Spiral Knights - Something I Realized.

Something I Realized.

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Thu, 03/07/2013 - 06:52

Firefistace

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Something I Realized
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Knights,
While browsing through the suggestions forums, I realized something. I was reading thread after thread of "New item this, new item that." I've posted some of those threads myself as well. I realized that what I truly want to be added to the game isn't battalions of new items, it's new, harder, levels. With my group of friends, we can do any shadow lair, or danger mission, that's thrown at us. I guess I do feel right now that bombers should get more stuff (I am a bomber, which is too rare for OOO to care about us too much), even currently, I'm not using really boss items, just Mercurial demo, and some bombs, none of which that have really good UVs. What I want OOO to do is to make even harder levels, something that I can now feel proud of doing, and get a challenge out of doing it. I guess what I want to see is entire new levels, towns, or even planets, not tons of items which I can do quite well without right now.

I could supply millions of ideas, but I think the best thing is for OOOs creativity to run free.

Thu, 03/07/2013 - 09:19

Shamanalah

my 2 cents

The levels don't need to be harder, the AI got nerfed to oblivion and the game has become easy due to those nerf...

As a fellow bomber and an old Spiral Knights player (started in July 2011) I feel like bombers are fine and that a lot of bombs are overlooked.

I'm not using really boss items, just Mercurial demo, and some bombs,

So it only means you don't use them... doesn't mean they are bad... they just don't fit your playstyle...

There are so many bombs to choose from it's overwhelming. You have DoT ones like Ash of Agni and Tempest, while you have some CC one like Shiv and Haze and then you have specialized one like Venom, Graviton/Electron, DBB and then you have the main blast bombs that deals normal dmg to everyone and that are good in every situation: Nitronome, Big Angry Bomb and Irontech...

And you have all the shards bomb if you want to go funky...

Compare those bombs with the main swords and guns line and them wonder who really needs more weapons...

Even if you do more bombs I don't have reasons to go for them since my Arsenal is already pretty good. I don't have any shards bomb because they do the same as normal ones but in a less predictable pattern...

Thu, 03/07/2013 - 11:44

Little-Juances

Repetition makes anything easy. Any game suffers from this eventually.

Thu, 03/07/2013 - 16:14

Adamosaur

I have to agree with

I have to agree with Shamanala, with the only regret being the changes to the RSS (but that's a thing of the past).
The game contains (5*item-wise):
18 bombs (really only 12 though if you don't consider the 6 shard bombs different, but to each his own)
18 swords (not including reskins of the Levi)
17 guns
lots and lots of helm/armor sets (not counting those), and interestingly only
12 shields (not including Aegis reskins)
The only thing that bombs are missing is useful projectiles (*cough*RSS) but maybe it's noticed because of it's usefulness in the past.

Furthermore, as an owner and user of all 4 bomber sets (Bombastic/Mad/Merc/Volc) I can rightfully say that they are all useful in their own rights, with the true joy being in combining them (with trinkets/UVs) to make as many maxes as possible while maintaining a good defense for a level.
Only issue with the sets is that they are all normal/elemental. It'd be nice to have a norm/piercing as well as an actual norm/shadow set to use. This is especially considering the other combat options (guns/sword sets) have ample options when it comes to defenses. But I guess Bombing is a niche in the game...gotta drop at least 1 of your 4 bombs for a gun =/

Sat, 03/09/2013 - 10:46

Klipik

What you really want is this.

Sat, 03/09/2013 - 13:09

Firefistace

What I meant

What I meant by not boss items was like the people with the ridiculous U.Vs which have CTR max dmg max insane defenses and such

I find I'm better at bombin than anything else

Sat, 03/09/2013 - 13:13

Firefistace

Klipik

Yeah better AI is needed, but also levels, I want to see knew things! Levels in clouds, underwater, new places to go!

Sat, 03/09/2013 - 17:41

Klipik

Oh, you mean stuff like this? And this? Or maybe this?

EDIT: NOT THIS. Definitely not that. If you comment on that I will do various unspeakable things to you.

Mon, 03/11/2013 - 08:34

Firefistace

yes Kilp

yes those things are the exact sort of things that I am looking for, I, and probably many of people, are getting bored of doing the same runs over and over again

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