Spiral Knights - I think I'm going to be done playing for a while

I think I'm going to be done playing for a while

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Sat, 10/03/2015 - 08:33

Holy-Nightmare

It's not that the game is dying (certainly not that), it's lots of other factors (Mostly lag).

LAG. As of lately my once smooth gameplay has turned into a rubberbanding mess, I can't dashjump when I need to, shield before I get struck, often I don't even see an enemy attack till I'm dead on the ground. Just a year ago I could waltz around the last room of FSC chipping away at the monster horde with a Valiance, now I can't even walk through the first floor without running headlong into lava.

Pay to get updates and apathy towards gear balance. It's been tough with so little new updates and care towards making the game balanced. It just feels like OOO doesn't care about making the game more enjoyable and fair to play. I had high hopes for this BK and Apocrea event that we could get some new gear to work towards but no, nothing.....

Fall of Knights (AKA the cancelled mobile game). I was somewhat relieved when I found out about this since it meant that OOO wasn't just twiddling their thumbs, but since it got shut down I fell back into pessimism.

What I am doing now: Well I've decided to fall back on my tried and true online gaming experience; TF2. It's still fun, thanks to Gun Mettle update balance is certainly an issue Valve is concerned with and best of all not Grindy or Pay to win. I'll probably still be on the forums and I may be back sometime in the future, just not as often as I used to be.......

PS no you can't have my stuff

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 08:35

Bonjourhippo

It never hurts to take a

It never hurts to take a break and come back when exciting stuffs are around I say. Good call!
OOO's online games are all alive and well (except for RoK) so I don't think there's anything to worry about; but perhaps the games are more meant for newcomers than their older playerbase, just lately.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 10:33

Falminar

Did you see a PM from someone saying "Poke." recently?

Or were you AFK?

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 10:55

Fangel

I mean if you're not changing your forum presence it's typically not needed to post on the forums about it.

Games will become boring, especially if it's the only thing you decide to do. I try to spread out my gaming between several games, and right now those contenders are Spiral Knights, Killing Floor 2, and Payday 2. Pretty much it's Payday 2 for the event going on right now, Spiral Knights for some fun little filler action, PvP, or social interactions, and Killing Floor 2 for when I want to appease the blood gods.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 11:06

Cyphereau

Good choice

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 11:12

Umbra-Lunatis

Hiatuses are healthy; to be

Hiatuses are healthy; to be honest my Guild Hall upkeep is a large part of what keeps me coming back to the game.
As for lag, my laptop graphics card is low-quality so I'm accustomed to a tiny bit of it all the time :P (just saying, the Tortodrone shieldbash and BTB charge attack look way cooler in compatibility mode; I recommend trying it at least once)

Happy trails and such.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 12:44

Holy-Nightmare

If I could have a thread for a moment

http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/112296

OOO please, if I could have a moment....

@ bopp

I never said I quit.... I don't play nearly as much as I used to but I never quit (once a week to see if the lag has let up). I care because I still have hopes for this game.
So far we haven't had a bug fix since 6/25/2015 or at least not any bug fixes we have been told about.
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Release/all

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 13:04

Fangel

...

You... You know dark harvest is right around the corner, right? We'll likely be getting an update for that in a week or so. Doubt we'll get much more than the event from last year but we had the grave scarabs added last year so we might have something fun and extra this time. You never know.

Seriously not surprised no update today. It's either dark harvest 2 weeks up until halloween, or dark harvest 2 weeks that surround halloween.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 13:13

Holy-Nightmare

@Fangel

Well.... here's hoping for something new

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:36

Midnight-Dj

@Fangel

I won't count finding some random pumpkin guy in the clockwork level I played over and over as new /fresh content.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:45

#10

Fehzor

@Midnight-Dj

Buying and getting to wear that delicious paper mask (the one that evaporates after a month) is fresh content enough for me.. I 100% look forward to that way more than any arcade reduxes or new weapons. I'm not even pulling your leg when I say these things. It's the perfect content- easy to get, temporary, I'm the only one that wants it, cool and not game changing.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:53

#11

Midnight-Dj

@Fehzor

I meant the process of getting the new content is repetitive, not the content itself.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:23

#12

Fehzor

To actually comment on the leaving thread, "leaving" the game doesn't have to be like dropping out of high school; it can be more like skipping a few classes to get to the end of year pizza party. You could quit cold turkey and go work in a coal mine until your untimely and probably cancerous death, but that's unpleasant and more importantly doesn't get you any pizza so we don't talk about it.. or, you could go behind the gym with the naughty kids and trade Pokemon cards which is a highly commendable experience that also happens to let you go back to class whenever something interesting is happening.

