Devlog KAG Build 2048 - Hotfix before The Weekend

More content = good if it's implemented properly. If you don't main as archer you may not experience issues but there are quite a few issues which are damn annoying.
As @franek123 suggested here, the hearts should be able to be shot only by you when you throw it and when it lands and stops moving it cannot be shot. It's a win-win situation: shooting hearts work and accidental enemy healing/hearts blocking arrows is removed.
The votes are also basically even for and against heart-arrow collision so this way would good for everyone.

 

Yeahp, now travelling through teleporters stuns you, no matter if it's your team's or the enemy's.

 

Been in for a few builds now. Prevents tunnels from being as much of a liability, which idiot-proofs them a little bit, and makes defending them harder as well if they get breached. You can still go through with a lit keg to do some serious damage to their base if they have a saw trap, but cant wall-run or slash spam out the gate.

We're not going to be acting purely based on the poll. As many have said, the "annoying" factor was pretty extreme when maining archer when they collided. Since the response was good, I'll look at that "archer throw"/support role ability once we've got @cameron1010's new API Client changes in.

I won't be doing the "if thrown by me my arrows can hit it" approach - sounds super unintuitive and would be quite annoying to program.

Our build infrastructure has been offline for a while which caused a pretty serious update drought. We're trying to get KAG into a nice stable state at the moment, fixing as many minor bugs as we can and getting the classes into a good balance state. We're considering potential new gamemodes as well though obviously that's a little further down the pipeline.

 

No idea, @norill touched bans a little a few builds ago, maybe he has more to say about it.

Would apply to all materials and food, and probably fishies as a matter of course (alive or dead). Potentially chickens too.

Hearts are moving more often than you'd think/hope and it's really super frustrating someone dying from arrow rain and the heart they dropped blocking the rest of the arrows while flying into their friendly, healing them. It's a no-go for me.

Not sure what you mean, we should or shouldn't have the KDR score in TDM? What other score would you suggest in a gamemode about killing? I'd like a win:lose ratio but the current score is recalculated on the fly rather than being additive, and we don't currently store wins/losses.

Suggestions go in Suggestions and Improvements forum if they're some big formal suggestion, but honestly we don't check em much for minor stuff and end up getting linked anything worth including. There's only so many times you can read ADD THIS CLASS or HERES A COOL ITEM or MAKE MY FAVOURITE CLASS A BIT COOLER before it all sounds the same.

You can always do what everyone else does and dump it in whatever thread we're currently engaging with if it's short ;)

 

The issue with that is that people can throw hearts to block incoming arrows.

I agree, I miss the KDR on TDM. It used to be a good way to see how good you're doing compared with other people. At the moment I sorta judge how good someone is doing by roughly calculating the difference between their kills and deaths but it was much easier with the KDR.

 

Unfortunately, there's not enough money coming in to justify expanding our services with more dedicated servers. Servers cost a lot of money to run. We are running a business here, so unless there are enough sales coming in constantly from south america to justify the big constant cost of hosting there, we can't do it, sorry.

That said, there's recently been a spike in sales from South America so we'll see if it keeps up, but I think it's just a result of the current sale.

We don't currently store this info - it's possible to add but a fair bit of work. Not high priority for me, sorry.

Hrm, this is indeed a bug. I'll figure out why this happened.

Maybe the first time, not the tenth. Playing as archer was very frustrating ime (and seems mirrored by a lot of others).

 

lol I thought it was an intentional change to remove he KDR.

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