Future Classes

[medea_fleecestealer]

Because bows don’t fit their vision of the game; it’s that simple.

What happened to the promised Steampunkiness, Crate?

Uhh, steampunk is literally the opposite of what we aim for, as handed down by divine mandate from the highest reaches of Crate. Bows aren’t happening because they will require their own custom animation set for Male and Female, so really 2 animation sets. That is a crap-ton of work for no actual gameplay gain beyond aesthetic. For reference, we have one animator on staff, and we already end up outsourcing at times so he doesn’t shrivel up and die under the constant demand of new monsters/skill…

What happened to the promised Steampunkiness, Crate?

I can assure you I never said the game was going to be steampunky, since I personally am not a fan of steampunk. Maybe it’s just not often done right - what turns me off is the random gears, pipes, etc, randomly slapped onto everything, where often it makes no functional sense. It is, however, a Victorian era time period, with really more like a smattering of influences, borrowed across colonial to WW1 time periods. Bows had fallen out of common use by then. Of course, we didn’t really exclude…