New Danger Mission testing - Heart of Ice (Closed)

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Crazyoddbaa

Greetings testers!

The Preview server is available with another new danger mission: Heart of Ice.
Please read the following instructions carefully before testing.

Danger Mission: Heart of Ice
Our latest danger mission can be found under the Prestige Missions tab. We are looking for feedback on difficulty (too hard/easy?) and any other thoughts or suggestions to improve the experience. These missions are for experienced players, and should be appropriately difficult - please be as specific as possible when comparing difficulty to other experiences and dungeons you have played in the game. You will have access to tier-appropriate gear for the purposes of this test. This is the first round of public testing for this mission so please let us know what you think.

Please note that this mission is still a work in progress - monsters and especially rewards are NOT final. Current loot in the level is NOT indicative of the final payout.

Leave us your feedback in the Testing Feedback forums:
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/forum/62

Preview access instructions and rules are here.

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Update 7/20

Updates to the Danger Mission include:

* FIXED: Bug that caused Trojans to treat certain blocks as "targets", causing them to walk towards them and never want to leave
* FIXED: Bug that caused players to be able to target Frozen Souls but allowed bullets to pass through them
* Added all new story elements to the mission
* Finale room of the first floor has new props to try and clarify the relationship between the turrets and doors
* Rebalancing certain encounters
* Further art passes on levels

Tue, 07/17/2012 - 18:06 #1
Geordie
Preview has had some other

Preview has had some other changes. These changes are temporary until we come up with a more elegant solution.

The server has been set to automatically set all knights to Tier 3 upon log in. This should resolve all Tier clearance issues but will not auto complete missions for you.

There is a new temporary prestige mission called Fast Advancement that you can use to quickly heat up your gear.
- Start the mission.
- Equip your gear and stand on the heat wells. (the single heat orbs will instantly advance your gear to level 10)
- After heating up your gear head North and stand on an elevator.
- You will load into another version of the same level.
- Heat up your gear and continue. You may notice that the elevator you previously took is 'down.' Just take another elevator to the next floor.
- NOTE: You will only level up the gear you are wearing as you exit the floor.
- Return to haven before you go through all 15 floors or you will complete the mission and you won't be able to heat up your gear until the next day.

Tue, 07/17/2012 - 18:57 #2
Trying

Cool. Good to know for sure that the devs read the suggestions here.

Tue, 07/17/2012 - 19:45 #3
Heavy-Duty
...

Wow- Acck's things were brought in. Brings in less stuff to worry about.

Tue, 07/17/2012 - 21:26 #4
Acck
The Best

Thank you, Thank you , and Thank you.
You guys are the best!
I truly do appreciate that you have an ear to the community.

Wed, 07/18/2012 - 18:30 #5
12345xexa
Awesome

Heart of ice is AWESOME! I really liked the boss level and how it how it was challenging and fun at the same time! :D

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 18:17 #6
gunstar
This is a cool Danger mission

This is a cool Danger mission but please! PLEASE! increase the payout! 3.4k Just dosnt seem like enough for all that...

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 18:47 #7
HectorUribe
Guarder, it's mostly about

Guarder, it's mostly about the red boxes & chance of some epic 4* or 5* gear than the payout. Besides, these missions are only for the elite veteran knights. If you have the right party, it's not even an issue if it is worth it or not.

Favorable saying of Kitty-Softpaws:
My gear is as valuable as the person who is watching it's back ~

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 10:41 #8
Crazyoddbaa
Update 7/20

Preview has now been updated with changes to the Heart of Ice mission. The updates can be found at the top. Thanks for continuing to take the time to provide your feedback!

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 13:22 #9
Vermilionshadow
Yay a fiend (mini)boss for

Yay a fiend (mini)boss for once.

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 14:15 #10
Vermilionshadow
Also, found a bug, the ice

Also, found a bug, the ice patches that appear from Maulos's attacks block it from movement, making it ridiculously easy to kill.

Mon, 07/23/2012 - 13:54 #11
Crazyoddbaa
Test server is now closed (7/23)

Hey everyone,

The Test server is now closed and we had a great run of feedback. Thanks for participating in our latest playtest of Compound 42, Heart of Ice, and the new shard bombs. We appreciated your participation!