can now gain some devotion.
[Blood Is Red, Bones Are White]Added the Commerical Street and the Commodity Market as possible quest locations. Removed the Book Store as a possible quest location.
[Loot]Mercenary enemies may now drop SMG Ammo Boxes. (Previously, they only drop Rifle Ammo Boxes) They may also have a small chance to drop MP5s. If they are shaded, they may even drop a shaded version of MP5.


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[Enemy]New Enemy: Russian Orc Soldier
[Abandoned Village]Russian Orc Soldiers may now appear in this location. They will attack with meat cubes.
[Abandoned Village]Adjusted some tiles. You can now behind certain houses.


20240322
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[Prefix]New Prefix: Ill-maintained (Does not appear randomly on random loots. Highly customizable negative effects.)
[Loot]Added an item drop list on Russian Orc Soldiers. (They will drop AK-47. But, only ill-maintained versions with reduced gun power, accuracy, penetration, and price.)
[The Abandoned Village]Added a new BGM.
[The Abandoned Village]Added a campfire cooking device outside the village.