EDIT: Fixed! Thankyou.

Other than this thankyou for taking the time to talk to the community and tell us what to expect for the future of sk.

Well you've just given me another post to hold up on a stick when people ask "what has grey havens even done".

Thanks for listing all this. For future content, is there any potential for collaborating with members of the community? This can range from voting for new prize box colors (along with returning old ones) to helping design entirely new enemies, levels, or armors.

I'm also waiting for the day that purple and awesome/evil (depending on who you ask... mwahaha) fuse to become a reeses peanut butter cup. Then find their way into a bucket so we can throw them at people in haven.

As you may or may not know, I'm a somewhat-known person for my tool that converts models from the Clyde library into the WaveFront OBJ format.

I've always been personally interested in the storyline for Spiral Knights, and one of the biggest things I've wanted to see with SK is more lore. One of the ways I proposed this would be possible was user-engagement with the game directly, though the FAQ outruled that.

To get right to the cut: Is Grey Havens ever going to open source/allow unofficial modifications (As separate games) to Spiral Knights some time in the future? I always get this great feeling of "Wow, this is amazing" every time I visit the surface or depths of Cradle, and I just want to make my own little version of it.

Also I'm pretty sure they previously stated they didn't really want people messing about and modifying game files because of potential hackz.
I don't really know if you plan on doing anything with the game files, It is a little unclear in your post.

c:

This was kinda answered in the Q&A since it falls under the content question but can we look forward to seeing any nerfs/buffs to weapons and armor? Like a nerf for Acheron or a buff for GF since the Acheron outclasses it in almost every way. Another one that I think would balance things would be a buff to the DA. Like the Acheron the other brandishes outclass it way to much. Finally I was thinking about shard bombs, the once great weapons that got practically trashed and also a nerf to chaos.

I understand that you guys might not be able to say exactly what you are going to be doing but I just wanted to know if we can see some re balancing to gear in the future.

Can this be done once a month, even if a copy paste?

Lure jempire back in with superficial leaderboard topping rewards, and you'll get cash. Regular superficial login rewards for normal players.

@Midnight-Dj

You know, what someone thinks as working might still in many others' eyes as not working. Like how compounds got published despite making most people avoid gates with them.

I have two rather pressing inquiries.

1. Would you consider removing the invincibility frames from shard bombs? Surely you've read all about that by now. I know that things that vaguely work isn't a priority, but their bug cripples them.

2. Would you consider moving the danger missions to end on D28, so that they can be farmed for radiant fire crystals more effectively? They're the hardest content by far and yet lack the hardest rewards.

There is nothing wrong with compound, once you memorized the pattern and know what would spawn, they are fine. The only problem I have with them are:

-Respawning minis in some of the end section really cheapens the challenge of the compound, in a game in which you don't have exp system in place, fighting them is just an annoyance with no worthwhile reward.

-Compound seemed like a way to proliferate bombs, but with bombs and the gears related to them so poorly adjusted, there is no incentive to make an arsenal of gears just to be used to moderate effectiveness in a particular dungeon when you can just avoid them.

-Risk versus reward ratio of compound is completely broken (and don't expect 4 boxes at the end is going to change my mind), there is a reason why people would rather play FSC 100 times over playing a single instance of compound, sure, vana grind is tedious but you get what you paid for. 9000 cr, 3 vana token and a good chance for rads.

I think compound itself is fine the way it is, it is just the external factors around it is off.

So, Cronus, I want to ask a few questions, since you're taking some time to answer them. I'm very glad GH's getting a bit more active in responding to the players about the game, it's state, & such.

That said, here are some.

Question #1: It was a thrill for OOO to be partnered with SEGA for the past 5 years, I think, and it was quite sad to see it end, but, we see that they had business decisions to make, and shuttering OOO in the layoffs was inevitable. What were the fond memories and challenges that the people who formerly were OOO staff had while they were with SEGA? Do share some.

Question #2: Now, that GH is going indie, there's not gonna be any more plans to be acquired by any other game studio, yes? I truly think and feel that doing indie development, even in the MMO venture, would provide a lot more freedom and time to do content updates without being bothered by other old big-time game companies that way.

Question #3: Since we're gonna have new content to SK, does that include going back and adding new bosses, including minibosses to available missions, like how it was with Mission 4-3, Shocking Sentient Sentries & the tutorial level, and even secret bosses? If I remember right, I did submit my ideas to adding new minibosses to the second levels of SK's first 2 Danger Missions, Compound 42 and Legion of Almire, 'cause, with Heart of Ice and Ghosts in the Machine having minibosses, I thought I would send in suggestions to add new minibosses to them. Also, I did send an idea about a secret boss involving the Golden Slime Casino, 'cause, with such a popular addition, it should have a random section in specific levels to hold a secret boss in the Golden Slime Casino.

Question #4: I know you're not looking for more people to join GH, yet, do you think GH may need a storyboard artist on the team? They're what build the game's story and the amazing story cutscenes that really bring it to life, even in-game, so I thought I would ask you this question. Hope you have one or a few onboard sometime soon.

