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Katana - Journey in the Shadows

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27 October 2023 1:34PM

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01 September 2022 11:04AM

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This page was last updated on 29 May 2024, 12:31AM

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Version 2.0.6
- Fixed a bug that involves Katana coming to you if she is not recruited + you are at Katla's Farm + mount a horse.
- 100 new lines for Katana + her shade.
Version 2.0.5
- Corrected typo in Carrot Quest.
- Added message boxes during certain times, aimed to guide new users of the mod.
- Corrected "Confront River" not getting marked as completed.
- Made current message boxes/notifications more consistent.
- Added potion-buff system book in Megara's inventory.
- Added Old Letter from Megara in Katana's inventory.
- Edited summon and debug spell descriptions to be more specific.
- Made Megara's healing more aggressive.
- Added more health regen for Megara.
- Strengthened Megara's mage armor.
- Modified Megara's healing abilities.
- Fixed staff requiring charges.
- Modified Shade's FX.
- Fixed Reset Pose issue where they don't go back to fighting if you use this spell.
- Corrected typo in branch Q (dev note).
- Corrected Shadow Mode: for some followers like Inigo and Kaidan.
- Corrected some combat lines for consistency.
- Updated Khajiit Speak patch.
- Edited door script.
Version 2.0.4
- Quality of life - frequency of... certain idle lines, mostly inventory. Re-conditioned more.
- Fixed typo in Al'Tharo's quest and re-equalized his voice.
- Changed "Where did you find Takiyo?" to "Where did you find your sabrecat?"
- Favors/trading/waiting will be available even if Katana's trust goes down BUT you've completed Chasing the Current.
- Shade's FX toned down.
- Filled missing marker property for Deepvos.
- Added failsafe for Chadryn not spawning due to possible courier scene conflicts?
- Practical Pirate SMP SPID patch.
- Made Katana's and Megara's outfits unplayable again (not the scarf).
- Switched Megara's staff model to Magnus.
- New lines for Katana + Shade (104).
Version 2.0.3
- Skin textures are now BnP + Bijin for some details.
- Fixed some male body inconsistencies.
- More lines for Katana + Megara (180).
- CountsAsFleeing set to false in heal packages.
- Quality of life changes.
- Added descriptions in Katana's and Megara's unique weapons.
Version 2.0.2
- Changed the way some scenes fire since some lists don't like IsInLocation.
- Added a forced moveto function for Katana in Kilerth's Rest.
- Changed some StartCombat calls since they don't play well with some bleedout mods.
- Added quality-of-life changes.
- Made it so the Shade doesn't come out if it's Katana VS. the player.
Version 2.0.1
- CBBE Nude textures deleted since NeverNude textures are the same.
- JK's Bee and Barb + JK's Drunken Huntsman + COTN Winterhold patches: cleaned masters.
- Chadryn's and Al'Tharo's outfit textures will be 2k instead of 4k.
- Body textures will be 4k instead of 8k.
- Deleted old Megara outfit textures folder.
Version 2.0
- As of August 27, there are 4,758 lines of dialogue.
- Megara has been completely revoiced.
- River's lines have been re-done.
- Removed non-CBBE bodies.
- Visually replaced all characters to be high poly.
- New characters (not followers), side quests, and scenes.
- Everyone has been nerfed for balance.
- New Wounds patch for Megara.
- New Shadow Mode function: you, Katana, Megara, and 3 other followers can be invisible and have muffled movement.
- New immersive bounties feature: you can let Katana do bounties and she may bring goodies upon her return.
- New sneak/sheathe torch feature implemented: only Megara. Try giving Katana a torch. ;)
- New potion-buff system: Megara can now buff the player via dialogue (here's the documentation).
- New Apothecary patch for Megara.
- Katana can now hold back in combat (enable/disable via dialogue), if you play a stealthy character.
- Megara can also hold back in combat (enable/disable via dialogue), but she can still heal you.
- They WILL attack enemies if they get hit. But they go back to holding back.
- You can now disable trust decrease, which you can do within dialogue.
- Katana will acknowledge all of your actions. = DEFAULT TRUST.
- Katana will look the other way if you decide to partake in certain activities. = DISABLE TRUST DECREASE.
- If you disable trust decrease, you will miss dialogue created for certain actions.
- Scout package optimized. If Katana doesn't think there are more enemies, she just stays with you.
- Removed WICastMagicNonHostileSpell 01 and BQ01 records for standalone features.
- Forwarded USSEP records for cells affected.
- Cleaned up how quests start and stop so you have less quests running.
- The two will be quiet during certain quest lines.
- Katana's Shade is now voiced.
- Added recruited condition to use summon and reset spell for both followers.
- Removed Katana's teleportation to the player during combat, if dying.
- Moved Lucky Irnsvar a little. Hopefully that helps those that weren't able to find them before.
- Added BlockActivation on Katana's Shade to prevent exploitation with looting the corpse.
- Marked Elli's greatsword as not playable.
- Corrected Khajiit Speak typos and updated with new lines as well (thanks to Destiny).
- Healing package modified: 60% health or below before heal.
- Added new lines that cover unanswered questions.
- Changed how bleedout lines are executed, and increased bleedout time for balance.
- Gave Megara a unique staff.
- Megara now comments on Skyrim quests.
- Changed the way Katana's quest progresses at the end.
- Added dismissed bleedout behavior upon player's hostile activity.
- Added new way for Katana and Megara to comment on targets they won't want to kill (Katana's can be turned off since her opinions are stronger, so this is connected to the No Trust Decrease system).
- Added music tracks to Kilerth's Rest in case the user has a jolly playlist.
- Most idle lines are set to GetRandomPercent < 5. This is because most people have about 3+ followers and I wanted to reduce cross-talk.
- Added banter between Megara and Katana.
- Added missing progression in loyalty path (dev note: A3G).
- Cleaned up body type folder structure.
- Clean up ITPO records
- Re-recorded most of Katana's voice lines.
- Modified Takiyo's skeleton as it caused crashes for Precision users.
- Added spell to check relationship with Katana.
- Added relax variables so the mod's followers do not mount when waiting for the player.
- Modified both Katana and Megara config scripts, to simplify sandbox around player packages.
- Optional objectives now also will be marked as complete.
- Removed variable that may have caused Cappy to show up at the Bee and Barb.
- Added time passed factor RE: Katana's quest, for those that have a long Skyrim playthrough already (I'm not changing the regard system for waiting, trading, and favors).
- First stage: 1 game hour
- Second stage: 3 game hours
- Third stage: 3 game hours
- Fourth stage: 6 game hours
- Modified COTN - Winterhold - Katana patch: Elli's location.
- Added unique katana weapon.
Version 1.0.1
- Removed idle animation changes and using DAR instead.
- Removed sabrecat idle since most people have USSEP.
- Fixed JK's All in One FOMOD detection.
- Fixed body type paths in FOMOD.
- Removed the relationship system's major stat increase as I had the wrong idea about the bounty query stat.
- Deleted .tga files.

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