Thrown Weapon Designs | Patreon Weekly #317

Hey Patrons, in this weekly I’m going to go into a little more detail on how new thrown weapon sets will work mechanically.

This weekly also includes an audio Q&A! You can find audio timestamps at the end of this weekly.

Thrown Weapon Designs

As mentioned before, v3.2 will change up thrown weapons to work in ‘sets’ with a standard quantity (usually 3), and that’s going to have lots of tack-on effects to different mechanics. I don’t have all of these things figured out just yet, but here’s an overview of where things currently stand:

• Firstly, as mentioned before as well, thrown weapons will be upgraded as a set, not individually. This also should mean that sets can be enchanted, and also any broken/missing thrown weapons in the set will be repaired by the upgrading. The durability boost per level will be lessened though, from 3x to 1.5x.

• Players will still need to pick up thrown weapons after using them, but the item being picked up will probably change from a thrown weapon itself to a special item type exclusively meant to be picked up and re-added to the set it was thrown from. This will be necessary to prevent exploits relating to upgrades repairing broken/missing thrown weapons. If you don’t have the associated set (or the set is a different level) you won’t be able to pick the item up.

• Thrown weapons from pre-3.1 saves will carry over, though there might be a little weirdness in the conversion. I do expect that people will highly upgraded solitary weapons will get them bumped to a quantity of 3 though.

• Thrown weapons will no longer drop in quantities of 2, 3, or 4, but will instead have a chance to be upgraded, enchanted, or cursed! This should work basically the same way that it does for melee weapons, although upgrades might be a bit less likely.

• Lots of specific numbers are likely going to be rebalanced. For starters, durability per thrown weapons will change from 5/10/15 at base to 3/6/9, and I’ll likely be nerfing a few specific thrown weapon mechanics now that they’ll be more spammable and worth upgrading.

• I haven’t yet made specific choices for related effects like talents or the ring of sharpshooting, but I expect at least some tweaking will be needed here, especially for talents which are often balanced around how weak upgrading thrown weapons generally is atm. Sharpshooting in particular might not need much change as it’s chief competition (upgrading directly) is getting buffed here.

Audio Timestamps

This month there were 14 questions from 7 different Patrons.

• 0:09 "Where is Thymor" - 🌌Octavia🌙

• 1:02 "how have you been?" - Depresbian

• 1:50 "rook to e4- your bishops are in trouble! what response do you have?" – radiantchaos

  

• 2:20 "What big suggestions (if any) have you implemented? I'm really curious about your general philosophy on suggestions from players via email, the Pixel Dungeon discord, or from patrons? " - 1-800-thewolf

• 4:16 "Have other Pixel Dungeon devs reached out to you offering to collaborate or offering code that’s ready to implement? How would/do you respond to that kind of thing?" - 1-800-thewolf

• 5:46 "how do projecting weapons work?" - radiantchaos

• 7:24 "What is your favorite Night at the Musume movie, and what do you think of the overall concept?" - 🌌Octavia🌙

• 8:45 "So the shard of oblivion gives a loot bonus for unidentified stuff, now this brings a question... If the hero were to have gender dysphoria, would this add 20% loot bonus... (idk random thought I had while discussing the rainbow potion)" - ittyit

• 9:54 "who is your favorite character to play as in deep rock galactic?" - radiantchaos

  (small correction here, I said 'Point Extraction' when I meant 'Offsite Drilling'. I like Driller for drilling but scout is amazing on Point Extraction due to his mobility.)

• 12:20 "If you had to assign a deadly sin to a month (barring Pride from June) what would they be? (Wrath, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Envy, Sloth)" - 🌌Octavia🌙

• 13:21 "Do you play lots of rogue likes? What are some of your favorites?" - DaltonGoesFast

• 14:44 "who would each shattered pixel dungeon character play as in mario kart?" - radiantchaos

• 16:34 "What Team Fortress 2 characters would each character play. My guesses are Warrior-Heavy, Mage-Pyro Rouge-Spy Huntress-Sniper Duelist-Demoknight Cleric-Medic" - 🌌Octavia🌙

• 18:0 "What music do you like to listen to?" - Zrp200