Hi! I'm working on a dungeon crawler in the style of the Dark Cloud 1 & 2 games and I wanted to try to make a weapon upgrade system similar to those games (more like the second also known as Dark Chronicle). In that system the weapons gain xp points when used to kill enemies and they level up, gaining points that you can use in exchange of materials to upgrade their stats. When the requirements are met you can evolve a weapon and transform it into a new weapon with a bonus in stats and a new look, restarting at level 0 with the weapon but keeping the stats added by upgrading.
It is best shown in this video
Any ideas how could I make a weapon gain levels this way?
For instance, the attack event for that weapon adds XP (if you have targeting then you can have it make sure it lowers the enemies HP before adding XP)
and then have a check at the end of the battle event to see if there is enough XP to level up the weapon, at which time you can have that add a status value/experience increase that the player can spend via the progression system.
For anything else, you can use the event system, Equipment Variables and selected data. E.g. check out this gameplay tutorial for a weapon upgrade NPC.
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Can the upgrading a weapon into another by checking if its stats are high enough also be done using Equipment Variables?
Thanks for the answer, didn't know you could already level up weapons in Ork, that's awesome!
The Auto level up mode will collect the (selected) exp for the equipped weapon when the combatant receives the exp. So, even if your combatant doesn't level up, you can still set up an exp status value (using the None experience type) to be used for the weapons.
Yes, upgrading a weapon into a different weapon can be done via equipment variables.
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