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stomygame1 year ago

Really wanted to play this, it looks fantastic but I'm on Linux and Proton doesn't like Unreal Engine, at least not whatever version you're using.  The game seems to work but it stutters frames as if interpolation was getting turned off every time there's a physics update.

Linux support is getting better and better (going into the cloud is forcing their hand) so it could be enough to package for Linux and have it just work.

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Wabbaboy1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

Are you trying to play it by adding it to steam as a non steam game? A friend of mine tried to run it through proton and failed but then through steam it worked, dunno why but

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stomygame1 year ago(+1)

I was running it with a shell script using Proton externally. Adding it as a non-steam game though totally worked!

  • I like how you can light the arrows by shooting through the braziers.
  • Really need a nice serif font and some appropriate menu UI.
  • I also really like the speed up in the animation and footsteps when you're on stairs 
  • I couldn't rebind the keys, the button didn't work. I am a zealot who insists having E as the interact key is heresy. That said, I like how you have both the toggled and held versions of a crouch key.
  • Also, in technical terms, what does Camera Smoothing do?
  • You've got sprint/dash set up by default the way I set it up in Darktide. Nice. Very intuitive. The combat in general is really natural, I had no trouble dodging and weaving and kicking.
  • The weapons have enough durability to be useful without feeling like they're made of paper. Though it would be good to have some way to tell how much use a weapon has left, I didn't see anything at least.
  • I noticed the bad guys in the test area have trouble picking up the big pickaxe. They sprint up to it and kick it away from themselves before they have a chance to pick it up.
  • Stacking boxes around is very intuitive, that's hard to do, kudos!
  • The ladders and chains are also very intuitive to use. Good job! I just didn't see if there was a way to drop straight down from a chain, do you have to jump?
  • The starting prison area just ended with a black screen when I was near a minecart track
  • The big hub area (the second level?) could use some optimization. I have a mid-range computer and I always turn AA off, but that big multi-level hall was the only area where I noticed the framerate dip significantly. Especially the big carpeted hallway junction next to the tower with the tree in it. You can take advantage of the windows being practically opaque to have them just actually become opaque if you're 10m or so away and that could allow you to occlude more stuff.
  • The shading looks really bad if shadows aren't set to max. Is there baked lighting or only dynamic?
  • Other than that though, the environments look absolutely gorgeous. I love it.
  • The buttons used for dropping held weapons don't work if holding a crate or barrel.
  • Is there any food in the barrels painted with apple and drumstick symbols?
  • Arrows stuck to the player is a great touch. Though they don't quite match your movement animation. Should apply the camera bob animation to them as well because otherwise they look much more obviously like a distinct entity.
  • The sound design is really good. Hearing the clomp of the MC's heels echoing all around really sells the massive interiors, and then it's super comfy to thud around on the carpets.

This game is shaping up to be really excellent, I was absorbed for hours. I got stuck where there were two big grates at either end of the great hall. I could see more automatons behind each but couldn't find any switch to open the doors with. I saw there was a side way in from the kitchen but couldn't see a way to open it either.

Cute MC.

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Wabbaboy1 year ago(+1)

Gee that's a long comment, thank you so much for taking the time, a round of feedback like this is something I can only dream of having, let's go through it.

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  • Indeed, making UI is a chore and I've slacked there
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  • Yea that feature is just not done and I forgot I even put the button there on the first place, sorry
  • It adds a little delay when you move around so it takes a little while to pause, I don't think it's quite "smoothing" and it's something I need to rework, oh well
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  • I want to be more clear about weapon durability so you can plan your attacks, I just never got down to do it, not sure yet if I'll have a little UI with an icon of the weapon that changes color as it degrades, or somehow express it in the weapon visuals themselves
  • The whole "picking up" weapons logic needs quite a lot of work indeed 😩
  • 👍, I'm not quite happy with the handling of physics as of yet, they get stuck really easily if they collide with something but, well, needs work
  • 👍 If you crouch + jump while in a ladder you do drop down, I'm thinking on adding little control tips depending on player context so I can tell them stuff like being able to sprint while in ladders, sprint while swimming, dropping down, remind them which is the interact key when they can interact with stuff (a LOT of people by instinct click on stuff instead of E)
  • 👍, the prison level should go for a while longer before entering the game proper but at the moment I wanted to make like the first proper level of the game so I left it unfinished
  • The thing with performance at the moment is that the graphics part of the game should be running fine, I haven't optimized certain things so I'm not saying there isn't work to be done there but the game is mostly bottlenecked by the CPU because of physics and AI. I did some last minute optimization so the AI is ticking slower if far away and their physics aren't activated but chances are that in that part the enemies nearby are activating and using up more resources than in other parts of the map because there is a fair bit of them.
  • Once again I've been slacking off, the sunlight is dynamic as well as the fire sources in the levels, by lowering the lighting quality shadows from the sun as basically deactivated because I found out a way of using really cheap really sharp shadows with this thing called Distance Fields, the problem is that that's the only quality option that exists is basically on/off but I think I can get more options going on
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  • Yea some apples should be dropping
  • Ah yes they should attach to the camera or something
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I'm still figuring out how to design the levels and I kind of rushed to get this one ready for demoday so the objective is absolutely not clear, but well, still figuring out.

If you want to play the whole thing though, you just have to go upstairs and next to the bell and the dormitory there is a lever that opens the gate that leads to the outer patio, but you might want to wait to the next iteration once the level is more proper.

Once again thanks for the comment, insightful stuff!

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