PSA: How to not lag with Sammy with high Curse

[GoorolinaPumpkin.TTV]

I noticed turning off limit break for Sammy fixes the lag problem. Something about those eyes that if they limit break too much things get super slow so I decided to turn it off, and what do you know, It's going super smooth even with 1000%+ curse.

Just wanted to share my findings in here in case anyone was trying to find a workaround.

[gia]

big area makes each projectile have to collect more enemies to damage, if you keep area small, and enemies weak (if the are too strong they dont die right away so they accumulate and your projectiles will have to collect more enemies every tick) then you are fine

[Samuel]

i think the new engine in beta has fixed a lot of performance problems, but idk i havent tried it myself, im afraid that ill lose my savegame

[ℝℯ⊻ℯℵℊ∄❤]

yah, unplayable SUB 1 FPS with Sammy. 4080 not good enough. Maybe one day 10 years from now we will be able to play this character.

[Samuel]

lmao, but it's very good for farming gold, after like 1 minute everything is on max and you leave it afk for minutes or even hours and came back and see that the timer hasn't even passed 10 minutes because of the low fps

[Samuel]

but you get like a million without doing anything

[Zylo the Wolfbane]

I believe the reason for that is because of how the game mechanics work. Whenever a weapon levels up it 'Resets', effectively firing off again immediately. You can notice this if you pick up red gems and level up the same weapon a bunch of times, it'll fire off a bunch right after the menus are done.

Because Sammy levels up based on money, he levels ABSURDLY fast, which means he's CONSTANTLY gaining levels, and thus CONSTANTLY resetting his weapon's timer, which means it basically machineguns out a new set of attacks every time you level up. The more you level, the stronger the weapon. The stronger the weapon, the faster you kill. The faster you kill, the more you level. It becomes a vicious cycle that just crushes your PC because it's trying to keep track of a new set of weapon attacks that are being spit out basically every frame considering how rapidly he levels.

Turning off Limit Break fixes this because the weapon no longer levels, thus not resetting the weapon timer constantly, so the weapon can just function normally.