Aura Clash: leaks, sneak peaks, memes and discussion thread.

[Jorgoe]

Cog banned cultivator-anon

We've locked the Aura Clash thread for blatant racism

tl;dr: We’ve locked the Aura Clash thread and banned the author of Aura Clash, @cultivator-anon, due to behavior on cultivator-anon’s Discord. Last week a user sent us a few screenshots, which I’ve included below. There are a lot more messages like this. The screenshots depict blatant racism...

forum.choiceofgames.com

Soo will story switch to twine or continue development in choicescript

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AC is already in itch.io before the ban. The ban is not really a big deal. Unless the cog modders would hound Anon even in itch.io for using choicescript. So it's most likely to change to Twine in the future since it's already in itch.io.

 

[mad909]

Damn they really banned him for not moderating his discord.

 

[MeNoName]

Donno wat happening there but I hate cog with all my heart.
anyway sorry for late publishing i don't know if it needed anymore but here is the full change log for chapter 8 of AC:

Chapter 8.1 patch:

-Changed the savefile prefix, fixing the old savefile glitches.
-Fixed an issue of your Dragon Score not being applied to your full score.
--Increased the threshold for reaching the Top Five now that it's possible.
-Fixed a code typo stopping Kurokonton from seeing anything when "Focusing their training" in a specific fight
-Fixed several typos
-Fixed the Godslayer sword not being equippable
-Fixed a bug of some Tian Fang meeting not showing if she helped you in a fight
-Fixed the attack system reading the wrong variables and reporting issues 90% of the time.
-Fixed the code for Goro's token and collection of path manuals not showing up.
-Increased all difficulties of chapter 8's final fight considering the massive AP boost that 2 more days + the dragon trial's events can give.
-Fixed a code issue blocking you from sleeping on your boat.
-Increased the price that Crates of Loot sell for.
-The "Combat Seals" Technique now increases Handseals.
-Fixed the missing alchemy scripts missing in chapter 1.
-Fixed the rest feature in Thunderfall tower to restore agility cores and only heal up to 3 wounds.
-Fixed the rest feature to allow you to sleep in your ship properly.
-Fixed the chi replenishment pills not restoring 2 chi as intended.
-Added an option for Herbalist to save the Earthly Prowess Pill for later (especially helpful if using Mortal Limits).
-Fixed Mortal Limits to apply properly to people with 1,200 AP.
--Note that this isn't the case for Guarded Blossom, which has higher regional Mortal Limits.
-Fixed a code issue trying to trigger the wrong Techniques, spamming errors in combat.
--Fixed miscoding of Meteor Slam, Evil Eye, Mountain King, Berserker, and Sonic Boom to have the right attack tags.
-Fixed the variable handling of discounts in combat, which should make you stop spending extra Cores in fights.
-"Fixed" the runes available to Lunargoths by shortening the variable used to record them.

Chapter 8.2 patch:

-Made the bank actually reduce your silver when paying off debts.
-Fixed an issue with the variable for the Radiant Weaver Hall's items getting mixed up.
-Fixed a couple broken options in the Rabbit Trial.
-Fixed enchantments on Handwraps which were still broken.
-Fixed a glitch with the healing springs of the temple resetting the first visit code (will fix this to be revisitable later)
-Added checks for Godslayer when dealing with any sort of weapon-based options so it shows up.
-Fixed three dozen more typos.
-Fixed the "automatic success" in the Vessel interaction so it actually gives an automatic success.
-Made the Dark Side achievement possible.
-Locked many more achievements behind not using cheat mode.
-Replaced the Mawcharger Soul Treasure with 2 weak soul treasures to encourage item enchanting.
--You'll thank me more when you can enchant uniforms, armor, and belts. You'll need so many.
--Trapper, which already got an evant to harvest 1-2 weak soul treasures from the Beast, will still get the Mawcharger soul treasure.
-Made a check for high Rin + Jin Combat ratings to do better in the rabbit trial
-Stopped you from killing yourself at the bank if you have no debts (there's some economic joke in there)

Chapter 8.3 patch (pushed just now):

-Reduced the bonuses to combat you gain against Jack
--Replaced the Insight 3 bonus with +20 AP if you already have at least +2 to all your checks
--Moved the bonus from Energy Tide to go *after* the Insight 3 Check, so it still stacks with Insight 3 if you didn't use poison or have the right Element.
-Fixed a misreporting in Leona's event in Guarded Blossom
-Fixed wrong silver gains when selling crates in Nanhou
-Fixed some typos/repeated lines
-Fixed the "Rebalancing Elixir" not helping Kosuke
-Removed the double AP gain for mortal limits when making elixirs with alchemy 4+
-Fixed the absent AP gain for mortal limits when making elixirs with exactly 3 alchemy
-Fixed an issue where the game thought Magistrate Fuyu liked you when in fact you owe him money.
-Fixed an issue with improving one weapon (Ikazuchi) messing up another (Muramasa).
-Fixed an issue with the combat system making single-core checks *harder* instead of easier when applying a battle prowess bonus.
-Fixed an issue with the power Rune malfunctioning.
-Fixed the god damn Rabbit Trial monkey (I hope she dies this is the third time she's made me do this)

