The crown counter was a great addition to the end-of-run summary. They should have implemented it in the Arcade clockworks a long time ago, though.

The giant gears by the ramps in the clockworks are awesome. I love the details like that. I also love steampunk.

Zombie jump attack change - all in all, reverting it to a direct damage attack fixed it because the grapple attack was broken before, but it’s a shame they weren’t able to fix the grapple attack. It mades zombies a lot more dangerous in crowds and created situations where knights had to save each other by smacking the zombies off each other, which required teamwork and was a lot of fun when it happened.

The mission in which you go through levels infested with kamikaze bubble ghosts was polished, unique, and generally epic. There should be more unique missions like that, as I feel a lot of them are just clockworks levels put together. Maybe a stealth mission in which you’ve got no weapons till the end or something like that.

Mission system in general is polished and works well, and the DLC “expansion” system is accessible and unintrusive.

However, missions feel a little disjointed - I get that, storywise, we’re going through a beast zone in order to find a passageway to the gremlin zone so that we can get blueprints or whatnot, but it feels like two unrelated levels, one after another. There ought to be blocked up elevators strewn around the beast zone or such, things that show you’re actually searching for a way into the gremlin zone. Similarily, there should be clues as to where the captured knights have gone in the rescue missions. Needs more detail.

The Roarmulus related missions need a change - there’s a whole thing about looking for the blueprints in order to figure out what Project R is, but you can just… scroll to the right from the missions bar and read about the Roarmulus Twins mission from there. I’m sure that’s an oversight.

The longest nonboss mission is like three levels long, making missions seem casual, but I’m sure hardcore DLC will fix that.

The Slime Arena mission seems kind of sloppily put together. It’s essentially an arena level with a wall in front of the first two elevators, resulting in a really awkward-looking level layout. Move the rewards/health room to the center and get rid of the unneeded elevator wings on the right, that will make the thing look more polished. The Arena King - There’s got to be a better explanation than the Arena King. Have stands full of monsters watching your gladiatorial-style fight or something. Also, the level seems a little flat. I think a longer staircase between each battle zone would make for more epicness, as well as a closeup shot from the beginning showing how far it is to the top of the arena.

All the knights you have to rescue are just reskinned mechknights with reskinned spurs. They are invincible and weak in combat. This makes the rescue missions seem pretty flat - just get the knights out and kill everything, because there’s no penalty for leaving the knights behind, and the knights can’t help you fight anyway. I put my shield up and watched my four knights get their butts handed to them by a swarm of gremlins and mechknights for 15 minutes. They take forever to die, and do little damage - this makes the knights basically not there in combat. There should be some penalty for having them die, perhaps you need to spend a pip of health to revive them or something. They should also have useful functions in combat - low level poison bombs are appreciated and unobtrusive, heavy swords would make them more impressive, guns that stun mobs, ect. Maybe make it so that each knight looks unique and has randomized gear. Make knights more relevant in combat and to the mission.

Maybe fix the mechknights while you’re at it - There’s only one mechkit for all three tiers, and so they’re essentially worse than useless at T3. Fix them by having them not shield against your own projectiles, allowing knights to walk through them, and making it so they won’t shock PC knights.

I really want a large-scale combat mission. I’ve always had a huge thing for watching AI fight each other, and it would be really cool to see maybe a dozen outmatched spiral recruits fighting a horde of organized Gremlins. You’d get a sense that you were doing something, turning the tide of the battle and being powerful.

There are no easter eggs and there should be. This game is awesome because there’s so much detail in it. Easter eggs in the ready room. Easter eggs in the knight camps. Easter eggs in mission rewards. More awesome stuff.

The prestige missions where you have to turn in gear and supply packs bother me. It costs a significant amount of capital to turn in a 4* item, and this means Prestige is more a function of a player’s disposable income than their skill. I think it should stick to mats and crystals, and the Prestige Missions should be much more difficult than usual.