Parasite Black

0.196

- v0.196

- New Content

- The Tarbecks Part 2

- Dreamhouse quest

- New characters

- New locations

- New travel maps

- New enemies

- New items

- Four new sex scenes

- Localization

- French translation

- Korean translation

- Gameplay & UI

- Arena gem option

- 8 save slots

- Number key shortcuts

- Bug Fixes

- fixed a bug with cheats not working properly on saves

- compressed game files a bit to trim game size x2

- fixed some typos

- Relationship fixes

- Sprite fixes

- Quest fixes

- Typo fixes

- Backend improvements

0.190

- v0.190

- Bugfixes:

- - fixed a bug with map auto-pathing reverting to fastest from safest

- - improved mc and sypha character sprites

- - pressing keys on input screen will now properly input a letter (instead of opening a bound screen)

- - pressing X will now properly toggle the map screen off

- - other engine changes

- new/improved:

- - new quest: Big Trouble in Little Hamun

- - 13 sex scenes as a part of new quest

- - black diamond arena now has ai vs ai battles

- - added third route to the big trouble in little hamun quest & marbella relationship

- - added restaurant bg to the LTBH quest

- - improved first ves encounter scen

- - improved a couple scenes in price of life quest

- - Tweaked Mika questline, players can now look away and avoid Mika flashing them.

- - added a char entry & missing meeting code for giselra

- - "take all" now closes container

- - new cheats in cheat menu

- - butcher's place and all libraries are now actual shops

- - shops will now dynamically sell their inventories and restock in a more natural way

- - all in-game shops will now only trade in their specific item categories

- - very large health potion (also changed icons of health potions for consistent scaling)

- - improved items sorting code

- - new celeste char sprite

- - new dros female char sprite

- - improvements and additions to marbella char sprite

- - added russian translation (by Deus)

- fixes/tweaks:

- - fixed Girl Troubles quest possibly bugging out in rare cases

- - fixed some typos & mistakes in narrative

- - added DLC screen for steam version

- - updated all translations with latest content

- -Fixed Nyx romance route repeat bug

- - fixed a bunch of typos & wrong names

- - fixed being softlocked from arlena content due to low char relationship

- - fixed sypha dialogue during beast of novaras

- - fixed-improved some replay-based gallery scenes code

- - improvements/additions to all translations

- - many translation-related engine fixes

- - changed/simplified underlying location nav code which in turn fixed some small play sequence errors

- - fixed a bug with story-mode poison status effect

- - fixed multiple bugs with playing back audio during some sex scenes

- - fixed a bunch of translation-related bugs

- - fixed a couple typos

- - marbella and numa now have their own rel. screen entries and are properly "met" as you encounter them

- - fixed lvl up to fadeout smoothly

- - fixed white bear name (from rhuvar)

- - added first meet scene to giselra

- - fixed nyx sprite being displayed off-screen during one scene

- - fixed one divine sex scene using obsolete anim

- - fixed/improved Graceful Rebirth quest goals

- - fixed impregnation events for myu, nijah, mika firing off too early (they will now start a week in, when the bump appears)

- - fixed/improved placement of rhuvan hide dialogue in girl troubles qst

- - fixed arlena scene progression during dazzling tail qst

- - ui hotkeys will now work regardless of what keyboard language you're currently in (if they dont - report as bug)

- - fixed double-% in skill descriptions

- - fixed mrs. winward name in one of her scenes

- - polish on es and ru translations

- - more translation-related engine changes

- - fixed a bunch of typos all over script

- - clicking or pressing space/enter will now interrupt waiting

- - a bunch of new UI sounds for various types of events

- - added a way to jump to a page in saves screen

- - damage during Dark Mage riddles section is now non-lethal

- - tamer level up visual effect

- - improved some ui anims to be smooth

- - improvements to other language translations

- - fixed a wrong callie-trayan scene

- - fixed a bug with myu lines

- - restored missing kiara missionary gallery scene

- - fixed a bunch of typos in varied parts of the game

- - tweaks/improvements to save compat

- - lots of deeper engine changes/cleanup/improvements

0.182

- v0.182

- Bugfix:

- - fixed an error in nyx romance scene

- - fixed a bunch of typos

- - updated spanish translation to cover tarbek quest

- - option to avert gaze during a certain mika scene, with consequences

- - fixed an error happened on loading any hamun city save

- - fixed double kelebeth bug during tarbecks' outcome

- - added an option to look away at a certain mika scene

- - fixed one arlena animation being black

- - updated spanish translation

- - fixed a couple wrong lines during judgement day quest

- - fixed an error in ves tj scene- fixed nijah market stall to tint properly during dusk/dawn- fixed some gui offset glitches in char. screen- fixed a couple bugs in japanese translationnew & changed:- "you lack the required perk" will now also spell out which perk you need- added more of Spanish translationGiselra spawn bug solvedJp translation bugs

