Nuclear Throne - Weekly updates & development streams

[Tudoreleu]

I just wish her passive ability was more useful

You pretty much have to have Rabbit's Paw and get really lucky for it to work

yeah, if it saves you it happens rarely and when it does you most often just get blasted because you didn't expect to be revived

i think that of all my runs with chicken, only about 10 or so have actually resulted in medkit revives, and only one or two of those have actually MATTERED
most of the time the possibility to revive and the lack of any medkits just loving pisses me off

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[Cargøn]

I like eyes and melting the most honestly
there is a bit of love in my heart for yv but it is mostly airhorn.wav

[jonnyman5656]

Ster and the dev breaking the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe2zrleCV84

[Regulith]

Update #60: The Gun Update is now live

    Features
    A new load of Golden Weapons! Say hello to the Golden Slugger, Assault Rifle, Plasma Gun, Screwdriver, Splinter Gun and Bazooka! These won't be nearly as easy to get as the normal Golden Weapons.
    The Devastator.
    New Ultra Mutations for Eyes, Fish, Plant and Yung Venuz!
    Icons for all Ultra Mutations, Hammerhead and Strong Spirit.
    Remastered and brand new weapon and swap sounds!
    Updated Crown Vault tracks, and new ambience tracks for 0_1.

    Balancing
    The Heavy Slugger now has a way higher rate of fire, but less range.
    Hammerhead now requires you to really push against a wall.
    Strong Spirit now saves your live once, and recharges by returning to full HP. Really needs visual some effects for communication purposes, but we haven't gotten to that yet.
    No more Crown Portals in the Palace!
    Robot gets slightly less drops from eating Golden Weapons now.
    You'll no longer find the Golden Revolver on loops!

    Fixes
    Robot's Regurgitate should now work as intended.
    Fixed a problem with the ambience track in the menu.
    Steroids doesn't have Stress by default on their secondary weapon anymore.
    Weapon Chests on the same level should've stopped dropping the same weapon.
    Fixed a problem with the Ultra Shovel HUD icon.
    Fixed the sprite origin of the Hyper Rifle and Plasma Minigun.
    Fixed a crash related to the Sewers loop boss.
    Hopefully fixed the early portal bug Big Dog has.
    Fixed the description for Plant's Throne Butt.

    Misc
    Tweaked the way mutations look on the HUD.
    Ultra weapons now have green outlines on the HUD.


Unfortunately I've never gotten far enough to appreciate any of the things they added and tweaked...but I guess that's an incentive to get better!

[Tudoreleu]

i just got my very best run so far

all thanks to sweet, sweet old bazooka
i got a bazooka in 3-2 (the second level with the crows) and it was my lucky forgetin artifact
i used it to blow up a crown portal, got the crown of explosions (for more bazooka), and then blew up EVERYTHING in 4-1 and 5-1

ironically the awesome combination of bazooka and crown of explosions was my death too; i died in 5-1 by accidentally firing at a pole right in front of me and blowing myself up


on that note i have to add: for chicken, throne butt + euphoria + long arms makes the game
you can just slash pretty much any projectile that's not a 4-1 crystal's laser away in slow motion

[Regulith]

I'm getting much more of a feel for how characters are intended to be played, which is really great

I want to like Rebel because I love the design but I just don't like her active ability, Rogue doesn't feel powerful enough to warrant being constantly chased by the IDPD, and Eyes is just really mediocre all around

I also just hate playing anyone other than Robot though because when I find a weapon I don't want to use I just stare at it wistfully

[JJA0]

Rebel seems to be my best character. So many little guys wandering around shooting everything after you get something like second stomach, rhino skin, and rabbits paw. To me she's more like a bullet hell melting than a normal character. Absolutely hilarious with sharp teeth.

[Regulith]

Rebel seems to be my best character. So many little guys wandering around shooting everything after you get something like second stomach, rhino skin, and rabbits paw. To me she's more like a bullet hell melting than a normal character. Absolutely hilarious with sharp teeth.

