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Re: Prismata
« Reply #425 on: January 16, 2016, 07:06:48 am »
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Congrats on being amongst the worst Prismata players ever!
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #426 on: January 16, 2016, 12:52:33 pm »
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Congrats on being amongst the worst Prismata players ever!

That was true before the bug.  :o

I started playing again fairly recently, after having gotten access when someone passes out keys here a while back. The game is fun, but the options of playing bots for little reward, or waiting half an hour to lose a match against silverspawn or someone, aren't ideal.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #427 on: January 16, 2016, 01:06:46 pm »
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Congrats on being amongst the worst Prismata players ever!

That was true before the bug.  :o

I started playing again fairly recently, after having gotten access when someone passes out keys here a while back. The game is fun, but the options of playing bots for little reward, or waiting half an hour to lose a match against silverspawn or someone, aren't ideal.

This has been my experience as well.  Someday they will try to build a player base bigger than about 200... but for now my gaming attention is elsewhere, because I can findo and play a Hearthstone match in the time it takes just to find a Prismata match.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #428 on: March 14, 2016, 11:45:27 am »
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IMO, the games take too long, and the board gets "too busy" to appeal to a wide audience.  It's also very inelegant that the line of drone takes up so much of the play area.  It would serve them well to tweak the UI: maybe have stacked 1-hp units reside on top of each other and merely display a count, rather than splay across the board.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #429 on: March 21, 2016, 08:57:39 am »
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IMO, the games take too long, and the board gets "too busy" to appeal to a wide audience.  It's also very inelegant that the line of drone takes up so much of the play area.  It would serve them well to tweak the UI: maybe have stacked 1-hp units reside on top of each other and merely display a count, rather than splay across the board.

Games taking too long, time-wise, can be addressed by playing with shorter turn timers, but that's obviously much more difficult for inexperienced players.

Re:stacking like units, they can't stack all units of the same name, because they may have differences of status (current hp, stamina, exhaust, etc). Even drones are either clicked or Unclicked. They could have two stacks, I guess, for clicked and Unclicked drones, but then you lose some "at a glance-ability" (which is totally a word).

Unrelatedly, I finally made it to tier X last night, after bouncing around tier IX 90%s for a dozen games. My next to last game left me at IX 100.0%, which was ... disheartening.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #430 on: August 31, 2016, 01:57:17 pm »
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http://play.prismata.net/?r=fZLLe-zV7vb

This was probably the most epic game of Prismata I've ever played.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #431 on: August 31, 2016, 02:06:26 pm »
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So... has matchmaking gotten any better lately?
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #432 on: August 31, 2016, 10:58:16 pm »
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I haven't played Prismata in forever.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #433 on: September 01, 2016, 09:31:36 am »
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I tried a couple of months back but it seems to still not be open to the general public? 
Unless I just clicked the wrong thing.  Got put on an alpha waiting list.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #434 on: September 01, 2016, 09:54:20 am »
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There's an Alpha Waiting list.

I think I
l'll give the game another go. I'm probably super behind the meta though.

You basically play here: https://play.prismata.net/
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #435 on: September 01, 2016, 09:56:07 am »
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Oh, except it's not working for me. Fantastic.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #436 on: September 01, 2016, 09:57:40 am »
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...Now it works. Weird. 8 times in a row, nothing worked and it went black after the loading screen. And then magically on the 9th time, it worked somehow.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #437 on: September 01, 2016, 11:56:44 am »
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somehow the skype chat of my team went into inactivity shortly after I left and I never quite found out why. from what I hear at least the master league still seems to be a thing, though.

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Re: Prismata
« Reply #438 on: March 08, 2018, 05:35:40 pm »
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It has now launched on Steam Early Access: http://store.steampowered.com/app/490220/Prismata/

Also, if there are people around who don't yet have an alpha key, you can go ask for one in discord.gg/prismata and they should give you one for free.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #439 on: March 08, 2018, 07:38:08 pm »
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Yeah I fully intend to play through the campaign. Playing against bots in Prismata is oddly soothing, even when it involves stomping on easy puzzles.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #440 on: March 09, 2018, 10:51:46 pm »
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It has now launched on Steam Early Access: http://store.steampowered.com/app/490220/Prismata/

Also, if there are people around who don't yet have an alpha key, you can go ask for one in discord.gg/prismata and they should give you one for free.

