This week I plan on making cutscenes for the next update. It's not the most exciting of work but it needs to be done! I will also be putting in assets for the new brothel stuff. If you're interested in this, you can come and watch on picarto! I work on DA during the week, the weekend is on other stuff.
The new animations have been released with one new finisher for Haiden and one regular animation between Alastor and Sol. This month's poll has also been made but this time around, we're not picking an animation, we're picking who gets to have their corruption design done!
Now, the update is coming along nicely and while there is still a lot of work to be done, I can make an overview of what the update will contain!
Conquest map:
This is the big focus of the update and all the other changes are connected to this. We're scrapping the old map and replacing it with a brand new map! The way the conquest work is now more like a story with territories being unlocked as you progress through the game. At launch there will be about 5 territories to progress through. Each territory has its own map so we'll be introducing those (old maps are still used for the territories they were assigned to).
Capturing a territory will also unlock a buff. Some will help in combat, other gather ressources or offer visual stuff. Some territories will also have choice nodes which you can change to gain a specific resources.
Some territories on the map will now also have rifts. Capturing a territory with a rift will allow Cervius to visit a new world. At first we will have Radian and Dregan, but more are to come later on.
Brothels:
By capturing a territory with a rift, Cervius will also be able to build a brothel on that territory. Brothels will create a connection between the two worlds and like the castle, Cervius can walk around those. The brothel can be expanded up to two times after building it.
The brothel of each world will serve as a hub to have familiar faces visit the place. Visitors will offer adventure for rewards as well as trade requests and missions. Doing those will increase Cervius's standing with that world and unlock new rewards (like it was previously done with Iz in the reception room).
Building the brothel will also unlock the dating location of a given world and will allow Cervius to bring characters there as seen by the previous update.
New dating locations:
New dating locations will be added in the new update for new interactions with the characters. Dating sites can be upgraded to offer new facilities. We will adding 3 locations to the Radian dating site as well as a new Dregan dating location with all its upgrades.
New cutscenes:
With the new territories will come new cutscenes. Most of those cutscenes will be focused on Cervius capturing the territories but also on the world introductions. One of them also comes with a new spicy scene!
New stages:
Finally, we will have quite a few new stages in this update. One for each newly added territory, but also for the new reputation missions of each factions (about 3 stages for each faction).
This update has been quite a lot of work we hope you'll enjoy it once we're able to release it!
Do note that the pictures above are still work in progress, but these are the big lines for what you can expect of the new update! We hope you'll enjoy it once we release it (which should be next month!) As usual, we will also be doing testing for this update possibly later this month or early august on the Discord server!
After this update, we will be done with all the reworks to the base game and we will be pushing forward with the main story of Daemonheim!
