Spiral Knights - I want new shields, with offensive features!

I want new shields, with offensive features!

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Sáb, 09/01/2012 - 03:36

Plarosel

Hi there Three Rings, folks,

Just came back after a long inactive time, great job improving the game, I'm enjoying it. A couple of suggestions I would like to make:

+ I want a new shield. All the shields u've made have err... shield, rectangular, or shell shape. I want a big, round, like the Spartan's.

Best with some offensive abilities:

+ Something like a shield charge for a temporary effect with ~80 sec cooldown. I'm really impressed with Gremlin Healer's and Guardians' skill, it's just like the "shield overcharge" from Halo series. So you can make some variations: instead of "bumping", it could cause a small blast (like a mini nitronome), zap an area, suck things in, create a safe zone, or even release some seals and curse the surrounding enemies.

+ For balance, nerf the defense strength, break after charge, or like FoV has chance of inflicting self harm.

That's it. I would love to receive some respond from the people and of course the developers, thanks for reading ya :D.

Sáb, 09/01/2012 - 08:15

Little-Juances

We had 3 threads about shield abilities in the last few days.

Why no one reads the other suggestions or uses the search feature bfore posting?

Sáb, 09/01/2012 - 09:52

Qwao

@OP

Round shield?
What shape is your proto shield? And the swiftstrike buckler?

@Little-juances
I tried the search feature.
Guess what?
It's horrible.
I searched "We need an asian server", instead of giving me topics with that title they are giving me threads with simply the words "we" and "need", among which was LD threads, suggestion threads and even guild threads. (Unless there's an advanced search feature, which I think there is but I can't remember where)
Another thing. Search feature results for some reason load slowly. Or my browser says the server times out.
As for reading the other suggestions, I guess some people are too lazy.

Sáb, 09/01/2012 - 23:27

Plarosel

/LJ: Err... which one?

/LJ: ahem... which one?

/Owao: U dont know what a buckler is, do u? -_-'' I was saying we dont have any real, big, round shield :D.

Dom, 09/02/2012 - 15:52

Qwao

It's still a shield. A round one at that.

If you are gonna suggest something, why don't you AT LEAST ELABORATE. Don't just give the description of how it looks. What's it gonna do? Would it have better use compared to X shield on Y enemies etc? Seriously.

Mar, 09/04/2012 - 04:41

Plarosel

Lol, calm down yah. Actually I've already gave enough information but u didnt notice. It seems like u dont know the history of shields, so I'll come with some better details:

Here is a buckler - it serves as a wrist guard, a deflector and an iron knuckle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckler - U can say it's a small_round shield.

Here is a Greek's round shield - notice the size? It's used as a metal wall, or to smash people - this is what we lack of <~

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/images/SpartanWomanShieldBarbier.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnxlhajOolw - the 300 movies make a flashy example of the Spartans' phalanx, and the use of their shields.
http://emerdelac.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/300phalanx.jpg

So in short, I'm looking for new shields with offensive features.

Actually I did point it out, u didnt read. Current SK technology allow Knights to create a "force field", so logically they can overcharge and detonate it. Or use it to smash like a medieval weapon. For this additional feature, developers can nerf these shields by reducing def power or the protective AoE from a 360 bubble to a 60 degree like Mecha Knights', and so on.

For visualization I mentioned Gremlin Menders and their Energy Dome, also the Armor Lock ability from Halo series. U prolly know the former, the latter is in the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQGsbngnCEk - It's from 0:50.

Mar, 09/04/2012 - 06:11

Thorfinns

The shields are for

The shields are for protection... Shields already have the fuction to push your enemy away when he comes to you...If you add offense then the name of shield lose its meaning...So i disagree with you...And something else dont take too seriously the Hollywood movies about history.I love ancient greek history and i study here in the greek uni.If you like history better read a book...Movies mess up many things...

Mar, 09/04/2012 - 07:10

Plarosel

Haha, thanks for the advice but my family have a personal library here. I was explaining the difference between a large round shield and a buckler, like I said, it was a "flashy" example and I didnt fall into that topic, did I? ;) It was just about fashion from the start. =)

Talk about the function of the shields, I would say common logic doesnt really apply in SK. Brandish swords work like a gun, charged Needlers are for stabbing Trojans like a heavy dagger, and Polaris, a CoD-style nade launcher I suppose? In a very similar style, CS's CT units never find a way to climb over a normal door.

To summarize, all available equipment are "gears" for our Knights to perform their flashy moves. We had armors that give offensive power, swords that fire bullets, bombs that draw things in, even a shield that speeds up its user, then why shouldn't we have more utilities on our new shields?

Mar, 09/04/2012 - 07:31

Thorfinns

Difference

A personal library is a good start..But in the universities which specialize in history (for example) you can find many good books and compare..You understand history better when you read from different books and study different aspects of the theme you are searching.

Now to our topic..You are right about the weapons have strange powers but the logic of what object is for attack and what is for defence its still remains.
An armor or a shield can empower you but it dont inflict damage on the opponent.That is the work of the weapon..This is a line that shouldnt crossed..
Or actually we ll use dual weapons...LOL

I hope you understood the difference(my eng not so good).

Mar, 09/04/2012 - 07:52

Aobaka

Oh another genious about the

Oh another genious about the shields :D hey i have the same idea! about the shields,and stuff that u sead XD check my posts and maybe we could work together :D
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/63609
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/63558

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I want new shields, with offensive features!