0.9.9 Patch Notes

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szoltomi wrote:

I believe this was said many times regarding the fusing randomness:

The too high cost and randomness can easily cause players to abandon the game. It is a really really unnerving experience to lose so many fusings. Some people might even call it a trauma.

Many players play for fun, and feeling like this can easily cause them to stop playing, maybe not even come back again. It doesn't help when they see other people's blind luck with no work involved.

Mitigating the risk, even at a much higher up-front cost of anything, could lead to a healthier game experience in my opinion.

There is no need for examples, you saw enough in other feedbacks. But I feel it's important to have as many voices heard in this regard as possible.

There is one catch though.
Do enough players realize, that once they got a decent roll in anything they should start rerolling on another item? I have the smarts to save a "good enough" item, and start the terrible gambling on another, but how many other players know this?
Could this be something that causes unnecessary fustration for players?
How many people fall into this trap?
How could this be conveyed to players?

I don't know if this has been investigated before, but if it haven't, I feel it should be.

All this said, I really love what a great game you are making. I have some hard feelings with the fun factor between melee and ranged playstyles, but I will do a proper feedback on this once I made proper testing on the new patch.

Thank you for your time.

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szoltomi wrote:

I believe this was said many times regarding the fusing randomness:

The too high cost and randomness can easily cause players to abandon the game. It is a really really unnerving experience to lose so many fusings. Some people might even call it a trauma.

Many players play for fun, and feeling like this can easily cause them to stop playing, maybe not even come back again. It doesn't help when they see other people's blind luck with no work involved.

Mitigating the risk, even at a much higher up-front cost of anything, could lead to a healthier game experience in my opinion.

There is no need for examples, you saw enough in other feedbacks. But I feel it's important to have as many voices heard in this regard as possible.

There is one catch though.
Do enough players realize, that once they got a decent roll in anything they should start rerolling on another item? I have the smarts to save a "good enough" item, and start the terrible gambling on another, but how many other players know this?
Could this be something that causes unnecessary fustration for players?
How many people fall into this trap?
How could this be conveyed to players?

I don't know if this has been investigated before, but if it haven't, I feel it should be.

All this said, I really love what a great game you are making. I have some hard feelings with the fun factor between melee and ranged playstyles, but I will do a proper feedback on this once I made proper testing on the new patch.

Thank you for your time.

"

szoltomi wrote:

I believe this was said many times regarding the fusing randomness:

The too high cost and randomness can easily cause players to abandon the game. It is a really really unnerving experience to lose so many fusings. Some people might even call it a trauma.

Many players play for fun, and feeling like this can easily cause them to stop playing, maybe not even come back again. It doesn't help when they see other people's blind luck with no work involved.

Mitigating the risk, even at a much higher up-front cost of anything, could lead to a healthier game experience in my opinion.

There is no need for examples, you saw enough in other feedbacks. But I feel it's important to have as many voices heard in this regard as possible.

There is one catch though.
Do enough players realize, that once they got a decent roll in anything they should start rerolling on another item? I have the smarts to save a "good enough" item, and start the terrible gambling on another, but how many other players know this?
Could this be something that causes unnecessary fustration for players?
How many people fall into this trap?
How could this be conveyed to players?

I don't know if this has been investigated before, but if it haven't, I feel it should be.

All this said, I really love what a great game you are making. I have some hard feelings with the fun factor between melee and ranged playstyles, but I will do a proper feedback on this once I made proper testing on the new patch.

Thank you for your time.

"

ola562000 wrote:

... I don't know the numbers you have on paper, but 5 Links ARE cripplingly hard to get. I literally have spent over 400 fusings and got a 4 link 4 times, 3 link many times and 0 5 links and 0 6 links.

There needs to be a better way to progress when it comes to links, or at least a better way to obtain fusings.

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Many players play for fun, and feeling like this can easily cause them to stop playing, maybe not even come back again.

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People use this crazy “internet” to talk about video games. Some people talk about the market for the games, some talk about the games, some even talk about game systems and game mechanics. Many of the best games have demanding learning curves. StarCraft? That’s one of those games. Call of Duty? Eh, sure. For the sake of an example, we’ll consider it valid. As we’ve been discovering during the last half-century, man’s inherent curiosity also lends itself to electronic rule sets. It’s our competitive nature. We don’t care if it’s other people or whether it’s computer code. We want to examine it, we want to learn it, and we want to get the better of it. We want to win.

Some pursue their goals more passionately than others. Thus, “I play for fun” was born, and we were all dumber for hearing it. It’s an excuse that would never be tolerated in any other form of recreation and only gets a free pass because “it’s video gamez lol why are you takign this so seriously??”