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Is that a motherfucking QUIT BUTTON I see?! 11/10!

My girlfriend is very happy to be able to change colors!

Bug report: Full Screen setting is lost after every match or game restart.

Feedback: It's awesome. I just find 1 aspect a bit strange: wouldn't building fatigue for blocking disadvantage the defender against a spammer? It's a minor thing, no biggie, just stating my thoughts.

Questions: How long does it take to recover from fatigued state? Is counter speed affected by fatigue if you blocked lots of attacks before countering?

Put the quit button in the changelog! It's a milestone! :D

I hope you read my follow-up comment to your reply in which I describe why the game is so good for us.

I'll make good on my $60 donation as soon as I can. 2/3 requests is good, the 3rd one was minor.

Drasnus4 years ago (1 edit)

Hey man I'll check out that fullscreen bug soon. I changed the way the game restarts itself so that would explain things.

The fatigue system is a work in progress but the idea is:

Blocking is fairly lenient (the timing window is giant) and doing so allows you to counter. Every time you attempt a counter you need to block, so it's a trade-off every time you try to catch them with a quick counter slash. The Master AI is almost perfect at blocking so I thought there should be a way to soften up a defensive opponent and force them to mix it up in order to maintain their offensive capabilities.

Since blocking builds fatigue, dodging is now a riskier way to defend while avoiding any fatigue, and shoving is now more useful. Furthermore dodging causes your opponent to miss their swing, making them fatigued instead.

Fatigue goes up to a maximum of 10, and is reduced in 16-frame increments (about 1/4 of a second). So a recovery from full fatigue takes just over 2 seconds and will gradually reduce itself whenever your movement is free.

I'm happy to hear anyone's thoughts on the system since it's a new attempt to balance some of the moves in the game into a tactical whole. Thanks for your support and all the feedback too.

Grindologist4 years ago (1 edit)

Thanks for taking the time to answer! Sorry for asking again, but is the counter attack speed affected by fatigue or not? If it's not, then blocking fatigue is fine in my opinion. Of course, I'm just one guy, so don't put too much weight in my opinion. Also bear in mind I exclusively play against humans, so I have no experience with the single player.

Drasnus4 years ago

Fatigue is intended to only affect counters by half, but I noticed earlier I fudged the implementation of that so another hotfix is coming.

Grindologist4 years ago

I also think that, if you release and sell the game, it has the potential to be a multiplayer hit, but not a lot of potential on the single player side, so I would think multiplayer balancing is prioritary, but, again, I'm not an expert.

Drasnus4 years ago (1 edit)

I just pushed a hotfix to fix the menu. I also added that UI arrow you requested, it slipped my mind the other day.

I read your other message and I'm glad she's having fun with it. I always intend for this game to be easy to learn and feel intuitive, so comparing your two experiences is very valuable. I'm curious how fatigue will affect your matches since it was intended to work somewhat under the hood to balance things subtly rather than work like a typical stamina bar system or something.

Grindologist4 years ago

Wow, awesome! That was fast!

Grindologist4 years ago

Working as intended. I'll be sure to let you know how the fatigue system influences our games once we get some more game time in!

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