My Thoughts on Toontown Rewritten's New Tweaks & Features
I was originally going to post this on the Toontown subreddit, but do to restrictions from it (I need 20 comment karma or whatever), I will be sharing my thoughts to you toonblr folks!
As you may know, Toontown Rewritten implemented a big update which included a lot tweaks focusing on gameplay. In general, I LOOOVE this update, because the Toontown Rewritten staff is now looking at the way Toontown Online worked and making the experience a lot smoother (and less grindy)! For this post, however, I will share my specific thoughts on each tweak that they have implemented.
Also, this a post a quite a long one, so uh... TL;DR Warning.
• The rarity of fish has been slightly decreased, making fishing less of a chore while still challenging for veteran players.
This is an amazing one. Though I'm not actually fishing, I think this tweak helps new Toons start off fishing with a good amount of species caught, and will help others get their Laff boosts easier. I've seen a few pictures since the update of Toons getting the Holy Mackerel, and if you're reading this, kudos to you!
• The animation when planting and watering flowers has been made faster [cut in half].
Uh... alright tweak I guess. I never really had a problem with the original animation time (only when it would lag after), but yeah, great to spend less time gardening.
• Cog HQ factories and bosses now receive a constant experience bonus regardless of an invasion, due to their increased difficulty.
To elaborate, there is always a 2x bonus for Sellbot Factory, Cashbot Mints, those office thingies, the VP, CFO, and CJ. There's just one problem: IT'S BEEN ALREADY LIKE THAT! Your gag experience always doubled in factories and bosses. The thing was they didn't clarify what the "experience bonus" meant. It means your merits, cogbucks, and jury notices would always count in what would regularly count during a Cog invasion when you complete factories. Now I heard (but not witnessed) that if you go to a factory during an invasion, you could get 3x or 4x the experience for both gag and points needed for promotions. I've also heard that the TTR staff didn't intend that to happen, I don't know. For now I have no opinions on this tweak, but when I know what's going on, I'll see.
• Toons now receive 2 SOS cards from a VP.
MMMMMM!!!! SOS shopping should be a lot easier... I think. But 2 at once?! You're too nice! ^-^
• Invasion summon amounts have been increased and now have varying amounts, resulting anywhere between 3,000 and 10,000 Cogs.
Cool. The 3,000-Cog invasion still feels short (about 15-25 minutes), but it's way better than a bunch of 5-minute 1,000-Cog invasions. Based on what I observed, The larger-number Cog invasions would like come if the Cog was a higher-level, which made it hard to find the right invasion to train my soon-to-be uber, but very great tweak. This definitely makes the CJ battle worthwhile.
Now, I'm going to talk about a tweak and a feature, which are:
• The battle camera now adjusts to the height of the tallest Cog.
• Add an optional "Show Cog Levels" button to the Battle GUI, to display the opponent's level and health status.
They both serve one purpose: to be able to see Cog levels for more effective gameplay. And to be honest, I think one of them needs to be removed. Especially the battle camera adjustment, for one reason. It makes it harder for communication. Let me elaborate: the part of the battle that lets each Toon choose a gag will make the camera face downward, and the Toons are visible from the top of their heads. But the part of the battle UI which shows each Toon's Laff and the gag that they chose block some of the messages the Toon might be saying. There have been scenarios where I couldn't even see the messages of a Toon during the battle before this feature, but when You're fighting a tall Cog (for example, a Mr. Hollywood), it's even worse, since the camera zooms out to adjust to the height of the Cog, and the Toons become even smaller in point-of-view (especially Toons with the small effect), which makes that part of the battle UI block off even more of the messages that the Toon(s) are saying. This is bad because communication is the key to teamwork, and teamwork is essential in a game like Toontown.
Now I have multiple solutions for this. One is to remove the tweak that makes the camera adjust to the tallest Cog, because there is already a "Show Cog Levels," which makes it redundant. Another is to keep both, but find a way to relocate the Toon messages when they are chatting during the part of the battle in which you choose your gag (for example, make the messages as if the Toons are off-screen, so it could be easier to read).
