A very competent wave shooter, gunplay and sound design were solid. As other people are asking I'm wondering if weapons respawn around the map or not- the handful of times I planned I wasn't able to fight past wave 5 since there was no more resources to work with. I do think the counting down of bullets could have been made more impactful. It often felt like the different guns didn't really matter aside from their varying ammo counts, and with that you could only reliably get 1 kill per bullet. Would have been really cool to lean into things like bullet penetration and spread to maximize the number of kills per bullet- like if the hunting rifle was able to pierce an unlimited number of targets, and the shotgun had a wider kill arc but less range, it would make the managing and swapping of weapons more strategic. Game does exactly what it seems to set out to do though, I had a good bit of fun making it to wave 5 on nightmare.
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Man I am genuinely so happy to hear you had fun and those are some really solid ideas I may well end up adding in a future update after the jam, I can remember a couple of times wishing I could get multi kills with the shotgun like that myself, should have just added it but that will be a good one for the future. To answer your question about the guns, for every game there is 1 of each weapon available somewhere on the map but they don't respawn. My hope was that on the right difficulty setting for the player they wouldn't be surviving long enough to find and use them all anyways, and that the more ammo and way more ammo modes would add enough for people who wanted longer runs and less dependance on melee, but I think some kind of system for finding more ammo for guns potentially indefinitely will probably also be a good update at some point. I wanted to try to take the limited ammo concept to its extreme and really experiment with that and how it effects decision making, but I think for an endless wave shooter limited ammo on a moment to moment basis but that can recovered at some point is probably a better fit. Also genuinely loved your game by the way, still hoping I can get better at the combat and make it a little farther. Any tips?