New Weapons and Platforms | Patreon Weekly #203

Hey Patrons, in this weekly I’ve got some news about new weapons and new PC storefronts for Shattered!

Also, next week’s weekly will have an audio Q&A segment! Feel free to ask questions either here or on the Patreon discord.

GOG and Itch

Shattered is now available on GOG.com and Itch.io! Apologies, as I would have normally liked to share this with you guys earlier, but things started moving very quickly once initial plans were put in place. Most of my working time in the last week has been dedicated to getting everything ready.

There’s not much to say there that I haven’t covered in the accompanying blog post, but one fun extra detail is that GOG made a newspostfor Shattered! I don’t expect that GOG or Itch will be as significant for Shattered as Steam was, but it’s still nice to be able to give PC players some more options.

New Weapons

With those releases and v2.0.2 out of the way, I’ve also finally started working on v2.1.0 in earnest. First on the block were the new weapons which are now fully implemented!

Firstly, the Katana is basically a direct response to the feedback I heard about people loving the rapier’s lunge ability and wishing they could use it in later stages of the game. The Katana slots in as a T4 rapier, with 4-20 base damage, 0-3 blocking, and the lunge ability at +50% damage. I decided to go with 0-3 blocking as damage resistance is quite strong in general these days, and the lesser base stats matter less on a T4 weapon.

The other two new weapons are both the direct result of the recent Patreon poll! The Sickle and the War Scythe operate a bit like an inverse Handaxe and Warhammer at base, but come with a totally unique duelist ability. I didn’t end up implementing too many 2-cost abilities for the Duelist, so I’m happy to be able to add one here. The DOT mechanic of bleeding also makes me less worried that players will simply use harvest as a damage-dump to kill bosses.