I'm still not sure how this will help the times when you die at Vana and a fire square spawns right on top of you causing you to be stuck upon any revive, sealing your fate!

Also I'm worried about how long we will have to wait at the start of each depth while indecisive / ill-prepared teammates take all day swapping gear!

In any case, that's what a test server is for and I will always welcome you guys regularly trying new updates.

nice 1 =]

~Z

You'd rather come across a beast level equipped with nothing but elemental cause you forgot to equip properly?

"No wait, which one should i bring? Faust or Avenger?"
"Pick ONE already"
5 minutes later
"Faust or Avenger???"
*Right Click - Remove Nub from party"
Nub tells you, "WDF, why did you kick me? You can't kill JK without me."
Kingrt tells Nub, "I am the party leader, your argument is invalid."
-Step on party button, slash slash slash, 60 seconds later, JK is served-
-Kingrt gained 3x Tokens
Nub tells you, "I hope you lose you b*****"
Ignored Nub

So does this only work if you revive yourself using energy, or does it also work if your teammate revives you and you get up that way?

Well, consider this scenario:
Beast-themed stratum. (Almost) all-pierching loadaout, then suddently, Aurora Isles: Jelly Farm.

*cries out in terror*

With this thingy on, you can at least get a shadow weapon on before going further >_<

That's 4 pm for me. :/

I Checked the time in internet and it seems i should be able to log into it. and yet it says to me the game is not yet public.

OMG I REALLY WISH I COULD KEEP THIS ARSENAL PRETTY PLEASE?

No automagical T3 clearance? ._.

Switching weapons is really useful. It takes away the challenge of having to decide on an armament for the entire strata and the resulting weakness... etc. But I can finally swap out my Shivermist for an Ash when I hit the Frozen Slime Arena after visiting the Fire Slime Arena. That is just wonderful. Really encourages a variety of weapons/armors.

Though, it is kinda boring sitting around waiting for other people to finish loading then decide what they want to carry. Also, if I need to switch something out I feel pressured to hurry the ___ up since I'm holding up the entire party to do so. Before, if I loaded first I could go start clearing the first room while they are loading - a complete absence of waiting. That's my only complaint. The mechanic itself worked without incident.

Oh yeah, and the best way to guarantee a Graveyard is to have your only sword be an Acheron... it was a Slime Strata! Ahhh! That still doesn't fix the Fiend Danger Room in Slime Depth, but whatever, it is a step in the right direction :)

Did a 16 energy rez and found that the Stun from revive lasted about 2s on D7 Greavers, whereas a Stun vial lasted 4s. It was barely enough to even move before being surrounded again. Could be longer.

The 32 rez did enough damage to kill a silkwing and the 64 rez did enough damage to kill most of the greavers, so that was pretty cool.

Should add a message that tells new players that energy rez is quite a waste of resources and that your teammates can rez you for free, seems most don't know this.

As mentioned, the energy revive option pushes gun puppies around (which is really fun, 'cause I purposefully died a lot in one arena and got most of the gun puppies in one corner). The 10 CE and 20 CE revives (in T3) didn't do much. When I was surrounded by greavers, I got up, got chain-froze, and died again. Maybe make the pushback more at low CEs and sacrifice the damage/stun? Usually I would be looking to get moving again rather than somehow killing the mobs with the revive.

The arsenal box is really awesome. I know that people say it makes the game 'too easy', but personally, I think that for people who only have 2 weapon slots, this would enable them to actually use different weapons. I know that when I was only able to have two weapons, I only used Calibur because I was afraid to be stuck whacking at a wolver with only an elemental weapon. Being able to gear specifically for things like arenas is nice, too. My only concern is that teams are going to spend forever there, but then again, teams can spend forever not doing anything at all, so hopefully when the novelty wears off, it won't be too bad of an issue.

Side note: I ran FSC a couple of times because this is about the only time I'd have adequate gear for it, and I noticed that in the second room of D24--the one with 3 wheels and the totems--I could avoid taking damage from the wheels if I was carrying a statue. I got pushed around by the wheels, but took no actual damage. I only noticed it incidentally and got kicked off the server right after, so I'm not sure if I just got lucky or it's an actual bug. Maybe I'll go into FSC for real and try it. xD

Did anyone try to open the boxes inside the training hall with this "resplosion" thing?

rezzing would be very very very epic

i hope there's a revive animation like a super saiyan transformation

Why are people being so negative about the arsenal stations? Because having weapon slot upgrades totally didn't perform the same purpose already...seriously, if you have one weapon of every damage type + a utility weapon, why switch out for anything ever? This will at least keep me from having to spend 250 CE every 30 days just to have 1 of every damage type for every stratum...

