I have an account on Kongregate that i have payed more than $10 in Spiral Knights, but it wont let me log into my Kongregate account....
What should I do??? My IGN: is Raulrules
(Also I made this account when my Kongregate account was not working for a couple of months)

Love:
1) the shiny. Oooo. Nice buttons.
2) LOVE the “go to X” (haven, GH, ready room) menu options. Yes.
3) The new and varied views of your character when you complete a level. Very confident, action poses, etc. Nice.
4) That compound level sign for the elevator screen. Critter! Rawrawarawr!
5) Enemies Everywhere! On my map. Yay.
6) My little arrow faces the way I face. Spinning! Weeee! This, I assume, would let me know what direction my teammates are headed as well. Oh, it doesn’t. :(. Plz make this happen :3?
7) The 3D look of usables on the floor.
8) Drop tables seem better, but this is due to many enemies being killed at once. I love that it makes me feel like I’m getting more stuff, faster.
9) Very, very cool new enemies. Though drake scales being dropped by furry things is a little weird.
10) Sound effects are cool, sounds a bit gremlin for the dust bunnies but, that’s okay.
Snarlsnarl.
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Neutral:
1) The large knight portrait, in general. I like that it’s a button for the party menu (a lot)…and it is an easy way to tell what account you are on, if you don’t like looking at the bar of your program, or do full screen, and switch accounts a lot. But the size of it is rather…large. It matches the size of the map on the right, which is nice.
2) I liked it when remedies were round. They are different usables…in that they are the same for all Tiers…so their round shape made them stand out more. A status cure is a status cure, a consistent function. Also seeing an orb shape makes me happy, a 3D thing on the ground would entertain me a lot. Ball! Ball! Just my personal opinion.
3) The T1 pill shape needs to be a ball. And more defined. HP pills are very addicting, they need more shininess!
4) I miss the rotating gear behind my map :(.
5) I like enemy HP bars but, I am not a new player, and I know how many hits it takes to kill things. Option to not display enemy HP would be nice.
6) That orange level. So orange. Maybe too orange.
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Dislike: (In general, distraction factors, or for shorthand, “DF” / “DFs”).
1) I liked it when opening the larger menu windows took up the whole screen (like the missions menu). Seeing the active world behind a large menu is a DF, things in the background make getting things done harder.
2) I don’t like that info bubble that pops up (to the left of the map) whenever I’m near something that’s called anything. However, I think this would help new players, so an option to turn off “information bubble” or whatever it’s called would be great.
3) When creating character, next/back buttons should be right next to each other. The preview server’s “next” button doesn’t make a ton of sense.
4) I don’t like seeing rank above my name. This should remain in the inspect panel, and be private if a user wants it that way. A GM or Officer of a guild will be able to see anyone’s rank, however, in order to invite the forces they need to get whatever they want to get done, done. Ethical issues? Lol. It just sets up a lot of mocking/bullying. Anyway, I hope the prestige badge stays to the left of the username.
5) Instead of “advance now” think the word “continue” should be used. Just because “continue” can be used in a more general sense in other areas (the “advance now” button in the “Fast Advancement” mission, when I was returning to haven, made me notice this).
6) I can’t easily tell who the party leader is. Cause my big knight face is always on top. I mean, I figured out that it’s just the person right below my giant face, but my OCD doesn’t like this. However, I like that my character is always in front for that “advance” window…running action pose! <3
7) Ally HP should be in segments too, just like mine.
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Haaaaaate:
1) I want to see my crowns/CE all the time. Looking at that makes me feel good. “Like, wow, look at my wad of cash!” Is the general mental state. It subliminally, (but also obviously), increases player happiness on a general level. Lacking this display would decrease that effect. I noticed the lack of this display right away. In addition, it’s nice for a player to track, easily, how much they have in a level, so they’re not so surprised when the elevator cost prevents them from playing if they have too little.
2) I don’t want to see my HP/Shield bar in haven. I’m not going to die there, am I? Unnecessary information.
