I'm hearing a lot of ways the new gun is overpowered and broken, so I figure if that's okay for these box weapons, then surely the old shards won't be so bad if delivered by such means.
I would honestly and unsarcastically throw my money at sun shards boxes.
Yah that would be amazing. §
I've been making so many suggestions to the old Shard Bombs again, looking for ways to get it back.
And the theme of the bomb should be something cool. I wouldn't want a cardboard bomb with the same mechanics as the old Shard Bombs. Maybe something like a frozen Shard Bomb? Looks like a Shard Bomb re-skin but you're in for quite the surprise. Also I would love the damage to be elemental and piercing like the old Sun Shards. Maybe OOO is planning to release the old Shard Bombs as Tortodrone Bombs?
I guess I didn't get the memo. Something happened to the shard bombs? What happened?
~A bewildered Elt
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/58164
Around a year or two ago, the shard bombs were removed and replaced with the current versions of them. This is a bad thing, because the old sun shards allowed for single target and ranged damage, which were two things that bombers lacked otherwise.
The reason they were removed was because they were not considered bomb like-
The current shard-style bombs are functionally, not very bomb-like. They are the standouts in the system we’ve tried to build whereby: guns fire bullets, bombs create areas of damage, and swords do a mix of the two.
Our intention with the shard line was to have them ‘spread out’ and hit multiple targets at once. So, we’re making this change because we want all bombs to feel like bombs- weapons that when used, create areas of damage on the playfield and feel like they pack a punch.
However, people were quick to point out that guns like polaris and neutralizer violate this premise. Recently, tortoguns came out and REALLY violated the premise that "guns fire bullets", and that bombs create areas of damage, as they are entirely bomb like. This is especially problematic because of how ill received the shard bomb update was, and how despite massive petitions and letters from the players, Three Rings did not revert the changes. Now, it's like they've forgotten all about what they did, but shard bombs were why Zeddy stuck with the game so he is salty. This means that it would be easy to antagonize him.
@Fehzor
Thank you very much.
So this means that in Lockdown when I first joined and saw shard bombs shooting their shards out in all directions it wasn't a lockdown change in the bomb, hallucination, or the like. I must have joined between when the change was announced and when it was put into effect because I never saw that announcement :/
Well that wasn't cool. I think that a bomb that shoots out spikes that do damage would be really cool (the DBB's spikes don't do damage if anyone didn't know).
~Elt
This would revive my interest in actually playing the game for a day or two.
I'd gladly buy one.