V2.4.0 Release Plans | Patreon Weekly #256

Hey Patrons, in this weekly I’m going to share details about v2.4.0’s upcoming beta release!

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

Release Plans

V2.4.0’s Alpha has now been out to golden+ Patrons for a few days, and the dust seems to be settling in terms of critical bug reports. This is good timing, as we’re nearing the end of April and I really want to get the beta released soon. If you have any gameplay feedback I’d like to hear it!

The alpha is almost content complete, but there are a few things left to do:

• There are currently 8 trinkets in the game. This is a little sparse, even for a first release, and so I’d really like to bring that number up to 10-12. Trinkets that did well in the recent poll are the primary candidates for inclusion.

• While I’ve made some improvements to the alchemy UI, I would like to do some further improvements before release. In particular I’d like to make the background visuals a little more interesting (e.g. having a visible pot on the lower part of the screen), and for desktop users I’d like to put the alchemy guidebook UI on the main screen, moving alchemy stuff over a bit to the left.

• I also am considering some supporter improvements, mainly better epitaphs and support for custom notes. While it is possible to still do a bit of this, I may put this off to a future patch or update in favor of getting things released.

Unfortunately, I’m also going to be busy with other stuff for all day Wednesday and part of the day on Thursday, so I’m not totally sure when the best time to release the beta will be. The most likely time will probably be a bit later in the day on Thursday, or maybe a bit earlier on Tuesday, but we’ll have to see how things shake out. Likely v2.4.0 will fully release a bit less than 2 weeks after that, after I get all the content finished and leave time for translations.

Audio Timestamps

This Q&A there were 40 questions from 8 different Patrons.

• 0:12 "knight to c3, your move!" - radiantchaos

• 0:23 "how was your day?" - Depresbian

• 1:06 "whats the best cosplay you've seen at a convention? (im at one right now and it felt fitting to ask)" - radiantchaos

• 2:24 "Can we get shiny enemies? Like Pokemon, no different in anyway just different colors?" - Chewyou

• 2:46 "Actually I have an actual question now, would it be possible to have slightly different coloured enemies? I feel like the knolls could all slightly different shades of brown? Just a variable of x colours for different enemies. Available only to Patreon or the golden + supporter tiers. Not anything too fancy but just cosmetics for us crazy kids." - Chewyou

• 3:55 "If you could have any hobby not related to what you do for work, and not related to what you already do for fun, what would it be?" - Raynuva

• 4:22 "Have you ever done any Shattered streams for people to watch?" - Chewyou

• 5:30 "What's the most broken thing you ever done or created to Shattered? Programming wise or OP item you undervalued." - Chewyou

• 7:10 "How come when you fail the wand makers quest with the Rotberry seed or turn it into a potion you don't get a failed message from the old man and he poofs away anyways?" - Chewyou

• 7:54 "Evan, having just done some math on win rates, what is the average win rate? A few of us have logged a lotta runs in, and I'm curious what's the score to beat?" - Chewyou

• 9:07 "Considering all you've done for shattered across the years, I can't imagine everything you've done was thought of when you first started or early on into development, whats something that you added that was the most (or as close to) a spontaneous addition to shattered?" - Arclightning

• 11:01 "As a programmer who does what you do (makes and updates a game), how much math do you really do?" - Arclightning

• 12:01 "What is your name? What is your favourite colour? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" - Chewyou

• 12:17 "whats your favorite weird al song?" - radiantchaos

• 12:56 "bit of a meta question- what kinds of questions do you really like for these qnas? are there any you don't like?" - radiantchaos

• 13:46 "Understanding you are currently in the concept and design phase of the Cleric, I'd like to ask something further: When considering ideas for the 3rd Subclasses for each Class, what are some general perspectives you want to aim for?" - Raynuva

• 15:10 "Have ya'll ever had to kick someone for being just a lil bit too excited?" - Chewyou

• 16:17 "has you really been far even as decided to use even go want to look more like?" - radiantchaos

• 16:31 "If you can fail the Wandmakers and troll quests, why can't I fail the other ones? Attack the ghost a certain way, hit the imp?" - Chewyou

• 17:13 "I have a yet another question on swarm logic and pirañas. When I walk into the water, they all get alerted but not including enemies with swarm distance. If I alert a mob within the swarm distance they get alerted. When I shoot just one with the bow or other thrown weapon, only the one mob gets alerted, why is that?" - Chewyou

• 18:08 "What's the limit for piraña spawns? A treasure room, 3 then the big square 2? The most I've ever seen is 5." - Chewyou

• 18:33 "Can there ever be a door behind the fire, blood walls, water spouts etc?" - Chewyou

• 19:08 "how deep is the dungeon? (you better fight the urge to say 26 floors you smartass i mean distance wise)" - radiantchaos

• 20:20 "What fingers do the heros wear their rings on? Are they in the same hands?" - Chewyou

• 20:39 "what are your thoughts on Soggy Cat?" - Depresbian

• 21:02 "If I bring a spectral friend, or really any friend; back to the surface what happens to them? Am I just abandoning them forever in the dungeon?" - Chewyou

• 21:50 "what accent do you imagine the troll speaks in?" - radiantchaos

• 22:35 "are there any other games besides pd that you've thought about modding?" - Deprebian

• 23:25 "Is there potential lore difference between leaving with the amulet fully agro'd versus fully weakened? Or is that an Evan secret?" - Chewyou

• 24:23 "Why isn't development code publicly available on github?" - Zrp200

• 26:34 "Is there not a shopkeeper in the Caves? I scoured the first two floors and didn't find him. Coulda used those overpriced rations" - ObsidianBlackwing

• 26:58 "Also is the rose an artifact drop that's random or is it always guaranteed to spawn in?" - ObsidianBlackwing

• 27:22 "Do you intend to eventually add floor generation quirks (like a chasm separating 2 rooms instead of a wall) into more chapters?" - Block Vader

• 28:04 "I know someone made a fork of Shattered PD which lists out all of the mechanical details into the item overviews, but could there be something for those wanting to stay in Shattered PD?" - Raynuva

• 29:39 "If you are/were gonna have kids, which of the heros would you want as kids? And why isn't the rogue an option" - Chewyou

• 30:44 "How will you buff sniper in the next update 👀" - Zrp200

• 31:22 "what's the median win rate, and why is it so much lower than the average?" - Zrp200

• 32:09 "Do you ever use dead end floors for testing?" - Zrp200

• 32:55 "How do you expect the world to end?" - Zrp200

• 33:51 "if you had to live on a deserted island and could only take four items, what would you take?" - Zrp200