, but they currently do. This needs to change by launch.
I got the Bouncing Mushrooms mastery relatively early in the beta and tried out a lot of the mushrooms. I had thought that they would be like jump pads, where they just bounce you and you control your trajectory, but they instead work like the Tequatl pads, carrying you to a specific target location. . . except when they don’t.
Several times when I would use a jump pad, it would clearly fail to deliver me to my destination. Sometimes it would intend to lift me straight up and then slightly forward, and instead it would just go straight up and then drop me, causing fall damage. Sometimes it would just send me wildly off course. Several times it dropped me into the abyss.
This is fine in beta, and in areas where WPs are relatively close by and getting back is just a short glide away, but would be completely unacceptable after launch. The Verdant Brink map is already a bit short on active WPs to get you back into the action, and apparently some jumping puzzles will be using these. If I spend an hour working my way through a complex jumping puzzle, and I slip to my death, fine, that’s on me, but if instead I activate a mushroom and it flings me to my death, entirely outside my control, then that’s some Rage right there.
The Bouncing Mushrooms need to be made absolutely foolproof. They need to get you safely to the target destination 100% of the time, 0% failure rate. Maybe at least they make you immune to fall damage for the duration of the trip (plus a little cushion just in case), Maybe it checks to see if you actually reached the intended target point the “right” way, and if you somehow aren’t there when you’re supposed to be, the game just teleports you there anyways. There need to be backup plans to ensure that these things will never make the game worse for people.
“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”
