Build 262 released!

How do archers protect themselves against bombs thrown bombs?

They run. Or they don't.

Seems only fair knights lost their godmode vs archers.

 

I've got archer in my group of friends that can take knights head on in 228 because they are GOOD archers, if you think knights had god mode on archers before then you were just a bad archer. Besides knights should be able to take a archer face to face, they are not meant for head on combat, thus being a support class.

 

Ye i used to be a great knight now im just good.

 

I've only been playing the most recent update for around 5 minutes, but it feels sooooo much smoother. THANK YOU.

 

No, seriously. Build 228 was bad, this is even worse.

I will stop playing until these issues are fixed.

 

Oh I can take a knight head on as well. Thing is, I can't take a good knight head on. Now once a good knight and a good archer meet, the knight usually wins. This depends on the map of course - but there's no save from a cooked thrown bomb. This makes archers useless vs decent knights below half-screen range or without camping in fortifications.

 

Another update? My KAG just updated itself for the 5rd or 6th time.

 

I like this build albeit that I just started playing now and most of the bugs were probably patched. Knight combat is glitchy but it doesn't affect me too much since I usually just go (jab jab jab and bomb bomb bomb) but whatever. I haven't tried archer combat yet so... yeah. I like how the art style is getting from bright to darker and more oak/maple woods then those bright pine wood. The atmosphere is getting there to be spot on and feeling more gritty and more immersive. I like it. And now my only complaint after an hour of play would be the usual bomb kill radius not matching up with animation but I can kind of reconcile with it since its been there for so long and the bomberman-esque explosion animation is a classic.

 

I have the resolution 1024x768 in fullscreen mode bugged, when the game starts it automatically changes to 800x600.

 

Knight combat feels like even MORE of a gamble now.

Didn't know that was possible.

 

I hope this gets removed and or fixed:

 

that happens when enemies build on top of you, flying towers xD

 

I played this build 4 or 5 hours.

I may be an exception but I don't think there are more lag, teleportations or hit detection bugs than before, but they're still extremely annoying. I think people were expecting a ground-breaking 256 test build, they thought you'd release new workshops and zombies and day/night cycle and wooden walls etc. and all that bug-free ; but you only released workshops and a lot of bugs. So now they're very disapointed and overcriticizing your most recent releases, as if it wasn't still an alpha...

On the good side of this release : My ping is definitly lower, around 33 all the time on European servers. The new workshop system is a good addition and fixing some of the bugs is nice, of course, even if there are a lot left. Overall I can still have a lot of fun on the game and capturing fortresses is still awesome :D

Now, the dark side, bugs report :

Old bugs that are still not fixed and getting on everybody's nerves and should be a priority :
I bomb-jumped and landed on a tall tower, and the next second I was crushed on the ground. I was fighting on top of a mountain, an ennemy hit me while I was shielding, then I started to counter-attack and ran toward him, and then I teleported at the bottom of the mountain, dead. And of course sometime I just hit people 5 times and they don't take any damage. The most frustrating is fighting a lone builder and getting killed because he can't get hit at all.

New bugs :
-Sometimes arrows can be shot through closed doors, but I thought that was a known bug (I'm sure I saw it in the previous build).

-Using "holes ladders" on walls doesn't work as well as before, but maybe that's a feature and not a bug. It seems we now have to destroy every 2 blocks, while we used to be able to destroy every 3 or 4 blocks to jump.

-And finally I tried jumping and throwing a bomb, the bomb just fell under me. In the previous build it would have be thrown normally, far in front of me.

Keep up the good work MM :) I hope the development of the new engine goes well !

 

That is also happening to me. I re-installed KAG but after the second launch it went to a lower resolution. How big my screen is, no idea.

 

As everyone says, the game is unplayable right now. Melee combat performs terribly, as if everyone had 500 ping. That along with the shield-ignoring arrows makes playing as a knight a nightmare. Jumping feels horrible too, seems that you have to accelerate gradually to get a decent impulse, but that makes moving around rather difficult.
Also, I don't know if it is just me, but the server browser window got wider than the screen itself (in 1024x768). May be just some bug at my side though.

For me there was a noticable improvement in ping, but combat mechanics look laggier than before so I can't tell whether it made a difference in the connection speed other than displaying a lower ping.

As said earlier in this post, a rollback seems the most appropiate thing until everything gets normal.