AVWW Beta 0.547, "Power Coding Round 1," Released!

[Hearteater]

I think it is the slow shot speed that made it so noticeable now.  You can get shots that slide on walls so slow they'll expire before they travel a quarter of the screen.  It is probably also because the tails of the amoeba spells bunch up on the shot making it look buggy as well.

[x4000]

New one: http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,9574.0.html

[Coppermantis]

Maze rooms are extremely difficult now. The tight passageways get filled with walls of water and lightning from the many trash mobs that spawn. Even playing two levels below me, It seemed too tough and what with the new health system, you can't get back the huge amount of health you lose.

This might be my own lack of skill, but It did seem a little too difficult in these particular rooms. I can't possibly imagine trying to survive one of these on a higher level.

[x4000]

Cool, those sound like one of those difficulty spikes I'd mentioned.  If you have a save that you could throw in mantis, that would be great!

[Hearteater]

Super-buffing the existing shields into giving 2-4 seconds of huge resistance (75%) and absorption (5k after the 75% resistance) to an element might be an interesting solution.

[x4000]

Yeah, but that would be so exploitable elsewhere, I'd think.

[Hearteater]

Yeah, I was pondering that.  The main issue being bosses I think.  I actually ran into a room like that last night and I think no respawns and fewer mobs would help a ton.  Finite life vs infinitely respawning enemies is a bit overwhelming.

[x4000]

Presumably maze rooms already don't have any respawning... right?  Given that they are indoor buildings, I don't recall them needing it.

[Hearteater]

There were monster spawners in there.  Then again, it was a boss room too.  Espers + Amoeba shots made moving anywhere nearly impossible.

[x4000]

There were monster spawners in there.  Then again, it was a boss room too.  Espers + Amoeba shots made moving anywhere nearly impossible.

Oh, if it's a boss room then it sounds like it's working as intended... more or less.  Not saying there isn't a balance issue, but there's not a bug per se.