Critical hits

Ubernoob

Ubernoob

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

Look behind you...

Pronteria Knights

E/N

I think it would be nice too see something cool happen when you get a critical hit. Like a bigger fireball with your wand or a jumping attack with a hammer. And have the hit graphics shiny or something . Because us gamers just loooove shiny stuff dont we

chris_nin00

chris_nin00

Dun dun dun

Join Date: Aug 2005

Reddit Guild

R/

Oh yes,
I would love an indication of a critical hit. They use some sort of Critical hit symbol in Star Wars Battlefront...
In pokemon; IT"S SUPER EFFECTIVE! IT"S A CRITICAL HIT!
I would love the words to show up on your screen and the other player's screen .

/signed

TheOneAndOnlyX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

The Last Sacrens

N/Me

Pokemon nerd.....

/Signed

Turbo Wombat

Turbo Wombat

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

Centeral Texas

Heros of Titans Realm

Me/

Ooooooo... Shiny! I like shiny, too!

/signed

Ubernoob

Ubernoob

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

Look behind you...

Pronteria Knights

E/N

And mabye a critical hit could knock the enemy over? Just a thought...

Sagius Truthbarron

Sagius Truthbarron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Animal Factory [ZoO]

A/

*mesmerized by shiny things*
..............................................
/signed

Racthoh

Racthoh

Did I hear 7 heroes?

Join Date: May 2005

Scars Meadows [SMS], Guild Leader (Not Recruiting)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ubernoob
And mabye a critical hit could knock the enemy over? Just a thought...
Wild Blow = Knockdown every 4 seconds. Uh, no.

Two April Mornings

Two April Mornings

No Luck No Time No Money

Join Date: Nov 2005

Amherst College, MA

Scars Meadows [SMS]

Me/

/signed

a nice lil symbol would be nice

theclam

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

They should also get the guy who did the voices for UT. Everytime I crit, he should scream out, "UNSTOPPABLE!"

Vilaptca

Vilaptca

Pre-Searing Vanquisher

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

How about a spurt of blood across the screen? For every critical hit from either side in your aggro range. 8 warrior wild blow team in PvP to cover someones screen with so much blood that it affects gameplay.

Sol_Vie

Sol_Vie

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Boston, MA

Blood Of Orr [BoO]

Sh....shiny? .....WHERE?!

/signed

Da Immortal King

Da Immortal King

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/Mo

Yeah sorta like the blademaster from warcraft 3!! Its so cool when he does a critical hit when their health is low and them boom they drop

/sign

nimloth32

nimloth32

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Celestial Order

W/Mo

i loved that idea, i prefer it like two slashes or something like that..like those anime thing when you are wielding swords, then when it comes to critical hit then there is two slashes comes out

/signed

Xenrath

Xenrath

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/Me

Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods Batman!

ColaManiac

ColaManiac

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

DISNEYLAND!

R/Mo

i love simple things... why not just put critical next to the dmg, it would be nice too if u can turn that off too... think about assassin...
/signed

The Acolyte

The Acolyte

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

Seekers of Justice ~ SoJ

/signed

This would be nice...

The Acolyte

Jaythen Tyradel

Jaythen Tyradel

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

TIN FOIL FTW!!!

oh...wait..there is no tin foil in the game.

ok.

/signed for flashy effect.

actionjack

actionjack

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Kali

W/E

would be cool...
a bigger flash or louder thump

But I won't do too much with character models... too much time needed
/sign

toastgodsupreme

toastgodsupreme

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

United States

Me/

*remembers my Ragnarok Online Assassin and his Triple Crit Jur*

I like that. It was just big spikey numbers and a fun sound when you made a crit attack. It was like "Yeah! DO YOU FEEL THAT!?!? DO YOU!?!" You felt like such a badass when you chained tons of them together and had an insane crit rate thanks to a priest and trip crit jurs.

4runner

4runner

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cali!!!

cdxx/the420th.com

Mo/N

Cant you tell when its a critical hit, usually you do more damage, i noticed that when i hit for critical the damage is Insanely high, and the target seems to do down quicker! Anyway Signed Iguess!\\\\^^^&&&


+40 Executioners non critical, +90 when critical!! From my experience!

I know when i hit a critical!

pappayaponta

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Europian Comando force

W/Mo

/signed

darkMishkin

darkMishkin

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

Mo/

Critical Hits are the new big thing with Assasins round the corner, so some Visual Indication of when they occur is not only a nice touch, but may become neccessary.



