It's been well over a month since my last update post and I'd like to first apologize for the unexpectedly long wait. In my previous report I mentioned the inclusion of the character Frei from Valeria's origin game as a summon ally.

I've since completed her inclusion and the entirety of Valeria's skilltree so let's get into that in a bit more detail and the rest of what I've been working on.

So like you might expect Frei functions in battle like the main group of girls aside from being AI controlled. She has response dialogue, combat actions and she interacts with the sex grabs from normal enemies and special enemies like The Dithonion.

She won't gain any exp by winning battles but instead Frei's level will scale directly to Valeria's. I've also applied this change to Samara's Articulate Fighter and adjusted it's stats, which should make both Summons much stronger and much more useful.

Valeria can unlock the ability to summon Frei shortly into her skilltree. I aimed for the various skills and boosts in her particular skilltree to greatly increase the survivability of herself and any party she's slotted into as more difficult encounters and floors are added.

One final detail about Frei I mentioned before is that she will appear in Valeria's H-Battles if they were defeated together, excluding Valeria's Queen Lilith Scene.

While Valeria is struggling (or enjoying herself), Frei will have her own reactions to their predicament and may be grabbed herself. It's the first time I added an additional element to an H-Scene like this but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. You won't control Frei in the
H-battles she's more like a background element.

With Valeria's skilltree now done, she's finally a completed character in terms of the most basic components.

Once all the girls have their Dithonion Subjugation added our good snake boy will become a real menace with the ability to capture your entire roster. This may sound devious but I'm very much looking forward to it.     (◕' u'◕)

The Dithonion and Subjugations in general has been extremely fun to work on so I've decided to focus on it a bit more in the near future then originally planned. I was initially hesitant to grant Floor Guardians like Vocator and Abaddon H-battle scenes, since I expected that getting to them and losing may cause the run reset to become tedious, associating a naturally negative feeling to H-scenes that are meant to otherwise be enjoyed in the context of defeat.

 I believe my concern was exacerbated by the fact that unlike enemies and roaming bosses, Floor Guardians are unavoidable barriers to the story and Realm.

Since the primary elements of the game's sex scenes so far has been adversity, defeat and domination, It's been a tricky balance for me to rationalize gameplay wise, although a rogue-lite lends itself well to this, and a roaming, boss level enemy that hunts your character(s) rather then wait for you at the finish line just to stunt on you, also meshes well I think.

The Dithonion is only the first roaming boss but his addition has served as a fine template for others as well as the enemy factions. After Brigit and Valeria's Subjugations for him are added in the next update, I'll be giving the Raiders, Demons and Goblin factions the ability to take your characters for themselves under certain conditions.

Brigit's CG work is coming along well and I should have it completed in a few more days. Both her and Valeria will be able to Mind Break like the others as well, save for Journey of course.

I'm also going to take the chance with this update to work more on the "Broken" dialogue for characters to better reflect their fall and shift in their response to sexual attention.

I also found a nice plugin to include that'll allow you to view dialogue history by tapping the [ SHIFT ] key.

While I've been working on H-battle related content I wanted to try and include dialogue in the battles themselves when you're overwhelmed or manage to escape.

A small feature I love to see in H-games is successive dialogue that changes and progresses each time the character encounters that scenario such as losing to a boss mob more then once.

I want to see if this will improve the contextual flavor of H-battles. It currently activates when your character orgasms and doesn't have the Energy remaining to resist. Once it's clear to your captor that they've won, the dialogue will play, changing depending on if they've captured you before.

Allowing enemy characters more dialogue opportunities like this to express themselves and interact with the girls is working well so far so I'm excited to see it all together.

My buddy brought up the idea in the past to me about the Demon Hell Berserker getting his own H-Battle like the Wall-Duress, and giving it some thought I really like the idea.

I've sketched out the rough work for Journey's H-Battle with him already.

So essentially I'll be buffing and moving the Hell Berserker to his own combat group with new attacks, so he'll no longer spawn with regular demons in the early chambers but he will in later floors. He'll of course still be considered part of the demon faction for stat tracking as well.

He'll have his own world sprite and he'll be faster and more attentive then regular mobs. I'm going to add new demons to the regular spawn group to make up for the big man's promotion.

That's about it for this update, my next post will be shortly after Brigit's Dithonion CG work is done. Thank you as always for your support and feedback, I'll be back soon, take care!

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