BUILD 1215 - Rebalance and Fix Central

Yes thiamor, let's add an all new item that requires balancing and adds all new mechanics that also need balancing. Exactly what Geti's up for, right @Geti?

 

Still much better of an idea than just asking to keep wall climbing how it was prior to this update.

 

Wall climbing was never an issue though, as it worked for all classes equally. The real issue was infinite wall climbing (Just for knights), long distance bomb jumping (Just for knights) and any other method that let a knight scale a sheer wall unassisted. The knight lost both of those, and slash climbing (I can't get any extra distance now it seems), and drills. 4 pretty big nerfs, not that I'm complaining about the majority of them, but the wall climbing was a bit far. The maps are literally designed around a certain amount of mobility, the flag is a certain height because of assumed climbing distance, everything about the movement is still set for the old wall climbing height, because it's been here since the beginning of the game.

There was one map I played recently that had a little dirt ledge I used to be able to slash jump up to just barely, by using my skills that I've accrued over a long period of playing kag, and now I can't even hit it with the tip of my sword. Slash jumping and wall climbing are what the maps were designed around so I think they should stay the same. We fixed the infinite wall climbing, now it's nerfed so knights aren't one man armies that can scale mount everest with sheer willpower.

 

not really lol, you bad.

new mechanic / scripting for mechanic / sprites / weeks of balance =/= tweaking an already introduced mechanic and fine tuning it.

i hope you don't get into vidya development.

 

Double slash jumping currently takes you over 10 blocks if done very well (9 if only done decently).
It used to take you over 11.

 

I think I made a 12 block jump in older versions of KAG. Not sure, Ej might have a video of it.

 

I think my record on this build is 9.
Ho ho ho just did 10. Such suprises this build offers.

 

If you arent doing that youre not even gonna get 8 or 7

 

The infinite wall climbing really was the only issue I was thinking about in regards to slick walls.

 

We need some way to encourage building/destroying towers up front more, but most additions to the building itself ie: decreasing mat costs will just cause bigger main towers.

Ballistae and catapults should be more resilient and harder to capture, making them easier to set up and use on the front lines.

I propose a large decrease in dirt mining speed. Stone ore will stay the same though, allowing map makers to make "set" tunnelling routes if they wish.

New Block Type
Or even a new natural block type could be introduced, allowing dirt to be easily dug, but not having to fill maps with stone ore. This new block would be similar in nature (possibly slightly weaker) than built stone blocks, but having a different appearance. I suggest the name "solid rock" as it is both simple and self-explanatory and differs from "stone ore".

I'm making a suggestion thread with more detail on my idea so comment there about this.

 

It's more so the maps. Have each map where the majority of resources are closer to enemy lines and you'd have builders rushing up to get them.

 

So many crashes now with this new update :l

 

Oh I've been getting a lot of crashes, didn't occur to me it was the update. Now that you mention it, it probably is.

 

Shhhh... Thiamor didn't go to school. He doesn't know what math is, let alone game design.