Devlog KAG KAG Build 1796 - Fixes to Round out The Week.

So uhm. There should be a TDM at night. I'd like to spectate that hell

 

Hahaha You should've seen the mines some updates ago when the deploy time was something like 3 seconds!
There've been many discussions about the mines in that update. But you should keep in mind that Geti himself stated he doenst want an offensive use for the mine. He want them to work more like a trap or something you put next to enemy doors to stop their advance.
If you use the mines dropping them in the middle of a close combat battle, you are using them "wrong". Although maaany times that could work (and it's really funny when it does) maybe what are you really trying to say is that you want the insta-kill mines to come back -as with the old boulders i.e-.
That's not gonna happen.

And what's the point of that? Wich use would you give to it?

--- Double Post Merged, Mar 22, 2016, Original Post Date: Mar 22, 2016 ---

Changing the subject.
Is there any reason why the surrender option in official servers is bugged/disabled? (At least for me and many players ive asked it says "Cant start the vote before match starts")

 

Another thing to the list: Align the emote at 12 o'clock, instead of the . It's a nonsense. All the directions are aligned correctly, why that doesn't? Maaany times i wanted to quickly say "Above" and instead i was saying "everything it's ok" .--

Some odd bug (?)
When playing around with the emote menu in the moment a new match ends and the new one starts, this happened to me:

Spoiler: Screen

Quitting the server didnt fix the problem. Actually, even in the main title the screen kept that way. Probably it was just a one time thing.
--edit: (i didn't tried to sound demanding)--

 

Happens quite a lot in TDM when you are spamming emotes at the end of the match. Kinda annoying.

 

That used to happen to me...

 

Oh, then it isnt that odd. But i must admit it didn't happened to me again, even when ive tried a few times to induce it.--

Another thing for a future update:
Remember that dark age when teamate builders destroyed every mine you held and how that got fixed -hopefully-?
Could you do the same with blocks being held such as doors or ladders? I mean, what is the point of placing an already broken door (but paying full price for it) only because you were near a teamate mining some stone, i.e? It was a planned thing?
Could that be removed? Thanks in advance.

 

I see where you are coming from but I think the way it is works with the team dynamic KAG is based on. Mines are a defensive team item, that is the risk you take when you buy one and I think you can do just as much damage with a well placed bomb arrow instead as an alternative.

 

or if they take it and place it then someone steps on the original owner gets the kill(s)

 

When that happens i just warn the player doing that to buy his own stuff and to stop grabing my shit. If the guy keeps stealing my stuff and there's an admin, i ask his intervention. If there is not, I just vote him. Sometimes the guy apologizes before that point, sometimes he doesn't and he get kicked, and sometimes i get the payback for the vote and I get kicked ...
Just think that the same thing could happen with ballista, droped weapons as bomb arrows, etc. The deal is how many jerks are on your team. Fortunately, it doenst happen quite often to me.
Also i don't quite agree that the post-mortem mine grabing is an issue. If you droped your mine because you get killed... for me it's ok for a teamate to utilize the mine. But the thing changes when you placed the mine and then you get killed.

 

But it doesn't work though...

 

while we're on the topic of emotes, please replace some of the completely cryptic ones (like the campfire) or the redundant ones (two crying emotes) with the essentials from classic. I want to be able to say 'Yes' or 'No' with a checkmark and an X (thumbs up and thumbs down has too many interpretations), and the gold emote would be as useful as ever in my opinion, since ballista + bomb bolt tech is literally required to win.

Also, as said above, mines change ownership the moment a teammate picks them up.

 

YES! i said that like two years ago! and nobody listened. Indeed, there're many emotes that are practically the same thing : / /
But i would replace the instead of the , because the campfire could mean to burn something.

 

Yeah... It's happened to me many times.

 

So yea, this is all the error reporter does. It also stays open after you exit KAG, so that steam doesn't let you start it again without finding it in the taskbar and manually exiting. Very annoying and completely useless.