Spiral Knights - All 'Blaster type gun' charge attack animation

All 'Blaster type gun' charge attack animation

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Mon, 05/14/2012 - 04:12

Psychodestroyer

Assuming you've all seen it, it looks pretty awesome eh?

Although I agree, I somewhat disagree with the effect it has.

At first, I thought that the explosive range had also increased. However, this was not the case. (Duh.)

What I'm saying is, am I the only one who thinks the blast animation is severely overstating the guns power? An Alchemer's explosion is more lackluster, although I believe it has a slightly larger range.

The blast looks more like something that would come from a Mini-Blast bomb, not a standard-issue sidearm.

TL;DR: New gun charge shot animation grossly overstates power/range? Discuss plox?

Mon, 05/14/2012 - 04:52

Sorou

Well, yes. It does certainly

Well, yes. It does certainly LOOK more powerful than it really is. But so does pretty much anything 5* and no one complains.

Mon, 05/14/2012 - 05:21

Myg-Mog

Fubrubblahahaha

Um, Sorou? At least THOSE kersplosions had a KICK to them. Capslocking means I'm insta-right and you should listen to me puny mortal XD

Mon, 05/14/2012 - 06:41

Tenkii

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I'm pretty sure this is the problem right now:
http://i.imgur.com/D5A9y.png

After doing a couple shots in training hall after the patch, there IS a bit of an extended explosion from the huge charge ball (I shot between two hard walls and the explosion triggered a block behind them). The problem is that the charge ball is so huge that you can barely ever "trigger" the explosion in a way that it'd actually hit multiple enemies. With Alchemers, the charge ball is small so you can easily sneak it to hit an enemy in the middle or back of a group, and of course, it shoots out a bunch of projectiles making its explosion range feel even bigger.

Mon, 05/14/2012 - 21:16

Psychodestroyer

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"Well, yes. It does certainly LOOK more powerful than it really is. But so does pretty much anything 5* and no one complains."

I wasn't talking SPECIFICALLY about the Blaster line, let alone the Valiance.

I meant guns like the Blaster line and similars, i.e the Protogun.

I tried it out in the ATH, and for such a puny gun, it had such an awesome-looking explosion.

Don't get me wrong, I DO think the explosion is awesome. I just think it's over exaggerating the gun's range and power.

@Serian Pretty much.

Mon, 05/14/2012 - 21:21

Iron-Volvametal

Tal here.

"Don't get me wrong, I DO think the explosion is awesome. I just think it's over exaggerating the gun's range and power."

I Agree. It seems a bit too Strong-Looking for just a 0-1* Weapon.

Mon, 05/14/2012 - 21:32

Toastnaut

I hope the updated sounds and visuals carry over to some of the updates coming for other guns...

Has anyone noticed how cool the punch and pummel guns are now? I can only hope the magnus projectile looks as cool when they get their update.

A universal bump to guns and bombs kind of has me thinking this is just the first phase of a bigger balance patch... I have fingers crossed.

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