Parasite Black [Damned Studios] [v0.157]

1.) DO NOT try and use old saves. Use the quick save feature – delete persistent data if you encounter any strange errors or bugs whilst playing and see if that resolves the issue. Otherwise, please report it in the discord!

2.) There’s a lot of ‘balancing’ issues and things to be sorted due to the sheer amount of changes happening, as well as missing elements yet to be implemented. We will be working on this once the final skills/stats and things are in, very soon!

3.) It’s been a long wait for this update (largely due to the amount of prep for the upcoming steam release) – we plan to fire out some much quicker updates as we get ever closer to the release, including the next major city and continuing the main story!

Big changes:
– prologue overhauled: it is now split into multiple quests, plenty narrative added/changed, new locations, characters & more
– In-depth overhaul of attribute & leveling system
– Battle skills overhauled: a class system & skill leveling is now in place instead of pre-assigned skills
– Changed many choice options to display the required gold/perk/attribute
– Sex infection reduction mechanic overhauled
– Plenty of new items to buy, loot or craft
– Crafting system: Drax now provides crafting services, some new enemies will now drop crafting materials
– New quest, characters, romance & sex scenes (Novaras tanner)
– Battle interface redone (once again) into something better
– new relationship screen & underlying code
– post-battle loot system (by default, everything is looted)
– Battle attributes changed and rebalanced for most of the enemies in the game
– New game changed: it now features a character creation screen
– Potential allies (party characters) had their initial attributes changed
– Perk system (finally) in, only a couple perks actually implemented
– skill checks are a fixed value pass/fail instead of rolls now
– Introduced (and tweaked) xp rewards for all quests
– Seeing sex scenes for the first time now adds experience
– Battle now only adds a very small amt. Of experience for each unique enemy team composition
– Leveling formula changed: you will now reach level ~10-12 on completing most of the current content
– Traveling mode expanded: plenty enemies & encounters (including sexy ones)

Added smaller changes:
– Kylisa can now cleanse the player of corruption
– persistent data and saves will now force-reset between versions
– From Another World quest narrative sequence changed & improved
– censorship option & its code tails removed
– travel map nodes randomize every 1h of game-time
– Intimidation removed
– Wait block on plenty locations, such as shops
– Magic resistance as an attribute removed: it is now a will-derived battle stat
– Attribute descriptions tweaked to be more informative
– Changed styling of items’ desc (attributes given & more) sprites & other assets:
– Nijah bj sex scene changed
– new mc prologue battle anim
– new bandit story artwork
– new shani sprite
– new lucius mal sprite
– new vala sprite
– new kiara sprite
– new divine sprite
– new arlena sprite
– new markus art
– new kennel master art
– new drax art
– new guard art

Fixes:

• All Vizura events have been added to the quickstart
• Magic users were using energy instead of magic during battle, this bug has been fixed
• Elena drunk event bugfix
• Some texts in the battle log have been improved
• Skill Dodge of the Warrior class has been nerfed.
• The Win Battle button is now working stably and no longer crashes the game.
• Some typos that were causing the game to crash have been fixed.

– fixed a bug with infinite character creation attribute points
– auto-battle option is now enabled for all battles except prologue fort tutorials
– fixed transform resetting skills (hopefully)
– fixed a bug with ctd on saving post-slavemaster quest
– fixed a wrong prologue skill ID
– cloak of darkness quest added to quickstart
– transform button is now shown even in battles where you cannot transform
– fixed damzel in diztrezz black diamond scouting section
– Fixed a wrong riddle answer (tree/fire)
– Battle teams rewritten to never bug out anymore
– Markus female gallery scene fixed
– Divine gallery scene fixed
– Thea gallery scene fixed
– Vizura quest tweaks
– Added plenty of missing change relationship calls
– Quest log / notes GUI fixes
– Plenty typos fixed all over the game
– Other smaller fixes