/ANet do what you want

benmanhaha

benmanhaha

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

nowhere!!!

N/Mo

I'm a big fan of shiny. I agree an indication would be helpful.


/signed

Teh Azman

Teh Azman

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

I Used Charm Animal On Your [MOM]

Me/R

Cool cosmetic idea, and...

<< slave to the shiny.

/signed

Deathqueen

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Racthoh
Wild Blow = Knockdown every 4 seconds. Uh, no.
Why not? I love WB, it's the only skill useful vs evaders and blockers really that's decent in damage. a KD on a critical would be extra nice.

Mosgerion

Mosgerion

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2005

E/Me

Well, knockdown every four seconds is so broken it would not only shatter the GW PvP universe, it would also shatter ours, resulting in a trans-temporal void (See Marvel 1602 for more information)

Reason being, knockdown is the only aliment in the game that is expensive to induce. (Most skills cause you to lose all adrenaline when you inflict it, or exhaustion is required) While knocked down, you cannot activate any skills but stances, and therefore knocking down a target is a handy way of disabling them for a set amount of time. Hammer warriors would be all but obselete! Not to mention the gang-raping oppertunities.

Deathqueen

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

Lol I could see that gang raping opportunities you are talking (I just visualized it in my mind) about if WB did in fact do a KD. Lol poor monks they are already abused enough by bunny thumpers I suppose. haha

Ubernoob

Ubernoob

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

Look behind you...

Pronteria Knights

E/N

Yes Toast person YES! Ohhh how I loved those spikey red numbers... YEAH TAKE THAT YOU SMART LITTLE GHOUL!!! NOT SOOO TOUGH NOW HUH!?!?!?!

Maxiemonster

Maxiemonster

There is no spoon.

Join Date: Jun 2005

Netherlands

Mo/

I'd like a "PWNED" above the guy that got a crit please.

Ubernoob

Ubernoob

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

Look behind you...

Pronteria Knights

E/N

LOL Like ragnarok again... The move asura made big black letters "OWNED" appear over the taget... Mabye we sould just steal ragnaroks graphics

Cash

Cash

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Bound By Wild Desire [Wild]

knockdown would be too broken, but some indication would be nice ... very nice.

/signed

Yukito Kunisaki

Yukito Kunisaki

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

Chicago, IL

W/N

Just seeing big numbers isn't enough either...

We need a nice 'BANG' sound effect or something when a critical lands...

The rackety 'clinking' of just the same sound over and over gets grating on the ears. Especially if you're a warrior

/signed...

My suggestion is to let the critical hit have a much more noticable look, like a double sized font with shining gold brick to it ^_^

toastgodsupreme

toastgodsupreme

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

United States

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ubernoob
LOL Like ragnarok again... The move asura made big black letters "OWNED" appear over the taget... Mabye we sould just steal ragnaroks graphics
Oh man, you're making me miss my GF monk! I loved getting almost near a level, then going to Poring island, and making it so I had only like 5 xp till next level, and I'd go to south prontera and break out a dead branch, then asura the monster that appeared and level up from it. Too much fun.

Sigh, RO had a lot of good things about, but it also got very stale. I didn't like doing WoE so much (I was even in a very large guild). Not a whole lot of strategy involved in it.

Agild Greenfinger

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

just for your information melee weapons actually does have a visual difference when scoring criticals, though I only noticed this after the preview event update...but I haven't been looking for it before, I think it was already there...anyways whenever you score a critical hit the yellow/orange "star splash" that occurs during normal hits will be accompanied by a set of double rings...I'm not at home right now so I don't remember if magical missiles from wands and staffs have a similar hit effect, but I imagine that they also have some sort of indication for when you score criticals.

upon studying a couple of screenshots it seems that bow hits have the same form of hit indicator so I guess they have the same effect for criticals.

in fact if I'm not mistaking you can see the visual effect of a critical hit in a late state(before fading out) in this screenshot(the necro hit)http://www.guildwars.com/gallery/gws...ots/gw055.html

Goonter

Goonter

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

with the assasins bread and butter coming from crit hits I sort of agree with the idea of some sort of eye catcher for one.

Honestly if it were to appear in bold red numbers instead of the same yellow numbers above my targets head that would be a easy to see visual indicator.

As for flash...I think that thats cool too.
Actually, if most spells/skills in the game could get a effects face life that would be nice. But I think the simplicity of it is to make sure the game runs smoothly on low end computers.


...maybe a small compromise could happen if players get special weapons, that 20% chance whatever turns into a better effect of the skill in use.