New build discussion

fully charged arrow simply overpowered. needs a longer charge up time

 

I agree with Kagesha, OP archer is OP. The unshielding arrow its ok, it even allows for team play (hey shoot him and then I slash through his unshielded body) but the 1 shot kill is crazy. As a builder or knight, you just dont have a chance to do anything against an instant kill arrow on the hands of a genetically engineered archer with ultra zoom. Archer vs archer is a game of luck. A bomb can instantly kill you (in comparison) but you get a chance to go away and hide, and after it explodes you dont have to worry anymore. A fully charged arrow is a constant threat of death, you move you die, no fun.

 

I didn't find the new arrow strenght to be a problem. There are ways to deal with an archer:
-As a knight you just have to know when to shield and when take risks while you are going through the battlefield. When you get close archers pretty much can't do jack crap.
-As an archer, it's not about luck. It's about good aim, and figuring out the move patterns of the enemy.
-As a builder you are supposed to be vulnerable. Rely on teammates to draw enemy fire, and be carefull.

The new mechanics are badass. Before this build I always played builder, but now I love running around as a knight, or an archer. Combat has a lot more depth now.

 

Nice job in reading the patch notes, my good lad.

Anyways, no comment on game balance as I just played archer for a bit. It was pretty fun, the skill ceiling has definitely been raised.
If there's some room for tweaking, it would be applying some horizontal air resistance after a screen's worth of flight or so.
Offscreen arrows are just plain unfair and promote spamming. Finally, jumping while charging an arrow still allows moving at full speed.

Also, the health display needs overhauling. The display needs to be in same resolution as the damage sources are.

 

EDIT: Okay, I didn't need to play for long to realise I was wrong. Sorry on that one.

 

Yeah, I misspoke. Once a knight and an archer are in close combat, there's something an archer can do. But most archer's I've faced don't do it. They back into a corner and die ;). You can't factor player's skill into a balance discussion. Good player's will alway's find a way to come out on the top.

My ping is usually below 100, maybe that's why I don't see any problems with the knights.

It is? Dang. Gotta go check it out!

 

There seemed to be a skybridge reds made, in GamingCrew server. Didn't have a possibility to see it, but it was a bit annoying. I like the one-hit-kill, and it's not unbalanced because of the big manuever penalty. But are arrows supposed to smash bodies? At least fully charged arrows did :o

And also, it was much funnier to fight against a real FORT, than just a bunch of blocks and men running around.


Many servers are laggy, I guess actually all of them, is it just the servers or is something in game causing it? I've seen no players with latency below 100.

 

Awesome job with the game no complaints so far.

 

I hate this game so much now. The charge-up bar is just demeaning to have to see on your screen. The 1HK is just obnoxious and leads to gay random deaths in the vein of catapult spam. I also kind of understand the necessity of changing archer jumping, but really that takes 90% of the skill and fun out of playing as the archer. Cover becomes meaningless, and taking cover and good positioning is less effective than a noob who stands out in the open, bow charged.

Workers are still the most overpowered. Try this: Pick worker and burrow underneath enemy's side of the map. Keep digging. If anyone pursues you anywhere, put up stone which you will have in surplus. It's a braindead easy way to get to their flag. Even if they stop you you've made a majorly weak path through to their side and they've devoted more than equal manpower to stopping you.

Giant stupid stalemating walls run rampant and the building time makes it worse. More building options only supports entropy.

 

What you mean with squashed? Post a screenshot pls ([F4]).

 

Ok, been playing for like 2 hours.

-Charge bar: I'm used to the sound of the bow, so I dont really use it.

-One hit kill: It's a big buff to the archer. And I can still jump&shoot, just have to time it right.
Although now I prefer ladder-shoot to jump-shoot, its easier.

Fully charged arrows knock down the shield: This made knight-archer cooperation much more interesting. The archer breaks the knight's defense while the knight hits him, or another archer.

-0.5 seconds arrow draw: Good, archers are not supposed to be good at short range.

-Drawbridge: It is crap, absolutely useless.

-Builder jump nerf when placing blocks: This is great, now builders cannot build a 10 tile high ladder in 1 second.


Suggestions:

-Make drawbridge better:
The enemy should only be able to hit it with catapult or bombs.
It should "hide" when enemies come near so destroying it with melee is impossible.

-One hit kill is annoying at long distance. Reduce the damage with distance, to reduce deadly spam.

 

explain. I find it very useful.

 

I find specially annoying enemy soldiers jumping in drawbridges without falling down. Also being squished by a insta-closing drawbridge doesn't seem appropiate.

 

Make stone blocks (the one you build) much harder to break even for miners? So they wouldn't fuck up the defences so quickly. It Is pathetic how i build underground walls like 4-5 blocks wide just to see a miner making a halfmap long tunnel through them.