What's in Development - August 2011
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 14:22
Curious what’s in store for Spiral Knights? Here are some of the things we’ve got in development. As always these are not the only things that are in the works and there is no ETA for any of this just yet.
Clockworks Update
We will be releasing an update to the Clockworks that includes a revamped Crash Site, new Danger Rooms, and a new level series, the Candlestick Keep.
Revamped Crash Site
While probably not very exciting to current players, we’re changing the Crash Site level in hopes of making it a more streamlined and engaging experience.
New Danger Rooms
We keep sending interns into our new Danger Rooms for testing, but they’re soon never heard form again. It has made testing them challenging. In any case we’ll be offering some new, very devious Danger Rooms for brave and/or foolish Knights to challenge. Some of them are just mean. Consider it a warning.
Candlestick Keep
A new level series will be making its debut with the Clockworks Update called ‘Candlestick Keep.’ The Candlestick Keep is all that remains of the Owlite Academy, a once prosperous institution of the wise Owlites that pursued the advancement of goodly magical arts. However, the savage Kat Tribe, driven by jealousy of the Owlite’s wisdom and elemental powers, lead a massive siege on the Academy. Though successful in overtaking the Academy and destroying most of the Owlites within, the impulsive Kats quickly obliterated themselves by misusing the ancient grimoires found within the great library. Now all that remains are the spookats, lacking their corporeal forms, their minds, but still bound to this world.
Candlestick Keep is a dark and foreboding place that requires Knights light magical Owlite ward candles. Knights must stay in the light and keep the flames burning. For within the dark lurk the most horrible of spookat aberrations, the terrible grimalkins- massive, shadowy kats that cannot be harmed by any known means. The only way to avoid them is to stay in the light!
Lockdown
We’re very excited about Lockdown. It offers players the chance to face off against each other in true, weapon-based combat. But of course, there’s more to it!
Lockdown takes place over large battlefields where opposing teams attempt to gain and hold control points scattered about the battlefield. You’re free to use whatever equipment you like as you team up and battle for dominance. But there’s another feature we have in store that will make the experience very interesting- each team’s base has special class shields that a player can instantly equip. These class shields give you bonus stats as well as special abilities. For example, a guardian shield will protect you and your fellow teammates when activated!
We hope you’re excited for some serious PVP battles!
Loadouts
Want to equip a certain set of gear fast? We’re adding a new feature that allows players to save out an equipment set for fast-equipping later called ‘loadouts.’ Loadouts will play an important role in Coliseum games like Lockdown.
...and something only for the very bravest of Knights
We’re working on some very special content that is only for the most skilled, highest level Knights out there. These levels will really test even the best of players and offer unique rewards. Get that 5* gear ready!
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 14:27
#2
Cool story bro
Everything here sounds excellent. Danger rooms that are actually dangerous, new levels, quick gear changing, direct combat pvp.
Is Candlestick Keep going to be a random area, a special area like Aurora Isles and the like or a new boss dungeon?
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 14:29
#3
Stomponadon - It's a new
Stomponadon - It's a new series of randomly generated levels with status theme variations, much like Deconstruction Zone, Devilish Drudgery, etc.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 14:34
#4
nice....
This all sounds cool... I just hope the whole java-minigame-mac-issue is figured out by the time lockdown happens, or even within that week... I'm a (near) broke college student who'd rather spend the money directly to this than on upgrading to Lion haha
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 14:36
#5
Great, can't wait.
Great, can't wait.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 14:45
#6
aweeeeesoooome
aweeeeesoooome
You have friend, I have friend. My friend go to your house, put bomb under your car and blow you to sky! ~pvp will be epic
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 14:39
#7
Greatly appreciate the
Greatly appreciate the load-out feature.
I just hope this new Lockdown and endgame content won't disappoint.
Question: Is this new endgame content related to The Core in any way?
I'm still anxiously waiting for The Core, plot/backstory, or anything related. :(
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 14:39
#8
Any chance of an option to
Any chance of an option to revisit the new Crash site? So yano, we don't have to create a new account to visit it? :P
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:05
#9
Candlestick...
Did anyone else read the new zone "Candlestick Keep" and immediately think to the crap that went down at Candlestick park a couple days ago?
...and secretly hope that the theme of the Keep would be something brutal to match???
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:00
#10
Lockdown reminds me
Lockdown reminds me of...blockades.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:09
#11
sounds great!Any chance you
sounds great! Thanks very much for giving us these kinds of updates, it is nice to know what is coming down the road...
Any chance you could slip in some updates to make the guild halls useful? Say, an AH interface or access to active gates or something..
Edit: Lockdown reminds me of...blockades.
Oh! something that will make GFs useful for *something*! ;-)
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:09
#12
Finally a new PvP soon that I
Finally a new PvP soon that I can manage to not kill my teammates in. <3
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:10
#13
haha.. i know griffin. same
haha.. i know griffin. same here. It sounds STRANGELY familiar. BUT FUN.
