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The opening sequence to Dreams and Nightmares has an interesting buildup, but:
•we never get to see the core open
•Vaelyn is kinda just standing there doing nothing given the gravity of the situation
•The party button/gate thing doesn't need to be there, feels like a cheap player-herding device
•Herex is just sort of 'there' and then vanishes
•Vaelyn doesn't even react to Herex
•The swarmcore monster is also just sort of 'there'
•We don't ever see a reason for "things going black"
•We don't ever really see how we got into the Core in the first place

I could go on, but I think you get the point. The level design is spectacular, there's a whole lot of unique rooms, but the informational bits are less than perfect.

Do the graveyard and treasure vaults loots revert, because graveyard was to be a unlucky place, and treasure vault a fortune place, but unfortunely it is the inverse. Fix it.

Treasure Vaults in general need a bit of a redesign. I suspect they were created around crowns not being split between party members, hence the multiple coin paths for each individual party member to race down, hoping to get to the boxes first.

However, now you have to loop around the multiple paths several times to get all the coins, which just wastes a lot of time. It'd be better to make them like the Danger Mission loot floors. Just have lots and lots of stuff all over the ground to make players excited.

I think vaults are fine, for me at least it makes the Arcade one of the best places to go when you're trying to get rarities.

I do agree that the split paths should be removed though, or at least made where there's a way through the paths without having to backtrack.

@Burgeridiot wants the payouts of the levels swapped, not the aesthetic. It doesn't make sense that you get more rewards from a graveyard than a TV under most circumstances, when you're supposed to be hoping to get a TV. Fixing the Vault layouts would also be a nice QOL change, though not entirely necessary. It shouldn't be a high priority by any means.

Q: Will the spritely box promo ever return?

Spiral knights had a lot of potential. The game basics were there, music, fun party play, there was very interesting CE economy, and trading system.

Now their market share of fast combat dungeon dive genre was taken by other games like Moonlighter, Wizard of Legend, Torchlight 2, enter the gungeon, and others.

The missions, alchemy orb crafting change, UI update and pets wasn't the best direction to go. Not if there was very limited content generation at least.
To pick the most important things to invest effort into, it would have been, T3 clockworks boss/floors, server improvements so lag, freezes and rubber banding wouldn't force people to give up on sk (can't fight if you can't control your character), and new gear or strengthening the gear that was under-powered.
Gear and item balance did eventually occur, but it should have came out immediately like year 1 or 2.

Uh, well for me i really agree with The-Blue-Salamandr, GH is trying to push their limits, and i really hope they realize it soon,
well they could do like Maplestory, just bang spiral knights 2, early access at least, it would be a good chance. better than what they're trying to do now, ik people will start talking about money and they need funds to do so, but well at least try to do something little for now. and just leave the current Sk for a year without funding, and come next year with sk.2

anyway i know this is a very bad idea ik ik, but well i just wanted to say so :p
i came back like week ago and pretty much sk is SO boring tbh (i hope i dont get banned)

and ye about that^
i would like to ask the gms about a second thought or look into some people they banned like in the past year. alot of people got banned for really no reason,

well what i said depend on what i saw, people got banned for actually no reason, such as Teddysmacker, Chawii and others ofc,
but ye i still hope not to get banned, just because i made a joke, btw dreffu once got banned for a joke.

I don't know about those specific cases, but I know of a few people who got banned for some truly toxic language. They then turned around and claimed they got banned because of who they directed the language at. Furthermore, I cannot count how many people I've seen get warnings/suspensions because of some really rude/insensitive/vile comments, and then say "I got banned for no reason," or even "I got banned because of a joke."

As Bopp said, these forums have hosted countless well thought out and incredibly harsh critiques of Spiral Knights, Grey Havens, and/or Three Rings. None of them have risked the ban hammer. On the other hand, I once saw a joke thread about how Spiral Knights advocates the genocide of black people and get immediately banned. Don't be afraid to be honest with your criticism. Just make sure it stays relatively civil.

Years ago there was a good game called Spiral Knights, within years the game was doing pretty good and having a good fanbase,...(Zenki/Zenje/Kontar/Thoranhippo/Spiral-Market.. Etc) time, when these dudes were playing the game was at it finest, cause the devs really did what someone would like to get, i will say the game was doing REALLY well untill 2016 and first few months of 2017.

This part of this post exemplifies what's been going on in countless threads over several years.

Spiral Knights is more or less the same game it's always been. There have been some questionable redesigns (Forge, shard bombs, reviving system, etc.), but they are partially balanced by generosity elsewhere (Orbs of Alchemy, Sparks of Life), and the essence of the game (quirky, cute action) is the same as ever.

What players object to is not that Spiral Knights is worse than it used to be, mainly, but rather that it is not improving quickly enough to hold player interest. In other words, players exhaust the content, get bored, and start complaining.

