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A New Upgrade UI | Patreon Weekly #264
🕑 Added 2024-06-24 15:00:08 +0000 UTCHey 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
Comments
Epiyuan Cancel
Thank you
Shattered Pixel
Thanks for the kind words! You need to sync your discord account with Patreon, there's a help article about it here: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/212052266-Getting-Discord-access
Epiyuan Cancel
Hello I love your game and I recently join the patreon how do you join the discord?
DMAN
Thanks for making a game that took me 1.5 years to beat Yog, and has given me countless hours of entertainment! Fr fr there hasn't been a phone I have had since before 2016 that didn't have Shattered installed, and I've lost count of the number of people I've turned onto your stellar game
Shattered Pixel
Thanks for the support! If you have a pressing question you can ask it anytime, but for the audio Q&As I put out a call for questions one week before the Q&A happens.
DMAN
Hello! I subscribed recently (been playing since you added artifacts) and I was wondering if you take question in these comments, or if you put out an open call for questions before you record?
Shattered Pixel
yeah something like this might be possible, but likely only via local multiplayer, and having a summonable NPC which inherits a friend's stats is the sort of compromise I expect many people wouldn't call true multiplayer.
Shattered Pixel
Yeah I would not be happy with that, my main argument was that loads of money to feed starving children or combat climate change would be worth it.
Shattered Pixel
I see your point, but the game already has 'confirm' on the left for pretty much every other interface, I'd rather keep that consistent.
BlackwingRed
Ah I figured the multi-player aspect would not work for the game for those very reasons you stated. In my head Multi-player worked in a similar way to the Mirror Image followers or like ghost data where other players can be used as temporary followers but you'd probably need a whole server to put the "ghost data" onto
Devious Dangerous Penguin
Pretty sensible answer to my question. But could you just imagine SPD getting enshittified with paid loot-boxes and microtransactions? Lol
Toni McGowan
The farm upstate lol
Timothy
Looks good! Would it be possible to flip the "back" and "upgrade" buttons? i think thats more intuitive as the upgraded versions also show up on the right