I'm super excited about all this. I can't wait.
:D
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:14
#14
Endgame and pvp!
Yaaaaaay. Also give us a hint about your #10 secret Nick, people went crazy about it
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:16
#15
O.o cool.
1 Word: Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. So excited. So nick, a depth 30 coming out???? :D?
Regards,
~Rangerwill~
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:20
#16
gear leveling
/wave
i wanna make an observation about lockdown and its the following:
ive watched youtube videos of pvp on spiral knights and i've also played blast network and i think that just like the clockworks, the knights should be allowed to play within an environment suited for the number of stars of their equipment this would be fair for new players and there would be more competence between more experienced players.
im about to start my career in game designing in vancouver and ive analized and learned a lot about online gaming with spiral knights!
GREAT GAME!
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:27
#17
So nick, you REALLY like the
So nick, you REALLY like the word curious ... dont you? :o
Where are you hiding that spookat!
The secret of #10 needs a hint :(
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:29
#18
Loadouts and Lockdown
Those are my main interests. I especially like the loadout idea. As for Candlestick Keep, I'm looking forward to it.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:33
#19
Sounds like some interesting
Sounds like some interesting improvements on the way. I like the sounds of Candlestick Keep and the loadout concept. Lockdown sounds far more appealing than the current bomberman pvp.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:42
#20
"Though successful in
"Though successful in overtaking the Academy and destroying most of the Owlites within..."
Most of the Owlites.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I WANT TO SEE ONE.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:48
#21
nice
Lockdown sounds great! I love objective based, team oriented games. This may remind me of Fat Princess...
Loadouts, yay!
I hope those danger rooms are really dangrous, but also with better rewards than the ones we've had so far. Just slightly better. 50% more boxes.
Keep it up, OOO. I like reading about these updates!
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:50
#22
The new danger rooms... are
The new danger rooms... are they still exclusively found in Clockwork Tunnels and its variants, or will they be found in other level types too?
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:53
#23
When will the Core you
When will the Core you know
be finished
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:54
#24
Ohh, this is so
Ohh, this is so exciting!
AHem.
I look forward to it.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 15:56
#25
Lockdown seems like its going
Lockdown seems like its going to be so epic.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 16:07
#26
August, 2011?
It does it
August, 2011?
It does it want to say that in this week all that goes out not? Because we are to 26, bony 4 days stay for September:D
Certainly it would seem to me very unlikely that the Lockdown was like the BlastNetwork, that you could not challenge your rivals and to have to conform to equipments at random.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 16:09
#27
this is cool.
this is cool.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 16:18
#28
@Nick
The last section of that post. The brand new content with increased difficulty. Yes please.
Take all of my CE. ALL OF IT.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 16:28
#29
"Though successful in
"Though successful in overtaking the Academy and destroying MOST of the Owlites within..."
methinks me know waht secret #10 is now... either that or something really epic. it may have something to do with this:
"Candlestick Keep is a dark and foreboding place that requires Knights light magical Owlite ward candles. Knights must stay in the light and keep the flames burning. For within the dark lurk the most horrible of spookat aberrations, the terrible grimalkins- massive, shadowy kats that cannot be harmed by any known means. The only way to avoid them is to stay in the light!"
seems sort of like a minigame kind of thing. maybe u just have to survive and light candles and kill nothing. cause u cant kill grimalkins. but there might be ordinary kats. watevs. and at the end is the library where there is a huge fight and if u win you get epic stuff. like magicy stuff. woulnd't that be awesome?
as for lockdown, that shoud satisfy all those "Blast network is @#$% @#$@ $@#% ## it fails like poo i hate u spiral knights and OOO y dont u be more like world of warcraft pvp their pvp is 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 times better than this fail excuse crap u call pvp anyone who likes blast network is an idiot im leaving this game now" kind of people. thank goodness. then again, the complaints have really died down. o well.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 16:35
#30
I'm more interested in the
I'm more interested in the danger rooms than anything else.
Since you're running out of interns there, Nick, where do we sign up to throw ourselves into the gauntlet?
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 16:51
#31
im worried about lockdown
i
im worried about lockdown
i thought the reason beta pvp failed was because of the whole equipment issue
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 17:33
#32
More Kats?
Most monsters have their own series of levels:
Wolvers have Wolver Dens and the Gloaming Wildwoods
Devilites have Devilish Drudgery
Jellies have Jelly Farms and the Royal Jelly Palace
Lichens have Lichenous Lairs
Zombies have Graveyards
Gremlins have Deconstruction Zones
Essentially all Constructs (save Mecha Knights, who have Arenas) can be found in the Jigsaw Valley and the Ironclaw Munitions Factory
Kats already have the Scarlet Fortress
That leaves Chromalisks (who are often found with Wolvers and have Treasure Vaults) and Greavers as the only monsters without their own special levels. Having another area for Kats may be cute, interesting, fun, and frustrating, but I do feel if we have like a Bat Cave for Greavers, that would really give knights a good challenge.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 17:25
#33
the whole light thing with
the whole light thing with the candlestick keep reminds me of Pitch Black
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 17:31
#34
@monkeyman135
Then you will be thrilled to know that the boss of CK is Vin Diesel.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 17:41
#35
Vin Diesel?
