30XX:Mixed Blessing

This page is about the scrapped Augment. For Prototype Augments in general, see Prototypes.

Uncertain Blessing
Embrace chaos.
Statistics
Type	Prototype Augment
Effects
feel the sweet, wild touch of chaos.

Mixed Blessing (or Uncertain Blessing) was an augment introduced with the first iteration of the Prototype Augment system in Early Access 0.17.0.

Mixed Blessing, by itself, had no passive effects. It existed for the purpose of consolidating a random Prototype upside and downside (which were internally considered separate Augments) into a single pickup. Upon picking it up, the player would gain three items: Mixed Blessing itself, the Prototype blessing, and the Prototype curse.

Curses	Blessings
Powerless Noodly Outcast Stoic Defiant Immaterial Uncharging Famished Debilitating Fragile	Force Sagelens Hysteria Core Clover Archive Grab Bag Mender Nutfinder

A few combinations were later blacklisted, either due to self-contradiction, or generally not being fun to play. Many of these still exist in the game as individual Augments, and some can be seen as Challenge Run flavors.

Up until Early Access 0.27.0, the player would also be subject to a "balancer"- a random reward or penalty of Nuts, Memoria, Potentia, or stats, based on how good the blessing was compared to the curse. The Protobalancer aug was originally designed to remove negative Balances and amplify positive ones. However, after the removal of Balances altogether, Protobalancer was changed to grant 15 nuts upon picking up a Prototype.

After fully random Prototypes were replaced with a more curated selection of Singleton Prototypes with variations on the same concepts, Mixed Blessing served no functional purpose anymore. It was scrapped shortly afterwards, in Early Access 0.50.0.

History

• Early Access 0.50.0:
  • Reduced the spawn rate of Very Safe Laboratories, but now they offer a choice of two Prototypes instead of just a single one.
  • Removed "Uncertain Blessing". Now, Prototypes just appear directly as an augment.
• Early Access 0.37.0: Two-part Prototypes no longer appear. Instead, all Prototypes are now Singleton-type Prototypes.
• Early Access 0.17.0: Introduced with the original two-part Prototype system.