Build 1110

First and foremost, I understand that some of these changes were experimental, I just wanted to leave my thoughts here. I haven't played much in the past week or so but coming back into it after the update and playing a few rounds I feel like I would much rather see the heavy keg stay and see at least a tweaked version of the drop mechanic. I agree that it's definitely more interesting than just increasing the weight of the keg but getting hit by a stray jab to lose a keg altogether is quite discouraging (regarding players purchasing as many kegs in the long run). Also, I'm not saying a jab or arrow from one archer/knight is unmanageable but against even two combatants is probably enough to lose it. My possible suggestion is to have the keg drop after taking two hits (by either sword or arrow) and being able to reset that two hit counter by dropping and re-picking up the keg yourself. This tweak might help to balance the butteriness of kegs atm. Also, after bomb jumps with kegs are readjusted I'd be more than fine with the heavier keg staying (as you can still use cata and bombs). Granted, like I said, I only played a few rounds on maybe 3/4 populated servers so I may have yet to see the value of the keg-drop change in the long term. Also just wanted to say thanks for the awesome other changes in the update - your work is not unappreciated (that sk8rgurl head is allmine!)

P.S. I also wanted to tack on a suggestion (made by Duplolas - to get it some more attention) of making mines immune to slashes (and maybe terrain damage) until they are activated as I think this would encourage more people to use mines without terribly unbalancing anything.

tl;dr Keep heavy kegs, lose or tweak the keg-drops.

 

The slash, whether it's upwards, downards or to the front, casts the same animation. The angle of it is pretty big, imo ofc, so sometimes if you're slashing you can hit players at your back -place the cursor up or down, the hitbox will reach your back.
I'd like to see different animations to be casted for different slashes -down, front, up-.
The wight of the keg seems a bit too much, you can't throw it far, only drop it, even with some momentum.
le't see how this goes on.
thanks for the work

 

Is it just me or has there been a lot more burning in this update

 

except that slashes arent directional and have a fixed hitbox

 

it's a raycast, i said hitbox for simplicity's sake.

hitboxes wouldnt be viable unless they were very small, as you need to account for tiles in the way

 

just checked the code and it is indeed directional, in earlier builds this was not the case and should either be reverted or updated with new anims, although i bet you'll choose the former @Geti