Star Knightess Aura Internal Release 0.38.2

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Note that the public release will be in 1 week. You can also skip the waiting time by buying Star Knightess Aura on itch.

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

Weekly dose of bugfixes. Trihan fixed some really strange ones this week. Since there isn't really a lot to say, I will just go on a small story: In RPGMaker skills are a special type of item. And when I made Enhance skills, I apparantly forgot to check specifically, that we are indeed talking about skills and not items - so having an Enhance skill of ID, say X, would make it possible to use item of ID, also X, and activate it as an Enhance skill. Apparantly this bug has been in the game for the full 3 years of its existence. :'D

Then maybe a couple sentence to the balancing changes. I noticed that the slime stat curves are kind of overkill, this is mostly because I based them back them on the curves for the companion characters from Aura. And then Medium slime has an even crazier curve. Overall, this leads to some crazy power with Star Shine II. I have flattened some of the stat curves of the wind slime, but I will need to review the curves in general for slimes in the future. 

Magic Academy learning time for rank I spells goes down from 4 -> 3 so enrolling doesn't feel like a scam. :'D

Finally, Star Shine will no longer provide buffs if Aura is KOed. Again just a little slime nerf and also in preparation for the final dungeon, to deal with edge cases like a super weak KOed Aura supercharging the party with Star Shine II.

And that's it for the public patch notes. Prerelease devlog coming up next. :)

Changelog 0.38.2 (12.01.2024)

• None

Balancing

• Reduced (Small+Medium) Wind Slime MATK level progression 
• Decreased Magic Academy Rank I learning time to 3 days per skill 
• Removed Star Shine buff if Aura is KOed 

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos in public content (Thanks to Kytt) 
• Fixed analytics not tracking chapter information 
• Fixed too slow chase speed of soldier in Maid Academy 
• Fixed enhance spells and stances causing items with the same ID to become usable at any time 
• Fixed blank text box when feeding Maleficum to Slime 
• Fixed lingering Aura portrait after gathering all bedroom evidence in Nothing But The Truth 
• Fixed Mutated Rafflesia not counting towards bosses killed in compendium 
• Fixed autoskill logic preventing state durations decrementing on the map 
• Fixed 1000+ damage in one turn during Entertainment battle saying +10 applause instead of +20
• Fixed Lorraine being in keep and having slavery dialogue when sent to prison 
• Fixed tampering with Sleeping Formula not increasing Vice 
• Fixed duplicated Aura portrait in Cheerleading Practice 5 
• Fixed sequence break bug when going through Catacombs 
• Fixed Slime Summoner still offering morph skill training after learning both skills 
• Fixed losing trial in pre-recess causing Roland death switch to turn on 
• Fixed Ethereal Hide elements being incorrect 
• Fixed roland5 choice lock 
• Fixed Aura staying naked after Bonding with Slime I 
• Fixed Winterfall jump point dialogue having wrong switch condition 
• Fixed walkable wall in Crystal Caves Vault