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My worries about Blockland as of now
Cobalt:
--- Quote from: Goth77 on September 13, 2019, 03:18:21 AM ---What exactly makes it better?
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devs who arent neglecting the game like its some bastard child
Jay the Cartoonist:
--- Quote from: Goth77 on September 13, 2019, 03:18:21 AM ---What exactly makes it better? Improved graphics with reduced gameplay value is not better imo
And for the record I don't hate Brickadia or anything like that, it just boggles my mind how ready people are to leave Blockland before Brickadia has anything in comparison from a gameplay perspective. I feel that we should continue with BL until Brickadia is closer to a finished product at least
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it isn't just the graphics.the building controls are so far beyond blocklands, I am serious. Having real sideways bricks alone is a huge game changer. It feels so much more like building with real Lego. They are also just more intuitive for new players in general. I don't think people realize how alienating blocklands stupid number pad controls are to new players. All my friends I've tried to make play BL with me refuse to stay because building is too hard so they feel like they can't make anything cool. In addition to sideways bricks the brick selector, brick resizer, and micro shifting tools are just great. Your imagination is so much less limited. There's propor brick collision so you can bump wedges and ramps next to each other without some stupid separate brick pack that just turns off brick collision. What a broken work around for something that should be a default feature. Blockland is full of broken ass workaround mods for features that a game like blockland should just have from the beginning because of whatever reason or another. I don't know anything about coding so I feel less inclined to blame badapots skill/motivation and more inclined to blame the stuffty 20 year old engine the game was built on.
Sure, Brickadia doesn't have nearly as many game mode options and there is no wrench tool yet. But all these features are coming. And when they get here they're going to be so much more fun to play with because the base game is already a better base game. When's the last time you tried playing blockland vanilla? Never. Because it's a bad game. Hell. The guy who made the most important thing to make blockland bearable (the duplicator) is one of the leads on this new game lol.. what does that tell you.
Edit: on the note of building mechanics, anyone who argues against that i want you to look back and reflect on when you first picked up blockland. Did you feel like a total noob? Idk about you but it probably took me a year before I could build anything half decent, and that was probably just building the muscle memory to hit the keys. Part of that was me being a dumb 12 year old and part of that was blocklands building controls not being an intuitive design, rather a set of inputs you have to learn. Games, especially with ones that have appeals to children should be easier than that.
Edit Edit: I realize I didn't really address your second point about early adoption. Really, its just personal preference. Some people get really excited about new tech and they wanna early adopt. Some people don't wanna switch until they can move their entire life from one thing to another. I get it. But no one is forcing you to make the switch. And if you're concerned that Blockland's playerbase is dwindling because of Brickadia I think it's really quite the opposite. Blockland's playerbase has been dwindling for a long time, and at no fault of Brickadia existing (because it didn't yet). I think the majority of Brickadia's current players, though, are people who gave up on BL a long time ago and are just curious to tune into what's happening next for their old favorite game. Half the people I've seen playing haven't been active on BL in a loooong time. I've ran into people from literally 8 years ago. People are just really excited about the prospects of a new version of their favorite game and they like what it is enough to look past the things that it isn't. I'm not going to encourage you to try it or anything if you don't want to, Blockland still has a lot of great things about it that Brickadia doesn't have yet.
Khaz:
how do the building controls work exactly in brickadia? ive only ever been on it before all of that was really fleshed out
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--- Quote from: Khaz on September 13, 2019, 11:37:15 AM ---how do the building controls work exactly in brickadia? ive only ever been on it before all of that was really fleshed out
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there's numpad controls still aka "detached mode", there's point-and-click too (which u can click and hold to drag out and place multiple bricks, using scroll wheel to add spacing), there's orbit mode which ur camera is attached to ur ghost brick while building, and there's a duplicator, resize tool (drag a 1x1 brick into whatever, or any other brick that can be resized)
the duplicator and resize tool use click-and-drag too
so much better
Conan:
--- Quote from: Khaz on September 13, 2019, 11:37:15 AM ---how do the building controls work exactly in brickadia? ive only ever been on it before all of that was really fleshed out
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if you want to play, its public alpha, just have to join the discord and send a message in a #registration channel. the only thing is you'll have to link your discord account to a phone number for verification (brickadia can't see it, its just to prevent bots/discourage alts)