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Created on May 24, 2024

Antiquarian Card Quest improvements

The new-ish layout and lighting for this quest is nicely improved. I have a few criticisms: -

1) The Knight appeared behind me and obscured by some pillars so I thought for a moment or three that he'd bugged and not spawned in. If possible I suggest having the knight spawn at the "summoning" area.

2) The lighting is better, but I feel you have brought the lighting up too much. Before it was definitely too dark and it was impossible to engage in ranged combat. If the boss-fight area could be made a little dimmer, as a rule of thumb I'd say make it so standing against the wall on one side of the area means the far wall is obscured in darkness would give better ambience and add more atmosphere.

3) The overall toughness of the fight against the bound was good when in areas where they could close to melee. With a decent load-out (just under 200 health) and simple knife/pick axe/slingshot I found the combat was not worrying me. I was able to cheese the fight later on by sniping the bound from standing on the level above where some of the wooden scaffold gives a good view of them below.

4) The Fabled Knight remains a low threat and in my opinion is a bit of an anti-climax. It's movement is very predictable and the attacks are easy to avoid. However, being largely resistant to the sling-shot's marbles means getting up close and personal is a good choice, which does make it harder fight. My recommendation is to make the knight even more resistant to the sling-shot marbles and force players to engage in melee. At this point it should have a telegraphed attack with the sword forcing players to dodge roll to avoid a ~50 health attack with the sword.

I hope my opinions help, and I look forward to a more heart-racing fight in future trips into this POI on the next version.

Category Tags Visual/Art, Building, POIs, NPCs, Combat
Mode Offline
Sentiment Critical
  • DEV RESPONSE
    Jun 4, 2024

    Hey there! Thanks so much for your post. It seems like there's a few topics and feedback items in here, next time could you please separate them out into their own posts so users can easily locate them via the title? Thanks again - Steph

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