Okay, so after a WHOLE LOT more work, Balak has finished his grand opus on the combat system update with a rework of the Charmer class. Plus, to go along with it, we have chosen to update the Character Creation pipeline at the same time, since I reckon a bunch of you are going to be making new Charmers to check it out. This is the end of Balak’s great work, and now he can peacefully return to the writing mines with the rest of us. Big round of applause for the guy.
Oh, and just so it doesn’t get lost in the weight of all the other changes in the patch: Cait and Katya have a threesome together now! (Thanks Aury!)
Hotfix: A hotfix has been released to fix issues with pupperidge combat infinitely proccing, character creation not giving balls, Caranbrot causing NaN HP, and slider text being near-invisible in dark mode.
0.7.33 Patch Notes:
- Character Creation has seen a major update. While the core 5 Classes and 5 Races remain unchanged, as does the total list of 10 available Backgrounds, many new options have been added for starting cosmetic appearance. In addition, you can now choose any Background regardless of Class.
- Most races have new eye, hair, and/or skin color options to start with.
- Maximum starting breast size has been increased.
- New sliders have been added for most physical properties of the character in CharGen, such as thickness, muscle tone, butt size, and more.
- In addition to weapon and spell powers, we now have Charm powers. These function like spells, but for… Charmers! Charms scale off of Sexiness instead of Spellpower, and use Temptation instead of Spell Pen. Most Charmer abilities are now Charms rather than a slapdash mix of spells and untyped tease attacks.
- List of Charms: Flametongue, Hymn to Light (NEW, Cantrix Viv exclusive for now), Scaldic Cadence (NEW), Bardic Cadence (NEW), Cadence of Power (NEW), Bolstering Dance, Song of Storms, War Song, Song of Splendor, Sunblade, Charm Spell, Charming Glance (NEW), Thunder Chord (NEW), Holy Reverberation (NEW, Cantrix Viv), Dischord, Grand Finale, Notation Revelation (NEW, Cantrix Viv), Flare, Sacred Chord (NEW, Cantrix Viv)
- A bunch of healing powers now scale off of your tease boost: Flametongue, Hymn to Light, Bolstering Dance, Song of Courage, Soothing Dance.
- Bardic Cadence, Cadence of Power, Scaldic Cadence, Charming Glance, Thunder Chord have all been added to regular ol’ charmer lists.
- Song of Splendor is now a tease that applies 3 stacks of resonance
- Vestal’s Embrace now can be used even if allies are at full health so as to enable threat generation.
- Holy Ward now works as intended.
- Toughness now provides more additional Health per point (7.5 as opposed to 5).
- Base Threat is now increased by Toughness and reduced by Cunning.
- Presence no longer increases Health.
- The Leadership bonus from Presence has been reduced by half. To compensate, the scaling on Summons has been increased to Leadership + Presence instead of JUST Leadership.
- The Accuracy bonus from Agility has been reduced by half. To compensate, all characters now have a level-based passive Accuracy boost: this should equal out to about the same for max-Agility characters and provide a nice boost to low-Agility characters’ hit rates. Poor Arona can finally swing straight!
- Tease base damage nerfed from 30 to 27
- Terrified now reduces magic resist instead of mental resist
- Aroused reduces mental resist instead of magic resist
- The Charmer’s Stylish perk is now “isn’t wearing heavy armor” and gives 4*level Sexiness OR “is wearing heavy armor” and thus gives a Threat bonus equal to your Sexiness. Bard tanks!
- Catalysts now directly give their bonuses to Spell and Charm-tagged powers, rather than obliquely benefitting things using the magicalHit formula. This doesn’t REALLY change much but is a slight buff to catalysts overall, making them apply to more powers.
- Caranbrot now heals the player if they are already shielded.
- Wooden Pipes no longer grant spellpower and spell pen, instead giving ward and temptation
- Viviane has two news sets! Elemental, themed around debuffs and setting up combos, which is always unlocked; Cantrix, a holy-themed bard, which is currently unlocked by default pending some upcoming content for the witch. The latter set is exclusive to human Viv, while Demon Viv will have an exclusive set of her own soon as well.
- Skin/Fur/Scale plurality should now be properly accommodated in the game’s text.
- Roughly one assload of text cleanup, typo corrections, and other edits submitted by community members. (Thanks Tea and Zag!)
- AS FOR ACTUAL CONTENT: Cait and Katya have a 3way together with some high-impact kitty-on-kitty-on-PC squish. (By Aury)
- New CGs: Cats Double Blowjob (Yuulis), Character Creation Races (Moira)
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Damn that’s good art
I’m excited to take a look at the new charmer class, since the only reason I abandoned it was the lack of distinct character.
I don’t see a credit for the art here though? Where is it coming from?….
if you hover over the art on PC you can see that its by Nyah.
Thank you. This has been pointed out elsewhere.
Was just going to comment the same thing!
this patch cover pic is dope as fuck!
also, the charmer class, and the revamping of tease system looks amazing
text in the slider box while using dark mode is near unreadable on android when creating a new character.
Will be fixed for next release.
As someone who loved playing as a Charmer this is by far my favorite update! Trying to balance a handful of different stats was way too difficult until the Pyromancer’s garb got added to the game, but now I’m fully ready to create a new character from scratch. Thank you devs so much for doing this!
Getting some… Ai vibes from this art. Who is the artist credit?
