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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0004150 | Valley 1 | Gameplay Idea | Sep 28, 2011 12:54 am | Sep 28, 2011 10:17 pm | |
| Reporter | Arnos | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | closed | Resolution | won't fix | ||
| Product Version | 0.503 | ||||
| Summary | 0004150: Spell range | ||||
| Description | Spell range feels ok normally, but when you are facing a skelebot miniboss, it's size makes you feel like you are fighting at knife range, maybe bump up the spell range just a little bit more? 1280x1024 if you are interested. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | Polish Tweak | ||||
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The main problem with longer-range spells is that one of two things happen: 1. If I increase your range, but not the range of enemies, then players can easily snipe enemies that have no hope of hitting them; even bosses; especially on larger screens. 2. If I increase your range and enemies' range, which is how it used to be in earlier alpha and before, then enemies snipe YOU before you can see them, especially on smaller screens. As it stands, the somewhat shorter ranges has simply been what seems to work best for most players, most of the time. I'm sure we'll play with that some with some spells, but those have to be specific cases that are carefully weighed and balanced. As a general thing, I don't think it's wise. One thing you will like to know, I imagine, is that we also plan more defensive spells, such as shields and such. Those would likely also help to address your main concern, which I'm sure is the inability to avoid damage when too close to bosses like that. Hopefully things like that will solve the core desire that your suggestion is aiming at, but in a bit of a different way. |
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Makes sense to me. I look forward to the defensive changes, but actually the red line that you put in makes things feel a lot better already. Keep up the good work! |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Sep 28, 2011 12:54 am | Arnos | New Issue | |
| Sep 28, 2011 6:58 am | tigersfan | Internal Weight | => Polish Tweak |
| Sep 28, 2011 6:58 am | tigersfan | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Sep 28, 2011 6:58 am | tigersfan | Status | new => assigned |
| Sep 28, 2011 8:34 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0014233 | |
| Sep 28, 2011 8:34 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | assigned => closed |
| Sep 28, 2011 8:34 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => won't fix |
| Sep 28, 2011 10:17 pm | Arnos | Note Added: 0014544 | |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:30 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Suggestion - Gameplay => Gameplay Idea |
