0014366: Burlust Duel Feedback - DEV Arcen

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0014366	The Last Federation	Gameplay Issue		Apr 21, 2014 10:48 pm	Jan 23, 2015 1:27 pm

Reporter	MaxAstro	Assigned To	Chris_McElligottPark
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	1.002 (Tech Acquisitions And Planetary Attacks)

Summary	0014366: Burlust Duel Feedback
Description	So for my first game, I chose a random advanced start and ended up crashing on the Peltian's planet. Shortly after escaping, my next action was to take the quest to grant spacefaring to the Burlusts; they have really high compatibility with their planet, and seem like they'd be good allies. After that, I was looking at ways to make friends with them. Turns out, the best way is to roll into town, murder the prime warlord, and makes friends with the NEW warlord. So, fully expecting to die, I challenged the prime warlord as my second ever combat. Short story: Warlord battles are too easy, and also too grindy. Longer version: Normal combat difficulty. For starters I thought I'd take him head on. Full power to shields, let's trade blows... oh, after one turn my shields are gone. Nope nope nope nope... How about full power to engines and I'll circle strafe him. His only weapons are slow bullets and slow missiles... oh look, that works. So for 5 million points of damage at a rate of about 70k damage/turn, I circle strafed the warlord to death. At no point did he remotely challenge me, except one moment when I learned the hard way about his gravity lance. My suggestion: Warlords, with their somewhat unique roll of solo boss battles, should probably have some very unique and challenging weapons. More than any other encounter, these guys should be throwing bullet hell patterns of death at you. Certainly, considering the seemingly huge reward for beating one (the Burlusts now seem to be my BFFs4life), it should much more challenging to do at the very start of the game. I'd be greatly in favor of ratcheting up the intensity of these fights in general - give them less insane amounts of health, but make it hard to survive long enough to take out what health they do have. I feel like they'd be more compelling as a "glass cannon" kind of boss; they certainly aren't very interesting as an "armored hulk that can't actually hit you" boss.
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Internal Weight	New

Prokofiev May 18, 2014 2:10 am reporter ~0038165	For what it's worth, like every other race, the Burlists grown in technological skill as time progresses, and those "boss battles" with their leaders become increasing tough. What's more, they acquire new leaders, so you never really run through those that have to offer. It's like dealing with the pirates. They're a pushover at first, but as time goes on they become increasingly dangerous, since you never progress as fast the various species in the game.

Greenicetealeaf May 18, 2014 4:52 am reporter ~0038166	A suggestion would be to allow special abilities in the battle while giving the warlords abilities as well xD or atleast the ability to adjust speed weapon dmg and shields so they can compete

Chris_McElligottPark Jan 23, 2015 1:27 pm administrator ~0039882	We completely redid the warlord battles for 2.0, so marking this one completed since it's referring to a waaaay old version of the battle.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Apr 21, 2014 10:48 pm	MaxAstro	New Issue
May 17, 2014 5:54 pm	Poulpe	Relationship added	related to 0014957
May 18, 2014 2:10 am	Prokofiev	Note Added: 0038165
May 18, 2014 4:52 am	Greenicetealeaf	Note Added: 0038166
May 18, 2014 5:43 am	Drak	Relationship added	related to 0014372
May 18, 2014 5:44 am	Drak	Relationship added	related to 0014277
Jan 23, 2015 1:27 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Internal Weight	=> New
Jan 23, 2015 1:27 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0039882
Jan 23, 2015 1:27 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	new => resolved
Jan 23, 2015 1:27 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Resolution	open => fixed
Jan 23, 2015 1:27 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Assigned To	=> Chris_McElligottPark