Evolving Weapons Glitch?

[visonix1]

When does the game register whether or not a weapon should evolve?

[Mr D Grim]

lvl 8 weapon + required passive + chest)

[visonix1]

Hey, I was just playing and I understand that you need to get a weapon and its corresponding passive item to have the chance of getting it to evolve. Further, you need to then max out the said weapon and !VOILA! you have the evolved weapon.

My issue here is that I just have two weapons that didn't evolve despite fulfilling those conditions. Any idea as to what was up? Doubt it'll help but here's what I was looking at.

https://imgur.com/a/cYMm9sN

I just found it strange considering every time before the weapon would evolve once it hit max level with the corresponding relic in my inventory. BUT NOT THIS TIME!!

[visonix1]

Thanks though I did know that. I had different troubles altogether.

[Wet Meat Slaps]

Did you get the corresponding passives from the upgrade tab at the main menu or from the level? Otherwise to upgrade a weapon you need to do the following,

-Level the weapon you want to evolve to max level ((level 8) you can press esc to check the levels of your weapons and passives in the top right of the screen)

-You then need the corresponding passive item. ( It only counts if you picked the passive in the game as one of your five passive choices)

The combos are as follows,

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv(Below section taken from ocram's guide post.)vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

Axe + Candelabra
Cross + Clover
Fire Wand + Spinach
King Bible + Spellbinder
Knife + Gloves
Magic Wand + Empty Tome
Whip + Hollow Heart

As of version 0.2.7 these are the only weapons that can be evolved

Some items will only appear when you unlock the related achievement:

Candelabra - Get Santa water to Level 4
Spellbinder - Get Runetracer to Level 7
Empty Tome - Hold 6 different weapons at once
Fire wand - Destroy 20 light sources
Clover - Find a clover
Cross - Find a rosary

^^^^^^^^^^^^(Above section taken from ocram's guide post.)^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

- Once the weapon is level 8, and you have the correct passive, you need to kill and elite and open the chest that drops, opening the chest gives you a percentage chance to get the evolved weapon out of the chest. ( I have personally had a ~95% rate of getting the evolved weapon)

Hope that's helpful.

[Amazur]

also you cant get to evolved while <10 minutes on your run

[Robotnik]

question, do all weapons have an upgrade?

[KellyR]

You just need to wait about 10 seconds after you have the weapon at level 8, plus the required support item, before you pick up a chest. There's no random element, if you have an item flagged as ready to evolve, the next chest you pick up WILL evolve it (Unless you have multiple things ready to evolve, but then it will still pick one of those to evolve), but it takes about 10 seconds after you've got the requirements before the game flags it as ready to evolve. If you pick up a chest too fast after getting the required elements, it won't work.

[visonix1]

Hmmm... I'd never seen the timed element (needing to pause a bit for the game to register that something is ready to evolve) before. But this is also the first time I've had this particular problem.

As for what you said Wet Meat, everything present in the picture is what I had when I ended the level and states what level each piece of gear was at. Maybe I just didn't notice weapons evolving strictly from chests or perhaps they will when you level, I haven't been keeping track. But yes, I had both the Wand and the Bible at level eight with their corresponding passive on me.
I'm pretty sure that I opened a number of chests, too, and nothing happened. I just didn't know if others had the same problem of the game refusing to evolve a given piece of gear.

[Raelic]

Originally posted by Amazur:

also you cant get to evolved while <10 minutes on your run

I've found this to be the case as well. At 10 minutes a boss usually spawns and that chest is the first I usually get an evolved weapon from even if I've met all other requirements and picked up a chest before.

[kikinak]

Originally posted by Prizzle:

I had my Knife to 8 and then 9

I don't think that's physically possible, is it? Weapons max out at 8 and then the evolution is its own thing

[Raelic]

Originally posted by kikinak:

Originally posted by Prizzle:

I had my Knife to 8 and then 9

I don't think that's physically possible, is it? Weapons max out at 8 and then the evolution is its own thing

It's not. The only way that I've found to exceed level 8 is for it to be an item that drops on the ground like the Stone Mask, Clover, or Book.

[kikinak]

Originally posted by Raelic:

Originally posted by kikinak:

I don't think that's physically possible, is it? Weapons max out at 8 and then the evolution is its own thing

It's not. The only way that I've found to exceed level 8 is for it to be an item that drops on the ground like the Stone Mask, Clover, or Book.

You can't even get those to eight. Passives max out at 5, ground clovers don't level the clover item, and I could be wrong but as far as I know getting the library tome/mask while it's already at 5 does nothing

[visonix1]

I haven't searched through all of this yet so if its already been said, then so be it. But yeah, it seems that evolved weapons must be obtained through chests. Sucks to be me for assuming that you can get them simply by leveling up and then selecting the weapon. So, no glitches. Just a personal misunderstanding of the game's mechanics.

[visonix1]

Originally posted by Mr D Grim:

lvl 8 weapon + required passive + chest)

So, yeah, I misinterpreted what you said. I didn't quite understand that chests ARE indeed necessary.

[Jazzmigo]

Originally posted by Robotnik:

question, do all weapons have an upgrade?

not yet but hopefully later in the games developement : )