Testing 168: Tweaks, Fixes and Performance!

[NerArth]

I’m replying to this here since this is supposed to be the feedback thread:

@Nibuls

So, here is my feedback: there is not much point in jumping 4 blocks in height! Suppose you can jump to 4 blocks, you have 3 blocks to create something. But to be sure of the success of the jump, you need to leave in reserve another block or two. You have 2 blocks - it’s easier to put two steps and that’s all.
Maybe you’ll think about complicating the achievement of the maximum of this skill, simply adding in the last few abilities of Agility the coefficient increasing the height of the jump?

Simply increasing the character’s ability to be more mobile, you increase the number of unique ideas for construction, which means - more variety. And if you reduce mobility then, it seems to me, people will try to compensate this shortcoming by creating more portals. Please think about it.

@Nibuls’ point about build variety and ideas is something I feel this affects as well; my current build in Therka does have ramps and that sort of thing, but my main way of moving around is starting to be with jumping, with platforms built at the more or less correct heights.

@luke-turbulenz

Hello, thought it would be worth commenting on this. The original iteration of the the jumps was not implemented properly as we originally intended you to jump 4 blocks high with the 5th being accessed with the ledge climb skill. That’s still pretty high.

I have to agree that if the ledge climb was working properly then I’d not feel so bad about about losing some jump height, if the intention is that we can ledge climb at the block the level of our head.

@luke-turbulenz

Wouldn’t you use a grapple?

I honestly don’t like grapples, if the intention is that they’re the main thing, rather than the jumps.

As someone with chronic pain, anything that feels “fiddly” is a nightmare for me, and that’s what grapples feel like to me. The jumps have decent air control and I don’t need to do anything different, so I can just carry on normally, only having to think about my direction/momentum a little bit and often I still make mistakes of where I want to go/be. The grapple is frustrating for me to use, which is why I don’t even craft/keep any anymore.

I would much rather invest the same total amount of points (or more!) in jump related skills because of this.