It runs well even with hordes of NPCs. The escape ship didn't work for me too, so I just let the cops shoot each other while running around. I didn't feel like I was taking any shots apart from the baton police, although it might be that the other cops were just blocking the bullets for me.
Also, Windows tried to block the game from running.
Yea Windows blocking G*dot executables seems to be a common issue, it did that for me too but the only solutions online were "buy a $200 windows .exe sign permit". Apparently if a bunch of people run the game Windows stops trying to block it but I dunno how that's supposed to work.
For the escape ship not working, did it only fail that one time? If not was there anything specific about what you were doing when it didn't work? I tried playing the demo a bunch of times with different gear/alert levels/alive NPCs but the ship always worked for me. Eventually the player will have to interact with the ship's doors to get in which should solve the issue, but the fact there's apparently a common bug I can't reproduce on my end is spooking me.
It works if I call it near the start of the level, and even after playing for a bit it still worked. I suspect it might be due to position, since there's certain areas where pressing the key doesn't seem to call it, and there's floating ships sometimes visible off in the distance. It finally worked when I made it to one of those, but any attempts to call the ship didn't seem to do anything until I reached it.
Hey thanks for looking into it. So the ship spawnpoints are on each intersection, when the alert level is high enough and there's less than 10~ish cops backup ships will randomly spawn at these points. When the player holds "call escape ship" it will find the intersection closest to the player and spawn there (sometimes this leads to the ship spawning behind or around the corner from the player making it hard to notice). There might be an issue if the cop backup ship and player escape ship spawn at the same spot, but they don't even have collisions right now so it's hard to think of an issue that might cause.
Also currently the player can "re-call" the escape ship as many times as they want and it will simply teleport to the nearest intersection.
Thanks again for taking the time to look into it!