If you just hover over the image, you’d see it’s Nyah, an artist who’s been drawing since well before the advent of AI art. It’s pretty weird that you’d claim to get “AI vibes” from this art given that there’s none of the signs of it being AI art aside from being Japanese/Anime inspired.
I’m not too familiar with Nyah. It’s the strange shape between the pinky and ring finger on the left hand (our left), and the inconsistency of the headband including the unfinished line and inconsistent color of the jewels that made me worry.
Most of the ai generators have been fed an enormous amount of anime as the basis for their models. The entire style has been thoroughly disrespected by the models. Unfortunately it’s not as weird as you’d think.
There’s no hostility on my part. Just worry. Be cool.
You don’t really have to be familiar with Nyah, I wasn’t either until I took about a second to look them up. Artist name’s have been viewable by hovering over or clicking on the image and then reading the file name for years now.
Look man. When I see a picture and check the credits, the name jumps out at me specifically when I’m familiar with the artist. I know to look for Moira, or Adjatha or DCL, but I don’t know Nyah, so I didn’t make the connection. And even if I made the connection and knew Nyah, ai artifacting looks like ai artifacting regardless of whose name is on the picture. I have seen artists I know have their styles stolen by models and pieces trying to skirt by with their names. I don’t know what else to tell you. We can do what I tried to do above and drop it – because there is nothing left to say, or we can keep pissing in the comments section.
I do not know how to make it any more clear that I’m not out to get this specific artist. Be. Cool.
I certainly know how to be an aggressive a-hole when prodded too much. I do not want to be. I have no negative intention against this artist and am glad to be introduced to someone new. Leave it at that.
You asked some questions and got some direct answers, the only one not being cool here is you. Calm down and maybe take a second to look it up before making assertions.
Just because the hands aren’t “anatomically correct”, it doesn’t mean the art is automatically AI. The stray pencil sketch line going off the tail indicates this. And the “inconsistent color” of the jewels is just the light source coming from the left of the scene.
It must frustrating and insulting for artists to see comments questioning if their art is AI generated, that no matter how many hours they spend working on their art, there’s always egregious comments such as yours.
The full name of the artist is nyahp20. You can find them on pixiv, twitter, and instagram.
https://www.pixiv.net/users/29899855
https://x.com/Nyahpa20?mx=2
https://www.instagram.com/nyah.art/
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts?tags=nyahpa20
A gallery of their art in COC2:
https://wiki.smutosaur.us/CoC2/Author-Nyah
definitely not AI art work.. doesn’t that have creepy smile.
I can’t speak for Fen but *I* will never knowingly feature AI slop on this platform or my games.
Very heartening to hear. I will drop my paranoia.
“The Leadership bonus from Presence has been reduced by half.”
Looks like I can finally make low Presence characters without feeling like I’m gimping myself by missing out on a significant boost to the most blatantly overpowered stat in the game! That said, I’ll have to do a bit of math to confirm, but I suspect maximizing Presence is still going to be optimal for any build outside of solo challenge runs—Leadership is just *that* good.
Especially since the scaling for the bonuses from Leadership is now Leadership+Presence.
For summons only, and it adds up to the same result as the old formula. These changes nerf the influence your Presence stat has on companions while keeping summons the same.
On a side note, I ran the numbers and it is indeed still optimal to maximize Presence no matter what build you’re using.
I wonder if Powerful Binding will be changed/tweaked to compensate this as this feels like a heavy nerf considering it relies on Leadership, which we’ll now get half the amount of than we used to from Presence.
On the positive side, the changes to the character creation screen are fantastic. BIg credit to the team.
“This is the end of Balak’s great work, and now he can peacefully return to the writing mines with the rest of us.”
Holy shit, does this mean we can actually get more goblin content in the future, and maybe even some Viviane scenes?
If so that’d be awesome!
Okay…Caranbolt is my favorite weapon so I’ve been waiting for a buff like this or giving it the crazy amount of shields it gave before, but there’s a problem with it and wide sweep. If you use it at full health you get so much health that you become untargetable and the enemies would just constantly defend and buff themselves without attacking you. It also gave you a NaN status with health and all of the threat meters turn black. This needs a hotfix so I can use my baby again.
Fix should be out shortly.
asking since Vivian’s TF was mentioned but once the game is further along and we learn how to turn demons back into humans safely like eventually kassyra will other characters if demonized have the ability to change back as well like Viviane? or are all corruption/demon TFs going to be permanent decisions?
Isn’t Backer Version = Steam Version?
Because the Steam Version seems not to want to update.
steam is public unless you put in the supporter code
No. The steam version gets backer updates by using the beta code from subscribing to the patreon. Without that it’s public release.
Since When?
I am 100% certain it was the backer version at some point.
That’s specifically why I bought it.
since always?
Are courtesans supposed to be able to select a power on the second level up? Tells me I get a perk but doesn’t give me an option of another power.
Is Aria of Waves going to remain as a spell?
Are there any planned changes to the Guldring?
Is there any ballpark for when Sif and I’ava get their wayfort stuff put in?
Soon-ish.
I believe Skow’s very nearly done with them, but she’s also gotten herself VERY sick immediately before she’s popping out of the country for a couple weeks. Hopefully they’ll be in the code queue in February.
The patch notes mention “Most races have new eye, hair, and/or skin color options to start with.”
So, could someone tell me, pretty please, if gray and/or silver eyes are now available for any of the starting races?
Humans, Elves, and Catfolk have gray as an option.