Cronus, if I have more questions, I'll let you know. Thanks for reading and answering!

Hey there! I've got a question. Is it possible we will ever see the fish costume from the promo video added into spiral knights in the future?

I would really like it if it did, it looks awesome. It does a good job to show just how dangerous and intimidating spiral knights can be.

I'd like to express my thanks for your letting us know what's happening. It's what I'd been expecting, but concrete affirmation is extremely appreciated. I'd venture to say it's the single most effective thing that can be done to boost community morale/understanding of the situation.

As far as updates to the game go, "new content" has been given a variety of meanings now that GH is running the show. Missions are one, but also Arcade-content, weapon-additions, Guild additions, and tech-updates like UI tweaks. Promo boxes are in there too as an obvious one.
Is there anything from this list we can look forward to currently? You mention that technical issues are the biggest issue at the present, but is there anything the team agrees on as far as what would be "cool to have in the game"?
I know specific answers aren't exactly the team's type, but this question seems vague enough to not spoil anything.

That leads me to the topic of spoilers for the game. The way they work for SK is pretty simple; show a screenshot of anything at all related to an update and people go nuts. It doesn't require much to set people talking from this game, and that in itself is a way to spark word-of-mouth advertisement. If anything that the dev teams have done or are doing is considered suitable enough to leak via photo or even hint at through text, the community would love to see it.

I feel that everyone who works within GH hasn't received a whole lot of credit for the work they do. Advertising even the tiniest scraps of what's in-dev is enough to reassure players who haven't gotten to the endgame meta-phase doomsday prep that GH is in fact alive and well.

Again, I and a multitude of others are incredibly grateful for the development announcements you and Hera put out, and for the entirety of what you've pledged to keep running. I look forward to seeing and playing through the developments that the teams you've mentioned can dream up.

Surprised that had to be explicitly asked for in this thread. We've been asking for steam/linux a million times.

Unless I read this wrong, do you really believe that shard bombs, sprite ultimates, the Kataclysm, and a long list of other ancient complaints "generally work"?

Why isn't it a priority to make existing material better? Why dream of magnificent updates when you have plenty of holes to fill already? Are you under the impression that giving people more tools via minor tweaks to what's already in the game, to use anywhere, won't add as much longevity to the game?

edit: things like plugging memory leaks are more important, don't get me wrong, I just don't like this "SHINY NEW THING" mentality I'm inferring

Some sprite ultimates "work" in the sense that they do in fact have an effect, but it's laughable. Haunted Haze, Violent Heart Attack, Drakon's damage output in general without even considering ultimates, etc ..

Bugfixes to a few things are certainly needed. I do believe that there is an array of flawed content.
That doesn't make the game bad by any means; however OOO going under means that GH gets the responsibility of fixing those bugs.

Shard bombs,
the Iron Slug's charge attack being buggy,
Fangel's account of the Orbitgun,
Tortofists being underpowered,
Bombs as a whole being underpowered,
the ability to get stuck in lava during Vana,
Catalyzers' underperformance in multiplayer,
The infamous Polar Halo/Grasping Aura/etc "White-Box" glitch with certain weather conditions,
Embers affecting candles directly behind gates in Keep levels,
Minimap glitching in Dreams and Nightmares,
Lost Soul spawn mechanics and hitboxes,
Projectiles originating on higher vertical levels still registering on lower ones despite being higher than their targets,

are all notable examples. And yet, the game is still functional in its majority.
I won't lie; I'd love to see these fixed. And I trust that in time GH will provide. However, I'd love new content more than having GH patch up every single bug in the SK code. For now.

I do agree with Lethal here. I imagine they're focusing on fixing major bugs because it could break new content once said bugs are fixed. Honestly, it could create a lot more problems doing new content first. Suppose they add new content, then fixed major bug afterward. If fixing said major bug promptly broke the new content perhaps not just in a big way but perhaps in multiple ways, it'd create more work for them in the end. It makes more sense for them to fix the larger bug first, then try adding new content that they've already tested with the larger bug out of the way.

Q: What are your priorities for the upcoming few months?

So, you guys finally decided to open up with the community.

Good play, I know some people that were very skeptical about SK's future even after GHavens took charge, so this update on the situation is refreshing to say the least.

That being said, I'll certainly look forward to what you guys will do in the following months with a keener eye. No pressure though.

What Sweet-Hope said, if the goal is now to ensure more players come in and stay this is by far the quickest win. The energy price is known to discourage lots of players and that would certainly help bringing it way down. Hopefully Grey Haven has some insight on the struggles of players when in the game. Threads complaining about energy issues have been around for about as long as the game, this is definitely worth consideration!

Q: where there be any use for moonstone and veilstone in the future? Because its beem 3 years and these stones have absolutely no point in being collected, and I have to keep reminding new players mever to collect those minerals, because theres no benefit to collecting.

Q: Will you get rid of all the remaining texts, characters, etc that regards to mineral deposits to power the clockworks?

Fixing the absurd framerate issues would definitely affect everyone, just saying

IKR, it CPU bottlenecks my 6700k that's OC'd, even when using the iGPU.