NEW WILLPOWER SYSTEM: An entirely new willpower system, which is much more flexible than the previous version, easier for me to adjust, and easier for players to tailor. Will is now rated from 1-100 and typical willpower loses are 2-12, which should make willpower last a little longer and makes luck a bit more of a factor. Willpower checks, gains, and loses should all now be much more transparent as well. Will checks are now 1d100 vs Will, with a 10% chance of automatic success and a 10% chance of automatic failure. I can easily adjust all these numbers going forward, though I think the way things are now works well.
NEW ADDICTION SYSTEM: To complement the willpower system, there's a new addiction system. Each addiction point now reduces the chance of a willcheck by 1%. Players can now set their default addiction gain to 1, 2, or 3 points per increase, allowing for addictions to matter more or less based on player taste.
2 NEW SCENES + 1 MASSIVELY EXPANDED ONE! Changing the willpower/addiction system meant going over every single scene line by line. That and some stuff going on in my personal life made this update very time consuming, which is why it took so long. Still, I didn't want to publish without at least some new content, so there are effectively 3 new scenes, 2 brand new branches and 1 branch that's been completely revised. To learn how to access the scenes, click spoilers:
NEW VIDEO GAME:
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STILL TO COME: Now that the bones of the game are fixed (and I'm NEVER changing them again), I'll be adding new scenes. v2.0 will be updated with bug fixes and more Bridgette content. Then I'll start v2.1 which will return to adding endings.
ESM CLASSIC: Finally, I'll probably delete v1.8 sometime soon. I'll then update v1.7 to 1.8, which will preserve the old will system (and, sadly, all those old bugs) for those that prefer the "Classic" version of ESM. Classic ESM won't be updated anymore after that because it would be WAY too much work.
That's about all the news I can think of. Sorry for the wait. Enjoy!



