New Character Select Screen🐣
The game and its features grew historically and not everything was planned out right from the beginning and the old Character Select screen definitely showed that. It was cute, but it was also overloaded with info and felt bloated, but at the same time it didn't show all the necessary info😅
So I made a new one!:)
You can again scroll through all characters and choose the one that you like (surprise). Each character now also has a small description, so that new players also know what the playstyle of each character is and where their strengths and weaknesses are. It also tries to highlight the most prominent feature of each character.
When you press the "Run / Extra"-button, in this case the Alpha 3 key, it opens the Status Menu from in-game!
Here you can take a look at a character in detail. You can see their stats, status effects, their starting skill, their passive and their current level as well as the corresponding unlocked stat upgrades.
When you select a character and you unlocked their B-skin a small selection shows up where you can choose which skin you would like to play with!
Levels💪
As you might have noticed, the Character Select screen now also shows a level for each character. I added a Level system this month, to add some more meta progression to the game!
Each level up unlocks permanent stat upgrades for the character. Here are the stat upgrades for Peep for example:
The maximum level for each character is 10! To keep things balanced I made each character a bit weaker again, but if you reach Level 7 every character is as good as before the new Level system. Level 8, 9 and 10 make their stats even better than before!
You can level up characters by playing with them. When you lose only the last character gets Level Points (points you need to reach higher levels), but when you reach the Gear Shrine and seal a timeline every character in your team gets Level Points!
You can see how many Level Points your characters got in the Results screen:)
How many Level Points you get depends on the Score you get at the end of your runs. The Score basically increases with how good you play, how much you explore and how many quests you complete💪
BrokenBot🤖
The BrokenBot is the second NPC in the Vector Space area!
When you interact with it, it will help you to find some beans, just like the BeanBot in the Flat Flat Plains area. The problem is, well, it's broken.
This means it will cast Pyroblast from time to time or throws wrenches, that will hurt you if they hit you!
The signals it gives you on where to find the beans are also a bit complicated...
There are three different types of signal it gives, each with a 33% chance:
- Rubbish - It will just display any random emote
- Green arrow - The green arrows show in the direction of the hidden bean
- Red arrow - The red arrows show in the opposite direction of the hidden bean
If you know how to work with it it's definitely a good thing, but it might take some time at first haha
Laika🐕
Laika is the third NPC of the Vector Space. She is trapped inside her broken spaceship and she needs your help to get out!
She gives to the correct order of the symbols you have to activate to get her out, but the rest is on you!
If you help her she also gives you a small reward:)
New Character Passives✨
A few characters also had kinda boring or bad Passives, so I decided to rework a few.
The first one is from Kwak! Kwak's new Passive Knowledge makes it so that they get one free Growth Upgrade each time they visit a Camp Floor.
Kwak also can choose from 4 growth choices instead of the standard 3. This passive is especially later super strong, when all Growth Upgrades become super expensive.
The sticker Everyone is Kwak is basically doing the same, but for everyone!
Fish's new passive is called Pew. Fish now uses the Pew skill instead of the default Tackle skill. This makes him feel a bit more like in Nuclear Throne:)
Pew is basically a fusion between Tackle and Windblade. He shoots a small projectile that travels a few tiles and hits the first enemy in its line. Stickers like Cool Tackle, Long Tackle or Buff Tackle also change how the Pew projectile behaves.
Everyone is Fish makes everyone shooting projectiles instead of using Tackle!
Gus also got a new passive, called Unfazed. His old passive was way too weak and his new one is super strong💪 Gus now takes only 1 damage from each source, which makes him especially viable for the late game, where enemy attacks normally deal a huge amount of damage.
Gus now can't upgrade his HP anymore though! He can have the maximum HP of 4, but that's it. Poison is also super effective against him, since Poison deals 1 damage multiple times.
And Gobble's immunity now changes depending on the area you're in!
She has a 50% chance to change her immunity to the element that is the most common in the current area, which means she doesn't take any damage from that element. In the other 50% of cases she changes her immunity to a random element, which is either Fire, Water, Plant, Electro, Aero or Ice.
The rings on her tail also change their appearance based on what immunity she currently has!
New Items🍄
Most areas have a specific Item that you can only get in that area, and the Cosmos Fruit is that Item for the Vector Space area!
If you eat the Cosmos Fruit, you can eat more Items than otherwise! It raises your Stomach Size for one Camp. You can also use multiple together and then inhale your whole inventory at once haha
If you cook it together with a bean, you'll get a Dark Brown Bean that raises your maximum Stomach Size permanently!
I also added another Item that Pokémon Mystery Dungeon fans might now: A Reviser Seed!
When you have an Reviser Seed in your inventory instead of a Reviver Seed your character gets shortly revived and you will see this message:
Then the character gets defeated again though.
If you take a close look at your inventory you can easily spot the difference though! The Reviser Seed is also called Reviser Seed instead of being disguised as a normal Reviver Seed. It also has a brighter color than the Reviver Seed.
Also it isn't completely useless! If you cook it with any other Item you'll get the Trial Stew!
The Poison might be annoying, but you'll get some really good status effects, too! The Trial Stew can be used well by Rebel for example, since it has only 1 HP anyway, so the Poison won't affect it
Vector Space World Map Dioramas📡
Every area has its little dioramas for the World Map, so here is a screenshot of the Vector Space area on the World Map:D
And here's one example zoomed out:
Thanks for reading🧡
That's it for this month friends, thank you so much for reading that far!!:)
Hope you all liked the new content and changes🥰
Take care of yourself and others and see you next month!!:)🧡