Hello 👋

Saw your post on reddit today and played for about an hour. I've got some feedbacks for you that I'll try to detail as best as I can since english isn't my main language.

- It is not possible to rebind keys for now, which can be annoying for non QWERTY users. Maybe not a huge priority but could be enough for some people to not bother further. (You can still switch to EN keyboard at least as a workaround)

- There is no feedback when you can loot or gather something from the ground. A simple tooltip displaying the name of the item when you're looking at it from a close distance would help a lot to understand what can be interracted with and what cannot.

- There is no confirmation box when cliking close game, not a big deal, but when you accenditaly click it, it's annoying.

- It seems the resolution parameter isn't saved when exiting and restarting the game.

- I would suggest giving the player an option to disable head bobbling as it can be a source of motion sickness for some people.

- The crouch action could use a toggle setting.

- Your character slides under water even when you do not move which makes the deplacements a bit akward, like walking on ice.

- Combat lacks a lot of feedbacks.  You don't really have a dedicated FX, animation or sound when landing a proper hit on the target which gives the impression you're poking the air. The same goes for yourself when you're hit.

- When you need a specific tool for a craft, have it displayed in the craft menu somehow instead of letting the players try to build it and then tell them it can't be done without the X or Y tool.

- You can sprint and spend stamina in water but it does not increase your speed. Either disable the key or maybe have a rapid swim movement.

- Once you're dead maybe give the option to load a previous save directly instead of going back to the main menu to do it. On this matter I think dying takes way too much time between the moment your HP reaches 0 and the moment you get the option to play again.

- You can save during loadings which can leads to softlock gameplay when abusing this. For instance, if you save when you're dead during the fade to black (At 0 HP) load this save, and save during the loading screen then load this save again, you'll end up stuck in water and you can't do anything.

- It seems you can't load a slot while in game which is not convenient.

Regarding the feel of the game I wouldn't say it's bad, far from it, but I wonder what's your take on the survival genre with Windstone ? I did not notice unique mechanic that could make me play this instead of the dozen other survival games out there. You got decent graphics, it runs fine, you seem to be a competent developer, but I fear all of this will not matter in the long run if you don't find YOUR feature. The kind of feature that will make your game truly yours and unique in the eyes of the players. Minecraft had a fully interactive wolrd, Rust had a brutal pvp and a cool sandbox, Valheim had sweet visuals and deeper RPG elements than other game in the genre, Green Hell had hardcore survival elements, The Forest had an intriguing story etc.. All these games manage to be noticed because they offer something to the players you could not necessarily find anywhere else. 

I hope this doesn't sound too harsh because that is truly not my intention, I just wanted to tell my honest opinion.

Good luck, I wish you all the best 👋😊

Ok, I've downloaded the game yesterday after I saw your post on reddit.

If you are looking for a brutally honest but constructive feedback, here it comes.

Positive Feedback:

• Music / Graphics are good
• Double click crafting / eating is a nice feature
  • would like to see that also added to crafting (to make it more consistent)
• < placeholder for later - might add some things later once I've playtested some more >

Negative Feedback (and possible solutions):

• The controls are a nightmare
  • Problem: The controlls are inconsistent. Tab to open inv - Tab to close it - ok easy. J to open the J to close... frik where do i cose that - oh button at the top. ESC to pause the game ESC to ... why?! oh I have to click resume in the middle. E to get fire going - that was intuitive - E to close ... damn you controls... ESC? - oh another button at the bottom right...
  • Improvements:
    • Make "ESC" consistently close any menu (would help against getting stuck in a menu)
    • Make Keybinds configurable (e.g. I want to sprint with Ctrl, sneek with Shift, etc.)
    • Make scrollwheel rotate through tools in your hotbar
• Picking up items takes some knowledge about what items are
  • Problem: Picking up items takes some knowledge about how close you have to be to them and how small the objects you can pick up can be - not obvious to everyone. It probably didn't help as the bug with the stuck twig in the crosshair made me assume i can forcefield-move objects and confuseed me to the point where I needed a fresh start by just deleting the world - but that's not my point here.
  • Improvements:
    • Add visual feedback to items you can pick up / interact with. Or call it pebble - that would make it more obvious to everyone that you are not talking about those massive and much more visible stones scattered over the beach.
• The graphics card is at 100% usage at all times
  • Problem: I have a GeForce GTX 980M which acording to benchmarks and your system and RAM requirements should perform between your provided minimum and optimal requirements. Then why is the GPU usage at 100% at all times? Shouldn't it at least go down when I pause the game or I am in a menu? Or when I put all graphics settings to the minimum?
  • Improvements:
    • I don't know enough about 3D games to give meaningfull advice here, but the video settings provided either do nothing at all or are a simple two state switch between beatiful and horribly pixelated. None of which reduce the GPU load of 100%. That tells me that something has to be done here to improve that situation.
    • Once that problem is sored out maybe don't start the game at the highest possible video settings - roasting every pc that does not have the latest, most expencive graphics card.
• An unskippable boring text cutscene at the start of every world? Really?!
  • Probably just a placeholder but still that thing has either to be more interesting and draw the players attention away from a loading screen or it has to go. There is nothing more annoing than an unscippable cutscene.
• While shooting a bow your arm blocks the view - that's also why you don't hold a bow like that.
• Add a map - sometimes a top down view of the terrain would be really useful
  • Just saw that you already included M for Map in your keybinds - just didn't implement it yet I guess
• < placeholder for later - might add some things later once I've playtested some more >

