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Tier 3 Gun Puppies:The Legend of Bullet Helda.[Spiral Knights]
Tofystedeth
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This is a spiral.
This is a knight
This is the crazy-ass world in which Spiral Knights takes place.
I mean seriously. Take a good look at that
That is some crazy stuff there. It is a planet made of bits of stuff that also appears to be an actual globe, or an astrolabe, or one of those goofy things that steampunk cosplayers stick on their headgear.
That is Cradle. Cradle is a planet that is pretty damn rad. The entire subterranean surface is a complex arrangement of gears and platforms and all manner of doohickies known collectively as the Clockworks, which hosts robots, and demons, and zombies, feral creatures, and slimes and stuff.
Layer after layer of this stuff. There's ruined cities with decrepit skyscrapers and overgrown vegetation.
There's lush grasslands, frigid cooling units, graveyards, even a less than figurative corporate hell.
Oh also those guys I mentioned earlier? The robots, and zombies and slimes and stuff. They totally wanna ruin your day.
That's cool though.
Cause this is you
Okay. Maybe that's not you. Maybe you're not that cool, and you don't have a pony tail. But that is someone very much like you.
You are a robot who is also a knight. Your ship has crashed on Cradle, and you and your buddies are ready to delve into the Clockworks and beat the crap out of them for their precious bodily bits so you can make neat stuff for yourself, figure out just what's at the core of Clockworks and get home.
But why would you want to go home. This game is super fun. It plays like a cross between Zelda, Diablo, and Phantasy Star Online.
That last bit shouldn't come as too much of a surprise given that it was a collaborative effort between Three Rings Design (the folk that made my favorite MMO of all time, Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates) and Sega, who made PSO and some game called Sonikku or some shit.
Also the art lead is Ian McConville, from some webcomics you may or may not have read. You should though cause they're pretty great. Even though one is over and the other updates about as regularly as VGCats.
So how's the game work?
Basically you run around and hit stuff till it dies, then you pick up the delicious remnants. There's some caveats though.
You see, nothing on Cradle seems to work without "Energy." Something about thermodynamics or whatever. Energy comes in two forms. Mist energy, which you slowly absorb from your surrounding, at a rate that seems to be 100 arbitrary units per day. You are only able to store 100 arbitrary units on your person at a time, as in its gaseous state Energy is very unstable and prone to stripping off it's clothes in the supermarket. It also comes in a crystalline form which you can carry any amount of.
Anyway, you need it to do stuff like power elevators, which is how you get to places where you haven't yet slaughtered the local fauna. Or open some special gates. Or assemble your various ears and bones into jewelry to adorn your heathen body and aid you in battle.
The first one and to a lesser extent the third thing are the real kickers. Running out of the ability to do stuff kind of sucks. Fortunately, you can purchase more of it with the in game currency (crowns) or real world bucks.
There's another type of currency, tokens, which can be found by opening certain boxes and I believe killing certain enemies, which some vendors will take off your hands in return for various goods, in a fashion similar to WoW's badges.
You can arm yourselves with swords, guns, and bombs, all of which have their uses though I can't say I enjoy bombs very much yet. Enemies seem to be much better with them than me.
You can also equip head and torso armor, and a shield. There are slots for head and torse for cosmetic stuff, if you like the stats of one thing, but the looks of another.
There's also an arena type Brawl thing you can do with 4-8 players, but it's not up yet. I think it has rankings and they're gonna let the game warm up again before starting the season.
That's probably enough of me rambling for now. I've created a guild in game name Clawshrimp.
If you want a guild invite post here, or send a tell or in-game mail to Tofystedeth, Carmofin, Viridian, Bethryn, Avynte, Olliedag, Skulkraken, Scosglen, or Frem.
Let's get together and kick some butt. And have fun.
PA Vent Info:
IP: 69.12.36.171
PORT:2377
The Big List of Players
Players with stars are heathens who don't want in the guild.
anyway.
This is the crazy-ass world in which Spiral Knights takes place.
That is some crazy stuff there. It is a planet made of bits of stuff that also appears to be an actual globe, or an astrolabe, or one of those goofy things that steampunk cosplayers stick on their headgear.
