Not a new curse, but very rare.
It’s an homage to the days of floppy diskettes. Usually, when there was an unrecoverable disk read fail the system would make a characteristic grind-buzz-kachunk noise as the drive tried a hi-low track seek before stopping. Then it threw the dreaded error, “Problem reading disk. Abort (A)? Retry ®? Fail (F)?”
It meant your game was cooked.
In fact, it looks like it’s almost a decade old.
shattered-pixel-dungeon$ git log -S "CURSED WAND ERROR" commit f1f68163ada4f3e57006fac31d97e6b88c5a5e74 Author: Evan Debenham <Evan.SHPX@gmail.com> Date: Sat May 23 03:40:31 2015 -0400 v0.3.0: improved game crash cursed wand effect shattered-pixel-dungeon$Wait, this was built in? I thought it was a bug, having lived through the A R F era.
Nice, learned something new. I’m not a fan of the curse wand artifact, or really half of them. Too many negative effects…
…it’s called a curse for a reason. And I will note, at range a decent number are still usable attacks
Sure, but that doesn’t make it fun to spend half of the run on fire because the other 2 artifacts were sundial and mimic tooth…
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Brilliant, probably will start doing that.
Classic. I haven’t seen that one in ages.
