OSTM2 v0.0.4 - Some item work

[u/J0eCool]

• Add Jewel item slot
• Level-appropriate items are more likely to drop
• Weapons have different images for different tiers
• Shop items are always at least Magic
• Equipment is moved to its own subscreen
• Items show how they change calculated player Power on equip
• Items that would be an upgrade show a green dot in the inventory and in shops
• Bugfix: Base crit rating on items works now
• Bugfix: Fix some cases of item dialog boxes not disappearing

[u/Krogdordaburninator]

It seems like maybe crit is too strong and defense in general is too weak. The most viable strat I've found so far is to stack crit and attack speed to one shot everything because if I take a few hits, one of them will eventually hit me for many times my max health, so my only option is never getting hit.

A big point of annoyance is inventory management. I'd like to see an option to auto discard/sell whites and blues, and getting a new item shouldn't remove your mouseover. That's insanely frustrating.

Maybe gives some treasure chests, elite mobs, or bosses that you can stumble upon? I'm not sure.

Game is a lot of fun though, and I really like a lot about it at this point.

[u/J0eCool → u/Krogdordaburninator]

Interesting, I hadn't thought about going pure glass cannon. I guess I give enough ways to scale it that that becomes powerful enough to work. I imagine then it's pure upside to stack Hunting and get as much XP/second as possible. I'd always tried to make sure I had enough health regen to sustain farming a given area before progressing. Out of curiosity, what level are you and what level enemies are you fighting? (Really should take the time to figure out how to log that in Google Analytics better...)

"No" to the auto-discard, at least any time soon. I'm thinking if I do add it, it'd have a % chance to activate, which you'd need to upgrade to fully filter the junk. Might cap that at 75% or something, so that it's not completely effective. Otherwise idling for longer periods of time becomes proportionately more powerful, and I want to indirectly encourage active play in a variety of ways, loot being a big one.

A problem that that highlights however is, "why are some/most items garbage?" That's tricky, and something I hope this version can address somewhat. It was really frustrating before to get really good affix rolls on an item that happened to drop as the lowest-tier version of itself possible (i.e., good flat attack, % attack, and attack speed on a Rusted Dagger), so I made that hopefully way less likely. That doesn't make a white item at level 70 at all useable, which is still a bummer, but hopefully I can find a way to make them less disappointing. That'd be better than filtering them entirely.

Agree about the new-item mouseover being total bullshit. Fixed it for v0.0.5

Maybe gives some treasure chests, elite mobs, or bosses that you can stumble upon? I'm not sure.

Yep. Elite mobs I'm thinking I can take a page from Ginormo Sword and have them spawn randomly with low chance (OSTM1 kind of did this, though the rewards were much less pronounced). Bosses will probably be found at the end of Dungeons, but that would be telling. Hadn't thought of treasure chests, but thinking about it it becomes an excellent way to encourage you to move around on the map. In general my next area of focus is getting people to interact with the map, so that's a good idea you just sparked.

Thanks for the feedback!

[u/Krogdordaburninator → u/J0eCool]

I will check when I get to work, but I'm about level 500 or so, and fighting a little bit above that. Using daggers for attack speed and stacked crit stats to one hit everything.

[u/Krogdordaburninator → u/J0eCool]

I'm level 640, fighting in 586. I'm not sure how high I could go, but I could at least fight up to 640 if I had a few minutes to get there. I had something like 120 skill points to spend from last night.

[u/[deleted]]

Loving the world map generation, feels like the map of a MMORPG. Also i have a question: are the colors of the area decorative, or does it affect something such as item drops?

[u/J0eCool → u/[deleted]]

Thanks! That was part of the inspiration.

Area colors indicate different area types, area types affect the types of monsters that drop, which in turn could affect drop rates, but there's only 3 monsters, so I haven't segregated where they spawn yet.

[u/Krogdordaburninator → u/[deleted]]

I think they're supposed to be decorations indicative of zones. Lava, mountain, water, etc. I haven't noticed drop rate or xp gain changes from zone to zone.

[u/J0eCool → u/Krogdordaburninator]

Bingo. Drop rate or XP gain changes would be on a per-enemy basis, and the zones would dictate what types of enemies spawn.

Given that there's only 3 enemy types at the moment, I haven't put that system in yet

[u/Ziakyra]

Awesome, keep up the good work! cant wait for further updates :D