Seed Mode

[Bloody]

Can you tell me, what is the seed mode?I saw you can put Tab and you can enter a name, but i don t know about more this mode?Greets BLO

[BB]

Each time you start a game a random "seed" is generated which determines which items and enemies you will face throughout the game. If you pause the game you can view the seed if the upper-right of the screen.

So, if you have a run which you particularly like (say, your favourite weapon drops or a certain boss appears) you can write down the seed and re-enter it later on to play that same run again.

Or you can just enter random words and see what happens :)

[Bloody]

ok thank you

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This is a friggin' great idea, by the way.
Besides being able to reuse a great run yourself, it can be useful for things like having a score-duel/showdown with a friend to see who can make it the furthest, and neither person can whine that the random number generator screwed them, if it was the SAME both times.

Are there things the seed value DOESN'T affect, though? Seems like the first parachute drop still varies each time, even though the mid-boss/boss drops and shop item availability seems pretty consistent.

(I'll be studying further; game is hard enough that I haven't made it through any final stage yet, but a "lucky" set of drops will surely make it possible)

[BB]

The seed should set the items and enemies to be the same, the main reason I can think of it might be different is if you have unlocked items between tries - the random items might be different if the available pool has changed.

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Aha! That makes sense.

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Hmm... there must be something else besides unlocks and the seed value that affects drops.

I've got the whole right column of unlocks done, and map pieces A-O, and a favorite seed that drops a Shield from the balloon and a Tesla from the mid-boss. But SOMETIMES (not just a fluke!) that SAME seed value drops a Flamer from the balloon and a Nova from the mid-boss.

(Oddly enough, I've only managed to make it to the final boss with this "fluke"; buying Mines in the first-wave shop to go with the Nova just makes an OP wall of destruction that seems to serve me better than the defensive drops I was trying for!)