Choosing Abnormality Pages

[fugggg]

Now that we have ~9 abnormality pages per floor, and probably more in the future, would it be a good idea to allow the player to choose which abnormality page they want, instead of having to pick from a random set of 3? I understand some of the abno pages are balanced around the inability to always pick them, but I would prefer having more control over this mechanic, even if some of these abno pages have to be nerfed a little as a result.

I think the randomness of the abno pages were fine in the earlier iterations of the game, but as we unlock more abnormalities, it discourages players from building specialized floors, since you don't know whether or not you will be offered the pages you specifically built the floor for, Sanguine Desire and Forsaken Murderer's pages being the current most obvious examples.

A possible change could be introducing the ability to equip a floor with 3 abnormalities, and the player would be offered those 3 abnormalities instead of 3 random abno pages once they reach an emotion level. The player would then select an abnormality, and would be offered the 3 pages belonging to that abnormality, effectively allowing the player to choose from a pool of any 3 abnormality sets in each reception. I think this sort of addition of customization options would carry over well as we unlock more abnormalities for floors, and would improve the general experience of the game.

[Grim Xzag]

Just make it be the 1st one is the 1st abnormality (Such as Bloodbath), 2nd is the 2nd abnormality (such as Heart of Aspiration) and 3rd is the 3rd abnormality (such as Pinocchio), easy fix lol. You can also expand it leftward to include a 4th slot which would include a 4th if they so chose.

This is obviously the simplest way of handling it if they wanted to keep it random (well its tied to the overall emotion coin and decides what to put depending on if its negative or positive, but it is still pretty random)

[Voodoo Child]

imo, high reward options should have a high risk associated with it, otherwise they just become a no-brainer. Here the low-risk low-reward choice is a generalist floor that works ok with anything but doesn't really shine, and the high-risk, high reward is the specialized floor built around 1 or 2 specific abno pages. If such risk/reward aspect were taken away, I don't think there would be anyone who would ever choose anything but Shyness/Sanguine Desire on Hod, for example.

That being said, I agree that the increased number of abno pages makes it more difficult to take an abno-based approach to deck building since the individual chances of each page are diluted. What I'd do is increase the number of cards you are offered from 3 to 4, or offer the player the ability to "reroll" the abno pages.

[ingi]

Originally posted by Grim Xzag:

Just make it be the 1st one is the 1st abnormality (Such as Bloodbath), 2nd is the 2nd abnormality (such as Heart of Aspiration) and 3rd is the 3rd abnormality (such as Pinocchio), easy fix lol. You can also expand it leftward to include a 4th slot which would include a 4th if they so chose.

This is obviously the simplest way of handling it if they wanted to keep it random (well its tied to the overall emotion coin and decides what to put depending on if its negative or positive, but it is still pretty random)

I like grim Grim Xzag but I would at further to have some of the Abnormality pages with affect that affect the synergy think take hod floor for example, only sanguine desire affect bleed in anyway, I would not mind if the moved changes ability so most of the red shoes would synergy in some way with bleed, like one is sanguine desire another is axe and that would give 1 charter health for each bleed stack enemies has on it glitter might make it so that enemies with bleed will tarcked that one librarian. This are just examples, just so the have something to do with bleed. Same with forsaken murder and blunt damages and singing machine and stagger

The don’t all need be so specific like Pinhco can be generic Abnolty pages that are just good on their own, but it does make so if you whiff your Abnormality pages withe heavy special deck like bleed deck, it no a complete loss