Devlog Weekly Update – Trench Run at PGA and General KAG Dev

Original: http://thd.vg/weekly-update-trench-run-at-pga-and-general-kag-dev (yeah we know the site needs a lot more love)

Hey guys, sorry for the delay between posts – it’s been a hectic couple of weeks!

Trench Run News:

These last two weeks we’ve been very busy on expo versions of TR and on getting the new art finalised. Poznan Game Arena was great fun, with the THD booth heavily featuring Trench Run. This is the first event where we’ve shown the new graphics, and we’re happy with how they were received. People kept coming back to play more, but lots of people thought we should release it on a console. Maybe in the future we will :) Butcher was also shown and lots of players had fun meating people!

The music also got stuck in everyone’s head, which is always a good sign!

PGA was a time for the polish branch of THD to touch base with friends, meet fans, host a TR tournament, wear flowers, and hit the dancefloor flying!​

This week we’ll be getting back to finishing off some remaining unchanged graphics (stuff that isn’t used in skirmish) and refining the menus. We’ll get some more screenshots your way soon!

King Arthur’s Gold News:

Verra has been working on an attack/defense mod. You can see a longer video of a match here and discuss the mod here. Give it a look and get some feedback going his way!

New mode, same old chaos!​

Skinney has been working more on the editor, as well as changes to trampolines. The trampoline changes allow more front-line use as they can be bounced on while carried, removes folding the trampolines, and prevents bouncing through the back of the trampoline. In particular, some of these changes will curb the effectiveness of trampoline cannons. Currently, trampoline cannons allow savvy builders to launch their team over the entire map in a way that’s very hard to counter.

Keep in mind that this is an experimental change, but we are fairly committed to changing this part of the meta-game. It’s a hard decision to make because we’re always happen when we see this kind of “KAG engineering”… However, when something like this settles as the winning dominant strategy, we feel something needs to be done.

That’s all for this week – looking forward to getting back to a normal news schedule over the next month. Stay tuned!

Max

 

edit: but what about these?

 

Spoiler

 

Man, seems like mobile trampolines might have a pretty big impact on fights... have one person carry a tramp and then a swarm of knights becomes a flying swarm of knights ready to collapse upon a foe like an overpowering wave of meat and steel. The stomp-vantage will be real, and I can't even imagine how both sides having a bouncy knight squad would pan out.

I like it.

As frontline tools, will you be changing the cost/durability of trampolines? I could see them as being more cheap and weak, that way they would more easily be broken in a scuffle rather than handed over to the enemies to use for themselves (which happens sometimes with siege crates)

 

we must love the trampoline update with care


all hail the mods

 

(Tramp stacks might definitely enter the meta tbh, requires low ping but you can get to space pretty easily with them)

 

we'd love to get it out but there are some issues with servers not being able to register that we'd prefer to fix ahead of release, rather than after ;)

 

Kind of unrelated but what's with the light gray text on the slightly darker gray background on that THD page? I can get behind a dark theme that's easy on the eyes but it just looks weird and then that one smiley really stands out and makes you think the text color looks even weirder

 

The site is currently "fucked" imo. The style is not our work, and the smiley is part of the theme the site is using. Should all be redesigned and redone but there are only so many hours in the day for me to hammer things out :/

it really needs a "real web dev" on the job tbh

 

Obviously, value is extrinsic, and therefore "worth it" is entirely up to you to decide.

We are currently discussing pricing changes though, as the game's scope has changed and the market is different. There are lots of indie pixel shooters, but there aren't that many with reliable online pvp play. We'll be weighing it up. There have been such a low number of preorders that it's hard to see nothing changing.