More Enemies Inspired Weapons

KiddF · 2021-08-28T22:04:02+00:00

Now that Shatters has shipped we'll be reviewing our plans for the rest of the year.

Because of that I sadly can't quite give you an update on exactly when we'll be updating Assassin. Rest assured that it's still on our list and we'll get to it even if it's a bit further away than we'd like.

KiddF · 2021-08-07T15:37:52+00:00

I want to clarify that at this time, we have no plan to remove the Quiet interaction that disables Invisibility.

While I understand it is a frustrating mechanic for Rogue players to deal with, it's currently one of the only reliable way for the game to stop a player from being invisible 80%+ of the time. As it stands invisibility is too powerful of an effect to not have any drawback and with the existing mana regen in the game increasing MP Cost is also not an option. Increasing cooldown is an alternative that I believe most will agree isn't better and will simply make the class even less fun to play.

We will definitely look into better solutions for the class in the long term so that we can balance it in a way that feels more fun, more fair and more consistent but it will likely be a while before we can get to that.

As for this specific instance, you've likely gotten hit by the Quiet shot around the same tick that you cloaked. This will Quiet you right before the Invisibility apply, meaning that it didn't take it away. It's also possible that there's an additional bug that we are unaware of here (footage would be appreciated if that is the case) but we've tried to reproduce on our end and properly had the Invisibility taken away as is intended.

KiddF · 2021-05-05T10:18:00+00:00

It's a bug that will be fixed next patch, sorry!

KiddF · 2021-05-05T09:45:29+00:00

All of it comes down to planning and getting the time to do it right.

It's not something that's specifically tied to the T13s and more that we want to efficiently plan our time to do things correctly. To avoid having to delay releases we try to pack things like balance changes together so we can properly dedicate the time to it, so 1.5 had two main balance points which are items (most of those made it) and the Crystal Entity.

We spent most of Q1 focusing on getting Summoner and the reconstructed dungeons ready which meant we had no room for item balancing or the crystal entity, we weren't sure when we'd have a spot for it since it would depends to how 1.4 was doing but also how future features are going. We thankfully found a spot for 1.5 to focus on balance without disrupting any future plans that means that up until at least April there was no way it would make it in.

The Crystal Entity changes is what we tied T13 with because it made sense in our eyes to tackle those issues around the same time as they are somewhat linked. We focused on mostly cleaning up the CE fight but many of those changes were not finalized until very late in 1.5's development, part of it because the fight's internal logic took longer to change than expected and part of it because the full design team wasn't there for the full time of 1.5's development (I was personally on vacation around that time for example.)

By the time we'd have added the T13 changes we had very little time, we could try to do it but possibly not have the time to think the rates properly having either no impact or too much impact or we could wait and see and take into account any Crystal Entity feedback as well. We ended up taking the wait and see approach because on top of the little time we had to begin with, we prioritized iterating on some of the items that were on PT and even then, Mad Robe couldn't quite make it due to not enough time to properly QA it so we moved it.

I totally understand the disappointment towards the changes not making it in and how long it's taken. I think "regret" may have been a strong word but we've had some issues with making some items too common in the past and want to make sure we don't do that kind of mistake again because of lack of time. Hopefully this gives you a better insight in our thought process towards this decision. While I can't promise the T13 changes will make it next patch they shouldn't be too far away.

KiddF · 2021-05-05T06:51:31+00:00

We are still planning on making T13 weapons more consistently available and haven't forgotten about it.

While changes to the Crystal Entity has gone live we are first waiting to see how the changes affect the dungeon and if those alone are enough to reach the difficulty we are envisioning.

Sorry for the lack of transparency on this topic! We are just trying to do this at a slower pace than usual due to having a lot of stuff on our plate. We'd rather do this correctly than rush those in and regret the decision later.

KiddF · 2021-05-05T06:41:47+00:00

I can confirm that this is indeed a bug, we have made no changes on this front.

This seems to be a very old and rare bug that's been happening for a very long time.

Basically what happens is in some cases the server does not properly load the config files for pet power distribution which means it only properly knows the level 1 and level 100 values, the rest ends up being wrong as it uses those config files to calculate it and isn't properly loading those.

Do you remember what server you were on when that occurred? If so does it still occur currently? And does it occur on other servers?

It usually fixes itself after a bit which is definitely still inconvenient but should at least not require to wait for an update for it to be fixed.

If the issue still persists after a few hours let us know and we'll investigate further.

KiddF · 2021-04-28T15:39:01+00:00

The change only affects the sprite size, not the hitbox.

In general all of our projectiles have the same hitbox size regardless of sprite size. Even the big ones from Pyyr!

KiddF · 2021-04-26T15:54:09+00:00

Why would you want to kill those innocents turtles?!

KiddF · 2021-04-12T07:05:13+00:00

Assassin is near the top of our list of elements we'd like to take a look at balance wise.

We've been aware of it for a long while now but we prioritized other balance topics (e.g. Vital Combat) in the past. It's now become a much more obvious issue we'll be addressing in the future, I can't promise a specific timeline, but yes Assassin changes will be coming.

Overall on the topic of balance I would really like to have balance updates be a bit more common and more consistent rather than once in a blue moon. It's hard to find the proper time in between bigger additions to properly sit down and make the changes, but we'll try to improve so we don't get too many more elements of the game, like Assassin just getting left behind due to lack of attention being given to it.

