Daikon Forge

I was talking to Krystal Renard last night about the kick on the current generation of Beta weapons, and while we were testing it, I had a realization that the problems that some people have recently been reporting might actually be specific to my weapons more than just a problem with the upcoming update. 

While it’s true that the increased kick power is part of the problem, it may not be the entire problem, and that is something I intend to look into in the very near future.  Since I am the only C:SI dev with a public beta out right now, it’s quite possible that any problems specific to my code simply weren’t being made obvious because of the inability to compare them to the other dev’s weapons.

Having said that, there’s another kick-related issue of more immediate concern to me (and presumably to some of you): It seems almost certain that the new update will not be released before I am ready to release my new dual-wield Kodachi, and currently the Kodachi is using the same kick strength as the update.

Obviously, I need to change the Kodachi kick to align with current non-Beta weapons, and I hope to finish that and have an update available tonight. Since this beta currently only works with other Daikon Forge beta weapons, this might cause some difficulties for those of you who are doing beta testing, since it will be significantly different from the Taketori and Wave betas.  Unfortunately, there’s really nothing that can be done about that.

Other than that, I’m not hearing a lot of complaints, so I think things are looking pretty good so far.  Well…  I say I’m not hearing a lot of complaints, but I can’t be absolutely certain, since I don’t speak Japanese and masmako’s blog post was translated by Google Translate in a very odd way and I have no idea whatsoever if she likes it or hates it