Build 200 released!

Don't see the problem with gliding, it's fun and I've never had a problem as an archer attacking.

Another interesting thing I've found with it is it means knights can catapult farther, so where a knight can get doesn't necessarily mean a builder can, a lot of people don't consider this and keep their cata where it is instead of moving it up to send a builder as well.

After actually sitting down and playing a few rounds I've noticed:
1)I lag like crazy now. I pretty much never lagged before unless it was server lag and consistently had 166 ping on almost all European servers (live in Florida, US), 200 on a few still no lag, no lag on Russian servers [g.test and 2 others], same on the PL servers (Solar, etc). All of a sudden on any server now including US servers I lag so hard it's ridiculous, I can't connect to half of them because I get kicked before I can spawn and check my ping (Kicked for high ping), the rest I lag on, found one I didn't really lag on AS much, but it still gave me spikes. Not sure if all this lag is server side or what but I've also noticed increase ping on my side (and not so much from others) so have no idea what to think

2)When I was able to actually get into a server that didn't lag as much, the knight combat was mostly just annoying, isn't as fun and engaging as it previously was, perhaps some sync problems I couldn't tell or the other person lagging, but the combat was mostly just very wtf.

I'm liking a lot of these changes coming build to build, but some of the stuff seems a bit too strange.

Also, was just curious, how are the heads working? It looks like I'm a builder when I'm a knight and I choose one of the 'builder' heads (looks like the default builder was skinned for them), for example the top hat.

 

Noburu you are like my favourite player.

We'll stop tweaking balance when KAG goes final version - when it's "done". We'll likely stop playing with combat mechanics in a few months as we start adding classes and skills. This is an alpha version of a game. If you've come from mainstream gaming you might be used to everything staying just the way you like it from patch 000301 to patch 10321B. While we're developing the game we're going to make changes to try things out, see if we want to keep them or not. Get used to it or come back in 6 months.

Would probably help if I'd ever played TF2 with hats. I just laugh along with "hat fortress two harharhar" because everyone says it always, but I don't know how their system works thus you referencing it three pages ago didn't come to mind.

However: Seems reasonable. I want to change how customisation happens over the next few builds anyway - the GUI needs a complete overhaul (the menu as is sucks, we know) and customisation needs to happen out of game as part of a new player menu (clantag, head (per class), control system, perhaps smileys config) and that'd be loaded from server as soon as you log in - which would happen as soon as you started the game ideally (login or play offline option).

Re: Bridges are ghey remove going down - that removes doing up and down through towers and would make them one way. We should really just separate trap blocks that fall out from under enemies and bridges. Long story short bridges are staying as two way platforms because I like them this way. You're free to dislike them though, doesn't really bother me.

Re: Clashes are stupid - yeah perhaps. We'll see if we can tweak them into something more playable/less buggy as when they do work they make combat a lot more balanced - yes this is partly due to it being a crapload harder to kill 5 guys in a row by combo slashing as they try to clusterfuck you (hyerk hyerk hyerk psh psh yeeeargh!) because someone jabbing blocks your slash but we can very easily take that little bit out leaving you with the ability to slash and but jab-jab stalemates still (which I like - it's not as lag dependent if you're clashing solidly). We can try taking them out happily if that fails but I'm keen to try it as a mechanic.

Re: Gliding?! I really like gliding for the knights and afaik so does Michal. It gives them a different kind of mobility compared with the archer - downward mobility. We're all about situational buffs between those classes so I'm happy with it and want it to stay. The fact that you _can_ catch an archer is great imo. Sucks to be fighting the ranged class that fires, backsteps, fires, backsteps, fires etc etc etc if you can't eventually corner them if you block all the arrows.

Re: LAG LAG OH GOD and RAM USAGE BURNING UP SEND HELP ALL RAM GONE and EVERYTHING SYNCS STUPIDLY AND BAD DELTAS AND ODD FREEZUPS yeah I've noticed and we'll be looking into it tonight (or I'll be whipping Michal to, could go either way). Seems like tonight is going to be boring boring hotfix night not work on zombies awesome time night. Greeeaaaat...

 

D: at which one? Noburu being cool or zombies being delayed because of hotfixes?

 

I see. Whatever I'll get on IRC and we can all have a good old chat about what you hate and why before MM wakes up. Anyone keen for a discussion jump on #kag on irc.quakenet.org