Spiral Knights - Give T3 monsters ridiculous knockback for April 1st

Give T3 monsters ridiculous knockback for April 1st

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Tue, 11/10/2015 - 13:46

Umbra-Lunatis

April Fools' Day. The universal holiday of messing with people.
In addition to the monster dialogue given to us on this day, I'm proposing an extremely temporary change to Tier 3.
Every time a melee-oriented monster attacks a Knight and successfully makes contact, there would be a 1/5 chance to send the Knight flying across the room. Think the KB of a Big Angry Bomb on zombies.
The reason for it only affecting Tier 3 is to go easy on the newbies. Defender Elites, Champions, and Vanguards should be conditioned to difficulty at their rank. (And should be able to take a joke by then).

Yes, it's absolutely insane. But it's for April 1st pranking, so I see no downsides to this.

Thoughts?

Tue, 11/10/2015 - 15:14

Corporal-Shade

I'm a Wizard

Give people five minutes to do FSC.
See how they like it.

Tue, 11/10/2015 - 15:34

Umbra-Lunatis

@blaze

That's the point; it's a prank. And besides, if people are that mad about not being able to grind the same level over and over again for one day, they need to step back and check their priorities.

Tue, 11/10/2015 - 15:37

Jenovasforumchar

I would spend hours in fsc again with this beeing inside the game xD

ofc it would mess around, but since it is only for an april fool, i totally support this :3

Tue, 11/10/2015 - 16:38

Fangel

Oh this is glorious

I feel like more really odd things like this should be on April fools'. I'd love to have our knights say dorky little non-swears (tbh I'd love austrialian swears but this is second best) whenever they're hit, or say some really cheesy one-liner after killing specific monsters or themed enemies ("buuurn baby, burn" for a fire monster, "Terminator...'D..." for killing a construct).

The former would be hilarious for PvP. Imagine seeing your opponent saying "Oi ya cheeky knobhead!", "Bug off snotface!", or "Don't make me come ova' there n' headbutt ya'." after smacking them around a bit. I'd pretty much exclusively play lockdown that day for this idea alone.

Tue, 11/10/2015 - 20:23

Umbra-Lunatis

@fangel

+1 to Knight text bubbles.

Maybe instead of being dependent on damage, text bubbles would just appear over your head randomly, like in a green box or whatever to signify that it was part of the april 1st gag. Or not; both options sound equally great.
Oh, and definitely shove as many references to action movies in as possible. Want.

Another idea: Auction House or Supply Depot sales for April Fools' Prize Boxes costing 0cr/0ce that when opened would contain nothing, and expire after the event.
April Fool's Prize Boxes opened in the Overworld would display the normal box-opening animation, but play the "forge failed" soundbyte and have the box explode afterward.

Wed, 11/11/2015 - 15:09

Fangel

Oh that'd be silly

I think in general having April Fools' Prize Boxes would be a really silly investment. I would say to sell them like confetti though, with many of them for sale in featured auctions in buy-now situations. They'd be 500 crowns per box, 5000 crowns for 10.

I would say not to have them expire after the event though, but to instead use them as joke gifts. Just make them not tradable, but do make them able to be put into gift boxes. This way, people won't be scammed into buying a goofy prize box for hundreds of thousands of crowns - if you're buying a gift box from someone it could contain anything and thus can be assumed to be a scam. Making them gifts would be fun. :)

Knight text bubbles would just be something silly. References, yes please, but activated at different intervals. Something like "I'm not quite dead yet!" when you go down and use your ER, "You're a Wizard, hairy" when you kill a gremlin mender, and "that bloody well hurt" when hit by normal damage.

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Give T3 monsters ridiculous knockback for April 1st