I am trying to make the bolts and crossbows more balanced and will try to only include what is necessary. That means using most of what the core game already offers. New items will only be included for balancing purpose or to fill relatively large niche. Same goes for craft recipes. As you may now crossbows only have two endgame options at the moment : railgun and Bolt Eruptor. If you don't aim for that you'll end with one that you can't upgrade, properly wasting your ressources. Or you can hope for a lucky drop but seeing the crossbow ratio to other weapons it's unlikely to happen (and even when it happens if's it's not the railgun or Bolt Eruptor...). Oh and you won't have much use for anything but brass and steel, everything else goes to ammo. What if you can't find that ? Well just find a good melee weapon of course. Btw, piercing doesn't crit. All recipes only include vanilla ingredients so far. Requires all 3 expansions at the moment (images). I'm open to suggestions for new bolts and crossbows and/or balance concerning them. As for the poll you should read the question as "Do we need more bolts and crossbows in the core game ?" Looking for: _Sprites. I don't have time to do them for the moment. _Feedback on the mod balance as well as balance on the core game. _Ideas on what to use to replace the tinkering holy trinity (Brass, Iron, Steel). To do list : _More bolts. _More recipes. _More crossbows' upgrades. _Balance core game crossbows. _Edit the names and descriptions of the new items for better ones. _Add new sprites. _Edit this post with a wall of text about items balance and specifically crossbows and bolts. _Create an upgrade for the gem encrusted crossbow (bling wand for a really blingy crossbow ?). Change log: 14/06/13: _Added an updrage for the Wind-Up Double Plus 12/06/013: _Added an upgrade for the Sneaky Assassin's Crossbow. _Added a Composite Crossbow tree. Uses Aluminum and Plastic. _Changed the name of the mod as well as the folder name for commodity purpose on my end. _Added an additional recipe for aluminum bolts using Aluminum Tube. _Removed the converted items as I cannot test them at all for the moment. 10/06/13 : _Removed the aluminum bolt and changed the aluminum based recipe to New Bolt, Classic Bolt, Bolt Moderne (scaling). _New recipe for New Bolt, Classic Bolt and Bolt Moderne (see above) _Added Diamond Drill Bolt.
I cannot at the moment rebalance it by changing the values. What I can do however, is to add new weapons, bolts, gears and recipes to tinker. Tinkering is, after all, the core skill of crossbowing. There isn't enough crossbow for you to rely on dropping a good one and even if you take tinkering if you don't get / can't make steel and brass you are pretty much dead. If you ever have the chance to start with 3 steel + 3 brass you basically autowin the first floor and maybe the next floors if you aren't too unlucky. Same for iron + brass to a lesser extent. And don't let me start on traps, you cannot rely on them either. [Edit]That is, if you play a rogue and want to rely on crossbow + traps. Well I'm probably doing one things or two wrong but when I can stomp DL1 then DL2 right away with a warrior or a wizard while having such a hard time with a rogue it doesn't feel right.[/Edit]
