Other Stuff | Patreon Weekly #278

Hey Patrons, It’s a short weekly this week as I prep the release of v2.5.3.

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

Various Little Things

It’s been a bit of a quiet week on the Shattered front as I’ve mainly been focused on things already in beta, or on non-Shattered stuff. The beta stuff is Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.5.3, which includes the changes previously mentioned in a Patreon poll: a new stone of detect curse, and various buffs to bombs! There are some other various changes as well, a few other balance tweaks and some bug fixes.

I also spent some of this week building a computer for a friend and helping with various family stuff. My friend wanted a machine that was pretty decked out with RGB on a mid-tier budget (~1,300 CAD), and I’m quite happy with how the build came together. It’s definitely too glowly for my tastes, but they’re thrilled with it:

(I’ve attached a short video to this post that shows off the RGB if you’d like to see it moving)

A few folks also asked about cats in this Patreon weekly, and I actually have a cat to share myself this time! This is my roommate’s recently adopted cat Penny, she is a smelly whiny fat old lady and I love her. She is delightfully fluffy as well.

Audio Timestamps

This month there were 30 questions from 10 different Patrons

• 0:23 "I shall slide bartholomew the bishop to c4! what do you think of that?" - radiantchaos

• 0:40 "Are elemental embers the veal of the magical world because I'm kinda getting that vibe from the whole summoning quest" - CQ

• 1:00 "Why does the sad ghost evade attacks while everything else dodges?" - Veek

• 2:01 "comment ca va?" - radiantchaos

• 3:11 "The accuracy weapons get a larger accuracy boost the lower tier they are, do you plan to keep this trend with the Cudgel?" - Veek

• 4:21 "how was your day?" - Depresbian

• 5:15 "Which Moo Den are you today?" - CQ

• 5:55 "Could a trans person use a cursed wand's disguise as reliable gender affirming care?" - radiantchaos

• 6:35 "Do you consider making trinkets cursable through cursing trap? It could make their effects negative or nullify them completely" - Hubertouz

• 7:26 "Will the Cleric launch overpowered or underpowered?" - Veek

• 8:04 "can i keep a marsupial rat as a pet? and how legal would that be in the city above the dungeon" - Depresbian

• 9:25 "I feel like you've answered this before, but do you plan on ever making the game longer (i.e. adding more regions/increasing the floor count of each region)?" - MAXIBOB

• 10:44 "What have been the hardest things to balance for in the game?" - OceanSmith

• 11:36 "Do you have any favorite rougelike or rougelite games?" - OceanSmith

• 12:36 "any new funny and/or stupid emails you've gotten?" - radiantchaos

• 13:37 "How much could I pawn the amulet for at the shop if they were buying?" - greenapathy630

• 14:29 "which subclasses do you think are the best designed, either in concept or execution, and which do you think aren't as good?" - Depresbian

• 16:29 "Is there a particular reason why we cannot use the Scroll of Transmutation on our Unique Item to get a different Unique Item from a different Class? I'd prefer it be a hidden thing in an Alchemy Pot so it can't happen accidentally, but I'm curious behind the reasoning behind it." - Raynuva

• 18:04 "yet another year has passed since i showed you my cat. Do you still like him?" - RadiantChaos

• 18:04 "this is my cat, do you think she'll like the bomb buffs?" - CQ

• 19:14 "Do you plan on adding anymore easter eggs similar to rat king? Secret floor with a sign was nice in vanilla" - Hubertouz

• 20:31 "do you like waffles? pancakes? french toast?" - radiantchaos

• 20:40 "It seems (from my perspective at least) that the game has been getting easier over time. Do you see the same thing, and if so, do you think this is something that you want to change in the future (either rebalance to make the game harder again, or something else entirely)?" - MAXIBOB

• 22:36 "Are more bomb buffs likely to happen in the future? Could you imagine adding a trinket/artifact/ring that empowers bombs in some way?" - Block Vader

• 25:01 "whats the scariest thing you've ever seen?" - radiantchaos

• 27:08 "Do you think people will stop complaining soon about everything?" - greenapathy630

• 27:36 "Following up on that question, what is the change that you think has caused you to get the most complaints (if it is the bomb change, what do you think was the next most complained about thing, and how close was it)? " - MAXIBOB

• 29:23 "how late are you usually up doing dev work?" - radiantchaos

• 30:01 "What is your favorite Pokemon?" - Hubertouz

• 31:35 "What's your favorite Final Fantasy franchise game? (And do you have traumatic memories of Riovanes castle?)" - CQ