Renryuu: Ascension

v25.06.11:
- A new event and CG scene with Jackie was added. To trigger the story, you need to talk with Jackie or Lexi in the monsterhall at least once after the update. When Ryen's happiness value is at 5+ (which means at least 5 girls are pregnant) when you re-enter the monsterhall, a !-icon appears over Jackie and shows the start of a new quest.
- I added a book icon on the timeskip map right of the "Children" act icon. You can use this icon to access a work-in-progress for an extended worldmap. The map itself has no events or accessible areas, but shows what the world beyond the known worldmap looks like. It also shows the location of some known locations, like Fürstenstein, Mira's temple island, and The Forgotten Brexeet Isles.
- The system for Darudes trading routes was upgraded. The trading now takes place on the country overview map.
- The caravan travels with multiple possible routes, where you can pick up more loot by defeating bandits with your party or vanguards. Overall, the trades are now more interactive instead of just waiting for them to return with resources.
- The trades to Diminus Castle and Tajurata Fort require you to finish some events first before the trade route is available. The events start with sparkling icons on the country overview map.
- The events for the trade route to Diminus Castle unlocks the CG scene of a new character.
- The storage screen for the vanguard forces was upgraded. It now shows all equipments and items at once.
- The new screen also allows for equipments to get exchanged for components, and the components can be trades for other equipment pieces or sold for Budget. This way you can make use of unwanted equipment.
- The new trades with Darude give you a bunch of components for vanguard equipment as well.
- The "Absolutely Unique Book" to increase the level of characters now works for Lady Akira, Citrinne, Kurohime, and Scarlett after they join your party in the time skip phase.
- A Fast Travel option was added for the church in Aldlyn.
- "Bunny Ears+" was changed to "Fancy Bunny Ears+" and now requires the new item "Fancy Bunny Ears" to craft them. The new fancy bunny ears can be found in chests in the castle of Aldlyn, in the room of Lady Miles in the noble families living quarters, and in the new Thremten map in Flaire's new house in the time skip phase.
- Fixed an issue with the swap skill. When escape was pressed during the choice, it swapped the active character with Scarlett.


v25.05.07:
- After the CG scene with Ziki in Pumumu a new quest will appear in Calterburry in front of the castle. At the end of this quest you unlock Ziki as a marriage candidate on the special marriage screen in the church of Aldlyn.
- The old images of Ziki's full body and CG scene were replaced by new CG images.
- All old face images of the main party members were replaced by CG versions.
- After recruiting Lady Akira, Citrinne, and Kurohime for your party, you can go back to Thremten in the time skip phase for a new event with the thief who stands to the right side of Flaire's new house. He has a !-icon above his head to show that he has a new event for you.
- The CG room pages were re-organised, and sorted into new groups to make browsing through them easier.
- Characters that weren't in the CG room even though they had full body CGs but no scenes yet were now added.
- When you select "CG" or "Scene" for a character in the CG room, the choices now have icons that show if the scenes are locked, partly unlocked, or fully unlocked.
- Shey's face in the CG room now changes when her body changes during Ryoko's events.


The early version of Trey's wife's wedding dress CG looks really amazing, and I look forward to make his wedding once it's done. Sadly, they weren't done in time for this update. My apologize for delaying this wedding again.


A little preview:
Since I want to advance the events of the time skip phase, some of the content for the next updates is the CG scene with Lucilla, more lore about Central and the "outside" world, and stories about Raziel's group.


Apart from the usual content for characters and CG scenes, I also plan to make some changes of existing systems and addition of new features to make the game more enjoyable in the future updates. This includes:
- A way to exchange or trade gear of the vanguard forces to let you make use of unneeded equipment pieces in some way.
- I want to make the expeditions more useful. For example by adding augments as possible rewards, to make them more worthwhile.
- There will be a re-work of Darude's merchant system for trading. The system will probably be moved to the country overview map, instead of using it's own screen. But similar as with the expeditions, the rewards needs to be re-balanced to make sure there is a motivation for players to actually use the system.
- A system was suggested to upgrade, merge, or remove skills, to make the skill list shorter and better arranged.
- An achievement and/or rewards for collecting all of the in-game TCG cards.