Set Discrepancy

No new chapters added, but I fixed some of the long-standing problems. Particularly item distribution. Originally there were separate "decks" of items that were used to dish out items both into the world and into replicator menus, but because these decks were static it became prohibitively tedious to continually adjust them by hand based on how advanced into the game you were. Hence, there tended to be a persistent plenitude of all the primitive items (like bullets) but none of the more advanced items that you actually need in the later chapters (like shotgun shells).

Now, all possible items are dealt from a single deck, but the deck is automatically skimmed based on the chapter, with certain types of items only becoming "available" after a certain point. Also, each item is randomly assigned a "value", which in most cases determines the quantity of the item in the stack, and as the game progresses the baseline "value" increases, so that you will start to encounter larger pools of bullets and nanites even while other advanced items start to make an appearance. (The value is randomized logarithmically, so there's always a tiny chance of encountering a ludicrously valuable find in an early level.) (And anyway the point is that this is all now done automatically by the game instead of me having to do it by hand every time.)

Replicator menus are also generated by pulling from the items deck, assigning a random quantity and then assigning a price based on the quantity.

With this update all semblance of balancing has been forcefully ejected from the premises. Although I suspect it's still too easy to get slathered in nanites. And unfortunately these changes only apply to new games that are started and generated from scratch. Anyone who imports a save game into this version that all ready has five chapters built won't actually notice a difference.

And a question: Does anyone know any good downloadable (standalone) software for adding reverb effects to sound files? I have a crappy free program that doesn't support plug-ins, and its own software reverb is crap.