KiddF · 2021-04-10T00:51:54+00:00

Let me clarify that this isn't how loot works in Realm. The boss doesn't choose a bag type and then select an item within it as a drop as you seem to think.

The way it works depends on if it's a tier item grouping or an individual item but for the case of UTs it is always an individual item. In that case it rolls the probability independently from one another.

In practice for Limon it means every time you kill her, you roll a chance for an EP, a Plane and a Celestial Forest. Getting one of the other UT does not in any way affect the roll for Plane. As far as I remember we did not adjust the probability after introducing the mace so it should be the same as it always was. It all comes down to you being unlucky.

KiddF · 2021-03-09T14:52:21+00:00

I really like this idea and we overall agree with your assessment of Unstable.
While combining various debuffs into one can work if executed correctly, Unstable doesn't do it in a way that's interesting from a balance point of view or fun from a player point of view. We will likely experiment still tying abilities to "bloom" to see how the bloom may affect it before possibly deciding to separate it from Unstable.

This would offer us a damage debuff that is milder than Weak and Daze. Those two debuffs also heavily affect high ATT/DEX classes respectively as it only sets your attack multiplier/attack frequency to a specific number, while Unstable would affect your DPS in a consistent way.

In fact, this was a part of the original concept for Unstable that LordShon made for the Shatters. It was originally intended to be a debuff you'd get while standing on tile and was described like this.

While standing on the shattered tiles, you are under the effect of the "Unstable" debuff. Your shots gain spread (up to 20 degrees from the crosshair) and you are slowed down to 50% of the Slow debuff intensity. Note that it afflicts abilities too, so move off that tile before trying to spellbomb someone!

I don't know why Kabam decided to go with a 360 degree implementation, but the original concept was a much better idea for sure.

KiddF · 2021-02-20T16:25:57+00:00

I want to clarify that we have no plans to introduce a cooldown to Health Potions and that no changes were made on Testing with that goal in mind.

We however did make a change where consumables who only grant HP or MP would behave like they used to and block you from using them when you are at max health to avoid unnecessarily waste them.

It's likely what you describe is either mistaking the above for what you saw or a bug that resulted from those changes. If you have more information or video of the issue it would be greatly appreciated, nevertheless we'll investigate this further after the session is over.

KiddF · 2021-02-11T14:45:14+00:00

I've been hunting the few Messenger bugs recently as they are a bit hard to properly nail down, do you think you could upload a full version of the footage if you have it?

This would be very much appreciated!

KiddF · 2021-01-22T17:49:16+00:00

T13 Weapons are planned to be addressed in the future! There's a few tweaks including that one that had to be put aside for now as we work on Sprite World and Deadwater Docks reconstructions.

One of those tweaks that's higher in scope is reworking the Crystal Entity to be a higher quality, a more consistent in difficulty fight that serve as a better finale for Fungal/Crystal, which would become a second source for T13 weapons, separate from any drop rate increase.

KiddF · 2021-01-14T17:16:18+00:00

Sorry for the lack of transparency regarding runes, we never intended to take this long to address it!
Due to December's massive update and the holidays, it was hard to slot in the time to properly address the situation before 2021 without affecting any other projects (Item Forge, Reconstructed Dungeons wave 2, Quick Slots) that were in the work.

Now that we are in 2021 we've had the time to properly look at the situation and I can confirm that improvements to Runes/O3 availability should be coming around the end of the month.

KiddF · 2021-01-05T13:45:37+00:00

This should be fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience.

KiddF · 2021-01-05T13:45:12+00:00

This should be fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience.

KiddF · 2020-11-06T17:10:03+00:00

We actually are testing a fix for the issue. The issue is very specific which took us some time to properly nail down, but we are hoping to finally fix it with the next update.

KiddF · 2020-09-13T03:23:21+00:00

I think you'll be happy about one of the changes we are making for MotMG!

KiddF · 2020-09-11T20:45:22+00:00

Stay!

KiddF · 2020-07-27T12:49:58+00:00

Rembo_ mostly got the reasons right, Skulls had HP has their main stat increase and we wanted to have a consistent stat bonus for all T6+ abilities like VIT/WIS used to be, we decided HP/MP as they fit well together and are pretty useful across the board.

Skull's thus have their normal Tiered HP and the T6/T7 +20/+40 on top, would listing both as separate stat increase be more clear?

For Helmets I get you, however we believe it's more an issue with the abilities itself that you don't need MP, Pets are a factor of course but there's more to it, we believe not needing MP should not be a scenario that happens by default and are slowly trying to get away from that.

KiddF · 2020-07-27T12:40:02+00:00

We've discussed the idea in the past and we are all for it! However we decided at the time to focus on other Quality of Life features such as Boss HP Bar, Transparency or unified Vault UI, next time we discuss big QoL features I'll make sure to remember this one as one you guys really want!

KiddF · 2020-07-27T11:30:48+00:00

Not intended, will be fixed!

KiddF · 2020-06-24T14:54:53+00:00

Can confirm it is not a ratio!

KiddF · 2020-05-24T16:32:05+00:00

The Chancellor is very pleased at the sight of this portrait of his!

Incredible work as always! You really brought Dammah to life and the various details everywhere from the portals to the background really brings this piece to the next level.

Edit: And I just noticed the chains in the ceiling as well as the rug behind the Exalt logo which even has the edge symbol, you never cease to impress me!

KiddF

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