I walk up to the woman, and hand her the items.
Druid remains. Construction equipment. Simple trinkets.
"Good. It's all there. I expected nothing less."
Now, as for my payment...
"Yeah yeah yeah." She hands me a box with six advanced items.
I will not accept it. I put the box on the ground.
"Well... that was the deal. This, or nothing."
Very well, then. I walk away from the lady. I got what I came for.
I bump into a girl in a lab coat when walking out of the workplace.
"Who are you?"
Just a delivery person. See you around.
They have no idea what's coming.
They can't stop it, anyway.
Hello, adventurers!
Welcome to a brand new, a bit bigger update of Full Gear. A lot of new items and some other new stuff too. It's been a month since release and I've been working on making (but not balancing!) a bunch of new features, with things like minibosses and powerful Drone parts coming for later... hopefully. Life's been busy. Let's get right to business.
New Items!
32 items! 32 new items! Ridiculous!
...too ridiculous, really. These will be the last regular items added. The item pools are saturated, so let's divert attention somewhere else afterwards. Now, you can truly overclock any run if you manage to get past the, what? Third boss?
It's worth noting that none of the new items are available in the demo, because I'm a greedy dirtbag who wants people to play the full game. It's not expensive and allows you to do really cool things like leaving a review! Please leave a review.
Boss Buffs
The best boss-killing strategy, especially for late-game bosses, was "stand next to them and hit them". I want to prevent this. Bosses should be challenging! Difficult! Requiring thoughts and some degree of preparation!
So I'm giving all bosses a buff. Starting at the third boss you fight in a run, they gain some sort of extra defense against you if you keep standing next to them. Move back every once in a while, won't you! To keep you from making any progress at all, the first two bosses will remain unaffected, and the bonuses don't scale. So be a bit more careful.
Keyboard Support
I've tried making the keyboard select slots and all that. Believe me, I've tried.
But it's just too difficult. The entire system was built for mouse and keyboard, not just keyboard. So I'm sorry - it won't be super straightforward to work with only keyboard.
Though I'm not retracting my promises. You WILL get full keyboard support - awkward or not.
In this update, you can move the mouse with arrow keys during any UI (inventory, Utility, NPC, etc). This should tremendously help.
It's not completely done yet, I want some more polish. Cursor speed, tab to switch inventory, things like that. But it's coming. Hopefully.
Changelog
v1.1: Overclocked
Added: the Simple item set: 6 new items with simple tags that are simple to understand
Added: the Emerald item set: 6 new items healing you for much more
Added: the Powerhouse item set: 6 new items dealing with Bosses in various ways
Added: the Mastery set: 6 new items using even more insane abilities
Added: the Lead item set: 4 new Guns doing cool tricks
Added: the Mapping item set: 4 new Gadgets showing you the way
Added: eight new tags! Again, don't worry, these will be the last ones.
- Precise (Weapons): your Luck now affects your Crit chance.
- Scrapping (Gauntlets): enemy chance to drop Scrap is doubled.
- Juicing (Gauntlets): eating non-Berry Food grants +1 Max Health.
- Automatic (Armor): -50% damage taken per stack of your Frozen or Stunned effects.
- Loud (Boots): you always wake up nearby enemies.
- Chipping (Boots): you always deal at least 5 damage.
- Blind (Goggles): cannot see damage numbers.
- Musical (Necklace): Bell effects last longer.
Added: three new Cogwheels!
- Hunter: for the users of Bells
- Diamond: for the blocking of damage
- Reaper: for the reckless ones...
- Note: none of them appear when Half Gear is active, so cherish them.
Added: some keyboard support.
- You can now use arrow keys to move the mouse in most UI screens.
- Moving items can also be done with Space.
- Using items can also be done with Enter.
- The Toolbox, the Administrator and the Tracker have more custom controls.
Added: the title's version button now links to the Steam patch notes
Buffed: tier 3/4/5/6 Bosses now gain bonuses if you stay too close:
- Fire and Blight bosses gain more damage in either a move or a buff;
- Stun and Freeze bosses gain more defense when you attack them;
- Disconnect and Corruption bosses inflict their status effect when you're adjacent.
Buffed: Spiked Greaves now have Chipping
Buffed: Corruption no longer reduces your attack/defense if you're Blessed
Buffed: Reduce token (from the Aegis Engine toolbox) felt too weak: damage reduction 25% -> 67%
Changed: a couple of item sprites are different to less easily confuse them with others
Fixed: Bosses would not be visibly Marked
Fixed: Boss Log blue would be barely readable
Fixed: the attack animation would sometimes randomly play
Fixed: traps could persist "inside" chests
Fixed: enemies could spawn inside Lead Engineers
Fixed: the Tutorial's walls would look a little weird
Fixed: any equipment pool would have a small chance to roll a Hand Axe
Join my discord if you have any questions or concerns, and...
see you around!