Spiral Knights - The most (and/or least) fun experiences you've ever had in Spiral Knights

The most (and/or least) fun experiences you've ever had in Spiral Knights

38 replies [Last post]

Sat, 04/14/2012 - 02:10

Schattentag

Hello, General Discussion Forum!

You may or may not have seen me before in the Suggestions Forum, where I usually shoot myself in the foo-- I mean do my best to contribute, but I've decided to open myself up a bit to the rest of the Spiral Knights community. I've been playing Spiral Knights for about nine months or so now, and I feel like it's probably time I get a bit more involved.

Since I don't feel like that was a particularly meaningful self-introduction, I thought I'd share some stories with everyone. I recently took an English writing course at my college, and one of our "icebreaker" activities was to write down a few simple questions to ask the people in the class. One of the ones I came up with was, "What's the first thing you think, say, or do when you see roadkill?" My professor thought this was one of the best questions, since it got people to actually start telling stories about roadkill. Unlike the usual questions that incite two-word answers (e.g. "Who's your favorite rock artist?"), the roadkill question had people chatting up a storm and really getting to know each other better.

Anyway, let's cut to the chase: story time.

I think the most fun I get out of Spiral Knights is when I can deal tons of damage to enemies, so I'm constantly trying to find more ways and places to do it. I mean, what's better seeing a good flurry of damage numbers and health pips flying out of a pack enemies? My answer: seeing a good flurry of damage numbers and health pips flying out of a single large enemy, having that enemy explode into a massive pile of goop, crowns, heat, and other drops, and finally, stepping all over that enemy's core so I can clean up that pile. I understand that there's a couple of slimy citizens who might fit this general experience, but it doesn't really matter which one - they're all fun.

The trick? My Umbra Driver, a Giant Lichen Colony or the Royal Jelly, and a bit of experience.

Many Alchemer users probably know that a single charge shot can hit a single enemy several times without having shots bounce off of other enemies first, just because the shot hit slightly off-center. I personally think that this mechanic makes using Alchemers extremely fun, because it rewards so much for just a little extra aiming. When a Giant Lichen Colony comes charging at me or I see a break in the Royal Mini crowd, I'll let loose a charged Umbra Driver shot and BOOM. Loads of damage numbers sailing happily upward.

There you have it, folks - my current "most fun experiences" in Spiral Knights. Anyone else have something they'd like to share?

P.S. If there's already a big thread for this, or I've put this thread in the wrong subforum, let me know. I'll promptly hang my head in shame and failure, then move this thread appropriately.

Sat, 04/14/2012 - 02:31

Erridunno

Yay i'm the first person to

Yay i'm the first person to post on this thread and i liked it when Nick and most others on the forums appreciated my idea for the next featured auction.
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/43209#comment-281014

Sat, 04/14/2012 - 05:32

Warriorrogue

most fun experience? Duoing

most fun experience?
Duoing vana with a friend, no major blitzing or plague-ing, no shiver, just us 2 bit of autogun chaos, and tons of polaris/supernova chaos.
least fun?
Carrying someone through vana, and he killed a love puppy while we we healing.
or firing some supernova spam as I entered a room, and killing a mewkat instantly. At least its death was quick.
/me commits suicide

Sat, 04/14/2012 - 10:57

Enshadu

Hello, Schattentag.

The most fun experience I've had to date was my first run through UFSC.
The least fun I've had is doing anything with Shivermist in the party.

Sat, 04/14/2012 - 15:55

Spectrumized

My first, and currently only,

My first, and currently only, shadow lair attempt was my most fun experience.
My least fun has to be the fiend T3 missions. Damn fiends...

Sat, 04/14/2012 - 16:12

Traevelliath

Most fun run?

The most fun run I ever had was my second UFSC run. I was at 640 CE for a rev...

No really, it was AWESOME :3

Sat, 04/14/2012 - 17:24

The-Ark

Most fun time was getting 4

Most fun time was getting 4 people with warmaster hammers and divine avengers and dominating the FSC.
Least fun was doing the tier 1 missions with 5* items.

Sat, 04/14/2012 - 20:54

Mysteryzx

hehehe.......

Well....