3) Vitas should not be by a main drag and drop menu. Disaster is spelled like this: “I might accidently drag and drop my vita due to a lag spike (or something) and destroy my HP while trying to give my party member a pill.” Put it by the health bar again. If you guys are trying to maintain size consistency with these usables, personally, I would not mind it looking smaller, as long as you can see how much the vita gives, and it’s by the HP bar.
4) The shield/health bar should not animate in any way whatsoever, ever. I don’t like things moving in my menu peripherals when I’m in combat. (DF).
5) That when I swap a weapon they appear to my right. Huge DF. Have the icon for the “weapon being used” somewhere around the HP information area, perhaps in a round bubble (like the one that the lock/unlock HUD is in on the map circle) in the top left corner, and only during combat levels should this be visible. Also don’t like the additional beeping sound (the whackwhoosh sound that is normally there when you switch weapons…I like).
6) Didn’t see a mute player mic option next to the person’s name. And I could hear them. Whooowee. :X
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What I would like to see (some related to this update, some tangential to it):
1) A heat indicator. It could calibrate to each individual knight’s items, like…and this is a stretch…it’s a bar (that is normally , and the far right of the bar is how much heat it would take for an item to reach level 10. Players in upper tiers would rarely see this bar fill completely in a single level. Just a thought.
2) A Charge Time bar (a friend in-game suggested this, and I like it too), somewhere around the HP information (below the shield bar would be nice). It is always there, thin, and hollow, until you charge, then a bar the same color as that lovely pseudo-sunshine aura effect (That happens when a weapon is charged) increases left to right and then flashes softly when the charge is complete. The consistent presence of a thin empty bar, and not flashing obviously, reduces DFs.
3) “current objective” information should automatically collapse after 20 seconds or so.
4) A general classification of enemy signatures on the map. Always smaller than player, and always outlined in that dark purple you have already (I would prefer black or red), with different color center dots for monster types. Like, if I see on my map an enemy I left behind, but it turns out to just be a wisp, that’s not worth my farming time. NPC friendly characters would be nice to see (like a mewkat in combat levels :D…or gremlins in emberlight), same size as enemy dots, but outlined in green instead. Could be a DF though. ALSO, have the green dot suggestion for mobile things in Guild Halls (snipes, mewkats)…though this would prevent games like “find the snipe!” harder to play (cover your map, no cheating!).
5) When in the arcade, the map is a button that shows the arcade map as a transparent display over your normal combat view. I like games that do this, it allows navigation without hindering combat, or movement. (I imagine clicking the map button might happen in combat, and that would hinder victory if the map weren’t a transparent display). This could be removed from sight when the player clicks the map again. In a Rank level…perhaps show something similar to the arcade? It would be linear, but a new player could tell how many floors are left in their mission with this.
6) For Pete’s sake, have the “leave guild” option somewhere FAR AWAY from normal guild options. Like…a new tab in the ESC menu. Guild Tab. A big, huge, red button is there that says “leave guild” and then it says “are you sure? You will no longer be a member of ! with the usual confirm/no thanks buttons. Having this option in the commonly used menu always makes me nervous, and I am not the only one who complains about this. If a user is not in a guild, perhaps this could show a list of guilds that are recruiting and OH MAN, NEW IDEA:
7) Guilds can toggle an option in the Guild Hall list in the Haven Garrison that says “we are recruiting” (otherwise it says nothing, like it does now). How nice for new players to browse guild halls, knowing that those guilds are recruiting! I know most guilds have recruiting restrictions, so wiki pages are useful for potential recruits to read, or just privately recruiting without having that option displayed in the menu would also solve user-based recruitment restriction problems.
8) Don’t have guilds close to public by default. Just let it stay opened or closed depending on the last thing chosen.
9) I bet people would love swarming mini spiders. Eeeew. Jumping spiders. Oh god, no, I did not suggest this. Scarabs are fine!
10) An option to go to your guild hall, if you are in a guild, at the completion of missions. This would encourage guild hall use in general, but also prevent you from being flooded with trade requests etc. which occasionally happens when I load into haven’s front arch as soon as your loading screen finishes.

