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The Roland story line concludes! This week my work focused on extending the variations for the roland epilogue scenes. Note that you won't find new epilogue scenes in the ending room, these just the type that check your game state during runtime and modify the scene accordingly.
To unlock the new variations you need to unlock at least Lorraine 3 and have 20 Roland Adoration. This will trigger a follow-up scene where Aura betrays Rose to Roland. However, should Rose already be corrupted, then the scene will have a special sub variation. Also if Roland has 100 Popularity and you have triggered the False Hero King scene there is another sub-sub variation to the scene x_X Don't laugh at the word salad for this in the changelog ok!! x__X
Anyways, the Victory Ending B epilogue scene also gets modified with a small follow up scene before the credits, respecting all three sub-states.
Besides that, I have also integrated the Lorraine 2 H-CG images and commissioned the Lorraine 3 ones. Only one more mandatory CG remains for the ending and we will have everything for the 1.3.0 release. If possible, I would also like to squeeze in a variation of Rose wearing the helmet but we will need to see if we have the time for that.
On the technical side, our assistant developer Trihan has spent the week profiling the game for performance bottlenecks that can cause FPS drops on weaker devices and eliminated a bunch of them (mostly stuff in the UI). Hopefully this will be the last "refactoring type" technical work, so starting next month I can have Trihan back supporting me in content development.
Aaand that's it for the week for SKA. Also reminder that next week will focus on Liora development, so there won't be any more content additions. I still decided to call this only a prerelease as I'm hoping the next CG can finish in time for next week and then make it into a 1.3.0-beta release.
Changelog 1.3.0-prerelease-9 (23.01.2026)
Identified and addressed performance bottlenecks
Added Lorraine 2 H-CG
Added Lorraine variation to Roland Cheating ending variation
Added victory ending b epilogue end variation for roland cheating partner lorraine variation
Added victory ending b epilogue end variation for roland cheating partner lorraine corrupt rose variation
Added victory ending b epilogue end variation for roland cheating partner lorraine corrupt rose false hero king variation
Balancing
None
Bugfixes
Fixed prerelease typos