- big ones:

- - new quest: The Tarbecks, part 1

- - an insane amount of sex scenes (26 in total) as part of the new quest

- - new Hamun city locations & characters as part of the new quest

- - all battle skins in the game (near 70) had received sprite-based animations

- - plenty battle skins (markus prologue, kiara prologue and more) were revamped & improved

- - improvements to story sprites: mc prologue, markus prologue, arlena, shay, and others

- smaller tweaks/improvements:

- - the range between your lowest and highest attribute is raised to 15 (from 5)

- - in battle, targets can now be selected with number keys, similar to skills & items

- - fixed a bunch of old novaras city buildings' clickable offsets

- - fixed smaller bugs in a couple battle skills

- - additional sex music track

- - daytime will now smoothly lighten/darken the background, no longer instantly flipping to night variant

- - waiting no longer fades to black

- - various smaller tweaks to cinema (shown chars, sounds) all over the script

- - huge code cleanup/tidyup, purely engine-side - other stuff

0.176

- v0.176

- started a process of transitioning the game from using movie animations towards using sprite-based animations: for now about a couple dozen characters have the new battle animations, more to come.

- fixed a loving kiss of death skill causing an error on use

- fixed a bug with girl troubles quest, asking divine about each girl caused an error on repeat

- fixed a bug with assassin/valchek smoke bomb skill causing an error

- fixed a bug with nyx romance not triggering if you have "Failed" the slavemaster quest

- improved save update code in various ways: skill point recalculation and more

- fixed a bug with mc & markus staying transformed after the Beast of Novaras quest

- fixed "zanzibat" character entry causing error on loading a game

- fixed plenty typos all over the game

- fixed elena's poisoned fangs skill to no longer cause a crash on use

- other smaller fixes/tweaks

0.175

- v0.175

- big stuff:

- - new act 2 quest: The Beast of Novaras

- - multiple sex scenes as a part of the new quest

- - new area: Hamun spa, a bathhouse with corresponding services

- - new area: Hamun Arena with 10 battles to beat and a boss fight to tackle

- - Sypha as a party character, with her own skillset

- - new characters: Luna, Garen, Yarrick, Lord Zanzibat and more

- - TRANSLATION SUPPORT. Two translations now ship with the game: spanish and chinese. Both should be about 99% complete.

- Smaller additions/tweaks:

- - new fort sebastian battle map

- - new abandoned fort (end of prologue) battle map

- - notifications will now stay on screen 2x longer

- - fixed (now hopefully forever) the wait button to not flicker in-out when its unnecessary

- - fixed price of life guild quest to not be available during novaras siege

- - you can now see hp/ep bars of party chars in pre-battle character selection screen

- - fixed some visual artifacts in dros sex animations

- - fixed markus face sprites to not glitch out on expression change

- - fixed small ui layout bug in journal

- - more changes/fixes/improvements to save update routine

- - fixed plenty typos

- - plenty backend enginework

0.174

- v0.174

- - fixed a bug with not being able to enter the fort during the dark knight quest

- - fixed a bug with choice menu during Poltrik estate entrance jumping to wrong sequence

0.173

- v0.173

- - fixed a bug with bookshelves

- - fixed dros calling 160 coins 200

- - fixed a value in a prayer for the dying skill not being color-tinted

- - fixed quicksave to drop a proper notification (as opposed to an overlapping top-left one)

- - added scrollbar to perks

- - added (hidden) hotkeys to confirm screen. y or enter to confirm, esc to cancel

- - fixed a typo in a book

- - other smaller engine stuff

0.172

- v0.172

- fixed a bug with babazhul during elena quest

- fixed madam Amara to be Carina

- fixed dros clothes visibly changing to normal when leaviong bordello

- fixed nijah belly lines displayed at wrong time

- fixed a couple translation-related bugs

- improved save update code

0.171

- v0.171

- new stuff:

- new relationship screen layout,

- added sounds to item acquisition/removal (and separate sounds for gold),

- new silky-smooth notifications code,

- added relationship entries & portraits for Numa and Marbella,

- added item hotkeys to battle, similar to how skill hotkeys work,

- added a guard blocking access to fort sebastian after prologue until you get an invitation from captain nyx (the dark knight quest),