Actually, I think this will encourage a lot of people to use more CE in the long term.

Think about it like this. Currently, Spiral Knights equipment is dominated by the Vog Cub + Divine Avenger set. Most people aim toward that build like it's some kind of holy land and overuse it excessively due to its high stats and lack of any notable weaknesses. However, this setup is ultimately faulty because this build comes with no particular strengths. Although technically powerful, it lacks the potential to really go all out against specific enemies.

By encouraging people to adapt their gear toward specific dangers present on every level, people will begin to amass large collections of gear in order to have a loadout for every situation. In circumstances where the team is good at coordinating, people will be able to restructure their gear to fit specific roles needed for the party.

In other words, Arsenal Stations encourage bigger and more versatile collections of gear, which in turn leads to more crafting, which in turn leads to way more CE spending than just on Weapon Slot Upgrades. It will encourage people to design multiple loadouts for every situation, rather than fall back on that reliable one that doesn't provide for much specialization.

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I feel incoming vog sets with max ele, max shadow, max piercing, etc....

I don't see ppl changing the holy land of vog+DA

Jacobey, if you have HUD windows open, hitting Esc will close them all. (Likewise if you're at a shop hitting Esc will close the shop). Also, Tab toggles the Arsenal and Character ("knight") windows, (and the Loadout window if you have some configured). So those are both ways you can single click to get back to the action.

I have discovered a few rather small, yet potentially annoying bugs with the one-way gates that, while not game-breaking bugs, are still quite a problem as far as I'm concerned.

1. stepping any amount of space into the total area that is part of the gate renders any movement back away from the gate impossible- even if you haven't passed or even touched the force field yet.
2. if one can manage to get to a corner nearby while inside the gate area, you can use that corner to force yourself backwards and back into the area. however, in most cases, this only works when the player has not completely passed through the gate.
2-Sub. From what I can conceive, this could potentially be exploited in parties by rushing one corner of the gate, effectively "smashing" one or more players through, although I could be wrong, given that I haven't had much chances to play around with player collision physics.

I don't know if this is helpful or not, or whether someone else has already reported it, but I would like to state my discoveries anyways. if I find anything else, I'll let you know.
also, I do like the new energy blast system, it's rather nice

Thanks so much for making the one-way gate, you guys are too awesome! I can only imagine how annoying that was to program.

I love how the 1k CE rez "makes it rain." Very amusing metaphor. The damage boost is pretty sweet too, not that I'll ever get to use it on the live servers, its just a nice feature for a different audience.

The Howlitzer projectiles are a nice touch. Maybe all shadow projectiles can be triangles? I noticed the Kats still shoot circles.

One note about stun, some creatures, particularly Zombies, do immediate attacks when coming out of stun. Enemies like Howlitzers and Gun Puppies will shoot all at once instead of a spread too. If the stun timer expires when they are in mid-animation, the animation should finish in slow motion instead of completing immediately.

When dead, there is a message with a timer at the top of the screen that says "You have been defeated, but will rise again in a moment..." That makes me think that I'll autorez for free in 3 minutes, not be booted to Haven when the timer expires. Might add a message about your party being able to rez you without using energy too, I run across so many greenies that don't know this.

When doing a Decon Zone, I had the idea that crossing a one-way gate could trigger the iron gate that leads into the level. The party buttons at the beginning of some levels like Decon Zones, Graveyards (maybe?) and Treasure Vaults could be removed if that were the case. Speaking of which, Treasure Vaults could use an Arsenal Station. That is one of those places where I get stuck with only an elemental sword... bad planning at its best.

Slightly off-topic, but, what is with the network lag? After about 5pm my time (3pm server time) the connection strength drops to 2 bars, down from 3-4 bars. And about three times per minute it'll go red for a moment, resulting in my client freezing or jerking about for a split second, frequently resulting in taking damage or walking onto spikes. This happens on both the production and test servers. Is that because of increased server traffic starting around that time? Or is it because of increased network congestion in my neighborhood (people getting home from work, etc.)? Throughout the day, my speeds, packet loss and ping rates to various servers across the US is stable. I currently have a 10 Mbps down, 1.5 Mbps up cable connection with a static IP. The thing that I can't understand is that it did not used to be like this. Prior to the Halloween update there would be days, maybe once a week, where the connection was noticeably poor. Since the update the connection has gone bad every single evening. (And I tried with and without the performance tweaks, garbage collection is a separate issue, this is concerning network strength lag spikes. The tweaks don't seem to affect that.)