Strive: Conquest [v0.16.2] By Maverik

v0.16.2

Content:

• Kurdan has been replaced for female version and has a bit of story with it.

Combat:

• New animations: Winds of Hyperborea, Arrow Hail, Tempest, Black Tendrils, Void, Clarity
• Charged casts (Lightning, Chain Lightning, Inferno, Meteor, Blizzard, Hailstorm, Gaze of the Abyss) now have new casting animation
• Fighter cards now show freeze, poison, bleeding, burning, sleep, stun and In the Shadows; damage-over-time ticks pop out of the status icon
• Buff icons now sit in one row that shrinks as effects pile up, with a “+N” chip for the overflow
• New font for damage numbers
• Personalities no longer give combat bonuses; those bonuses moved to the Adept tier of faiths
• Pacifist can no longer use attacking abilities (was ATK -50%); it gets a Do Nothing ability to skip the turn
• Light healing no longer works on Undead
• Updated skill animations for Coalition, Jean, Dwarf King, Nixx, Kurdan, Ashmedai, Greg, Sebastian, Kuro, Elder Gryphon, Melchor, Rouge, White Stag, Reyan and bandits
• Greg’s Isolate can no longer miss

Traits:

• Traits are now split into Physical, Mental, Magic and Religious categories with limited slots; a new trait for a full category offers a replacement
• Added permanent, hidden and growing traits
• Reworked Undead trait effect from Necromancer
• Opposing sex traits are now incompatible
• Soul Stone now transfers a magic trait between characters instead of removing a trait
• The practice room tutor now removes only negative Mental traits
• Slaves have their own set of mental traits corresponding to their treatment/condition
• Knight, Paladin, Archmage and Bishop are now noble classes, closed to slaves; enslaving warns about losing them

Character creation and training:

• Changing race asks first and keeps compatible looks
• The training window has a trainee list with status badges
• Repeated failed trainings lead to Broken instead of a random negative trait
• Training point cap lowered to 40 + 10xTame (was 50 + 10xTame)
• Post-training upgrades reworked
• Added Genitalia Manipulation to the succubus trainings
• Sex Toy class no longer requires Pet and Harlot

Dungeons:

• New dungeon room: a meditation spot or a place of power
• Altars can grant or deepen faith
• Tower of Dreams event rooms can now have magic barrier challenge

Quests and events:

• Story checks where the master acts now accept only the master
• Options asking for a specific race or sex now check it properly
• Options that hand a character over for good no longer offer the master and ask before giving away a unique character
• Jean’s arm-wrestle and carriage intimidation need 75 Physics (was 5)
• Random events Lost Cargo, Unwell, Prayer, Broken Vase and Food Quarrel now react to traits and faith
• Anastasia’s post-election scenes record the master as her first partner
• Updated Cali’s portraits and CG art

Interactions:

• Actions a partner is one consent point short of now read as hesitant instead of refusal, with new lines
• Let-Lead AI no longer picks refused actions and goes after its current desire first
• Fixed sex-trait sensation bonuses applying to the wrong partner

Enchanting:

• Enchanting moved to the Ritual Room with a new panel
• Enchantments now also cost mana, which donors can share
• Already enchanted gear can get more levels
• Improve Gear is now a button in Smithing

Mansion:

• Upgrade costs reworked and now include gold (Ritual Room 2500, was 400; Flesh Rites 5000/10000, was 2500/5000)
• Room cards and task tooltips show the work stat and the tool that speeds it up
• Excess materials sold by the storage clerk fetch half buy price (was full price)
• Rich Soil yields cloth 60% and silk 30% (was 30%/10%)
• The craft log groups identical products

Slave market:

• Commissions stay open 1-4 days longer at ranks C to S
• The captives panel shows a yellow star for captives who fit a commission after training
• Commissions no longer ask for noble classes
• Clicking a candidate’s portrait opens them in the mansion list
• New Tokens of Recognition icon

Map:

• Travel groups can be locked; new recruits join the exploring party’s group

Paperdoll:

• Added freckles, muscles and a long wavy hairstyle
• Genitals are drawn in front of a pregnant belly

Fixes:

• Valkyrie’s skill mana cost reduction now applies
• Blessing of the Forest now gives its +15 Physics
• Shy’s subordinate tax reduction now applies
• Selfish now blocks support abilities from hotkeys and the AI too
• Fixed beastkin chest fur colouring on orange-white and black coats
• Fixed the minor and major Curse of Hideous names being swapped
• Fixed the Training button saying “can be trained today” after training was finished
• Fixed the factor upgrade screen keeping a character from before a load
• Fixed the chest gas trap and the mana fountain draining or restoring all mana
• Fixed the enslavement text at Hybris’s altar
• Fixed an error after leaving to the main menu
• Fixed Amelia’s dress on the paperdoll and testicles drawn on futas without them