Hey cultured gamers!

The latest update is here.

It's been long overdue, but we've finally brought back the combat system from the demo, but with major changes!

There's been many challenges in getting the combat system to a level we were happy with, as in the demo we pretty much just copied how the system worked from similar games in the genre, and the problem with that is those systems are much more suited to having a single character controlled by the player.

So we've spent a lot of time trying to modify the system so it makes sense when you have a party of two or even three party members and how they all interact with each other.

The system is still quite barebones, but it's functional and can be built upon as we go forward.

Right now, Saphira is the only companion that can be brought into battle. You can invite her to join your party, and you'll be able to see her basic statuses from the party panel on the right side of the screen.

This panel also needs more work and will eventually track her lewd parameters, corruption levels, and relationships with different characters.

For now you can press the talk button to talk to her to flirt, gossip, or if you're done for the day, you can separate from her.

In combat, you have control of Saphira and her actions, taking advantage of the paper scissors rock system to take down enemies quickly or purposely make Saphira take extra damage to speed up her corruption.

Clothing

Enemies can attack Saphira and have a chance of progressively ruining her battle outfit, or if her stamina has been reduced to 0, they can directly shed layers of her clothing. There are six clothing states in total, from dressed to birthday suit.

As Saphira's garments become increasingly removed, she'll have to cover herself with her hands, causing her to become less accurate in the fight.

Corruption

Enemies have a wide variety of normal attacks and lewd attacks, some they can only use in certain scenarios, such as if Saphira's corruption is high enough. Corruption is split between 7 main body part categories, and each lewd attack will raise the corruption of a particular body part.

The more corruption that particular body part has, the more lewd actions the enemies can take; however, for this current build, the enemies can only talk dirty, strip, and grope.

Exhaustion

When a party member runs out of stamina, they're still in the fight, able to use non combat spells and abilities, and even able to return to the fight should they have enough resolve.

As long as one party member is still in the fight, the battle will continue; however, if all party members are exhausted, then they will lose.

Arousal

All lewd actions by the enemy will cause Saphira to gain arousal. Every 20% arousal gained, Saphira will start gaining random body part corruptions every turn, getting more corruption the higher her arousal percentage.

Once she reaches 100% arousal, she'll be overwhelmed with pleasure and be unable to contain herself, and after a short climax, she'll lose a chunk of her remaining stamina.

Enemies also gain arousal as they use lewd attacks and will also have a climax of their own upon reaching 100% and "leaving" the battlefield.

Defeat

This feature still hasn't been implemented unfortunately, as we ran out of time for this build, but in the future there'll be a range of these special defeat scenarios.

After the party loses the battle, the enemy will take them back to their camp, where, depending on Saphira's level of corruption, a variety of lewd scenes may occur, and the player will have a NTR and NTS choice in how to handle the situation.

Closing Thoughts

The combat system has taken a lot of work and tinkering, and the balance is going to be quite off for a while until we get better feedback on how it feels to play.

For the sake of this update, the values have been inflated to let players experience more of the current content, as there aren't really many quests or reasons to fight enemies yet or goals beyond fighting them.

Old saves "should" work with this update, but as always, for the best experience, start a new game.

Anyway, that's all for now. Enjoy the update, and here's to the next one!

Thank you all for your wonderful support! - The Cultured Gamers

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For the best experience, please start a new save file.

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Netorare God; Netorase Devil V0.4 Patch Notes:

Notice: There is a bug when accessing the player's quest journal that if their cursor is hovering the complete quests tab(Yellow banner) when closing the journal they cannot move.

If you have this issue open your journal and switch to active quests (Red Banner) and make sure cursor is not hovering the complete quests(Yellow Banner). Bugfix: Some blank placeholder items being picked up in the sewer.

Bugfix: The Wrong parallax layers showing in Smallwood causing the player to walk over roofs instead of under them.

Bugfix: The verman in the flower demon's grotto not glowing correctly to indicate they're holding the Aetherkynd stone.

Added: You can now take Saphira into combat.

Added: New Saphira Battle Standby Images( Dressed, Dishevelled, Exposed, Vulnerable, Panties, Birthday suit).

Added: New Saphira Battle Attack Images ( Dressed, Dishevelled, Exposed, Vulnerable, Panties, Birthday suit).

Added: New Saphira Battle Climax Image. (1 Generic Climax Image).

Added: New Saphira Strip Image. (1 Generic Clothes Stripping Image).

Added: Enemies can now use Dirty Talk, Insult, Grope & Tear Clothes on Saphira.

Added: New Lewd Battle Grope Images (Mouth, Armpit, Bust, Abs, Groin, and Butt).

Added: A New Location.

Added: And more. 

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If you find any issues, bugs or glitches please comment below! Additionally you can post them in the bug report page on our discord and we'll try to fix them as soon as we can! https://discord.gg/ZPCvwjgXeT

Please be as detailed as possible and what version and platform of the game you're running! 

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 Thank you all so much for the support in helping develop Netorare god; Netorase devil! - The Cultured Gamers