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I enjoyed this game so much that I decided to highlight it on my YouTube channel. The video is below.

A few additional thoughts since my last comment/review:

I *think* if bugs are generated under a certain feature type (like self-referenced), and you switch that feature (to Tolkienesque or whatever), then the bugs generated by the self-referenced feature will now have the weaknesses of the Tolkienesque-generated bugs. I don't know if this was a deliberate decision or not but wanted to point it out. It is a little inconsistent but probably not worth changing because it works nicer with the UI like this.

Profilers seem a little weak overall -- an equivalent printf() should always out-damage it (or apply more "hits" if you are looking for effects). Although if there's a max number of hits that enemies can land on you between two actions (as you explained previously), then that seems to be the best time to make use of them since their slowness won't matter.

I may not understand the mechanic fully, but I was using a hack-type weapon during the final boss fight and it wasn't making my features less stable. I was swapping features around so this may have had something to do with it.

Speaking of the final boss fight, there is a typo in the word "invokes". (I don't want to give any more information than that to avoid spoilers...)

cpiod5 years ago (2 edits) (+2)

What a coincidence, I saw your message when I was about to upload 1RL v1.1 which integrates your previous suggestions (and corrects the typo in "invokes"; the complete changelog is here).

You are right: the weakness of bugs doesn't trace their creator but the current equipped features. It's a detail but since this would make the rules more consistent, I fixed it.

My idea was to make the profiler more useful when overwhelmed, since the time penalty is so huge that the duration difference between the printf() and the profiler becomes negligible. Since the profiler is clearly more precise, it would yield in this case a higher DPS. I may balance it later (by making the profiler faster or even more precise).

About the hack bug, I may have found it. The inventory is not refreshed when a feature is made less stable because of a hack use. It may explain the behavior you encountered. But it probably needs some balance too.

By the way, I reworked the confusion mechanism. Previously, missed attacks with a paradoxical weapon had 50% chance of confusing the enemy, which made the paradoxical hack and its 100% accuracy useless. Now, successful attack have 33% chance of confusing the enemy. The confusion last longer (when you told me the confusion didn't work on the invoked bugs, I guessed that the confusion duration was just too low w.r.t. your time penalty, so the effect was nearly invisible) and confused bugs you attack have now 50% chance of refocus (I might tweak it later).

Finally, I would like to say a big THANK YOU for helping me enhance the game and increasing its visibility!

Edit: 1RL v1.2 is available :)

tonehack5 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

> My idea was to make the profiler more useful when overwhelmed, since the time penalty is so huge that the duration difference between the printf() and the profiler becomes negligible.

I thought this might be the advantage, but my roguelike instincts told me not to get overwhelmed in the first place ;) The profiler definitely gets better as delay increases... It wouldn't be too difficult to crunch some numbers and determine the break even point.

> By the way, I reworked the confusion mechanism. Previously, missed attacks with a paradoxical weapon had 50% chance of confusing the enemy, which made the paradoxical hack and its 100% accuracy useless.

This explains a lot! I assumed that it always checked on hit and thought my paradoxical hack was going to be awesome! I was wondering what was going on with that. The confusion effect wearing off with my giant time penalty explains why it appeared to not work during the boss fight. The new system sounds like a good improvement. The confusion effect would still be somewhat strong for stunning an enemy then switching targets (the stunned enemy essentially becomes a barrier for you).

> Finally, I would like to say a big THANK YOU for helping me enhance the game and increasing its visibility!

No problem, I wouldn't have done any of that if it weren't enjoyable to play! I'll have to try some of these new features now :)

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