Mon, 04/16/2012 - 21:38

Schattentag

Fair enough

My first (and only, so far) Shadow Lair run was pretty fun, I must admit. Sadly, I'm F2P, so it'll be a while before I can do another one.

I think my least fun experience was probably a bad Vana run that I did with a friend who'd been crafting for a month. Since he hadn't run dungeons in a while, I can't say we did so hot. I mean, we were hot because we were on fire a lot of the time, but Vanaduke was the only one doing hot, not us. >_>

Before I let this thread die out completely, anyone else want to share?

Mon, 04/16/2012 - 22:02

Arctifice

Let's see....

Best was helping one of my best buddy Vortex bombers help her and co. through FSC.
Rest of us had Brandishes of every elemental flavor.

Least.....UGW with people who couldn't control the bell. That boss fight lasted forever.

Sun, 04/22/2012 - 15:37

#10

Goofio

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 08:09

#11

Netlom

Most fun: Anytime I use an

Most fun: Anytime I use an Electron Charge line bomb or completely dominate mobs with my Polaris. Seriously, such fun.

Least fun: Being completely swarmed by ghosts and devilites who are constantly being healed, all while in a small battle zone:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/469737859232953491/FF41D2CC7F98CE41B99...

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 10:20

#12

Fallconn

FALCON PUNCH!

totally owning a full team of skolvers with 3 pips? :D

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 11:39

#13

Nurdell

Most fun

Actually I have a list of my favourite moments - new players understanding the ropes during the roarmulus twins fight, blowing toxilargo up with a single normal biohazard bullet... But undoubtedly number one of this list is my gold survivor achievement run.
That day I came home just to find out that the gate with royal jelly palace, poison strata 5 and beast - 6, moved to the leftmost place in the arcade. (that gate taught me that poison is not underpowered with stopping me about ten times already). That meant that the best opportunity for me might slip away from my hands. The daily reboot was already announced in 80-with-something minutes, but I ignored it.
The luck was on my side. greavers and devilites fell prey to my fiend ultra damage radiant sun shards left and right, poisonous lichens and polips stood no chance against the force of my very own biohazard... and collected all the treasures too. I got one really sought-after recipe from Basil (yes, that was before the missions). I was dancing around with beasts until it was announced that the reboot will come in 20 minutes. I was sure that it usually takes me twice this time to beat the remaining levels so I began to hurry. The last few depths were amazing. Let's just say that if you haven't seen the whole depths of wolvers chasing you, you have seen nothing. They followed me like I was the leader of the pack and I had the adrenaline to believe it. But that still was a race against the clock - oh, the most unforgiving enemy in the world! And I ran, ran like crazy until there was a five minute warning and one full level to beat. 2 minutes warning - party button; one minute - I was at the elevator, at the core. I made it! Phew! I shred a tear of happiness and typed inappropriate words to the guild chat. Luckily there was only one man to see them. I was happy.

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 13:44

#14

Softhead

-_-

Most fun?: When I got my assists by GMs.

Least: Almost everything else(INCLUDING the community, well most)

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 16:02

#15

Iron-Volvametal

...

Most Fun: Runs with Friends/Guildmates.

Least Fun: Any Lockdown Game.

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 16:56

#16

Fallconn

FALCON PUNCH!

@Iron thats because your a hammer spamming recon, which is no fun.....

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 17:14

#17

Soulstaker

Soloing T1 missions and

Soloing T1 missions and getting crap rewards with 5* stuff and carrying horrible 2* players in RJP. (least fun)
Most fun:Doing FSC and JK runs with guild mates.

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 17:30

#18

Iron-Volvametal

@Fallconn

Then Ditch the Wussy Med Damage Bonus Dusker Set, Wear a Drake Scale Set, get an Elemental Sword instead of that Over-Used Poker, & Come at me, Brah.

You're lucky I don't use Dusker, or I'd be whuppin' yer butt a whole lot Faster.

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 17:29

#19

Xairathan

RECON HAPPY TIME

Best: The time I held off an entire team on the northern point of Forest
Worst: The time an entire team decided to prod me to death whilst I was shiverlocked

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 00:23

#20

Schattentag

More stories!