Some things that just take some getting used to:

• The hands you can only see if you walk
• Gravity being low as if you were on a moon
• An incredibly low walking speed (sprinting is ok though)
• Maybe make the background of the items transparent, so it looks less like the inventory is bugged, when you try to move them for the first time
• < placeholder for later - might add some things later once I've playtested some more >

Bugs:

• The first time - idk how - I got a twig stuck in my crosshair and carried it around with me over the whole map. It fell off eventually
• If you chop down a tree and during that action open the menu, you will chop forever - eventually by pressing enough buttons it will go away, but still.
• Viewing two armor pieces in a row can result to a graphical 'overlay bug' (see pic 1)
• Video settings reset every time you start the game
• Re-entering a saved game spawns you way under the save position, meaning also under the surface - you have to phase up to the surface by jumping a lot (see pic 2)
• Somehow items in a chest didn't load propperly - after making them all switch place with a new item they came back (see pic 3 and 4)
• You cant drink the water high up in the mautain lakes - neither can you drown in them

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Hi, it's me again

Good news first:

Positive Feedback:

• Good work on the bow. It's way more fun now that you can see where you aim. You can even use the knuckles as an indicator where you are shooting
• Help text interaction indicators are nice
  • maybe you could add one for cooking as well? (It's broken btw - more about that later)
  • also show what you need to repair an item?

Bugs:

• open basket with E and close with ESC to get a walk-around inventory - you can even open and access it where ever you go with tab
  (simmilar wierd stuff with m > tab > m)
  
• Why do you need a firestarter to add wood to an already burning fire? (ok this might be a tiny thing that's just not implemented, yet)
  
• somehow I got locked in the Drag menu without a cursor (could have been the Alt + Tab-ing out that many games don't like)
  
• Cooking broke for some reason. Meat does neither snap into place nor show any coocking progress.
  

Comments:

• I really want to sit in this chair...
  
  

About update 4 and 5:

> Fixed an issue that may cause the player to become stuck inside a Tardigrade corpse.

I got stuck under a Werewolf corpse when I killed it exactly in the moment it was above me and I was in crouch position.
Do you think that got fixed with it? When I look at the install date and the last played date... I don't know if I experienced it before or after the last update...

>Wildlife should no longer pursue you if you are inside a cabin. Instead of clipping halfway through the wall while trying to get to you, they should run away.

Nice one. I completly forgot to tell you that one - it was really wierd the first time I played. Good to hear that this is fixed now.

I just came to the point where I saw the waypoint thingy for the first time... I really like your effords, but I think it's irretating :/ Maybe a simple marker on the map or a small waypoint when you look at the location on the screen - in form of a beacon if you want - would be better

Good work on the cooking though - it works again.

As a sidenote: Sleeping is kinda different now - it just freezes the screen for a while and the cursor can be moved... could also just be different grafics settings though...

Me reading the title page of this game after playtesting for weeks and collecting over 18 ingame hours of play testing:

"The insect-like Formicans are your primary enemy.  Your main mission is to exterminate them and their queen."

Oh, so that's what this is all about!

