Community Census on Varying Controversial Features

Game Discussion
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Saw this comment:

Had the idea to go forwards with it, but in the forums. I’ll try and provide the opinions I think are most spoken by the playerbase, along with the yes/no options.

For your convenience, I tried to sort everything into distinct categories.

Without further ado; the polls.

Notice: “Keep as-is” means that you want to keep the behavior without changes. Do not vote for “Keep as-is” if you are also voting for a change. This causes the poll to inaccurately reflect the playerbase’s opinion.

Fundamental Mechanics

Build Types / Classes
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely (everyone becomes a Savant)
  • Remove, but only for Players (NPCs retain distinct “builds,” players are Savants)
  • Remove for players, they can choose any one awakening option
  • Allow for unlimited stat resets, which is built up by gaining EXP when at max level
  • Make into a “focus” system where the player gets features for certain things more quickly, but does get some things from all builds
0 voters
Modifiers
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Make treasure spots rarely give “modifier essence” which can be applied to any non-boss armor
0 voters
Individual Armor Stats
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely (armor becomes cosmetic)
  • Remove Defense
  • Remove Power
  • Remove Intensity
  • Remove Range
  • Remove Attack Size
  • Remove Attack Speed
  • Remove Regen
  • Remove Armor Piercing
  • Remove Resistance
  • Remove Drawback
  • Remove Insanity
  • Remove Warding
0 voters

Dark Sea

Dark Sea Water Poisoning
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Builds up via a visible meter
  • Provides an attack & defense penalty instead of causing DOT
  • Can only happen in select chunks of the Dark Sea past the Insanity 0 layer
0 voters
Dark Sea Rain (Visual)
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Make less dense
0 voters
Distance Between Dark Sea Islands
  • Keep as-is
  • Reduce moderately (to two-thirds)
  • Reduce considerably (to half)
  • Reduce massively (to one-third)
0 voters
Distance Between Dark Sea Layers
  • Keep as-is
  • Reduce moderately (to two-thirds)
  • Reduce considerably (to half)
  • Reduce massively (to one-third)
  • Add slipstreams/a means of moving very quickly through the layers
0 voters
Dark Sea Structures
  • Keep as-is
  • Cap island height at around 200 studs (40x player height)
  • Cap island height at around 400 studs (80x player height)
  • Remove Sunken Forests
  • Remove Volcanos
  • Remove Siren Rocks
  • Remove Stone Rifts
  • Remove Sunken Towers
0 voters
Dark Sea Weather
  • Keep as-is
  • Make weather deal reduced damage to players
  • Make weather deal no damage to players
  • Remove magic tornados
  • Prevent magic tornados from spawning within 200 studs of a player or player ship
  • Remove magic waves
  • Standardize magic wave damage, so acid/magma waves are less deadly
  • Remove magical whirlpools
  • Make magic whirlpools unable to capture or damage ships for 30 seconds after spawning
  • Remove magic hail
  • Cap magic hail’s damage at 20% of the player’s HP
0 voters

Combat

PVP Toggle
  • Keep as-is
  • Revert to prior behavior (Negative Rep players can attack anyone)
  • Have separate “PVP servers” with more loot. When playing on a file, the player can either choose for a session to put them into PVP servers or on PVE servers
  • Players have a visible indicator if they have PVP on
  • Players who die to PVP always respawn on the same island, and have a 3-minute PVP shield unless they attack someone
0 voters
Limb Loss
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Keep visually, causes no gameplay impact
0 voters
Armor Damage
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Allow players to use armor repair kits from the hotbar
0 voters
Line-of-Sight Checks
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Make it apply only to bosses (like Argos)
0 voters
Storyline Injuries
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Move Jarl Ivar’s to apply only after his fight
  • Have them be mentioned and cared to in the story, without causing actual gameplay effects
0 voters
Beast Defense
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely (animals do full percentile damage always)
  • Make animals do normal damage depending on their level
  • Make animals do normal damage, damage caps at 25% of your max HP
0 voters