But have they fixed matchmaking?
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #441 on: March 09, 2018, 11:51:45 pm »
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It has now launched on Steam Early Access: http://store.steampowered.com/app/490220/Prismata/

Also, if there are people around who don't yet have an alpha key, you can go ask for one in discord.gg/prismata and they should give you one for free.

But have they fixed matchmaking?

What do you mean?
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #442 on: March 10, 2018, 08:58:41 pm »
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It has now launched on Steam Early Access: http://store.steampowered.com/app/490220/Prismata/

Also, if there are people around who don't yet have an alpha key, you can go ask for one in discord.gg/prismata and they should give you one for free.

But have they fixed matchmaking?

What do you mean?

Used to be you'd try to match with someone and, if you were lucky, you waited half an hour.

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Also I logged on and played a couple of the campaign games... and then realized literally all of the skins and stuff I had are gone.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #443 on: March 11, 2018, 05:08:39 am »
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Used to be you'd try to match with someone and, if you were lucky, you waited half an hour.

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Also I logged on and played a couple of the campaign games... and then realized literally all of the skins and stuff I had are gone.

There are a lot more people online now than there used to be during the closed alpha so it's a lot easier to find a match.

Yeah, there was a rewards reset where people got back all the shards and power cores they spent and lost all the skins, because they were adjusting the prices of things so this was the fairest way to do it.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #444 on: March 11, 2018, 03:23:29 pm »
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Used to be you'd try to match with someone and, if you were lucky, you waited half an hour.

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Also I logged on and played a couple of the campaign games... and then realized literally all of the skins and stuff I had are gone.

There are a lot more people online now than there used to be during the closed alpha so it's a lot easier to find a match.

Yeah, there was a rewards reset where people got back all the shards and power cores they spent and lost all the skins, because they were adjusting the prices of things so this was the fairest way to do it.

Hrm.  I don't think I got all my shards back.  But it would be difficult or impossible for me to determine that.  Anyway, I think they did a pretty good job with the campaign, and good to hear there are more people playing, maybe I'll try my hand at it again.  Any obvious way to link my previous account to Steam?
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #445 on: March 11, 2018, 04:20:59 pm »
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Hrm.  I don't think I got all my shards back.  But it would be difficult or impossible for me to determine that.  Anyway, I think they did a pretty good job with the campaign, and good to hear there are more people playing, maybe I'll try my hand at it again.  Any obvious way to link my previous account to Steam?

There should be a way to do it, but for me, I just bought it on Steam and it automatically linked the accounts as soon as I booted it and I don't know why it did that so I'm not sure what that way is.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #446 on: March 11, 2018, 04:59:55 pm »
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Looking back at the email they sent me, it seems I was able to link my old account with steam through some Humble Bundle promotion. You linked the accounts through Humble Bundle somehow.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #447 on: March 14, 2018, 07:24:01 am »
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Anyway, I think they did a pretty good job with the campaign

You really think so? The story is nothing.

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Re: Prismata
« Reply #448 on: March 14, 2018, 08:48:26 am »
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Anyway, I think they did a pretty good job with the campaign

You really think so? The story is nothing.

The story is mildly amusing I guess? I wouldn't say it's hit its stride yet, but hey it was cool to see the in-universe justification for Animus units.

The campaign throws lots of nice puzzles at you, at least in expert mode for the missions. I haven't got very far in terms of completing the missions on expert mode. I got stuck at the 4th expert mode mission (the one with Omega Splitters), even though they can be done in any order.
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Re: Prismata
« Reply #449 on: March 14, 2018, 10:48:24 am »
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Anyway, I think they did a pretty good job with the campaign

You really think so? The story is nothing.

The story is mildly amusing I guess? I wouldn't say it's hit its stride yet, but hey it was cool to see the in-universe justification for Animus units.

The campaign throws lots of nice puzzles at you, at least in expert mode for the missions. I haven't got very far in terms of completing the missions on expert mode. I got stuck at the 4th expert mode mission (the one with Omega Splitters), even though they can be done in any order.

I feel like the 4th one was the most difficult. That and the bonus mission's expert mode are significantly more difficult than the rest.

I don't think the story is amazing but it doesn't suck either, and it serves its purpose. Mostly it's just cool to find out about the lore.
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