Parasite Black [Damned Studios] [v0.196]

New Content

• The Tarbecks Part 2
• Dreamhouse quest
• New characters
• New locations
• New travel maps
• New enemies
• New items
• Four new sex scenes

Localization

• French translation
• Korean translation
• Gameplay & UI
• Arena gem option
• 8 save slots
• Number key shortcuts

Bug Fixes

• fixed a bug with cheats not working properly on saves
• compressed game files a bit to trim game size x2
• fixed some typos
• Relationship fixes
• Sprite fixes
• Quest fixes
• Typo fixes
• Backend improvements

Bugfixes:
- fixed a bug with map auto-pathing reverting to fastest from safest
- improved mc and sypha character sprites
- pressing keys on input screen will now properly input a letter (instead of opening a bound screen)
- pressing X will now properly toggle the map screen off
- other engine changes

new/improved:
- new quest: Big Trouble in Little Hamun
- 13 sex scenes as a part of new quest
- black diamond arena now has ai vs ai battles
- added third route to the big trouble in little hamun quest & marbella relationship
- added restaurant bg to the LTBH quest
- improved first ves encounter scen
- improved a couple scenes in price of life quest
- Tweaked Mika questline, players can now look away and avoid Mika flashing them.
- added a char entry & missing meeting code for giselra
- "take all" now closes container
- new cheats in cheat menu
- butcher's place and all libraries are now actual shops
- shops will now dynamically sell their inventories and restock in a more natural way
- all in-game shops will now only trade in their specific item categories
- very large health potion (also changed icons of health potions for consistent scaling)
- improved items sorting code
- new celeste char sprite
- new dros female char sprite
- improvements and additions to marbella char sprite
- added russian translation (by Deus)

fixes/tweaks:
- fixed Girl Troubles quest possibly bugging out in rare cases
- fixed some typos & mistakes in narrative
- added DLC screen for steam version
- updated all translations with latest content
-Fixed Nyx romance route repeat bug
- fixed a bunch of typos & wrong names
- fixed being softlocked from arlena content due to low char relationship
- fixed sypha dialogue during beast of novaras
- fixed-improved some replay-based gallery scenes code
- improvements/additions to all translations
- many translation-related engine fixes
- changed/simplified underlying location nav code which in turn fixed some small play sequence errors
- fixed a bug with story-mode poison status effect
- fixed multiple bugs with playing back audio during some sex scenes
- fixed a bunch of translation-related bugs
- fixed a couple typos
- marbella and numa now have their own rel. screen entries and are properly "met" as you encounter them
- fixed lvl up to fadeout smoothly
- fixed white bear name (from rhuvar)
- added first meet scene to giselra
- fixed nyx sprite being displayed off-screen during one scene
- fixed one divine sex scene using obsolete anim
- fixed/improved Graceful Rebirth quest goals
- fixed impregnation events for myu, nijah, mika firing off too early (they will now start a week in, when the bump appears)
- fixed/improved placement of rhuvan hide dialogue in girl troubles qst
- fixed arlena scene progression during dazzling tail qst
- ui hotkeys will now work regardless of what keyboard language you're currently in (if they dont - report as bug)
- fixed double-% in skill descriptions
- fixed mrs. winward name in one of her scenes
- polish on es and ru translations
- more translation-related engine changes
- fixed a bunch of typos all over script
- clicking or pressing space/enter will now interrupt waiting
- a bunch of new UI sounds for various types of events
- added a way to jump to a page in saves screen
- damage during Dark Mage riddles section is now non-lethal
- tamer level up visual effect
- improved some ui anims to be smooth
- improvements to other language translations
- fixed a wrong callie-trayan scene
- fixed a bug with myu lines
- restored missing kiara missionary gallery scene
- fixed a bunch of typos in varied parts of the game
- tweaks/improvements to save compat
- lots of deeper engine changes/cleanup/improvements

Bugfix:
- fixed an error in nyx romance scene
- fixed a bunch of typos
- updated spanish translation to cover tarbek quest
- option to avert gaze during a certain mika scene, with consequences
- fixed an error happened on loading any hamun city save
- fixed double kelebeth bug during tarbecks' outcome
- added an option to look away at a certain mika scene
- fixed one arlena animation being black
- updated spanish translation
- fixed a couple wrong lines during judgement day quest
- fixed an error in ves tj scene- fixed nijah market stall to tint properly during dusk/dawn- fixed some gui offset glitches in char. screen- fixed a couple bugs in japanese translationnew & changed:- "you lack the required perk" will now also spell out which perk you need- added more of Spanish translationGiselra spawn bug solvedJp translation bugs

big ones:
- new quest: The Tarbecks, part 1
- an insane amount of sex scenes (26 in total) as part of the new quest
- new Hamun city locations & characters as part of the new quest
- all battle skins in the game (near 70) had received sprite-based animations
- plenty battle skins (markus prologue, kiara prologue and more) were revamped & improved
- improvements to story sprites: mc prologue, markus prologue, arlena, shay, and others

smaller tweaks/improvements:
- the range between your lowest and highest attribute is raised to 15 (from 5)
- in battle, targets can now be selected with number keys, similar to skills & items
- fixed a bunch of old novaras city buildings' clickable offsets
- fixed smaller bugs in a couple battle skills
- additional sex music track
- daytime will now smoothly lighten/darken the background, no longer instantly flipping to night variant
- waiting no longer fades to black
- various smaller tweaks to cinema (shown chars, sounds) all over the script
- huge code cleanup/tidyup, purely engine-side - other stuff

I'm afraid I'm 7+ versions behind that if i put changelog, it will just be spam.

TLDR of it is : Art has changed, lots of bug fixes, works, and some new content. There was Ai-Slop drama, but it seems there won't be ai stuff for now, in this game.

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