WOOOOO!!!! BATTLE SPRITES ARE COMING SOON!!!!

"Equipment Limits"
"New Items"

Hahahah, OOO have too much money? Ha ha ha hah.

Poor you, now you must go here in proto, muhahaha.

"In conjunction with this change, and after much debate, we are removing health sharing revives."
-There were debates to begin with? Someone elaborate on this to me.

Right now.

"Our observations show that health sharing to revive downed party members ends up being detrimental to teams working to complete levels; diluting overall team health to the point of team members being repeatedly one-shotted in combat."
-How is that not remotely normal? The bread and butter of progressing in Spiral Knights is to learn and manage to take hits and fall down less than you used to. When your health is low, it commonly adds tension to the situation you are in. It makes you more conscious and alert of threats, so you can stand up against odds and continue on. Why do you think there are people who purposely run levels with low-level armors to hone their survival skills and be able to complete levels faster?

Plus the ability to share health for reviving has always been a viable and flexible alternative to spending energy until you actually have to use energy when the situation turn dires. It's not detrimental if the useage of energy for reviving that was intended from the beginning is saved for such emergencies, it's certainly not as detrimental as the cost of Energy doubling each time you revive yourself. Why is getting rid of it even a thing?

Does this nonsense have to do with getting rid of Vitapod dropping? Was that detrimental to OOO as well? This is getting absolutely ridiculous. I want more information and thoughts about this. I do not want this kind of change, I highly doubt a lot of people want it either.

AS THE FOLLOWING IS ME GUESSING ON INTENTIONS FOR THINGS AND SHARING OPINIONS, I DECIDED TO PLACE IT HERE INSTEAD OF THE FEEDBACK THREAD AS I'M NOT A TESTER.
SPRITES
I can't make any assumptions here from the test update post, other than their probably awesome and made to give more things to do.
ORBS OF ALCHEMY
If executed correctly, will not change the crafting price but will allow "discount crafting" by finding (should be as rare as a true love pendant, or something close) and kill craft alts. As one without an alt, I agree with this.
SPARKS OF LIFE
Not exactly sure WHY they did this, other than lore I guess. Just make drops rare.
EMERGENCY REVIVE
I dislike this as it may make things too easy, but its fine as long as "hard mode" is very hard.
REMOVAL OF HEALTH SHARING
I found that a "diminishing health" thing minor problem too, but now there is no "free reviving".
DIFFICULTY
Make the lowest difficulty have lower payout than current and be the same difficulty and I like it. But I also hope there is an AI buff in there too. Also, can I say I thought about this months ago but didn't post it? Because I did.
LOOT
Tedious, but EVERYONE GETS THE EQUIPMENT DROPS! Just make money not disappear.
EQUIPMENT LIMITS
Just stops people who give 5* to newbs. but no one really does that. Oh, and slight annoyance if you get a high level equip drop, but who complains there.
ALL IN ALL
Seems good, might screw some millionaires' craft alts, but they should be set in stone. None of these seem like major money-grabs (other than maybe sprites). Some changes might take a while to get used to, but if you guys do well on balancing these things, then it should be a 8/10 update. if not, a 6/10.

As a non-tester, and following the format that Dmatter analyzed everything...

Sprites: Nothing for me to say at the moment until I experience them myself.

Orbs of Alchemy: I cannot say much about this either until I experience it myself, but I do question the drop rate of them.

Sparks of Life: Same as Orbs of Alchemy.

Emergency Revive: I'm neutral on this. I guess this is to counteract the removal of health shares just a bit.

Removal of Health Share Revives: No free revival huh? Well, at least I don't need to hear people keep shouting "rez please" because they don't want to spend their own whatever to revive, which reduces me to 1 HP just because they're are dying and wanted to revive. As for people who depends on people to carry them through stages and dies constantly, it's now time to learn to avoid dying as often or pay the price. It's obvious that the HP is getting wasted, if one person constantly dies and requires another person to help them revive-and for free too.

Difficulty Modes: I'm fine with this.