Notes: Tried to keep suggestions within topic-of-update range…in terms of user interface options… I love this game. If I had to pick any one thing out of this large post…it would be to fix the shield/health bar changing whenever I activate/don't use my shield. That drives me nuts.

Edit: AHA. I found the monster health toggle in the game tab of the options menu. Woo.

I love the new puzzles you put into the game. I've done the T3 Prestige until I hit the core (just to roll the maps and see the arenas). The puzzles are great and will be so fun to play in.

Love the new looks of it, the wheel when I switch weapons, the new vials, the new polish on mobs, love the shield and love the % and the HP bar. Really niche ^ ^

The new Glop Drops seems to have hit-box issues though, if you don't move they cannot hit you twice. Only once... :D

And FYI, your cr and ce are in your inventory... Press I to see them ^ ^

Happy testing

Edit: Forgot about this: Fire and Stun vials REALLLY looks alike

I'm talking to several people on my end in the french forum and getting their feedback too. Having it takes HUD space that was somewhat important to do diagonals swipe in a close window mode (which you may not play with) so I'm glad with the change and they don't mind either. A flick of a switch and you can see your cr and with another flick of the same switch it goes away...

I'm speaking with my guildies on TS and even sent a SMS to my friends so he knows the server test will end on Tuesday, I speak on behalf of them too...

Question to GM: Will those Birthday Candle in Danger Room stays? or is it only because it's SK birthday too :D

@ Dracore-Speaking I didn't mean to offend you, I was just pointing out where they were ^ ^

I'll start out with the UI, since that has one HUGE complaint from me.

Negatives:

- Health Bar (!)
The HP Bar's location. Yes, it looks lovely there. But it's out of my field of focus. It could just be that I have a rather large screen on my laptop, but I was constantly losing track of my HP. With the current live-game setup, it's right there in my field of vision and I can tell without looking directly at it where my HP is and how careful I should be. This is a huge factor for me. Potentially game-ruining.

- Enemy Health Bars
Definitely my second biggest complaint. I don't like them. I feel it really takes a lot out of the game. Aside from making the game easier, since you know what to hit in a large group, it just... takes something away. Especially with new mobbing enemies. I dunno. I can't exactly explain it. But not having a readout on every enemy... Just feels like I'm too much in control. I feel overpowered. (Though I did realize that ALL my favorite games don't have HP bars.) Obviously just my personal opinion, though. I'm not saying they should be removed. I'm just voicing my opinion.

- Vial/Capsule Art
Other complaint is the new Vial/Pill art. I seriously dislike it. I rather liked the old look, as it matched the rest of the items on Spiral. Also, when viewing from an angle, so it's on the edge of your screen, it's really obvious that it's a flat image. Naturally I'll live, but I just find it ugly.
As a side note, I'm also not hugely fond of the item tray, either.

- Knight Portrait
More of a comment than a complaint, the Knight portrait. Not as intrusive as I thought it'd be when I saw the UI on Facebook, but, just awkwardly large.

- Crown/Energy Counter
There is no crown or energy indicator most of the time. Energy pops up when you die, which is nice. But, especially with an Elevator Pass, I'll sometimes do a few levels just until I get the money I need to buy something. Which will be a bit of a pain when I need to open my inventory after every battle.

- Con Window
The conning window (that thing that tells you a mob's HP, weakness and attack type) could use some tweaking, imo. Damage type should be larger, or the window should simply be colored to match. At any rate, when it says "Weakness: Shadow" but only has a small icon for the damage type, at half the size, it's not very obvious what that icon even means to a new player.

