Critters and the upcoming Arctic Weapon Effect

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Russell wrote:

Its because we are trying to keep away from wacky micro transactions. With seasonal things we can go kind of silly. Rainbows and unicorns are taking it a little too far though.

Also techs kind of limiting me on this too. Im pretty limited.

Very good to read the "no rainbow unicorns" thing.

+1 for the "seasonal things"; haven't seen one since Valentine's Day, and would like to see more. Halloween should bring some nice opportunitie$ .

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Cannator wrote:

awesome! :D are you guys going to add a flame weapon affect as well?

This came up in the vfx forum; I seem to remember that they were staying away from this due to the possibility of a spell-based weapon enchantment being introduced, and trying to avoid confusion. I would think that fire / lightning / cold effects would be introduced early in the mtx development process, but there was/is definitely something non-technical holding back their development.