Today's release notes can be found here: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/64001
September 12 Update - Discussion
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:01
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:11
#2
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i definitely did not see that spectator mode coming!!!!! AMAZING :D
/e brings some popcorn to the table
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:12
#3
Yeah...
Let me be honest, not the update I was hoping for. But spectator mode sounds good, though.
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:16
#4
Hey sweet
I take it the general reception of this danger mission will be........ shock? badum-tish :P
sounds energizing. I'm sure i'll be shaking all over when I play it. Ok enough puns
That spectator mode should be really cool, I had considered getting into LD but knew that if I were to simply enter I would get my arse handed to me by more experienced players. Now I guess I can watch & see how it's done before trying it myself.
And I cant tell you how many whisper messages i've lost due to misspelling another knight's IGN. xP
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 12:45
#5
Q&A
what does this mean?
Bugfixes
"- Minor changes to handling chat commands: if a command is typo'd the line of text won't clear."
EDIT: 9/12 bout 45min after patch.
It looks cool, and music is epic but....its the laggiest thing I ever played in Spiral Knights. GTM is well designed (except those confusing barriers) and it would have been nice if it wasnt laggy! D:
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:23
#6
hohhhh
Spectator mode :O
I'll have to try it when I get back home later O_O;
... scary thoughts of people watching me though.
;_;
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:26
#7
Hopefully they made Ghosts in
Hopefully they made Ghosts in the Machine more difficult.
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:37
#8
(This is more about the
(This is more about the promo, but yeah lol)
So uh... About that new Proto Jacket and Draped armors...
For the love of Vog, please, please PLEASE, let other players be able to get them in their own proto color scheme. Other than having to buy a box and pray that they end up getting it.
The test sever knights, upon creation, got the new armors. So why can't older players get them without having to drop some cash and then hope that we're lucky? That just doesn't sound right to me.
Making them available via Auction House (Like what you guys did with the proto weapons with UVs') would probably prevent a forum rage or something.
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:43
#9
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:O Spectator Mode :O
Time for a lockdown community video :D
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 11:30
#10
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heres a demonstration of what my lockdown games would be like :o
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 11:50
#11
What? No Amazing Permanent
What? No Amazing Permanent Crown Sink?
When are we going to get that table-turning Update that will revert CE back to the 6-7k/100 CE?
I want it... :<
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 11:55
#12
New danger and spectator mode
New danger and spectator mode are nice things. :D
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 12:51
#13
Well
Never cared for PvP, but it is nice to have "more", so I can't complain even if it is not targeted towards a PvE player like me. When is Lockdown balancing coming and Stun bug solved though?
And will try the mission later, then log off again, just to see the kind of effort they put in a Shock (fair status... not!) themed level. And again, more undeads from what I read, got to love the awesome variety of endgame content we have... Also I wonder how much the schedule can be stretched until no more content is left, that "2nd chapter of Crimson Hammer" (along with being able to purchase it with the real money ingame currency) sure must be awesome with all the tinkering it must have had already, I just hope it isn't a gremlin lich.
So:
- Next month: Guild update part 1.
- The next one: Guild update part 2 and bugfixes of the guild update.
- December: Crimson Hammer episode 2 and bugfixes of the 2nd guild update.
- January: "Gameplay surprise" (Team attacks, bombs excluded) > Maybe this one between the two guild updates, progression when updating must be "felt". But also PSO2 is opening up soon by then, so SEGA may not want too much attention here, though if localization takes more time putting it here may make players stay longer. So I put it here.
- February: Adding 2 or so bomb team attacks, solving bugs due to inclusion of team attacks. Just this due to the "great inclusion of content" from past month.
- March and on: Maybe then stun bug by continuing "fixing the game time" and lockdown????
Of course, with a reskin promo between each of them. Can't stop updating with the palette of recolored gear they have! And I didn't mention Halloween or Christmas because it will most likely be the same or have that (most likely already scrapped) idea of the belt pets. And yes, no other Tier 3 dungeon yet! Maybe this use of psychology may make OOO finally tackle that.
No, Mission Mode will keep being like this and the Arcade is dead.
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 13:00
#14
Wooo
this update is one of those rare ones where no one can have any good reason to pick it to pieces! THIS IS AWESOME. Oh wait, never mind. There IS a thing or two...though there is nothing outstandingly wrong with this. I'm happy! Maybe noobs will stop coming into the LD matches asking about it for half the match. Now they can watch a game or two and learn about the sport.
