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Hey there,
Floor 4 gameplay in some matches has degenerated into snoozy gear smuggling from lower floors up to 4 by using the Ferris wheels in Circus and Performance 3.
It essentially creates a gameplay loop where Magician needs to constantly be in Floor 4, but without any bun actually really being active there, because they're instead busy smuggling gears up with repeated Ferris wheel activations. All of this is happening, while as Magician its essentially a no-go to "just go back down to 2 or 3 and get them" while Floor 4 is open, risking that 1 bun who is actually there putting in the smuggled gears.
Maybe this type of gameplay is just intended or fine - I don't know, but personally it feels really weird to not have actual Floor 4 gameplay when Ferris spawned and it makes the final floor kinda anti-climactic imo.
A suggestion to prevent this would be to have a different type of gear being required for the final exit gates (maybe golden gears or something), which only spawn up on floor 4.
Alternatively - but imo more clunky and kinda awkward - force drop gears in Ferris wheels and have gears ignore collision with the rotating Ferris platforms, so they can't move up.
Or just keep it as is if that is an intended strategy.
novel siren
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