Today's release notes can be found here: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/81362.
May 29 Update - Discussion
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 10:00
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 10:29
#2
Why remove the elevator
Why remove the elevator jumping button, it always gave me a laugh and was fun to do, like a little minigame...
but its a glitch...
but its fun...
I dont know what i want, stupid adhd.
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 10:47
#3
"When a knight cannot move"
What makes a knight unmoving?
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 11:31
#4
Certain instances force a knight to not move. For example, the 3-2-1-GO before a Lockdown match starts, or a bigger example is after the party stands on the elevator and you can't move.
@Topic No more using bombs after getting on elevator for kabooms :( But fixing incorrect icons are great (they bug me) toggling weapon wheel takes place immediately is nice for the people who like it I guess... and more animation fixing :O
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 12:27
#5
You are experiencing a PICNIC ERROR!
Good update! I +1.
Really, glitches can be fun but at the same time they are strange.
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 13:23
#6
- Bash and Dash will not work when a knight cannot move
- Unequipping a shield will no longer break a knight's animation
STOP HAVING FUN, GUYS
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 18:44
#7
My thoughts exactly
My thoughts exactly Batabii.
I said to myself, 'are they going to find a reason to stop people from having fun on the elevators?'
I even thought of my ragequit monologue I'd post on the forums when they removed this fun zoom game on the elevators...
Do they even understand how much joy that gave the playerbase? How can they be so heartless? Is it the money?
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 18:57
#8
In the grim, dark future.
There is no fun allowed.
There was nothing actually wrong with the glitches, they didn't give people any significant edge. And yet, OOO took them away, the spoiler-sports. My money's on the theory that people didn't realize what was actually happening and thought we were hacking, reporting us and bringing this whole fiasco to bear. Still, nice job on ruining the fun guys, love yew.
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 19:22
#9
Actually ...
There was one thing that could go wrong when using Dash on the elevators. Though to my knowledge it's impossible to be damaged by monsters once you've reached the elevators, players were not immune to damage. If they dashed off the elevator and into dangerous terrain such as Shadow Fire (which is even more likely given the camera doesn't move), they'd suffer some hits.
Personally I don't think it was too major a deal and will miss being able to rocket off the screen, but that's life. Maybe it was causing too many issues for others, and the Game Masters got tired of reading the error reports that weren't actually about errors.
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 19:23
#10
Dammit.
Remind me not to browse the forums from within the Steam browser, the latency is absurd.
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 19:43
#11
A modest proposal
Clearly, this is the work of the same dev who took away butt-scooting.
Rather than just sit around complaining about the fun police, I think we need to find out which dev keeps breaking my favorite features... and see about getting that person a puppy.
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 19:45
#12
No.
An Alpha Wolver.
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 22:03
#13
How you could have abused the elevator dash
Assuming you didn't need your heat and you have less than 3 bars of HP going into the next level:
-get on elevator with .5 bars
-dash into hazard
-die
-start next level with 3 bars
Free HP :)
Thu, 05/30/2013 - 00:50
#14
If you're at less than 3 pips when you step on the lift you'll regain pips up to 3.
Thu, 05/30/2013 - 01:03
#15
It's worse than patching the Flamberge glitch. Which, by the way, only hurt people STUPID enough to stand still while you wound up your slow, telegraphed attack that had a TINY chance of WEAK fire.
Thu, 08/15/2013 - 06:50
#16
"There is no fun allowed."
No matter how fun it is, it was an glitch, and mini-exploit for more.
To get new players, game mustn't have dissuasive oddities like that, lol.
@Topic, update is good, but please... Repair at last dat update system. I don't want to re-download half of game for few bugfixes, /o/.
Thu, 05/30/2013 - 08:18
#17
Asthix agrees!
Mtax makes a good point, not about the dash glitch, totally wrong on that.
But the last 2 updates have been corrupted for me, most recently giving me this Portal screen:
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9282/spiral20130529190509k.png
I also froze up on system shutdown and had a BSoD, all so OOO could take away a feature of the game that I found fun and enjoyable.
Thu, 05/30/2013 - 08:22
#18
There was nothing actually wrong with the glitches
Actually there was. You could move around during cutscenes and cause all sorts of havoc.
