Devlog BUILD 1537 - Quality of Life

Try updating your graphic card drivers because it seems your ATi/AMD drivers are crashing (which is somewhat common, tbh). If it doesn't work what's your graphic card?

 

The font size of certain texts e.g. speech bubbles, has decreased. Was this an intentional change or not?

 

I don't get why people voted in favor of the trap block change.
And I don't understand why trap blocks aren't simply changed to combine trap block and platform functionality: they are passed by the enemy only in one direction (which tbh is what a "trap block" is all about imo), and still act as a solid block for your own team. This way you can still build the same traps (easier since you don't have to alternate platforms anymore), the enemy can't use it as a pop-up hiding place, your own team won't get killed by saw traps, and bad trap placement is still punished by the enemy being able to jump in and be safe from harm (the rats should love this).
I don't see the downside, unless you consider easier and more effective traps a downside (it will be now possible to create permatraps without damage).

 

Cool, thanks. If I wanted to change how destructible they are, is it as simple as removing "StoneStructureHit" from the list of scripts in config? If i wanted to make them destructible by swords but not as destructible as wood, would that require writing a new script? Is it even possible? Can i make it so you can rotate trap blocks, or would it only work from the up and down sides? is there anywhere I can get more info on how to get started with this so I don't have to nag you with all these questions?

 

Thanks. it seems to was my video drivers that made kag crash.
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Am I the only one with this bug?

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The ESC menu wont hide if you want to open the server list.

 

can we get a png file for what all the colors are for the new titles?

--- Double Post Merged, Jul 7, 2015, Original Post Date: Jul 7, 2015 ---

Also can we not have normal arrows be one of the random drops?

 

Things that should be fixed for me:

• Wood doors decay Under Water :

I do not understand why this was nerfed.
Wood doors are used much as a way to retrieve his breath underwater, especially since we lost our life much faster than before.
in addition, they are very easy to destroy in builder, so why it was nerfed ?

• Boulder :

I was a big fan, of the boulder melee in builder.
But now it makes only 0.5 heart?
the boulder bounces off the players, it does not kill. Why?

If I am wrong, tell me how to kill someone with a boulder, except be up more than 10 block height, and still I'm not sure that will work. For its price it's better to use spikes.

 

I wouldn't mind the boulder getting a slight buff to damage, seems we nerfed it to hard.

 

With the cancel building button and objects give more mats buff, the wood decay made it seem like two steps forward and one step back for builder. As if it's not hard enough to play builder as it is, now we can't secure mid if it has water by it. The match was a lot of vets and jig and I were going back and forth the entire game only to lose our tunnels, ballistas, and entombments to enemy bomb spam. Not only that, but I couldn't get doors to protect a tunnel if my life depended on it.

 

In public matches playing builder is very easy; however, when I'm trying to compete with another team full of smart players you can't get anything built up front without it being destroyed 30 seconds later. Because this game is more so aimed for public games I don't think builder is a problem in its current state, but when it comes to competitive play I question why its so easy to destroy shops, siege, etc.

To be a good builder nowadays, it basically comes down to map control and whoever has more resources to spam. Jigsaw and I made a ton of tunnels mid, only to be destroyed minutes later by flooding or other bomb spam. I made arounf 3 tunnels and two ballistas before I finally said fuck it and focused all of my attention towards a chicken cata. I think that it'd be more appropriate for builders to do more damage to other builders objects, not for a knight to come in spam bombs, drop a keg, and destroy a building that took 5 minutes to create.

Ideally I think that builders should do more damage to other builders creations. Why should a knight be able to keg drop a building that I spent a long time working on? I'd much rather have an enemy builder entomb himself in my building and break all the supports taking down the building, but killing himself in the process. I think the best solution would be to make builders a little more destructive, while nerfing the damage that bombs do to buildings and shops. A majority of my job is getting ladders up a tower and building a knight shop. Tunnels and siege are mostly just a luxury when all it takes is one good keg to open up a flag. If I build something poorly without supports in mind it should be my fault if the tower goes down to a keg, but when I've got supports all over the place and a keg jumper takes out a large part of it and finishes it off with bombs, why did I spend so much time in the first place?

I used to do a thing in classic where I would tunnel underneath enemy buildings and hit every single block until they each had one hit on them and then I would hit them all as fast as I could, which would cause an almost instantaneous collapse. It felt so rewarding to be able to do that as a builder because knights really relied on you to take out or capture enemy buildings. Now it's come down to knights just flying around killing and destroying everyone while my job is to make constant repairs while still trying to maintain map control etc. At this point I feel like I'm rambling but I think you get my point.

Also please fix it so doors block off light. This was really useful for Red Dawn Wolverine style traps. It also gives builders a stealth advantage

 

To be honest I love the wood door changes and everything else about this build(except how easy it is to fall through trap blocks by mistake).

Also I remember that match swine and I ended up finishing it as a front line builder with a wood wall to knight shop play(It was badass). Also I think tunnels, ballista's, and fast building won't hold up when the match is balanced with vets that play really well.

The only thing I would like to see is trap blocks being easier to navigate. I'm still falling in those dam saw/spike traps by accident haha. I'm sure there's an easy fix for that in the works and I blame myself for missing it in the change logs lol.

Keep up the good work Gatu, your poorly expressed KAG fanboys love you 5 eva.

 

Swine. Please shut the fuck up. KAG is a game for numerous people, not just you.

 

Thank you so much for your invaluable feedback. I am fully aware that this game has a community behind it and I post while keeping other builders in mind. I recommend you try and do the same.

 

I feel offended.
But seriously.. First day when I played new build, I forgot about wood door nerf and I was lil bit pissed off, because I had only 100 wood and 30 stone, so my ratplan gone bad (ded before I started tunneling). But now, after few days I think this is a good change. Why? - It's very easily to get wood.
- Maybe now noobs (and me lol) will start to build a tree farms.
- and thanks god Geti they will stop building 10-kilometer-long, indestructible underwater wooden door2door tunnels.
I think we all just need to get used to it.