Dark Retribution is da best bomb to have for those specific reasons. I always have it just in case, plus in DMG max and CTR Max it's quite nice to have and my friend was laughing at me for using it against mecha, showed him how I can easily beats mecha with 3 DR in a party of 4

My main bombs for when I go full bomber: DR, DBB, Nitronome and a status one (Voltaic most of the time, if not Venom)

But yeah it would be nice if the Shield Bash could actually be used to destroy minerals/block/fences and whatnot... I don't see why not

+1

@ Autofire Put 5$ into the game, problem solve.

You support OOO plus you get an OP bomb and an OP hammer.

PLUS if you link your acc to Steam and wait for Steam to have promotions for it, you could buy OCH for 1.48$ and Guardian Pack for 10$ (instead of 40)

???????

Profit! :D

@Hexzyle

(Put 5$ into the game, problem solve.)

Great, where's the slot in the computer where I put in the money?

LOL!!!

Back to the point, no, I'm against this suggestion.

And then have to go through loopholes to work on the wiki, endure increased reboot times, be locked out of Spiral Knights should steam fail, and have an always-running process in the backround consuming both RAM and internet bandwidth in order for your game to run? No thanks, I think I'll take the lesser of the two evils.

just to answer your question...

1: You can log via Steam and modify the wiki, it's easier than it was (and no offence there, but who actually modify the wiki that it's important to have THEIR Steam acc as the main character who modify wiki?)

2: Steam rarely fails to connect with OOO anymore, it usually takes 1 or 2 minutes to resolve.

3: Steam only uses 64 (at it's max) mb rams... if this is really too much for your PC you shouldn't even play Spiral Knights to begin with. It uses like 500 to 900 mb of rams... And I find this utterly funny because I have a decent "becoming bad" PC and multibox Steam and multibox Spiral Knights with 4 gigs of Ram... which cost 50$

4: Steam doesn't uses Internet Bandwidth when you play games, it does uploads your games when you are not there *GASP* "the horror! SK is updating when I'm not there"

Steam isn't all that bad and is not really THAT demanding for common PC. My PC should run on Vista and was made in 2006 and can run two SK, two Steam at the same time. Can also run Steam, SK and TF2 at the same time but opening google chrome may crash my PC. I also checked. Can run at least 5 SK at the same time while using Steam.

You can get exclusives items too (Steam Knight mask, Shogun helmet and metal sonic set ^ ^)

I don't get when people say Steam takes a lot of Ram... it takes almost as much ram as having a HD picture in your background... like 20 mb rams... geezus that's a lot!!! -_-

Edit: Opened my task manager to see the actual numbers and give them as proof, I just launched my boxed Steam and my boxed SK to see every single number I can give

Java.exe sits at 197 thousands Ko
Java.exe sits at 551 thousands Ko
Steam.exe sits at 11 thousands Ko
Steam.exe sits at 22 thousands Ko

Proof

@ Autofire It's 7 words actually.

It does not work on Linux.... yet

SO ANYWAYS, BACK TO THE POINT.

YES, Shield Bashing should destroy blocks/minerals. One could slap on the damage mechanics of the warhammer dash onto it, with it's damage being HEAVILY reduced to 1 damage. Of course, minerals/boxes don't HAVE damage counters, so simply making it so that it simply 'hits' without needing to deal damage works just as well.

It'd definitely be of a huge boon to bombers. Better to wait for another shield bash than to charge another bomb, and have it explode.