List of issues and suggestions as of The Breach Refined, Hotfix #6

[Lombix_4]

@Mk_0taid

Ice infusion is too noisy/clumpy of an effect, ruining the silhouette of our favorite weapons. Take a look at how nice this staff looks both in thumbnail and player menu with Ice infusion effect off, vs how it looks in actual gameplay. Maybe the way the spikes appear could be reworked to adapt to the weapon’s surface, a way to go “with the grain” rather than against it? Another way to go about it could be to make the spikes far smaller or replace them with something more subtle

Yes, I agree that strange 3D effect can completely ruin the look of a weapon. It could be changed to a fog that descends from the weapon to simulate cold air as it happens for liquid nitrogen.

@Mk_0taid

After using a Fallen Ember to reroll an affix, the highlight should stay on that last selection. It resetting each time to the first while having the affixes go up or down each time a reroll happens has caused me to accidentally choose the wrong affix when speed-rerolling

The entire experience of crafting a build is ruined by the reoll system, I wrote a topic that provides a solution for this problem, and many others surrounding the enchantment system: The RNG Problem, Enchantment System Vs Gem System (Major Edits)

@Mk_0taid

Smarter placement of realm difficulty indicators on our HUD. Instead of that little icon, we can have unique portrait frames for each difficulty option, here are my before and after examples:

@Mk_0taid

Toggle options for Enemy Faction and Danger Level. Maybe a dynamic function so they only appear briefly whenever moving into a new area? Depending on faction name length and amount of factions at the same time, that part of the screen can take up unnecessary space, as if we have an open quest log at all times

Very well done examples!

@Mk_0taid

If I remember correctly, pre-Breach the Seneschal used to have a quick “popping-up” animation whenever we reached the Limnus, kinda like how he rises out of his hole the first time we meet him during the cutscene. Was this accidentally removed and if so, is it possible to add it back in? Was a little detail but still gave some more quality to an otherwise one-and-done room

It could be a performance issue, I rarely saw that animation because of my slow PC.

@Mk_0taid

Is Icebreaker’s moveset unfinished? It lacks charge attacks and it’s main attack chain consists of just 3 downwards swings. It’s other attack chains (sprint & dodge) are insanely more versatile

I had the same impression, many weapons seem unfinished to me, I had the same impression, many weapons seem unfinished to me, especially I find it very strange when I think they don’t have a charged attack, not even for the first attack in the chain. I also analyzed Icebreaker’s moveset in particular and even if it seems to always be the same animation in a loop, in reality they are two different animations, one goes slightly towards the left and the other slightly towards the right, This moveset however is not compatible with the appearance of the weapon, it looks more like a mace or hammer moveset.

Nice post! Very precise.