Shadow Lairs seem to be pretty popular for people's most fun experiences, despite their limited accessibility. Similarly, Lockdown seems not to be too fun for people. Maybe I should keep a running list of the things people generally like/dislike.

I have mixed feelings about Lockdown. Sometimes I'll have a great time back-capping or defending points as Recon, other times I'll get a bit discouraged after dying more than usual or having to deal with a spawn-camping team. One particularly funny incident was when I was using an Electron Bomb and Silversix against some other Recon guy. For whatever reason he decided to walk into the vortex, and the rest is easy enough to figure out. The more interesting part is that he actually came back to the same point while I was still defending it. He didn't try to change his equipment or anything, and he even went right back into the vortices I was laying down. Sure enough, I defeated him again. He came back a third and fourth time, but those times he decided to just leave the area rather than fight me and my oh-so-strong 4* equipment set. That was probably the funniest part, actually, just seeing the same dude pop up on the edge of my screen only to retreat again after seeing me there.

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 08:06

#21

Kickthebucket

best: to many worst: rolling

best: to many
worst: rolling 1mil crown on UV's only getting low (and even useless) crap

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 09:47

#22

Vokster

Best: Helping the community complete missions and Shadow Lairs whilst making good friends from it. =)

Worst: This. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198048733613/screenshot/59471499... (There was about 20 more off screen) Well, actually I was laughing really loud when someone invited me to help them and saw this. I guess I don't have any bad experiences. XD

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 11:21

#23

Paweu

My best experience was the

My best experience was the first month with the game, everything seemed so magically fresh. Worst experience would be every death sponsored to game freeze/lag.

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 01:48

#24

Schattentag

@Vokster

Oh man. Having to deal with that must have sucked a lot, but I guess you were able to make the best of it.

@Paweu
Actually, I agree with you on both parts. When I first started playing, I felt like there were so many options available to me. I would spend a good amount of time with my friends just talking about what sets of equipment would be good for certain situations and which enemies were the hardest to deal with. I guess now I still sort of do that, but as you said, it felt so fresh when I first started out.

Regarding freezing and lag, I totally know what you mean. I play on a 3 year-old Macbook, so my system isn't able to handle the game particularly well. There's times in FSC where my computer will simply freeze up for like 10 seconds and the next thing I know I'm dead...

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 04:53

#25

Nexassassin

Best experience: Team Kill in

Best experience: Team Kill in LD

Worst experience: Having a party member(s) who order everyone around in Vana runs who think they know it all when they themselves aren't Vana competent....Rephrase: Having any bad party members. (this one makes me frown and puts me in a terrible mood =c)

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 18:09

#26

Magnicth

Best experience: frolicking

Best experience: frolicking through tier 1 lockdown with my prototype rocket hammer or learning how to perform the Legendary Dark Ritual of the spookats.not sure which one though.

Worst experience: waiting forever to play said awesome tier 1 lockdown game or anytime i ever play blast network......../shudder

-Magnicth the Dragon Mage

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 18:15

#27

Qazxedcv

c(-'.'-c)

Best experiance: Soloing last wave of an arena with my AoA (construct VH!) watching the silly mechas slowly burn to death while the menders make futile attempts to stave off their compatriots inevitable incendiary doom. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA- ahem...

Worst experiance: Getting trapped in a corner in Vana by a slag guard and shadow fire. Along with both of my teammates. t(-'.'-t) you stupid big pseudo-trojan linebacker.

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 18:25

#28

Villainus

Fun

Final flourish charge on a mound of wolvers... Dmg numbers flying everywhere...

worst.. Selling stuff in haven, hands down.

Fri, 04/20/2012 - 00:58

#29

Reignandpals

fun

most fun: doing SL for the first time

least fun: got dced there 5 times :D missed ice queen: at least it death was quick

Sun, 04/22/2012 - 02:17

#30

Schattentag

Dem Shadow Lairs

Got another one for the Shadow Lairs, eh? Fun stuff.

@Nexassassin
I totally know what you mean, with the bad party members. Sometimes you really just have to tune them out and do your own thing. There was a thread a while back about revival etiquette, and there I talked about how if I see that certain party members aren't doing so well after reviving them once, I'll simply stop reviving them. I remember one time a guy asked me to come down to RJP, and I found his entire party wiped out. I revived one of them and he went and got the other two players. They all used their health capsules and all that, then promptly died again while I was still going around killing things with what little health I had after the revival. It's not that these guys were inexperienced - they were all T3 players. I think they were just having a bad day or something. I think I gave them one more revive, but I ended up having to carry them through.