- fixes:

- you will now properly heal in-between sparring sessions in prologue,

- fixed large crafting recipes button spilling outside the recipes list frame,

- restored tab key to skip,

- fixed being able to talk to marbella about investment indefinitely,

- fixed notifications to not slip into choice menus anymore,

- fixed a bunch of typos all over,

- kiara portrait will now be hooded when it should be,

- fixed missing Alysha, Zara, Numa, Marbella relationship data in old saves,

- lots of UI elements such as char attributes will no longer catch keyboard focus,

- fixed a bug with elena cooking scene,

- fixed wrong finish artworks for divine missionary scene,

- fixed a couple mrs. winward glitchy animations,

- fixed wrong writing for divine's Krishana gift,

- significant improvement to how save update sequence handles items, your saves should now un-break even if you used cheats to alter item amounts before,

- other engine/backend work & smaller fixes

0.170

- v0.170

- - upgraded to renpy 8.4. (among lotsa other things, that should fix steam achievements not working)

- - fixed a bug with entering a cheat code and starting a new game potentially leading to steam achievements not working on this save

- - you can now tell which items are worn by the currently selected char (brighter item frame outline)

- - fixed auto-pathing: in map navigation, picking "safest" will now also pick the shortest path in case of 2+ equally safe routes

- - mrs winward' tannery now has an extra line to re-explain what she does, as long as a persistent note on animal hides

- - fixed marbella's mining shop income after investing, also dropped in a persistent note after investing

- - fixed wrong sprites in one of the versions of divine bj sex scene

- - hangings and mad prophet will only cut-in once: then they'll appear as clickable events on Novaras streets

- - you can't save during a gallery replay scene anymore

- - improved items' descriptions in combat/story

- - fixed a bunch of typos & markup errors

- - there's now more info in error reports

- -Being able to talk to party characters via characters/inventory screen (work in progress)

0.168

- v0.168

- hotfixes:

- - fixed being unable to return to carina during the coming storm quest

- - (hopefully) fixed an error related to UnlockAllGalEntries function

- - fixed an error in mika sex scene during Let's Celebrate quest

- - fixed a bug with pages on container inventory screen (like chests) not changing

- - "fixed" total transaction value to now also be displayed for selling items, not just buying

- - fixed adara titjob gallery scene keeping adara naked into the game

- - fixed kiara wash scene causing mc to stay in civ clothes

- bigger additions:

- - new dream event when sleeping in hamun

- - new rare act2 travel event between novaras and lake balun

- - new party banter scenes happening occasionally in Novaras or while traveling/camping

- - new hamun location: beshar's smithy, with new items to craft

- - new hamun location: marbella's mining co, to streamline your ore needs

- - a bunch of new items, mostly for the above 2 places

- - new (possibly) lewd encounter at desert normal and animal travel nodes: jackal girl

- - also, camp visit events & preg content for jackal girl

- - new alt path to take during the coming storm quest, looking for poltrik section, with lewd content too

- - in same quest, new way to help out carina instead of putting on a sex show

- - characters, scenes, battle enemies, skills, sounds and such for the above two

- - new repeatable variants of mika x markus sex scenes, at palam tower

- - preg logic for mika: can now get knocked up

- - new preg. variants to mika bj, doggy, missionary scenes

- - new romantic scene with kiara when traveling in act 2

- - balancing tweaks to classes' skills: inquisitor (erika), berserker (ves), rogue (elena), rogue wolf (elena too), warrior (mc/markus)

- - balancing changes to zanarak

- smaller additions/tweaks:

- - lizards' gang size is now slightly random: it is not guaranteed to always be increased according to your party size

- - chars rejoining party are healed (example: myu or elena during siege)

- - during bloodhound resolution, infection gain is disabled to avoid killing player in case of near-100

- - plenty choice options reordered (positive topmost, negative bottom-most)

- - added mika gallery doggy scene

- - added various bits of fluff to deceased characters' profiles on relationship screen

- - added missing hotkeys to navigate some areas

- - choice options involving barter attribute check now have an icon

- - added missing music to some training battles with mika

- - widened some "morning" time checks (mostly for mika questline) to also include dawn

- fixes:

- - fixed an error related to 2 of the wolf form skills' description formatting

- - fixed fawha at black diamond to now speak to the player about the resolution of the Tarek situation

- - fixed kiara being in her wrong "form" after meeting her in the camp

- - fixed (more like restored) quick save & quick load functionality: you can now hit F5 and F9 to quicksave & quickload

