Spiral Knights - Lets address the "dead game" topic

Lets address the "dead game" topic

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Sat, 05/14/2016 - 14:25

Ioose

I just wanted to say a few words or two. Many people say this game is dead. Now, lets look at why~
-The game has dank updates with new cosmetics. YAY. reskins.
-The game is extremely broken with gear balances
-So many bugs.
-Player base is going down
-Energy prices are going up, less people are paying for energy

Now, theres many examples for a lot of these.
There hasnt been a major update with gear and gameplay. The only new thing are some cosmetics since 2014. The gunner update was so hyped up, and it was so exciting when i first heard about it, but in the end it was so underwhelming for something said to be so big. The gunner update took around a year for literally around 2 or 3 new guns. The rest were just reskins with different damage properties, ie the rift locker which is just a yellow valiance with piercing damage. Other guns are the same things except for a few things like the dark chaingun or whatever.

The gear unbalances are pretty high if you do realize, there is a huge difference between a gray feather set which provides a normal average defense and no bonuses, while a skolver set is pretty much the same yet there is a damage bonus of medium on it.

The bugs in this game, well, we can for sure say theres a lot. I still cant see moorcraft manor, and its invisible, the dang mixmaster gun can shoot through walls, THROUGH WALLS! what is the point of even having them if players have this gun? There is so much more, but im too dumb to remember anything. Hopefully someone does so they can add unto thy thread.

Sat, 05/14/2016 - 14:30

Ultimastrike

I understand your ranting,

I understand your ranting, but please give Gray Havens time. They're still dealing with all the assets. Like, seriously. For right now, the best way to deal with the game is just to play it and have fun. If you think about it too unrealistically(such as gear imbalance; it's true, but it's already said and done that some gear is better than others), then you might not be having fun.

Also, about Energy prices. They froze at 11,599 I believe, but I want to at least be happy that there are orb drops in this game. Why? Because if not we'd be having the worst economy in gaming at this time if everything was bought with Energy.

Sat, 05/14/2016 - 15:23

Bopp

just one thing

We've had this thread hundreds of times over the years, so I just want to point out one thing:

There hasnt been a major update with gear and gameplay. The only new thing are some cosmetics since 2014.

We got new rank missions in May 2015 and in February 2015. That's not much new content, but it's something non-cosmetic since 2014. So let's at least keep our facts straight. Good luck.

Sat, 05/14/2016 - 15:55

Fangel

lol

The gunner update was so hyped up, and it was so exciting when i first heard about it, but in the end it was so underwhelming for something said to be so big.

That was literally just the community being hyped, Three Rings did not really do anything other than one testing server - the rest of the info about the gunner update was datamined.
It wasn't supposed to be so "big", it was supposed to make guns be more usable. After 2 years of having the gunner update I will say yes, guns are a fair bit more usable now. They accomplished their goal I'd say.

Sat, 05/14/2016 - 16:06

Midnight-Dj

Pessimism level restored

@Bopp

We've had this thread hundreds of times over the years

So let's at least keep our facts straight

*wants to keep the fact straight, right after making an exaggeration, #typicalBopp

@Fangel

It wasn't supposed to be so "big", it was supposed to make guns be more usable.

Then why do we have a surplus of new gunner armor that are not even worth getting with chaos set still overpowered? Clearly OOO made more effort in this update than what you gave them credit for, and after 2 years of having the gunner update I will say, no, this update probably wasn't the 'saving grace' OOO hoped for.

Sat, 05/14/2016 - 16:38

Fangel

...

You say "why should we have new gear when chaos is OP". That is... Pretty short-sighted.

Better thing to bring up is why we have so many of the blasted armors when we should have had maybe 18 5* variants rather than 36.
I mean they did "fill in all the gaps" for gunner related stuff, so they accomplished that... But it was never considered to be the "saving grace" that us players made it out to be. That was starved players hyping the only bit of content that was confirmed to be being worked on.

Sat, 05/14/2016 - 16:51

Bopp

not exaggeration

*wants to keep the fact straight, right after making an exaggeration

I stand by my assertion that we've had hundreds of threads complaining either that (A) the game is dying or (B) the game needs new content (or often both).

I am not going to list hundreds of threads to support my assertion. I'll just mention that a Google search for '"new content" site:forums.spiralknights.com' (without the single quotation marks, but with the double quotation marks) returns 973 results. And you can find even more threads by searching for various versions of "game dying".

Sat, 05/14/2016 - 16:58

Midnight-Dj

@Fangel

That is... Pretty short-sighted

And the reason is? Chaos + SSB is still the best gunner set by far, all of the new gears simply pale in comparison, maybe the shade armor have a free scarf at the end.

Better thing to bring up is why we have so many of the blasted armors when we should have had maybe 18 5* variants rather than 36.

But it was never considered to be the "saving grace" that us players made it out to be.

I thought it was pretty obvious that OOO was throwing things at the wall and hope something sticks with this update, hence so many new 5* armors.

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