Remember when you could this?
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/846949759517171034/E3D3E0BB0AF5A06EC...
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/830079108894557468/0105995A9D8109EA1...
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/469801194746189147/5F1B6A1D9F235B49E...
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/920111053526258851/CFCBF9558F6ADA4DB...
I remember.
;(
A tear shed for all that was lost.
Well you can't die in the training hall whenever you want now.
What is the fourth picture of again? Just you going into Firestorm Citadel with mostly proto?
Wait, they have all proto? Well never mind about me remembering the forth, I thought Paintool was showing off the old equipment screen
Yeah it's the old equipment screen, but it's also around the time when there was no such thing as "gear rank limits" and you could take Rescue Camp Knights anywhere; it's was a whole different game and challenge, because you were forced to do arcade runs and get Basil Recipes just like in the very early beta game before missions.
And then somebody said, somewhere said... "Let's make the game even MORE LINEAR".
Not saying linear is bad, but if I wanted my hand to be held through out the entire game because missions, then missions are a redundant feature which contradict the exploration advertised in game. Sadly, I never got enough Almirian Seals to get my 5* Rescue camp knight.
Yeah, I think he was just showing off the old screen. I miss that screen. Back when it showed everything we needed in a single window.
While the last one would usually make me sad, my current circumstances just make me more encouraged!
You can no longer make a full outfit with matching gear icons, at least it's a lot harder (bar fiery costumes perhaps).
I remember the majestic green players with Purrfect katnip pouches and stone tortoise.
I remember when SK was fun before we had people that would complain about everything, see people who don't share the same views as them as public enemies, exploit every element/mechanic and exploit those elements/mechanics, and find out said elements/mechanics so they could exploit them.
I wasn't exploiting anything. These were in-game features.
1. Dropping items in your slot-inventory was there for teamwork; now you can't drop vitas, viles, or any consumable for that matter. Can't even health rev anymore, because the game is a better "crown sink" if people die more often and have to buy their vog-gamn Sparks-o-Strife. If people worked together like they did in the past, they would die less often and noobies wouldn't ever run out or use sparks to rev.
2. Walking outside mapspace, I'll submit, is probably a feature left best to GM's for magic game saving purposes; it's a power and function that isn't meant for your common game playing plebians like us. But that picture is there because it's still a feature.
3. Sitting down in CW runs during the first black kat event was a nice easter egg that showed the reuse of Guild Hall info. In fact, why would candlestick keeps still have furniture if we can't even sit down to admire them?
4. Proto knighting and Rescue Camp knights are people who seek to push the game to it's limits. We weren't exploiting the game so much as we tried really hard to prove that we could play Spiral Knights without having to go through missions to proceed; once you crossed the chasm there's no going back. I myself have gone to every boss before rank locking and forcing players along a linear path from Point A to Point B; you can still choose whatever gear you want along the way, but even then you're likely to fall into the OP gears (chaos, brandish, blitz, etc.); Doing the game in a way that's not linear is perhaps why there is even such a thing called the "arcade redux" and "open world" suggestions. You could spend even more time and man hour trying to comprehend something that's not on a given path.
Those days when taking your time was approved of, those days where you could use your mist to craft gear and save 100 energy, those days where you didn't have to be P2P to have fun...I miss them.
those days where you didn't have to be P2P to have fun
yeah, in those days you had to pay to play more than an hour. or you could grind FSC every day for the energy to play.
I kind of miss the half charge attack system :/
I just miss the health sharing, sparks really killed the whole random group teamwork aspect of the game. Nowadays if people "die" and say "i dun hav ani sparrkz, help" the party just looks at them on the ground and keep moving.
And +1 to the old UI, miss that layout :(
Oops.
Now here's some I truly miss:
-health sharing.
-old UI.
-when we had such talented men like Magnus and Asukulan.
Xtweeterx: I remember when SK was fun before we had people that would complain about everything, see people who don't share the same views as them as public enemies, exploit every element/mechanic and exploit those elements/mechanics, and find out said elements/mechanics so they could exploit them.
I still don't really know how some of that ended up happening to you, but you can be sure it's mostly on the forums. I have a rather peacefultime in-game, aside from LD and BN.
Also, people have been exploiting mechanics to get around inconveniences from the very beginning of the game - in fact, it's how a lot of players got together and grew guilds/communities. There are relatively few now, and with less of these inconveniences / ways around it, imo it feels like we have less player interaction.
Just a few examples:
- Having a hard time!? People got together and would coordinate who would revive with health for the least deaths/most health/most safety.
- Need a recipe? People would take orders from friends (or possible customers) for recipes, since we could only get them from Basil. People would ask for invites to the Spiral Warden for tier access.
- Inviting a friend and want to help them out? You could just give them 2* equipment and BAM you guys were playing T2. (linear progression now sucks >:{ )
- Need money and want to avoid wasting energy? People got together (usually with an alt) and loop arenas. Guilds (and random players) would work together to get a character / player to the floor before a boss stratum would start.
- Anything to do with crafting and trading... Mist energy gave players who didn't have time at least the option to craft something for 'free'. The other players got cheap 2* items and of course, there were many more UV'd items in AH.
- Really want money? Grab as many alts as you can and have them leech as you solo FSC. You got all the cr and tokens. (this was especially hurt when people were forced to pick up drops - I used to join friends' parties all the time just to find out that 1-2 of the other players were 'afk' alts). This was IMO a socially negative thing, but a behavioral exploit that people used to get around nonetheless.
@__@ also, I knew a bug to give semi-permanent curse to a weapon and bring it around. If you took it to clockworks, it wouldn't damage you and it couldn't get recursed, but the tradeoff was that you couldn't unequip it.
I believe they attempted to patch it once (didn't work) but probably with an unrelated patch/behind the scenes changes, eventually fixed it for good ;P
@Seiran
Oh definitely. Learning how to cheese FSC with my divine avenger gave me huge incentive to find and befriend T3 knights, while looping arenas with an alt gave me incentive to join Knights of Equestria, who provided anchors for us to loop about indefinitely. I always hoped that the developers would make more legitimate ways of doing these sorts of things, and they have on occasion with events and lower tiered orbs, but the linear mode of play is a huge setback on this front.
@Lady-of-War
Magnus is incredibly good, but I've seen tons of people that are definitely on par with him, even if they don't stand out or have a memorable. He doesn't move on or learn to use new strategies, so you'll still see him in full vog with divine avenger/gran faust and sentenza/argent but he's got the skills behind it to take on pretty much everything, and he really is the sweetest guy.
Never heard of Asukalan being incredibly skillful. Not that I have anything against them, and it is believable.
I'm actually still friends of Magnus and he's really, really jaded about Spiral Knights.
I can see why.
You could also use vials to push players through the T2 and T3 barriers back when people used to run the arcade.
Good times.
I'm pretty sure they could just go down and they could invite you... (even the thing where you go on the elevator early and automatically send invites to others in the room) ... couldn't they?
Am I remembering this incorrectly?
@Lady-of-War
Yeah, I really don't blame the guy. This game was so promising back when it was first released.... and now its become much more of... a small development team and an air of desperation from constant promotions.
Revive people with your own hearts :3 Sorry, I'm still not over it T_T
Regular lockboxes are apparently gone...
https://imageshack.com/i/exmbqykRp
All is formless, forget your Spiralness
https://imageshack.com/i/ewhENZLIp
https://imageshack.com/i/iqZaEYM0p
Elevator Adventure Time! (Is now closed)
I do remember the first and forth one, but not the second and third one. The second one to me looks like a glitch
Also, you forgot the picture of a person sitting on a gate in the training hall