As promised, here's another Augmented Skill showcase, this time focusing on Nepgear!

Equipping the "Multitool" augment will turn Nepgear's Spark and Hyper Spark skills into Blue Bolt and Blitz Dance respectively!

Nepgear's augmented skills give her amazing synergy with the characters that she is closest to in-universe.

Blue Bolt is a magic attack that deals more damage if Nepgear's AGI is higher than her target which pairs well when combined with Uni's ability to manipulate the speed of both allies and enemies alike.

Meanwhile, Blitz Dance inflicts the previously showcased debuff called Spirit of Lightning exclusive to Neptune and Nepgear. The two together can easily accumulate stacks, allowing Neptune to dish out even more damage with her Fulmin Drive skill! Furthermore, Blitz Dance applies an extra stack of Spirit of Lightning if the target is poisoned, meaning characters that can inflict poison such as Vert will come in handy!

Work on all of the planned Augment Skills is mostly complete. Though I probably won't be doing any further showcases because their effects and mechanics aren't particularly interesting in my opinion. I chose to do showcases on Neptune and Nepgear because I felt that the new debuff by itself would be interesting to talk about.

That's all for now. Unfortunately, I can't say much about the status on next update. Just know that there's quite a bit of work to be done. Chapter 6 was the least "planned out" amongst all the segments in the game. For the previous chapters, it was just a matter of finding the free time to execute what I had in mind in terms of dungeons, puzzles, story pacing, etc. This time I actually had a clearer vision of what I wanted to do for Ch7 than I did for Ch6 and it wasn't until the start of this year that I had a super concrete plan. As always, feel free to follow the game to stay updated with Devlogs.