Replace/change/drop item/weapons please?

[Linearch]

It feels clunky being unable to change item/weapons. I need to plan my build in advance and take (almost) nothing else. Meanwhile the item/weapon pool is quite large and it can offer me the same item/weapon I have rerolled, and eliminate only works once per levelup despite rerolling. I also can't take anvil for early game and change them later.

[ele]

Uhh...yeah. This is how these games are designed, otherwise it would be too easy to be OP every round. RNG always plays a part.

[Beautiful Ham Sandwich]

Yeah that'd be TOO strong. Some weapons and items are better early game and some late game, if you could swap then the minmaxing would just be too much.

[Gundam 00]

allowing change of weapons would kill the game balance

[AnonTwo]

Would completely break the game. It's a core concept of the genre.

[Volodesi]

Saying it would mess the balance up or break the game sounds so funny to me. Since difficulty isn't really the games strong point.

But, I agree. This is how all survivors games are. So it should stay that way.

[Ytilee]

This is why there are rerolls and bans. I'd say that Holocure is definitively one of the game that gives the most agency for the player to pick and choose things because of how often stat increase appear, letting you get away from a choice of items you wouldn't want otherwise.

[Linearch]

New weapons/items will still need to be leveled up/enchanted and it's harder to level up at high level. You're wasting some upgrade points on weapons/items you throw away. Unless you abuse anvil items. True. Anvil items may be too abusable and may break the game if replaceable. Anvils are permanent.

Maybe as endless-only feature? Limited amount of replace? Available at high level only? Certain abusable items can't be replaced? Weapon only (no replacing items)? Only after maxing everything?

By the way, it's not how all survivor games are. I mean they have to be unique in some way and sometimes it includes this. In Soulstone Survivors and Spellbook Demonslayers you can replace spell after you got full slots. Replaced spells are thrown away. In Spelldisk Survivors you have an inventory for inactive spells and disks; you can freely switch. The inventory will eventually become full if you keep piling stuff, but it's good that it exists and big enough. In Time Wasters, you can't replace a weapon but you have no weapon limit.

[Shiroe (cortana)]

you can control it decently with rerolls and banish..
But replacing stuff in the middle of a run is a big fat NO, then it would not be a roguelite anymore and just a generic ubisoft game...