- - fixed wait button flickering between active/inactive when moving between locations

- - fixed a bug with worn items removed from player inventory causing errors/crashes

- - added an indicator showing steam/nosteam build kind in main menu

- - fixed a bug with infection death right at midnight causing an endless death loop

- - fixed alot of character expression sprites glitching out: adara, regina, mika, dros, myu, sypha, perhaps more

- - fixed (restored) being able to select mika's clothes for rep. bj scene

- - fixed mika gallery bj/missionary scenes displaying wrong stuff or missing variants

- - fixed a bug with nyx dominant scene happening in romance route

- - fixed a bug with nyx gallery scene

- - fixed/improved alot of cinematic stuff all over (character placement, scenes)

- - fixed plenty typos all over

- other:

- - improvements to save update routine

- - lots of various backend codework

- - improvements to save update routine (namely items will now

- always

- be updated on load)

- - errors will now have extra data appended for easier debugging

- - cleaner mika preg logic (hopefully fixes errors some people had)

- - travel map nodes draw order is now top->bottom, fixes visual artifacts

- - some notes now have permanent/delayed icons attached for convenience

- - almost all item descriptions are now based on their function, not just written out as text (still in progress)

- - item containers are now initialized more cleanly and in 1 spot, that should improve save compat reliability - other backend codework

0.167

- v0.167

- hotfixes:

- - fixed being unable to return to carina during the coming storm quest

- - (hopefully) fixed an error related to UnlockAllGalEntries function

- - fixed an error in mika sex scene during Let's Celebrate quest

- - fixed a bug with pages on container inventory screen (like chests) not changing

- - "fixed" total transaction value to now also be displayed for selling items, not just buying

- - fixed adara titjob gallery scene keeping adara naked into the game

- - fixed kiara wash scene causing mc to stay in civ clothes

- bigger additions:

- - new dream event when sleeping in hamun

- - new rare act2 travel event between novaras and lake balun

- - new party banter scenes happening occasionally in Novaras or while traveling/camping

- - new hamun location: beshar's smithy, with new items to craft

- - new hamun location: marbella's mining co, to streamline your ore needs

- - a bunch of new items, mostly for the above 2 places

- - new (possibly) lewd encounter at desert normal and animal travel nodes: jackal girl

- - also, camp visit events & preg content for jackal girl

- - new alt path to take during the coming storm quest, looking for poltrik section, with lewd content too

- - in same quest, new way to help out carina instead of putting on a sex show

- - characters, scenes, battle enemies, skills, sounds and such for the above two

- - new repeatable variants of mika x markus sex scenes, at palam tower

- - preg logic for mika: can now get knocked up

- - new preg. variants to mika bj, doggy, missionary scenes

- - new romantic scene with kiara when traveling in act 2

- - balancing tweaks to classes' skills: inquisitor (erika), berserker (ves), rogue (elena), rogue wolf (elena too), warrior (mc/markus)

- - balancing changes to zanarak smaller additions/tweaks:

- - lizards' gang size is now slightly random: it is not guaranteed to always be increased according to your party size

- - chars rejoining party are healed (example: myu or elena during siege)

- - during bloodhound resolution, infection gain is disabled to avoid killing player in case of near-100

- - plenty choice options reordered (positive topmost, negative bottom-most)

- - added mika gallery doggy scene

- - added various bits of fluff to deceased characters' profiles on relationship screen

- - added missing hotkeys to navigate some areas

- - choice options involving barter attribute check now have an icon

- - added missing music to some training battles with mika - widened some "morning" time checks (mostly for mika questline) to also include dawn

- fixes:

- - fixed an error related to 2 of the wolf form skills' description formatting

- - fixed fawha at black diamond to now speak to the player about the resolution of the Tarek situation

- - fixed kiara being in her wrong "form" after meeting her in the camp

- - fixed (more like restored) quick save & quick load functionality: you can now hit F5 and F9 to quicksave & quickload

- - fixed wait button flickering between active/inactive when moving between locations

- - fixed a bug with worn items removed from player inventory causing errors/crashes

- - added an indicator showing steam/nosteam build kind in main menu

- - fixed a bug with infection death right at midnight causing an endless death loop

- - fixed alot of character expression sprites glitching out: adara, regina, mika, dros, myu, sypha, perhaps more

- - fixed (restored) being able to select mika's clothes for rep. bj scene

- - fixed mika gallery bj/missionary scenes displaying wrong stuff or missing varian