Spiral Knights - An Issue on Bombing

An Issue on Bombing

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Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:02

Flists

Today a couple of guildmates and I had some great fun in the JK gate. We decided upon landing at d15 that we would complete JK with bombs only. Soon, we found out about a little issue, seen here. While the new white graphic is nice for showing where and when a bomb will explode, it can be kind of annoying when there are multiple bombs on the field at the same time. I'm not even sure if that pic has all three of our bombs down; imagine what would happen if there were four bombers there!
I and my guildmates think that it would be nice if there was an option to revert to the old bomb animation and turn off the new white graphic. It'd be nice to be able to see what you were doing while in a heated fight with a bunch of bombs everywhere.

However, we made it all the way through to JK without much trouble: Pic
And we killed that undeserving monarch without a single death: Pic
I highly recommend trying it some time!

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:07

Darkbrady

Well that's only an issue

Well that's only an issue becasue you had three shivermists stacked on top of each other, which is completely unnessecary. Have one shivermist, another bomber dropping Gravi, another Nitros ,, or just being elsewhere and you're set. There's no need to stack up status bombs, and leaving just one shivermist has no problems with the new graphic. Bombing runs on JK is no harder than it was before, unless you feel like wasting time stacking up bombs :s

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:19

Negimasonic

Um, maybe you should say

Um, maybe you should say three of the haze bomb series stacked on top of each other, because they're clearly using three different ones, Shivermist, Voltaic, and Ash of Agni if I'm not mistaken (Stagger Storm can look similar sometimes). If it is SMB and AoA, then that's one of the best combos ever as that doubles the fire damage rate, and likely the voltaic is just there to sweeten it. I'd love to see a little of this in action from them.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:41

Psychodestroyer

....?

Thats weird. I just realized I never get that little popup over my head telling me how many tokens I get anymore...

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:44

Flists

@Darkbrady Yes, but I'm sure

@Darkbrady
Yes, but I'm sure you could recall instances where there was very little space to move around in, such as in choke points like the two rooms in the first depth of JK. We stacked a Shiver, Voltaic, and Ash on top of each other to not only get the sweet damage output but also because we were sort of forced to. We're not asking that OOO remove the feature completely, we'd just like to know if it was possible for them to have an option that turned that graphic on and off =)

@Negima
I'd love to record some video for you, but my computer really can't handle it xD I'm running SK on the lowest settings currently. Fuma or Ieke suggested having a fourth person using Stagger Storm for ULTIMATE DERPNESS

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:47

Darkbrady

Mmy bad, only saw the blue,

Mmy bad, only saw the blue, obv just the Volt and Shiver, but honestly still don't see a problem. Unless you're doing this over spikes and plan on moving around a lot, what's within the small circle of blotted outness (which, even without the new graphic, would be pretty hard to see through anyways) won't matter much; most mobs taht enter will be frozen/die, and any that can still attack you, such as lumbers will be visible clearly beyond it.

Guess an option to turn it off would be nice enough but..iunno, I quite like it.

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:48

Negimasonic

hey, it's all cool. It's

hey, it's all cool. It's still nice to see several people pulling off such a rare combo. SS would be interesting, but the slight slowdown you have from the freeze (even if it is instantly canceled) is close while still being effective. A fourth user would add more health but not more damage to what you guys are already doing.

But then again if it's just for fun it doesn't really matter lol

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:53

Flists

Ah, but Darkbrady, if you

Ah, but Darkbrady, if you can't see what you're standing on, and you can't clearly see the movements of the mobs frozen around you, then your ability to dodge jelly spikes is reduced quite a bit, isn't it? Granted, this is a fairly rare circumstance, but it's still there.
But again, I'm not trying to complain or whine. I just want to see what other's think of it.

And of course it's just for fun! Only crazies would go through JK with nothing but haze bombs right? xD

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:54

Darkbrady

Yeah, haze bombing alone

Yeah, haze bombing alone would take so long, even with all the extras; gotta chase them down; but totally cool to see, still! I'd like to try runnin' somethin' similar to that, but add a bit more juicy damage. On RJP especially I like tossin' in Gravitons and lettin' them do all the work!

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 18:57

No-Thanks

Zelda

it doesnt really look like an issue if u present it with sweet pictures of flawless victory

but i like on- off stuff in options window :o~

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 19:03

#10

Darkbrady

Spikes are still a worry I

Spikes are still a worry I guess, I suppose that just comes down to your style. I don't like to stand still much when bombing, I like to run circles around enemies, even with hazes. Even stacking stuff up, I'd still like to run around and replant in teh same place; I never trust staying still in this game!

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 23:30

#11

Flists

Sometimes you have no choice;

Sometimes you have no choice; if you're surrounded by enemies and environmental hazards, you only have a couple places to put the bomb.

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