B847 - Shark noms, Balance Tweaks, Map Changes, Installers and More!

This build encompasses a few tweaks we’ve wanted to make for a while, as well as a few more experimental things which may be redacted quickly, haha.
Clearly most importantly, the shark now has a chomp animation. More work needs to be put into polishing it, but it helps make the shark feel at least a little less static.
We’ve dropped quite a lot of bedrock into the vanilla maps to help with the massive erosion we’ve been seeing, though other measures will obviously need to be taken.
There have been several balance related tweaks

• Removed satchel from knight - we felt like the satchel was the “odd one out” and very unsatisfying to use of the knight weapons. Fire is now reserved for archer use only, with knight’s unique mode of destruction still being exploding things with extreme prejudice (kegs).
• Slashing a shield now results in a slightly shorter stun - meaning you can double slash a shield to harm it, or slash and then jab to cause damage, but not chain slash after slash. This represents a move away from simply chaining slashes as long as possible to win, and hopefully improves the depth of the mind games knights play as they hack each other apart.
• Builder now gets mats from breaking solid constructed blocks - this should help encourage battle builders to get out there and help get over or through enemy constructions.
• Archer fletches 2 arrows from trees - pretty self explanatory.
• Minimum 30 wood for builder and 5 arrows for archer on respawn. This should help with the wood drought just a little and prevents archers being helpless while a hall is getting taken..
• Bombs change team when picked up - this lets you save team-mates and kill enemies with thrown-back bombs and means theres a little bit less “wtf” when an enemy throws a bomb at you for zero damage.
• Fixed mines going through doors - as if there wasn’t enough silly stuff going on :^)
• Boats do more damage on collision - experimental, makes it very very hard to board an enemy boat while it’s moving but feels kinda janky. Will need to be tweaked.

Many more changes in the log of course, see below and enjoy!
[fixed] vaulting is broken
[modified] archer fletches 2 arrows from trees etc
[modified] moved warboat to its own folder in boats
[removed] satchel
[fixed] knight can cut tiles he shouldn't be able to
[modified] background image for installer
[modified] kag.ico has updated knight in it
[modified] bombs and water bombs change team when picked up - so you can toss bo
mbs back and damage enemies
[fixed] getting out of water
[modified] changed jump anims a little
[modified] a bunch of war maps have more bedrock now as temp measure vs extreme
terrain erosion
[modified] updated PNG loader to include everything again (thanks jackitch)
[modified] boats make much more damage when hitting enemies from all angles
[added] attached vehicles convert too on capture
[fixed] archer climbing trees newly grown trees on network
[modified] easier to get out of water against wall
[added] shield sliding (point mouse down and use shield while dropping at high s
peed)
[added] visual indicator of vehicle capture
[added] logs can be used as catapult ammo against infantry
[removed] debug mode from regular players
[fixed] crates not unpacking in water and on boats
[fixed] autoupdate_ignore_custom.cfg (1231)
[fixed] able to log into someone elses account on a shared PC (1232)
[fixed] mine goes through doors
[added] shark chomp anim
[added] getDistanceTo(CBlob@ other) in CBlob

Max/Geti

Original DevBlog post.

 

Nice build so far looking at the logs and reading it all

Will be interesting how the slash on sheild stun works out...

 

Looks good. Now I can see what is actually happening as I'm chillin' in those enemy cata's :)

Slidin' also looks like fun.
EDIT: Checked it out >> Infinite sliding? Shit Yeah! This build is going to be awesome until you nerf slidin' a little. I'll be slippin' 'n' slidin' 'till the end of KAG (or I run out of apostrophes)

 

A few things.

1) Third time, Remove the trees growing through walls bug. at first it was a sapling and in a few sec it destroyed half of my tower and me.

Spoiler: Spoiler Hint

2)I was placing a block and another guy unpacked trampoline and voilà.

Spoiler: Spoiler Hint

 

Nice update!

 

Thanks for the update! Some nice new things to try :)

 

Aw, no more satchels?

 

Satchels were kind of stupid, sadly. No explosion, just a weak little poof of fire. And considering the fact that fire damage against players has been nerfed, it had very little use offensively as well.

Boats are indeed very wonky right now, which kinda messes with the game, but hopefully that'll be fixed with time.

Interested in seeing how shield sliding will work. Might test it myself, but I don't use Knight much. :P

 

By the nine divines! I'm very glad.

 

"Removed satchel from knight - we felt like the satchel was the “odd one out” and very unsatisfying to use of the knight weapons. Fire is now reserved for archer use only, with knight’s unique mode of destruction still being exploding things with extreme prejudice (kegs)."

As much as I am not against this, it is a good thing I checked this thread! Gotta find some other thing to do in my adventure map now...can't burn down the building at the start of it without that! xD

Anyway, will check out and play some later, sounds like some helpful additions!

 

This update is amazing, the sharks are bloody terrifying, combat feels a lot better, and fire arrows for some reason are more effective.
I love you guys.

 

*[added] shark chomp anim

Awesome. Shark is now more realistic :D

 

I think that the shark chomp animation was made from that specific shark species.:p

 

While it's awesome you are trying to increase the depth of knight combat this is the wrong way to go about it. Making slashes less effective against shield, the thing slashes are suppose to counter, only serves to make the result of your combat decisions less meaningful. The way to reduce the dominance of slash is not to decrease it's ability to do what it's meant to do but rather there should be a mechanic that beats slash. Slash is still always the best option, all that's happened is that the reward for using it better than your opponent has diminished.

 

what if you do it so it is like in FPS games when you gain speed and slide(not shield slide. grass isn't made out of butter for god sake) maybe add better animation that will alow people to slide under enemies attacks +9when you will be sliding your hit box will be much smaller . maby a combination of down arrow and left or right arrow combination to make a slide

Geti you are wrong in terms of seeds look, example seed was sitting on dirt block then I placed a block right on that seed and In a few sec that seed suddenly starts to grow . -tree seed ,wood block -
the thing is that seed s start to grow when they were replaced with a block. I did not tried to destroy that seed because I did not know it was there

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