Hi all,

I just wanted to post because of something I've noticed, and wanted to see if it was a genuine thing or just a random coincidence.

I played a lot of Gungeon on my friend's PC, and then bought my own version on PS4. I didn't bother buying the guns from the various stores etc, and when I started speed-running I had a fairly bare-bones pool of guns that could spawn. I ended up getting the gungine surprisingly often in Rainbow runs, I'd estimate about 1 in 4 runs would spawn a gungine.

After I went on a massive spree to unload lots of credits that I'd accumulated, the spawn frequency of the gungine seemed to be surprisingly lower, more I expected. I know it's obvious that the more guns I have, the less likely the gungine is to come up, but it went from being a 1/4 spawn to much less frequent, even though I only bought ~10-15 guns. Is this just in my head, or has anyone else observed this? Is there a way to manipulate gun spawns from rainbow boxes?

Additionally, I noticed that after I achieved certain milestones, specific level layouts started appearing. For example, in some of the docs that Spleen put together, the later generations of levels never appeared when I play with the initial bare-bones version. When I unlocked characters and did the secret levels, I started getting the later generations outlined in Spleen's guide.

Is this something that people manipulate to make speedruns better? Is it better to have a more limited set of achievements and guns unlocked to get less variation on level generations and gun spawns? Or does everybody generally use the same save state with everything unlocked. Is this something that has been discussed before?

Thanks for any answers/insight.

Dimz