Before I begin I would like to take a minute to thank the team that’s responsible for this month’s content as I am a huge fan of SAB. The first day I made a non-constructive post about the lag at geysers and I would like to apologise for the way I posted, it was rude and I could and should have made it respectable towards the developers.
After finishing everything in SAB except W2Z3 Tribulation Mode (which I will attempt this weekend) I would like to provide some constructive critism along with a few possible idea’s for improvements.
World 2 Zone 1
As most of us experienced, the water geysers were extremely glitchy and laggy. A hotfix was released where they are now permanently active. I personally hope this will not stay, although I made a complaint post and did my fair share of raging at the lag, without the lag, this part was a LOT of fun. Maybe additional checkpoints, which use the same system as TM could be placed at a few places? You won’t have to redo the entire path whenever you lag or glitch down.
All the extra paths within this level are amazing, especially the area before the hillbillies maze felt (although small) adventerous. I hope all future levels will have these added to them.
World 2 Zone 2
This zone was quite a surprise the first time I did it, it felt extremely tedious as it took forever to get past several stages. However, after a few succesfull runs that feeling went away, it feels rather short now. As I’m probably not alone with this experience, it might help reduce this tedious feeling the first time by making some of the more time-consuming paths optional.
For example the box/gong towers;
If you want either the achievement for finding all baubles within this zone, or want to find all hidden rooms, you can “force” players to do this by putting a hidden room at the top, along with a red bauble in it. If they don’t want the achievement, they can skip it entirely.
This way the perfectionists/fans will have their challenge and the people who are less interested into SAB or don’t like this kind of challenges, can skip it and focus on the more “smooth” jumping parts of the zone.
I personally feel the assassins/ninja’s are fine, at first I hated the knockback so much but you get used to it and now they don’t even bother me anymore. It’s really a matter of learning to adept when dealing with these creatures.
World 2 Zone 3
This zone is just stunningly beautifull, I’m a real sucker for snowy area’s so it was a great surprise to see an entire zone covered in snow. The only negative side in this zone is the ice itself in my opinion, the doors that knock you back can become annoying if you lag a bit as you can slip easily off the ice at quite a few places (especially with position lag). I was hoping that we could buy snowshoes or some sort at the end (you no longer slip away on the ice) so future runs would be a bit easier as the entire zone is quite huge in itself.
Tribulation Mode
My first attempt was with a few friends on teamspeak and it was a lot of fun, hearing anything from cursing to laughter when someone was getting trolled by ourselves or the game was just amazing. Everything in TM is perfect and I enjoyed every minute of it. This weekend I will attempt the last zone which I will be sure, will offer a real challenge but fun experience aswell. Can’t wait to see what world 3 will be like.
My best experience
The hidden room for moto’s finger. IT IS AWESOME. I was on Teamspeak with a few others when we attempted this and it was just funny as hell to see people struggle with it. After a few minutes we got the hang of it and before we knew it, we had it open. I really REALLY hope we can see more of this kind, it was by far the most fun I had in SAB so far.
Rewards
The rewards feel a bit lackluster this update. I know and understand you wanted to prevent the farming with character deletion that went on at the first release but I think the nerf went a bit overboard. Earning a skin takes quite a few days now which might be problematic for people with alot of characters.
I hope that the amount of bubble baubles that can be earned, will be increased a bit so they are on par with the first release. As the skins are not unique and account bound, I personally see no harm in letting people get as many as they want. Especially since we now have TM skins which are far more interesting for many people.
If anyone wants to add anything, feel free to.
(edited by Xuro.5861)