Odds are pretty fair this time around, I wish I still had some change leftover from the last 5 promos to buy the stuff straight up.

I wonder what the stats of the new weapon and shield are?

Don't worry, by the end of the day, someone will have the Overcharged Mixmaster and Power Mitt. Then the pics will comes.

Seriously?

*rubs temples* >_<

I agree and disagree.
I was angry when I missed the first BK event (I was on a hiatus). The *only* piece of shadow bomber gear in the game and it's a limited event item!?! How dare they!
Luckily it was not impossible to find extra materials and make it. Also the BKs came back. Overall, it was OK.

A fire-status Heater is not a game-changer. You want Ele/Fire? You have Owlite, Omegaward, and Dragon. Not obtaining one is not the end of the world by any stretch.
The only piece of truly unique gear that has been released via $$ prize box was the Celestial Shield. I can't bring myself to get up in arms about that though--it's not actually useful. The Celestial Shield doesn't fill a specialized niche that was heretofore empty until its arrival. It's a neat piece of fluff, a fun toy. Same as the Power Mitt.

--Cheshireccat

Can... Can we see it?

For science?

And envy?

I just love how they named their thread "Mix it Up!"

How about "Promoception!" Promos based on previous promos but with a few "new" things added to make it look like we aren't scraping the bottom of the barrel just yet. Stay tuned for more gunner update delays and possibly another Rose Regalia event with 3 more new colors. Maybe we'll do the gremlin ones again after that... and then this stuff again, and uh, yeah..........

...oh my god that looks so overpowered... and amazing <3

So that is what the 5 Star Winmillion would be like. Better run Brandish Line!

Lots of buzz around that this weapon is like winmillion.

It's not even close. I also think they used this idea which if they did, I'm glad I could help OOO out =)

The gun though. I want it.

A boomerang weapon isn't something new, you know?

"As you might have guessed, Overcharged Mixmaster and Power Mitt were originally developed for missions of a culinary nature. "

Maybe they'll release the handgun/shield when the cupcake event rolls around again, as some sort of super token reward.

Instead of this "pay to get new content" thing.

Might as well sell it as DLC instead of gambling.

could you post a round of you playing with it in LD? id really like to see it in action, and edit in doritos and MT.dew on the side. And when you kill someone edit in WOAHH noises made by 12 year olds, you know the videos im talking about.... if thats not to much to ask...

And to think that I was actually quite pleased with the game for NOT having any big new gets at 1%. The glove shield not being a reskin is at least somewhat acceptable due to the existence of a better free alternative (why not just make it a grey owlite/CoA reskin though?) but the power mixer lacking a free alternative really makes me want to just flat out leave the game.

I suppose the real issue that I have is that this will most likely sell significantly better than the other marketing strategy of just spamming costume items, and that every single bit of content produced in this fashion hurts the game a bit. The finest example I can offer is the Plants vs Zombies series of games by Popcap and now EA Games. The first installment cost like two dollars, and the second instalment was fremium, where the money to be made came straight from selling gameplay mechanics. The obvious problem with giving two bucks to get a plant was that it felt like a cop out, and the less obvious one was that I would never get to really experience the premium plants, cutting out a significant amount of the entertainment to be had. I'm sure that this will profit SEGA, but it does not make for the game that I came here to play and it does not bode well for the already dim future of Spiral Knights that, at this point last year, could not have looked brighter.

I completely agree with Fehzor here. No matter how much I love this gun, it's insanely horrible that it's a pay-to-win weapon.

@Glacies

Oh thank god. I was prepared to have to argue that the game shouldn't be pay 2 win to people. I updated my post a minute ago btw, cuz I saw that someone actually wanted to read what I was writing.

Operation Crimson Hammer was (and is) somewhat different for a number of reasons:

Another aspect of OCH was that it wasn't as well received for the obvious pay to play and win aspects that it happened to bring with it.

I wasn't happy with the OCH weapons either at the beginning.

While the bomb is rubbish at lockdown, it didn't stop from being the most powerful thing to ravage RJ ever yet (not that it was hard to do that to begin with), and it still is pretty good at taking out sluggish monsters even after the eventual nerf.
Even worse is the hammer that, while it required some skill to use on PvE because of hazards, it could easily wreck the whole enemy team, specially if it was flocked on a single capture point or against anyone who wasn't a striker hopelessly running away from its dash, SPECIALLY if it has maxed ASI.

Despise this, I didn't mind too much because lockdown always sucked and I rarely played it and the powercreep bomb was very welcome to help me farm RJP. I still think it's crap to sell exclusive weapons for real money though.

We've been getting new mechanics from event or promos with weapons and shields for a while now... Maybe these are going to show up as craftable new lines in the gunner update? That would be great, especially since we all have just expected reskins with different damage types and various tweaks. Maybe we didn't see everything in the testing servers back then that are being released like so to find bugs before they are fully implemented?

Just a bit of optimism.

I want the gun

But guys, it's one of the <10% options (lets say 5%, if we assume equally) and not the 1%. Doesn't that make it a balanced available thing to the game? It looks really fun too.

Do the bullets pierce enemies, glacies?

Fehzor best forumer 2014

OOO is getting pretty darn close to breaking the barrier between F2P and P2P. I mean, the mixer may have a fair chance of being obtained in the boxes, but not everybody is able to spend money on the game and has a ton of crowns/energy in game, and they shouldn't have to in order to have access to equipment that is completely new and unique. I know I'll probably never have the chance to own this gun because of these reasons. OOO, if you are going to give away weapons with unique mechanics in your fancy prize boxes, at least provide less fancy alternatives with the same mechanics for the rest of us in game who can't buy the boxes or items themselves. The power mitt though? It's neat and all, and completely unique, but there are far better alternatives, so I'll leave you alone on that one.