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Early v3.0 Dev Plans | Patreon Weekly #280
🕑 Added 2024-10-14 15:00:07 +0000 UTCHey Patrons, in this weekly I’m going to cover my loose plan for how the Cleric will be developed.
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The Cleric Checklist
Here is the rough order I plan on implementing things for the Cleric. I imagine you’ll be seeing more details on each of these in coming weeklies as I get into developing v3.0.0:
Firstly I need to implement basic Cleric features, such as coding the existence of the class into the game, making them selectable, adding their unique items, and adding a UI for casting their spells.
After that all of their base class talents need to be implemented. This is the usual assortment of 4 T1 talents, 5 T2 talents, and 2 T3 talents. It’s possible a couple of these talents could be deferred until later if I don’t have any good ideas for them yet.
Then at least one subclass and one armor ability must be fully implemented (including 3 talents for each). Additional subclasses and abilities are important for variety, but the first one is necessary.
At this point the Cleric would be considered playable, and so I’ll likely try to do some polishing and balancing and release an alpha/beta. I can’t really fully publish the update before the class is complete, but this way things are at least a little iterative.
Moving toward release would then obviously be about finished up implementing the remaining elements of the class, and addressing balance data / feedback. I’m going to try to release the Cleric a little strong, as I undershot the Duelist pretty significantly.
Of course there’ll likely be some other content in v3.0 too, but I’m going to aim for it to be fairly light on that front. The important thing is getting the Cleric out and having the update not take forever. I’ve also felt pretty overworked the last while, so going light in extra content is one way for me to be a bit easier on myself.
Comments
Fanny Fanny
Awesome! Looking forward to it, when the time comes (no rush!) 🙂
Shattered Pixel
It's also trying to pace myself a little bit better, the Cleric is already a big piece of content, and I've been feeling like I need to slow down a little lately.
Shattered Pixel
There isn't currently an alpha running, I will make an announcement when that does happen though.
Fanny Fanny
Cheers for the reply. Much appreciated! I'll DM Evan and ask him. Thanks 😊
Lassoloc
if you play through Google Play, you'll have to DM evan your email address for him to add to a special list, and GPlay will deliver the alpha updates to you. alternatively he puts up APK files here on the patreon when an alpha is active, you can download them from that post
Fanny Fanny
How can I help with alpha testing (on android)?
Veek
Good idea to not get too distracted with extra content. Can always do patches afterwards like with 2.5