- Rank Display
Not really loving the fact that your rank is displayed above your head, either. It should be available information, definitely, but above your head like that? It feels like it really defines your character, even if it doesn't fit. Maybe someone doesn't want their bomb-toting Pirate Knight to be called a "Vanguard". Maybe it's just me.
Titles would be nice, though. Just saying.

- "Advance Now"
Just awkward and unclear what it means. I thought I was ranking up or something. "Continue" or "Continue On" would be a lot clearer and less awkward.

Positives:

Just about everything else.

All-in-all, I LOVE the new UI.

- Finishing a level is awesome and the display makes you feel like a badass.

- Enemies and directions on maps? Awesome. Even though the direction thing seems a little unnecessary.

- The new Arsenal art is great. Loadout and Player windows don't really match though.

The other two parts, "New Monsters" and "New Levels", I'll get to tomorrow after having more time to play them. Don't want to give half-baked opinions.

want this new updates as soon as possible in original game .!:) really need some new updates after a long long time.

I'd like to suggest a "Spiral Knights Time (SKT)". A Spiral Knights time zone to be displayed somewhere on screen.

This would really help when people from different parts of the world want to meet together in the Guild Hall or maybe in Haven to chat or do a mission together.

I'd be like, "We'll be holding a big event in Guild Hall at 6pm so be sure to be on!" and everyone can check their SKT and see how long it is till 6pm SKT.
Or maybe, "I'll be back online at 2.30pm SKT, meet you then!"
Orrr......, "Let's go for a vana run at 8pm SKT ok?"

The point is, this Spiral Knights Time will makes things much more convenient when people wanna meet up.
I know that the time in Spiral Knights is follwing PST, right? But some people from other parts of the world are just too lazy to constantly check PST time, ya know? (me being one of them...... =P)

I really hope you'd take this into consideration. It would really make the game more convenient and enjoyable xD

Will the battle sprites be affected by the new UI? And will the skills of the battle sprites appear on the screen? (for the future release)

Well..... I logged on the preview and went to haven immediately and wanted to flip a table, I saw the new UI I was thinking I don't need this here in haven i'm not going to die anytime soon, I guess this will get really hard to get accustomed to.

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1) I thought that the dust bunnies and the scarabs were absolutely amazing, They were fun to play around with and see how they reacted.

2) I thought that the arrows indicator to show which way you were looking helped me out a bit

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1) I dislike the huge behind health and shield indicator
2) The percentages for health, I preferred the little blocks by themselves
3) The new vials, Tier one vials were hard to realize for a while

I'm just gonna say those for now, but what can I say I'm not a man of change.

Adding to my previous comment - Something i dislike and i think it's a bug:

- Not being able to reach haven as the screen turns black when i try to do so.

For the most part, the levels are fine. Just two comments, really:

Mobbing enemies + Sprites?
Sounds kinda evil for players with slower computers. All those mobs on the screen are bound to cause some lag, and lagging + sprites means a not-so-fun time.

That last room with the two keys and the party button and all the enemies. It's rather tedious and boring to solo. Nothing you can really do about that, but... It just feels like the Spiral equivalent of a Fetch quest.

can we take screen shots and wait till after full update to publish or is that illegal

the small monsters are more of a threat than they first seemed

So the UI stuff outta the way

1) Health bar location is hard to get used to

2) vial icons should at least have more contrast to clearly denote the color better if you must change them... a few times I was like is this sleep or shock?!

