Thank you so much for trying out my prototype!

You're absolutely right. The first points of feedback I noted that were important were some extremely necessary quality of life features. My mouse DPI is very high, which has actually degraded everyone else's experience. I know it's not actual game features, but these settings are coming in ASAP. Thanks!

I'm not planning on adding a scoring system exactly, since I want to leave it up to the Player in terms of how they want to play. While they're low priority now, I do want to add a lot more feedback and quality of life. Ironed out controls, a few more nice features (vaulting and off-wall diving), as well as a per-level breakdown of damage, hits, accuracy, etc.  Unfortunately, there are just so many more core features that need work. 

There are a couple of decisions I made early regarding movement, but it definitely needs refinement. New features always affect the balance of a game. Sprinting was locked to only moving in the general forward direction to prevent backpedaling. I think the slide camera is a little fast and needs minor tweaking too, but the slide momentum situation is a combination of grounding inconsistency and a get-up delay that's a little too aggressive. 

Thanks for the input though! I'll be looking into these and hopefully making it a lot more solid around my next DD. Hope you'll be able to try it out then!

Thanks for the feedback! 

Recoil is one of those things that needs to be both tweaked and better communicated, to be honest. I totally get that frustration.

Regarding slides and slow-mo, I share your points on this. They were implemeted extremely early in the prototype, and now they need more refinement. I'm not happy with the fluidity of movement (hotkeys, behaviour and overall utility), so I'm planning on making some very important changes in the short-term. I also have an additional change planned for slow-mo that should make it feel a lot better.

But again, thanks so much. I really appreciate you taking the time to try this out.

Thanks for the feedback!

That ammo counter is definitely staying that way. I'm glad you like it! I want more UI elements to look like that down the line, but sadly, there are a lot more higher priority features. Weapons are very much still temporary, until I get higher quality assets. But high quality animations are key for the FPS logic. The Weapon Animation system was the most recently fleshed out system.

A lot of the AI systems, and tweaks to Weapon Balance (including a Damage rework) are still required to really sell the feel. But it makes me happy to know it felt satisfying. 

For a future DD, I'll be planning on making a much better introduction tutorial, and a better level system. After AI, it's a top priority. A lot of quality of life features, and adjustments to the poor visuals are also high priority. I totally agree.

Oh, and that bug with semi-auto weapons was a bug that was meant to add Grace Time for more fluid firing. It's since been fixed, but remains broken in the demo. Thanks for pointing it out though!

Anyway, thanks again. I hope I'll have a lot more to give next time round, and that you'll check it out!

Thanks for the feedback!

Admittedly, a lot of the visual style is incomplete because it's still really early in development. I'm not happy with a lot of it, so I hope you'll see it when it changes and develops further.

I also get where you're coming from with the gunplay and movement. I'm already busy changing the control scheme to make movement feel smoother. Gunplay is a combination of poor tutorialisation and balance. There's still a lot to be done in that aspect.

Overall, I know it's in a pretty rough state, but thanks for playing!

I can understand there's a lot of frustration in here. I think a lot of what's happening is early development + lackluster features. You really raise some good points though.

Regarding weapons, you're right. A lot of balance elements are poor, and need to be reined in. The recoil is all over the place after the animation overhaul, but I hear you. Oh, and the bolt action rifle's firing is a poorly programmed quality of life behaviour (believe it or not) that's not working as intended.

I don't like where the AI's at either. Tbh the Enemy AI itself is actually not even complete. That's why they go from a relatively harmless state to unloading on you. That's a big next milestone I hope to work on, so I hope you'll see it in a future DD.

Games missing even minor features like Mouse Sensitivity and Resolution settings (or settings in general) are super frustrating, so that's definitely something I'll be adding in time.

Hopefully you'll check the game out again sometime, and the game will give a clearer direction in what to do for the demo. For now it's barely a showcase of some super rough development.

But anyway, thanks for playing! I really appreciate it.

Thanks for the feedback!

I pre-initialise most scenes and assets, but I have a suspicion that it's the way that Godot actually handles shaders. I'll look into pre-compiling the shaders for various effects, especially the bullet impacts. I really appreciate it, because I've kinda forgotten that these annoying stutters exist.