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Tue, 04/01/2014 - 11:39
Megawatt-King's picture
Megawatt-King

Today's 1st april, and as we knights know today is when the monsters lose their shyness and start expressing their emotions and our beloved game masters "accidentally" their secret forum. But while it's cute to see a skeleton meowing and a lumber asking for your boots, your clothes and a motorcycle you don't have, it doesn't really FEEL like a joke or a prank after doing that for at least two years. And no offense GMs, but your secret forum is just dumb (pls don't ban me). In short, having the same april fools' "surprises" for two years in a row is a bit... lame.

So in this thread we come up with some fresh ideas for a new prank for the next year's april fools day.

I'll start:
> OOO will announce a new mode called LOCKDOWN: ULTRA EXTREME ELITE PRO EDITION DELUXE MAX Z and show a trailer about how awesome this mode is.
>Up to 10-12 players per team can join a match instead of just 6
>The game starts normally like it was in normal Lockdown (by that I mean minmaxed skolverdrones curbstomping the other pubbies)
>After two minutes, Skillrex-tier dubstep starts playing and anyone who dies from that time will respawn with:
- A full skolver set with almost maximum everything
- A final flourish with the damage and curse of a Gran Faust
- A brandish that inflicts ALL the bad status effects (including sleep, but only lasts two minutes), but the wielder will also get inflicted by them if he tries to use it.
- A blitz needle that shoots polaris bullets instead of needles.
- A proto bomb (because bombers are too OP).
- Two heart pendants with 50 pip health bonus each. (don't worry about not having slots, you can still have them, that'd be unfair)
- A permanent double damage, movement and speed and CTR buff for everything.
>All capture points are disabled and locked but the one in the middle of the map.
>Quake kill sounds start playing every time you kill someone or when somebody gets a "M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!!!"
>If you're the one to die, you will only need 5 seconds to respawn.
>Capturing the point is instant and it's determined by how many players of each team are on it. If nobody is on it or if the number is equal, the point stays neutral.
>Get 2015 capture points to win the match.

Oh yeah, and depending on the map, some sort of hazard will show up (the forest for example will spawn 4 snarbies, and the ice ones will spawn a whole army of overpowered overtimed devilites) Getting killed by them will give the enemy team 100 capture points.

Tue, 04/01/2014 - 11:43
#1
Red-Galaxy's picture
Red-Galaxy
Mind blown

Mind blown

Tue, 04/01/2014 - 12:43
#2
Skyguarder's picture
Skyguarder

If those were to be April Fools jokes, then you should make them sound real. :P

Tue, 04/01/2014 - 13:49
#3
Megawatt-King's picture
Megawatt-King
Skyguarder

You're right. Instead of being just a new mode, it would replace the original lockdown for like a day and then become a separate mode for like a week. Also the video would make it look like it's the actual lockdown.

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Also I can't be the only one with an idea for April fools... Come on folks, what's yours?

Tue, 04/01/2014 - 14:01
#4
Arcknightdelta's picture
Arcknightdelta

Selecting any mission will automatically start the Unknown Passage on Elite mode.

Tue, 04/01/2014 - 22:01
#5
Hexzyle's picture
Hexzyle
@Megawatt-King

The GM subforum and monster quotes wasn't the only April Fools prank Three Rings have pulled.

You must have been so mad from last years prank that you literally forgot. A select few members of the Spiral Knights community whinged at Three Rings for fooling them on April Fools 2013, and thus Three Rings have taken it upon themselves to never prank the community again. This is why we can't have nice things.

Not even kidding, the lashback was so horrible the Patch Notes had to be unpublished because people are unable to check the date and cannot take a joke.

Wed, 04/02/2014 - 06:26
#6
Megawatt-King's picture
Megawatt-King
Hexzyle

Players were hoping for the return of the tortos, and OOO made a ruse of that. Of course they were pissed. You never joke with something people really want, that's like flipping a bird to them.

But yeah, I sorta forgot about it. Then again, a simple patch note isn't that memorable.

I do remember, however, that the new GUI also was announced at that time. I wished THAT was the april fools' joke instead.

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