Hi everybody! We’ve really appreciated how many people have been having a good time in the Super Adventure Festival and kind words we’ve received. We recently discovered a bug, and now we’re debating whether or not we should fix it. It’s tricky, because it’s a bug with a Super Weapon skin, and so some of you may have earned this reward. Understandably, most people get upset when you change something they’ve worked hard for. But this is a unique situation. You see, the Blue Super Mace has physics on it, making it flail around. But for whatever reason that didn’t carry over to the color variants we made. So the Green, Yellow and Orange Super Maces are different than the Blue in this regard. We consider this a bug, and would like to fix it, but since it can be a sensitive issue we’d like to get a sense of what the community feels about it.
So what do you think? Should we leave things as they are, or fix the bug so they all flail around?
I got the super mace skin specifically because it flops about majestically. I think it should be on all of them since they’re variations on a theme.
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Ha! I always wondered why only the super mace flailed. Since I don’t have any of them, I just thought the others flailed around normally, just not in the preview. I quite like how the flailing works, I’d fix the bug.
Flailing for all around… I hope this doesn’t offend anyone, but it would just be plain wrong to discriminate the Super maces because of colour :P
Alternatively, what you could always do is change the blue mace to not flail around and make an exact copy of the blue mace and call it Super Flail for all colour schemes. That way we get best of both worlds (yeah, I know collections… rabble rabble, changing existing skins, too much love for maces etc. but it is a valid option to consider with minimal work, just throw it in as a little extra).
At the end of the day, I think all colors should at least have identical behavior at the very least.
Funny I thought it was a bugged the other way around. Nevertheless I agree with the majority here that it would be nice to get the flail fix for the other colors. As always thanks for the open communication with the community Josh. Really appreciate it.
So what do you think? Should we leave things as they are, or fix the bug so they all flail around?
Not to be too demanding but how much would it be for you to duplicate the bugged skins? I’m asking because i dont know the tools you have. If it is easy to duplicate then:
Duplicate the skin, fix it, make the bugged (non-duplicated) unlock as well when you acquire the new (duplicated) skin.
I think it’d be fair all around as people that bought them because they are NOT flail would still be happy, people that want it as a flail would still be happy AND new people that get both options cannot complain one way or the other.
But this suggestion only really is worth it if it is super-easy for you to make this if not just fix it.
Okay… this might be the thread that actually restores my faith in ANet. It’s so simple, but it’s this kind of interaction that we’ve needed for two years!
The whole reason I’m going for the blue mace over the other colors(aside from it matching with Astralaria<— that’s more of a perk) is that it flails around and has physics to it. PLEASE ADD THIS TO THE OTHER SKINS!!!! THE FLAILING IS AWESOME!!!!
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Fix it please…the Mace is the main Kaiser skin I’m going for (aside from the auras) and I want the flail physics. It’s the best Mace in game for that reason.
Side note: Make the Kaiser skin flail faster like a helicopter propeller! Haha
I don’t have the blue mace yet and only have green currently so I can’t see it in action but it looks neat in preview. XD So I’d say fix it so my greens wiggly too.
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Shields need it too, btw. The green skin (haven’t checked the yellow yet) doesn’t do the sword drop animation. Sound effect is there, but no animation.
What I love most about the SAB weapons is how unique they are— the glow (lightsabers!), the sounds (pew pew!), the animations (dat shield equip)… so let’s keep that trend going. There are plenty of maces but nothing else flails. I’m in favor of flailing for all colors.
