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Undead West: Devlog #5 - “Boons”

Undead West · published 5 Sep 2024, 18:27 UTC

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Hello!
Today we're talking about those helpful little buffs!

💀 Boons

When you defeat a boss, you are rewarded with your choice of 3 run-temporary buffs that can affect different aspects of gameplay. There are boons that influence your dodge roll, boons that affect enemies directly, and boons that give a unique damage condition status to your bullets.

These are presented to you randomly, so each run and successful boss defeat will offer you a random three, meaning your builds will be different from run to run based on the options provided. One run could see you picking up freezing bullets, where often you will see a cold blue bullet in your clip on the side of your screen which will mean that the next bullet fired will incase an enemy in ice on hit, fully disabling all their movement and attacks for a short period.

The best part is that boons that affect bullets with status effects stack! So you could have freezing bullets, and fire bullets and you can see these two showing up at the same time in the same clip, which would even allow you to both set an enemy on fire for burning damage over time and freeze them, causing whichever dastardly undead or bandit to take damage while immobilized until they perish.

Choose carefully, choose wisely, but most importantly: have fun! You can keep track of which boons you’ve picked up during a run on your HUD, just in case you lose focus in all the gunslinging frenzy and start wondering ‘Wait, when did my 2 round shotgun have 4 rounds to fire before reloading?’. We’ve got you covered.

With the power given to you of lead, grit, and sulphur, whether it’s firing bullets that track towards enemies, gun boots that shoot out whenever you roll, lightning that traces and arcs between your foes… nothing will stand in your way.