Bonds Defiled [v12.3.1] By Bonds Defiled

12.3.1
STORY AND CHARACTER CONTENT

• Added Mariel’s Day 30 continuation, her story and goddess dream, and the associated animations.
• Added Mariel and Thalor’s date and their relationship decision.
• Added Nimeria’s forest date with Rylan, with form-specific scenes and revised artwork.
• Added the cinematic Chapter 11 finale.
• Added the four-part Chapter 12 opening: kitchen preparations, the boutique visit, the party and dance, and the aftermath.
• Added optional Chapter 12 character moments involving Rylan, Nimeria, Mariel, Sora, Liora and Thalor. Availability depends on earlier choices and Bonds and Desires settings.
• Added Chapter 12 follow-ups at the bank, a visit to check on Sora, and the craft visit involving Kahrrt and Viehzza.
• Made main-story events easier to find and start from the Main Story tab in Quests.

SORA

• Expanded Sora’s bed visits for masculine, femboy and female Rylan, including dominant and submissive variations, continuations and aftermath scenes.
• Added another set of form-specific Sora routes in 12.3.0.
• Added Sora’s female transformation on the masculine Rylan route in that set.
• Added an option to skip intimacy during bed visits.
• Added Sora’s stamina-training quest, skill story and talent tree.
• Made Sora available as a partner in eligible non-story fights after the training quest.
• Improved Sora’s sprites, skills, range and projectiles.

EARLIER CHAPTERS AND REPLAYS

• Added or remade early night visits involving Mariel, Serin and Liora.
• Reworked Rylan and Seryk’s Chapter 1 training scene and their bath scene.
• Remade Rylan and Nimeria’s first kiss and added their later Chapter 2 makeout scene.
• Reworked early massage and morning-activity scenes involving Liora and Serin.
• Added or expanded solo scenes, shower content and Noir content.
• Added Liora and futa Liora training scenes and additional relationship scenes.
• Reworked optional Mariel/Seryk and Liora/Seryk NTR scenes.
• Added the first Mariel/Seryk dream-corruption scene between Chapters 2 and 3.
• Added more bath interactions that depend on the characters’ relationships.
• Let Nimeria receive her white dress earlier and added another way to reject her seduction.
• Made more Act 1 reactions account for earlier choices.
• Expanded Memory Manipulation with new replays and a separate category for remade Act 1 scenes.
• Restored relevant Act 1 bed and optional NTR scene access in Act 2. Remade Act 1 replays require Act 1 content and the relevant opt-in setting.

ARTWORK AND ANIMATION

• Added or remade thousands of illustrations across Chapters 0-11, covering conversations, transitions, exploration and character moments.
• Added roughly 3,000 further illustrations during the Mariel story update.
• Updated Mariel’s usual appearance, many early Serin images, most early Seryk images and Thalor’s design.
• Added more expressions, idle sprites, walking animations, battle and skill animations, and form-specific scene media.
• Added and expanded solo animations for the main cast and relevant transformations, with eligible uses in raids, battles and rest areas.
• Improved Nimeria’s date artwork after its initial release.
• Expanded Blightwood with 45 new illustrations and three videos in 12.1.5, including branches for Rylan’s forms.
• Improved sprite memory use and effects, added still-expression performance options, and improved video compression for 20 FPS and 30 FPS downloads.
• Kept concise narration to connect events alongside the expanded imagery.

CITY, QUESTS AND EXPLORATION

• Added the Act 2 city map with active buildings, walking characters and more interactions.
• Added the hot-spring building and sprites, Nimeria’s laboratory events, and city changes tied to choices and progress.
• Added city statistics, pause and speed controls, a tutorial, FAQs and hideable overlays.
• Added population growth based on fame and income tied to population and building levels.
• Added Thalor’s mysterious encounter and training quest.
• Added the D-rank guild promotion quest and further Blightwood exploration.
• Expanded Blightwood encounters, enemies, equipment, reward balancing and Abyss-difficulty achievements.
• Added lust-dungeon exploration and selectable dungeon enemy levels for increased rewards.
• Added Elena information purchases, achievement image rewards and OnlyNims factions.

COMBAT

• Reworked Act 1 battles and talents, added support slots, and simplified related corruption and blessing progression.
• Added an Act 2 turn-based combat alternative, raid-skip options and more difficulty and battle-display settings.
• Added elemental effects including burn, freeze, paralysis and poison.
• Added enemy modifiers, card rarities, additional attack animations and raid card loadouts.
• Added four partner AI commands, remembered party/support order and character switching during dungeon defense.
• Improved partner dashing, pairing bonuses, support effects and eligible partner/solo interactions.
• Added automatic interaction options where applicable.
• Rebalanced enemy health and damage, cards, talents, gear rewards and raid difficulty.
• Made relevant fetish values strengthen companion cards.
• Improved Thalor’s Great Cleave, Seryk’s special skill and cut-ins, Mariel’s attacks and attack-size scaling.
• Added hideable raid UI and pause/speed keybinds.
• Improved performance on mobile and lower-end systems.