I think all the extra stuff on screen is another reason I don't like playing Rebel

I'd like to try her with Sharp Teeth but I've never gotten it, though admittedly I could very well have been given the choice and just skimmed over it because I'm so used to ignoring it with every other character


Vlambeer put out a new trailer for this update to commemorate passing the 100 weapon mark

[Regulith]

Every now and then we really need to sit down and take a look at the mess we've made with previous updates. That's why this week was spent fixing tiny bugs, annoyances, doing some much-needed balancing and adding loads of tiny improvements! Most of these probably cause new problems to pop up, and will break all kinds of unrelated things! These are truely exciting times.

Features
We started on reworking Lil Hunter. Now less of a "kill instantly or get killed instantly affair", and more of a challenge.
Update to the character select portraits. That art was old!
A new Throne Butt for Chicken, allowing her to run at normal speed when using slow motion instead of having normal rate of fire.
A rare, new weapon that only spawns under certain conditions. Sorry.
Enemies now have 10% more HP per loop.
New Crown Vault tiles and torches. More work on these soon!

Balancing
Cursed chests no longer drop the most basic of weapons.
Changed Horror's Ultra B to shoot slightly less projectiles, but also work from canisters.
More spread for the Lightning Shotgun.
Rabbit Paw got a slight nerf, mainly for weapon spawns.
Energy Hammer has a tiny bit higher rate of fire now.
Energy Sword has a bit lower rate of fire now.
Hammerhead requires less pushing.
Lucky Shot has been improved and gives bigger chunks of ammo.
Fire Traps have a bit longer pauses in between flames.
[CLASSIFIED] boxes can now drop [CLASSIFIED] when destroyed! Radical!
Smaller hitbox for the Proto Statues (and also for the Fish skull in Desert).

Fixes
Fixed the omnipresent quick restart crash.
Throne can no longer be disappeared with Sharp Teeth.
Fixed a super cool save editing exploit.
Melting can no longer blow up invisible corpses, like cars had.
Crystal enemies no longer flip horizontally when aiming at you.
Proto Statues no longer get trampled.
Fixed some weapons related to Eyes A Ultra.
No more normal big weapon chests when taking a tour of the mansion.

Misc
Added ZQSD support.
Changed the tip for Strong Spirit into something way better.
IDPD Grenades should now make a short warning sound right before exploding.
Impact effects for Slugs and Heavy Slugs!
New sprite for the Ultra Bolts.
New sprites for the Crystal Spiders.
Golden Bazooka no fires a sparkling Golden Rocket!

That's all folks! Have fun and let us know how you feel!

New update fresh off the presses

[JJA0]

Well i just got my first loop and first double loop in one run as rebel. Dear god she gets strong endgame.
Also i looped with steroids and got the ambidextrous ultra and i kept getting golden crossbows. At one point there was 4 golden crossbows on the ground.
In completely related news Lil hunter is extremely annoying and seems to kill me more often. He ended my steroids run like a jerk.

Also for some reason chicken does not have her attack speed reduced while using slow motion so with her throne butt you can literally just hold it on forever with no penalty. (Patch says "instead of" so i am assuming this is a bug)

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is there a way to get the soundtrack for this game its really good

[Regulith]

is there a way to get the soundtrack for this game its really good

Actually if you own the game all the music is just sitting in the game's folder, ripe for the taking

I believe I've identified all of the tracks properly (might contain spoilers) (I would highly recommend copying the music somewhere else before renaming them lest you royally screw up the game)

The "b" tracks supposedly have a rare chance of being played on the corresponding stages (much like characters' B Skins), but I have yet to hear them


Looks like they might be adding effects for mutations next patch, saw some pretty neat ones on stream

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also the YV rap is really really good

[Regulith]

I finally made it to the Nuclear Throne today for the first time in 13 hours, ran out of ammo during the boss fight though because I was using a Heavy Assault Rifle and Plasma Cannon and died trying to get more

also the YV rap is really really good

I will risk my life and sacrifice my second weapon slot whenever a screwdriver shows up just for a chance to listen to that

The golden weapon chest doesn't hurt either though, it's just a shame golden weapons are cleared in the update every week

[Yosher]

i think that you need to get a screwdriver-like weapon as a backup weapon for when you run out of ammo, like a dagger or something. if you run out of ammo in a level, it's over. it's unfair and there should always be at least 1 method of dealing damage