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 13:09
#15
I found a bug on the
I found a bug on the Spectator Mode, I can't check for another Lockdown matches or any Blast Network matches when there are many Lockdown matches because that increases the Spectator window's size and hides BN's tab for BN matches and some matches of LD that doesn't appear on the window. Can you fix it, please?
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 13:40
#16
Ah, a non-pukey promo.
Right when i was thinking I'd buy ten bucks worth of energy, too (that Merc Demo won't craft itself)! I hope I get something that looks cool with it, that Hacked Aura probably fits great.
Also, spectator mode is good. Now we can scout out which of you Skolvers have cheap Shock UVs (that are still cheap) and plan accordingly. Heh heh heh...
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 14:15
#17
@Aumir
That's a very optimistic outlook you've got there.
February, 2013: Guild Hall update.
March, 2013: Guild Hall related promo.
April, 2013: Guild Hall related promo.
May: 2013: Shard Bombs are buffed by giving them twice the amount of shards. To balance this, each shard do half damage and the hit limit for shards is reduced to a single one per enemy. There's also a guild hall related promo.
June, 2013: Some of the minor bugs from Guild Hall update are fixed, but none of the major complaints people had about it are not even adressed..
July, 2013: Iron Slug gets buffed lol jk that never happens. We do get a Guid Hall related promo!
August, 2013: Nick posts that swords don't act "like you're in sword combat." When he made swords, he had a vision about swords "Swinging, leaving the character exposed." The idea was "Swords leave you exposed, guns do pitiful damage and bombs do a combination of the two." Shield cancel is removed a month later despite everyone buying their gear to revolve around this mechanic.
Also, there's a "Ranger promo pack" that features an exciting new flavour of green for various costume armour plus an aura. There's a 90% chance you'll get a single UV ticket.
October, 2013: Guild Hall related promo, but they're in boxes where you have a 10% chance in total between getting 20 recoloured items. The other 90% are extra confetti.
December, 2013: DLC where all the rewards are things you can put in guild hall.
January, 2014: Striker shield is buffed to give max ASI and sword damage. This is balanced out because the shield now gives max penalty for bomb damage. Also, all wolver suits come with max shock resistance by stock and people with shock UVs on their wolver suits are compensated for their loss with triple UV tickets.
July, 2015: Stun bug gets fixed.
July, 2015, two weeks later: Stun gets broken again as a result of OOO adding "shoulder pad slots" on certain armours. Nobody anywhere can explain the relation of this. Stunned enemies now triple-attack and move at double speed.
August: 2015: Shoulder pad promo.
December, 2020: Underpowered armour gets balanced lol jk that never happens
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 14:25
#18
I'm not sure if I'm not impressed or just getting bored.
New mission: ok, story-wise it's kinda good with horror/time-warp theme. But gameplay... nothing new, just a bit of this, a bit of that, replaying some old rank missions would give the same feeling. Anyway a new level doesnt hurt, so I rate it 3/5.
P.S. Ah and the idea of mechanic tentacles is just terrible, if u mean to make something like the Gravemind from Halo, at least make a bio one. That's an illogical one.
Spectate mode: Ok, but I find spectating a competitive Lol game a better time investment.
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 15:37
#19
@Seiran
Well you won't have to worry about that Seiran, cus if you cloak it'll just switch to another player unless you gun and shield Cancel :D Idk I kinda don't like that :P It means I won't be able to watch nor will people be able to watch recons own :<
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 15:57
#20
CANOZO
CANOZO
I WANT YOU
FOR SPIRAL KNIGHTS CINEMA
LET'S DO SOME FAILS OF THE WEEK! AHAHAHA
we're going to need some top 10 weekly as well ahueheuheuheuheueh
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 18:12
#21
So while spectating:
I can guild chat. Allowing me to tell a guildmate in the game about other players.
I can whisper. Allowing me to tell anyone in the game about other players.
Luckily, I can't follow recons, which, given the above, would suck for the recon.
But you can still tell others information they shouldn't know normally.
For GVG it could be more abused than in random ld.
How would we solve this? make it so you can only talk to spectators, but not guild chat or whispers?
