Spiral Knights - Gunner update doesn't have enough descriptions/some of them are silly!

Gunner update doesn't have enough descriptions/some of them are silly!

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Mié, 12/10/2014 - 19:16

Autofire

I know that there are a ton of armors/helms that are all very similar, but we waited so long, couldn't they have thought of a few? (Maybe not...)

I'm talking mainly about the 3-5* Gunner update armor/hats. All of the descriptions are about the same, but just changing a few words here and there. While there are a few other examples of this (i.e. infamous shards), it's extra glaring on the gunner update gear because there are 96(!) similar ones, counting 3* though 5* helmets and armors. (Okay, looking at that number, it does look a little daunting. WTH did OOO do so many? That's 48 new 5* items alone!)

Riftlocker and Breach Blaster are wrong because Piercing works best when the target is unarmored.

Phantamos is goofy, because Knights didn't even come up with the recipe, but you have to find the guns from Basil. (Alchemers already have Shadow damage, among other weapons.)

Permafroster's description is outright wrong, or the scientists only wait a few seconds before getting tired of waiting for the ice to melt.

Well, this is getting picky, but A charged shot can even pierce through multiple enemies. on all Callahans; 'even' looks very unnatural on many of the guns' descriptions.

Removes hyper-critical hat.

Mié, 12/10/2014 - 20:59

Abelisk

Its just a game-

Mié, 12/10/2014 - 21:32

Dahall

@OP

Do you know what happens when you give a crown to a beggar?

Mié, 12/10/2014 - 22:23

Red-Galaxy

@Dahall

you feel glad inside because now that beggar will finally shut up?

Mié, 12/10/2014 - 22:35

Turn-Me-On

Depends If the beggar is an

Depends

If the beggar is an honest noob who asked "Can someone please give me 500 crowns?"

Then I feel happy for helping them out.

If the beggar is some derp noob who asked "Can plz 69696 crwons plzszzz"

Then they usually get the ignore list.

Mié, 12/10/2014 - 22:52

Autofire

You are experiencing a PICNIC ERROR!

I like it that people are derailing this thread.

Anywho, I'm just sayings that these descriptions don't seem to match up with OOO's previous ones. I've always liked descriptions in games, and tend to read all of them (even the long ones), just for the sake of it.

Recipe for making spicy jerky.
Obtain some type of meat,
slice it into pieces about half of an inch thick.
Season the pieces as much as possible,
hang the pieces on a laundry line or something like it
and leave out in the sun for maybe 8 months...
Well, that's what my recipe says...
When eaten, you recover about 250 HP.

~Spicy Jerky description, Earthbound

Jue, 12/11/2014 - 01:37

Thunder-The-Bright

algorithms are the solutions to any problem.

I got the description of the permafroster as "the target usually dies before unfreezing".
and come on, what did you think, that every single grizzly/firefly/other animals variant had a different description? how about armor "classes"? are shade and ghost almost the same?

Jue, 12/11/2014 - 01:55

Dahall

@Red-Galaxy

No, it will only encourage the beggar to continue begging.

Jue, 12/11/2014 - 01:59

Klipik-Forum

This is just another problem of adding 73 extremely similar armor sets in at once.

Jue, 12/11/2014 - 14:13

Autofire

You are experiencing a PICNIC ERROR!

@Thunder, Klipik

That's what I was thinking, until I realized that they took over 730 days (2 years, right? Or was the initial announcement later than that?) to make this update, doing who-knows-what, and many of those people probably weren't even actively developing the update. If they had 4 people, they could have assigned 24 of the 96 equips to each of those people. Each of those people would have had to work at a rate of 1 description per 30 days.

Now, I can write a fan-fiction in less than 30 days. How hard could it have been to come up with two sentences a month? :S

EDIT: Even if they had 300 days to come up with descriptions, with the conditions above, each person would have had 12.5 days per description.

I guess I really shouldn't be complaining, though; we have the Gunner Update after such a long drought, I should be skipping with happiness. But i hope that these descriptions aren't here to stay forever.

Jue, 12/11/2014 - 14:23

#10

Fangel

Not two years.

The original gunner update announcement was announced on 10/07/2013. So it took about a year and two months to complete and release.

