[GAMEPLAY FEEDBACK] Exagryph's Hidden Aspect has a misleading primary fire.

[qawal]

Turning its Attack into a laser beam is a really neat idea at first because of the things you THINK you can do with it. At the time I thought it'd be insane to have an Athena Boon equipped and have a crazy anti-projectile beam.

But to my surprise this is what I discovered:

The beam itself doesn't have a hitbox. the single pixel at the tip of it is the only thing that has one.

Unlike Exagryph's default bullets, the beam's hitbox doesn't travel from the barrel...

Once you fire it, the one pixel with the hitbox APPEARS at the farthest point and only deals damage when entities disrupt its line of sight.

ENEMY PROJECTILES DONT COUNT AS "ENTITIES"

So if you fire at projectiles, it won't interact with them unless you back away and have the tip of the beam touch em. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

making the entire laser beam visual ironically... hehe... pointless. It acts more like a flashlight than anything else.

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[ O ] are hitboxes
[ > ] is for motion
[ - ] is void
[ | ] are objects
[ {{ ] enemy projectiles

Your traditonal beam, light saber, or flamethrower would have it like this:

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

Exagryph's bullets will behave like this:

O>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

And Lucifer's beam only has this:

----------------------------O

Beam colliding with stuff:

---------------O|------------

Beam activated against projectiles that passed the max range:

------------{{--------------O

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What do you guys think?

Should this be a thing we just have to git gud with?

Or does it deserve a rework? at least with how the hitbox work?

[qawal]

That's some good insight~ glad to have it posted here in this discussion :)

[Anderson]

Lucifer with Athena is very good. You can basically stand in front of Asterius and take no damage from him for a few seconds. It acts a bit like the Shield, but also deflects attacks.

[Aumires]

Are we sure that's not an exploit that is unintended? Because there is the Eternal Chamber upgrade giving you unlimited laser.... and that would mean that with Athena...

...speaking of absolutely unintended things, as the Hellfire orbs block paths, you can totally bug Theseus on his chariot and make him just be blocked by it doing absolutely nothing. He will happily be pelted away until it explodes, after some seconds of programming confusion being invulnerable for a while on the hp threshold.

[Olyvya]

Lucifer is the worst aspect for Exa by far. The third aspect can destroy practically any run and is so fun to use. Lucifer is just a chore. This is just another drop in the bucket as to why it is not enjoyable.