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1: got to stage 2, finished buying assault rifles quest. Then encountered a bug and lost my progress and didn't want to restart.

2: nothing that fully stops things, but the game has a big issue in Vivaldi. Whether or not I'm in full screen, spamming right click would sometimes go to the previous page. I think right clicking opens the standard right click menu, except it's invisible. It's is still clickable and includes "go back".

3: Nothing is showing how many units you're allowed to choose to deploy. It's also a little hard to see which unit which health total belongs to (so you can move low health units to the back)
Placing buildings is a little weird, feels like you're going to be defending them or something, and then it doesn't seem like their position matters at all.

Small other bug in Vivaldi and Firefox: The recruitment menu (and maybe other menus) doesn't open in full screen.

5: I don't get what the point of waiting for things to construct is, since there's no in-game time pressure. I hate when games want me to be thinking about timers I have running while I'm not playing them. But in particular, this game has timers that are like a minute. And you just end up staring at them or tabbing back and forth. If you're doing timers like this, I think they should say how long they are + be either less than 10 seconds or more than 5 minutes.

Combat Dices Team13 days ago

First of all, thanks for the comment! You’re the first one!

Could you please tell me about the bug that caused you to lose all your progress? Is it related to the “going back” issue mentioned below, or something else?

I plan to refine the game design choices regarding construction and production times, the unit roster, and combat mechanics in the next version of the prototype. The current build has helped identify many errors at a very early stage of development—which is a good thing. And that’s all thanks to you and other players who care.

I’ll keep working on the game, and I hope you’ll enjoy the final result!

OverBern12 days ago(+1)

The right click menu issue meant I couldn't use the browser I had been using. Moving to a different browser would mean I need to restart, I think. I could probably have found the place the saves are if I really dug for it, but I'm not familiar enough that it's trivial for me or invested enough to spend time on it.
For my own browser game project the plan is. Instead of a button you can press to delete your save or back it up or whatever, there's a path you can copy and open to find where the save is supposed to be. That was very easy to do in Godot (but isn't tested in browser yet). Not sure if it'll be as easy in your engine.

Combat Dices Team12 days ago

Hi.

I get what you mean. Actually, the current version of the prototype doesn’t have a save feature. At such an early stage of development, data structures change too frequently, and the vast majority of players spend no more than a single five-minute session in the game. I made a conscious decision to hold off on saves until things stabilize.

But isn’t the save data stored in the browser’s storage—both in Godot specifically and in web games in general? I don’t understand how you can copy the path. Could you explain in more detail?

OverBern11 days ago (1 edit)

Tested now. You're right that it's a little more complicated than I hoped it would be.
When I was playing it locally, it worked flawlessly. Now that it's uploaded to browser, it shows
/userfs/godot/app_userdata/Companhita

And I think I need to replace /userfs/ with something that's different per platform (https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/io/data_paths.html). But the game is aware what platform it's on, so that should be doable.
Just replacing it with %APPDATA% seems to work on windows at least. It automatically finds the right folder.

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