00_Evan

00_Evan, 2 months ago

Trinkets are going to have all sorts of different utility functions, but I want at least a couple of them to fall into this category, yeah.

00_Evan, 2 months ago

The rat skull isn’t meant to tie into the fetid rat specifically anymore, like it did back before v0.2.1. Despite that, it’s definitely possible that the game might have a gnoll or crab themed trinket, though I don’t have any specific plans for either of those themes at the moment.

00_Evan, 2 months ago

Thanks for the kind words! I don’t deserve all the credit here though, a bunch of the little details you mention were in the game back when it was Pixel Dungeon, being made by Watabou.

00_Evan, 2 months ago

Mainly it’s meant to cut extra steps and complexity out of the system in favor of people largely being able to make what they want with just a base item and energy. The random effect from catalysts themselves will live on in a new item though.

00_Evan, 2 months ago

I decided to return the blacksmith back to pre-2.2.0, where he would refuse to work on cursed items. Mainly I felt it was a bit too easy to apply the smith’s buffs to items, and also there were side-effects that had to be addressed, such as the point made in your previous post. The upgrade option from the smith isn’t meant to be 100% analogous to a scroll of upgrade.

00_Evan, 2 months ago

From the game: “Okay, a deal’s a deal. Here’s what I can do for you. I only work with identified and uncursed items.”

00_Evan, 3 months ago

Interface changes are also something I’m considering with this update. “make-x” isn’t very likely, but ‘repeat previous ingredients’ is, which is similar.

00_Evan, 3 months ago

Yeah, I agree that the change in themeing is unfortunate. Every change I have made since initially introducing the system has substantially increased the number of people who use it though. Clearly many people see multiple inputs, or recipes that require multiple steps, and just don’t bother. Even though this does mean alchemy turns more into a point-based system than a full on crafting one, that seems to suit the game better.

Fundamentally I want players to think “What consumables do I not care about?” and then “what alchemy produce do I want to make with them?”, and just having a point system largely sit in the middle seems to do the best job of making that process effective. It’s worth noting though that there are still a significant number of 2 item recipes, and a few three item ones. Meat pies in particular are still very popular.

I have already considered the fact that levitation potions turning into spells makes no sense though, especially now without catalysts. it’s not shown here but that actually is being addressed.

00_Evan, 3 months ago

If I put in a toggle even 10% of the time people asked for them then the game would be absolutely stuffed with them. ‘make is a toggle’ is unfortunately not a way to satisfy everyone, it’s essentially giving up on making an executive decision about what is best for the game.

00_Evan, 2 months ago

No the recipes are just getting a thematic change, the actual inputs and functionality of the outputs are unchanged.

00_Evan, 2 months ago

One of the points of removing catalysts here is to try and streamline things and overall reduce the complexity burden on higher-end alchemy. Replacing catalysts with separate resource systems wouldn’t accomplish this.

00_Evan, 3 months ago

Yeah I’m very happy with the way the effect and tradition ended up lining so well.

00_Evan, 4 months ago

Yep!

00_Evan, 4 months ago

The statue wouldn’t be very useful while corrupted if it dropped its weapon. You will still get the weapon when the corrupted statue dies though.

00_Evan, 4 months ago

A weaker enemy from the next region can rarely appear at the end of the current one. This goes for thieves in the sewers, bats in the prison, ghouls in the caves, etc.

00_Evan, 4 months ago

Congrats! I’ll admit to not having won a full run for 1m points myself, I just don’t have the time to commit to it versus working on other content or more targeted testing.

00_Evan, 4 months ago

FYI there are no ores or rooms that are totally separate from other rooms, so digging deep into terrain is pointless.

00_Evan, 4 months ago

One thing that’s worth mentioning for item tiers is that they create some strategy for SoU use, as there is a tradeoff between spending SoU sooner to not die immediately, and saving them for later higher tier gear. If weapons and armor scaled up with player level, then experienced players would just dump SoU on literally anything and win the game with it. This was actually a problem with Huntress before her rework in v0.7.1, as prior to that her unique item was directly upgradeable and experienced players could just win the game outright with it alone.

00_Evan, 4 months ago

8 or 9 chal runs are beatable of course, but they puch pretty far into ‘so hard it isn’t fun’ territory for almost everyone, which is why badges stop at 6 challenges. I do plan to keep adding things for very experienced players to aspire to though, glad to hear you like the little badge additions in v2.3!