Environmental

Terrain Destruction
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Destruction can only go 1 stud deep
  • Grass will always be destroyed if it overlaps a hole, preventing it from stopping high-jumps and the like
  • Keep as-is visually, but the player can pass through all affected parts, resulting in visual destruction with limited impact on gameplay
0 voters
Fall Damage
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Keep, but cap the damage to 50% of HP
  • The player “voids out” when falling off sky islands, making the screen fade before teleporting them back. This kills if you were in combat
0 voters
Waves Catching Players
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Cap the duration at 1 second
0 voters
Lightning Strikes
  • Keep as-is
  • Change to be harmless to players
  • Change to be harmless to ships
  • Cap the damage at 25% of your Max HP per strike. Also prevent paralysis
0 voters

Cosmetic

Dirt Accumulation
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Disappears after 10 or so seconds
0 voters
Tanning
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Reduce intensity/heaviness
  • Make it fade within 2 or so minutes of leaving the island
0 voters

Miscellaneous

Ship Knockback
  • Keep as-is
  • Remove entirely
  • Should scale to boat size
  • Should only apply to ships hostile to the player
  • Should apply to NPC boss ships
  • Should apply to player ships against players with PVP on
  • Should not apply from Skyships BECAUSE APPARENTLY THEY DO THAT??? WHY VETEX???
0 voters

I’ll create one additional reply of any further polls you think I should post within two to three days of this topic’s creation and make it the pinned reply.

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I tried to be as encompassing as I could be with these options. My apologies if these do not fit some of your exact opinions, these are just mostly the views I see expressed by the community.

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  • Cap to max health - 1 (you can’t die anymore but you’ll be on 1 hp) and add significant stun when it would’ve killed (like 3-5 seconds)
0 voters
4

I had my own idea for that sometime ago that just has it’s own balancing nightmare problems, it basically goes along the lines of entirely removing classes

Linked post

(Suggest a new feature for the game that will instantly make you Public Enemy #1 - #2759 by Amuka)

Same thing happens that happens to Ivar happens with Allanon, the difference being you don’t spawn directly next to the 2nd phase when you get the injury, basically needing to wait it out to actually go continue the story

broken poll, can’t vote

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Dirt Accumulation
  • Keep as is
  • Remove Entirely
  • Disappears after 10 or so seconds
0 voters
6

Can a patron show this to vetex eventually

7

i think people underestimate how little 200 studs is, 200 studs is like ierochos height and that’d be the MAX (in this hypothetical at least)

i think max should be around 400 and it be shaped like a bell curve so most islands are around the middle point, some are really small, others are decently tall

8

What’s the point, vetex doesn’t give a flying fuck about the forums like every other dev

9

Added a clarification: if you are voting for any change in a multi-choice poll, do not also vote for “keep as-is” as well, please.

You are not required to use all of the provided options for any individual poll.

10

yeah but patreons his money

11

i think it should be disabled if youre on your ship, your ship should destroy the wave but take hull damage, rather than currently the wave just passing through the ship

12

the only issue is i do feel like this thread is kinda pointless as the likelihood of implementation is super low

13

what if armour was more like dark souls armour where it mostly has resistances to certain different forms of damage (ig for ao it’d be magic, spirit, slicing, and blunt) magic would ofc do magic damage and same for spirit. weapons would have access to both slicing and blunt, and melee would be blunt mostly.
maybe some armours could give some special perks like better cast speed or damage at the cost of losing out on resistances
(it’s a stupid idea, I know, but I just wanted to throw it out there)

14

better to try something than just wither away in disappointment I guess

15

i always thought of the npc line of sight check to be a bandaid fix for bad and easily cheesable ai

if the ai didn’t get itself stuck in a corner 80% of the time we wouldn’t need LOS check in the first place

also idk why waves forcibly drag you instead of simply applying knockback once. the latter would be far less annoying imo

16

he barely gives a shit about testers - the folk who are the TESTING FORCE of new features - why would he give any shit about patreoners?

17

i love how dirt has 100% ‘remove’

18

because money talks

19

I feel like it should disappear after a minute so you can still see it but it won’t be obnoxious

20

yeah i just copied the one from the original post since it was broken (its fixed now)

but honestly i think it should be outright removed, really no reason to have this in the game it isnt even “immersive” its just form over function