3) mist, CE and CR should have a place on the display

other than the functional impacts, the taste isn't really my style, but if it works *shrugs*

So I've played through about 6 or 7 floors of the levels on tier 3, and the new monsters didn't really provide a lot of challenge. if you bring the right brandish along you can pretty easily wipe them off the screen

I loved the mixed monster families on the levels, I've long suspected that a 4th tier would be something like the passage where you'll get mobs of mixed enemies... I was hoping that is where all the monster nerfs were going.... but we'll see I guess

dust bunnies were kinda neat, I like how they can follow you/change directions when they are about to attack (which makes them more interesting than most beasts now).... oh on the note of changing attack directions and monster nerfs can you un-nerf the alpha wolvers in t3... the straight line chomp makes them boring... what kinda company trains wolvers to chomp in a straight line anyways! seems like animal cruelty

the scarabs were okay... they got me a few times because it isn't always clear that they were moving or attacking, maybe make them continue with flash or purple glow while they are in attack charge mode... other than that I like it

the jelldrops presented the most challenge so I liked them the most... they were mainly challenging because you frequently steped on them while swinging the sword... but that is something that will be quickly learned

the over all difficulty:
well I ran through it in full chaos and a SSB... I think I may have died once or twice but only because of the weak status protection on the set... like I got shocked in a group of bats and lumbars or something like that... other than that it was pretty easy (up to depth 26 -27 or something)

the levels:
I like the levels for the most part but my one big gripe is that the endroom with the two keys... you had a lot of spawners there that don't seem to drop anything!!! so for the most part I just used a brand to clear a path and pretty much just ran through it... the pay off didn't seem worth the effort to kill everything... but yeah the 6th time I saw that room I was like -_- I'm done, this is tedious and boring... and that means something from a guy who's played this game for 2years and has over 40 days of in game time... a arena room would be way better to end off a level... lotsa hack and slash and less sighs for me anyways

Cheers
Flawedknight

Hey, since the testserver isn't closed yet, i thought i might add some impressions i've made during the last 2 days.
I 've sorted them by liking/disliking, to emphasize i started
the negative ones with a -,
the positives with + and
things i don't yet have a oppinion about or ideas with ~.
So lets start:

-splitting HP bars into more than 1/2 parts doesn't quite feel like SK. If HP bars won't ever return to being whole or 1/2 I would
consider splitting them from top to bottom, not from right to left, the plain cut bar doesn't look that good and doesn't fit the
"roundedness" of the rest of the UI.

-by speeking of "roundedness" the shieldbar has too much edges and is too sharp. Maybe you could enlarge the heat-wing and
include the two bars in it.

-new Vials don't fit the Icons of equipment and mechaknights. Furthermore they don't fit in SK either, they only fit in the new UI.
A knight holding one of those just looks awkward.

-CE/CR is too far away, should be on main UI, maybe hideable like the other options/buttons.

-Lifebar is too far away from sight, I often die because of having no overview about my current health situation.

-the little slimes coloring fits levels, but doesn't fit the slime status coloring I'm used to. (red ones look non-burnable, but are
non-shockable instead, non-freezeable have a color that would fit better to non-shockable - btw: i like using haze bombs :D)

-Shock-killed monsters sometimes leave a little blinking animation behind

-Pots hidden below crystals still trigger the "pick up" animation when near unbroken crystal, destroying the illusion

-Knights shoulder bombs on mission endscreen, looking awkward, normal handling in front of them may look better

-old unbreakable blocks worked better with breakable blocks, intention in new ones design doesn't become clear

-Monster health bars are partly outside their white border when full

+the new grafic effects feel awesome (especially when VTing a swarm)

+Weaponwheel is awesome :D

+Scrolling for chat should have been integrated long long ago. Nice to finally have it.

+new leveldesign is pretty and works well.

+nice to see what size of mineral i'm picking up, but i don't know why the biggest size is called shiny, since it doesn't shine or
glitter on my screen. Maybe that would help distinguishing them from large ones without looking @ display above.

~Grave Scarabs look much more filigree than all other/older monsters in SK

~possible idea: check/uncheck-boxes below chat to enable/disable different chat-channels

tl.dr:
good new levels, bad new vials, life/shieldbar grafics too square-edged, little slimies coloring misleading, some grafical issues, new UI takes getting used to.

greetz
Tschai

I wouldn't consider myself a tester, I just like to play games :), but I also like to notice things. I have only played the first three floors of all three tiers, so these are just my first initial thoughts; I am not sure if this is what you're looking for but here goes.

