Once you heard about Battle Sprites, what did you feel? Eager to try it out? Annoyed when it's taking so long? Post your ideas here, and see what others are thinking of.
Edit: Please keep discussion about the Battle Sprites in the appropriate threads. Thank you.
I think my first thought was "cool!" shortly followed by "Please don't have sprites be handled as badly in SK as they were in Arcane Legends."
First heard about them: Oh my god! This is the coolest thing I think I may have heard!
Now: Is it even worth talking about?
As someone who has seen the evolution of the battle sprites i can say that the argument can go two ways. Either tword, Wow that's cool! Or WTF is this?
I have to admit some of the evolution looks are kind of weird looking to me, but that's just my opinion. Also, since i test the Maskeraith i can say that the majority of the transformations regarding looks are pretty bad ass looking.
I thought the Seraphinx ones were pretty cool, until the most useful upgrade gave it antennae.
When I first saw the 3 battle sprites I looked back at the new monster we got, the fat flying fiend who attacks in a short straight line, and I wished we could have clockworks or even better, boss floors where we fought and killed the sprites.
Imagine them as the center piece for some nice new tier 3 levels. Minerals for gate construction can make the second t3 stratum a set of boss levels for fire beast, a poison fiend and something creative for the sphinx spirit. Mix in a little advancement of the story line, some good situations for team play/strategy, and have it pay something like 8000 crowns from d25-d28. Could also have some new music scores made for the 3 boss levels. If the Design Team was feeling compassionate to its players maybe design a new boss token which requires some ratio of all 3 dead sprites which will let you get the old shard bombs from brinks.
Killing a dragon, sphinx and a masked phantom with my friends and guildmates in some new tier 3 levels sounds a lot more fun. It would bring a lot more enjoyment for people to kill sprites then going to FSC for the thousandth time using weak a pet which attacks a few times per minute. I fear and feel remorse for the Spiral Knight player base for the vast fsc grinding that will be done and the fsc funds to feed the week pets. I just wish OOO had the same sort of remorse and feeling for Spiral Knight players. Their use of limited resources could have been spent on an opportunity to expand and bring some relevance to the arcade.
Thank you for reading
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On a personal note FSC is the only substantial tier 3 place to fight in terms of number of monsters and length per floor.
Regardless of party size fsc takes 3-4 minutes per floor, pound out 6-12 per day, week after week for the last 2 plus years and that is the situation of Spiral Knight's end game players who were stubborn enough to not retire. When I first went to the Unknown passage, the four people in the team fought in that last room before the elevator for around 30 minutes perhaps because of the thirst for more combat or the distasteful thought that ~2000CE worth of FSC grinding was just used for 3 reskinned Snarbolax floors. There was more excitement and skill needed fighting tier 3 Lockdown players then what we just did.
So when you are handed a fat flying fiend and you see a juicy dragon, what option would you rather take? 3 attacks in a short straight line? or something that flies and uses projectiles with aoe explosions, defensive buffs and claws? Personally I'd go kill the dragons, sphinx and masked phantom.
it's July 21st... WHERE ARE MY SPRITES!!!!! OOO you promised!!!! the middle of JULY!!! its practically the END!!! ME SPRITESS!!! lol
but then i expect something random of its out buy this Thursday or Friday.
I like the sprites. They're the wonderful entree of this update, with the fine drink that is the Collector mission. It comes on a fairly clean-looking but forgettable plate made from the new crafting system. However, you can't enjoy the meal because the appetizer is literally vomit-inducing (removing Health revives) and the waiter is insulting you (Sparks of Life). I only wish they'd hire the old waiter and take those awful appetizers off the menu.
First time I thought that pokemons are for noobies. Well, i still think like that, but it could be usefull for speedruns and raising them can be *fun*.
Im happy, some new missions will come, but it's too little. BS come in wrong time, thats sure. We first need to have where use them.
They said second half of July, not middle of July.. and.. updates happen Wednesdays ^_^
I wondered how the evolutions look like, what Battle Sprites will there be other than the starting three, and how the skills will work.