A New Upgrade UI | Patreon Weekly #264

Hey Patrons, in this weekly I’m going to share another UI improvement coming in v2.5: a new window for upgrading items!

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

A New Upgrade UI

I know lots of people wish Shattered would display more numbers and info about all sorts of things, and I’m a bit hesitant to go with all these requests, but one major area I agree is lacking is upgrading.

Currently the game does show various stats about items as they are, but the only way to know anything about how upgrading will actually impact an item is to spend an SoU on it. This new window aims to change that:

Now you’ll get a quick summary of how upgrading will impact an item before you actually commit to using the scroll! This includes almost every stat that scales with upgrades in the game, including special properties for things like wands and rings. The only thing notably absent right now is enchantment/glyph scaling, as the game is already a bit purposefully vague with that info.

The window also correctly accounts for a bunch of edge cases, including simple things like an item being unidentified, or more complex ones like uncurse chance, enchantment loss change (including with hardening!), and curse infusion.

There’s even some QoL I expect experienced players will enjoy too; if you have multiple upgrade scrolls (or magical infusions), and the target item is identified, then choosing to upgrade will immediately re-show the window, letting you quickly upgrade a bunch of times in a row.

Audio TimeStamps

This month there were 21 questions from 10 different Patrons.

• 0:09 "my horsey goes to g3! your spiky crown is in trouble now! how do you respond to that?" - radiantchaos

• 0:29 "How are things going?" - Veek

• 1:09 "what is your favorite insect?" - quinky

• 1:51 "Just a hypothetical; Lets say at some point later SPD gets ridiculously popular and you're getting close to finishing the game. However, Microsoft wants to buy the game(ik ik, its open source, but imagine they can) before you can finish it and are offering $2.5b. What would you do?" - Devious Dangerous Penguin

• 3:10 "Right now, there is a community project headed up by Trashbox Bobylev to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pixel Dungeon going open source. The new version, called "Community PD", will be integrating almost all suggestions made to him, as well as several from the Ideas Forum in the server. Will you be watching this version to see how well these ideas work, and given they are community ideas, will there be consideration for possible implementations in Shattered?" - Raynuva

• 4:57 "how aren't things going?" - Depresbian

• 5:39 "whats the best compliment you've ever received?" - radiantchaos

• 6:52 "what do you think would be the coolest animal to befriend (regardless of whether or not it's feasible)" - Depresbian

• 8:46 "may ShPD introduce sm weird but interesting easter seeds like Terraria？i think it‘s a ok idea to celebrate ShPD 10th birthday" - Oxide11

• 10:28 "based on analytics, are there any trinkets that people seem to intentionally not upgrade very high? i can imagine clover and newt's eye potentially being optimal at lower levels, for instance" - Depresbian

• 11:30 "Since they are being added to the catalog, are you going to show the chance enchantments and glyphs activate or more details on them as well? " - Veek

• 13:04 "some people，including me，think the food variety is a bit limited and hope a better cook system like Dont Strave。what do u think? - Oxide11

• 13:53 "whats your favorite anime?" - radiantchaos & Zrp200

• 15:32 "What is your favorite ring?" - Bolognathetoni

• 16:55 "cats or dogs?" - Bolognathetoni

• 18:08 "why tengu wears gray in ShPD,instead of red one in vanilia" - Oxide11

• 18:55 "are there any pieces of shattered fan content that stand out to you as a particularly memorable favorite?" - Depresbian

• 20:11 "do you like orange and/or yellow starbursts?" - radiantchaos

• 20:38 "Here's a fun one: If SPD had a multi-player mode, how would you see that playing out? Would it be something you think would work well?" - ObsidianBlackwing

• 22:46 "Do u remember that blacksmith's mushroom quest?" - Oxide11

• 23:24 "how delicious is the meat pie?" - radiantchaos

• 23:53 "what happens to the questions after they get answered?" - radiantchaos

• 24:08 "What was tengu's crime for being imprisoned?" - greenapathy630