Goodbye Classic, Hello Beta.

Beta is better, beacuse mods ;_;

 

Both have mods though.

 

Bye, have fun playing beta :')

 

I really enjoy Beta. Apparently not called Beta but oh well. I really enjoy it and the times I have had on it are so amazing. Some old players that I knew I have seen that I haven't seen in a while. Beta is superior to Classic.

 

Sumo. Sumo. Sumo.

Need I say more?

 

no classic = no kag for me
beta is too messy.

 

Your bloody parts spread all over the Beta server is too messy. :>

Before I thought Beta was "meh". After suffering so much lag on Classic I tried out Beta (no longer Beta apparently). And I actually liked it. The gameplay is fresh compared to the stale klunky controls/mechanics in Classic (not saying that it sucks, its just getting repetitive). To those naysayers, I suggest you give it a try (you have to someday, given that you paid for it).

I'm getting back to recking pubs. See you there!

Or parts of you.

 

I can't afford premium because here in mexico its quite hard to get hold of a credit card. I don't see me ever getting hands on premium, so no goodbye to classic.

 

It is entertaining to see so many tears about the game changing :D Guys give it a hit! It will be great fun as time passes.

 

I tried replaying classic yesterday. Gave up after 10 minutes. The things that killed it for me were:

Everyone can only jump 3 blocks, eww.
No walljumping, eww.
No archer hookshot, eww.
Archers don't start with 30 arrows, eww.
There aren't any kegs, eww.

The things I do miss from classic though...
I miss outposts for cheap, movable spawn points.
I miss the old "stand here and heal" stations.

That's about it.

 

Slowly making a transition. I'm weening myself off of classic, branding myself whenever I play for extended periods of time.

On a more serious note, I really do enjoy beta. I've thought about making a retraction for my previous rant, only stopped by pure apathy. Hell, even Vidar is in love with it, someone I thought would go to the grave playing classic.

But I must say...

You can set that as a server variable, though the amount supplied is limited. That can be changed if someone wanted to raise the amount of starting arrows.

Half true, seeing as only gold servers have them. Seeing as there are no populated gold servers, fair enough.

I actually miss this, even if it's slower. Not that there's a problem with missing faster movement. Perhaps I'm too slow to comprehend the combat.

As for the others, I agree with you. The grappling hook is pretty damn cool, and it's something that I've accidentally tried to do in classic. Wall running falls with this as well.

I'll get over classic one day, and then return to it with nostalgic respect when I'm feeling genuine or bored.

 

I really do enjoy a lot of aspects of kab, but after a month of playing and time to evaluate it, I find I'm just not in love with it at all. I still like it, and it was initially very exciting, but it doesn't hold up for me in the long run.
Most of the things I loved about alpha no longer exist, sadly, and there are quite a few things I inherently don't like about kab. It's subjective and really not worth getting into anymore so I won't go into specifics.

It's a real good game, just after some time with it I realize its not my flavor.

When it comes down to it, Kab lacks an addictive quality that I found inherent in Classic.

I think I might come back to alpha for a bit, but I ultimately have just fallen off the scene.

It could just mean I'm an old dog ready to retire. Out with the old and in with the new. All good things come to an end.

 

@Vidar

If you can, hop on with some of my good friends who played Classic for a long time. You will start to notice that not all of the aspects that were in Classic have completely gone away. Sure, on the surface things are different. Classes look different, new things are added, old things are removed, but the general play style remains. Most of my friends and my strategies haven't changed. Sure, they have been adapted to the new movement mechanics, but at the core they remain the same.

People who played Classic almost always play better than those who joined only in Beta.

 

You sir, will always remain the best damn knight to play the game. @Vidar

 

Look, ultimately we have two choices. Abandon the game, which no one wants to do, (and I'm really only speaking for myself) or try to influence any future gamemodes Beta may offer in an image which would satisfy the old school competitive alpha players.

What I did: I uninstalled Alpha and forced myself to play Beta for a month. I'm not a pro by any means but I have a sense for what might need improvements, and honestly, a lot of things, it does much better. It's a good game that i like, but I want to love it. And I think I can if we give this bitch a makeover. Through modding or better yet, a Gamemode, "Classic CTF".

I wrote a few posts here about the state of competitive KAG in beta.

https://forum.kag2d.com/threads/clan-wars-on-beta-competitive-aspect.17224/page-2#post-251014

Please feel free to comment, good or bad, I just want to get some creative discussions going, not a flame war about what version is better.

The important thing is building a future for Beta's competitive leagues. That has to start by looking at what we have so far, and really asking ourselves if it's possible with whats currently offered. If you think current Beta as it is can be exciting, competitive and fair, please explain. I'm trying to get the full picture here.

 

Beta is a bit messy on menus/build screen and there is a bit too much debris for my tastes, everything seems so cluttered. And the chat placement, can't even see what I type.

I'll still try to go back to it every now and then though.

 

You mean camping out the tickets and tossing bombs at everyone? :p