 

[God]

Wtf did I miss

 

[MeNoName]

This is just a test with AI to see if it can organize the updates nothing more:
Chapter 8.1 Patch Notes

Category	Change Description
Save System	Changed the savefile prefix, fixing the old savefile glitches.
Combat Mechanics	Fixed the attack system reading the wrong variables and reporting issues 90% of the time.
	Fixed a code issue trying to trigger the wrong Techniques, spamming errors in combat.
	Fixed miscoding of Meteor Slam, Evil Eye, Mountain King, Berserker, and Sonic Boom to have the right attack tags.
	Fixed the variable handling of discounts in combat, which should make you stop spending extra Cores in fights.
	The "Combat Seals" Technique now increases Handseals.
	Increased all difficulties of chapter 8's final fight considering the massive AP boost that 2 more days + the dragon trial's events can give.
Dragon Score / Top Five	Fixed an issue of your Dragon Score not being applied to your full score.
	Increased the threshold for reaching the Top Five now that it's possible.
Training / Characters	Fixed a code typo stopping Kurokonton from seeing anything when "Focusing their training" in a specific fight.
	Fixed Mortal Limits to apply properly to people with 1,200 AP.
	Note that this isn't the case for Guarded Blossom, which has higher regional Mortal Limits.
Item Mechanics	Fixed the Godslayer sword not being equippable.
	"Fixed" the runes available to Lunargoths by shortening the variable used to record them.
	Increased the price that Crates of Loot sell for.
Resting / Healing	Fixed the rest feature in Thunderfall tower to restore agility cores and only heal up to 3 wounds.
	Fixed the rest feature to allow you to sleep in your ship properly.
	Fixed a code issue blocking you from sleeping on your boat.
Alchemy / Pills	Fixed the chi replenishment pills not restoring 2 chi as intended.
	Fixed the missing alchemy scripts missing in chapter 1.
	Added an option for Herbalist to save the Earthly Prowess Pill for later (especially helpful if using Mortal Limits).
Other Fixes	Fixed several typos.
	Fixed the code for Goro's token and collection of path manuals not showing up.
	Fixed a bug of some Tian Fang meeting not showing if she helped you in a fight.

Chapter 8.2 Patch Notes

Category	Change Description
Bank / Economy	Made the bank actually reduce your silver when paying off debts.
	Stopped you from killing yourself at the bank if you have no debts (there's some economic joke in there).
Combat / Events	Made a check for high Rin + Jin Combat ratings to do better in the rabbit trial.
	Fixed a couple broken options in the Rabbit Trial.
Items / Enchantments	Added checks for Godslayer when dealing with any sort of weapon-based options so it shows up.
	Fixed enchantments on Handwraps which were still broken.
	Replaced the Mawcharger Soul Treasure with 2 weak soul treasures to encourage item enchanting.
	Trapper, which already got an evant to harvest 1-2 weak soul treasures from the Beast, will still get the Mawcharger soul treasure.
	You'll thank me more when you can enchant uniforms, armor, and belts. You'll need so many.
Achievements	Made the Dark Side achievement possible.
	Locked many more achievements behind not using cheat mode.
Fixes / Dialogue	Fixed an issue with the variable for the Radiant Weaver Hall's items getting mixed up.
	Fixed a glitch with the healing springs of the temple resetting the first visit code (will fix this to be revisitable later).
	Fixed three dozen more typos.
	Fixed the "automatic success" in the Vessel interaction so it actually gives an automatic success.

Chapter 8.3 Patch Notes

Category	Change Description
Combat Rebalancing	Reduced the bonuses to combat you gain against Jack.
	Replaced the Insight 3 bonus with +20 AP if you already have at least +2 to all your checks.
	Moved the bonus from Energy Tide to go after the Insight 3 Check, so it still stacks with Insight 3 if you didn't use poison or have the right Element.
	Fixed an issue with the combat system making single-core checks harder instead of easier when applying a battle prowess bonus.
Weapons / Items	Fixed an issue with improving one weapon (Ikazuchi) messing up another (Muramasa).
	Fixed the power Rune malfunctioning.
Character / Story Events	Fixed a misreporting in Leona's event in Guarded Blossom.
	Fixed an issue where the game thought Magistrate Fuyu liked you when in fact you owe him money.
Economy	Fixed wrong silver gains when selling crates in Nanhou.
Alchemy	Fixed the "Rebalancing Elixir" not helping Kosuke.
	Removed the double AP gain for mortal limits when making elixirs with alchemy 4+.
	Fixed the absent AP gain for mortal limits when making elixirs with exactly 3 alchemy.
Typos / Final Polish	Fixed some typos/repeated lines.
	Fixed the god damn Rabbit Trial monkey (I hope she dies this is the third time she's made me do this).

Don't know if it correct or not.

 

[TaywoTime]

Wtf did I miss

Just people not able to play nice with one another.

