Noblesse Oblige v0.12.1.1 "The City of Merchants" Public Release!

Edit: Updated to v0.12.1.1 with the following fixes:

- Fixed an issue causing NPCs in Arkos to stop moving if their move route was blocked by the player.

- Fixed an issue that would incorrectly send the player to the Kharos Bathhouse if they canceled room selection from the door in the throne room.

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Chapter 11 is now available to the public! Patch notes are included below. As ever, it is strongly recommended to load a save from the Temporal Rift. 

v0.12.1.0 "The City of Merchants" Patch Notes (8-2-2024)

- 80k words of text.


- Significant new section of the story.


- Over 30 new pieces of equipment!


- A new iteration of Castle Kharos!


- Two new areas in Castle Kharos (with the appropriate proposal investments)!


- Receive your first Custom Armor (with the appropriate proposal investment)!


- New loyalty skills/upgrades available (Cynthia, Lorena, Stelianos, Despoina, and Calysia [Alivaen path only, at present]).


- Six new achievements for those playing on Steam.


- Adjustments to Eris's backstory to address a logistical issue. The revised introduction scene can be viewed on version transition or from the Temporal Rift at the end of Chapter 11.


- Graphical improvements to Elysios City and Paraliapolis.

= Balance Changes

- Ariadne's Wildfire damage increased significantly, and damage multiplier against a single target increased to x2.5
- Burning no longer triggers against Instant skills.


- Reworked skills for Cynthia
~ Bloodfury and Tranquil Fury have been redesigned as Fury builders with new effects.
~ Damage of Blood Strike and Retaliate increased. Blood Strike now has a 2 round cooldown.
~ Farstrike is now usable in either oath and builds extra Fury if it hits an archer or sorcerer.
~ Clash now generates 2 Fury rather than 1.
~ New skill: Sweeping Strike, a Fury builder AoE.
~ New skill: Barbed Thrust, a Fury builder for Blood Oath that causes Bleeding.
- Cynthia's builder combos are now two-round combos with increased Fury generation but a cooldown.
- Annihilate damage is now 25% defense piercing,


- Somnus's Lucid Dream cost decreased to 20 DP. Cooldown changed to 3 rounds.
- Somnus's Nightfall cooldown removed.
- Somnus now generates an extra 5 DP per curse on the target, not counting Night's Touch.
- Dark Whisper now has a cooldown
- Sleep and Entralled now cause Resilience.


- Lowered the rate of Chilled accumulation from melee attacks against Lorena to 35% (was 65%). Chilled rate remains 100% during Frozen Rampart.
- Frozen lasts 1 turn less against most bosses
- Frozen is now affected by (but does not cause) Resilience.
- Several Chapter 10 bosses are now correctly immune to Freeze.
- Fixed an issue where Lorena's physical attacks would break Frozen on the turn it was applied if they caused the Frozen effect.


- Added 1 point of Noble Support to the decision to deploy a large force to the Elysian Groves.


- Added 5 Lorena loyalty for those who chose to face Somnus in Hypernia.


- Changed 1 point of Popular Support to 5 points of Alcinian Support in the Alcina's Faithful proposal. This change will be automatically applied on the version transition from the Temporal Rift.


- Added a new "Elite Overwhelming" effect that is effective against tanks in plate armor (but ineffective against Alexander). This has been retroactively added to Royal Knights in Chapter 10.

= Features

- The Autosave slot can now be reached quickly by pressing Shift in the save menu. This is indicated in the header.
- F7 now saves a screenshot to a "Screenshots" folder in the game directory.
- The Proposal menu now shows Elite Units as a benefit and has a new category for "Other" benefits such as new castle areas.
- Factor effects for decisions now show the current value in parenthesis.
- Added "Unique" items. These items are designated by a "(Unique)" tag at shops, and can only be purchased once.
- Character nametags during dialog are now available as an option in the System menu. Note: this option is experimental, please report any bugs encountered.
- All Prince's Command effects through 100 Loyalty are now implemented.

= UI Improvements

- Fixed clipping in the quest log description box.
- Fixed weird extra linebreaks in quest log objectives.
- Re-added luck stat when checking stat change effects of items.
- Rewrote the code for the item comparison on the right-hand menu in shops; comparisons are now done by total stat value change (with 50 HP/MP = 1 point of other stats).

= Bugfixes

- Fixed the incorrect Army Size bonus for Siege Weaponry (now gives +1 Army Size as intended; was incorrectly +3). This will be automatically corrected on the version transition from the Temporal Rift for those who invested.
- Fixed the benefits for proposals added in Chapter 10 being double counted. This will be automatically corrected on the version transition from the Temporal Rift.
- Attackers now correctly take damage from Lorena's Glaciate if triggered by a freeze-immune enemy attacking.

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