Devlog Weekly News – KAG Update for Halloween

Still not a 100% clear, but do you have logs, of before and after?

 

I like to think that when knights kill themselves on mines its not because they forgot about the update. Its because after 5 minutes of this halloween induced lagfest they just dont want to live anymore and deliberately suicide.

 

I was so excited to see the gregs in-game again--throwback to April Fools 2/3 years ago!

I get on Official CTF US with ultimate hype, at around 2:01 pm. I play like 5 rounds without hearing a single wing-flap. I'm beginning to have doubts about the update. @Potatobird keeps re-assuring me that they'll come, but I know I can't trust someone who can't even choose between being a vegetable or an animal.

So I go to TDM EU for a bit to check if they spawn there. No such luck. I hop back on CTF US, and Potatobird is no longer on. The time is around 2:31. I almost forget about my dream of seeing gregs, just playing CTF for the sake of playing.

Later, @Amrrrica joins the server and says that the gregs spawn every half an hour. This means that I just missed the 2:30 pm spawning, thanks to my distrust in Potatobird. That's a bummer, but I can wait another half hour for the 3:00 pm spawn.

To pass the time I focus on the CTF match, which has lasted about 15 minutes by now. My team (red) has no competent builders, but what's new? Every time I spawn, I cut my way through the battlefield, just to chip away at their defenses with bombs. Blue team has builders, but they're all busy tunneling, so I'm able to make gradual progress.

After ~12 runs, I'm one block away from breaking into their flag room. I'm being swarmed by blue knights and archers, so I miss the critical bomb. Twice. No problem, I can take it on the next run. So I spawn and I return to the enemy base, only to find that the blues have repaired the flag room completely. All my efforts, negated by 10 seconds of common sense by the blues.

I continue to attack their flag room with new vigor, fueled by self-hate and a cheeseburger I was eating (IRL). To my surprise, I'm joined by an offensive builder on a run. This could be our big break! We make it all the way to blue base, and we've just started to break the blocks on their flag room, when that terrible doot-doot-doot alerts us that our own team's flag had been picked up. Turns out blue's tunnel has finally reached our base!

The builder and I struggle to push forward, in order to steal their flag before they can cap. But alas, another blue swarm arrives and overwhelms us. As soon as I respawn, I buy several bombs, hoping to catch up to the blues via bombjumping. Unfortunately I end up dying on a(n unshieldable) mine. Blue caps the flag. The trumpet sounds: Bwaaaahhhhhhh

I'm thoroughly disappointed at how close we were to winning. And just as the server is about to switch the next map, it happens. A menacing cackle fills my earphones. I recognize that sound. I check the time--3:00 pm. This is the moment I was waiting for. But not like this, oh dear God, not like this.

I see the gregs pour in from the sky, ready to wreak havoc on all kagkind. But no sooner than they appear, the screen goes black, and a new round begins, leaving the gregs behind. For an hour of frustrating gameplay, I was rewarded with about 0.3 seconds of gregs.

I freaking table-flipped.

 

Yes, that's an easy change and was just unfortunately overlooked.

 

Currently they are set t 50/50 chance of spawning every 25 minutes. Keep trying Para, you still have a few days!

 

Yeah right, everybody knows the gregs are just a myth, a tale to spook the children. Of course they're not real!

 

Yea it will likely be made a heavy weight item like kegs.

 

Okay, now for a discussion post. Overall, I like the update very much. I was just thinking that KAG should do a holiday update, before checking the forum.

I'm willing to withhold judgement on mines for now, although I don't like that a teammate('s body) can instantly detonate an unavoidable instakill explosion right next to you.

@Verrazano I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet, but CTF scoreboard is lacking a playercount. It looks good though. It'll take time for me to get used to red team being on top half of the time.

I really appreciate the spawn-picking fixes. It was such a small, but infuriating thing when you'd try to spawn on a forward ballista to stop some enemies, only to get an extra 9-second timer.

I don't know if I like arrows collisions being removed. It made archer 1v1s more exciting in my opinion. Also, I have definitely shot arrows out of the air on purpose, many times. Once, I had an all-wood base, and I managed to protect it by shooting 3 fire arrows, in a row, out of the air. (I was so proud of myself, but when I started congratulating myself in chat, someone else fired a fourth fire arrow.)

This has been in the game for a long time, and applies to bombs, mines, and bomb arrows. Platforms absorb them really easily.