This rant is to persuade the dear developers at Three Rings to return our ever-beloved shard bombs to their previous state. While the present shard bombs simulate a battle strategy and some (few) have come to embrace love in these newer bombs, the rest of the bombing community at Spiral Knights want a better game and better gameplay. With a gift of such beauty and incredible gameplay experience, I am very proud to announce a rant, or a petition, for something very precious torn from Spiral Knights' existence. This is the official petition to sign for the reproduction of the previous shard bombs which are currently not present in the game. Comments are welcome, but leave negativity and mixed bag comments aside. Thank you.
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I. Introduction
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A terrible fate was introduced in 2012. An update which cast hundreds of players to leave Spiral Knights for eternity. This fate was Spiral Knights' worst update: the death of the previous shard bombs and the implementation of the new current shard bombs we 'keep'. Why are we watching the best weapon in Spiral Knights fall down an abyss of the forgotten? Where did this all go wrong? When Three Rings decided the bomb consisted of handgun gameplay, the bomb immediately found its death sentence. We are now replaced with a much worse copy of the previous bomb, and while the previous bombs could easily be any Spiral Knight's main weapon, which was not Three Rings' intention, the current bombs are far worse than proving to be a secondary weapon. This is the one of the most useless bombs in the game's history, due to the fact that most of the other bombs are much more useful than this piece of crystal. Why is this bomb so looked upon by the community, especially me?
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II. What It's Used For
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The previous shard bombs were used for numerous things. The best concept of the previous shard bombs were that they were definitely the most entertaining weapon to use in Spiral Knights - both PvE and PvP. 8 shards were emitted upon the initial blast. One shard moving forward, one moving left, one moving south, one moving right, one moving northwest, one moving southwest, one moving southeast, and one moving northeast at the same time. I will provide gameplay videos later. Another very cool mechanism of the bomb is that it can recharge and diffuse extremely fast. Using shard bombs will make you feel like you are playing crazy bomber man on the battlefield. The previous shard bombs were quite the reason why I used to have passion in PvP Lockdown, which I now have lost. Now here are the direct videos as I promised.
There is one con to shard bombs: Predictability. Players can stand very far away and "snipe" enemies from afar using the shard bombs. Solution? Very simple. NO instructions needed. Do not lower the damage OR the distance. Now, make it so the directions of the shard projectiles vary. They will keep the same pattern "projectile/shards facing north south east west et cetera" but will be in a different rotation. Imagine taking the previous directions of all the shards and rotating them in any degree angle slightly. This will prevent "sniping" enemies from afar by having no shard always traveling directly forward and make the bomb more 'bomb-like'. Now what?
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III. What We Must Do
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This is our mission as a community. This is my thank YOU message for the community for helping out. We must post on this thread so much it will catch the attention of the developers at Three Rings. The current shard bombs DO NOT require deletion, but a reimplementation of the previous shard bomb mechanics needs to happen. So here is what YOU do. Sign by posting a comment, saying something as small as +1 or something as long as an essay. Please please PLEASE look up more videos on YouTube for more demonstrations of the previous shard bomb. Let's do this together! -Utrex
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Remember we must reach at least 1000 posts!