Realistic water!

Wanted it for so long. dev's said they wouldn't do it. And. supprise ;o

http://devlog.kag2d.com/post/37632711147/just-another-day-in-the-world-of-kagdev

 

I want boats before the realistic water.

 

Who needs a boat when you can have FANCY HIDDEN UNDERWATER UBERBASE?

 

"They're tunneling? RELEASE THE KRAKEN"

 

We need pipes and stuff now, or else those awesome flood traps I'm thinking of will only work once...

 

The water rework was kind of impossible, just in their old engine. The best they could do was add it in as the global water level. Now, they probably have a system set up for fluid blocks in the new engine.

Although, this changes priorities entirely. Boats by default become second to magma and piping systems.

 

Finally we can drown those damn tunnelers making a way to our flag.

 

All the lag that people will incur. This may be the last time I can play kag for a while ;_;

 

Fun, I wonder how team doors will work with it...

 

Of course it doesn't look like non-discrete water levels, but the fact that they will flow and expand out as blocks are removed still makes them fluid. It's not a complete system like Terraria's, but rather one like Minecraft. But, this is still nowhere near global, where even if you dug straight down into dry land you would eventually run into a wall of water, like aquifers in Dwarf Fortress. This allows for you to not only make tunnels underground on water maps, but also have different bodies of water at different heights at the start of a round (assuming that water works by just expanding to the sides and bottom).

 

Which will be awesome for mountains maps with ponds and lakes. :D

 

war mode will be slightly easier because you drown so easy as knight but i hate the surfing

 

Really excited about this, should bring a whole new layer of depth to the current water based maps. As of now the defending team has a huge advantage. I hope that boats will bring the experience a bit closer to the fast and furious experience found in the vanilla experience, still keeping the element of water into equation.

Depending how boats will work, it would also be quite interesting to see if "floods" could make a return.

 

I'm afraid boats are going to be just like catas - as soon as the enemy touches an enemy boat, they start stabbing it to death.

If that happens, boats will be a major disappointment.

 

Well, I say that you need the ability to destroy them, otherwise I can imagine a map being cluttered with boats from the left to right pretty quick. It is a delicate balance, really. You can't make them too powerful, but at the same time stronger than the average catapult...

I am ending this post right now because some drunk person just tried to open my door! Funny enough I did foresee this happening and made sure it was properly locked before sitting down.

 

first paragraph agreed.

Second paragraph Dafuq? :O

 

Agreed, considering the way water in Terraria worked, that shit lagged me like mad, even when moving miniscule amounts of water.

 

I know most people are complaining about LAG, but you can't really tell until you tried it, which no one has. I'm sure the KAG team will optimize the water in a way that it will run on some low-end computers.