CTF Progress, Day 1 + Other news

Time to bring my epic ninja rope skill from worms to kag. I really like this. If people think its op. Then nerf the range, its speed, or what it can attach to. Its just really easy to balance. You people need to remember this is beta. Its the perfect time for TESTING mechanics and new ideas.

 

Oh, don't get me wrong, grapple sounds like just the thing to round out the archer class. Balancing will obviously addressed, as I hardly expect the devs to release something ridiculously OP. For the record, with the skybridge comment I was referring to basically putting a dome covered in spikes around captured territory, but that was just unfounded speculation.

 

The idea of a grappling hook sounds alight but just wondering is this going to be a daily update blog of CTF?

 

The Grapple hook doesn't seem that fast. So if anything, it makes jumping pits, and climbing walls easier on the archer.
I've had many problems, myself trying to arrow climb out of death, or simply run from a knight, with their seven ways to move so much faster.

 

I don't really mind grapple if you make bomb jumps go farther.

I also feel that there should be a limit to how many times you can grapple, cause it will make normal archer movement pointless since you can grapple all the time.

Might as well give knights 3D maneuver gear and some titans to fight while you're at it though.

 

Bomb jumps will be superior, even as they are. And please no, don't make them too much more powerful, people are learning how to do really basic things like place two bombs on the floor, trust me, that makes you go high and far with zero effort.

Anyways, the grappling hook is probably limited already, and I don't care if it makes an archer as fast or faster than a slashing, or sliding knight, it fixes the inevitable problem of having an archer being a confirmed kill each time.
Leave bomb jumping as it is, because it is a very powerful thing as it is, and it could probably, or should, negate the speed of the grappling hook.

All in all, I don't see your point Brilly, Knights already don't move normally, because of slashing, sliding, water skipping, and bomb jumping.

 

Don't get me wrong Boea.

I'm going to love playing charging archers.

Especially if the shield blocks the grappling hook.

The erratic movements following such an event will show me the terror in their hearts.

 

The hotfix generally is "Don't run into that horde of obvious knights", my hotfix is, "Waste their time, health, and resources", of which I'm getting proficient at, and can sometimes kill a charging knight.

Anyways, one archer should be roughly the trouble of one knight as with one builder.
Archers need lovin's too, and remember kids, make sure to not expose wooden structures to archers, or really anyone, since everyone can break wood.

 

Soldat-styled CTF? I like it

 

I think I got it
But the main question is; Will the grappling hook deal damage if not shielded? if yes it is op straight away.

 

Why would grapple deal damage? Of course it doesn't. And yes, you can grapple over most structures (though spoilers: bridges + spikes) but it doesn't matter because the archer can't do whole lot once there. They can't light kegs (I wouldn't mind if they could)

 

And that is to say the mounted bow isn't overpowered, regardless of how one developer, and several people say otherwise?

As far as I know they've been labelled both useless and redundant by a dev [GETI] and tester.
And no, they can't grapple players, or movable objects, too many issues with the physics involved.
If they do damage I wouldn't be surprised if they end up being only marginally better than the bow in close ranges, because they don't seem to have a minimum draw, and their rate of fire is dependent on how fast you can reel it in, which from the teaser, seems to be as fast as the delay on the hit confirm for the knife, anything short of a full heart damage wouldn't even begin to be overpowered since the hitbox of the shield is so massive as to make a knight nigh invulnerable to arrows.

That aside, a new gamemode would be refreshing, and hopefully a good way to avoid systemic/problematic issues caused by turtling, while still being more than just a strange mating dance of blades in a cramped arena.

 

Aiming to share more news about it, or to release this new feature?

 

Is there a way to disarm a grapple? Like, opponents shooting an arrow through the rope, thus making it break?

 

[Which isn't very hard, in all honesty]