Weapon Upgrades

[Swonker]

There seems to be a particular quirk to weapon upgrades. In order to get them the first time, you must have the earlier version of the weapon, but once you've bought them, you can randomly get them no matter what weapon you have. For example, I've used the ice katana pretty often, and have been bought level 2 and level 3. Now when I have any other weapon, I can just get ice katana level 3 offered to me. However, other weapons' upgrades I am not offered, because I haven't purchased them before. I'm just offered level 1 fire katana, for example.

Is this the intended behavior? It's somewhat odd, and I feel like it should be explained to the player.

[Swonker]

What's more, if you quit a chapter, you lose any upgrades you got from the pool. For example, I was using shotgun and bought shotgun level 2 for the first time, but died later that run. In successive runs, I then had shotgun level 2 offered to me when I had other weapons. But then, I decided to quit before finishing that chapter. I no longer had shotgun level 2 offered to me when I next booted up the game and attempted the chapter again. So the weapon levels you 'unlock' aren't saved unless you finish the chapter. More oddities.

[MulletDEV]

its exactly as intended to be. i think we need to communicate this better hehe.

[Swonker]

Originally posted by MulletDEV:

its exactly as intended to be. i think we need to communicate this better hehe.

That is my main point. I don't have any problems with the system, but I feel like the player should be informed of it. Without that knowledge, they might never know to experiment to unlock the weapon upgrades.

I do wish quitting didn't mean losing your upgrades, though. I'm not the best player. I'm playing on Challenge, and each chapter takes me several attempts. I win eventually, but sometimes, I can't do it in a single sitting. A bit disheartenening to know I lose upgrades from the pool when I quit.

[MulletDEV]

Originally posted by Swonker:

Originally posted by MulletDEV:

its exactly as intended to be. i think we need to communicate this better hehe.

That is my main point. I don't have any problems with the system, but I feel like the player should be informed of it. Without that knowledge, they might never know to experiment to unlock the weapon upgrades.

I do wish quitting didn't mean losing your upgrades, though. I'm not the best player. I'm playing on Challenge, and each chapter takes me several attempts. I win eventually, but sometimes, I can't do it in a single sitting. A bit disheartenening to know I lose upgrades from the pool when I quit.

right now we are counting on the player to understand this alone, but we are thinking ways to comunicate it thought the upgrade cards in some way.

[Henry Swanson]

I agree with OP, the loot table system isn't being communicated clearly and kinda confuses me.