Hello everyone!
Now that September is over, we are finally able to focus on the brand new update for Gamble Tower: 1.1!
As promised, here is a sneak peek of some of the features that are going to be present in this new content patch, please remember that everything you see is still a big W.I.P!
Before the sneak peek
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The Bank
After showing the concept art for the bank NPC for so long, I am glad to announce that he is finally in-game and almost fully implemented! and he is fully 3D! (Because why not?)
Stebanks MacZee shows up both at the Inn and at the Tower after you pay the ludicrous amount of 10.000 gold coins to Inn Master. (you need to be at Gambler Level 5)
He provides different services in the different locations he appears, so we'll showcase them separately.
Bank at Expeditions
During expeditions, MacZee has a chance to appear as an intersection NPC on the left side of the Gambler, just like Stebax and Inn Master.
He'll provide you with two different banking services when you talk to him:
Currency Banking (Withdrawal and Deposit)
If you are overflowing with cash, you can conveniently exchange your Inn's gold coins for Gambling Chips by using the withdrawal service.
This allows you to get up to 500 GC per encounter with MacZee. (It is a 2:1 exchange rate though, so you will pay 1000 coins per 500 GC.)
If you are not feeling that rich or if you have A LOT of chips and are afraid of dying early, you can safely deposit as many GC you want and instantly convert them into Inn Gold Coins for posterior usage.
It is a fair exchange rate of 1:1 in this case, no fees for this service.
Item Storage (Retrieve and Store Orbs)
You may safely store a limited amount of orbs inside Stebanks, be it to make your pouch lighter or to retrieve them later.
The fee is a bit hefty (100 GC per storage and retrieval) but items persist in between expeditions! So nothing will stop you from storing and retrieving orbs that would otherwise be VERY difficult to get early on or from completely different clans than what you are playing!
Bank Artifacts
MacZee may or may not sell/give some random bank artifacts like Credit Cards and Lottery Tickets.
We are still testing those and seeing if they work well.
I cannot say for sure if they are going to be present in the final version or not, so take this "sneak peek" with a big grain of salt.
Bank at the Inn
At the Inn, MacZee allows you to upgrade its multitude of banking services and customize your loadout!
I am not going to spoil all the upgrades you can acquire from him, but some allow a pretty cool degree of customization, I think. (keep in mind, it is expensive)
Loadout Customization
You can use the orbs that you stored during expeditions to customize your pets and character loadouts permanently.
The way it works, you use orbs stored on the safe to replace up to a certain amount of orbs (upgradeable) from your character's loadout.
Each orb customized makes the price go up though, so be prepared to open up your wallet.
This allows you to create pretty strong and wild loadouts! Believe me, you are going to need all the help you can find when facing all the new challenges this patch adds.
More Stuff?
(little game: find the NPC that wasn't there before)
I only covered some of the Bank features in this post, but the patch is planned to add an array of new things for you to unlock, find, fight and do.
(We didn't even got to show the new artifacts yet...)
I think that for this sneak peek we already have shown a good amount of content, so expect more to be shown on the upcoming weeks.
End
I sometimes get a biiiit afraid of showing too much as well, because we never know when we have to cut corners :p
(Don't wanna hype anyone up unnecessarily)
Everything I've shown so far is confirmed to be there though. (Except bank artifacts, we'll see.)
Anyway, I hope you liked this sneak peek!
Thank you so much for all your support and see you soon!