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Full Anime City update
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What changed
- Maps
- Store
- UI and audio
- Gameplay
- Performance
- Balance
Anime City changes
New content:
Food stalls in the shrine map now will change depending on current day of the week: Monday ~ Friday: baked corn stall; Saturday, Sunday: grilled ayu + dango stall.
Drawstring bags (kinchaku) can be bought at the convenience store. They can be attached to randoseru and school bag, and each will add +3 inventory slots (2 bags maximum).
New shoes: Mary Jane shoes (for girls), brown sneakers (for boys). Sold at the convenience store.
Black and white thigh highs. Sold at the convenience store.
Engineer's goggles (for cosplay). Can be collected in the drama club room (requires club membership).
New base hairstyle (for girls) with tails in front is available in the character's customization menu. Set as default for Sayuri. This hairstyle is compatible only with the shortest tails. "Squashed" versions of torus-type tails are removed, because they didn't really look good. Torus-type tails are now compatible only with hairstyles where tails are formed on the upper part of head.
Improvements:
Several scripts controlling hair/skirt/flags/etc. physics were reworked to make animations more fluid and get rid of a few physics issues. When sleeping in bed, characters' hair will now remain on top of bed surface, instead of going through bed (depending on hairstyle, particularly for ponytails, some clipping still will happen).
Character faces now have two separate equipment slots, allowing to wear both glasses and face mask/mustache at the same time. Item ids for face mask and mustache were changed, so their old versions (if any existed in inventory) will be marked as deleted items. New versions of these items are available in the same places in school.
Implemented new occlusion culling system inside school (which is the most complex location) to improve performance. This should provide significant fps improvement while inside school.
Various NPCs will be visiting convenience store after school (between 17 PM and 21 PM).
NPCs in the jinja map will now walk through the main gate and appear/disappear in the street outside of camera view, instead of the spot right below the main gate.
Content of all script books for drama club was reworked, many lines were shortened to make them easier to remember. Content of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" book is replaced with a different (more interesting) fragment.
Attempting to move inventory-expanding items from equipment into additional inventory slots now results in a warning message notifying why that action is blocked.
Backpack shoulder straps now have better adjustment.
School history workbook was reworked and simplified, several unnecessarily difficult questions/answers were removed.
Chance of prayer success in the shrine is increased (from 5% to 10% without coin, and from 10% to 20% with coin).
Erika's list of requested snacks is simplified by removing food that required complex cooking, and replacing it with food that can be bought in convenience store.
Reworked "help" section in the main menu. Now it also includes screenshots showing various game objectives/activities.
Effect of "health" blessing/omamori is changed: now it reduces time of all received negative health effects by 50%. Does not affect stress and chance of poisoning.
Freezing/warming mechanics are reworked. Exposure to hot/cold weather and consuming hot/cold drinks now affect the same single "accumulated warmth" parameter which can go from -100% to 100% (from "maximum freezing", resulting in flu, to "maximum overheating", resulting in heatstroke). Drinks can give up to +-33% warmth bonus (~1 hour protection against hot/cold weather). Freezing/warming accumulation speed now depend on current environment + clothes temperature, and can range from 3 to 1 hour to reach 100%. Wetness effect works the same as before and will always decrease body temperature by up to 5 degrees.
Bug fixes:
fixed a minor issue with drama book UI menu initialization.
fixed a minor bug with position of Kuromoto's hat.
fixed a bug with two buttons in convenience store being assigned to wrong glasses.
fixed several minor issues with wrong footstep sounds on some surfaces.
fixed a bug with NPC skirt physics initialization in a few rare scenarios.
fixed a shader issue with shadows that were visible through hair.
fixed wrong sitting positions on several types of chairs for characters with small height.
Update (March 12): released hotfix for energy/health regeneration issue for beds placed in apartment (for games loaded from earlier saves).
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