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 18:44
#22
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SPIRAL KNIGHTS CINEMA :OOOOOOOO
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 18:51
#23
:O
Yeah you could make an epic LD movie with this spectate mode... like biggest fails or epicest moves of all different players :o
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 19:04
#24
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Maybe add a scroll bar OOO?
It would be nice.
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 19:06
#25
In addition to the announced
In addition to the announced changes... there is now a construction crew... standing around their tools at the wall of East Haven.
So - next update should open things up (unless these guys are unionized).
Having peaked behind the wall on test server... it's VERY nice. :)
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 19:10
#26
we definitely need a scroll
we definitely need a scroll bar, it needs to show the right tier as well..... Oh and can you maybe fix when you close out of trade window your game doesn't freeze? It would be nice :D
Edit: When you confirm trade it works perfectly fine. Once you hit the X button it still acts like you are in trade, you cant move and your arsenal gets stuck open
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 19:44
#27
O
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:3 This is an
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:3 This is an awesome update...
Watched some guy play Ghosts in the Machine on Youtube. So epicly cool. :/ but SO many respawning zombies... The room on the left side of depth 2 must be a nightmare, with all those bombie respawners... Boss fight seems epic.
Spectator should be nice as well. :3 Although I'm not to sure how I like people spying on me like that. :O I has top secret Recon assasin skillz that I can't let anyone know. :3 Or can you not follow recons? Something like that, right?
Anyway... MUST UPDATE.
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 23:55
#28
Oh yeah,
now we on the Asian server have to wait god-knows-how-long until we get this patch, along woth the other danger missions. Perhaps in 2013.
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 01:15
#29
As previously stated;
Spectator list sorely needs a scrollbar. I'm actually surprised this wasn't part of the initial update.
Addendum: Tiers are displayed incorrectly. Tier 3 is displayed as Tier 2, and Tier 2 is displayed as Tier 1 when browsing Lockdown games. No idea what Tier 1 is displayed as, but I would assume it is displayed as Tier 3 by process of elimination.
Addendum mk II: May I also suggest making an option to go spectate a friend's/guildmate's game directly from the social tab? That would be quite handy when you wish to spectate a particular friend without having to browse through the games running.
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 02:02
#30
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I expect it would show up as Tier 0, sounds like they are 0 based but they forgot to add one for the actual number displayed.
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 02:57
#31
Man, a shame they make us
Man, a shame they make us unable to see Recons fight.
It's a very big shame because I'm a recon gunner myself and maybe there are other recon gunners that deserve to be seen.
I know there's a whisper command that allows you to speak to the players while in spectator but really the game goes so fast you won't be able to say that a recon is coming from the south as he will be fighting the guys already. Plus Recons are already easy to find as they are, so even with chat it wouldn't matter.
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 04:32
#32
@spectator mode
spectator mode is bugged D: I can't scroll up or down to view all the games! not to mention it always says t2 when it's t3 and t1 when its t2
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 04:34
#33
WEll, I'm Interested :)
WEll, I'm Interested :)
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 04:55
#34
Krusty seal of approval.
Spectator mode could use some tweaking and refining (interface, preventative measures against ghosting, etc.) but it's nice to see a step in the right direction.
Good update.
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 04:59
#35
Y u no sell me your Cheese!?!?!?!
A new way for me to stalk people? Awesome.
~The Mighty Cheese Knight; WeeGee
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 05:35
#36
Eh, there just needs to be a way to disable spectators when doing GvG. There's really no other way to prevent info being leaked to the other team otherwise. After all, one could just watch the opponent, then tell their team through Skype or something.
I also wish there was an option to disallow being watched individually. I dunno about you guys, but I don't much care for playing LD to an audience. I prefer to keep it to whoever is actually playing the game. Maybe I'm just being stupid. I dunno.
Any other issues I have with it have already been mentioned. T3 being called T2 confused the hell out of me at first.
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 05:47
#37
I suggested to toggle spectating too, perhaps Three Rings only did enable but not mentioning about disabling.
The lounge room never happened for me, but at least the spectation is allowed. :D
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 07:03
#38
Hey um...
I just noticied that /say doesn't work in lockdown anymore... you have to do /p to chat with everyone..... Ok, it's nice to have other options, but what was so wrong about /say? Feels unnecessary to remove it..
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 11:48
#39
Prometheus?
Does anyone else think of the movie Prometheus when you get to the end of the Danger Mission?
...Theatre mode :D