Thu, 05/30/2013 - 11:07
#19
Much what Hexzyle Said
Honestly, I feel like I'm one of the few who saw this kind of bug patch coming, in part of because of what Hexzyle said. Simply put, the dash mechanic was breaking a game mechanic that was meant to lock knights in place, and while probably harmless in two of the most common cases, there's still others. Also, can you imagine the headache a programmer would get in trying to make new content which involve this simple program action. Honestly, it's a fair trade.
Also, in as much as it was fun to jump out of the elevator, it did seem extraordinary and inconsistently strange for knights to hop off of it like that. And two new knights, something that sticks itself out like that (Unlike using the minor graphics bug in where you slide over the elevator and not actually stand on it while going down) would give them the idea of sloppy programming. I don't think OOO needs that.
Thu, 05/30/2013 - 21:17
#20
Mmm... Delicious.
Shidara takes a sip of the tears he collected in his glass.
You guys are kinda overreacting. What do you play the game for exactly, the content or the glitches?
Thu, 05/30/2013 - 22:01
#21
I just hope they never fix those OTHER fun harmless glitches which I will not be naming, lest they ruin them too.
Fri, 05/31/2013 - 09:59
#22
orly?
Oh, you don't need to name them. If it exists, we'll find them.
Fri, 05/31/2013 - 16:14
#23
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I CANNOT MOVE AFTER A LOCKDOWN MATCH
Sun, 06/02/2013 - 12:34
#25
A wile someone appears!
Oh hi guys, I thought I'd come back and have fu--Awwww, never mind.
Sun, 06/02/2013 - 20:58
#26
I know(hope) this is all in fun, but seriously stop complaining about bugfixes. Bugs and glitches might be fun, but fixing them just gives the game a more polished overall look.
Mon, 06/03/2013 - 17:28
#27
Really smooth guys, hiding that lockbox fix in under our noses. Seerusly, give yourselves some credit for that. it's really awesome :3
Mon, 06/03/2013 - 20:46
#28
There goes me trolling my
There goes me trolling my team mates and opponents...
Tue, 06/04/2013 - 01:41
#29
i dont get it
i don't get it.there r glitches that let people have fun playing around in the training hall showing off and having fun while waiting for there mist to regen to play some new levels! i mean if the glitch doesn't give the player any advantages y remove it??
Tue, 06/04/2013 - 13:50
#30
You are experiencing a PICNIC ERROR!
i mean if the glitch doesn't give the player any advantages y remove it??
It gives energy-less players something to do instead of pull out their wallets and get CE. xD
Thu, 06/13/2013 - 23:06
#31
ce price
we want it lowered. i can't stand buying it at a high price. i think it should be at a fair price like 4k. but 7k really i mean come on it is a pain enough to go get it in clockworks. these demands shall be met.
Fri, 06/14/2013 - 01:46
#32
/reply Infinitekid
Low 7k isn't that bad, but it could be better. For a bit of history, it used to be around 4k, apparently, until Missions came out, and sometime at the backside of last year, the prices went up to 10k+.
Now, back to the topic.
Fri, 06/14/2013 - 20:09
#33
@Gravelord-Caste
Energy was 5800-7000 before missions were introduced, FYI.
Sat, 06/15/2013 - 02:16
#34
/reply Hexyle
Oh. I wasn't around at that time, so I just parroted what I heard. Still sounds better than what we have now, though.
Sun, 06/16/2013 - 21:29
#35
@Gravelord-Caste
It was. Blame King of Ashes.
Mon, 06/17/2013 - 01:07
#36
/reply Hexyle
Ok.
/yell Screw you King of Ashes, you pompous bowling ball!
... I feel better after that /smile Pity I don't have much to say about the actual update itself, as It's just bug fixes.
"- Bash and Dash will not work when a knight cannot move"
There goes my "Stand on the Gate" Glitch substitute. Darn these players and their fancy F2 buttons....
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Actually, i miss the Stand on Gate glitch. You could literally put Shivermist Buster in mid-air and pretend it was a cloud. Add a Electron Bomb and you got yourself a thunderstorm. ;_;