Not at all, thanks for the feedback! I appreciate that the new visuals are a change no matter what. and it'll feel a bit weird to imagine only some new visuals in the game mixed in with the old ones. In the future I might be able to show an example of a game screen with 100% new graphics.
Afraid I'm not ever going to add toggles to turn off new content added in updates, although I do want the new visuals to satisfy as many people as possible.
I do think there are cases where the game could include a bit more numbers clarity, but I'm afraid I don't want to just effectively put the wiki into the main game. Are there any particular 'hidden' mechanics which you think are most egregious? I don't think any of the things you list are crucial to winning the game, and in fact the game does mention solution potions to special rooms in the guidebook.
So an evasion augmented armor grants 4 + 2*lvl evasion. I could include this stat, but it's not actually going to help decision-making at all, as you have no idea how that compares to the amount of blocking you've lost. Furthermore extra points of evasion/accuracy aren't necessarily more useful, generally the more of it you've got the less useful each point is, which is often the opposite of blocking's value. So I just don't include the numbers at all as that ends up being a similar amount of information with less complexity.
Accuracy figures are the exact same in this regard, I'd rather have no numbers at all than show numbers which aren't actually useful.
The next update isn't actually revealing any more information than the game already displays, it's just giving it to you in a nice compact form that's much easier to access, and in the case of SoU it's showing it to you before spending the scroll instead of after.
Unfortunately I don't intend to show off accuracy and evasion stats because the numbers aren't particularly meaningful. The hero has 10 accuracy and 5 evasion to start, and gains +1 of each per level. This tells you nothing about the actual hit/dodge chance on a per-enemy basis. the only real way for me to show this information would be to show the exact hit/dodge chance for each enemy, which feels like way too much information.
The level boost isn't changed for the bow vs. other thrown weapons, so there's no need to put in another line on the update window. The item's description is probably a better place for clarity on that front.
Equippong/unequipping armor takes 2 turns, so completely swapping from one set to another takes 4 in total. However, this is currently affected by hero speed, so wearing excessively heavy armor would result in this taking longer than 4 turns. I agree this is a bit of a trap that isn't explained anywhere currently.
The cleric is going to the the focus of v3.0.0, which is almost certainly going to be the next major update after v2.5.0. I can't give an ETA yet but late this year seems most likely.
I do want to look into ways to encourage more supporter purchases, especially on the Google Play verison, but it's never going to be locking a major content update behind a paywall.
If the item is unidentified then it'll always show stats as if it going from +0 to +1, and will let you know that.
No specific date yet, but we are getting close. I said 'sometime in July' and I think that's still accurate, though it'll be later obviously.
It's worth noting that v2.5 ended up growing quite a bit bigger than I initially planned for it to be.
After almost 10 years, the rat skull will finally return in Shattered Pixel Dungeon v2.4.0 as one of the game's new trinkets! It was formerly a quest item that I removed way back in v0.2.1. Now the skull will passively boost the chance for you to encounter rare exotic enemies like albino rats or crystal mimics. This means a bit more challenge, but also more rare loot!
Hey Folks, thank for all the well-wishes last week!
I'm back home now and slowly starting up work on Shattered Pixel Dungeon again. Here's an early look at one streamlining change I'm making to the alchemy system, meant to simplify a bunch of the higher end recipes: replacing catalysts with a simple energy cost.
In a few days, Shattered Pixel Dungeon will have its first ever festive food replacement for the Lunar New Year! As usual, these holiday treats have a little bonus vs. the regular cornish pasty that they replace. Steamed fish is eaten in two bites instead of one, letting you trigger any on-eat effects you have twice!
As I said last week, the boss for the upcoming gnoll variant of Shattered Pixel Dungeon's caves quest is the gnoll geomancer! Once the geomancer is awake expect to do a lot of chasing and a lot of rock dodging. The geomancer's attacks are similar to those of gnoll sappers, but turned up to 11.
That blog post I mentioned last week is still coming by the way! I just need a few more days.
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