EQUIPMENT AND PROGRESSION

• Added equipment smelting and its tutorial, drag-and-drop equipment handling and equipment favorites.
• Added more enchantments and an enchantment list in the Codex.
• Enabled equipment changes for everyone and improved equipped-item names, tooltips and drop information.
• Simplified Act 1 management with automatic handling of relevant soul-forge, troop, dungeon-ability, building and trap unlocks or placement.
• Made equipment changes, smelting, enchantment rerolls, soul experience, talents, card loadouts, purchases and resource conversions save without leaving the passage.

INTERFACE AND QUALITY OF LIFE

• Extended the Act 2 interface throughout the game.
• Redesigned the title screen, sidebars, morning/night activities, farming, salon, talents, equipment, saves, rest areas and Act 2 hub.
• Brought activities into a consistent menu and improved quest-log guidance.
• Added searchable settings, pinned settings, save thumbnails, restored save naming and clearer equipment tooltips.
• Improved visual-novel presentation with theater mode, smoother transitions, clearer choices, shorter dialogue segments and wider passage coverage.
• Removed the extra Continue button.
• Improved battle interfaces, raid preparation, Sin Mark and Adventure Codex menus.
• Added Noir appearance previews during gender selection and first-kiss/first-time options in Act 2 setup.
• Improved blessing information, scrolling, mobile controls, resolution options, fullscreen and blur settings.
• Added in-game news, community access and feedback/bug-report controls.
• Expanded translation coverage for menus and new material.
• Improved long-passage performance and character scrolling behavior.

MUSIC AND VOICES

• Introduced distinct voices for the cast and NPCs, with more voiced introductions, transformations and scenes.
• Added Chapter 0 and Blightwood music, remade Nimeria’s songs and added separate music for Noir’s male and female scenes.
• Remade older songs and mixes using the newer voices and improved sound quality.
• The public edition includes the full available voiceover for Chapters 0-2 and selected free clips elsewhere. Additional voiceover is available in VIP.
• The verified public 12.3.1 archive contains 6,567 voice files. This is a file count, not a claim that every reachable line throughout the game is voiced.

LAUNCHER AND SAVING DURING THIS PERIOD

• Added automatic launcher updates, download and verification improvements, clearer error messages, and better retention of completed files when resuming downloads.
• Added Android background download and save-export improvements. Android may pause background activity and can require installation confirmation for updates.
• Reworked file delivery and added support for playing while remaining files are checked or downloaded on supported launcher versions.
• Improved save/progression fallbacks and added cloud saves as a VIP feature.
• These launcher changes have their own release history. For the current public 12.3.1 release, use browser play or the complete game download; the separate launcher’s public game-content channel remains on the older release.

FIXES THROUGH 12.3

• Fixed scenes and raid interactions ignoring disabled Bonds or Desires settings.
• Fixed incorrect futa scene unlocks and transformation-dependent content appearing too early.
• Fixed replay errors, incorrect character forms, pronouns and expressions, unintended chapter jumps, and bed/night-activity scene locks.
• Fixed Sora progression, Blightwood and dungeon progression, skipped-battle hardlocks, the Chapter 10 ending black screen and the Chapter 4-to-5 transition.
• Fixed repeated-raid errors, victory-screen freezes, the Behemoth crash with turn-based combat and Skip, and endless dungeon-defense fights.
• Fixed healing and HP carryover between camp, rest areas and combat, maximum-HP buffs, MP regressions and Act 1 stats carrying into Act 2 fights.
• Fixed equipment selection, talent displays, loan values, clothing persistence, party-leader changes and inappropriate patrol options.
• Fixed cropped choices, disappearing sidebars, flashing hub images, sprite/heart alignment, keyboard raid movement, fullscreen issues, battery-saving video loops and accidental image selection.
• Fixed missing or incorrect scene media, including Viehzza’s kiss animation, and numerous scene conditions, typos and wording issues.
• Included later Serin dream presentation fixes and further UI polish.

12.3.1 HOTFIX

• Fixed older Act 2 saves whose chapter state could hide Visit Mariel or Mariel’s Nightmare even while the hub directed players toward them.
• Added chapter-state recovery and a clearer progression action to continue the relevant story.
• Applied the fix to the public browser build and complete public archives.