QOL:
– More robust & helpful tutorial messages sprinkled all over the game, shown once as certain conditions are met
– Added a large fonts option
– Added auto map navigation
– Auto battle team fill option
– Notifications when a character joins/leaves party

Well guys, it’s finally here!
A couple things:
-The travel maps mechanic is the last major feature/mechanic to be integrated into the game. From here on out, we’ll just be adding depth to ALL of existing systems and improving on them, such as combat, enemy AI, etc.
-The next focus now, is on (finally) the Mages of Palam quest(s) and wrapping up Captain Nyx for Act 1, before moving on towards finally wrapping up Act 1’s main quests and leaping ahead with the story (with Regina content). We’ve already made a start gathering assets and things already~
-Apologies for the lack of communication on this one, we’ll try get back to our more regular news updates shortly.

As usual, thank you all for your amazing amount of support helping to bring this project alive,
you guys are awesome!
Love,
-The Damned Studios Team
0.153 Changelog:
New stuff:
– Added a traveling system: getting to remote locations has never been this exciting
– Added a travelling merchant you can encounter on your travels (and have fun with)
– New holiday event (with two sexy scenes)
– An assortment of items related to the holiday event
– Adara’s place can be visited (after the holiday event) – Adara can now be “properly romanced” (after the holiday event)
– Three new music themes for the holiday event & travels
– Couple new cinematic sounds
Tweaks/fixes:
– Already-clicked choice options are now slightly greyed-out
– Fixed a small display error in prologue
– Fixed pregnant characters spamming birth and behaving weirdly in general
Translation-related:
Books now won’t crash due to splitting text tags no more
– Fixed a bug with Thea not appearing on quickstart romance option
– Some other smaller fixes

Content

• new quest: The Slavemaster. Involves captain Nyx and is unlocked after The Bloodhound quest.
• new sexy scene w/Captain Nyx, happens during The Slavemaster quest.
• 5 adventure guild quests, 4 of which are repeatable.
• two new sexy scenes happening in one of the adventure guild quests. (Please note, the catgirl/catboy rotate weekly during the ‘price of life’ quest.
• new enemies, cgs, backgrounds as parts of the Adventure Guild quests.
• Thea romance content including sexy scenes, unlocked by advancing your Adventurer Guild rank.
• new regina sexy scene, happens after the Dazzling Tail quest.
• new Elena sexy scene, happens later into her romance.
• Myu can now be impregnated. Alt sex scenes are added, as well as some narrative. – new celeste sprite.
• new celeste returning to the city artwork.

Smaller changes/fixes:

• numerous smaller fixes to old quests, such as transitions, dialogue, char positions and more.
• healing items can be used in story mode. Only one place where this is relevant as of now.
• books are now items you can carry around and use to read.
• WASD keys can now be used to navigate most of the locations in the game. S leaves most of the city’ buildings. (we’ll have help screen eventually listing all the hotkeys, promise).
• you’re now notified if you’ve succeeded or failed a skill check (or, charm check as of now). – retreat from battle added to demorai hunt & balun exploration.
• Elena facial expressions no longer clipping’ around.

QoL:

• you can now use potions in combat with numpad keys.
• saves can now be named. you can toggle this option on/off in prefs menu.
• double-click-to-proceed is gone for good.
• error screen changed to account for the game’s early stages of development. – combat log can be toggled on and off permanently.

• removed a 9-page limit on saves
• added a load button to the save screen
• new hospital background
• new novaras smithy background
• new arlena bedroom background
• new nijah prologue missionary anims
• new kiara prologue cowgirl anims & narrative
• new kiara prologue bj anim
• ridiculous amount of typos fixed (hats off to Ivann for the majority of these, AGAIN)
• new inventory system
• inventory & battle item tooltips
• in battle, every char now has a unique item belt
• container system (just mc’s chest at home atm)
• skill & status effect tooltips in battle
• battle now has a text-based log
• in battle, if there’s only 1 player side character, auto-selection happens – fixed adara double-blushing occasionally