Loot Distribution: I'm fine with this. Although I want the collecting of coins and heat to still stay the way they were. Only the items needs to be independent.

Equipment Limit: Hmm... Not much to say except too bad for some people out there.

Overall: Until I experience the changes myself, I'm overall neutral on these changes.

"Our observations show that health sharing to revive downed party members ends up being detrimental to teams working to complete levels; diluting overall team health to the point of team members being repeatedly one-shotted in combat."

Somewhat true... though I am pretty sure they just don't want people giving heat anymore.

Unsure what I think about the way loot will be handled now but everything else looks good.

The thing about how we have to go and actually pick up every. single. crown. is probably going to kill random parties.... I way do no trust a bunch of random players to wait for me so that I can get their loot, and I know for a fact that if randoms can't keep up with me, are going AFK all over the place, that I'm not going to wait for them more than half a second.

Are you actually looking for feedback, or you are just going to ignore them like with the new UI?

"I emailed them with a question about the Vitapod dropping thing. They said it was very devastating to noobs who dropped them accidentally."

Bloody hell, that's their problem. It's invariably and essentially something you'd actually have to try to make it a mistake, you'd think they'd know how to handle a Vitapod after a few runs through the Clockwork.

Jeebus, come on guys. How did we allow this sort of dropping to happen? That's just poor catering.

So far it's really agitated anticipation. The real backlash would happen on release of the changes on account of the changes restricting the gameplay on a massive scale. I absolutely stress my wish on that not happening, because this will seriously have greater impact than the UI for the best or the worst.

I-I respected you...

I'm still angry.

Having to pick up all drops yourself...can't imagine that change will last. For linear levels it won't be too much of a nuisance, but for those like D25 FSC?

Everything else sounds amazing though. There is the issue of vets who haven't bothered doing the missions, but there are many ways to fix that, so I'm not worried.

I especially like the new Spark of Life mechanic. Suiciding to give health was always lame: will be glad to see that go. And while I'm not entirely against the using health to rev mechanic, I can see a lot more bad in it than good. The game should allow players to carry other players, but it shouldn't force them to.

Having to res party members at least once EVERY time a monster shows up is super lame, but for T3 players who venture outside of FSC, it is a fairly common occurrence. Especially in places like OCH and The Gauntlet. Which is a shame. Because that is some good content.

Eh he heh....

Keep in mind that level limit is something many other games have... (Of course, I'm worried...this is becoming a bit like other games now!) I honestly think that for veterans who haven't played missions, they will probably do something in their favor. On the other hand...they've been spicing up the missions, or at least have plans to?

I'm going to sit down and cry,
though this update isn't really
something I find all that silly.
Maybe it's because the community's reaction went through the sky?

(Screw my silly poetry I'm sorry you had to read that...)

It's a mixed blessing I guess...honestly I don't have a problem with many of the things people are upset about. (except the energy-less reviving getting removed and the new "get your own loot" stuff.)

While not entirely related, can someone explain why sharing heat is at all useful? I have never understood this. It doesn't take that long to heat normally and unless you craft exclusively with CE you've purchased with real money, you can get enough heat to fully level a 5* item long before you grind enough crowns to craft another one...so what's the rush?

Whats the rush? the vet players have played this dang game too long, grinded fsc too long to bring sub-optimal gear (gear for heating) to fsc. We like to do it asap, we divy up the work intuitively to get the dang fsc over with for "quick" cr.. So, we do not like to take 5 fsc runs with a 4* faust.. rather bring glacius/AP/shiver/blitz or whatever suits u.

Having everyone pick up their own loot, not being able to rev/heat with friends is RIDICULOUS.

Your question is answered in the original post itself.. read pls.

>"If executed correctly, will not change the crafting price but will allow "discount crafting" by finding (should be as rare as a true love pendant, or something close) and kill craft alts."

First: What the hell point is of adding looting it, if only few persons will get it? lol. If one will loot per 60 dungeons, not 600 will be good.
Second: Kill craft alts? Let me remind you, that large part of payment goes on craft alts. By that update OOO shooted yourselfs in a foot. Killing craft alts will be headshot.