Hello i am wondering if you grey havens will ever release a version of the game from 2011 when the game was in its primetime :D anyway so im just wondering so if an admin can please respond thank you :D
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Sun, 07/03/2016 - 07:05
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 08:39
#2
That and the enemies were more challenging and the gear was more balanced, and the core premise of the game existed and the most interesting weapon in the game had not yet been removed and there was a reason to log on every day, and you were not able to screw yourself over by crafting your weapon to 5*.
But sure, I guess battle sprites are cool.
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 08:46
#3
Changing reskins to actually be different than vanilla ones.
It's been on my mind for a while now and I know it would take time and possibly ruin pricing for every reskin to go further into space but that's just my opinion.
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 12:47
#4
@Uberer you may be right, but
@Uberer you may be right, but the issue is that the game didn't age well.
It was awesome back then because nobody knew the technicalities, there was always something to learn and strive for. Today, most people know the game down to the numbers. They need to add more intricacies and difficulty so that people can have a challenge again.
They dumbed it down too much previously (Alpha wolvers and Skellies are now trash), and the current armor is far too OP for the game. I think they know what to do, and I am curious as where it will be in 1 yr.
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 16:19
#5
I'mma be brief but:
A.) I would legitimately miss danger missions, dreams and nightmares, battle sprites, the new guns, improved volcanic pepperbox/magnuses, the new shard bombs, stun functioning, irontech destroyer/big angry bomb's radius, apocrea, winterfest, halloween, the costumes, gorgos, grievers in arenas, compounds, candlestick keep, the newer missions, tortofists, free crafting and tortodrones... for..? Shard bombs? They WERE pretty epic but I have new toys now that I'd be giving up. Slightly harder enemies? There are much harder areas now if you want that. It's not an even trade at all... and don't say arcade building because that was never functional to begin with.
B.) Instead of going back... why not just fix the problems and move forward? There are tons of fixes being written about and possible, we just need Grey Havens to like.. go for it. Here. I even made a thread about improving the forge a bit and no one has even commented on it- http://forums.spiralknights.com/es/node/115252
C.) Calyos that has nothing to do with anything and would be a poor idea unless worked into the game correctly. I have a mixmaster and I use it because it's fun and powerful, but I always get people asking where to get one and telling them they'll never get one is awful. On the other hand people paid to get those reskins and if they were made easily attainable it would feel like they wasted their money. I say just make new weapons and don't bother with them. Actually, I had an even better thread about this that I lost but summed up for someone else- http://forums.spiralknights.com/es/node/113846#comment-1025846
D.) The players are mostly awful at the game (see: casual) and dumbing it down was a smart move. The only thing really needed is more dumbed down content and less story via missions. If the arcade were a more central part of the game again we wouldn't have the problem of advancing too quickly and the game being too hard at once because you're supposed to practice against the T1, or T2 enemies before advancing to T2 or T3.. but when you go through the misisons and don't get things.. well, it makes it feel like you're just behind. The actual enemies etc. could use harder variants, but those harder variants should be reserved for t3 and possibly danger missions... like they are now.
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 16:23
#6
This isn't the first instance
This isn't the first instance of forums of this topic so I'll just go ahead and write the conclusion from previous said threads:
It's too much effort, it's unrewarding for the devs, it's reminiscing a time a whole lot of players nowadays can't relate to, it's your nostalgia kicking in a tad too hard. As far as the current mechanics are concerned, let Grey Havens do their thing, they know best where to take the game from here.
So to answer the OP, it's too unlikely, unfortunately.
the game wasnt in its prime. some things were better but overall the game is waaaay better now. the only reason you remember that time as better is because everything was new and exciting