 

[God]

They really packed anon up huh. It’s crazy because I saw this coming after the drama reached reddit, then even reached here. He should’ve nuked the server and nipped it in the bud when it started getting attention

 

[Waoman21]

They really packed anon up huh. It’s crazy because I saw this coming after the drama reached reddit, then even reached here. He should’ve nuked the server and made nipped it in the bud when it started getting attention

Honestly, it was going to happen one way or another — with or without the server. The game had been getting unjustified hate from the beginning, so it was bound to happen sooner or later.

 

[Jorgoe]

Honestly, it was going to happen one way or another — with or without the server. The game had been getting unjustified hate from the beginning, so it was bound to happen sooner or later.

The irony is that someone made a discord hating Anon first even before Anon even made a discord. Though it's probably a compliment of how good a writer Anon actually is that they can't ever leave the fact that Anon won't bend his writing for them.

 

[fattywang]

Can anyone tell me how to duel weild in Aura clash with Kurokuton.

 

[sakamoto]

Can anyone tell me how to duel weild in Aura clash with Kurokuton.

There's a kurokonton specific option during a fight while you are doing Guiren's mission that unlocks a dual wielding technique.
It's called spirit cutter or something like that.

 

[Lovecraft]

I'm so confused what happened why has Cultivator-Anon been banned ?

 

[Jenny Austen]

Which background profession do you guys think is the most fun? Personally, I found the Merchant to be the one that adds more options and events. I used to always choose Trapper to get the Roc, but with the Mod Menu, there's no reason to anymore.

 

[mihai899]

I'm so confused what happened why has Cultivator-Anon been banned ?

Because some 40 years old without a job got mad.

 

[Revenant]

All of this could've been easily prevented if you chuddies knew how to keep your powerlevel in check, but nooo you guys had to show everyone how much of cool 4chan guys you are
>PoMA won btw

This could be easily avoided if you respected when an author doesn't want to write or allow gay romance in their games, you speak up and want freedom of choice, but the moment they don't include what you want, the game is immediately canceled and labeled as anti-gay, but if someone asks why they don't include cis romance in IF BL and Yuri, they tell them to look elsewhere, where is the inclusion?

 

[Death86577]

Because some 40 years old without a job got mad.

Isn't that the majority on Anon discord tho

 

[BHayden]

This could be easily avoided if you respected when an author doesn't want to write or allow gay romance in their games, you speak up and want freedom of choice, but the moment they don't include what you want, the game is immediately canceled and labeled as anti-gay, but if someone asks why they don't include cis romance in IF BL and Yuri, they tell them to look elsewhere, where is the inclusion?

PoMa also gets the same heat for being only het-romance but because it's fans are (seemingly) normal, most people just shrugged and move on.
Surprise, surprise, the liberal website doesn't want chuds on their site.

EDIT: Seems like my point went over this guy's head and liked my comment, lol.

 

[Jenny Austen]

Personally, I don't agree with anything that was said in the Discord, and I think Cultivator Anon should have nipped it in the bud and the perpetrators should be banned. But unless the author is cooking babies alive in his basement, I will keep playing Aura Clash for as long as it is still being published and continues to be fun. People on Reddit were acting like this was the second coming of Hitler when in reality it was a bunch of basement dwellers trying to be edgy to 'own the normies.' CoG could have given a warning to Cultivator Anon and some time to clean house.

 

[Lyul]

It's wild that some of you think anon's ban was injust. No one, and i repeat, no one, think or want an author to write something they are not entirely comfortable writing. NOBODY expects this of any author. Anon's choice to not write gay romances because he isn't confortable with is totally fine, is his game, his story. What people took issue with was the blatant use of coding anti-sama *** romance in every single chapter, and, of course, the absolute bigotry on his discord server that was supervised and moderated by him, and as such, HE IS entirely responsible by what happens here. When people started being blatantly misogynistic, racist, homophobic and transphobic, he did NOTHING. HE IS wrong here, he SHOULD have stopped those talks the moment they started, he didn't, and he IS at fault, denying this is wild. Second, EVERYONE knows how the gaming world is not friendly with minorities, can you really blame the people that were offended by this in a niche media where they feel respected and safe for once? Again, i reiterate that no author have to write something they don't want, and thats the opinion of the majority of the IF community, hell, there are genderlocked if's, RO's locked by gender, and no one takes any issue with this. It's not a matter of wanting same-*** romance in every if, and yes wanting basic respect.

 

[Kunovic]

The MODs over here, and on cogs forum, are only following the guidelines of ther sites, which explictly state that hate speech is not tolareted and since anon put his games on their website and engine, the very minimum that is expected of him is to follow this guideline. He is not a victim.

Hate speech on forum was, on other sites not really. Do you even read Aura Clash thread? I follow it for years and there was hardly any hate or phobia attitude. CoG create new rule the same time they ban Anon, which is at least in my eyes unfair. Before this there was no rule about other sites content filter. Yet Anon was punished for this. They might have officially warned about new rule and do ultimatum like: «Clean you discord from discrimination stuff or be banned»