March Devlog

Hey everyone,

In the next patch, I introduced two new common enemies: Pandora and Ruth. Both of them have been added to the Park, helping to make early encounters feel a bit more varied and alive.

I also received a lot of feedback regarding how difficult it is to trigger Lilith and Archpriestess Lilith. While the intention is for this to be more of a rare, late-game event, having content that only shows up in something like one out of every hundred runs feels like a waste of effort.

At first, I considered turning Penetrate Armor into a basic technique so players could select it at the start of the game. However, after thinking it through, that wouldn’t make much sense as the technique would be mostly useless in early maps, which goes against the purpose of basic techniques.

Instead, I decided to introduce a new weapon that can drop from early enemies. It doesn’t deal much damage, but it serves the purpose of allowing players to progress part of the quest earlier if they choose to.

On the technical side, I started working toward adding Addiction Checks to the Enemy Creation tool. This required rewriting a fair amount of code to make the system more flexible and easier to expand. My usual approach is to prioritize getting things working first, even if the implementation isn’t perfect, and then come back later to refine it. This is one of those moments, adding Addiction Checks made it clear that parts of the system needed to be reworked to be more flexible.This will likely happen again in the future, especially when I start implementing debuffs into the tool.

Still on the topic of refactoring, the sleep function has been messy for quite a while now, which was causing inconsistencies with the new event. After this update, things should (hopefully) behave much more reliably.

The next update for Hero Corruption 2 is scheduled for April 3rd.

See you then!