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I like the new update, especially how it completely overhauls the UI and the little content update on top. Still, I have found some issues:

- This game has a render problem. The sprites flicker and vibrate a lot to adjust with the moving camera

- Enemies still spawn on water and shore tiles. This is even more frequent due to the more distant spawn rates.

- There is no indicator in the UI for a level up. It's easy to miss that you actually leveled up when you kill a lot of enemies on the screen.

- The level up screen and stats are only accessible through key bindings. This is very unintuitive when you already have a hand on the mouse to attack stuff. Let me click on the profile or give me an extra icon to let me level up my character or to open my stats. Same thing goes for the quest log.

- The special cards for the characters skills appear way too low. In 20 levels, I only got them once in the same except order and group as shown in the image. This isn't really random.

Content wise I would wish for a little starting area or starting ruin to mark the starting area better and to connect the world more. I would also really like it, if you would add some trees into the world generation. Taiga or Forest without trees is just different painted grass.

Faustto227 days ago(+1)

Thank you for the feedback! Most of these issues are known, so I will explain why they were left to come with the update.

The rendering problem happens only if your monitor has a refresh rate above 60 Hz. This is because of the game's engine and I am not sure how to exactly fix it. You could enable VSync in the settings, it should help to an extend.

The enemy spawning is known to have this problem. I have tried fixing it a couple of times, which made it more rare, but it still happens occasionally.

You have an XP bar under you HP. Also a sound is played whenever you level up as well as a little popup text appearing onto your character. There are some UI changes coming in 0.4, which will improve the ability to see these things, so it should be better then.

There will be clickable icons in the UI to access all menus with the overlay update I am doing, so entering the menus should be a bit easier.

You gain the special cards only when you experience a growth scene. You can then use e growth point to choose a skill to enhance. Also they are the same skills every time unlike the random ones you get upon level up. Keep in mind that they have a max level each, meaning you can upgrade them only 3 times.

I know what you mean by having a better environment, but as I haven't found a pixel artist who is willing to make sprites for the game, making such things is quite hard for me and as I am not a very good at arts, I do not want to ruin the look of the game with my doodles, so this will be held off for a bit until I have someone who has the skill to do it.

Moustached227 days ago

"You gain the special cards only when you experience a growth scene." I only got them once at my theoretical level 2 when I reached level 5. I guess there is a bug when there are multiple level ups stacked on top of each other, you don't get the special cards. I got to all 4 growth scenes and never got them again, because I used the cards at levels that were not dedicated to the growth sequence.

Faustto226 days ago

It doesn't matter when you use them. They are stored as points, which are displayed under your stats. It is written like "GP x (amount of points)". As long as this text is displayed, you can press K to level up a trait. The points work fine when I try it out in the exported version so I don't know what the issue may be like.

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