:o sounds awesome so there is a boss for CK?
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 17:43
#36
I'm thrilled :D!
Can we
I'm thrilled :D!
Can we invite peeps to challenge? (to settle scores...)
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 18:01
#37
greaver themed dungeon
AAAAAH A GREAVER CAVE STOP THE MADNESS
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 18:11
#38
Lockdown = Fat Princess?
We keep sending interns into our new Danger Rooms for testing, but they’re soon never heard form again.
Your insurance premiums must be through the roof.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 18:13
#39
You’re free to use whatever
You’re free to use whatever equipment you like as you team up and battle for dominance.
What it says. :D
And it sounds like "raids" are coming. Yes.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 18:39
#40
YAY!
New levels, pvp (i didnt like bomberman, so that didn't count), more challenging danger rooms! I'm so hyped. Bring it on I say!
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 18:53
#41
Hunh. It's like they're
Hunh. It's like they're rolling in all the cool stuff from the games I played in high school. The Catalyzer was reminiscent of Unreal Tournament's old Shock Rifle, and now we get a stage reminiscent of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and its miasma/chalice feature. "Ditch the party at your own risk!" Though, there will probably some knucklehead who will grab a candle and run off with it just to infuriate the rest of the party.
...Wait, does kicking/Go Solo still forget to transfer carryable objects that are being held by other players at the time? o_o;
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 19:41
#42
the whole candlestick flame
the whole candlestick flame thing makes me think back to the Zelda dungeon levels where you have to light up the room in order to see the floor and get through the room and that lights go out on ya if you take to long.
can't wait to see what it all actually looks like when it's said and done. but yes nick please some stuff for the Guild Halls, we have all been wanting to have more stuff there please lol anyways thanks nick as always you guys are awesome
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 19:43
#43
Now that I'm levelling a
Now that I'm levelling a second set of armor (yay, bomber!) I was just thinking last night how great it would be to be able to quickly switch sets. I had to eventually take my costumes off to ensure that I wouldn't walk into FSC with my 3* gear, or that I had on all the gear I wanted to level up in lower tiers.
"Devious" danger rooms make me think of Devilite Danger rooms, and I am officially scared.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 20:09
#44
Zelda
Revamped Crash Site
definitely gona try it >.>
New Danger Rooms
i hope the rewards r adjusted properly :D!
Candlestick Keep
sounds kinda cool..i think o_o'
Lockdown
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Loadouts
thats awesome, itll save lots of time n hassle, please include constumes to the set, if possible(including empty slots)
...and something only for the very bravest of Knights
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Thu, 08/25/2011 - 20:17
#45
I scoured the entire thread,
I scoured the entire thread, and I can safely say.....
"What dark ritual?" :3
Lockdown sounds good though. I'm glad its not gonna be vanilla PvP
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 20:21
#46
updating the PvP
does this mean that the issue with mac's has been resolved? Its high time we can join in the PvP fun.
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 20:24
#47
oh oh oh
and i really hope the levels for only the strongest knights are such that lag doesn't cause us people too far away from the server to lag out and die die die. --worst case scenario, hopefully it runs equal to the FSC in terms of lag XD
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 20:25
#48
~Xylka---- in game name: Xylka
To sum this up imo:
For pvp: its real pvp! HEK YEA
Guess what players? Giant SpooKats that Are like the Snarbolax! invincible and will kill you in one bite! also OWLIE LORE!!1
In addition to real pvp that you wanted you can now save gear loadouts. Have fun!
And to the end-game player who have every vog and owlite and blitz needle and UV they could ever want... We now give you something of a challenge. Prepare.
Oh and btw were making Danger rooms *cough*evenmorebrutal*cough*Good luck! have fun!
My reaction: IKNEW LOCKDOWN WAS THE REAL DEAL!!!! WHERES THE PROBLEM NOW?
Yay owlite story!
Imma pwn all this. And to my freinds reading this...Kanoka, And the leaders of Aeonic Doom...
@Kanoka: Real PvP. What did I tell you :P. Pwned
@Aeonic Doom Guild
PvP. Hoo rah. imma play nonstop when it comes out.
THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO COMBINE GUILDS OMG!!
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 20:29
#49
What Dark Ritual?
that's my siggy star.
/jerkfaceandsadpanda
Thu, 08/25/2011 - 20:43
#50
Everything here sounds very
Everything here sounds very nice, I'll be looking forward to both Candlestick Keep and Lockdown. :P
Hooray for loadouts, that will be convenient.
But, most importantly:
"We’re working on some very special content that is only for the most skilled, highest level Knights out there. These levels will really test even the best of players and offer unique rewards. Get that 5* gear ready!"
Please be the Core. ;_;
>>Candlestick Keep
>>Kats
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