Pilgrim's Road

To begin with, if you watched the stream you probably noticed that the encounter rate was obnoxiously high. Well, thanks to the efforts of Oldpat, Grindalf, Lockez, and Illy that's been fixed. No longer will you need to slaughter roughly fifty million mutants to clear the Cyclops Array.

Anyway, it'll be a slow process, but I'm planning on revamping some parts of the game. In the immediate future, I'm planning on overhauling the battle system. This is going to mean adding in new weapons for the player to use, new enemies to fight, and giving each enemy at least one unique quirk.

So, for example if you try to use a melee weapon against a Fire Slug, you might damage yourself, and the enemy and a flamethrower just isn't going to do anything, whereas a Brain Roach might be able to do the Astartes Part 4 thing to any ammo you fire at it, meaning that melee might be a better option.

New weapons and ammo won't be purchasable in Trader's Haven, but you will be able to find them randomly in dungeons. I'm hoping that this will help prevent the player from having Scrooge McDuck levels of wealth from all the salvage they find, and also hopefully make dungeon crawling a bit more interesting and rewarding.

Once that's done, I'll look into adding in an experience and level up system. There is a way to prevent the Pilgrim's from blowing up the bomb, but it requires at least 17 INT, and four specific skills. But, I'm thinking if you can gain skills after character creation, it'll be a lot less obnoxious.

Progress will be a bit slow. I know I said I wouldn't because I didn't have any ideas, but at the last moment I got a bit of inspiration for the A Rainbow of Positivity event and making sure that project gets done on time and is bug free is going to be my main priority for now.