Spiral Knights - Emergency code mechanics

Emergency code mechanics

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Sun, 02/22/2015 - 18:34

Bonjourhippo

Emergency codes are a Phantasy Star Online 2 (PSO2) game mechanics that revolves around introducing random dangerous events in the middle of an ordinary level. They range from cute rescue/capture missions to brutal simultaneous boss fights, which has a way of spicing up your random run quite intensely. Now PSO2 is a Japan only release (although it has been promised initially for US and EU but well), so it's likely you've never heard or seen it. Thus to illustrate this suggestion, here's a couple random youtube vids that hopefully will help understand how this works and how it could fit in this game, especially after announcements years back of the arcade redux which told something about "unpredictable events".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdOOnamBEVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOevHLRk0Jo

There's a lot of codes but Clone and Duel are some of the more intense ones, they're a huge gameplay boost.

Hippo out

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 18:54

Almond-Riddle

This is actually a pretty

This is actually a pretty common feature in MMOs nowadays. You see it in Guild Wars 2, Rift, that Defiance game adaptation, and many more.

It wouldn't be hard to introduce into this game, we already have scenario rooms afterall.

Mon, 02/23/2015 - 02:54

Thunder-The-Bright

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thank you and goodnight.

Mon, 02/23/2015 - 04:11

Bonjourhippo

There's a rather subtle

There's a rather subtle difference in your suggestion, which is you are suggesting yours are willingly triggered by players. It's subtle yet gameplay wise it's a totally different experience, so I'll go ahead and say my suggestion doesn't quite fall into the same subject as yours.
It's great to hear it's something found in other games, I honestly thought it was a very PSO2 exclusive feature, all the more reason so see it here as well, I guess.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 08:56

Fehzor

This would be great and definitely something I'd love seeing. Right now, all of the "excuses" to play the arcade for people that aren't me seem to be event driven- need a cake hat? Go farm the arcade. Candy tokens? Arcade. Something like this would add another permanent reason to play the arcade, especially if there were more rare (but attainable within reason, no black kat nonsense) boss fights.

It could also be effected by difficulty as well- if you're on normal mode, no bosses should spawn in your face to kill you because you're probably already having a hard enough time with the game anyway. If you're on elite mode you're probably looking for exactly this to happen anyway and would welcome the rewards along with it.

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