The game is very fun. I played for about half an hour last night, and then another half hour after I woke up.
The only technical issue I encountered was during one run at around wave 7. I accidentally fell onto a platform between two large buildings, which seems to be outside the intended level area. I still had a lot of health, but there was no way to jump back to the main combat area. The only option was to die, but respawning just put me back on that same platform. I ended up stuck in an infinite death loop and had to end the run.
For someone like me who isn’t very strong at FPS games, this game feels quite difficult. I played around six runs and couldn’t get past wave 7. It feels like health is very limited. Each pickup only restores 5 HP, and sometimes I lose more health while trying to reach it than I gain from it.
I tried different approaches to reach the boss. At first, I experimented with talents, but many individual talents feel weak before they form a synergy, and their effects are hard to notice. Since the early game is very high pressure, after a couple of runs I started skipping talents and focusing on raw stat upgrades instead and the game became easier.
However, I noticed that stat scaling seems to have diminishing returns. In one run, I was aiming to reach around 40 attack to one-shot basic enemies, but I only went up to around 36, after that each upgrade increase only 1 damage. I understand this is meant to prevent players from relying only on stat scaling instead of using skills.
So I have a few suggestions (though it might also be a skill issue on my side, so please consider alongside other feedback):
Increase health availability.
OR Increasing returns/values of skills and adjust talent distribution so it’s easier to form synergies early on—for example, make core, talents more likely to appear early, and delay more situational or dependent ones.
OR Some enemies feel too strong in early game. For example, there is one that gives shields to a group, moves fast, and has high HP.