Sellsword Tales [v0.4.2] [Paleoman Studio]

Developer: Paleoman Studio
Censored: No
OS: Windows, Linux, Android, iOS
Language: English
Previous Title: The Curse of Lust
Genre: 2DCG, Animated, Female protagonist, Text Based, Group sex, Handjob, Masturbation, Multiple Penetration, Oral sex, Vaginal sex, Adventure, Combat, Fantasy, Monster, Point & Click, Romance, Rpg, Turn based combat

Installation:
Extract and run.

v0.4.2

Saves from previous versions are not compatible with v0.4. Please start a new game.

Reworked the inventory and trade windows: item tooltips are replaced with a comparison panel that shows the selected item’s stats, how it differs from your gear and how it changes Tabitha’s parameters, plus a new click-to-add trade cart with an amount counter and built-in help hints.
Fixed softlock with cultists.
Fixed an issue with receiving rewards on some mobile devices.
Reworked Laura’s model and added 2 more skins: Naked and Witch.

– Expanded time skip. You can now choose the exact time of day you want to skip to.

– Fixed a bug with counting answers in dialogues. Some answers could disappear if there were more than 20 of them. This only affected Laura.

– Fixed a bug with counting items when turning in quests. Quests now check the total amount of an item in your inventory instead of a single slot.

– Added a limit on haggling with merchants. After you haggle over a price once, you can haggle again only at a different time of day.

– Fixed Mara’s overly active breasts.

– Fixed a small visual bug with the carpet in the castle save slot.

Combat Balance

– Monsters reworked: all have more health and deal less damage, so fights last longer and depend less on lucky hits.

– New strength order: orux are the easiest, then wolves, bears and undead, with ghosts the most dangerous.

– Higher-level monsters on hunts are much tougher: each level adds +50% health and damage.

– The number of enemies per encounter now depends on the location: up to 2 at the Crossroads and in the Forest, 1 on the Meadow, up to 3 in remote locations.

– Elite enemies appear 4 times less often.

– Cultists now appear in the Abandoned Village, both in random encounters and on hunts (from Intellect 5).

Rewards and Loot

– Experience and gold from monsters now scale with their level. Experience values were revised to match the new monster strength, and cultists now give experience.

– Loot rarity now uses weights: common items drop more often, rare ones less often.

– The chance to drop equipment grows with monster level.

– Lower drop chance for the Elite Ghost’s earrings and shawl and for the Elite Cultist’s rings. Cultist loot chances were evened out.

Orux Defeat Route

– Experience reduced 4 times.

– Arena rewards are now up to Rare items, and the sword is always Epic.

Items

– Healing potions restore three times more health, their price is roughly doubled.

– Herb bags heal three times more, their price is unchanged.

– Tank starter pack: Family Greatsword P.Attack 20 → 30.

Attribute Tree

– Strength: every damage node now gives +5 and the fifth node gives +15 (+50 total instead of +21), and the last node gives +40% crit power instead of +50%.

– Dexterity: evasion nodes give +3 instead of +1, and the evasion and accuracy node gives +5 instead of +3.

– Without the evade stance, half of the evasion chance applies instead of a third.

– Persuasion is now added to Charisma checks in dialogues.

– Tree changes apply to points spent after the update.

Task Board mechanic

– Gold from repeatable hunting and gathering tasks doubled.

– Task experience now scales with task level the same way gold does.

– “Bears at the woodcutters’ camp” now requires Adventurer rank 1.

Dialogue Checks

– Mid-game checks are harder: the fountain, the green bands, the patrols, the village tunnels and the Spirits Awakening event. Early quests are almost unchanged.

– Fixed: the “Jump over and keep running” check after the skeleton fight could not be passed.

Major update v0.4

Highlights

– 2 new H-scenes with Merl and a new lewd event

– 2 new quests with Merl: the Patrol series and Green Gangs

– Task Board with 30+ new quests, unique and repeatable

– City State: your work on the board changes prices, merchants’ stock and future quests

– Hunting and Gathering, food buffs, 67 new items and 12 item sets

– New location: Small Fountain Square

New Content

– 2 new H-scenes with Merl and 1 new lewd event.

– 2 new quests, the Patrol series and Green Gangs, that develop your relationship with Merl.

– 30+ new Task Board quests (unique and repeatable).

– New location: Small Fountain Square.

– 4 new merchants. The shopkeeper by the tavern now trades too.

– New job: Tavern Bouncer.

– Expanded the waitress job. It now requires a check.

– 67 new items, mostly food.

– 12 item sets.

– Added sound effects to dialogues in the new quests.

