;_;

I have not seen them in action yet as SK was being dumb for me last time I was on with the Black Screen of Crash, so no opinion on it yet. For those that don't like the last arena rooms with Gremlin bombers you should see what happens when you drop a Shivermist on them. Talk about overkill on their bomb drops, each refreeze counts as a "hit" making them drop a few bombs... how's 5 bombs dropped every half second, per Gremlin, sound?

~Gwen

I mean, couldn't they at least Change the Color to Spiral Blue? Or to match the Bomb's Colors?

Other than that, no, not really.

@Gwen, Myllakka Pff, newbs. Real men with hair on their chests use Voltaic Tempest on the last wave gremlin bombers. Every shock tick makes them drop a pile of bombs, and since the shock is AoE, it makes all the others around them drop theirs too.

Carpet of explosion.

What is this fuse thing? I haven't logged on for the new update, my comp failed and now I have to reinstall SK.

I'm not in favor of the update as it's gotten slightly a bit laggy. I mean, from the point of view of a swordsman, it's quite helpful against gremlin bombers. But as a bomber myself of a different knight, it doesn't slide to well under helpful. I don't mind OOO's addition, this update just stands on top of the "meh" border.

I'd love it if the opacity of the fill was halved. It's difficult to see what's underneath the bomb as it gets bigger, especially when there's a wide area being covered. For instance, someone setting up Shivermist in FSC now obscures the dangers on the floor (more than Shivermist already does, anyway), and the aforementioned gremlin bomber waves obscure the spikes.

If it were me designing the change, I'd have probably made it a "clock" instead: some kind of symbol or effect that rotates around the edge of the shown radius and detonates the bomb once it returns to its starting position, much like the timed explosive blocks already do. This method even has one less object (a single rotating circle image) than the current effect (a circle plus another, expanding circle), which could reduce the lag problems people are having!

As a pure bomber build, I quite like it; gives me a much clearer indicator where my rads will go off in a much quicker, easier cursory glance, so I only need use my peripherals to get a view of what'll happen when placing my next bombs. Also, makes dealing with gremlin bombers worlds easier!

Why would you want rid of it for enemy bombs? they're the best to have the new fill-in for o.o

Ever been in a bomber wave in arenaroom3, on T2/3? The game just becomes pure lag as the explosions goin' off, and not walkin' into them wasn't just challenging, it was just cheap damage. Being able to see more clearly where they are gives you a fair chance at avoiding it at least.

Didn't make the game any harder or easier, just added made it clearer. If they wanna atcually make it harder, all they have to do is remove the rad-circles completely.

The change in the bomb fuse really annoys me. I wish you could turn it off in options or something.

I'm still able to run spiral knights with the same framerate on High graphics settings, and I'm running on a crappy laptop.

Not only me, but my friends as well who have better PCs. Honestly I think it's a problem on your end. Blame Java for being a horrible platform anyways, you're probably lagging due to a memory leak, not the graphics. Java is known to be a lame platform what with it's memory leaks and the fact that it just downright sucks in comparison to other platforms, but it's a fairly easy platform to use which is why some people use it.

Lag isn't a factor in the quality of video games. Lag is either caused due to your computer or your connection. But sometimes the lag isn't your fault, sometimes it's the game's fault. Me and my friends can run way better, larger, and heavier games than Spiral Knights, and yet we run other things smoothly and lag on THIS game.

I've no idea why people are complaining about lag...there's absolutely zero lag increase from the new graphic. The only complain I can understand at all is with bright bombs, such as nitro or shiver, is that an extra layer of translusence blocks of view a lot from spikes and such...but other than that, there's no problems for QQers, and personally, as a pure bomber, I love it.