New Items

We are adding important new items to the game. Orbs of Alchemy and Sparks of Life (the existing material will be renamed). Orbs of Alchemy replace the energy requirements for alchemy meaning that alchemy will require Orbs of Alchemy in place of energy. [Ca m’en touche une sans faire bouger l’autre, ca reste des CE mais comme c'est droppable les F2P vont arreter de chialer sur le prix du craft et les joueurs en HL pourrons aider les newbies.]

Sparks of Life are used to revive knights and replace the energy cost associated with revives. Sparks of Life can be purchased in in bulk via the Supply Depot or individually when needing to revive in the Clockworks. This cost will no longer escalate as it does now. Additionally, every knight will receive an ‘Emergency Revive’ that is used immediately after dying once per level. An Emergency Revive instantly revives you with a generous amount of health.

Orbs of Alchemy and Sparks of Life will drop in the Clockworks (through Missions and the Arcade [Premiere chace de faire revivre l'Arcade.]), and also be available for purchase with energy. The overall cost to craft an item and revive regularly should remain about the same in aggregate, it will just be done with Orbs and Sparks of Life.

In conjunction with this change, and after much debate[Mein. Arsch.], we are removing health sharing revives. 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. [Le T3 reste tres genereux en potions et cœurs, pensez juste a tout ramasser.]

However, you will be able to use Sparks of Life to revive downed party members just as you can with energy now. [Pas de precision pour les rez de groupe ...]

Difficulty Modes and Loot Distribution

You can now set the difficulty mode of Missions and Arcade runs[Seconde chance de repiquer les Clockworks.]. Difficulty will adjust the strength of monsters and traps as well as their damage types. Playing on increased difficulty will reward you with more loot.

We have also changed the way that loot is distributed. Loot will now be individually distributed to all players and never randomly assigned or split. Each player sees only their own loot on each level and must collect or ignore each piece. This includes vitapods. [Seul les cœurs, cr, jetons et orbes de chaleur, les mat/caps/orbes peuvent changer d'un utilisateur a l'autre, pour le moment.]

This change means that there are zero reasons to NOT party with others. You’ll get the same amount of loot regardless of party size. [Eviter les noobs et des monstres avec des HP raisonnables ? (Pour donner une idee seul les Trolojans du FsC meurent avec une charge de BtB, a quatre ils faut deux charges de Blitz.)]

Note: loot distribution is still under development, and there may be less obvious differences between the payouts at different difficulty levels than there will be in production. [La fin du FsC probablement, des myriades de Reaper Rib et pas un pecule.]

Equipment Limits

One additional change to support this: going forward, players will have an equipment limit on their weapons and gear. Mission rank will prevent players from using gear deemed too powerful for their experience.

This represents a significant change from the current way Spiral Knights works[Sans dec' !]; however, we think it’s in the best interests of the game in the long run to encourage players to feel like they’ve earned access to the weapons and gear they are using. [J'espere qu'il ne veut pas dire qu'on ne pourras plus botter le cul du Snarbolax en 5*.]

-Nick

[Tout le contenu entre crochets c'est moi, le reste c'est Nick. Si jamais des non-anglophobes voulaient lire le post originel.]

Apparament l'HUD seras rouge pendant un petit moment si vous prenez un coup et ... clignoteras quand vous n'aurez plus beaucoup de vie.
Dans la lignee des bonnes idees les vials ne sont plus dropable non plus.
Bien-sur ca peux changer.