Game Development: Gongalong!

[losexd]

aiming for next week it seems

[Selles]

[jorb]

No patch this week. Aiming for next.

[_Scipio]

No patch this week. Aiming for next.

[Regulus2424]

the desire to push an update leaving Jorb's body once he sees a fresh yearly gold sub

[Frogg]

No patch this week. Aiming for next.

[caz]

no answers to recurring questions this week

[sMartins]

Stop poking him, you're killing his artistic vibe, and I need him inspired.

Art can't be rushed by a deadline.

Sorry Jorbo

[Nightdawg]

Stop poking him, you're killing his artistic vibe, and I need him inspired.

Art can't be rushed by a deadline.

Sorry Jorbo

I wish this man would stick to art and instead commit changes to mechanics the entire community hates by subjecting them to vote.

I mean yeah it's cool that we have 40 types of birds, but things like rage-less characters being the pvp meta is just retarded haha

[vatas]

In case anyone is Out-of-the-Loop on why the concept of "rage-less fighter" is considered such an issue: they basically introduce a major "free-rider problem" into PvP.

Because of unchanged core mechanics, it's kind of important (or outright necessary) to gain aggro on every target (that isn't explicitly a friend/ally) and this means people can insert themselves into a fight without Rage, as opponents will simply initiate the combat relation(s) for them.

"Just don't aggro everyone then, isn't that obvious?" Problem is, there's absolutely zero indication on whether someone has rage or not. You're basically asking people to not fight, or blindly guess.

This would be bad enough, but let us take a look at why people don't want to buy Rage. (Spoiler alert: it's not the 50k LP cost.)

Rage has a massive opportunity cost by permanently "cursing" the character with "can't walk through a Heavy Gate while in combat, even if it's just PvE" - while a "Rageless fighter" can run through even while in combat with other players!