about 4 years ago - /u/henrystelter - Direct link

Hey everyone,

Welcome to this week's feedback thread! The Crucible team would love to hear your thoughts on all things Crucible - and there's a lot of new things we'd like to hear your thoughts on!

How do you like the new Heart of the Hives experience?

What are your thoughts on the following features/improvements?
- Heart of the Hives gameplay improvements
- Reworked farming loop around static creature camps
- Reworked player spawn system
- Reworked Hive spawns
- Improved visual treatment of objectives to make them stand out more
- Updated in-game UI/HUD
- Added floating damage numbers (so you can see how much damage you’re doing)

- Updated the new player tutorial and added a playable Heart of the Hives guide

- Framerate, networking, and hit registration improvements

Here's some guidelines for giving great feedback:

  • Give details and examples: Be specific, explain the issue fully. The more detail you provide, the better that your readers will understand the point you are trying to make.
  • Suggest improvements: While detailing a problem is the first step in solving an issue, don't be afraid to put some thought into how you'd solve the problem.
  • Avoid making it personal: Resist the temptation to argue with a person, but by all means debate a point being made. On the same note, do not be offended if someone disagrees with your opinion or suggests alternatives to an idea you've put forth.

Looking for more real-time discussion? Fee free to hop into the Crucible Discord here: https://discord.gg/playcrucible

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about 4 years ago - /u/henrystelter - Direct link

Originally posted by SnesySnas

I actualy think the new update was something Crucible desperately needed!

I can't wait to see where it goes next

Thank you :)

about 4 years ago - /u/henrystelter - Direct link

Originally posted by GoldenMoose162

Overall I think the patch is a step in the right direction. The two main criticism I have are the performance issues, which is to be expected with the new graphics, and the spawn system.

I’ve been noticing slightly lower overall frame rate (maybe damage numbers?) but certain characters have pretty poor performance. This is expected though and I am sure will get improved quickly

The spawn system is the main issue I have with this patch. While I like the fewer spawns and that each team has their own spawns I do feel like it needs some serious changes. Currently there is one set of spawns that is extremely favored. They have easier patching of farm, closer spawns, and better sight lines, to harvesters, and more favorable spawns for some of the hives. The bubbles also pose a big problem. I think I understand what you were going for with something similar to the “fountain” in MOBAs but I don’t think that works to well in this game. Health pylons were fine and didn’t need to be removed and having an invulnerable healing area basically denies the enemy team that area of the map. If your able to get to that point you effectively end every fight if not win it. I think the spawn system can work pretty well without the bubbles and don’t think they add anything valuable to the game.

Thanks for your thoughts u/GoldenMoose162! Performance is an on-going battle, and something we'll always work on improving.

We're also excited to keep working on the spawn system to make it the best fit for Heart of Hives - and will definitely keep listening to feedback on the system.