The main reason I started play testing this game were the beautiful screenshots on your main page and that I just wanted to explore this beautiful landscape you created with a baby dragon on my side - and so far I gotta say it did not disappoint :) . Going forward I wanted to share my personal opinion on the future of this game: A main enemy might give direction, but don't let it dominate the game to the point where you are just stabbing Formicans for hours straight. Discovering new items, mobs and areas is way more fun. And maybe even implement a peaceful solution to whatever made Formicans your primary enemy in the first place.

Comments on version 8:

• Graphics on minimum (except for 30FPS and 1920x1080) now again are at 100% GPU usage - I think that was down to 50% before the update (Gotten worse now?). My guess would be, that the fps cap got destroyed in the process.
• Pressing E on a campfire multiple times, now opens multiple menus that are hard to close once you closed the fron one using the button. Only opening and closing the inventory using tab, gets rid of the floating-stuck menu.
• E opens the basket, but does not close it, because the opened basket then becomes the inventory (it just resets the pointer, when it should also close the inventory)
• Is it just me, or does the rain sound like water falling on a sheet metal plate or "Plexiglass" (the sound in the back not the 'splishing' in the front) [low priority]
• Sometimes there are still scenes where I don't see a damn thing... (well I do see something if I crank my backlight up all the way, but then the rest is so bright I can't to look at it anymore)
  
• Can I have doubleclick crafting from the crafting menu? I really like the quick-action doubleclick mechanic.
  Maybe even add it to the nutrish of the baby-drag on raw meat doubleclick. [low priority]
• Sitting in the chair a little bit of looking around would be nice... [low priority]
• Oh, I almost hard-locked my carried pet on save and load (because it drops on load)...
  

Positive Feedback:

• Wave noise is really nice. (Either I did not notice it before or it's new - either way its great)
• Speed increment on the sitting nausea problem worked!
• Changing the peakock ai to being less agressive is nice!
• Bigger stones look good.
• Nice fix on the "Stuck in ground on load" issue

EDIT: and just when I was done with this post, version #9 dropped ...

I just had an idea about the inventory bug from a while ago, when I looked at these bugged graphics settings:

As it is obviously stored outdated data from an earlier version that causes it, it might have been the same problem back then. Did you change the item storing system or maybe add / remove / rename item attributes around the time it occured?

Maybe I've played, stored items, saved, exited, updated and stared again? Outdated data is the exact cinda thing that causes such loading issues. And updating the slots by swapping new and old items around could have been the trigger to update those old ones to a new standard...

So... Update 11.

First of all, nice job on the 'E' closes all feature. I really appreciate that.

Now what else....

• [3D Models / Textures] Something is wrong with the characters face. I think it's things like the right eye (her left one) looking in the wrong direction and the spotlight glare making her skin, hair and eye color look a little wierd or something like that - the later could be on purpose or just the color representation of my monitor or graphic settings though, because it looks a little bit better when on maximum graphic settings - the glare still seems to much though aka the lighting to bright.
  
• [3D Models / Textures] I liked the shrimp formician better than the ant one. Especially for this early game area. The ant one could be a good fit for the higer level ones though. Compared to the ant one the shrimp one also looks cuter and facing it you feel more like hunting for sea food rather than attacking an intelligent otherworldly enemy - if that makes sence.
• [Video Settings] A 1600x900 option would be nice as it might strike the right balance between performance and video quality (as it did for me on 'AC Origins')
• [Controls] 'Esc' should also close the pause menu again
• [QOL] Maybe increace the arrow's 'click box' size a tiny bit. They are quite hard to pick up sometimes
• [Acheivements] Why does a crafting task still show up and tell me to craft something I just picked up and now need create a duplicate to finish that task. Maybe chage it to 'craft or find' or 'craft or collect.'
• [QOL] Add small indecators on some bars. E.g. the 'sleep' bar could do with small seperators each hour so you can easily see how much you have to sleep to fully fill it. Same with the fireplace. There a transparent overlay on how much the number of fuel souces you are about to add, adds to the fires duration.
• [Bug] Quickly switching between the activation of two tasks that still need time to finish, overlaps the 'days remaining' texts and makes them hard to read:
  

Some feedback, I've played two versions ago.

-The repair info is behind the item image, I can't see it unless I go to inventory and get out quickly

-I took some time to realize what's the intersection button

-Sometimes I have to use two clicks to open Journal

-Sometimes item description blocks item options

-It doesn't tell what I can use as feedback for the campfire

-The door hutbox for clicking stay in the same position even if the door is open.

-Doesn't the first house make it too easy to get the initial itens, since it gives you almost all of then?