And the reason this post is so revealing is its dates. By any objective measure (number of active players, frequency of updates, etc.) Spiral Knights peaked somewhere around 2011-2013. Any complaints about the Forge, armor imbalance, etc. date from 2013. I was reading "there isn't enough new content!" threads in 2011. But this poster names "2016 and first few months of 2017" as the peak, simply because it's just before she (or he) got bored and/or her friends quit. It's not about the game; it's about the poster.

Moral of the story: If you no longer enjoy Spiral Knights, it's not because Spiral Knights has changed, but rather because you have changed.

YES exactly that is it lol, "Spiral Knights is more or less the same game it's always been" nothing changes as people want it to change lol. Just some redesigns are you said but it isn't that big, and it happens once or twice a year.. Normal games does a lot of updates very often.

but lets get back to this point, "Moral of the story: If you no longer enjoy Spiral Knights, it's not because Spiral Knights has changed, but rather because you have changed." Spiral Knights doesn't change, if you do everything for 7-8 years, doing same missions for these past years, same events come again for years nothing new, makes it boring, Change is good itsn't a bad thing, its like you're now in 2018 nearly 2019 you cant wear clothes that were trend back in 1990 for example. so yes if we're talking about games you cant play a single game for 8 years that doesnt change anything or add anything new to attract you, not just because you like it, i like spiral knights as i have always did, but it now is getting boring, people think im hating on GH or Sk im not actually, im just sad for it.

Thing is you overlooked everything and focused on the players mount and what i said about the players i mentioned, its just about how the fanbase/the players (Us) think the best for the game and help GH with how they can improve the game. and for me i really want SK to get bigger, but as i said there're too much stuff they should focus on to make SK great again.

Just focus more. i said it and im saying it again, you are now over defending GH, you're just throwing the blame once on OOO and other on the players who got bored. stuff doesn't go like that, what im saying, is how should GH think for real and what is the best solution for Sk.
Consider my comment not as a hating comment, but just viewing the issue from another point. Most if not all come here to defend GH and living in a fantasy world where SK is doing very good. C'mon mate, its hardly 250 players on at steam at least it used to be 500 back then (first 2018) which means at least half the people who used to play it daily just left.

Well actually i do agree with Strayed. The game is changing but not as the knights want.

Change the game as people would like it more. SK now is done, what i want is to get better game to play or just GH to give up.

Well am i not a player? Dont i have the same right to give an opinion as you? So its pointless to offer me something such as quitting.
I did take a break for more than a year and yes Nothing changed, this is called General Discussion am i right?

And 1 more thing, i'm talking to the GM's someone might listen and just commenting on a something they should be active on as a thread starter.

Anyway i gave the best solution no matter what. I know it is hard but as a wise man once said "The hardest choices require the strongest wills" .

> But Sewyy's comments were about stagnation, lack of content, boredom, etc.

oh ok. my bad, i read that wrong lol

>Well i'm not here to ask GH nicely for new content and please do something, We have seen alot of threads about this kind of talk, but at least im here to state it in another way since GH are allowing us to communicate more. Unlike people here they are defending GH blaming OOO for problems happening

I don't think you've looked hard enough or you choose not to see what's really going on.. people have been taking the same approach as you to GH and were to ooo. nothing ever changed, because nothing can change. do you think you could be the one to "get through" to GH and make them make new content? or are you trying to incite other people to talk to gh the same way... which, ignoring that it would turn these forums into a sour and uninspiring place to be if that were the tone of all the posts here, is already a noticeable portion of what gets posted. prize box promotions, black kats, shard bombs, forge, compounds, bad armors, bad swords, bad bombs... we've heard all of this before, and there's little that can be said anymore that GH hasn't heard, too. & there have been some appeals made to ooo and gh that trump your level of creativity and desperation... fehzor tried to bring everybody together to pay a thousand-dollar ransom for them to fix shard bomb invincibility and black kats. they never even responded to that, although I can't remember if that was under sega or gh. gh generally doesn't even make replies to suggestions that seem like very minor and uncontroversial things, which should show you how your efforts are going to end, dead. I know it's frustrating, I've played a lot of small games, this one included, where this is how things go. I won't tell you to "put your energy somewhere else" because I can tell you don't mean to just raise hell, you're concerned specifically with sk. just don't imagine you'll get anything out of posting your critiques.

the orbital gun is very over powered can you make it so you can get at least some version of it for free to play players like me?

I'd suspect, and this is not a promise or 100% or anything, but I'd suspect that becoming a massive whale might open up some communication or at least get your suggestions given more weight.

Spend 0 or few dollars and you're not important to a small team.

Spend 1000's for a few months in a row and you'll definitely get attention.

/shrug

That would also provide the benefit of more funding, meaning more development attention. So you'd be helping out the SK community, too!