.5731 "Quality of Life, Juice, Busking Balance, Etc..."

I'm settling into a weekly cadence for updates, with any additional hotfixes occurring as the week unfolds. This patch covers a lot of ground.

Balance

I wanted the game to respond to players ability to grind and gain all the items with more friction. Here's how I'm having the game do this:

• When you get to the end of a successful busking round, the audience is given a permanent"Familiar Act" modifier that permanently buffs their rolls. There are six tiers of this, going from [+1,+1,+2,+2,+2,+3] all the way to [+5,+5,+6,+6,+6,+7]. Currently this only works for street busking and not plants.

• You can now fully subdue lobster creatures using Physique. The correct agent will be disabled, and should remain so. If you fail to pickpocket a peaceful lobster, they'll just escort you to the entrance. Otherwise, they'll just remain docile.

• cash rewards for drinks in Floating Frequency have been lowers

• Klang's Mints have gotten more expensive ($20 -> $80)

• costume requirements raised for Tier 3 costumes (4|5|6 / 5/5/6 range)

• cocktail dice rebalance:

  • Lemon Juice Diluted -> +2 locked

  • Gin Diluted -> plus 2 health and nerve

• cocktails (unsuccessful recipes and any freeform drinks yield 1 drink). successful recipes yield 2 drinks as before.

Quality of Life / Juice

• the dice roll button now looks more like a chunky 3d button

• you are now able to choose random pizza renames like you can for drinks

• store purchases require a hold-to-confirm and provide a satisfying tween

• quest screens now have their panels slightly separated, making them more legible

• pizza ingredients icon is shaded

• store discount in menu shown

• double escape no longer required out of new game screen

• you can see how many items you have while shopping

• you can hide clean clothes in the laundry screen

Assorted fixes

• certain areas in library easier to traverse

• lion no longer traps you in certain parts of library courtyard

• item details now behave more consistently

• flavor text on items should show consistently

• slowed by sap (and other area effects) fade consistently when entering / exited

• cars no longer float in the street

• you can now type 1, 2, and 3 in the drinks' name enter screen

• tutorial graphic updated for costumes degrading

• Small "Do not show again" state logic for tutorials fixed

• controller traversal in drinks behaves more consistently

Experimental Mode

• NEW OPTIONS PANEL: EXPERIMENTAL MODE

• this is where I'll be putting any new features you'd like to try that haven't yet been fully tested, but should still work. test drive!

  • you can now play with unlocked frame rates

  • VSYNC is toggle-able

• fixed issue where you could game over while getting a busking reward, reload, then be unable to access menus

• situational soft-locks during certain tutorials fixed