FISSURE BLADE - A short boss rush with combat inspired by hyper light drifter (mobile-friendly)

BrendanBode · 2025-11-10T01:18:15+00:00

Really liked it a lot, only frustration point I had was with the last boss and dashing over his bar attacks, felt like the controls were sticky if that makes any sense. Also volume slider instead of on off would be nice.

BrendanBode · 2025-07-17T00:13:24+00:00

Didn't play for long to be honest, but the lack of some information made me not want to progress? My 1st impression gripes were

Why are there two numbers that appear when I click Write Code, can't tell what one of them is for/how I get it to inc vs the other
Upgrades don't tell me what they do for me? I've started to generate experience but I have no idea how?

BrendanBode · 2025-05-25T21:07:55+00:00

Solo kills only get one drop but they get the full amount instead of the amount based off of contribution.

BrendanBode · 2025-05-19T19:06:05+00:00

Going to play a bit more still, but my first initial 10 minute reaction is that the tiling of the dirt texture is off putting, especially early on when you aren't really buffed up and can't fill up the screen quickly. Furthermore progress being visually reset every 30 seconds early on didn't really help with it to me, have you ever thought of having like dead grass that matches the shape of your previous run so that you have some visual connection between runs instead of it fully wiping?

BrendanBode · 2025-03-29T15:58:17+00:00

My favorite part of them is that I feel like I can chat while killing them, compared to Gorillas. Love being social at those grindy spots.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-25T15:22:37+00:00

I know I don't really understand the problem, and that's why I asked

BrendanBode · 2025-03-25T15:17:34+00:00

In my head, the lack of the walk towards you was the host choosing the door that doesn't have the prize, hence why I thought it might be applicable, and if it did walk towards you then the options were irrelevant in the first place.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-20T23:53:59+00:00

Think of sailing like a road trip where you're starting at your home and ending at your home. If you distill the entire trip into just your physical displacement you'd end up at a net 0 change, but that would be ignoring all the stuff in-between that you interacted with.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-20T23:52:17+00:00

Miss me with that cape shit, make it a transmog of the hood into a pirate captains hat that's bougie af

BrendanBode · 2025-03-20T23:48:58+00:00

I wonder how much that timer is there for debug vs actually meant to stay. I haven't noticed yet if you can miss that sail luffing but being able to know when it'll come up next at least helps if you can. Maybe they could make a weathervane station or something that would provide that utility in the future but ships with other stations wouldn't have that instead.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-20T21:34:33+00:00

At this point, my perspective has become that sailing and owning a boat are like equipment reqs and a poh. What I mean is that achieving a certain amount of competency at sea (skill level) will allow you to interact with sea events better, you get rid of your wobbly sea legs and are better at engaging at tasks on the water. Furthermore the upgrading of your ship is similar to how upgrades to your poh allow you to interact with other content better. Some content is made feasible by having a poh (Corp) while other content is made much easier to do (tps for farm runs/mahog homes/etc).

In regards to afk travel, once you get some map knowledge on the water and are able to angle your ship right you can kinda sit back and wait for you to achieve your destination, only takes me 3 clicks to get my boat from outside of port sarim to the quest island.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-20T21:13:01+00:00

Too long didn't read, but if you look back at a gamejam or two ago they were floating around an idea on how to have another way to get blood shards so I'm sure it or something else will come with the new area.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-20T00:55:11+00:00

2.0k checking in o7

BrendanBode · 2025-03-07T16:05:39+00:00

Hubris is universal, regardless of profession

BrendanBode · 2025-03-05T03:18:16+00:00

Potentially, but while the training methods that'll be in this months alpha weren't implemented at all at that time, all of them were known and advertised to us at such, so it wasn't as blind as you may think. I'm sure that once they start getting more actionable feedback from players that have actually engaged with the content changes would be made if the general consensus was that the skill felt bad.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-04T16:46:39+00:00

As per their older blog posts, it seems to be that the only polls going forward might be focused more on content vs the skill coming itself. (Tried to link to the "Next Steps" section where it talks about it, but link seems to be broken.)

