Build 963 - Crash fix, Anti-Doorspam, Helpful Tips

Yeah the new door system works well for wood doors, but affecting stone doors is bad since it makes them significantly less useful. It also destroys three awesome strategies I used to use on a couple different maps where I would rush in and place a stone door on a 3 wide doorway to stop enemy knights.

 

Thank you for the server exit crash fix! I think the door fix is pretty good and I always liked saws the way they were. Overall good work devs. I wish I was home to test it out.

 

I don't really see how. It already took forever to get enough wood to make a saw when they were destroyed in the middle of a round (Read: 5 wood per hit on a log, 5 seconds to chop a tree over, roughly 20 seconds to make a saw pre-963 total) and now you have to factor in the time it takes to mine stone, if any exists! And believe me, tons of the default maps run out far too quickly. It wouldn't be bad if they costed 30 stone, and in fact 50 stone might be okay too, but the issue was NEVER spammable saws, it was saws giving you spammable wood. 45 seconds to make a saw in the middle of a match is 5 full respawn timers and at least 2-3 waves of enemies, that's a LOT of lost time.

This is why I said that saws needed to give less wood and wooden doors needed to be increased to 50 wood cost.

Additionally, I did some testing today, and found this out:

Builder hits log: Gets 5 wood per hit, and the log breaks after 5 hits for 25 wood.
Builder drops log into saw: He gets 50 wood instantly.

Why are they getting twice as much wood at least 4 times faster?

 

welp even though i managed to bomb our tunnel workshops we still won

cheers not as much of a problem as i made it look like

 

It seems that I haven't been making my marching walls tall enough, or wide enough, Crabmaster.

 

King Arthur's Gold is almost never offline. You need to find servers close to you so that you don't have high ping. Also try upgrading your internet connection or pausing any downloading items. Hope this helps.

~Joelington

 

The enemy team should be grateful that I fall into so many saw traps. I am a god in combat.

 

Sorry but I was testing some tower designs today and was trying to see if I could make any new kinds of Archer Nests using doors(and generally was testing the best ways to add entrances for your troops) and this new door dynamic is the most annoying thing for a normal builder! Can't use single doorways practically in any way I would, door seem to randomly explode when being placed or when blocks are being placed next to them to try and prevent them from exploding, and if a block is next to a normal horizontal door and not above it that doesn't count as being attached and it explodes anyway. . .I was okay with this update at first but it seriously is just annoying now.

This is the kind of balance that "hurts normal players to stop the "bad guys"". . .Like a super tiny, gameplay related, version of what things like "Always Online DRM" on singleplayer does to customers of games. . . makes their life annoying to prevent pirates from doing things for 10 extra minutes.

 

I used the words "super tiny", making sure to voice the comparison as the same effect but MUCH much smaller than Always Online DRM.

Also on the topic of how it effects normal builders, here are some attempts to remake some issues I had during my building last night, also a big issue I have come across is it hinders experimenting for new designs as so many don't work:

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Also no screenshot, but any time you try to place doors behind you when running away from a knight, such as in a tunnel, they are much harder to place in the right locations to not just collapse.

Also some things that more effect those of us who enjoy the creative side of things:

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It just feels awkward and strange for a game with building as part of it to have this kind of limitation. . .I don't like my creativity being stunted.
Also no, these are not buildings I want critique on, they are simply example structures.

Thanks for clearing up that my internet causes those randomly exploding doors, at least...

Dang this post was huge...

 

I suppose the requirement could simply be lifted on stone doors?

 

I'd like it to allow double doors for wood doors as long as one of the two was touching a solid tile, and for it not to affect stone doors.

 

I agree with both of you. . .Quite simply you'd expect something that costs 50 stone to be more solid!

 

Same. Now you need a single ( Sometimes two ) bombs to destroy a door. That's totally nonsense.
Also when will the fucked up Alt+Tab fixed? It's hard to swap and, in recent builds, when I often swap windows, KAG becomes very slow but 30fps are rendered.

 

Doors are fine

 

Yeah, it took me a while to get used to it as builder but they are fine... People complain until they actually try the new changes out but then they get used to it.