Shattered Pixel

V3.3 Patch Plans | Patreon Weekly #340

Added 2025-12-08 15:00:22 +0000 UTC

Hey Patrons! I’ve had a pretty slow week this week after the release of v3.3 (I’ve also been a bit sick =S) so I’ve not got too much to share. In this weekly I’m going to go over my immediate plans for patches to v3.3.

Firstly, as always, there’ll be some rounds of immediate bugfixes. Things are doing pretty well after a slightly rocky beta, but I have been building a list of various little issues to patch in v3.3.1. A few more notable ones caused by v3.3.0 are:

Descending into the tester area with a lost inventory results in a softlock
New bleed from tomahawks doesn’t get boosted by ring of sharpshooting
Feint afterimages currently are persisting for longer than intended when the hero is on a partial turn
It’s possible to farm HP regen and buffs with a wand of regrowth in the tester area if you’re lucky enough to find one

After getting those fixed, I do intent to take a look at balance, but early data shows that the new items are both doing pretty well. Some players were very worried about the cracked spyglass, but it seems to be nicely middle of the pack for trinkets right now.

The main thing I want to work on over patches though is improvements to the tester area, that will eventually set the stage for the levels you’ll see in the new quest. Currently the layout is extremely basic, essentially just a hardcoded grid with the only variance being in item and internal wall placement. I want to make a proper random level builder that can take rooms and fill them into a nice grid shape with rigid room sizes, not something that’s basically the exact same every time you see it. I should hopefully have more details to share on that next week.