That is Cradle. Cradle is a planet that is pretty damn rad. The entire subterranean surface is a complex arrangement of gears and platforms and all manner of doohickies known collectively as the Clockworks, which hosts robots, and demons, and zombies, feral creatures, and slimes and stuff.
Layer after layer of this stuff. There's ruined cities with decrepit skyscrapers and overgrown vegetation.
There's lush grasslands, frigid cooling units, graveyards, even a less than figurative corporate hell.
Oh also those guys I mentioned earlier? The robots, and zombies and slimes and stuff. They totally wanna ruin your day.
That's cool though.
Cause this is you
You are a robot who is also a knight. Your ship has crashed on Cradle, and you and your buddies are ready to delve into the Clockworks and beat the crap out of them for their precious bodily bits so you can make neat stuff for yourself, figure out just what's at the core of Clockworks and get home.
But why would you want to go home. This game is super fun. It plays like a cross between Zelda, Diablo, and Phantasy Star Online.
That last bit shouldn't come as too much of a surprise given that it was a collaborative effort between Three Rings Design (the folk that made my favorite MMO of all time, Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates) and Sega, who made PSO and some game called Sonikku or some shit.
Also the art lead is Ian McConville, from some webcomics you may or may not have read. You should though cause they're pretty great. Even though one is over and the other updates about as regularly as VGCats.
So how's the game work?
Basically you run around and hit stuff till it dies, then you pick up the delicious remnants. There's some caveats though.
You see, nothing on Cradle seems to work without "Energy." Something about thermodynamics or whatever. Energy comes in two forms. Mist energy, which you slowly absorb from your surrounding, at a rate that seems to be 100 arbitrary units per day. You are only able to store 100 arbitrary units on your person at a time, as in its gaseous state Energy is very unstable and prone to stripping off it's clothes in the supermarket. It also comes in a crystalline form which you can carry any amount of.
Anyway, you need it to do stuff like power elevators, which is how you get to places where you haven't yet slaughtered the local fauna. Or open some special gates. Or assemble your various ears and bones into jewelry to adorn your heathen body and aid you in battle.
The first one and to a lesser extent the third thing are the real kickers. Running out of the ability to do stuff kind of sucks. Fortunately, you can purchase more of it with the in game currency (crowns) or real world bucks.
There's another type of currency, tokens, which can be found by opening certain boxes and I believe killing certain enemies, which some vendors will take off your hands in return for various goods, in a fashion similar to WoW's badges.
You can arm yourselves with swords, guns, and bombs, all of which have their uses though I can't say I enjoy bombs very much yet. Enemies seem to be much better with them than me.
You can also equip head and torso armor, and a shield. There are slots for head and torse for cosmetic stuff, if you like the stats of one thing, but the looks of another.
There's also an arena type Brawl thing you can do with 4-8 players, but it's not up yet. I think it has rankings and they're gonna let the game warm up again before starting the season.
That's probably enough of me rambling for now. I've created a guild in game name Clawshrimp.
If you want a guild invite post here, or send a tell or in-game mail to Tofystedeth, Carmofin, Viridian, Bethryn, Avynte, Olliedag, Skulkraken, Scosglen, or Frem.
Let's get together and kick some butt. And have fun.
PA Vent Info:
IP: 69.12.36.171
PORT:2377
The Big List of Players
Players with stars are heathens who don't want in the guild.
anyway.
Eponymous players: Tofystedeth, carmofin, Kyanilis*, Avynte, Scosglen, Zandracon, garthor, olliedag, some lurker named Baske*
Chocobolicious = Warkster
Riokenn = Kittan
Witchdoctor, DBM = Beatryx
Grobian = Bren
Skullkraken = Skulkraken
Delphinidaes = Delphin
Amikron Devalia = Amikron
kime = kime
Aunsoph = Viridian
Chocobolicious = Warkster
Riokenn = Kittan
Witchdoctor, DBM = Beatryx
Grobian = Bren
Skullkraken = Skulkraken
Delphinidaes = Delphin
Amikron Devalia = Amikron
kime = kime
Aunsoph = Viridian
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Very fun game, I'll be playing this casually I guess. I use a gamepad for it and it's really enjoyable, I'd call the game Secret of Mana online.
