How do you like the new Build 780

Hey folks!
What are your impressions on the new build.
What do you like?

 

I like... well the warboats I guess. My impression is that water bombs and bomb arrows are a horrible idea, as well as the bombs on ballista bolts. The tech tree is rather nice I have to say, as are dorms.

 

Archers, the number one favorite thing to get over powered by the devs. Bomb arrows, fire arrows, stun arrows (water arrows - can also extinguish base fires), and a backstabbing knife. What more could you ask for?

 

Overall it's not very good. Too much dormitory spam, research is a timesink players cannot interact with.

There are a few nice changes though, like builder chop speed and tree regrowth.

 

Too little too late. For the most part Research is a passive, unintuitive and thoroughly uninteresting mechanic that eventually autounlocks stuff for you.

Also, migrant snooze bubbles obscure the research interface.

 

Who is in control? What does clicking these buttons do? Why can't I click these buttons? What do these numbers indicate? How do I unlock higher numbers?

Who knows! None of it seems to have any effect.

 

It says nothing of the sort.



How was anyone supposed to know those numbers indicated a vote or shop number or what? How many votes do you get? How do you tell which votes are yours? Is there a limit to the number of each unlocked workshop?

ps. sleeping migrants shown here only make things more confusing, their bubbles can easily obscure the votes

 

Answering all of those (likely) rhetorical questions (in order):
Trial and observation? Worked fine for me.
You can have one vote up for each piece of tech (so if you really wanted to, you could vote for everything (though that would be silly).
You can change your vote to find out (and then change it back if you want).
That I know of, no. That number on the workshop selection is how many of that workshop your team currently owns.

 

The tech tree needs some work imo. Instead of the "optimal path" it should just go for the raw votes.
And which tech path wins if there are identical amount of votes on each? Here we see the ballista having two votes, and yet the research is going for water ammo and catapult. There are also 2 votes on the pyrotechnics, and only one on the bomb ammo. Yet the research tree is deciding to go for the bombs > kegs > warboat path, EVEN THOUGH kegs and warboats are going to be researched from the drill path already. This makes absolutely no sense.

 

This is awesome. The research menu is confusing, but beta is beta, right? ;)

I actually played a few games with the bomb/water arrows, and i have to say- I tended to use water arrows to put out our continously fire-satchel'd wood base outside of our stone castle. Of course, that didn't stop me from water arrowing people into the pit. :D


Bomb arrows are fun- and they're not overpowered in terms of land destruction since they only destroy a few blocks. Sure, if you get hit by one you're essentially dead- but you could just run into something and blow up with it. :)

 

The system is pretty confusing. I'd say remove paths entirely, just use the tiers instead.

have thumbs up/down indicate your vote for that tier - everyone is familiar with likes/dislikes

 

I do also like the whole research thing. But as I already suggested a few times in the Idea section of the beta Forum, I would like to feed the research bar with experience points you earn through playing.

I don't think that archers are overpowered. Now you really have to make a decision, archer or knight because both are really effective in what they do. The whole war place has got more action and power. All the new possibilities to assault the enemy, force you to think about the best way how to do it. Teamwork also gets defined in a new way. If you cooperate well with the archers and your fellow knights at the front, you can reach much more than you could in the last build.

Also the entire gaming process is longer and you really need to have builders to maintain the Dorms and migrants....
-> because more dorms, more factories, more factories more supplies etc. etc. Being a builder is a whole new Job now, a Job for an entire game.

Also the Warboat-base brings fresh air into the battlegrounds. All over all I really enjoy playing this version.

 

Removing paths in favor of subsequent tiers unlocking is hardly a "complete overhaul"

More like, the same thing you have right now, minus the forking?

 

Imo, you need just few minutes to understand how a game works.

I struggled a lot to understand this research system. And what about dozens of migrants sleeping? Just WTF...

 

It's about reading the update logs ;)

 

Research voting is really cool. I feel great having an opinion when I'm playing. It could use work though. It's not exactly clear how things level-up/unlock and when. Water bombs and Arrow bombs are awesome. Especially when you hit someone with an arrow bomb and it gets planted in them. >:}

The migrants aren't cute anymore. They're all old and creepy and they don't say "ELLO" when they spawn. :(

Also, where has the kill log gone?? I like seeing who's killing who.