First, the Compounds reminded me of the fall season which is my favorite season so I just love the whole atmosphere of the new layout. I also like the new obstacle of getting the golden keys to unlocked the final door to the elevator, it was fun and challenging.

Second, the Glop Drops. I like how quickly they moved but I felt that having them only deal damage when in their flattened state made that extremely easy and vulnerable. Any player would just have to tread backwards until they reformed (were no longer spiky) and the Glop Drops would be sitting ducks. One potential bug is that the Glop Drops do not damage a player when they transform, but rather when they move into a player while they are transform. I found that if I stay right next to Glop Drop and stay next to it, when it transforms, I will not take any damage and because I am standing next to it the whole time, the Glop Drop didn't have to move into me so the Glop drop could not damage me. I tested this out on three separate Glop Drops and was able to replicate the scenario.

Third, I thought that the Dust Bunnies were too easy, even in large groups they still seemed like cannon fodder. I think that they are slow moving and I could see their attacks coming, I would not have to blocks their attacks, I could easily out run them. I would suggest to make them more challenging, make them attack quicker.

Finally, the Scarabs. I only came into contact with the Sun Scarab; I am not sure if there are more kinds yet. I think these were really easy as well, and I think what makes them so easy is that the Scarabs only have the long range "fly at you" attack. I would walk my knight into one and they would not attack, the Scarabs would move away first and then try to fly at me. My suggestion would be to give the Scarabs two attacks, a close range and the long range. I was also thinking because I noticed that if the Scarab misses the knight, it then proceeds to lounge around until it wants to attack again. I think it would be a lot more challenging to have the Scarab immediately try to attack the knight again if it misses a long range attack.

Those are all my initial thoughts, I will say more as I try more. :) I hope it helps in some way, shape, or form! All in all, I thought all the content was really cool and I can't wait to see what makes it to the game.

New UI: Its still really wierd but I think I could get used to it besides 3 things:

-the new sprites of the pickups are....ugly. Well not really ugly but they don't seem to fit to SKs artstyle. And, why is the Mecha Knight Kit Sprite not updated?I mean, either change all of them or none (I'd prefer none).

-I WANT TO SEE MY CR AND MIST/CE (sorry for capslock but this is REALLY annoing) I kinda get the feeling that OOO wants you to spend youre ce by not letting you know how much mist you have so you won't pay attention when you run out of mist. XD
And even when it ppears it's just WAY to small.

-I don't want to see my health, my shield and a picture of my knight covering up the top of my screen, especilly when I'm in Haven.
If I want a picture of my kniht I simply press P and the Shiled bar is just WAY too big( and useless when you're in Haven)

New Mission:Pretty cool to see all Families at once, but there is just a few things that bugs me:

-The new Grass can be a bit irritating at times. It is EXTREMLY bright on the fire stage for example.

-The attack range of the new monsters is too high and the HP to low.

No battle music in final battle, depth 21 frozen compound, creeping colony.
I stepped on the button, the battle started but the music stayed the same.

Gel drops are far too easy, even in T3. They get 'stuck' on corners and pile up on low ledges, allowing the player to either escape or shoot them at leisure.
They also seem to behave 'oddly' with auto targeting, but it's more of a feeling than something I can specifically point to.

At first I thought scarabs would be difficult since they can move quickly, but overall they're not particularly challenging. It would be nice to see them do something like moving faster, doing more damage, 'flocking' together, digging underground like wolvers etc.

No specific complaints about the dust bunnies.

Overall swarms seem to drop too little. Payout is terrible, even if you consider them as one large opponent (like a trojan or giant lichen colony).

At least one of the final arena style layouts (the one with spike rows and no party button) allows you to open the gates to the elevator, then hide behind the invisible wall and shoot opponents.

The completionist in me hates endless respawns. Perhaps once all the other enemies have been dispatched they could stop spawning?