Felix? | Patreon Weekly #169

Hey Patrons!

Firstly, there’s an audio Q&A attached to this weekly! There were 13 questions asked by 7 different patrons. You can find question timestamps at the end of this weekly.

In this weekly I’m sharing some more berserker rework specifics, and an excerpt from the new lore I’m working on.

Berserker

I’ve now finished up the berserker’s rework. As mentioned before, the main change here is that berserking is now a manual trigger. This lets me change around the power balance quite a bit, as removing the automatic safety net frees up quite a bit of power budget.

The current numbers are as follows: rage gain is unchanged, the berserker gets 2x-6x his seal’s shielding when he berserks (depending on missing HP), and after berserking he needs to wait through a 100 turn cooldown.

Endless rage has been adjusted to allow for up to 150% rage at +3, and extra rage now increases berserk shielding and reduces berserk cooldown.

Berserking stamina has been replaced with a new talent: deathless fury. This talent returns the automatic berserking mechanic, but at the cost of a 4/3/2 level cooldown, instead of 100 turns.

A Lore Excerpt

A lot of time this week was spent on concepting and technical implementation, so I don’t have a huge amount to show off here this week. Here’s one page of the prison lore I’m working on though, which I initially shared earlier this month on Patreon:

“Received a lovely present from Felix today; some sort of bright red shrub called a 'Rotberry'.

I've mentioned how dreary this place is to him before, seems he was listening. According to him this plant actually dislikes light and water, so I just have to trim the leaves back once a month or so. Trimming it must be important though, he mentioned it a dozen times in his letter.

Of course, Felix never does anything for free. He says that the seeds this thing produces are great for making wands, so naturally I owe him a few each time the plant produces some.

- Smith”

Audio Timestamps

• 0:09 "similar to the tengu mask question, if you had the dwarf kings crown to transforms your clothing, what would your new heroic clothes look like?" - radiantchaos
• 1:02 "how do you react to negative feedback about your game? particularly the rage-induced feedback angrily telling you to 'fix your game' " - radiantchaos
• 2:30 "was there something in specific that gave you the idea to make the cleric non binary? or was it just a cast diversity thing?" - radiantchaos
• 7:00 "Do you have any plans to add more decorations (more wall and floor tile variety)?" - Fcelon
• 7:48 "how was your day?" - Depresbian
• 8:15 "Do fish see water?" - Yasutora
• 8:44 "Could you describe your process for balancing the game? I'm especially curious how you balance new content additions where there isn't existing player data to work with." - heyseth
• 11:26 "Have you ever considered adding cheat codes to shattered? (like modifying staring equipment or adding the ability to summon arbitrary items mid-game)" - PunStar
• 12:20 "How long have some of the features planned for the next update been delayed for?" - Zrp200
• 13:30 "do you enjoy living in a small town?" - Depresbian
• 14:15 "Do you have a more concrete idea for any subclass you would like to add in the future?" - Fcelon
• 15:00 "whats your favorite idea? (mine is being creative)" - radiantchaos
• 15:47 "What's a feature that you would really like to implement but haven't gotten around to yet due to lack of interest from the community?" - heyseth