-I the Esc menu, Esc doesn't make me back to the game

-Woukd go like stealth to hunt be a thing in the future? Like crunch and go behind?

-Icons in HUD are pixelated

-The sound for stairs are strange

-Inventory space was almost never a problem

-The campfire is displayed instantly, but the world skin gives the option to choose where to drop. Also, didn't know this is necessary to make it become wolf leather

- Bug: The bridge in the first waterfall doesn't show in the map

-It doesn't says that you have to rest to save the game passively

-What does EXP do?

-Bug: I runners out of the brain stat, I sleep than it was full, but it was still treating like it was zero. I couldn't start a fire even with everything full

-It it's only dark in sunsets and sunrises cause moon lights everything, is light a problem for the player?

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I liked the game, it's astonishing you did all of this by yourself. You have a great map but because of the first house, I already had almost all content in the delta. Couldn't test the dragon because of the bug up here. I had fun playing, was very confused in the beginning cause of the controls and the names for plants and things were new to me. I hope you have success with the game.

Hallo, just found out your game and i played for a couple of hourse.

It was difficoult to found the dragon egg but in the end i made it.

Unfortunately there are no more quest after u unlock the dragon, and btw is vere OP, it oneshot every enemis.. and i like :D

Now i saw a recent update, and i decided to take a look, i saw the improvement with bow, and i found out the 2 "spaceship" i guess, but i cannot enter or interact with them,

What i have shoul do? 

Do you think you will work on this project?

Have a nice day..

bye bye

About Update 13:

• The First Drag-Click / Scroll Action directly after a storage is openened does not work
• Raindrops are visible under water
  
• Raindrops tripple up on the border of the screen (left side in this pic) when moving the camera using the mouse
  
• Waypointer is shown on top of the craft button in the inventory menu
  
• I can't tell what it is, but something doesn't look right about the spaceship... Too clean? Too less detail? Stayed too much in one piece and still broke? I can't really tell what it is, but something is wrong...
  
• Wanting to drop multiple items while having the crafting menu open results in the following
  
• Killing the Broodmother you get stuck beneath her (until you mine it all)
  
• Killing the Broodmother is kinda disapointing right now as there are no acheivements or special drops (those are probably planned already, aren't they?)

Those were the bugs I found so far.

All in all a great update!

Update Patch 15: wow ... MANY changes - GREAT!!

Especially marking the Cabins and Caves was really missing - but before finding them they should not be on the map (exploring is fun)

Max carry weight limit: this is maybe a little too much, fully equipped you can carry nearly nothing AND you always need to collect wood and more. AND: why carry weight limit can not raise with level - you get also stronger in combat

Water container & arrow stashing:  stashed items from v14 disappeared ... that's not nice

UPDATE 15:

Positive Feedback (Those changes I like a lot):
+ Cabins and Caves are now indicated on the map drone screen.
+ Cabin and Cave indicators change color when discovered.

Negative Feedback (Those changes I did not like):
- Max carry weight and inventory space has been reduced.
- The toolbelt UI has been reverted to only show when the inventory is open (I want that back, please)

Suggestions:
= Blue eye icon after eating a blue cap mushroom should show correctly
    +maybe add a blink animation once only 5 seconds are left?
+ broken ecsape pod sfx sounds horibble
    - it's more like a spider attack from minecraft than an electrical malfunction...
+ "close journal" and "guide / task toggle" should swap positions
+ custom map marker (add a custom marker using the cursor)
+ where is the suspension bridge? (I kinda liked it and it would still fit even with the new cave)

Bug Reports:
+ overfed display randomly shows for no reason
+ when crafting an item the slots where the consumed materials were are not used (they should be)
+ finding tools should count as crafting them for the journal quests (it is pain to do that every time)
+ menu controls got better but they are still a mess: e.g.

+ what happened here? (terrain is messed up?)
+ It rains inside of caves
+ The quest compass should no longer overlap other UI elements. Um... yea about that... it still does:

Really like what I'm seeing so far. Two small notes an hour into playing;

When moving items from a chest to your inventory the craft requirements aren't always updated
Requirements seem to update for all items in your inventory except the item that was moved.

I'd move 'quit to main menu' to the bottom of the menu. At least to me that's where it would feel most obvious. Only seen the tip of the iceberg so far, but I will be playing more soon!

Will the glider ever be back? It was one of my favorite parts of the old version. So much fun.