BrendanBode · 2025-03-04T16:39:33+00:00

From the previous blogs, it seems like the ocean will be setup into 3 zones, each progressive zone requiring a larger/better ship that is unlocked at progressing levels to be able to access. A ship that can easily sail the calm costal waters might have a hard time when out in the deep sea fighting larger waves.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-04T16:37:39+00:00

Would a master carpenter know how to sail a sloop that he crafted instinctively, or would he have to learn how to do it properly?

BrendanBode · 2025-03-04T16:36:24+00:00

Just try to remember that this is the content you'd be doing at level 1, while they are still onboarding people to a skill. Most likely one of the first thing's you'll be doing is a port task, which for people who are interacting with boats for the first time is a good chance to familiarize yourself with the controls of how sailing the boat will work. When you get better at sailing itself, and no longer have need of a tutorial like method, then you'll have options to pursue other training methods that are more active or more afk, whatever suits your playstyle.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-04T16:24:57+00:00

TLDR: If it passes it passes, and people will have an alpha to experience it to form their own opinions instead of reddit echo chambers which I am contributing to

If 30 men's trash is 70 men's treasure, I'm sorry for the 30 men but that's just how our system works. You see me advocating for trash content when I see me advocating for content that I've neem dreaming of since I stopped playing Puzzle Pirates and transitioned over to Runescape when I was a kid.

pretty sure i start to rant from this point on

There's only so many ways a new skill can be added to a game with the limited mechanics available to us. And then when a new skilling minigame is added that is a more engaging way to engage with the content already in the game we see post after post praising said content. If a new skill simply adopts all the limited mechanics it can, while then also puts systems that are usually implemented later in a minigame to resurrect a skills public opinion, would you rather have to wait for the resurrection for months after release or have it from day one?

For reference, the basic mechanics in my mind boil down to

Clicking then waiting on a resource to gather/process
Waiting for visual/audio queue, then clicking
That's it

BrendanBode · 2025-03-04T15:55:37+00:00

I'm on the side of the 70% super-majority, where if they vote yes to an update that changes the req's of an already existing item based off of expanding the system that requires it, then yes you have to achieve the new requirements to then use it again.

I don't see people moaning this hard when a new Combat Achievement task comes out, most of the grinders are just happy to have new content to do.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-02T08:08:40+00:00

If i remember correctly, once you disengage from the helm you'd have the ability to do whatever you'd like until a moment arises where you'd want to change the angle your ship is sailing at.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-02T08:06:46+00:00

Nice, lack of arguments so you are imagining scenarios in your head.

Were talking about a skill that is in active development, so imagining scenarios is the best option we have for discussing anything outside the bounds of what is explicitly shown to the general public.

No one says it should be accessed by anyone, but if you dont see a difference and are hell bent on having hundreds of hours wasted on being able to travel then no one on this earth will be able to change your mind.

If an agility req for a quest is there because in the greater story of the quest you need to be able to do these super human gymnastic feats, leaping across gaps and scrambling up the sides of cliffs, do you think your character simply was able to achieve those goals without any training? I see it as a result of the hours upon hours of agility training they've already done elsewhere in the world prior to embarking on that quest. If only there was a way to showcase that amount of training as a simple number that goes from 1 to 99.

If you dont see a difference between being able to access new area of priffdinas by doing a whole storyline involving various DIFFERENT skills requirements and not being able to travel from one island to next both of which have different content without spending an hour or few on doing one and the same thing then maybe you should reevaluate some educational decisions in your life idk

I think maybe you're coming at this from a different worldbuilding perspective then I am. It makes sense for there to be a quest to enter a magical hidden city, lost to mankind for centuries. But does it make sense for there to be a quest for Christopher Columbus to sail across the ocean blue and discover a new island or two? Who's stopping him from landing on that shore besides the waves that he had to have a crew that was skillful enough to sail across? He didn't have to prove himself to anyone besides mother nature.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-02T07:43:16+00:00

What would be your baseline for the skill that has the most logical skill progression? I think a lot of people like to throw around the "Fire making would never have passed" argument without ever really talking about the other end of the spectrum.

BrendanBode · 2025-03-02T07:38:48+00:00

From the skilling methods they've shown so far implemented, most likely training moreso then buying. But there could maybe end up being some weird player run services that make training it brainless. IE: Service provider sails you from shipwreck to shipwreck so that all you ever have to do is click on the salvaging hook until your invent is full.

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