Which is basically what Hippo said above but I like mine better.

@Midnight-DJ
The process is instantaneous for me.

Step one: Check the auction house
Step two: Accept invite to punkin king
Step three: Buy the mask

By far the best experience of my life, and with the addition of new costume pieces through prize boxes, the possibilities of what you can make with the masks is unbelievable and usually un-affordable. Un-affordable is bad you might say but that's why you should just join the game earlier so that you'll have enough swag to prepare a costume for your bi-yearly (once in october, once on the last day of the event, several times during to relive the moment since lets face it, you'd rather just throw away the candy tokens than support the cheeto army) injection of enjoyment- that phat halloween mask.

But back to the point, you only have to fight the punkin king a handful of times to get your first mask and you'll be so thrilled that you won't even feel the pain of grinding tokens as you earn your second, third, fifth and twentieth duplicate mask that will all expire on the same day.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:34

#13

Bignastycupcake

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

I'll say why I stopped playing for a while. I recently ran into a problem (a minimap problem) where the minimap would practically...disappear, right before your very eyes. I contacted support, and it didn't seem to fix the problem, and they didn't have a solution for it, the problem consistently got worse, after a while the minimap started to glitch off the screen...or it would get extremely large, mess up the screen, etc. I just stopped playing, because it got worse, and if new content comes out, and I can play it, I will love to try and play it, but the chances are slim....

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:43

#14

Fangel

... Er

I won't count finding some random pumpkin guy in the clockwork level I played over and over as new /fresh content.

The "new" content I was referring to was the scarab mounts we had last year. Gave us reasons to run graveyards and more candy distribution. Don't forget the punkin sprite!

Basically the "fresh" stuff would be something added that we didn't have last time. If we had fundamental changes to the dark harvest a lot of players wouldn't be happy, but adding something new to what we have is good.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 01:12

#15

Flowchart

I'm the only one that wants it,

That isn't true, I know a few players who buy those every year (yes, I know, you'll be changing your response immediately or some other nonsense)

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 06:47

#16

Sweetsundere

I don't know how some of you call it new content

I could go ahead and recolor my own promo right now, would I become a developer for doing that? Nah

I know the Scarab mask and punkin pet were technically new content, but both are just vanity things.. Seriously, you have to buy a maskeirath pod to make the punkin pet.

The words "new content" at this point mean something new that isn't just vanity or a reskin, after all those don't do anything other than a dress up minigame, I'd also put the old events returning in there but I admit those can be fun for a bit (After all the dark harvest events so far though I doubt I'll play this one for more than 2 hours) it's okay that there's optimism about the game but yeah.. That's not really the content we want to have and play, it's just comfort.

Don't get me wrong as a hater tho, I'd love to play the new missions coming already, even if they probably don't know what to do after that since it was Nick who planned all the story, DaN etc.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 13:37

#17

Fangel

I know.

New content can be really small, but it's still new and something to work for. Punkin sprite doesn't make dark harvest better, but it gives us more to work for. It added graveyards to the event list outside of clockwork tunnels - good for making the event not just be a single grind.

Granted it's not all that huge of a deal, but it was something new. I'd love to have another small thing like this to make this dark harvest feel a bit more refreshing.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:18

#18

Fehzor

@Flowchart

I am most certainly aware of those blessed few that appreciate the cheaper masks.. why am I aware of them? Because in terms of MMO fashion (the only kind of fashion that matters), they're like diamonds in the rough, or in our case, diamonds in the sack of cheetos. Except it's more of like one of those combination snack packs, where it contains all cheese flavored objects- you've got your hallow armor sets which are unhealthy and kind of disgusting like cheetos, and then you've got your 100% one-promo getups which are kind of like sun chips or pretzles, things that are much nicer than cheetos but still just chips.

So please, forgive me of my sin or don't.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 08:08

#19

Holy-Nightmare

.....

Regarding leaving. I thought I had made it clear..... I haven't left.... I'm just spending the majority of my time in other games due to the reasons listed in the OP.

As for Halloween I already have all the masks (all 4) and all the materials needed to craft a Punkin Maskeraith..... I just don't feel like grinding a laggy FSC so I can earn the CE to buy one.....

I would certainly come back for Halloween if OOO made some costumes to pair with the masks..... provided they don't pull a cheap trick like they did with the Katastrophe armor lines..... That choice gets ALL of my hate.....

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