As for the descriptions, sure some should be different, but at the same time they can only get so exciting.

Jue, 12/11/2014 - 15:01

#11

Malware-Exe

if it bugs you then why did you get interested in Lore in the first place?

Jue, 12/11/2014 - 15:47

#12

Traevelliath

@Faeyd: What kind of logic is that? If a book you are reading suddenly switched to broken English and abysmal spelling for no reason, you'd have every right to complain. Most of the descriptions in Spiral Knights are quite interesting/entertaining. The descriptions of the new gear can be... rather disappointing in comparison.

For example...

Plated Grizzly Sentinel Helm:
A helm reinforced with gremlin plating to defend against a range of dangerous elements.

Phantamos:
An powerful handgun brimming with dark energy. The Phantamos represents one of the most recent additions to the Spiral Knight's arsenal, as containing shadow energy of this degree took a great deal of research.

Fusion Blaster (WHICH DOES ELEMENTAL DAMAGE):
An enhanced shadow blaster designed to banish creatures that lurk in the shadows.

Now for comparison...

Blight Needle:
It's a proven fact that even the most virulent of toxins is a lot more contagious if it's fired indiscriminately over a large area.

Strike Needle:
Plans to modify the Strike Needle for non-combat usage were shelved after a recruit accidentally riddled Lieutenant Feron's bunk with holes

Mercurial Helm:
A sublime silver helmet that'll let you move as swiftly as water, though perhaps not quite so swiftly *through* it.

Jue, 12/11/2014 - 16:37

#13

Avihr

10/10

If anything, this thread is crying "Why u no put effort Thwee dewitoez? you has had more than 4 (1) year! :,( " I mean, do you honestly care what those dumb texts below the weapon's name say? I sure don't.

In your place I'd be glad these things even made it to the game and use them with pride, instead of complaining about a wothless line of text that will not affect your gameplay at all.

On a side note it would have been pretty hilarious if some of these guns descriptions would have been like "a purple valiance" but then the OOO would have just dug their own graves because butts would have been wounded... CALL 911 NOOOOOWWWWWW!!

Jue, 12/11/2014 - 18:15

#14

Autofire

You are experiencing a PICNIC ERROR!

@Aviri

Maybe.

Maybe I'm also sad because something which you don't see in any other MMO (WoW, Elsword, Warframe, RotMG, and Robocraft, to name a few) seems to have.

For example, Elsword's descriptions are very flat. (The most flavorful ones are quotes from the PCs. Boring.) You only see the game-side of Elros, and very little is said about the way people live, etc. Not to mention the fact that many of the new NPCs (as well as new items) always talk with at least one exclamation point/question mark after their lines! What a NPC says doesn't flow at all with his/her next sentence?? How annoying!!!

Spiral Knights, on the other hand, is the only MMO I've seen with witty, interesting descriptions on practically all items. Those descriptions fill out the gaps of a world, and shows a world other than what you'd normally see behind normal gameplay. I'm really afraid that this game is going to lose yet another unique point of its.

@GMs: I suppose this should go in the main thread, discussing the Gunner Update? Okay, I guess that this should be moved to Graveyard too. I can just copy-paste everything in this thread over there. But this is kinda a tangent point? I don't know exactly the policy. The issue is that things get messy in that thread if everything were to go there. We really need separate sub-forums dedicated to each update.

Jue, 12/11/2014 - 19:08

#15

Klipik-Forum

@Aviri

That's essentially what most of them are.

Jue, 12/11/2014 - 19:17

#16

Avihr

Void/10

Well, with the unholy ammounts of items that were pushed into the game with this update maybe they couldn't just find a nice little phrase for all of them or they just thought that it wasn't necessary, the new item's descriptions aren't all that bad except for a few mistakes.

Also nvm that thing I said about crying, I know that this thread isn't really a complaint, I've just seen so many bad criticism against this update that my prejudice fills in for other details.

@Klipik
exactly, that's why it would have been funny... but when I think about the part where it says it Took a "great deal of research" it already kind of sounds like a joke, doesn't it? Should we call 911 now? OOO you are SO REPORTED NOW!!

Vie, 12/12/2014 - 03:33

#17

Dahall

I'm going to sue OOO because the new weapons' descriptions gave me PTSD.

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