@Qazxedcv
I should really get an AoA...they do seem fun, and it's a nice break from the usual crowd control role I play as a bomber.

@Villainus
Yeah! Here's to having damage numbers fly everywhere!

Sun, 04/22/2012 - 11:48

#31

Batabii

I can't say for sure what the

I can't say for sure what the MOST fun experience was, but let me tell you it's quite awesome killing the snarbolax in 30 seconds with 5* gear and the Electron Vortex.

Sun, 04/22/2012 - 15:42

#32

Fehzor

I like it when my party fails, and we all die and go back to haven.

Sun, 04/22/2012 - 17:04

#33

Autofire

BestMoment: First time I beat

BestMoment: First time I beat vanaduck, I mean duke. :3
WorstMoment: Being trolled in said run, being called a racist and a girl, but I'm the opposite. -.-

Sun, 04/22/2012 - 17:55

#34

Hydromaniac

Best moment: At the fight in

Best moment: At the fight in Jelly Farm II, where 9 jellies spawn in a square formation. I had my Grintovec, and it charged it before the fight. Best moment was when I killed 9 jellies, instantly, at the same time.
Worst moment: when a bad party I was in wasted 200 CE at least on revs for vanaduke, only to fail.

Mon, 04/23/2012 - 00:29

#35

Enclavean

Best moment would be the

Best moment would be the first time i used Punch and got CTR VH on my Shivermist. I. Was. So. Happy. (My first UV being so epic was really a heartful moment)

Worst moment: LAG LAG LAG LAG LAG LAG LAG LAG LAG. I've come so close to quitting every time i started lagging badly ><

Tue, 04/24/2012 - 03:12

#36

Zaeyon

Best moment: playing with

Best moment: playing with friends and somehow everything seems to work out magically well.
Worst moment: LAG.

Fri, 04/27/2012 - 00:20

#37

Schattentag

Update

Least fun experience I've had in Spiral Knights:

Saying goodbye to nearly all of the active members of my guild in one night.

Sure, the people who left my guild (and Spiral Knights) today are my personal friends outside of the game, so it's not like I won't see them again or talk to them ever. However that's not to say their quitting Spiral Knights means nothing to me. My friends and I have enjoyed playing Spiral Knights together for around nine months, and Spiral Knights was something that probably brought us all a little closer together. Spiral Knights created experiences for us that are irreplaceable.

Frankly though, there's just not a whole lot for us to play for at this point.

Rescue Camp? Check.
Haven? Check.
Snarbolax? Check.
Roarmulus Twins? Check.
Royal Jelly? Check.
Lord Vanaduke? Check.
Krogmo Coin equipment? Check.
Shadow Lair? Check.
Rank Missions? Check.
Prestige Missions? Come on, really?
Expansion Mission? Refuse.
Awesome costume? Check.
Anything I've left out: probably check that as well.

We've reached the end of the game. It was a great run for us, and the run has just about finished. Heck it was over a few months ago, before missions were released. Since missions, we've eagerly awaited new content. Every time we saw the patch window, we would get excited, but that excitement has since dwindled. We've lost faith, and we've lost any hint of a reason to keep playing Spiral Knights.

I'm not saying I disagree with recent update content, nor am I saying that I'm going to stop playing Spiral Knights. Recent updates are probably good for the game, and for that I'm glad. All I'm saying is that my friends have decided to be done with Spiral Knights for the time being, having reached what they consider to be the end of the game after a solid nine months of involvement.

It's been a good run; it's been fun. Saying goodbye is never fun though, and thus tonight marks the night of my least fun experience in Spiral Knights.

Fri, 04/27/2012 - 02:47

#38

Halifix

Best: Trolling

Best: Trolling friends.

Worst: Getting kicked from parties, even though the 5*'s are dying while I'm surviving, in 2-5* gear (depending on which character I'm on).

Search

The most (and/or least) fun experiences you've ever had in Spiral Knights