Feedback on the Skilltree

[Hatboy7]

I want to quickly say that despite some hiccups I think so far this is one of my favourite skill trees, good job everyone at Klei!

I'll just try to mention changes that i think could be nice as brief as I can:

Gamma circuits:

I like all of these but I think in practice they just don't work well. Some suffer from being easily unequippable through out the majority of a playthrough

• Redigestion circuit would only be worn for that one moment where all the rot needs to transformed to nutribricks and forgotten about until you need it again. Maybe making it passively drop Nutribricks after eating a certain amount of food could be better (not just spoiled)?
• Spin cycle even with the AOE and chopping feels like its a little niche and could easily be replaced once you are done using it. (At least before you get the shadow maul)

Blocking Circuit and Sonic-Invoker Circuit don't struggle with this too much because I do think their perks are nice for most of a playthrough but they just don't seem strong enough

• The Block Circuit on its own seems kinda weird? Wouldn't it be better to just run away? It only has a pretty dope synergie with the Electrification Circuit but it only really helps with clearing spiders and bees (Which I assume the updated Spin Cycle will do just as good without taking as many circuit spots). While maybe this is reaching combat more than utility I would like for the cooldown of the block rather depend on how much damage or how many hits were blocked. So maybe it could help with kiting while also being still good for the Electrification circuit.
• Sonic-Invoker Circuit honestly seems fine as is. A supportive tool with friends and to quickly deaggro enemies if you are on your own.

Drones:

The Roto-Mapper and the Zaptrocuter are a little strange to me. Their issues aren't as noteworthy as the gamma ones i think but I would like to still mention them

• Roto-Mapper overall is pretty good, an early game skill to help with scavenging and mapping, pretty cool but it doesnt have many uses after you get a certain point into the game. While not a big issue imo but maybe adding smt to make it more useful later on could be nice
• Zaptrocuter is weird, I like the idea of a tool that gives new players something to safely clear enemies and for experienced players is nice for farms. But overall it feels a little too slow and some extra features could maybe make it compete with the other skills more

[Ruperstiltskin]

10 minutes ago, Hatboy7 said:

Sonic-Invoker Circuit honestly seems fine as is. A supportive tool with friends and to quickly deaggro enemies if you are on your own.

I kinda wish that the scare effect lasted longer after ending the animation only that, cause right now you can use it forever with the tinker skill but you cant really do anything while doing so, scares are good if you can fight back like maxwell, wendy, wigfrid and willow, but being animation locked prevent you from benefiting the best part of the scare, which is doing free damage with no fight back

[Kvetevk]

There is not much to say about it, these are good ideas.

• For the Roto-Mapper, I would give it a treasure finding ability, similar what Winona has when she chooses the Wagstaff path, cooldown and a low chance of finding something burried underground that Wx78 scanned with a drone, then he can dig it up, maybe giving you item that is needed for random circuit or maybe some gears (in the newest puzzle, Wx78 helps search Wagstaff stuff in the destroyed building, so it would kinda fit).
• For the Zaptrocuter, it could maybe be set up as a trap in the air, when creatures get under it, it shoots, simple as that.

 

11 minutes ago, Ruperstiltskin said:

I kinda wish that the scare effect lasted longer after ending the animation only that, cause right now you can use it forever with the tinker skill but you cant really do anything while doing so, scares are good if you can fight back like maxwell, wendy, wigfrid and willow, but being animation locked prevent you from benefiting the best part of the scare, which is doing free damage with no fight back

Yea that sucks, but if you got a friend, you can scare the minions, so others can focus on the boss, because you can use it until you move or get hit.

Edited April 4 by Kvetevk

[Hatboy7]

After this update I feel like I was kinda right about the block circuit being replaceable by spin cycles aoe, the only good thing of block cycle right now is crowd control and spin cycle can do that as well, especially with the anti stagger the animation has.

I think block circuit genually needs more uses outside of crowd control. The taunt thing sounds promising but I don't really know how much more use you can get out of it, we shall see! I can see it being good for newer players at least so theres that. Also the block circuit being good to newer players would fix the easily replaceable problem for them at least but I still think redigestion circuit should have more reasons to have it on instead of just taking it off and on again when theres rot

[Soul7k]

1 hour ago, Hatboy7 said:

After this update I feel like I was kinda right about the block circuit being replaceable by spin cycles aoe, the only good thing of block cycle right now is crowd control and spin cycle can do that as well, especially with the anti stagger the animation has.

I think block circuit genually needs more uses outside of crowd control. The taunt thing sounds promising but I don't really know how much more use you can get out of it, we shall see! I can see it being good for newer players at least so theres that. Also the block circuit being good to newer players would fix the easily replaceable problem for them at least but I still think redigestion circuit should have more reasons to have it on instead of just taking it off and on again when theres rot

i can see it being useful with either a machine or pig army using the chorus box