Star Knightess Aura Internal Release 0.46.1

Usually I would put a note here how the public release will be in two weeks, but I am currently not sure if we will keep having public releases. We have have been struggling a bit since July. The release of the ending brought in a wave of subs but that very quickly ebbed up again. On the other hand, my statistics show that our player base is still growing enormously.

Last month we maaged to break through 1k concurrent players, which is a huge number. For comparison Baldur's Gate 3 has 77k concurrent players on steam. However, it seems that there is very little incentive left to either sub at my Patreon or buy the game for most of those people. I assume that the game has by now grown so big in size, that a lot of them already had their fill and then move on to the next game. As such it is currently very likely that the public release will be replaced with a demo build. I will need to think and sleep on this though.

https://aura-dev.itch.io/star-knightess-aura

Anyways, for now we have a patch for the 0.46.0 release where we fixed pretty much throughout the game a lot of things. Most of them of course focusing on the new content, but we also have plenty of fixes in older content.

Most important fix is probably the broken Artifact Shop that suddenly had no shopping categories. Prerelease coming right up after this!

Changelog 0.46.1 (06.09.2024)

• Streamlined order of dialogue options from Paul with other chars

Balancing

• None

Bugfixes

• Fixed Art of Heat Up and Pacify applying to enemies

• Fixed being able to cancel Skill Rank Up Selection

• Fixed Tales of the Artificer not being stocked

• Fixed extra reading not affecting Tales of the Artificer

• Fixed missing canEscape flag for Clockwork Forest encounters

• Fixed missing quest fail for Slay the Demon

• Fixed Key Item Category not appearing in shop if a item has a tag that is not associated with a visible item category

• Fixed Security window remaining after leaving Clockwork Forest

• Fixed Prositution Contract not correctly resetting

• Fixed Roland option for entering Entertainment Den visible after killing Roland

• Fixed repeating Election if Shadow wins with large support

• Fixed missing line when learning Fire I from Charlotte

• Add edrule to disable permanent stat gains on summons during slay the demon

• Fixed being able to restore HP/MP multiple times in Goddess Domain enabling constant usage of Bless Item

• Fixed trial lives counter in Nothing But The Truth not displaying on day 2

• Fixed being able to choose the pay directly option with less than 2000 Gold when recruiting Demon-cracy merchant

• Fixed Demon-cracy having incorrect ending value in some branches

• Fixed book progress text for companions not taking extra readings into account

• Fixed reducing difficulty not lowering extra readings

• Fixed incorrect preview lewdness contribution from Anna

• Fixed Star Shine II level increase affecting Slime in Slay the Demon

• Fixed Rescued Refugee 5 Emerald Tea trigger

• Fixed James election endorsement being endlessly repeatable