dev1037 New Battle Effects

[Abriael]

These "headline updates" on the lodestone are starting to depress even me. And Im a "fanboy". (ToT)

Quite the contrary. Every devXXXX post should (and probably will) go there. At the moment it's more or less always the same people discussing devXXXX topics on the forum. Fossilization in feedback is never a good thing, so it's a good idea to make new dev threads more visible (attracting more people to discuss) by putting them on the lodestone.
The purpose of the lodestone is exactly that, announcing things. There's no reason why it should be limited only to major updates.

1 - What you see is what you get.There is Nothing else ready for a long time.
2 - The Yoshida marketing scheme just went down the drain.If you dont got something good to say, then dont say anything at all.

3 - (and most logical one) from now on all the devXXXX threads will be posted on the lodestone to attract more discussion and feedback on them from players that normally don't actively take part on the forums. Given that the post count of the one that opened this thread is 1, I would say it's working.

[Zkieve]

3 - (and most logical one) from now on all the devXXXX threads will be posted on the lodestone to attract more discussion and feedback on them from players that normally don't actively take part on the forums. Given that the post count of the one that opened this thread is 1, I would say it's working.

Discuss about magic effect being bigger or smaller ?.
yea definitely worth a thread.

[Abriael]

Discuss about magic effect being bigger or smaller ?.
yea definitely worth a thread.

Looks like quite a lot people are quite evidently considering it a worthy subject of discussion.

[Betelgeuzah]

1 - What you see is what you get.There is Nothing else ready for a long time.

Hmm, I see 36 topics on the "In Development" forum as of right now, some of them containing larger, some smaller changes. If this is what we get for a month or two, sounds fine to me.

Although considering the most recent topic came out of nowhere and seems to be ready for the next patch, I am inclined to disagree. They will post more changes even outside the current 36 we can see.

Discuss about magic effect being bigger or smaller ?.
yea definitely worth a thread.

Discuss the "Enhancement of battle effects", as that is the name of the devtag. Maybe I simply have more imagination than you, but I can think of several things to say about the battle effects than just their size. This is what these discussion threads are for. This is why they posted the tag. To get feedback on the subject.

[Zkieve]

Looks like quite a lot people are quite evidently considering it a worthy subject of discussion.

Yea , the sad part is the devs them selfs posted that, so it must be important to them.if you really dont see anything wrong with this, ill just ignore everything you say.

[Zkieve]

Hmm, I see 36 topics on the "In Development" forum as of right now, some of them containing larger, some smaller changes. If this is what we get for a month or two, sounds fine to me.

Although considering the most recent topic came out of nowhere and seems to be ready for the next patch, I am inclined to disagree. They will post more changes even outside the current 36 we can see.



Discuss the "Enhancement of battle effects", as that is the name of the devtag. Maybe I simply have more imagination than you, but I can think of several things to say about the battle effects than just their size. This is what these discussion threads are for. This is why they posted the tag. To get feedback on the subject.

Wish i could be as naive . Honestly . I do wish so.if in 3 months this is what they can accomplish , i think we are waiting for a lot longer than i personally will wait on this game to recover.
Honestly wish im wrong from the bottom of a small fan heart.

[Abriael]

Yea , the sad part is the devs them selfs posted that, so it must be important to them.if you really dont see anything wrong with this, ill just ignore everything you say.

The dev forum is filled with a crapton of dev subjects, some important, some less. They had to start somewhere, and they put on the newest one. Since, you know, the front page is normally for news.

It wouldn't have made any sense making a news post saying "we posted this on the dev forum 3 weeks ago. Discuss".

Again, despite the fact that the usual suspects can't help to take advantage of this to gratuitously bash the game and the development team, the post generated quite a bit of interesting discussion, and attracted at least one new user to the forum, ergo it served it's purpose.

[Darte]

I really hope they do alter some of the lackluster spell effects other than simply a size increase...

If the game engine is designed properly, all a size increase of the effect would take is multiplying the scale variable by 1.5 or 2...

[Dreamer]

Hmmm. I dunno. we've tested a lot. And other than the obvious INT not scaling with DMG as well as STR does for Melee. The cost of time to cast, stamina, and MP ( which is not as big an issue with MP regen in game now) makes casting "nukes" not worth the 40dmg they do to NMs. You could in fact cast 2 spirit darts in its place that do same if not more dmg and have a much higher chance to hit. And I won't even go into the AM's in the game now. Totally not worth the mp/time and such. I dunno, don't care to debate. G'night

That's a problem with NM magic resistance, not the spells themselves. They're well-balanced for normal monsters.

[Zkieve]

The dev forum is filled with a crapton of dev subjects, some important, some less. They had to start somewhere, and they put on the newest one. Since, you know, the front page is normally for news.

It wouldn't have made any sense making a news post saying "we posted this on the dev forum 3 weeks ago. Discuss".

It's simple logic.

Abriael ,do you really think this is the time to release such important information ?im not trolling you , im trying to reason with you.