Important Stretch Goal Thoughts -- Pets?

streach goal accomplished!!!1

 

aaaarrggggghhh! *nerdgasm*

 

Happy new pets.

 

But what about adding and changing parts? Changing the dash options, the shoulder cannons and weapons attached.. Having your own personalized Mech with your chosen flamethrower primary and minigun secondary, that can jump high. Or the rocket launcher/laser cannon combo, with dashing abilities?

 

If they leveled and gained strength like normal creatures but began as non-combat at Lvl. 0, do you think that would be a reasonable comprimise? That sounds good to me.

 

It's happening.

 

WINRAR!

 

This is 7ziping amazing!

 

At least we got one more good milestone

 

We'll know when beta comes won't we?

 

Jurassic park confirmed.

 

There it is. *epic dino muzik*

 

They make game like that. Armored Core would make you juice your jockies.

 

Ah right, forgot about that. Still, delivery to other players is better than nothing. Run out of healing items? Send your pet to bring some more, maybe. Just realized you forgot to bring the special key for the boss door? Send your pet to retrieve it. Bringing items from home does seem more useful than sending them to your friends.

 

be ready for my army for Dinos

 

OMG PETS! I WANTS PETS! GIMME THE PETS! PETS!!! PETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I personally like the idea of starter pets, as long as they were optional. Besides if a feature you want doesn't make it as a stretch goal, who says it couldn't be added later?

 

I personally like the idea of starter pets, as long as they were optional. Besides if a feature you want doesn't make it as a stretch goal, who says it couldn't be added later?

 

Pretty careful wording in there. The creation of those assets will certainly not extend development time. But if you look at the roadmap, what's currently holding most things up is the implementation of all of their art, which will unquestionably take more time if there were more assets to deal with.
Not hating, I just don't think we need stretch goals. Most people just want to play the game as soon as possible. Stretch goals are just funded feature creep. Even purely aesthetic updates take time to implement, not to mention QA and debug.
I'm just saying that I'd rather stretch goals be added as expansions if anything. No need to shove everything into release. Updates like that are what keeps a game fresh anyway.