Monday Meeting: Planning Ahead

Now that the month has drawn to a close, it's time to do a quick recap of what's left for this patch, especially what we want to add to frontline and what we'll save for stable - so it was high time for another meeting!

One of the things we've been talking about has been the boss drops. Right now only a few early bosses have boss drops, which aren't even dropped 100% of the time, which is a bit weird even now that we've added boss rebattles in the arena. We had two options for this - either remove the boss drops altogether or let the boss drops be at 100% and add some more to other bosses across the game. In this case, we decided to go with the later, adding a bunch of new boss drops, including a seed allowing you to grow a Power Flower inside your house, an evil eye mask dropped from the evil eye in the ghost ship, a thorn worm cap allowing you to wear thorns on your head, and a cog shield dropped from the toy machine in Seasonne!

The Power Flower Seed brings us to the next topic, which is a plant system where you can plant seeds and have them grow in your home! How this will work is that you'll find a seed, dropped from various plant enemies, and if you take the seed to the tree in Seasonne he'll put it in a pot for you, which you can then place in your house. After some time, the seed will turn into a full grown potted version of the enemy you got the seed from. We're not sure if this entire system will be added to the game with this frontline update, but we'll start it up at the very least.

For the stable update, we'll be adding Penn Wrythe's novels, which will appear throughout the game in parts. After meeting her in Port Monnaie you'll get to influence the way the final part of the story turns out, so think about your answers carefully! We'll also be adding the cellar beneath the church in Port Monnaie, as well as a bunch of old books here and there across the game.

We discussed whether to add the player scaling feature yet or not, but we've decided to save that for another update - possibly the one after this one, where we go back to focusing more on Arcade Mode again.