Spiral Knights - Obsidian Carbine.

Obsidian Carbine.

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Thu, 10/24/2013 - 23:16

Scirio

Alright here's the deal,

Yesterday I made an Obsidian Carbine, which was a grindfest because I had to get a blackhawk to lvl 10 first, but that's not the point.

When I got the gun I thought it looked great, sounds were cool and whatnot.

But for Vog's sake OOO, what is up with that charge? Weird ugly purple 'tentacles' that spaz out at the end of their path.

Shouldn't they at least look like the tentacles Harvy used to attack you with?

This feels like kind of a letdown because it's true the gun looks great and feels just right, but we had to get a crapload of tokens and some people even have to, get an antigua (grindfest), heat it to level 5 (which is easy), get the blackhawk recipe..., craft and heat a blackhawk (grindfest), and then they finally get to craft the OC and all they get is a sloppy charge. C'mon OOO, I expected better from you guys.

Now that I brought it up anyway, having to do all that work during a limited event may be a bit unfair to players who don't have my luck of already having the gun, recipe, etc.

Not cool OOO, not cool.

Thu, 10/24/2013 - 23:48

Fangel

If the tokens were harder to get, I'd complain too

As it is, you only really need to play the mission once or twice for the tokens. That's two days you need to do, and the rest of your time can be spent leveling up your items. The fact that shining fire crystals are dropping like candy right now eliminates that factor.

The visual effect is disappointing, I agree. Its model might be unstable otherwise, but this is a visual effect I would expect, and be perfectly happy with, on medium video graphics. I'd love a visual change to the tentacle things for high graphics.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 00:49

Oatmonster

Lick Number 58425

More importantly, it does normal damage instead of shadow damage.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 00:53

Hrpb

SHhhhhh

Dont bring that up, they might patch it....Shhhh....:)

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 01:13

Captain-Neobi

C'mon

Period.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 01:20

Chaolin-Drake

@Oatmonster

It has shadow damage but it's in the last bullet of it's charge attack. But of course it should have shadow regardless.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 01:14

The-Vindicar

Precursor item

Let me add my two cents: while "lvl 10 4* weapon" prerequisite falls in line with other 5* recipes, it's discriminating against players who don't happen to have the precursor at hand, since mission is only available for a limited time. I can only imagine the frustration of players who upgraded their Blackhawk into Sentenza shortly before the event.
OOO could at least give us a hint about the required precursor items beforehand!

Though honestly, I'd prefer a day or two of token grinding to having to craft and heat up 4* item in a hurry. Not to mention you need to stumble onto a recipe first, as people won't be selling those now and price will skyrocket. In fact, the recipe seems to be the second hardest part after levelling itself, as all you can do is to grind T3 and pray that Basil will offer it.

But of course they are not going to change anything, as event urges people to buy fire crystals, orbs and heat amplifiers. Or at least it's supposed to.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 04:52

Grittle

Tentacles in a cartoon

Tentacles in a cartoon game?

Looks like OOO has been watching to much questionable anime

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 04:55

Blue-Flood

First world problems.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 05:02

Daili

What else were you expecting

What else were you expecting from a weapon made from obsodian? Especially when the whole event is derived around the Harvester and it's hands and etc.
We're you expecting for a dark, supernatural, obsidian weapons to have a charge that shoots sunshine and rainbows?

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 05:17

#10

Hexzyle

When you're this swag this world just bows at your knees

Of course he was.

Fri, 10/25/2013 - 05:17

#11

Lanieu

That's funny....It really

That's funny....It really only takes 3-4 runs to get ALL the sigils you need.

I had a Blackhawk and the 4* Grav Bomb fully heated just lying around by pure luck/laziness of not upgrading them.

#tentacles

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