At the game’s release in 2012, the Octo fired 8 pellets with every trigger pull (10 in the presence of Gentle). As of some point in 2014, not sure when, I notice the Octo firing 10 pellets with every trigger pull, using the same double-pellets-in-two-lanes pattern that a 2012 Gentle Octo would have used, and Gentle Octo now fires 12 pellets.
Was this the Octo buff of the $100,000 Loot Hunt hotfix? Hotfix notes just declare “Damage increased.”
From the item card, I thought it was always supposed to fire 10 pellets? The wiki notes imply that it does, but on an 8 pellet grid, by doubling up a couple of the pellets (in different positions each shot). So it’s possible it always did fire 10, but you didn’t necessarily notice. I think the loot hunt damage buff was base damage, not pellet count.
Octos that fell at the game’s release only fired 8 pellets at the time. Check the older examples displayed on the Wiki’s talk page.
Yeah, if I recall things correctly, that was the buff given to the Octo. No clue how it affects the pattern however.
The pattern remains the same 3x3-less-1-on-the-left that it’s always had, but two of the pattern-grid-points (or four, if Gentle) receive two pellets.