New mechanics

Task Board

– Take on quests from the Task Board in the city.

– Completing quests raises your Adventurer rank and Glory.

– The main story now continues through the Task Board. To move it forward, raise your Adventurer rank by completing quests. It takes roughly 5-7 quests.

– Most interactive objects in locations are no longer text-only placeholders. They are now used in Task Board quests.

City State

– Completed Task Board quests affect the city’s Prosperity and City level, which change what merchants sell, their prices and the types of quests on the board.

Hunting and Gathering

– Hunt monsters and gather ingredients and food.

– Random monster encounters in dangerous locations are now much less likely.

Meals

– Eating food now gives buffs, usually for 1-3 days.

Combat & Stats

Luck now matters a lot more:

– Evasion: +1 per 3 Luck

– Critical chance: +0.5% per point

– Bargaining: +2% persuasion chance per point

– Loot quality: every 3 Luck increases the chance of rarer items

– Item stats: +1 to main and secondary stat values per 3 Luck (except Luck itself)

Evasion rework

– Evasion now gives a passive chance to dodge even when you don’t use the Evade ability. The passive chance is 3 times lower than when you actively evade. This also applies to monsters.

– Your character no longer stops evading after being hit.

Defense and damage reduction

– Defense now lowers incoming physical damage by an additional percentage when you defend.

– Reduce Damage now reduces physical damage by a percentage instead of a flat amount.

Other

– Temporary Health now works correctly and is shown in the stats. You can also gain it by resting if you have the right talent.

– Some items and sets can now grant Action Points and Additional Action Points.

– Using an item in combat now costs 1 Additional Action Point.

– Two perks now work: Prepared and Lucker.

– Smarter auto-battle: the autobattle can now use abilities (Double Strike) and heal with potions and poultices from your inventory, if you allow it to spend them.

Items & Trading

– Items are now themed and give specific stats instead of random ones (some items are still random).

– Restructured item stats and how they are displayed.

– Removed duplicate stats among secondary stats.

– Reworked item generation.

– Expanded monster drop lists.

– Finch, a new merchant, now sells mysterious wooden crates. Open one for a chance at rare armor, materials or weapons… or a rock.

– Poultices now heal gradually, both in and out of combat.

– Improved and rebalanced trading. Prices and stock now depend on the city’s prosperity.

– Added city types and regional prices. Vinbran is an agricultural region.

UI & Quality of Life

– Redesigned the dialogue UI to be more compact.

– Reworked answer icons to show more clearly where a choice leads.

– When a character has several quest topics, they are now grouped under a Quests button.

– Added hotkeys for most game modes. Some of them can be rebound in the settings.

– Added quick save (F5) and quick load (F8) outside of dialogues.

– Time skip, rest and search now unlock after the prologue.

– Drag wearable items onto the character to equip them.

– Equipment slots are now highlighted.

– New item sounds.

– New fonts, including signature fonts for characters, shown in their names and notes.

– Hovering over a monster in combat now shows an outline instead of an animation.

– Tabitha’s hair color now carries over into combat.

– Rebalanced the volume of 1300+ sounds. H-scene voices are no longer too quiet.

– Improved hair highlights. They no longer darken along with the whole hairstyle.

– Proofread and improved the English text.

Performance & Stability

– Loading a game on the main scene now fully reloads it. This unloads unused data, reduces the load on your PC and makes the game more stable. Loading takes a bit longer than before.

– Optimized animations and art for mobile and PC.

Bug Fixes

– Fixed a bug where starting a new game after finishing one could keep old static flags and cause random bugs (for example, a quest stage counted as completed in a fresh playthrough).

– Fixed textures failing to load when the game was installed in a folder with a very long path.

– Fixed Gallery images not showing on some Android devices.

– Fixed animation sizing in the Gallery. Animations now fit the device screen.

– Fixed restarting an H-scene in the Gallery.

– Fixed food not healing when eaten.

– Fixed the Health and Luck stats never appearing on generated items.

– Fixed Tabitha’s hairstyle in dialogues where she changes into a preset outfit. It now keeps the style chosen by the player.

– Fixed the orux not disappearing after Tabitha dealt with him in the Spirits Awakening quest.

– Fixed the tree texture in the Crossroads location.

– Fixed the Auto button in dialogues.

– Fixed the Skip button in dialogues. It now works as originally intended.

Known Issues & Notes

– Lust is capped at level 1 (100) in this version.

– Balance: we plan a thorough balance pass later. For now, some items, food or stats may be stronger than others.

– Optimization: mobile and PC optimization still needs more testing.