What I wonder about the most right now is why the hell should I ever bother to play in a party? Can someone explain this? I know that most resources are shared, which is fine, however... Materials aren't. So while the monsters actually get TOUGHER for a party of players the reward you receive is smaller. So far I've been exclusively soloing on this restart and I got a hell of a lot more materials then on my last run where I was mostly playing with others. Since for now all my money is lost for CE, materials are the only thing I gain from a run.
Also it seems I'm trapped with tier 1 runs until i can afford recipes for 3* equipment...
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3DS: 2852 6971 9745
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If you group with people you know (like a certain guild) who're willing to fill in mats you don't have, then that issue works itself out.
Thanks for clarifying this.
It's the best way to do it IMO. For the countless hours I put into games like Diablo or PSO, it never sat well with me that the only good way to progress was to be the fastest and greediest, if you were pugging it.
Having shared loot just makes everything much more friendly and less angsty. You can just sit back and have a good time and not fret about "zomg you stoled mah lootz!".
Anyway, my IGN is Galedrid. I've only played the once yesterday but I should be on tonight after my kid goes down; maybe earlier who knows. But I haven't progressed at all. I made it to Haven(I think that's what it was called) and was exploring the bazaar and got hit by some odd lag thing where I was just floating all over the screen and couldn't control myself so I logged.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
And while I'm at it, if you see a heart, it's yours as well.
Only learnd of it via a Tweet from Tycho.
http://twitter.com/#!/TychoBrahe
Accounts made on the same computer are linked via some kind of machine ID. Otherwise multiboxing to get extra heat and crowns to buy CE would be too easy. See the posts above about groups getting extra loot.
Also I'm not on now cause I'm hanging with my wife. Should be on some tomorrow evening, definitely friday for guild invites. Might sneak in for a bit in a couple hours. Send me an in game mail with your name and I'll invite and promote the first few of you to get things going.
Warkster is my in game name, I believe.
I really love what a low barrier to entry this game has. You don't need to make an account, because Facebook, and you don't need to download and run an installer, because Java. And the game apparently downloads in the background while you play the tutorial level.
I do wish Facebook logins could be streamlined a bit more, though.
ALSO: This maybe the ONLY MMO I will play with the 360 controller. It works so well!
I've been having a lot of fun with this game though, in as Avynte.
I hit t2 the other day and the difficulty really does ramp up, even with well leveled 2 star gear. The bad guys get some new moves, some new skins, and generally drop better loot.
I did get boned in one arena where it spawned 8 homing rocket gun-puppies for a wave though
Had to eat a death to make it through there.
Also, fuck big wolvers forever. Gun dodging, triple bite charging, aoe attack boosting bastards.
I hate those so hard. Even in T1 they do really really nasty.
Thanks for the F12 tip Nick.
There will be people that amass fortunes just by buying low and selling high, I'm sure.
In as Walker.
I did something like that. On SundayI bought 100 CE and monday I bout 200 using dungeon running proceeds. They were about 1200 on Sunday and 1400 on monday. On tuesday I bought 2k worth of mats for 110 CE, when ce was about 1700.
Starting gear and awesome skills, woo!
Now I Have ~2700 Moneys and I'm not sure what to do with them.
Currently playing: GW2 and TSW
Tomorrow will probably devastate that pile of CE though, since I'll be between old job and new job.
I am so glad that I spent the last few days hoarding CE. I will really miss that time, because it was possible to play nonstop and still increase your fortune.
Everyone in this thread should have received invites to the guild so far.
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NNID: carmofin
3DS: 2852 6971 9745
Throw me a PM if you add me
You can earn about 3000 crowns from that, not including material or mineral sales, and buy another supply of 100 energy with 2500-2700 crowns.
This system works great at the moment, you can make a slim profit and keep a steady supply of energy coming in so that you can keep playing if you don't want to spend money.
However, I foresee a serious problem when the market takes its inevitable course and energy becomes totally unaffordable to low level players, as the prices shift to meet only the high tier player market.
On an unrelated note, I want to punch someone's face in when I join a party and the game dumps me into the break on level 4 or the very end of a level, happily consuming my 10 energy, then asking me to cough up another 10 energy seconds later. Totally stupid