I've talked enough about the adjustment tweak, let's talk about the "Show Cog Levels" feature.
In short, I think it's a great feature, especially since it's OPTIONAL, so you can only use it for, let's say for example, during a boss battle, when you don't know what the Cog levels are, but otherwise there's not much use, especially during an invasion.
• Cog merit counts are now shown on the inventory page by pressing the "Home" hotkey.
Great feature, also a personal problem with is that I would have trouble seeing my Cog promotion points because if your mouse cursor hovers a gag track, it would block them with how many points you need for said track. I use a laptop to play Toontown Rewritten, so when I would hold Home, my mouse-pad would stop receiving movements, and it's all such a pain. But otherwise, great one, I bet everyone wanted this.
• The whitelist has been updated once more with new words.
Here are the list of new words as for the update (Thanks Scootz!)
In my opinion, most of these words I probably won't use at all. I also have a question: How come I can't use apostrophe s words? For example, I can't say "The invasion's almost over," it'll instead censor to "The mew almost over." That's all I got for that.
• More wacky, silly, and popular names have been added to the Pick-a-Name.
Alright. The update doesn't really affect me since I name my own Toons, but cool tweak. I don't have any sources to what the new names are at this point, so yeah.
• Toontown has received 10 New Toon Colors for the very first time: Rose Pink, Ice Blue, Mint Green, Emerald, Teal, Bronze, Amber, Crimson, Dark Green, and Steel Blue. Go make a New Toon today!
Colors are nice. More colors is awesome! The one that strikes me most is Mint Green, it might be used to rewrite my Toon Imagination. Great additions, great colors, great job!
• Toons now receive teleport access to Cog HQs upon reaching Level 50. If you're already Level 50, you'll have to defeat the boss one more time so the Toon Council can award it to you!
(hey oliverthetoon, you mind if i use your toon as a parker?)
Although I haven't maxed any cog suit, this gives Toons who did to quickly restock gags to fight the VP, and will also reduce the amount of parkers (I don't think by much, though). You guys can say goodbye to Oak Street!
• If the building you need to visit for a ToonTask is a Cog Building, it will display in grey on the Street M.A.P.S.
Great way to make experiences while doing shopkeeper Toontasks less grindy.
• Once your Cog Radar is completed, Cog Buildings for that suit type will appear on the Street M.A.P.S.
This means when your Cog gallery is completed (you defeated a sufficient amount of each Cog), once you press Alt, it tells you where Cog buildings are in the street your in. Great feature, helps Toons find buildings easier for Toontasks, but one suggestion (just a small one) is to indicate whether they are occupied or not. Right now, Toontown Rewritten has a bug in which the elevator looks open but is actually occupied. Making indications whether or not the elevator is opened or closed can make finding buildings even more easier!
• When dancing, the panel will now show if you have received bonus experience from the battle.
Great way of telling new Toons who aren't familiar to the game that Cog Invasions and Cog HQs give twice the gag experience, but otherwise I don't see any point.
• The district page has been redesigned! Population and invasion status is shown by clicking on a specific district.
I'm going to be honest, when I heard this, I was like "OMG YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
But when the update came, I was quite disappointed. For a couple of reasons: one is that invasion status tells you what Cog is invading the district, which is quite useful, but in the end of the day, you're gonna probably end up using the invasion tracker because those tell you the number of Cogs and the estimated minutes of said invasion. Another is that the population number doesn't update quite enough. For example, an ideal district will sometimes say the population is about 70 or something, which is obviously not true. The last problem and the least, it's hard to get used to. You have to click on another button just to teleport after clicking the district, and it gets frustrating to me.
• Toons can now purchase a "Rewrite Toon" item every 6 months to change their color or size for 10,000 beans. NOTE: Black cats and Polar bears will lose their effect by using this item!
What a wacky new feature! Just imagine teleporting to an old friend and they looked NOTHING like what they did the last you saw them!
I love this feature, and I may or may not use it to re-color Imagination.
And those are all my thoughts on February's update to Toontown Rewritten! If you would like do share your own thoughts and/or disagree to what I said, don't hesitate! Reblog or reply to my post with your thoughts!
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